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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (79228)	9/4/2006 11:33:20 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Iran is playing its political game very deftly. Let us not underestimate Iran. It is no Iraq or N. Korea. It has spread its tentacles every where including sleeper Hezbollah cells in the US as reported. Strategically, it controls the Strait of Hormuz and its silkworm missiles are deadly for maritime traffic in that area. Ahmedinijad is no jerk like Saddam. I do not support him but I do respect him at the same time like I would respect a head of state.

To: American Spirit who wrote (79228)	9/5/2006 3:02:10 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 81568

Will Bush Bomb Teheran? Would the Democrats Do Anything Different? by Alexander Cockburn counterpunch.com .

To: American Spirit who wrote (79228)	9/5/2006 11:55:08 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

12,000 US Dead, 25,000 Badly Wounded In Iraq - Secret Report By GNNews 9-5-6 Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records at the end of this piece.) Given the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,000+ now being officially published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish the results along with the sources In addition to the evident falsification of the death rolls, at least 5,500 American military personnel have deserted, most in Ireland but more have escaped to Canada and other European countries, none of whom are inclined to cooperate with vengeful American authorities. (See TBR News of 18 February for full coverage on the mass desertions) This means that of the 158,000 U.S. military shipped to Iraq, 26,000 deserted, were killed or seriously wounded. The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate over 12,000 dead, over 25,000 seriously wounded and a large number of suicides, forced hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales, murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers, rapes, courts martial and so on - The government gets away with these huge lies because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings. Anyone who dies just as the transport takes off from the Baghdad airport is not listed and neither are those who die in the US military hospitals. Their families are certainly notified that their son, husband, brother or lover was dead and the bodies, or what is left of them (refrigeration is very bad in Iraq what with constant power outages) are shipped home, to Dover AFB. This, we note, was the overall policy until very recently. Since it became well known that many had died at Landstuhl, in Germany, the DoD began to list a very few soldiers who had died at other non-theater locations. These numbers are only for show and are pathetically small in relationship to the actual figures. You ought to realize that President Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances. He claims that this is to comfort the bereaved relatives but is designed to keep the huge number of arriving bodies secret. Any civilian, or military personnel, taking pictures will be jailed at once and prosecuted. Bush has never attended any kind of a memorial service for his dead soldiers and never will. He is terrified some parent might curse him in front of the press or, worse, attack him. STAY TUNED... RELOAD THIS PAGE OFTEN FOR LATEST INFO

To: American Spirit who wrote (79228)	9/7/2006 5:01:00 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 81568

Iran says U.S., Israel ordered September 11 attacks Wed. 06 Sep 2006 Iran Focus iranfocus.com Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, DC. “The events of September 11 were ordered by U.S. [officials] and Mossad so that they could carry out their strategy of pre-emption and warmongering and unipolarisation in order to dominate the Middle East”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told military commanders on Tuesday. His comments were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA. General Safavi said that Iran was the leading force of the “Islamic world”. “The geographic heart of the Islamic world is in Mecca and Medina. But, the political heart of the Islamic world is in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] is the flag-bearer of the front of Islamic awakening and the fronts of the awakening of third world nations”, he said. He said that Washington had been defeated in its strategy of “attacking Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon” and creating a new order in the Middle East. “The U.S.’s neo-conservative strategy was to dominate the vast energy resources of the Persian Gulf in order to be able to control Europe, China, and India and drive the world to a unipolar state. Therefore, it planned to change undesirable regimes such as those of Iraq, Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan”. The IRGC general said that the Lebanese militia Hezbollah had defeated Israel during their recent war. “After many years, the political and military image and hollow might of the Zionist regime was broken and the real power of Hezbollah fighters was proven. Thus, Hezbollah defeated Israel”. He described Washington and Tel Aviv as two “inter-continental threats” against Tehran. “The U.S. must be livid at Iran because of its disgraceful defeats in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. Regarding [Iran’s] nuclear dossier, it might try to create circumstances so that slowly but surely economic and political pressure is applied against Iran by the [United Nations] Security Council”. He accused Washington of plotting a “cultural” attack on Tehran by setting up new radio and television stations broadcasting into Iran, supporting dissident groups, and stepping up intelligence operations. “Therefore, the armed forces must be completely prepared in order to combat any forms of foreign and domestic threats”, he said. He charged that Britain and the U.S. were stirring ethnic and religious divisions in Iran, in particular in the provinces close to the country’s frontiers. The IRGC’s primary task is to export the Islamic revolution to Jerusalem via Baghdad. Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is one of many officials who stem from the IRGC.

To: American Spirit who wrote (79228)	9/8/2006 4:10:05 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

My comment: Between believing Armitage confessing that he leaked Plame's name and this bipartisan Senate report, which one would you tend to believe? Senate finds no Saddam-al-Qaida link Source: AP CAPITOL HILL -- Two years in the making, a report on pre-Iraq war intelligence finds no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any relations with al-Qaida leaders in his country. President Bush and others at the White House have said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's presence in Iraq was evidence of a link between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. But the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee report reveals for the first time what the CIA said about that last year. The spy agency concluded that before the war, Saddam's government had no relationship with al-Zarqawi and found no proof Saddam either harbored or turned a blind eye toward Zarqawi. Committee member Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, accuses the administration of deception in trying to link Saddam to al-Qaida. But a White House spokesman says from what they've seen, the report is "nothing new." krqe.com