In two days time the British people are going to elect a war criminal to be their prime minister for another five years. Not only is Blair a war criminal who initiated an illegal war, but, the man is a compulsive liar who has surrounded himself with morally degenerate advisers and obedient servants.

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/gatzmon5.htm


Did Your MP Vote for War?:

This list reflects how MPs voted. "Yes" means pro-war, "No" means anti-war. If an MP is not listed, they didn't vote - some abstained.
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/resources/mpnames.htm


No vote for a criminal :

I know the ancient lore about people never voting against their own interests, but in whose interest is it to give a warmonger a third term?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1475793,00.html


From Information Clearing House

A U.S. account of how its soldiers killed an Italian agent in Iraq was "clearly a lie", an Italian minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, further stoking tensions between Rome and Washington over the shooting.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5752787&cKey=1115210136000


From Information Clearing House

In 1965, the U.S. Army published a detailed manual on how to build and hide booby traps, complete with detailed diagrams illustrating various means of wiring detonators to explosives, and advising on the best locations for concealing the deadly bombs along roadways and elsewhere. Two decades later, the Iraqi military issued its troops an Arabic version of the same manual.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8740.htm

On the 10 of May 2005, five Greenpeace activists go on trial in Spain for peacefully protesting against the war in Iraq.

If you believe in the free speech, and opposed the war in Iraq, we need your help.

Show your solidarity with the Greenpeace activists
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6853.1575276.5409

For more information
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6854.1575276.5409

by Will Dunham
Tue May 3, 2005 06:11 PM ET
Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have constrained its ability to tackle other potential conflicts, making any future war more likely to be longer and bloodier, according to America's top general.

In an annual classified report required by Congress, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said stress on manpower and equipment could limit the ability to win other possible wars as quickly as the Pentagon had previously forecast, defense officials said on Tuesday.

Myers stated in the report that U.S. armed forces would "succeed" in any future major conflict but "may be unable to meet expectations for speed or precision." [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8378541 or http://tinyurl.com/c46rv


© Virginia Metze

It was late September when the 21-year-old man, fresh from a three-week commitment in a psychiatric ward, showed up at an Army recruiting station in southern Ohio. The two recruiters there wasted no time signing him up, and even after the man's parents told them he had bipolar disorder - a diagnosis that would disqualify him - he was all set to be shipped to boot camp, and perhaps Iraq after that, before senior officers found out and canceled the enlistment.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3158

Since Operation Iraqi Freedom began two years ago, the Department of Defense reports that more than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have died and more than 11-thousand American troops have been wounded. Among the most debilitating wounds are traumatic brain injuries. One of the nation's leading brain treatment centers is the Veteran's Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, California. Within the confines of the sprawling VA campus, veterans of World War II and the Vietnam war work on rehabilitation alongside returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3157

05/03/05

A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth going to war in Iraq, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults. That was a drop in support from February, when 48 percent said it was worth going to war and half said it was not...

http://tinyurl.com/btxcs

from CNN


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp