The Army is dramatically increasing cash bonuses for enlistees and preparing to put hundreds of new recruiters on the streets in anticipation that it will have an increasingly tough time finding recruits in coming months...

http://tinyurl.com/6jqyk


From Information Clearing House

The South Korean government has imposed a ban on local media reporting on the deployment of 3000 troops to Iraq, citing concerns about the soldiers' safety.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6FBDAC32-138C-4B0E-B081-22C5121F9749.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6hto4


From Information Clearing House

http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/crimes.shtml


Informant: dragon downstairs

by Jessi Winchester

Liberty For All

08/04/04

It's no secret George W. Bush intended to go to war even before he took the inaugural oath so it should be no surprise that he chose a vice president who has his own private Army. Mainstream media reports precious little about the disquieting business of Private Military Corporations [PMCs] but it has become such big business and has so little accountability that Congress and U.S. citizens need to make it their business to find out more...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2004/aug14/Privatized.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Report Proves Bush Knew He Was Lying About Iraq
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df08042004.html

Unmasked: The War Against Iraqi Children:

People in the West, particularly Americans, have been carefully screened (by Fox News, NBC and the likes) from seeing any sign of vast devastation, suffering and genocides caused by their government wars of aggression and committed in their names. How many more thousands of Iraqi children have to die in order to awake the consciences of Westerners liberals?...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6616.htm

Army officers blocked police investigations into the deaths of more than 20 Iraqis during incidents involving British troops, raising concerns about the Army's right to stop inquiries into fatal shootings...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=546764


From Information Clearing House

by Robert Fisk

The war is a fraud. I'm not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida which didn't exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I'm talking about the new lies. For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America's puppet government in Baghdad but we are not told. Hundreds of attacks are made against US troops every month. But unless an American dies, we are not told. This month's death toll of Iraqis in Baghdad alone has now reached 700 - the worst month since the invasion ended. But we are not told...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Fisk0802.htm

Despite scandals over human rights abuses and war profiteering, private military contractors are expanding their presence overseas, and may even be involved in helping to draft the next U.S. defence budget...

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24883


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Iraq Security Plan A Disaster: Chalabi :

Ahmed Chalabi, head of Iraq's National Congress Party and an ersthwile protege of the Pentagon in Washington, said Saturday the American security plan for his country was a disaster...

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=23485


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