WAR ON IRAQ

• Current links:

  • Kucinich urges Judiciary Committee to impeach Bush for illegal war, wiretapping, torture at Guantanamo

  • More Bush administration felonies:
    Videotape evidence of CIA "waterboarding" torture was destroyed

  • British General calls for Blair to be impeached
    General Rose's commentary

  • Muzzled media coverage:
    Senior LA Times journalist fired over Iraq War criticisms

    US commercial network broadcasts give less than a minute to major anti-war protests: Commondreams story
    UK protest

    Times commentary on UK Labour Party
    Anglican leaders apologise for Iraq war, criticize Bush/Blair
    The 100 page report of UK bishops
    Religious leaders face quandry in Bushtime

  • Will White House exposure of Valerie Plame bring down Bush?

    Truly Orwellian: Judy Miller as press martyr
    Detailed chronology of White House's outing of Valerie Plame

  • Green Party: Impeach Bush for gross Iraq deceptions
    
  • BRITISH MEMO ON BUSH DECISION TO INVADE IRAQ:
    "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

  • ACLU FOIA shows widespread prisoner abuse; abused must agree to gag to win release

  • AFSC Wage Peace Campaign: watch the video, sign the petition

  • Iraq/Afhganistan total approaches $300 billions

  • Four more years of Bush's 'moral values' :
    No accountability for no WMDs, thousands of American and Iraqi lives shattered, and $billions wasted

    Bush: 2004 election was "accountability moment"
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Pakistan Tribune
    MetroWest Daily News

    The war continues, the world is less secure, and the mastermind of 9/11 - Bin Laden - remains "on the run"

  • TV crew filmed unsecured munitions after April 9, 2003
    Looting spree gutted Iraq munitions dump after US soldiers left it unsecured
    Large media outlets ignore the video evidence, aid Bush big lies on Iraq War

  • Study : 100,000 Iraqis, mostly women and children, killed in ongoing Iraq War

  • Reservist Platoon Refuses Convoy Order
    more

  • US Soldiers Again Flee to Canada to Avoid Illegal Iraq War

    Listen to Amy Goodman interview Conscientious Objectors Hinzman and Hughey
    Transcript of this interview

  • Arab News: Western Journalists Not Covering Worsening Conditions in Iraq

  • White House Blames CIA after Ignoring Advice

  • "How Can You Ask a Soldier to be the Last to Die for a Lie?"

  • GAO report says conditions in Iraq worse now than before the war

  • The Iraq War, an A to Z , by the Independent/UK

  • "Evildoers" : American, British publics see reflection in their own mirrors

    Rumsfeld faulted for Afghanistan/Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib sadism but not held accountable
    Another report on the torture : 39 prisoners died in U.S. hands
    Guardian/UK report on this story
    LA Times article: politics as usual
    American public largely ignorant of Bush administration responsibility for Afghan/Iraqi torture
    Graphic testimony of Iraqis describing their abuse at Abu Ghraib
    Blair urged to act
    War crimes documented in new report
    Paper trail goes right to top: Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Bush
    The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh broke the story
    Appalling images: beatings to death, torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi "suspects" overseen by officers;
    New - released 5/21/04 - and previously cropped photos:
    independent website photo collection
    
    British involvement uncovered by photo shop employee:
    Mirror editor sacked over staged photos, Iraqi abuse allegations by soldiers remain , details
    Story saved by Albasrah.net
    Mirror story and photos

    [Unblurred photos not available through Western media.]

    Continued occupation by "Coalition" now seen as untenable by most of the world.

  • Utah radwaste company unveils its own version of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"

  • Blair Drops Prosecution of Whistleblower to Prevent Evidence of Iraq War Illegality Being Made Public

    Guardian story

    More ...

  • Bush Started Planning War on Iraq Only Days After Swearing In as President

  • Bush offers $10,000 bonus to retain mercenary U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait

  • Ashcroft recuses self: Plume
  • Corporate Death Penalty for Fraud
  • Halliburton Fallout: Army Corps Removed as Contract Disburser
  • FAIR's 2003 P.U.-litzer Awards
  • Kurds Knuckle to U.S. Version of Saddam's Capture
  • Selective Memory
  • Michael Moore's letter, 12-19-03
  • Rumsfeld's 1984 Visit to Reassure Saddam
  • Iraqis Angered by American Occupation
  • Kay Quits, "No WMDs"

• No WMD, but the costs of the Bush/Blair War on Iraq just keep growing :
  • Local congressmen vote for $87 billion Iraq/Afghanistan package. Senators Clinton and Schumer, and Reps. Reynolds, Quinn and Houghton are among those voting in favor. Only Rep. Slaughter had the wisdom and courage to vote against this premature funding request. For the complete list of votes see: Senate vote , House vote
  • Spinning the Iraq debacle
  • $87 billion, The High Cost of Misleading
  • U.S. Military deaths
  • Iraqi civilian deaths
  • Current U.S. money cost and what we have given up

• Not About 9-11
• Response to experts' opinions of "No evidence of WMD" :

  Blair bared Dr. David Kelly , and
  
  the Bush administration exposed CIA's Valerie Plame;
  12-30-03, Ashcroft finally recuses self from investigation;
  6-4-04, Bush hires personal outside attorney

• DARPA's FutureMAP

  Admiral John Poindexter is sacked in the hope that
  other Bush Administration officials escape responsibility.

• Commentary by Joan Chittister in the National Catholic Reporter
• Science for Democratic Action Special Issue
• Websites dealing with the effects of Depleted Uranium (DU):

  http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html
  http://www.cadu.org.uk