Not even in their dreams will the 138,000 U.S. soldiers trapped in George W. Bush’s Iraq nightmare be home for Christmas. Instead Bush plans to increase troop levels to 150,000 by extending the soldiers’ tours. click here for Spanish text
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| Dec 18, 2004
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Halliburton bilks gov’t for billions in Iraq, then loses one-third of property
Outrageous! That is what many are calling the war profiteering by U.S. corporations who have flocked into Iraq. In particular, Halliburton Corp., which Vice President Dick Cheney used to head, has come under scrutiny over its $10 billion Pentagon contracts, many obtained without competitive bidding, as well as fuel-price gouging and other improper or illegal actions. Meanwhile, U.S. cities and states are starved for cash.
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In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has asked President Bush to “call off the dogs at the IRS” by terminating the tax agency’s probe of the NAACP.
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| Nov 13, 2004
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As 10-15,000 U.S. troops, accompanied by warplanes, tanks, heavy machine guns and cannons, waged a massive assault on Fallujah, a reporter described one residential neighborhood as “a wasteland of shattered glass and rubble, with smoke filling the horizon.” click here for Spanish text
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Nineteen members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were arrested last week for refusing a direct order to go on what they characterized as a “suicide mission” or “death sentence” in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON — Oceans of red ink. Oceans of blood. Those grim phrases could be a subtitle of a just-released report on the soaring costs of the Iraq war. The document debunks George W. Bush’s claims that the war is a success and the U.S. is safer. click here for Spanish text
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “There isn’t a waking moment when I don’t think about what we’ve done over there,” said ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey. The 32-year-old North Carolina native visited New Haven last week as part of a series of speaking engagements, in hopes of revealing the facts about the war in Iraq.
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Sue Niederer, mother of Seth Dvorin who died in Iraq last Feb. 3 when a bomb he was defusing exploded, took her campaign to end the Iraq war directly into the Bush-Cheney campaign Sept. 17.
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