http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1112-21.htm


‘Successful’ U.S. Incursion in Falluja Is a Major Political Defeat; Anti-War Leader Calls on Congress to Assess the Quagmire in Iraq...
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1112-11.htm

As President George Bush visits wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC and speaks at Arlington National Cemetery, Democracy Now interviews Mark Benjamin, an investigative reporter with United Press International. They take a look at what is rarely discussed in the corporate media: the thousands of U.S. soldiers wounded during the 20-month occupation of Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2384

A city still packed with civilians has been subjected to a withering assault of US air strikes and artillery. Outside the Arab world, international criticism of the US attack on the city was unexpectedly muted.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=581297
http://snipurl.com/aknd


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Men with buzzcuts and clad in their camouflage waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles beside them, and chanted heavy metal-flavoured lyrics...

With US forces massing outside Fallujah, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in what could be the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year. Men with buzzcuts and clad in their camouflage waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles beside them, and chanted heavy metal-flavoured lyrics in praise of Christ late on Friday in a yellow-brick chapel. They counted among thousands of troops surrounding the city of Fallujah, seeking solace as they awaited Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's decision on whether or not to invade Fallujah. "You are the sovereign. You're name is holy. You are the pure spotless lamb," a female voice cried out on the loudspeakers as the marines clapped their hands and closed their eyes, reflecting on what lay ahead for them. The US military, with many soldiers coming from the conservative American south and midwest, has deep Christian roots. In times that fighting looms, many soldiers draw on their evangelical or born-again heritage to help them face the battle. One spoke of their Old Testament hero, a shepherd who would become Israel's king, battling the Philistines 3 000 years ago. "Thus David prevailed over the Philistines," the marine said, reading from scripture, and the marines shouted back "Hoorah, King David," using their signature grunt of approval. The marines drew parallels from the verse with their present situation, where they perceive themselves as warriors fighting barbaric men opposed to all that is good in the world. "Victory belongs to the Lord," another young marine read. Their chaplain, named Horne, told the worshippers they were stationed outside Fallujah to bring the Iraqis "freedom from oppression, rape, torture and murder ...

We ask you God to bless us in that effort."

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1617069,00.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 11th, 2004

http://207.44.245.159/article7263.htm

Natural disorder : A God-fearing majority is set to tyrannise the US
http://207.44.245.159/article7268.htm

Where is the moral “voice of America” that should cry against these atrocities? While Christian leaders moralise about gay marriage and lobbying for the “right to life”, and depriving women of their choice, mass graves of innocent Iraqi women and children are planned.

http://207.44.245.159/article7262.htm

The article below represents one of many anti-war protests that spontaneously arose in the past few days across America and the world.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2367

http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/1047_0_15_0_C/


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To see the world as a contest pitting good against evil is to move at least halfway down the slippery slope of Abu Ghraib. It allows U.S. officials to shrug off the estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives lost since last year's invasion.

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes386.htm

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How many dead innocent Iraqis is too many?:

For the Iraqis, we will hold no multi-faith services, no commemorative anniversary functions and we will give no human faces to them. Perhaps some innocent lives are more sacrosanct than others.

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/age14.htm



From Information Clearing House

America failing test of history as offensive compared to terror tactics of pariah states:

Perhaps in waging war against the Iraqis who want to expel the Americans and topple America's chosen Iraqi leaders, the insurgents have compelled the US and its Iraqi allied regime to behave like the two Baathist regimes that they believed were so totalitarian they had to go.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=580937
http://snipurl.com/aiqi


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