UK: Labour in revolt over deployment of troops under US command
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=573607

Iraq: Pro-war MPs draw a line in the sand
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=573607

Bush's Reasoning For Invading Iraq. In their own words, the lies to rush to war.

http://www.kaicurryservices.com/peacecandy/gwbush/remindus/index.html

Time will tell all the Truth.


Informant: Virtualtruth

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

10/18/04

I predicted in this space that our troops in Iraq would be sitting ducks once the real war, the war of occupation, commenced, but there is no satisfaction in being right. We are engaged in a grinding, ultimately futile war of attrition, a Sisyphean struggle in which the best we can do is maintain our tenuous position. But lately we are even unable to do that. This mutiny is the latest signal that we are headed for a major meltdown: the mighty U.S. military is staring defeat straight in the face.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3807


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

This is a war that never made sense and now we are seeing - from the troops on the ground, from our allies overseas and increasingly from the population here at home - the inevitable reluctance to forge ahead with the madness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/opinion/18herbert.html?ex=1255838400&en=28d220da21bfde01&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
http://snipurl.com/9v8b


From Information Clearing House

According to the Guardian newspaper, "Discipline and morale among US troops in Iraq was under fresh scrutiny last night as the military admitted that 17 soldiers were being investigated for refusing to operate a fuel convoy because of safety fears."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2230

A Central Intelligence Agency veteran is traveling the country on a mission to explain what he calls "prostituted intelligence" crafted at the request of the Bush administration to induce Congress into approving the war in Iraq.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/Oct/20041016News001.asp


From Information Clearing House

Billions Vanish in Iraq -- U.S. auditors can't account for Iraq spent funds

With U.S. forces in Iraq sinking deeper and deeper into quagmire, there are fresh reports of rampant looting. Only this time the victimes aren't Iraqi museums, the victims are U.S. taxpayers, who stand to lose billions as money flows to projects that never start or never get finished. For further information on the missing billions, see the link to the official government report at the end of the article below.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2222

Chemicals Sickened '91 Gulf War Veterans, Latest Study Finds

In a story which Veterans for Common Sense was critical in publicizing, the New York Times' Scott Shane reports that a new VA Research Advisory Panel on Gulf War Veterans' Ilnesses report breaks dramatically from previous government reports describing stress as the major causative factor in Gulf War illnesses. The new report, focusing on exposure to toxic chemicals, raises the key question: have we learned from our mistakes and will we treat returning Iraq veterans any better than we did those of the Gulf War and Vietnam?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2217

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New Study Shows Gulf War Veterans Sickened by Chemicals

Better care and research is needed for returning veterans who might be exposed to toxic chemicals and other injuries in wartime deployments, said a non-partisan veterans' organization in response to a New York Times report of a new study showing that Gulf War veterans' illnesses were caused by exposure to toxic chemicals.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2218