Whither Elementary Morality?
Kim Petersen...Israel is a state erected on the destruction, still ongoing, of another state and its indigenous people. Israel has been in existence since 1948: a 58-year fact-on-the-ground. Chomsky holds that the passage of time does give legitimacy to the state of Israel. As a solution to the current violence, Chomsky concedes this violent fact-on-the-ground by referring to the "reality" of options available to the Palestinians. Chomsky argues that it is in the best interests of the dispossessed and brutalized Palestinians and the brutalizing Zionist dispossessors to agree to a confederation, but the "reality" is that the outcome will probably be a two-state solution. In other words, to end the present suffering of Palestinians, the Palestinians should agree to their dispossession and in return they will be rewarded, supposedly, by a cessation of the violence against them for the audacity of wanting to live on their land. What does elementary morality posit about such reasoning? (...) Chomsky’s statements provide cover for several decades of Zionist expansion. Is Chomsky correct? Does the passage of time obviate morality and legitimate evil deeds? By the same "reality"-based logic, shouldn’t Chomsky also call for gifting Iraq’s oil to the invader-occupiers in exchange for partial restoring of Iraq’s sovereignty and ceasing the lethal violence against Iraqis? After all, the "reality" is that as long as the Iraqis resist occupation, Iraqis will die in large numbers...
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Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes
Uranium as a force multiplier
Bob Nichols...The American expeditionary forces purposefully used a long lasting genocidal weapon, uranium gas, in Iraq to decimate the Iraqi civilization. The Americans are still using this genocidal weapon more than 15 years later. It’s estimated that more than a million Iraqis died during the past 15 years from wars and sanctions. There were only about 24.4 million Iraqis to start with in 1991. The extermination minded American senior politicians and military leaders are nothing if not determined, ruthless and relentless...
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Haditha: the "M" word hits the media
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News...Back in Haditha, we'll no doubt be revisiting the "few bad apples" theory to explain the murders. And certainly it's true that neither George Bush nor Donald Rumsfeld, nor even any medium-level commander in Iraq ordered this particular massacre. But that doesn't excuse this sentence in the Washington Post article: "Two U.S. military boards are investigating the incident as potentially the gravest violation of the law of war by U.S. forces in the three-year-old conflict in Iraq." No. The "gravest violation of the law of war" was the invasion of Iraq, the unproked assault on another country, the ultimate violation. Everything else follows from that...
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"Nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib"
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsRetired Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms is quoted in the Washington Post about the Haditha massacre (item below): "When these investigations come out, there's going to be a firestorm. It will be worse than Abu Ghraib -- nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib." I heard this exact same line--"nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib"--several times yesterday from various pundits and news anchors. This is absolutely untrue. It seems that Brig. Gen. Brahms, as well as the media, have forgotten all about Manadel al-Jamadi, who was not only tortured to death during interrogation at Abu Ghraib, but even features in a well-known picture of Charles Graner, one of those infamous Abu Ghraib "bad apples": Nor was al-Jamadi the only Iraqi to die at Abu Ghraib...
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FLASHBACK: Autopsy reports reveal homicides of detainees in U.S. custody
ACLU...Iraqi National male was captured by Navy Seal Team #7 and resisted aprehension. External injuries including multiple contusions are consistent with injuries sustained during apprehension. Fractures of the ribs and a contusion of the left lung imply significant blunt force injuries of the thorax and likely resulted in impaired respiration. Ligature marks of the wrists and ankles. Remote gunshot would of torso. No significant natural diseases identified. According to investigating agents, during interrogation of the detainee, a hood made of synthetic material was placed over the head and neck of the detainee. He died while detained at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Cause of death: Blunt force injuries complicated by compromised respiration. Manner of Death: Homicide. DOD 003329 refers to this case as "1 blunt force trauma and choking; died during interrogation." DOD 003325 refers to this case with the notation "Q[uestioned] by OGA [Other Governmental Agency - non-military, often refers to the CIA] and NSWT [Navy Seals] died during interrogation"...
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Tony Blair’s Washington visit and the curious case of a disappearing BBC story
Gavin Gatenby, Possum News NetworkOn Friday 26 May, just hours after Tony Blair and George Bush began talks in Washington on the "progress" of their occupation of Iraq, a curious article appeared on the BBC’s website. Headlined "Iran FM begins first Baghdad trip", it was posted at 0617 GMT. Penned by one Pam O'Toole, it painted a faux-objective, strangely upbeat, picture of the Iranian foreign minister’s impending visit to Iraq. This was all the more extraordinary because the US and British governments, through compliant sections of the media – including the BBC which is now virtually the official mouthpiece of the Blair government – have been engaged in a propaganda campaign demonising the Tehran government in preparation for an aerial assault on Iran...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 27 May 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice....In a dispatch posted at 9:15pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US military had admitted that an American Navy helicopter had crashed in al-Anbar Province and that its two crewmen were "missing." Mafkarat al-Islam reported sources in the US military as telling al-Jazeera satellite TV that the helicopter was shot down by "friendly fire." Earlier the American military admitted the loss of a Marine in the course of a Resistance attack in al-Anbar Province but offered no futher details...
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Doctor describes the devastation of Iraq
Niko Leka, Green Left WeeklyPeace movement supporters turned out in their hundreds to public meetings around the country last week featuring US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and founding member of Doctors of Iraq Salaam Ismael. Ismael witnesses the carnage day after day, desperately trying to cope with few resources. "The health system has been destroyed after three years of occupation", he told the 500-strong meeting in Sydney on May 23, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Medical Association for Prevention of War. The Iraqi people have become death statistics on the Internet: 100,000, 150,000, numbers with no names, he said. The wholesale destruction of Iraq’s health infrastructure involves more than buildings — there is little food and hardly any medicine. Eleven of the 18 hospitals have been completely looted and the water supply is 40% less this year than last...
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Ramadi: US raid kills seven civilians in Iraq
BNAMedics in the Iraqi city of Al Ramadi announced today that seven civilians were killed and ten others injured by US troops over the last 24 hours. Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) reported on doctor Ahmed Dhiya in Al Ramadi Hospital as saying that children and women were among the victims of a US blitz that targeted their houses under the pretext of striking armed groups. Dr. Ahmed added that autopsies and medical examinations revealed that some of the injured were targeted by snipers...
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Video
Haditha: The Iraq War "My Lai Massacre"
Hector Carreon, La Voz de Aztlan...The Iraqi Hammurabi Organization for Monitoring Human Rights and Democracy documented the massacre and produced a video showing corpses lined up at the local morgue with bullet wounds in the head and chest. The video shows homes with bullet holes in the walls, pieces of human flesh, pools of blood, and clothes scattered on floors. Iraqi civilian witnesses described the horrible killing rampage by the US Marines...
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Iraq: Horrific details of atrocities in Haditha emerge
Truth About Iraqis...Can you imagine that scene? A man pleading for his life, for his family to be spared only to get mowed down. Seriously, I can only think of stuff like that when I remember war movies of Vietnamese getting cut to pieces by the US military or Nazis killing Italians or the Roman Legionnaires butchering Gaulish villagers. But this isn't a movie, and it really isn't a video game either. These people are human souls. And they have kin who will fight back. Moving along, Knickmeyer says "...U.S. investigators said in Washington. The girls killed inside Khafif's house were ages 14, 10, 5, 3 and 1, according to death certificates." My God, who can kill a child, a suckling babe? I can't imagine what grips a man to be able to point a weapon at a one-year-old. A one-year-old! Was the US Marine who pulled the trigger thinking of Battlefield, the game some of the military personnel like to play?...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, May 27, 2006
Today in IraqA U.S. Marine was killed in clashes in Iraq's restive Anbar province on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday. Marine Adam Lucas, of Greensboro, was killed by enemy fire early Friday morning while serving in Iraq. A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter crashed in an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq on Saturday, and two crew members were missing, the U.S. military said. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause. Seven civilians were killed and ten others injured by US troops over the last 24 hours in Ramadi. Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) reported on doctor Ahmed Dhiya in Al Ramadi Hospital as saying that children and women were among the victims of a US blitz that targeted their houses under the pretext of striking armed groups. Dr. Ahmed added that autopsies and medical examinations revealed that some of the injured were targeted by snipers...
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GI Special 4E27: Support For War Hits New Low - May 27, 2006
Thomas F. Barton....More adults in the United States are disappointed with their government’s decision to go to war in Iraq, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post and ABC News. 62 per cent of respondents think the conflict was not worth fighting, up five points since March. For the first time since the conflict began, fewer than four-in-ten Americans believe the war with Iraq was worth fighting....
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At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.
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"Separate Dress Codes for Religious Minorities"
The Latest Neocon Lie About Iran
GARY LEUPPNow that Canada's National Post has apologized for the disinformational article about Iran it published on its front page last Friday, one should inquire as to how this happened in the first place. The Post had reported that on May 15, the Iranian Parliament had passed a law establishing "separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public (...) In 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the "Citizens for a Free Kuwait," a front group established by the Hill & Knowlton PR firm to promote war on Iraq, used its ties to California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois Republican John Porter to stage the appearance of a teenage Kuwaiti girl at a Congressional hearing on the invasion. She testified that as a volunteer at al-Addan Hospital in Kuwait City she "saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die." Some of us wondered at the time whether it was likely that Iraqi boys would wantonly slaughter Arab babies in this Kuwaiti hospital. It was later revealed that the girl testifying was a daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., and that she was lying through her teeth. But the lie worked very, very well, validated by Colin Powell and others in the first Bush administration, and by reputable press organs...
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Bleak House: How America was Conquered by Hell's Bottom
Chris Floyd...The end of the Cold War made no difference to the Pentagon's corrupting dominance of American policy. The expected "peace dividend" following the Soviet collapse never materialized; the Pentagon simply found new enemies to stir the same public fears and feed its own paranoia: Saddam Hussein, "rogue states," Islamic extremism. Today, of course, with the never-ending "war on terror," the Pentagon has completely devoured the state, bending the entire government to its will. It commands limitless sources of corporate patronage and political muscle. It trumps diplomacy, it controls the vast intelligence services, with their secret armies, secret prisons, and their secret surveillance of American citizens. It dominates the entire globe, with more than 720 bases strung across the earth. The Bush Regime has also unleashed the "nuclear priesthood," discarding arms control treaties, building a new generation of deadlier nukes – and once more pressuring Russia, still in the crosshairs of thousands of U.S. warheads, to respond with a new arms race...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday 26 May 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, the highest Sunni Muslim religious authority in occupied Iraq, issued a statement on Thursday denouncing the massacres carried out by US troops and their puppet allies in the area of al-Yusufiyah, about 30km southwest of Baghdad. "US occupation forces, the [puppet] government National Guard, the repressive agencies of the [puppet] government, and the parties gathered under its umbrella have embarked on a dangerous escalation and a new link in the series of their slaughters and massacres of the innocent civilian population of our countr," the statement said. "These forces committed barbarous massacres in the area of Bazayiz al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad. According to the final toll of their operation of Wednesday, 24 May they had executed 10 persons and arrested about 40 in that area, in addition to beating up women, children, and elderly persons and burning a number of homes, farms, and belongings of local citizens. Even their livestock was not safe from their viciousness, for they too were killed," the statement went on...
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In Haditha, Memories of a Massacre
Iraqi Townspeople Describe Slaying of 24 Civilians by Marines in Nov. 19 Incident
Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post Foreign ServiceWitnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing. Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home as Marines went from house to house killing members of three families, recalled hearing his neighbor across the street, Younis Salim Khafif, plead in English for his life and the lives of his family members. "I heard Younis speaking to the Americans, saying: 'I am a friend. I am good,' " Fahmi said. "But they killed him, and his wife and daughters."...
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Killed in Iraq for wearing shorts!
Truth about IraqisYes, you read that right. In the latest outrage, a tennis coach and two of his students were killed for wearing shorts a few days after leaflets were distributed in Iraq outlining proper Islamic conduct. Does this remind anyone of Iran? No, I didn't say Iraq, I said Iran. "Coach Hussein Ahmed Rashid and players Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Auda were killed in the al-Saidiya district of the capital. Witnesses said the three were dressed in shorts and were killed days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts," the BBC said...
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