Mounting evidence of the Republican congressman's unseemly dealings in the Abramoff corruption scandal bodes ill for the "mayor of Capitol Hill."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305K.shtml

23.11.05

Wie immer, wenn Informationen von oder über Geheimdienste verbreitet werden, ist der Wahrheitsgehalt kaum überprüfbar. Geheimdienste haben in der Vergangenheit immer wieder falsche Behauptungen und unwahre Storries verbreitet, um bestimmte politische Ziele zu erreichen. Ein Beamter des amerikanischen Auslandsnachrichtendienstes CIA in Washington hat am Mittwoch eine Storry über den vermeintlichen Beginn des Irak-Krieges verbreitet. Demnach habe der CIA vor Beginn des Krieges Geheimmaterial des deutschen Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND) falsch eingeschätzt. Der BND habe aus seiner Quelle in Bagdad berichtet, dass Saddam Hussein über Massenvernichtungswaffen verfüge. Gleichzeitig hätten die Deutschen ihre Bedenken über die Verlässlichkeit ihres Informanten übermittelt. Die Warnungen seien jedoch ignoriert worden, "um den Krieg gegen das Regime von Saddam zu rechtfertigen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12358

A dozen war protesters were arrested Wednesday for setting up camp near President Bush's ranch in defiance of new local bans on roadside camping and parking. Daniel Ellsberg and Cindy Sheehan's sister Dee Dee Miller were among the arrestees.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305Y.shtml

http://www.thepeacealliance.org/action.htm


Informant: dmetke

From ufpj-news

No Space At The Table

by Liz Stanton, TomPaine.com

Bush said his tax cuts would create working-class jobs. But the wealthy were the only ones invited to the feast.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051123/no_space_at_the_table.php

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

Jack Murtha is not making things up. But the same can't be said for the folks running the war.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051123/cheneys_false_choices.php

CounterPunch
by Mike Ferner

11/22/05

"Sitting in a Georgia motel Saturday night, Kathy Kelly talked through a bad phone connection and a worse head cold to recount the previous day's activities where she and 13 others were arrested at an airstrip outside Raleigh, North Carolina. The tiny Johnson County Airport is home to Aero Contractors Corp., a firm described by the New York Times as 'a major domestic hub of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret air service,' that shuttles prisoners abroad for interrogation and suspected torture. The Times reports Aero was founded in 1979 by the chief pilot for Air America, a CIA 'front' in Vietnam. In addition to Kelly, those arrested Friday included residents of a Raleigh Catholic Worker house and members of Stop Torture Now, a project of the Center for Theology and Social Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri. Protesters walked onto company property and lowered the flags to half-mast before being arrested. ... Kelly, a leader in the movement to stop the U.S. war on Iraq, said she got arrested because of a growing concern over the government 'becoming increasingly blatant about its role in torture. People need to stand up before it becomes more risky'...

http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner11222005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tom Paine
by Charles V. Peña

11/22/05

Rep. John Murtha is right when he says, 'The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home.' Yet the administration persists. At the American Enterprise Institute, Vice President Dick Cheney responded to Murtha, saying, 'A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further violence against free nations, and a terrible blow to the future security of the United States of America.' ... Even if victory could somehow be achieved, it would be Pyrrhic given the costs and consequences. Moreover, it would only be a tactical victory at the expense of losing strategic position in the war on terrorism. What the Bush administration refuses to understand is that the U.S. military occupation in Iraq is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Therefore, the strategic imperative is to exit Iraq rather than stay. And although it is counterintuitive, exiting Iraq may be a prerequisite for victory...

http://tinyurl.com/c4neg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

11/23/05

Our leaders are behaving like the leaders of the late and unlamented French Third Republic. But if Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are responsible for the war and its consequences, so, too, are the potential Democratic nominees: Kerry, Edwards, Clinton, Biden and Bayh. In October 2002, because the country was cheering a commander in chief beating a war drum, they voted Bush a blank check to take us to war. In the fall of 2005, with the people souring on the war, they voted for a timetable to get out. We were deceived, we were misled, we were lied to, they wail. One only awaits their explanation that they were brainwashed by a C student. The Democratic Party is a poodle of public opinion, unfit to lead the nation...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10442


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by William F. Buckley, Jr.

11/22/05

The New York Post on Sunday assembled a comparison of what Messrs. Reid, Clinton, Dean, Biden, Kennedy, Kerry, Gore, and Byrd had to say about going into Iraq, the threat of Iraq, the dangers in ignoring the threat of Iraq, the advantages, strategic and moral in asserting ourselves there, the need to enforce the resolutions of the U.N. being ignored by Saddam Hussein ... The Post set these comments over against the language being used today by the summer soldiers. It is illuminating and casts a long shadow over the future of the United States, the security of the commander in chief, and the longevity of the national will...

http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/wfb200511221318.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp