Italy’s Count Berlusconi Returns from the Grave!

GEF @ 6:38 PM MST

US Friend Returns to Power in Italy
ROME — Media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi won a decisive victory Monday in Italy’s parliamentary election, setting the colorful conservative and staunch U.S. ally on course to his third stint as premier.
The victory in voting Sunday and Monday by parties supporting the 71-year-old Berlusconi avenged his [...]

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Bush and Cheney’s Deception Game of Expendable Toy Soldiers…

GEF @ 3:48 PM MST

War at the Pentagon

By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, April 13, 2008; Page B07
The most intense arguments over U.S. involvement in Iraq do not flare at this point on Capitol Hill or on the campaign trail. Those rhetorical battles pale in comparison to the high-stakes struggle being waged behind closed doors at the Pentagon.
On [...]

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War Without End

Sudhan @19:10 CET
Helen Thomas | The Seatle Post-Intelligence, April 12, 2008
WASHINGTON – Surprise, surprise. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wants to put a halt to any more troop withdrawals for the foreseeable future.
The highly politicized Petraeus seemed to be dutifully following his White House marching orders when he testified before congressional [...]

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Robert Fisk: Semantics can’t mask Bush’s chicanery

Sudhan @19:05 CET
This goes beyond hollow laughter. Since when did armies go around ‘re-liberating’

Robert Fisk | The Independent, UK, April 12, 2008
After his latest shenanigans, I’ve come to the conclusion that George Bush is the first US president to march backwards. First we had weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they proved to be a [...]

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Bush: “I Was Aware” of Harsh Tactics

Sudhan @18:55 CET

President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods

By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
April 11, 2008

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President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central [...]

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U.S. offensives on Falluja have disabled 500 children

Sudhan @18:45 CET
Omer al-Mansouri, Azzaman | Uruknet, April 12, 2008

The number of children who have been handicapped or disabled due to massive U.S. offensives to subdue the restive city of Falluja has reached 500, according to a private aid group.
Alaa Hamed of the Society for the Welfare of Children said the [...]

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US lawmaker: Recession result of war

Sudhan @18:40 CET
Press TV, Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:16:45

Representative John Yarmuth

Democratic Congressman, John Yarmuth has linked the costly occupation of Iraq with growing economic troubles in the United States.
The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq “is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading [...]

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What is your candidate’s views on The Hidden Agenda?

by Geezer Power…8:03 am
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In 2003 General jayGarner was selected to lead the post-war reconstruction efforts in Iraq and he began reconstruction efforts in March 2003 with plans aiming for Iraqis to hold elections within 90 days and for the U.S. to quickly pull troops out of the cities to a desert base. He was replaced [...]

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Japan Bans the Chinese Paramilitary “Torch” Troops!

GEF @ 7:08 AM MST
Whoever in the US Local or Federal Govt authorized this must resign immediately and there must be an thorough investigation by Congress! This is a National Security Breach. An Intelligence agency failure.

Japan bans tracksuited Chinese torch guards
The “thug” Chinese security guards who have accompanied the Olympic torch on its route through [...]

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