Notice the price of gasoline lately? Isn't it great that we have secured Iraq's oil? And as Congress signs off on yet another huge supplementary grant to supposedly protect U.S. interests in the Mideast, our president pathetically begs his Saudi buddies for a price break. As the fall of Rome showed, imperialism never pays.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3125

If the government were able and willing to carry out an effective global “war on terrorism” by means of its present policy of empire building and naked aggression (politely called “preventive war”), would the benefits of that policy justify the costs being borne? Not for a moment.

http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=41&articleID=534


From Information Clearing House

The Department of Defense released to him and the National Security Archive 360 additional photographs of soldiers' remains as they were returned to U.S. bases, from Dover to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/04/28pentagonrelease.html

The head of the United Nations weapons inspectors in the run-up to the Iraq war, Hans Blix, last night undercut one of the main grounds offered by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, in his legal advice to Tony Blair.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8696.htm

Publication of a secret 2003 memo from the government's top lawyer questioning the Iraq war's legality buffeted Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday, just a week before the May 5 election.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050428/325/fhlio.html

Full Text :

Advice from Attorney General on legality of Iraq war
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8692.htm


From Information Clearing House

Health officials and scientists said this could be due to radiation passed through mothers following years of conflict in the country.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46840


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2687/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050428/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/war_coffin_photos


Informant: DitziSis

04/28/05

Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday that Italy might not endorse U.S. findings on the shooting of an Italian agent by American forces at a checkpoint last month in Iraq, news reports said. Commenting on the joint investigation by the two nations into the March 4 shooting of Nicola Calipari, Berlusconi said 'we certainly will never endorse things that do not convince us,' according to news agencies ANSA and Apcom. 'If there are differing positions, they will emerge...

http://tinyurl.com/8n4dw

from Indianapolis Star


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/28/05

In an embarrassing about-face ahead of elections, Prime Minister Tony Blair today released a secret memo warning of the legal consequences of invading Iraq without a second U.N. resolution. Blair had long refused to publish the March 7, 2003 document from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, saying it was confidential. Instead, the prime minister had consistently pointed to the written statement Goldsmith gave to parliament 10 days later, which said the war would be legal without another resolution...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3158652

from Houston Chronicle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp