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Baghdad is surrounded and its defenders ordered to surrender. There will be fighting between Shias and Sunnis around the slums of the city, the beginning of a ferocious civil conflict for which the invading armies are totally unprepared. US forces will sweep past Baghdad to his home city of Tikrit in their hunt for Saddam Hussein. Bush and Blair will appear on television to speak of their great "victories". But as they are boasting, the real story will begin to be told: the break-up...
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2003 8:58pm PST
France, Russia and Germany have led opposition to military action against Iraq and blocked a U.S. attempt to set a deadline for Saddam to disarm or face war....
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2003 3:44pm PST
Powell is furious at Rumsfeld's Europe insults. Mr Powell has let it be known that he is furious at Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for negative comments about France and Germany that appear to have stiffened their opposition to a UN resolution authorising war on Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2003 2:38pm PST
Why Not The Children Of Iraq?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 10:44pm PST
Moran said he gave up his position as a regional Whip for the House Democrats "as a way to demonstrate acceptance of responsibility" for his controversial comments at a March 3 anti-war forum in Reston, when he said, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 6:59pm PST
In its rush to frame Iraq for developing nuclear weapons, Israel botched the faked documents handed over to the U.S. and U.K., purporting nuclear material shipments from Niger to Iraq. Despite another round of U.S. lies to the U.N., appointed President Bush presses on with his megalomaniacal drive to wage war on the people of Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 5:56pm PST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speeding preparations for a "shock and awe" war with Iraq, the Pentagon is moving B-2 stealth bombers and a dozen more missile-firing warships to the Gulf region, defense officials said on Thursday....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 5:04pm PST
Rising flow of fearful Iraqi Kurds leaves Kirkuk...
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 5:04pm PST
With allegations of ``conflict of interest,'' and possible
``blackmail'' of U.S. allies in Saudi Arabia hitting Richard
Perle, the head of the chickenhawk-loaded Defense Policy Board,
the neo-conservative hatchetmen in the press are trying to stop
the exposes about ``Clean Break,'' the 1996 policy paper that
Perle wrote for Benjamin Netanyahu, that mapped out war against
Iraq, Syria, and Iran, and abrogating the Oslo Accords....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 4:36pm PST
In its rush to frame Iraq for developing nuclear weapons, Israel botched the faked documents handed over to the U.S. and U.K., purporting nuclear material shipments from Niger to Iraq. Despite another round of U.S. lies to the U.N., appointed President Bush presses on with his megalomaniacal drive to wage war on the people of Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 4:18pm PST
Enemy Combatant Radio wants to compile some mood music to play between call-ins during the protests (and whatever) that will surely ensue when the Blitz of Iraq starts....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 11:20am PST
American jurists see a breach of international law in a preventive war.. Aggressive war is one of the most serious transgressions of international law.. There is no exception to prohibition on aggressive war
http://www.lcnp.org/global/IRAQLetter.pdf...
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 9:52am PST
A U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing war against Iraq appears doomed to fail, senior U.S. officials and foreign diplomats said today, though the Bush administration agreed to a British request to continue negotiations until Monday before calling for a vote or withdrawing the measure....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 3:09am PST
Growing opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq was clearly in evidence on March 10 when MoveOn.org, Win Without War, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Artists United to Win Without War delivered petitions bearing more than a million names from 200 countries to the United Nations Security Council....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 2:14pm PST
The world has been galvanized into action against the Bush administration’s drive to war with Iraq. This is no less true in the United States. In all sectors of the U.S. population you will find anti-war sentiment – including in the armed forces and their families....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 2:12pm PST
"Recently a member of staff said she didn't want her taxes to go to supporting this war against Iraq and since I was the person who paid the taxes could I do something about it. We had a staff meeting, and all thirteen staff and partners are completely in agreement with withholding tax for peace." Jenny Spinks...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 2:06pm PST
Press release about Wade Hudson, who arrived in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday March 13, 2003....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 1:37pm PST
The FBI is investigating Israeli Mossad attempts to forge documents framing Iraq for acquisition of nuclear materials....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 12:58pm PST
If George Jr, Tony and the other boys in the UN playgroup don't start to behave themselves over Iraq, Simon Tisdall will have to get very, very angry indeed ......
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 9:19am PST
...Growing Dissent Against Iraq War. Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, former U.S. government military analyst who released the "Pentagon Papers," conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 2:39am PST