Sunday, March 6, 2005
None of Us Are Free When One of Us is Chained
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Saturday, March 5, 2005
More "Frat House Hazing", Missing Billions and Responsibility-Dodging
Detainee 3 was sodomised with a broom by a female soldier. Detainee 15 was photographed standing on a box with a hood on his head and simulated electrical wires were attached to his hands and penis. Detainees 1, 16, 17, 23, 24 and 26 were placed in a pile and forced to masturbate while photographs...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Abu Ghraib - the Actions of Sick People
Tont Blair said, "Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit." General Myers said, "Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction." Bush said, "Prisoners...
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
America in Denial
President Bush said, "Today, on bended knee, I thank the Good Lord for protecting those of our troops overseas, and our Coalition troops and innocent Iraqis who suffer at the hands of some of these senseless killings by people who are trying to shake our will." Bush is the first president in wartime...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
On Napalm, Dead-Checking, and Those Mythical WMDs
There was Operation Ivy Cyclone. There was Operation Vigilant Resolve. There was Operation Plymouth Rock. There was Operation Iron Hammer, its name taken, interestingly enough, from Eisenhammer, the Nazi plan to destroy Soviet generating plants. Air force regulations require that any airstrike...
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Monday, February 14, 2005
The Incompetence Quota Goes Stratospheric
Paul Bremer's first act as director of the Coalition Provisional Authority was to fire all senior members of the Baath Party, including 30,000 civil servants, policemen, teachers and doctors, and to dismiss all 400,000 soldiers of the Iraqi army without pay or pensions. Two million people were...
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
Get Your Very Own 'Prick in a Jumpsuit' Action Model!
Colin Powell said, "I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it now." Bush said, "We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." Donald Rumsfeld said, "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and...
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Friday, February 11, 2005
Untidy Freedom
An old man said, after eleven members of his family - children and grandchildren - were killed when a tank blew up their minivan, "Our home is an empty place. We who are left are like wild animals. All we can do is cry out." As the riots and looting broke out, a man in the Baghdad market said,...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
A Bad Hollywood Movie - With Live Ammo and Dead Civilians
The Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands expressed surprise that his was one of the nations enlisted in the 'coalition of the willing': "I was completely unaware of it". On the night before the invasion began, Bush told the Iraqi people, "If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed...
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Saturday, February 5, 2005
Chemicals & Germs, Flowers & Fathers
Major-General Charles Swannack promised that his troops were going to "use a sledgehammer to smash a walnut". The Pentagon spokesman said' "This is not going to be your father's Persian Gulf War". According to US sources, Saddam's strategy against the American invasion would be to blow up bridges,...
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