Many of America’s 32 allies, tributaries, supplicants, and camp followers that sent a total of 22,000 troops to Iraq are wishing they had never become involved and are seeking escape or giving thanks they are well out of the growing carnage in Mesopotamia...

http://amconmag.com/2004_08_30/article.html


From Information Clearing House

British MPs aiming to impeach Blair over Iraq war

Eleven members of the British parliament are planning to table a motion in the House of Commons calling for the impeachment of Prime Minister Tony Blair over the way he took the nation into the Iraq war...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_971921,00050003.htm


From Information Clearing House

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MPs plan to impeach Blair over Iraq war record

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1290832,00.html

Read the report
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2004/08/26/impeach.pdf


Informant: Anna Webb

by Zbignew Zingh

Najaf. Where have we seen this before? American tanks surround the holy site of a religious sect. Troop commanders and government officials issue bombastic orders to an inferior, out-gunned, faith-fueled adversary to surrender or die. The guardians of the site are armed and determined to fight rather than surrender their charismatic leader. The pusillanimous press obediently label the surrounded ones as dangerous fanatics led by a fiery rebel. The Americans claim that the rebels have rigged the holy site to burn it to the ground. The soldiers demand that the rebels surrender, disarm and submit to “an arrest warrant.” Is this Najaf... or is it Waco?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Zingh0824.htm

by Greg Mitchell

Editor and Publisher

08/22/04

Why keep returning to the question of press complicity in the Iraq war? After all, nothing we now say or do or write can halt the invasion, breathe life into the dead or re-attach thousands of missing limbs. It's a good question, but as one who has written hundreds of thousands of words on the use of atomic weapons in 1945 without saving a life or a soul, it's not likely to stop me. Putting aside any political or moral questions, a reason to keep returning to the issue is this: It provides a Journalism 101 textbook example of what happens when reporters and editors attach too much credibility to statements by officials with an agenda or axe to grind...

http://tinyurl.com/3msdm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Paul Craig Roberts

AntiWar.Com

08/24/04

The neocons have declared America at war with 1 billion Muslims who have done us no harm. Simultaneously, the neocons destroyed our traditional alliances. Instead of isolating a terrorist enemy, neocons have isolated America. ... It is impossible to fight al-Qaeda by invading and occupying Muslim countries. Bush's invasion of Iraq has achieved nothing for the U.S. but death and expense. For al-Qaeda it has radicalized the Muslim world and created recruits...

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3436


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp