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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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-Senator  DeLay- House
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"Good things come to those who get them."-YT

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Prof. Doug Rokke (former director of the Pentagon's DU project)

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-Paul Wolfowitz, while touring Iraq.

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"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster."

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"How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?"
On August 22, 1920, an article written by former Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia) in London's Sunday Times regarding England's occupation of ancient lands in the Middle East (LINK to Senator Byrd's speech)

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-Rep. Dennis Kucinich
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Losing Dollars and Sense in Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd: I rise today to voice my concern about the disastrous turn which the fortunes of this nation have taken. The Bush Administration, in a scant 2 1/2 years, has imperiled our country in the gravest of ways, and set us up for a possible crisis of mammoth proportions. I urge my colleagues to think long and hard about the growing quagmire in Iraq. I urge members of the President's own party to warn him about the quicksand he asks America to wade in. 
The Death of Independent Voices in the Media, Senator Robert Byrd: I fear that it will strangle voices that disagree with corporate interests at virtually every level of news and commentary.
Bush rejects Saddam link to 9/11: US President George Bush has said there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks. The comments - among his most explicit so far on the issue - come after a recent opinion poll found that nearly 70% of those asked believed the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks.
An Occupied Country: by Howard Zinn - It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with the term "occupied country" during World War II. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied other countries.
IAEA told to get tough with Israel: Arab countries have urged the United Nations nuclear watchdog to get tough with Israel to let inspectors assess its nuclear programme in line with similar pressures on Iran.
Blix continues to slam justification for war on Iraq: Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Thursday the US-led war against Iraq was not justified, and that the United States and UK had exaggerated data from their intelligence services.
Scott Ritter Charges Iraq War Is For Global Hegemony: Interview with Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and U.N. weapons inspector.As violence continued to consume U.S.-occupied Iraq, President Bush addressed the nation on Sept. 7 to explain his administration's policies there and request $87 billion for the pacification and reconstruction of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the president conspicuously omitted any mention of the U.S. failure to capture Osama bin Laden or to locate any of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction used by his administration to justify its war, he maintained that Iraq was now the central front in the war against terrorism. As he has many times before, the president linked the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the U.S. to the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein, despite the lack of any evidence connecting Iraq with the al Qaeda network.
The Bipartisan War Machine: The desperately sad situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the dramatic contrast between the promises and the realities of war, have brought into sharp relief the moral and practical calamity of US foreign policy. But while it is tempting to fix blame on only the current managers who occupy the White House, we must also consider the larger picture.
Federal deficit running twice the pace of last year: On track for a record deficit, the government has produced $400.5 billion in red ink in the first 11 months of the 2003 budget year -- twice the total for the same period a year earlier.
Flush Bush Toilet Stickers: Put them beside your toilet's flush lever. Make every flush a practice vote for Nov. 2004!
BUSH OPPOSES SYRIAN SANCTIONS BILL: The Bush administration, despite concern that Syria has transferred weapons of mass destruction to groups deemed as terrorists, opposes congressional legislation to impose new sanctions on the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Arafat: ‘I’m Ready to Die a Martyr’: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said yesterday he would be ready to die a “martyr” and would use his machine gun to defend himself if Israeli troops tried to exile or assassinate him.
Arafat says contacts underway for new truce agreement: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat offered a new truce to Israel on Wednesday in an interview on an Israeli TV station.
Citizen Clark? Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Idea: It's as if everyone has forgotten Wesley Clark was the Bomber of Belgrade, the highest-ranking military official in a cabal that systematically violated international law, the NATO Charter (and with it the US Constitution, Article 6, Section 2) and committed the greatest crime under the Nuremburg principles: that against peace.
Taliban claim capture of four US troops: Pakistani as well as the Taliban sources on Wednesday claimed that four US soldiers had been captured by the pro-Taliban elements in Paktia province of Afghanistan on Tuesday night in an attack on a convoy in the mountainous region.
Rumsfeld: U.S. Must Not Retreat When 'Nose Bloodied': WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the U.S. military fighting a deadly guerrilla war in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday the United States must not let the world think it will retreat from a fight "every time we got our nose bloodied."
"We did not have one good day since the massacre": -Flipping through the pages of an album full of pictures of a happy family that he lost 21 years ago, Mohammed Abu Rodaina says he will always hang on to the past. More precisely, he cherishes the days before Sept. 16, 1982, when Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen rampaged through Sabra and Shatila camps killing more than 1,000 civilians.
Canada- Secret talks held to unite the right :  The federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have begun secret meetings in a last ditch attempt to unite the right and fight the Liberals in the next election, sources have told CBC News.
Iraqi council presses US on sovereignty handover: Iraq's US-appointed Interim Governing Council urged the United States yesterday to relinquish sovereignty over Iraq as soon as possible, blaming lawlessness on its exclusion from post-war security decisions.
Belgian court to rule whether Sabra and Shatila plaintiffs can proceed: As hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps mark the 21st anniversary of a massacre there, the two-year legal drive to bring Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to account for the killings is reaching a climax.
Carter: Bush too busy to deliver peace: Former US president Jimmy Carter says Israel must bring a halt to its illegal settlement policies before a peaceful solution can be found in the Middle East
Iraq effect shakes National Guard: Tours of duty get longer and riskier, prompting concern about retention and recruitment.
Suicide Highlights Korean Farm Problems When Lee Kyung-hae, fresh out of college, returned to his rural hometown to become a farmer in 1975, the seeds of the economic upheaval that eventually led to his suicide were already taking root.
Forget Killing Him, Israel Needs Arafat Yasser Arafat is in his element. After three years of relative diplomatic obscurity, his name is again on the lips of leaders around the world.
Cheney’s word over Iraq contracts defied:  Top Democrats in Congress scoffed at recent statements by US Vice President Dick Cheney that he played no role in awarding lucrative Iraq contracts to his former firm Halliburton Corp., and refuted his assertions that he has no financial interest in the company.
Proud predator in decline: The lion population of Africa has fallen to about 23,000.
Will you attack Gaza now, Ariel?: Foreign Report can reveal that the Israeli government is planning an onslaught on the Gaza Strip. This is because, our informant said, its former policy of containing Palestinian violence, including the murder of the Hamas leadership, has failed.
Russia gives US hands-off warning: "I think our American colleagues understand very well that it is pointless to put pressure on us," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said in an interview published on Wednesday in the Vremya Novostei daily.
Ethnic, religious alliance backs gay-marriage ban: An alliance of African American, Latino, Asian, Jewish, Catholic and Muslim religious leaders lent their support Wednesday to a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage that will soon be introduced in the Senate.
US soldiers kill Iraqi teen, injure four at Fallujah wedding: US soldiers opened fire when their convoy drove near a house where a wedding was taking place and shots were being fired in the air in celebration in Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of the capital Baghdad, according to AFP.
$140m NYSE chief resigns: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chairman Richard Grasso has resigned amid public anger over his $140m pay package.
US gunman killed after classroom stand-off: A gunman who took a US college class hostage with a plan to shoot someone and then himself was shot dead by police after he wounded two of the hostages.
Militant killed in Gaza Strip: Jihad Abu Suheireh died when missiles were shot at his house in a refugee camp in central Gaza.
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US veto gives Israel 'licence to kill': There are fears Israel will see America's veto at the United Nations as a "licence to kill" in the Jewish state's bid to get rid of Yasir Arafat.
Bush and Sharon playing a 'game of death' with peace: What the world is currently witnessing is not the death of the so-called roadmap, but sadly a "game of death" being unfolded with two main partners at the helm: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government and its allies within the Bush administration.
U.S. probefocuses on Syria weapons : John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control, also told a House International Relations subcommittee that Syria is developing medium-range missiles with help from North Korea and Iran that could be fired in nerve gas attacks hundreds of miles from Syria's borders.
US-led exercise a prelude to nuclear war, says N Korea:  North Korea said US-led exercises to stop and search ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction were a prelude to a nuclear war and it would strengthen its deterrent force in response.
Four U.S. soldiers, 13 Iraqis wounded in attacks: Four coalition soldiers and 13 Iraqis were wounded in attacks on occupying forces in Iraq, the US military said Tuesday but added that there had been fewer strikes over recent days.
Powell's Baghdad Briefing Ignores High Price Of Failure: by Robert Fisk in Baghdad: 15 September 2003: (The Independent: UK) We had to walk through a quarter of a mile of barbed wire to reach Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, last night. We had to pass through four checkpoints, including three body searches. Apache helicopters circled the conference centre and Bradley fighting vehicles sat in the darkness outside.
Crucial Errors That Made Mideast Road Map a Nonstarter: The administration of US President Bush has made two extremely crucial errors in their effort to launch the road map to peace. The first was in taking the position and publicly stating that Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a “man of peace” and the second was in ignoring and attempting to isolate Yasser Arafat from the peace process and the Palestinian people.
Remembering Sabra and Shatila The piles of bloated corpses and the overwhelming stench of rotting flesh are still crystal clear memories in Mahir al-Srour al-Marei’s mind.
Commemorating the Massacre of Sabra and Shatila: We, in the Palestinian American Congress as we commemorate the tragic day of September 11 where 3000 innocent lives were perished, we also commemorate another September tragic day where 3500 innocents Palestinians were butchered at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, at the orders of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Defense Minister at the time and the Prime Minister of Israel today, as they slept "peacefully" in their homes in September 1982.
Blix Says Iraq Probably Destroyed WMDs: Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack.
Guantanamo Reward Plan Lets Prisoners Earn Perks: Military officials at the US Naval Base in Cuba have introduced a reward program that lets Afghanistan war prisoners earn perks and more comfortable quarters by dishing out intelligence and following camp rules.
Constitution Battered by War on Terror, Says Lawyers Group:  Due process and privacy guaranteed under the U.S. constitution, open government, and respect for human rights around the world are taking a battering from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush in prosecuting its "war on terrorism," according to a new report released today by a leading international human rights group.
Syria Pledges Willingness to Cooperate With US: Syria said yesterday it was ready to cooperate with “logical and realistic” demands from the United States, as the US Congress prepared to debate new measures against Damascus, accused of aiding militants fighting Israel and the US presence in Iraq.
The spies who pushed for war: Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force
Expressing the sense of the Congress that Public Law 107-243, the authorization to use military force against Iraq, is null and void: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that Public Law 107-243, the authorization to use military force against Iraq, passed by the Congress on October 11, 2002, and signed by the President on October 16, 2002, is null and void.
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Letter From an Iraqi American: September 14, 2003: Dear Friends,It looks like hell has broken loose in Iraq. Almost every Iraqi family that I know has been subjected to violence in “The New Free Iraq”, in many cases, more than once.So sad to say that this time it’s my in-laws.
Bush Should Fire Someone Over Iraq, Democrats Say:  Top Democrats in the House of Representatives said on Tuesday President Bush must fire the key architect or architects of his Iraq operations to gain help from the international community to rebuild the country.
Schroeder, Chirac, Blair to Try to Heal Rift Over Iraq : The leaders of Germany, France and Britain meet in Berlin on Saturday in a bid to heal rifts in Europe over the Iraq war and reach a common stance analysts say could pressure Washington to compromise over Iraq’s future.
 Rising Attacks Threaten Afghan Aid: International and Afghan humanitarian organizations yesterday warned that worsening security is threatening reconstruction work in Afghanistan, with attacks against aid workers soaring to one every two days.
Commander: GIs in Iraq Face Revenge Raids: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq said in an interview published Wednesday that U.S. forces, already under pressure from a guerrilla-style resistance, now face revenge attacks from ordinary Iraqis angered by the occupation.
The Disconnecting of the Mind at Cancun: The World Trade Organization tells us they are working for the benefit of humankind—they want everyone to have a job. But what they are not telling the people of the world is that they no longer have any intention of providing people with a job in which they can realize the dream that middle class Americans have had.
Many N.C. National Guard troops unavailable for Isabel duty: The National Guard soldiers who swooped down in helicopters to pluck people off rooftops after Hurricane Floyd are in shorter supply as Hurricane Isabel threatens the East Coast.
Iraq Revenue Watch: Open Society Institute: In an effort to ensure that Iraqi oil revenues are managed in a transparent manner, Open Society Institute Chairman George Soros has launched a new initiative called Iraq Revenue Watch.
Powell continues to woo Kurds: The US has pinned hopes on Turkey as a source of extra troops to help restore security in Iraq, but Iraqi Kurds oppose a Turkish presence because of the way the Turkish army has treated their fellow Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
US Reveals 4,000 Extra ‘Security Detainees’ in Iraq: US officials said yesterday they were holding 10,000 prisoners in Iraq, double the number previously reported, and count among the security cases six inmates claiming to be Americans and two who say they are British.
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