Handwritten letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American people. 7 July 2006.
Saddam Hussein...People of America, I address you not from weakness nor as a supplicant. I, my people, my brothers, comrades, and my nation – we address you on the basis of our moral and human responsibility. I tell you that officials whom you know, and first among them your President, lied to you and deceived you and tricked you using the media that portrayed Iraq to you as incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, and that his people hate him and that his people are just waiting for their chance to get at him. Some of them just wallowed in lying falsehood to the point that they openly declared that the Iraqis would meet the invading armies with roses and celebration (...) Yes, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your government deceived you, and you, or rather most of you, had no chance to inquire of themselves or of others in order to discover the truth because the Zionists in the lobby who advocated the war together with some of the centers of power were deceiving you and tricking you, hiding from your eyes the real truth, exchanging the facts for falsified and slanted information (...) People of America, the wars that your government promotes in the world – one of them being the war in Iraq – with input from certain centers of power – which you know better than we – are not in the interests of the American people. You know better than many how you paid in blood so that you might liberate yourselves from British colonialism and after that how the United States of America was unified and what rivers of blood were shed in order for that to come about. So, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, how do you accept this interference that abases America before it abases Iraq? How can you accept not only the invasion but becoming mired in the internal affairs of Iraq? You know that Iraq is a land of prophets, messengers, and righteous figures. You know that Baghdad is the fourth holiest city in the Arab homeland – after Mecca, al-Madinah, and Jerusalem – in the sight of all of the Islamic world and all of our Arab Nation. How can one imagine that Iraq could reconcile itself to colonial rule, even if it comes, this time, under another name and with other slogans? Save your country, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and leave Iraq....
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Lebanon’s Expendable People
Mike WhitneyThe most shocking thing about Israel’s assault on Lebanon is the dispassionate precision with which the bombardment has been carried out. From bridge to granary, from granary to power plant, from power plant to factory, from factory to mosque, from mosque to hospital, from hospital to apartment building; each decimated with the calm disdain of a surgeon removing a cancerous tumor. We get no sense of rage in Israel’s behavior, just the calculated savagery of men who see their duty as systematically decapitating an entire civilization and leaving it in ruins. The destruction of Lebanon is the work of robots not men; unfeeling, remorseless bundles of skin and bone. No one could have done what these men did in just seven days and be a part of the same human family as you and I. So far, there is no indication that the captured Israeli soldiers have been hurt or mistreated...
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SOLD OUT
Malcom Lagauche...Recently, we have seen the barbaric actions of Israel against the Palestinians and the Lebanese. It would be astute to believe that the spineless Arab leaders would vehemently condemn Israeli actions, even though they rarely criticized the U.S. In these instances, the U.S. always allowed the Arab rulers to criticize Israel. These critiques of Israel lent credence to the U.S. saying it was not attempting to control the Arab world. However, many Arab countries have condemned the Arab fighters in Lebanon and Palestine instead of Israel. This is the first open sellout in which Arab leaders supported the Israeli side. And, unlike the U.S., Israel will not give the Arab countries a payday for their words...
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Mahmoudiya
Buthaina al-Nasiri, Al-jazeera.netThe rape of a girl called Abeer in Mahmoudiya, a small town near Baghdad, is not a unique story of the occupation. It is what the occupation is all about: pillage and carnage. The occupation is an illegal and immoral act, why should we expect moral, legal actions from its military? I remember my grandmother telling me that when the British troops approached Baghdad in 1917, people did not let their daughters out; they were confined to their rooms and the doors nailed shut. Since US troops have occupied our country, they have raped countless Iraqi women. Some days ago in CBS's 48 Hours Mystery, the story was told of the murder of one R Davis, an American soldier, by four of his colleagues after his return to the US from Iraq on 12 July 2003. One of the reasons given for that murder was that the victim had witnessed his colleagues rape an Iraqi girl and were afraid that he would speak out...
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End Israel's Crimes Against Humanity & Aggression
US National Lawyers GuildIsrael's violence and aggression against the people of Palestine and Lebanon has already cost the lives of hundreds of people and may provoke a horrific regional or global war. The recent devastation in Palestine and Lebanon magnifies the ever-present reality of the brutal, violent, and racist occupation of Palestine and continued aggression against Lebanon. It is imperative for all people of conscience to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian and Lebanese brothers and sisters in their struggle against Israeli and U.S. occupation, aggression and imperialism. It is also imperative that we continue to fight for an end to the U.S. occupation in Iraq...
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Israeli & US Barbarians on the March
Genevieve Cora FraserAlong with hundreds of civilians killed, thousands wounded, and over 500,000 fleeing for their lives, Israel has launched a series of debilitating air strikes against privately owned factories throughout Lebanon and is "dealing a devastating blow to an economy already paralyzed by a week of hits on residential areas and crucial infrastructure," according to the Daily Star of Beirut. The production facilities of the largest dairy farm have been destroyed as well as a pharmaceutical plant. It will take decades to restore the country. Israel is also bombing apartment buildings, churches and gas stations - anything and everything in its gun sights...
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Wondering who the terrorists are...
Tanya Nasr, Live from LebanonI am a 20 year old film student from Lebanon. I am a Christian Lebanese living in Jounieh, a city in central Lebanon. We have been under Israeli attack since last Wednesday, 12 July, 2006, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers for the purpose of exchanging them for 6 Lebanese prisoners who have been in Israeli prisons for 25 years. Where do I start? Do I talk about the monstrosity of Israel? Or even worse, of the American support of the ugly war and their refusal of any discussion of a ceasefire? Well, why should "Condi" care? It's not her children who are being massacred while trying to flee away from the chaotic Israeli fire!...
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Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Henry Lowi...The familiar dance of death, orchestrated by the Israeli militarists and ethnic cleansers, will continue, with ebbs and flows, with ceasefires and "peace processes" and open conflagrations, with unimaginable misery, death and destruction, UNTIL the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to "change the rules of the game", to overthrow the Zionist pyromaniacs and poisoners of wells, and to rebuild the country on a new basis, on a basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations. All anti-war efforts in Israel, and all solidarity efforts abroad, should be directed to this goal...
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Open Letter to the Iraqi People
Stan GoffTo the people of Iraq who suffer under the US occupation: Those of us who opposed this war cannot apologize to you for what our government has done. But we can offer out condolences and our solidarity. As a former member of the US military, I join thousands of other veterans who abhor this administraton and its inhuman, illegal, and immoral occupation of your land and your society. In case you do not understand how our society works now, I will also point to the complicty of our major so-called news organs in facilitating the invasion and supporting the occupation. The American people are not monolithic, any more than the Iraqi people are. But I can generalize enough to say that we are one of the most indoctrinated peoples in the world. This indoctrination is all the more powerful, because part of our national mythology is that we are free to choose… free to choose Coca-Cola or Pepsi, free to choose Ford or Chevrolet, free to choose MSNBC or CNN. free to choose Republican or Democrat...
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An Imperial Edict on the Late Disturbances in Phoenicia
Chris FloydCitizens, Attend! A Communication from the Divine Emperor Georgius Secundus Guber, Conqueror of Babylon, Scourge of Bactria, Groper of Germania, Teat of Succor to the Wealthy and Defender of the Faith-Based: We have in our imperial wisdom have decided that our most steadfast and faithful satrap, Ehud Agrippa, lord lieutenant of the province of Judea, shall be allowed to continue his destruction of the Arab rabble in Tyre, in Sidon, in Beirut – yea, in all of the Lebanon shall there be no place safe from his sword. We have fixed the remaining duration of this most highly approved and unrestrained slaughter of troublesome vermin for the term of not less than one week, after which time we will deign to send our most beloved and comely Companion of the Throne, Condioryza, to our Phoenician and Judean domains, there to establish once more our imperial Peace...
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Iraq, Lebanon, who's next?
Truth About IraqisDeath toll is soaring as the world watches. Iraq in Lebanon. In Iraq, the NYT reports quoting Iraqi sources that 100 Iraqis die every day in liberated Iraq. They sure are enjoying the fruits of their freedom. I would say the toll is slightly more, maybe 140 or so. In Lebanon in the last three days, more than 50 have been killed every day. 330 Lebanese killed, overwhelming number are civilians. More than 1000 wounded. 500,000 displaced. 100,000 have escaped to Syria where the Syrians have been donating blood, foodstuffs and setting up temp housing. Israel says it targets Hezbollah but it has repeatedly struck Christian enclaves...
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Sheik Hasan Zargani
Friendship Across Frontiers, Al-basrah.net...Sheik Hasan Zargani, Foreign Relations Director of the Asadr arrived 17th March 2006 to address the 18th March demonstration and SAOS, as a "Leader of the Iraqi resistance"! It appears that he has remained in the UK since. One wonders who finances his stay. If not the Stop the War Coalition or Sabah Jawad, perhaps his asylum application is being processed? It is reported that he is taking part in Al Mustkla Arabic TV on Wednesday 19th July at 4.30. Fake Sheik Zangani was working in Jamhurya Daily in March 2003 and then he placed a Turbin on his head and became a sheik. What is his role now? His involvement with the sordid activities of the Medhi Army in promoting division and their close association with the Death Squad of Ahmad Chalabi...
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Energised Neo-Cons Say Israel's Fight is Washington's
Jim LobeSeeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neo-conservatives are calling for unconditional U.S. support for Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah. In a Weekly Standard column entitled "Our War", editor William Kristol Sunday called Iran "the prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war" which, he argued, should be considered part of "the global struggle against radical Islamism."...
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A US call to (more) arms
William Bowles I'n'I...The objective is plain; reduce Lebanon to a 'failed state’. No doubt, within a short period of time, the Lebanese government will collapse and a 'protectorate’ aka Kosovo will be installed, which is where the EU and NATO can be used. This will leave Hezbollah completely isolated. All that will remain is a 'mopping up’ operation in the Occupied Territories. Once the Palestinian 'problem’ is taken care of, the focus will be on Iran. At least this is the theory. At this juncture, the only thing that could stop this awful scenario from unfolding are the populations of Europe and the US and there seems little likelihood of this happening...
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The Butcher of London
Gabriele ZampariniToday, Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed 58 civilians and a Hizbollah fighter on Wednesday, the deadliest toll of the eight-day-old war, as thousands of villagers fled north and more foreigners were evacuated. [Israel has killed so far 289 people. Of these, 262 were civilians] Civilian deaths include dozens of children, with many more injured. The psychological impact is serious, as people, including children have witnessed the death or injury of loved ones and destruction of their homes and communities (...) On the same day, Wednesday, July 19, 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused Wednesday to call on Israel to halt its onslaught on Lebanon, revealing a split with other European Union leaders...
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Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes
Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US Senate from New YorkThe speech given by New York’s Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton to a rally staged by Zionist organizations Monday across from the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan amounted to a celebration of massacres and war crimes. Her remarks left no doubt that a vote for Clinton in November is a vote not only to continue the US war in Iraq, but to expand and intensify the slaughter throughout the region...
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Iraq elections officials arrested on corruption charges
Jaime JansenAdel al-Lami, the director general of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, and 10 other employees have been arrested after al-Lami surrendered to an arrest warrant, Judge Radhi al-Radhi [US DOD OIG profile], chairman of the Iraqi High Commission on Public Integrity [US State Dept. backgrounder], said Tuesday. The 11 suspects were arrested on charges of corruption after five members of the IECI told the High Commission that al-Lami and other employees had wasted public money. Al-Lami has also sued five former colleagues on corruption charges...
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Who’s imprisoned in Israeli jails?
Michael Kramer, Workers WorldThe extremely difficult situation of approximately 10,000 political prisoners held in a constellation of Zionist prisons is central for understanding the events unfolding in Occupied Palestine and Lebanon. Most of the prisoners are Palestinian, while a smaller number are Lebanese and Jordanian. They include men, women and children, and also elected officials. Some have been jailed since the 1970s. Their cause has resulted in numerous self-sacrificing actions by both Palestinian and Lebanese militants. Over the years the prisoners have taken their own actions to defend their dignity and their internationally recognized human rights...
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Israel hits central Beirut, Red Cross medic injured in raid, 47 killed so far in Lebanon Wednesday
Stacie Miller-IMEMCIsraeli aircrafts hit central Beirut for the first time since the conflict broke out one week ago and continued air raids in southern Lebanon have killed dozens and caused wide-spread damage in the eighth day of fighting. A truck in the Ashrafiya district in central Beirut was hit Wednesday, the first time the captial city's centre was struck by Israeli missiles. The International Red Cross headquarters in Ansariya was hit in a seperate air strike, injuring a medic. The Red Cross told Aljazeera television that they could not reach the town of Selaa because of bombed roads and buildings. The Lebanese deathtoll now stands at 280 after an air strike destroyed at least 15 homes in the village of Srifa, killing at least 12, including several children, and injuring 30, head of Srifa town municipality told Aljazeera Television...
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Sectarian violence escalates in Iraq
Jake Skeers, WSWS...But it is precisely the US occupation that has generated the escalating sectarian violence. Although Washington denies paying, arming and training ethnic militias, the US military has worked with Shiite and Kurdish militia groups in its violent crackdowns against Sunni areas that are supporting the anti-occupation forces. Military and political sources have long acknowledged the US backing of militia and commando units. It is worth noting that the civil war is seen as a desired outcome by sections of the ruling elite in the US (...) The claim that the parties that make up the US puppet regime in Iraq, which are linked to ethnic based militia and rely on the support of figures like Moqtada Al-Sadr, can create national unity was shown to be bogus within months of the government’s formation...
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