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Thread ID: 11634 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-12-29
2003-12-29 00:54 | User Profile
A tidy summary of the quagmire we're in, how we got there, what it has cost us, and the bleak outlook for the future.
Have a nice day, suckers.
Revealed: How MI6 sold the Iraq war:
The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. [url]http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5433.htm[/url]
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In case you missed it:
Blair's secret weapon: Investigation:
A covert project, set up by the UK government, 'cherry-picked' intelligence to fit the hidden agenda of justifying war with Iraq [url]http://www.sundayherald.com/34461[/url]
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Scott Ritter Proved Right!
MI6 ran 'dubious' Iraq campaign: "I was approached by MI6 to provide that data, I met with the Mass Appeal operatives both in New York and London on several occasions. This data was provided and this data did find its way into the international media. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3227506.stm[/url]
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Bremer 'rejects' Blair WMD claims:
The US official running Iraq appears to have contradicted Tony Blair's claim Saddam Hussein had laboratories for developing weapons of mass destruction. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3351915.stm[/url]
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Short calls on Blair to resign:
Clare Short has called on Tony Blair to resign because she says he deceived the British people over the Iraq war. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3352383.stm[/url]
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Death toll in Karbala attacks rises to 18 :
Another five Iraqis died from injuries sustained in Saturday's suicide bomb attacks in Karbala, bringing the death toll to 18, a local official said on Sunday. [url]http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/28/content_1251402.htm[/url]
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Rober Fisk: At Least 13 Die In Iraq Suicide Bombings:
It is the first time that an attack on this scale has been launched against occupation forces in Karbala - site of the tomb of the seventh-century Shia martyr Hussein, one of the most important Muslim shrines in Iraq - but its significance goes far beyond yesterday's deaths. [url]http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5435.htm[/url]
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Blasts Kill Two Soldiers in Iraq
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq today in separate insurgent bombings, one of which also claimed the lives of two Iraqi children on a busy street in Baghdad. [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36407-2003Dec28.html[/url]
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Iraq Blast Kills U.S. Soldier, 2 Children:
A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and two children in Baghdad on Sunday, a day after a coordinated guerrilla onslaught in the southern city of Karbala left 13 dead and almost 200 injured. [url]http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031228_245.html[/url]
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Attacks Force Retreat From Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq :
The United States has backed away from several of its more ambitious initiatives to transform Iraq's economy, political system and security forces as attacks on U.S. troops have escalated and the timetable for ending the civil occupation has accelerated. [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35053-2003Dec27.html[/url]
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Casualty rate for U.S. forces in Iraq jumps:
The number of U.S. service members killed and wounded in Iraq has more than doubled in the past four months compared with the four months preceding them, according to Pentagon statistics. [url]http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/7584686.htm[/url]
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United in opposition to the occupation:
"If someone invades your house, kills some of your relatives while taking the rest to jail, steals your things, remains in your home and then threatens you and tries to tell you what to do in your own home, what would you do? Would you welcome him with flowers? What would you do if this happened to you in your home?" [url]http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5434.htm[/url]
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Iraq reconstruction's bottom-line:
Even if the occupation were working perfectly well, it would still be wrong. This has become trite commentary among Iraqis who bitterly want the occupation of their country to fail but, at the same time, also earnestly hope that the reconstruction of their country succeeds. [url]http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL25Ak05.html[/url]
And for what?
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2003-12-29 01:50 | User Profile
Ed, your post's or akin drops of truth on a dessert of flat land lies. Thanks
2003-12-29 03:55 | User Profile
Blair gets caught out lying again, this time by Paul Bremer!
Bremer 'rejects' Blair WMD claims
The US official running Iraq appears to have contradicted Tony Blair's claim Saddam Hussein had laboratories for developing weapons of mass destruction.
The prime minister said in a Christmas message to UK troops that the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) had unearthed "massive evidence" of clandestine labs.
The head of the Coalition Provisional Authority said it was not true.
Paul Bremer said it sounded like a "red herring" made up by someone to upset the rebuilding effort.
But Mr Bremer seems to have been unaware that the quotes had come from Mr Blair when they were put to him in an interview on ITV1's Jonathan Dimbleby programme.
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