Baghdad doctors despair at hospital's filthy conditions and lack of drugs...

http://tinyurl.com/2namz


From Information Clearing House

The Freedom Crusade (Part Two)

by Kim Petersen

With WWII raging, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the Congress with his “Four Freedoms” speech. It is difficult for most people to be opposed to freedom and if you are a politician then the fight for freedom is something that should bring near unanimous support. In the intervening years freedom has continued to be a leitmotif of the US. President George W. Bush has carried on the tradition in his endorsement of the crusade for freedom. In April Bush spoke to Americans, "So long as I’m the President, I will press for freedom. I believe so strongly in the power of freedom. … I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this country’s gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty’s gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom." Bush realizes what Peter Parker tragically came to realize: with great power comes great responsibility. While Parker, as his alter ego Spiderman, wields his power responsibly by protecting the weak from evil, Bush excoriates the comic-book titled Axis-of-Evil but wields his power as Commander-in-Chief to wreak havoc upon weaker nations. It is then interesting to analyze to what extent Bush has wielded responsibility in the cause of freedom....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Petersen0607.htm

by Joanne Landy

It's hard to see how the Bush administration is going to win the war in Iraq. Despite all the official bravado, a cloud of doom is descending on the White House, and with good reason: international outrage is mounting at U.S. behavior at Abu Ghraib prison and throughout Iraq, more and more Americans are concluding that the war is going badly, and Iraq is proving uncontrollable with reports, in May, that only 35 percent of Iraqis want U.S. forces to stay....Will Congress continue to serve as a handmaiden to the war effort, and will the American people permit this war to continue?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Landy0607.htm

The war in Iraq is so drastically different from World War II that the parallels Bush has dredged up underline both his ignorance of history and a poorly disguised intent to confuse the public, it continued...

http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/05/content_1509860.htm


From Information Clearing House

Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, came under further pressure from Washington yesterday when it was reported the US intercepted an Iranian intelligence cable nine years ago which discussed a meeting with him in northern Iraq...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1232022,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Scandal of naming undercover CIA agent engulfs Vice-President and puts pressure on White House...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1232410,00.html


From Information Clearing House

06/05/04

CounterPunch

by Derek Seidman

If we were to assume that Bush really means what he says, we'd have to come to the conclusion that he either pays absolutely no attention to events in Iraq, or that he's living on a separate planet from the rest of us. After all, being told that the problem is 'Saddam's elite guards' and 'foreign fighters and terrorists' is at odds with virtually every headline concerning the Iraqi resistance for the past several weeks, which almost unanimously deal with the indigenous Shiite (read: anti-Baathist) rebellion of followers of Moqtada al-Sadr. Beyond that, much of the investigative reporting shows the fierce Sunni resistance that exists in places like Fallujah to be primarily native and from the grassroots, having little to do with nostalgia for Saddam and much to do with anger at the occupation.

http://www.counterpunch.org/seidman06052004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/03/04

Power & Interest News Report

by Erich Marquardt

"Washington's recent decision to withdraw an army brigade of approximately 3,600 soldiers from South Korea in order to redeploy it in Iraq emphasizes the strain on the U.S. military caused by the Bush administration's March 2003 decision to invade and occupy Iraq. The decision to redeploy the brigade, part of the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division, will make little tactical difference to Washington's ability to defend South Korea from a North Korean attack; nevertheless, the decision has symbolic importance since it demonstrates Washington's continued difficulty in stabilizing Iraq in addition to highlighting the strain that the occupation is causing to U.S. soldiers."

http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=176


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/04/04

LewRockwell.Com

by Ron Paul

"We never seem to learn, and the Muslim Middle East never forgets. Our support for the Shah of Iran and Saddam Husseins war against Iran has never endeared us to the Iranians. Were supposed to be surprised to discover that our close confidant Ahmed Chalabi turns out to be a cozy pragmatic friend of Iran. The CIA may have questioned the authenticity of Iranian intelligence passed on to the U.S. by Chalabi, yet still this intelligence was used eagerly to promote the pro-war propaganda that so many in Congress and the nation bought into."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul183.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Sandi Magathan Droubay M.A

Bush and his loyal Christian fundamentalists want you to have a front row seat! (Whether you want one or not)....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Droubay0605.htm