WHATS IN ROSSIS MAIL BOX

We are all complicit in these vile acts of torture

But what can we do about it?

by Robert Fisk

What can we do? What can we do when an American president dispatches "suspects" to third countries where they will be stripped, wired up, electrocuted, ripped open and tortured until they wish they had never been born?
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New Secret British Government Memos Show Blair Hand Wringing Over Bush's Iraq war plans

By THOMAS WAGNER Associated Press Writer

``U.S. scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing,'' Ricketts says in the memo. ``For Iraq, `regime change' does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam.''
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Nine coalition troops killed in Iraq:

Nine troops from the U.S.-led multinational forces were killed Saturday in a mortar attack in the troubled city of Fallujah west of the capital.
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Nine coalition troops killed in Iraq:

Nine troops from the U.S.-led multinational forces were killed Saturday in a mortar attack in the troubled city of Fallujah west of the capital.
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Democracy Hypocrisy

Iraq In The Name Of Freedom

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In Case You Missed It

Interview with Gen. Hussein Kamel, head of Iraq's weapons programme:

"I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed" (22 August 1995)
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Suicide car bomb kills 14 Iraqi soldiers:

Quoting witnesses, the agency said the attack had been apparently targeted at an Iraqi army patrol near the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
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An Insider's Troubling Account of the U.S. Role in Iraq:

Mr. Diamond contends that the postwar troubles in Iraq - a bloody and unrelenting insurgency, the creation of a new breeding ground for terrorists and metastasizing ethnic and religious tensions - are the result of "gross negligence" on the part of a Bush administration that rushed to war.
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US Trained and Aided Uzbek Forces
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061805A.shtml

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Groups Unite Against Military Recruiters
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061805F.shtml

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Downing Street Memo a Growing Problem for Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061805G.shtml

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Media Matters for America,

Dean fund-raising lie persists among conservatives

The conservative media continues to falsely assert that Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean is an ineffective fund-raiser. In the past week, Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes, New York Post columnist John Podhoretz, and Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro all cast Dean as a fund-raising failure. In fact, when compared with fund-raising in the most recent non-election year, Dean has raised more money in raw dollars, and more in comparison to the Republican National Committee (RNC), than did his predecessor.

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British sources confirm that meaning of "fixed" -- as in "manipulated" or "cooked" -- is the same in Britain and America

Conservatives have attempted to dismiss the Downing Street memo, a secret British intelligence document indicating that intelligence officials there believed that the Bush administration was manipulating intelligence to support its case for war in Iraq by insisting that the term "fixed" has a different meaning in British English than in the United States. The memo describes Sir Richard Dearlove, head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, stating that in Washington, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." In fact, British reports -- including one that quoted the memo itself six weeks before the British Sunday Times published its full text on May 1 -- refute the notion that "fixed" means anything different in British parlance.

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Fox's Angle distorted Durbin's Guantánamo comments

Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle cited an unnamed "knowledgeable official" to wrongly dispute Sen. Richard J. Durbin's (D-IL) statement that FBI emails concerning apparent detainee abuse at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, describe the treatment as "torture." In fact, though Angle insisted that his source was "familiar" with the emails Durbin cited, the emails themselves are publicly available, and one such email does use the term "torture techniques" to describe interrogation techniques used at Guantánamo.

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