The U.S. Army admits that it expects to miss its recruiting goals this month and next and is working on a revised sales pitch appealing to the patriotism of parents.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zeese.php?articleid=5317


From Information Clearing House

He was miles away from home, fighting the war in Iraq, when his baby girl was stillborn. But the army would not let the 278th soldier come back on emergency leave.

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=3118138&nav=1ugFXqEG
http://snipurl.com/dn47


From Information Clearing House

War, specifically US imperialist war, is based on the belief of imperial invincibility – based on mass media imagery of successful US warriors-supermen representing a righteous superpower.

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=12606


From Information Clearing House

Both Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, and Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's closest adviser, made clear before September 11 2001 that Saddam Hussein was no threat - to America, Europe or the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6456.htm
http://snipurl.com/dn3z


From Information Clearing House

Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623125
http://snipurl.com/dn3x


Was the Attorney General leant on to change his mind?:

Elizabeth Wilmshurst's resignation letter provides the first glimpse from inside Whitehall of the Attorney General's apparent change of heart over the legality of the war.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623124
http://snipurl.com/dn3y


From Information Clearing House

A British government legal adviser resigned on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq because she believed such action would be unlawful and amount to a "crime of aggression," the BBC reported Thursday.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39284


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration took specific legal steps that cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html
http://snipurl.com/dn3u


A Math Lesson: The Killing of Nicola Calipari:

According to the U.S. military, they fired warning shots within 2.7 seconds of flashing a warning light, and used "deadly force" 2.3 seconds after that.

http://www.counterpunch.org/stephens04182005.html


From Information Clearing House

MSNBC

03/23/05

Baghdad, whose name means the 'Garden of God,' has fallen from grace. Known for centuries as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, its landscape has been marred by concrete blast walls, barbed wire, steel barricades, sandbags and crumbling buildings pockmarked by bullet holes or gutted by explosions. Things have gotten so bad that the Iraqi capital has dropped to the bottom of a quality of life survey of 215 cities conducted by the London-based Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7278853/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Drilling deep into a survey of journalists engaged in Iraq war coverage, one finds many disturbing comments. No matter what you think of the war or coverage of it, this is a valuable study for anyone who ever pondered, "I wonder what those reporters covering the war really think?"

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000846805
http://tinyurl.com/6wv5t


From Information Clearing House