Gambit Weekly
November 25, 2003
George Bush and his adminstration drove us to a war with Iraq on a wave of deception unprecedented in American history.
On the eve of battle, President Bush said that war was required because of Saddam Hussein's connection to "...the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001." Now Bush admits "we've had no evidence" of such a connection.*
Dick Cheney charged that Saddam "has reconstituted nuclear weapons." Now Cheney admits: "I did mis-speak."
Donald Rumsfeld claimed, regarding weapons of mass destruction: "We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad..."Now, Rumsfeld maintains he "never believed" that they would be found quickly.
These deceptions all have a price, and we are paying it. Billions of dollars have been wasted. International alliances have been shattered. And yet the Administration shamelessly offers up new deceptions: The war is going fine. We have enough troops. There are just pockets of resistance. And oh yes, just give us $87 billion more.
Of course we must provide support our troops and assist in rebuilding Iraq. But Congress shouldn't approve one more cent until the Administration comes clean with the truth and offers a realistic plan for meeting the costs.
And why not allocate equal funds for critical domestic needs? Both guns and butter could be funded by rolling back that portion of Bush's tax cuts that benefit the very wealthy. In the end, it may mean a little less money for Halliburton, but as the President says, this is a time that demands sacrifice.
*Sources for assertions and retractions: Bush - letter to Congress 03/19/03; President's remarks 09/17/03. Cheney - NBC Meet The Press 03/16/03 and 09/14/03. Rumsfeld - ABC This Week 03/30/03; Associated Press 05/04/03. Complete documentation is available at www.MisLeader.org
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2003 Gulf War Facts:
Iraqi Uranium Purchase a Lie
The IAEA has concluded that these documents, which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger, are in fact not authentic,' El Baradel told the U.N. Security Council. Britain and the United States have alleged that Iraq had tried to revive an ambitious atomic weapons program that was neutralized by the United Nations before inspectors left in December 1998." Please go to this web page to see the story: This source is no longer available.
No "Poison Factory"
Powell testified to the UN that there was a "Poison Factory" in northern Iraq. Foreign Journalists were invited in two days later and found nothing, not even aspirin. Please go to this web page to see the story: Revealed: truth behind US 'poison factory' claim
Iraqi Reactor Parts Evidence Faked
"A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions." U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged
War will Increase Terrorism - CIA
George Tenet of the CIA testified to Congress that attacking Iraq would greatly increase the chance of terrorism and Saddam unleashing any weapons of mass destruction he might have. CIA undermines propaganda war
Wall Street: Casualty of War
Alan Greenspan and practically all economists have stated that the imminent war is causing the current crash on Wall Street.
Vatican: War Immoral, Not Legal
The Pope, through Cardinal Pio Laghi, has told President Bush that preemptive strike against Iraq is immoral and illegal and not supported by God. Papal emissary questions Bush on Iraq
George W. Bush: War criminal?
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Strike May Have Killed Killed 9 Afghan Children
Suspected terrorist targeted in U.S. Raid
Sunday, December 7, 2003
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Nine children were found dead Saturday after an American air raid in eastern Afghanistan. An American A-10 aircraft struck a site south of Ghanzi, 100 miles southwest of the, capital, Kabul where a "known terrorist" was believed to be hiding Saturday about 10:30 am , Army Major Christopher West said. "Following the attack , ground coalition forces searching the area found the bodies of both the intended target and those of nine children nearby," he said.
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U.S. Attack Kills Six More Children
Assault follows mistake that killed nine Afghan youngsters
By Stephen Graham
Associated Press
December 11, 2003
KABUL-Six children were crushed to death by a collapsing wall during an assault by U.S. forces on a compound filled with weapons in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
It was a second time in a week that youngsters have died in U.S. attacks against Taliban and al-Qaida suspects.
The children died during a night attack Friday against a complex in eastern Paktia province where a renegade Afghan commander, Mullah Jalani kept a huge cache of weapons, said U.S. Lt.-Col. Bryan Hilferty.
“The next day we discovered the bodies of two adults and six children,” he said. “We had no indication were non-combatants” in the compound.
Jalani was not at the site about 20 kilometers east of Gardez, but Hilferty said nine other people were arrested. He did not identify the adults who were killed or say whether they were combatants or civilians.
Hilferty said that U.S. warplanes and troops attacked the compound, setting off secondary explosions. The bodies were discovered the following day.
The news comes on the heels of a tragic U.S. military blunder in neighboring Ghazni province on Saturday. Nine children were found dead in a field after an attack by an A-10 ground attack aircraft that was targeting a Taliban suspect.
U.S. officials have apologized for those deaths. They originally claimed that the attack killed the intended target, a former Taliban district commander named Mullah Wazir suspected of recent attacks on road workers. But U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday they were no longer certain.
Villagers say the man killed was a local labourer who had just returned from Iran and that Mullah Wazir had left the area days before the attack.
No U.S. casualties were reported in the operation near Gardez.
The Ghazni deaths produced outrage and concern, from Afghan villagers to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who said he was, “profoundly saddened” by the deaths and urged a full investigation.
11 Civilians Are Reported Killed In U.S. Raid on Afghan Village
Associated Press
January 20, 2004
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – An American helicopter attacked a house in a village in southern Afghanistan, killing eleven people, four of them children, Afghan officials said Monday.
The American military said it conducted a weekend raid in the area in which it killed five armed militants. It said it had no information about civilian casualties.
The attack occurred around 9 p.m. Sunday in Saghatho, a village where American forces hunting for Taliban insurgents had carried out searches the day before, said Abdul Rahman, chief of the Char Chino District in Oruzgan Province.
“They were simple villagers,” he told a reporter by telephone. “They were not Taliban. I don’t know why the U.S. bombed this home.”
The governor of Oruzgan, Jan Muhammad Khan, confirmed Mr. Abdul Rahman’s account that four men, four children and three women were killed in an American bombing.
He said that American authorities had told him they had seen ammunition in their search of the village, which raised suspicions. During the search, Mr. Khan said: “The people were afraid. They started running. The Americans bombed this home.”
In Kabul, an American military spokesman, Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, confirmed a weekend air strike north of Deh Rawood, a town in Oruzgan Province.
“Coalition forces engaged from the air and killed five armed anti-coalition militia members,” he said. He said he had no information about civilian casualties. “The coalition does have stringent rules of engagement, and we carefully weight the use of deadly force,” he said.
Mr. Abdul Rahman said the 11 victims were buried early Monday in the village, where residents were “very afraid and very angry.”
About 100 Afghan soldiers and between 20 and 30 American soldiers had arrested 10 suspects in an operation in the Mahmara and Saghatho areas of the Char Chino District in the past two days, he said.
At least 15 civilians have been killed in the past month in raids by the American military.
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Excerpt from back cover of War and Globalization: the Truth Behind September 11th
In this timely study, Michael Chossudovsky blows away the smoke, put up by the mainstream media, that 9-11 was an "intelligence failure". Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11th attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.
According to Chossudovsky, the so-called "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $30 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalization is the final march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
September 11, 2001 was the moment the Bush Administration had been waiting for: the so-called "useful crisis" which provided a pretext for waging a war without borders. The hidden agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire right around the world to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control outside the U.S. and a police state on the inside.
Chossudovsky peels back the layers of rhetoric to reveal a huge hoax --- a complex web of deceit aimed at tricking the American people and the rest of the world into accepting a military solution, which threatens the future of humanity.
Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best seller "The Globalization of Poverty" published in eleven languages. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization which hosts the critically acclaimed website: Global Research.ca
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War is the insane death dance of a paranoid society.
Would you like to join the dance?
Watch the animated version of Wulf Zendik's
classic anti-war tale, "Don't Go!"
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Women In Black - A Brief Herstory
Why Women?
As women, we are disproportionately affected by dominance, aggression, and violence and our collective experience of that devastation is unique.
Why Black?
It is a symbol of grief for all those affected by dominance, aggression, and violence, and the resulting destruction of people, nature, and the fabric of life.
Why Silence?
In grief there are no words. Nothing can be said now that has not already been said. Instead we choose to speak with our eyes and our hearts.
Women in Black
Is an international peace network-NOT an organization, but a means of mobilization and a formula for action. WIB vigils were started in Israel in 1988 by women protestingagainst the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. WIB has developed in the U.S., England, Italy, Spain, Azerbaijan, Columbia, and in former Yugoslovia, where women in Belgrade have stood in weekly vigils since 1991 to protest war and Serbian policies of nationalistic aggression. Louisiana Women in Black formed in 2003 so we could connect with other women who seek peace, and as a way to nurture our individual collective power.
Women in Black
General Smedley Butler states that war is a racket and he was a gangster for capitalism and for Standard Oil.
