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Starting over when Bush is gone Mike Whitney Big Brother Bush has finally descended into the hell of public scorn and degradation. The once-mighty George 2, the "War President", who towered over the global landscape after 9-11, has slumped into disrepute with the popularity-meter resting on empty. Oh dear. There’s no place to hide now. 6 years of demagoguery and deception have smashed the Orwellian façade and fueled the public rage. The country is on tender-hooks; one paltry incident away from a citizen revolt an! d massive political upheaval. Don’t believe it? The fury of the masses is silently brewing just below the surface. The specter of violence is quite real. Bush’s popularity is now somewhere below Nixon’s and just above venereal disease; the perfect spot for a draft-dodging poseur whose bravado cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23281 Residents Charge Iranian Intelligence Running Samawa Karen Button Samawa, the capital of Al-Muthana’s southern governate, sits on the shores of the Euphrates River about 270 km (170 m) south of Baghdad. It is here where sources, too afraid to be identified in this article, charge that Iranian intelligence forces inside the Badr militia are running local government and that the provincial governor, Mohammed al-Hassaani, is in their back pocket. These sources include a religious sheikh, a police officer, two ! journalists and several local residents, all too frightened to openly state their names, even though one of them now lives outside Iraq. They have good reason: many who have publicly decried the SCIRI-backed governor or its militia, the Badr Organisation, are now disappeared or dead—two of them killed just days ago... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23279 'George, baby, it's time to go' Bill Henderson ...When your minister (Jim Winkler of both Bush and Cheney's United Methodists church) says "High crimes have been committed against the people of the United States and Iraq. We were led into war under false premises." - you know that even in the red states you are now considered a crook. And now 44% of your fanatical Christian core supporters know that you lied and deceived and that more than one hundred thousand Iraqis are dead and hundreds of thousands more are ma! imed or grief stricken or terrorized because of you; because you couldn't resist the temptation to be commander in chief and the temptations of Iraq as a client state. And there's no way out. You're a war criminal in their eyes now George... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23280 Foreign Mercenaries in Iraq get US Citizenship Truth About Iraqis ...According to the Pentagon, "US service members, representing 52 countries, were sworn in as U.S. citizens during a ceremony at the Sustainer Theater May 12 near Balad, Iraq. The commander of the 40th Corps Support Group, Col. Jannett Jackson presided over the swearing-in ceremony." I wonder who else will be giving them ceremonies soon. Iran peut-etre? It seems the US military can't find homegrown gringos to do the job. I wonder now if the mass g! raves rumored to have been found filled with men and women donned in US military fatigues is true. At the time, reports in Western Iraq by fighters there said the US military dumped their bodies or flushed them down the rivers because ... well they weren't US citizens... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23283 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 13 May 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 3:15pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that moment fighting had broken out between Iraqi Resistance forces and US troops in the middle of ar-Ramadi, a city 110km west of Baghdad that had been the object of a US offensive since dawn on Wednesday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that th! e fighting was centered on the main street opposite the Iraqi Islamic Bank. More than 30 Resistance fighters fell to fighting a US military column that had been cruising back and forth along the street. The Resistance fighters fired RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades, Kalashnikov assault rifles, and PKS medium machine guns and hurled hand grenades at the Americans, destroying a Humvee. At the time of reporting, the battle was still going on... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23276 Paper: Military Ignoring Mental Illness Troops Who Show Signs of Mental Illness Are Being Forced Into Combat, Newspaper Reports The Associated Press U.S. military troops with severe psychological problems have been sent to Iraq or kept in combat, even when superiors have been aware of signs of mental illness, a newspaper reported for Sunday editions. The Hartford Courant, citing records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act and more than 100 interviews of families and military personnel! , reported numerous cases in which the military failed to follow its own regulations in screening, treating and evacuating mentally unfit troops from Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23282 Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instr! ucted one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23278 Ex-WMD Inspector: Politics Quashed Facts CHARLES J. HANLEY, The Associated Press A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi "bioweapons trailers" were discredited by American experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspection team. At one point, former U.N. arms inspector Rod Barton says, a CIA officer told him it was "politically not possible" to report that the White House claims were untrue. In the end, Barton says, he felt "complicit in de! ceit." Barton, an Australian biological weapons specialist, discusses the 2004 events in "The Weapons Detective," a memoir of his years as an arms inspector, being published Monday in Australia by Black Inc. Agenda... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23277 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English. You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. 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