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<DIV>He employed the republican guard to kill their own people. He killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. He tortured prisoners.</DIV>
<DIV>His name: George W Bush</DIV>
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<DIV>the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and raising draft age to 34</DIV>
<DIV>But no plans on the books to actually enact the draft. Really. We promise. The government wouldn't lie to you. Especially regarding war</DIV>
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<DIV> President and vice president testify before 9-11 commission. Bush family friend, Iran-Contra insider, and committee co-chairman has better things to do than attend</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Facts show that despite Bush's pledge, the September 11 commission had to fight for access to key information, and even President George W Bush's private appearance</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>two Japanese who were kidnapped in Iraq expressed sympathy for their captors Friday, calling them "soldiers" and "resistance" fighters </DIV>
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<DIV>Not to be outdone by their co-conspirators across the pond</DIV>
<DIV>A probe has been launched into allegations British soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners</DIV>
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<DIV>wasn't freeing the iraqis from a torturing dictator the second excuse after no WMDs were found?</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Excerpts from writings of accused soldier who helped run Baghdad prison</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Siege of Fallujah provokes second mutiny:<BR> A second unit of the Iraqi armed forces has mutinied at Fallujah after <BR>being involved in heavy fighting with insurgents Ali Allawi, the Iraqi <BR>Defence Minister, said<BR><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=516306" target=_blank>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=516306</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=headlinesbig><STRONG><FONT color=#000066>Thou shalt be like Bush:</B></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> <FONT color=#800000>Bush-approved robots being churned out by Patrick Henry College</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>What makes this recently established, right-wing Christian college unique are the increasingly close - critics say alarmingly close - links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican establishment. </DIV>
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<DIV>August 17, 1996:</DIV>
<DIV>David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense</DIV>
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<DIV>fair voting advocate harrassed by US government</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks 'Bina</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody>Police in Macedonia said yesterday that the killing of seven alleged terrorists two years ago was staged to win US support and that the victims were simply illegal immigrants.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=517023">http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=517023</A></DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV>MI5 tells British public to trim bushes to avoid terrorist attacks</DIV>
<DIV>Just duct tape them</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=517059">http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=517059</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Permit denied for anti-war protest at GOP convention because the crowd would be too large for Central Park to accomodate</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Only state sanctioned protests are allowed in this USA</DIV>
<DIV>BTW, participating in an a protest without a permit and blocking traffic fits the definition of a terrorist under the PATRIOT ACT</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://truthout.com/docs_02/04.06D.JVB.Patriot.htm">http://truthout.com/docs_02/04.06D.JVB.Patriot.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act :<BR> The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a <BR>lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI's methods of obtaining many <BR>business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the <BR>existence of the case until now.<BR><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51423-2004Apr28?language=printer" target=_blank>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51423-2004Apr28?language=printer</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Foiling millennium attack was mostly luck</DIV>
<DIV>It's almost become an article of faith at the 9/11 commission hearings that high-level meetings in Washington helped stop a terrorist attack at the Los Angeles airport just before the turn of the millennium. But the inside-the-Beltway gospel just isn't true. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>72 poor families will be turned out on the streets June 30th due to a HUD law change approved by Bush</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Macedonian police admit they murdered innocent Pakistani immigrants to curry favor with Bush administration</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Police in Macedonia said yesterday that the killing of seven alleged terrorists two years ago was staged to win US support and that the victims were simply illegal immigrants.</DIV>
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<DIV>California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is banning electronic touch screen voting machines in four counties for the November election. He may extend the ban to machines in 10 other counties if they do not meet specifications.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>11 questions for Bush</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/04/30/notes043004.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/04/30/notes043004.DTL</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>US Defense Dept. paying Ahmed Chalabi $350,000 per month (YES, PER MONTH)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In Bushworld</DIV>
<DIV>It's their reality. We just live and die in it. </DIV>
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<DIV>US military in torture scandal :<BR> According to lawyers for some of the soldiers, they claimed to be <BR>acting in part under the instruction of mercenary interrogators hired by <BR>the Pentagon.<BR><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1206725,00.html" target=_blank>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1206725,00.html</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Amnesty International: Iraq: 'Torture' : <BR>“Our extensive research in Iraq suggests that this is not an isolated <BR>incident. It is not enough for the USA to react only once images have <BR>hit the television screens.”<BR><A href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver/document/15339.html" target=_blank>http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver/document/15339.html</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>In case youmissed it:<BR> War Crimes: The Evidence File<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>In case youmissed it:<BR> Take No Prisoners : Another proud moment in U.S. Military History<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5365.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5365.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>US soldiers are seen as 'uncaring, dangerous and lacking in respect.': <BR>An overwhelming majority of Iraqis, 71 percent (and that figure rises <BR>to 81 percent if the Kurdish areas in the north are excluded), see the <BR>US-led coalition as an occupying force and not as liberators.<BR><A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html" target=_blank>http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>'Americans don't know how to be peacekeepers':<BR> Fear that ruthless United States tactics could lead to disaster in <BR>Iraq has caused Washington's most loyal ally Britain to waver in its <BR>support as never before.<BR><A href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=qw1083243241981B262&set_id=1" target=_blank>http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=qw1083243241981B262&set_id=1</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS <BR> American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi civilians <BR>- some of whom are entirely innocent.<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/er7l" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/er7l</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Eight In Ten Canadians (82%): Bush No Friend Of Canada<BR><A href="http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2196" target=_blank>http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2196</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Where US snipers fire at ambulances : <BR>Four-year-old Ali is lying in a cot, the mattress matted with dried <BR>blood. He is bleeding from a horrific groin wound and his left leg has <BR>been amputated above the knee. His left arm is bandaged and bleeding, his <BR>face badly cut. His father brushes away the flies buzzing around Ali's <BR>wounds. It is a scene of almost utter hopelessness.<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6101.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6101.htm</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>In Pictures:<BR> Falluja besieged<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2hs2k" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/2hs2k</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>US planes hit Falluja after pullback deal: <BR>The warplanes roared low over the city after pounding Golan and the <BR>An-Nawwab al-Dhubbat and Nazzal districts in Falluja, some 50 km (30 <BR>miles) west of Baghdad.<BR><A href="http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=501877&section=news" target=_blank>http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=501877§ion=news</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>America's Ayatollah: <BR>Like a kid who has been told otherwise, Bush persists in believing in <BR>his own version of Santa Claus. The weapons are there, somewhere -- in a <BR>North Pole of his mind.<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6102.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6102.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>U.S. support for Iraq war down sharply: poll: <BR>Fewer than one-half, 47 per cent, said taking military action in Iraq <BR>was the right thing to do and about the same number, 46 per cent, said <BR>the United States should have stayed out of the country.<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/28rxx" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/28rxx</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Congress Prepares for New Iraq Spending -Sources:<BR> Key U.S. congressional committees are drawing up plans that could <BR>provide the Pentagon with up to $50 billion in emergency money for military <BR>operations in Iraq before the November election, congressional <BR>officials said on Wednesday.<BR><A href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040428_565.html" target=_blank>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040428_565.html</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Pulp fictions triumph over truth: <BR>For those who backed Bush over war in Iraq, the idea of proof has <BR>shifted from fact to fervour<BR><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1205669,00.html" target=_blank>http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1205669,00.html</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Iranian court orders US to pay $600 million compensation:<BR> An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay US$600 million <BR>in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with <BR>chemical weapons<BR><A href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3563396&thesection=news&thesubsection=world" target=_blank>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3563396&thesection=news&thesubsection=world</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Remember Falluja : <BR>During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed <BR>war crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war.: The sight <BR>of decapitated children, the rows of dead women and the shocking <BR>pictures of the soccer stadium that was turned into a temporary grave for <BR>hundreds of the slain - all were broadcast to the world only by the Al <BR>Jazeera network.<BR><A href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/421014.html" target=_blank>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/421014.html</A><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>“They are shooting at us ... they are terrorists — they dress like the <BR>local population.” The quote is from an American Marine interviewed on <BR>CNN during the US assault on Fallujah. Obviously, before CNN set up the <BR>camera scene the Marine's superiors had drilled the script into him. In <BR>parrot fashion, the young Marine dutifully repeated the mantra.<BR><A href="http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion3.htm" target=_blank>http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion3.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>THE 9/11 Commission Avoids the Hard Questions<BR>Common Dreams</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Bush Cheney Fraud in Iraq: Paying a Small Price</STRONG> </DIV>
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