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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (55483)	3/11/2006 3:46:08 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Ha! Afghanistan? Where the warlords are raising bumper opium crops? Where the Taliban are enforcing Islamic law in the hinterland? Where the fearless leader Karzai can't even venture out of Kabul, and even in Kabul, needs hundreds of US soldiers forming a ring around him? And Iraq? Is this the same Iraq that we are talking about? Just checking! 03/11/06 DPA: Gunmen kill four Iraqis in Baqubah 03/11/06 DPA: Gunmen kill two Iraqis near Kirkuk 03/11/06 DPA: Two killed in Baghdad shooting (update) 03/11/06 MobileRegister: Injured Daphne soldier coming home to visit today 03/11/06 whotv: Norwalk Marine Injured 03/11/06 wbay: Howard Parents Learn Son Injured in Iraq 03/11/06 Reuters: Two killed, one wounded by roadside bomb near Balad 03/11/06 WaPo: U.S. Sets Plans to Aid Iraq in Civil War 03/11/06 Reuters: Gunmen kill Iraq state TV senior editor 03/11/06 AP: 20 suspected insurgents detained in Iraq 03/11/06 Reuters: 36 foreigners still missing 03/10/06 AP: State Dept. - U.S. hostage Tom Fox killed 03/10/06 DoD Identifies Army Casualty -- Pfc. Ricky Salas, Jr. 22, of Roswell, N.M., died in Mosul, Iraq, on March 7, 03/10/06 CENTCOM: MARINE, IRAQI SOLDIER, THREE IRAQIS KILLED IN IED BLAST 03/10/06 AP: Two more bodies found in Kut 03/10/06 AP: 3 Wisconsin Soldiers Hurt In Iraq 03/10/06 AP: Marine killed in Fallujah car bombing 03/10/06 Reuters: roadside bomb killed one iraqi in Baghdad 03/10/06 Reuters: roadside bomb kills one iraqi in Iskandarya 03/10/06 NYTimes: Update on fifty kidnapped sucurity company employees 03/10/06 AP: More violence in Iraq; US tank crew safe (update) 03/10/06 AP: Wounded NH soldier remains in ‘deep coma’ 03/10/06 Xinhuanet: 4 Iraqi soldiers killed, injured in car bomb in Baghdad 03/10/06 MSN: Car bombs kill 3, including mosque preacher, in Iraq 03/10/06 Reuters: Suicide bomber in Iraq's Falluja kills at least 11 (update) 03/10/06 Reuters: Two Police killed in Tikrit 03/10/06 AFP: Bomb kills girl, 6 03/10/06 AP: Six men slain execution-style found 03/10/06 AP: Blast Sets U.S. Tank on Fire in Baghdad

To: Brumar89 who wrote (55483)	3/11/2006 4:46:45 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Friends of murdered US hostage urge no retribution Reuters ^ \| March 11 2006 Friends of U.S. peace activist Tom Fox, who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq, cited his stance against retribution on Saturday and called for the remembrance of all victims of violence around the world. Members of the Langley Hill Friends Meeting, a peace group in northern Virginia to which Fox belonged, read a statement he co-wrote in October 2004 in which he shunned violence, even to rescue him should he ever be kidnapped. "We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us," said Doug Smith, quoting Fox, in a statement read to reporters at the group's headquarters in McLean, Virginia. "We forgive those who consider us their enemies," Fox's statement continued (Excerpt) Read more at metronews.ca ...

To: Brumar89 who wrote (55483)	3/11/2006 11:46:22 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Stop your meddling, Iraqi minister tells US By Paul McGeough Chief Herald Correspondent in Baghdad 03/11/06 "Sydney Morning Herald" -- -- AMID rising American frustration with the political deadlock in Iraq, the National Security Minister, Abdul Karim al-Enzy, has rebuked Washington for interfering in Iraq's domestic affairs. In a remarkable broadside against the US, Mr Enzy charged that it was deliberately slowing Iraq's redevelopment because of a self-serving agenda that included oil and the "war on terror". The attack came as the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, told a Senate inquiry in Washington that Iraq's political leaders needed "to recognise the seriousness of the situation and form a government of national unity that will govern from the centre, and to do it in a reasonably prompt manner". To that end, US diplomats have demanded a more generous sharing of key portfolios among Iraq's religious and ethnic populations than the dominant Shiite religious parties are willing to concede. In particular, they are urging the dismissal of the hardline Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr. But in an interview with the Herald, Mr Enzy snapped: "The last time I checked, Bayan Jabr was Interior Minister of Iraq - not of the US or the UN. He is one of our best and this is interference in our business." Mr Enzy argued that if the US-led coalition in Iraq had been more serious about rebuilding the country's security forces in the first year of the occupation, it could now be making substantial cuts in foreign troop numbers in Iraq. "We don't want foreign forces here, but it's impossible for them to leave now, because we're on the edge of civil war," he said. "The truth is the Americans don't want us to reach the levels of courage and competence needed to deal with the insurgency because they want to stay here. "They came for their own strategic interests. A lot of the world's oil is in this region and they want to use Iraq as a battlefield in the war on terror because they believe they can contain the terrorism in Iraq." Asked if the West - and the US in particular - understood Iraq and the region, Mr Enzy said significant differences of culture and tradition complicated the relationship. "We don't want to be a part of international problems - the US has a problem with Iran, but as an Iraqi government, we don't. We are not a part of the Israel-Palestine problem, but the deployment of foreign forces in Iraq puts pressure on that issue." The minister's spiel was symptomatic of a rising anti-American sentiment among Iraq's Shiite majority. Mr Enzy said many Iraqis believed the US wanted civil war in the hope it would break the power of the religious parties still struggling to form a government. "This is not the view of the Government; it is street talk. But it could be why the coalition forces are being targeted in the [Shiite areas] of the south and east." At the Washington inquiry into the Bush Administration's request for $US70 billion ($95 billion) more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr Rumsfeld told sceptical senators the plan was to prevent a civil war "and to the extent if one were to occur, to have … Iraqi security forces deal with it". At the same time, Iraq's cabinet announced that 13 self-confessed insurgents had been hanged "by the competent authorities". It named only one of them - Shukair Farid, a former police officer accused of working with Syrian fighters to enlist Iraqis to kill police and civilians. Mystery still surrounds the abduction of about 50 guards from a private security firm in Baghdad on Wednesday. There were claims they had collaborated with the insurgency and that the Iraqi guards were being held at a government detention centre. But persistent government denials of any role in the round-ups of the Sunni guards heightened fears that it was the work of a Shiite death squad. The US military has confirmed it plans to shut down the infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad in the next three months. A spokesman said that the more than 4500 people being held there would be transferred to a new US-run prison at Camp Cropper at Baghdad International Airport.