ICH: Weekend Edition
 
Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:11:54 -0600 (CST)

"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section
is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and
parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles
of any war in which the folly and wickedness of the government may
engage itself? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden,
which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and
baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of
personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction
which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything
valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of
an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free
government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is
the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that
ever entered into the heads of men." -- Daniel Webster- (1782-1852),
US Senator Source: Speech in the House of Representatives, January
14, 1814

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=== Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,129,698
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3,886 http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs $475,563,490,662

See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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When Is Bush Going to Come Clean?

By Paul Craig Roberts

Members of the right-wing Israeli government have denounced the NIE
finding as contrary to Israel's interests. Former Bush regime
official John Bolton accused America's intelligence agencies with
conspiring to discredit President Bush with politicized intelligence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18854.htm

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Cindy Sheehan: NIEs: Waste of Time?

By Cindy Sheehan

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that BushCo has known
at the highest levels about this intelligence for over a year, but
they have all been beating their evil drums of war against Iran,
nevertheless.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18858.htm

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An Alleged "Two Party System"

By Ed Ciaccio

"Every 10 minutes an Iraqi civilian is injured or killed in a war
that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office. Every
10 hours an American soldier is killed in a war that George Bush
says will not end until he leaves office. Every 10 days $2 billion
is removed from the U.S. Treasury and placed in the accounts of
Halliburton, Blackwater and all other war profiteers that are getting
rich off the misery of Iraqis and Americans"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18856.htm

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Omar Barghouti: "No State Has the Right to Exist as a Racist State"

By Silvia Cattori

Omar Barghouti belongs to a new generation of Palestinians who never
adhered to the solution of " Two States, Two peoples". They are
advocating, instead, a secular, democratic state; solution, where
Palestinians and Israelis would share equal rights, after historic
injustices are redressed and the refugees are allowed to return.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18853.htm

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The Planned Collapse of USA

By Peter Chamberlin.

We risk blowing the world apart, to avoid watching America slowly
choke on its own excesses. - The government has known for decades
that America is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the elite
it is common knowledge that our "global economy" must one day
collapse from its own dead weight.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18857.htm

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Iraq: Sunday: At least 21 killed in another bloody day of US
occupation:

A roadside bomb killed the police chief of Iraq's Babel province
and five of his guards on Sunday, police said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09267742.htm

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Saturday: Thirty-five killed, scores wounded in Iraq occupation :

At least 35 Iraqis were killed and scores wounded in separate
bombings, raids and shootings in Iraq Saturday, local authorities
said.

http://snipurl.com/1v06u

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Iraq's premier warns of use of human rights to undermine his
government:

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned Sunday against what he called
attempts to use the issue of human rights as a cover to undermine
his government.

http://snipurl.com/1v06v

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US Democrats retreat and allow more Iraq funding -newspaper:

U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leaders are contemplating
legislation that would give President George W. Bush $70 billion
in new funds for war but without any timetables for withdrawing
troops from Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08354832.htm

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Iraq's Sunni vice president gives the nod to Iraqi-US occupation
deal:

Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president said Sunday he was in favor of a
strategic cooperation agreement with the United States, saying the
proposed pact would give Iraq a "strong and honest" partner it
needs.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/09/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-US-Pact.php

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Iraq calls for Gulf security pact including Iran :

Iraq's National Security Advisor on Sunday called on Gulf states
to form a regional security pact, which would include Iran, while
he reassured the area's US allies that Baghdad is "heading West"
in its foreign policies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071209/wl_mideast_afp/iraqgulfiranpolitics

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Iran drops dollar from oil deals: report:

Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its
oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari
said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currenc
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGC7KSKjsKYUTGAF1oR04-yOpBgg

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Now Is The Time For Serious Diplomacy On Iran:

The consequences of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities which
has been advocated by many are too hazardous to even contemplate
seriously http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18855.htm

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Bolton says US intel report on Iran was political:

Bolton described the NIE, released Monday, as a "quasi-putsch" by
the agencies, Der Spiegel said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22161437/

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Israel no nuclear threat to neighbors, says Gates:

The statement was greeted by laughter from a room filled with
government officials from Middle Eastern countries.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSL0866169420071208

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PM: Israel set to "expose" Iranian nuclear program :

Israeli officials have conducted a quiet campaign aimed at exposing
the National Intelligence Estimate's deficiencies. In his address
to the cabinet, Olmert said that Israel's stance on the Iranian
nuclear matter would not change despite the U.S. report.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/932430.html

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Siege that spells slow death for the innocents:

Last week WHO reported that out of the 782 Gaza patients to have
sought specialist treatment outside the Strip since the siege was
tightened in June, 100 have been granted permits by Israel to leave.

http://snipurl.com/1v070

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Just another day in Palestine: 3 minute video:

Israeli occupation forces man handle Palestinian women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toxHmsWO4to

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Israel Says It Will Keep Jerusalem Areas :

A key ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signaled on Sunday that
Israel intends to hold on to all Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem
- a position that undercuts the Palestinians' claim to the eastern
part of the city for their future capital.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7138781,00.html

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40 Taliban said killed in several clashes in occupied Afghanistan':

An Afghan official says 40 insurgents have been killed in a series
of battles with Afghan and NATO-led troops in the country's south.

http://snipurl.com/1v072

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US Occupation Forces kill 12 "Taliban" and 2 children:

Twelve Taliban have been killed in fighting since the operation
began Friday afternoon. Separately, two children were killed when
security forces clashed with Taliban traveling in a convoy with
civilians, Azimi said.

http://snipurl.com/1v073

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Second NATO soldier killed in fight for Taliban town :

A second NATO soldier was killed Sunday as Afghan and international
troops advanced on the southern town of Musa Qala which the Taliban
has controlled for the last 10 months, defence forces said.

http://snipurl.com/1v074

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Suicide Car Bomber Kills 8, Including 2 Children, in Pakistan :

Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber has killed 8 people in
Swat Valley, a day after the military said it forced nearly all
pro-Taliban militants from the region after weeks of fighting.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-09-voa5.cfm

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Suicide blast kills 4 in NW Pakistan :

A total of four people including a suicide bomber were killed in a
suicide blast in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, local TV channel
DAWN NEWS reported.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/09/content_7221042.htm

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Deposed Pak judge accuses foreign envoys of interference:

A deposed judge of Lahore HC has accused foreign envoys of violating
norms of diplomacy by putting pressure on the sacked judges not to
demand restoration of pre-Emergency judiciary.

http://snipurl.com/1v077

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Lawyers protest on 36th consecutive day:

The lawyers set up a hunger strike camp outside District Bar Room
and shouted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf. They demanded
release of detained lawyers and judges http://snipurl.com/1v07a

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Lawyers charge the CIA tortured their client in secret prisons:

Lawyers for a terrorism suspect from suburban Baltimore who's
imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claim they have
evidence that their client "was subjected to a program of
state-sanctioned torture" while he was in CIA custody.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/395685.html

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Congress Wants Probe of Torture Tape Destruction:

McCain, a presidential candidate, said while campaigning in New
Hampshire on Friday that he would not side with Democrats' calls
for an investigation because he believed the CIA's actions were
legal.

http://snipurl.com/1v07d

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Some in Congress knew of CIA torture methods:

The bipartisan group, which included future-House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas
detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised
to try to make their prisoners talk.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004061384_tapes09.html

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Pelosi did not object to waterboarding in 2002:

"Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was
waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as
torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill," the
Post added. "But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead,
at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder,
two U.S. officials said."

http://snipurl.com/1v07e

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Bolivia assembly backs constitution :

Bolivia's national assembly has approved a new constitution which
would give the country's indigenous people greater autonomy and let
the president run for re-election indefinitely.

http://snipurl.com/1v07g

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Let Us Work Towards Peace & Joy

Tom Feeley