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America, a Beacon, not an Empire

America! America!
God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law.   Katharine Lee Bates, “America the Beautiful”

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News (Updates) of the American Empire (and Afghanistan) growing pains, problems, costs, errors

The New Military--Industrial--Congress Complex  manufacturers in every state   

1) Bush Administration Lies for War  and  Video Showing the Liars
2) Lies about First Iraq War --- and more  
3) NATO-US Lies for Kosovo War  

Armageddon Lobby  trying to hurry up God -- from forecasting to promoting

Jewish & Israeli Peace Groups & News --anti-Likud settlers   New pro-Peace "J-Street"  See also Congress Welcomes J-Street

Analysis:

• Al Qaeda's New Strategy--information overload and bankrupt America

• It's Taboo to Discuss --the Real Reason for Our Ever-Expanding Wars

• $1 Million Per Soldier Per Year -costs $40 billion for 40,000 more men to Afghanistan--the American way of war --earlier estimates  (and $500,000 per Canadian)

• A Defensive Rather Than Offensive Policy for America  very well thought out analysis of war by William Lind

• How U.S. Army Protects Its Trucks --by Paying The Taliban -- bribes to allow supplies thru Pakistan and Afghanistan - some 10% of billions of Pentagon logistics contracts for transportation of supplies

• The War We Can't Win --Afghanistan and the Limits of American Power by Andrew Bacevich

• Is AIPAC Still the Chosen One? Mother Jones report on The Lobby

• It's America's Policies, Not Failure to Explain Our Message That Makes America So Hated -- critique from Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff    Updated Report from Afghanistan

• What's Different About Obama's Foreign Policy?  Not much, writes Elliot Cohen in the Wall Street Journal

• Could The "Right" Become the Anti-war Party   Leftist thoughts as Obama adopts War Party themes

• US Officials Leaked False Story Blaming Iran for Khobar Attack  New evidence that it was an Al Qaeda attack-a Neocon promotion
  About $ One Trillion - Defense Budget Baloney  -Obama's new defense budget

• Why America Can't Win 4th Generation Warfare superb explanation by Bill Lind 

• Understanding Tribalism in Pakistan by former Ambassador Graham Fuller

• Corruption, Tribalism & Taliban Make Winning Impossible  NY Times details the mess in Afghanistan

• Israeli Planes Bomb Sudan Flying Out of U.S. Air Base

•  Intelligence Chairman Freeman Stirs Israeli Ire  by Arnaud de Borchgrave

• 10 Key Reforms For The 2010 Military Budget  No substantial changes since 1986--suggestions include allowing 18 yr. olds to drink at base clubs, use Air Force, use T-6a's instead of super (expensive) jets for ground support, etc.

• Blackwater Guards Cost Half Million Dollars Each per year in Iraq --CBO budget study
   

• Senator Biden Protected and Promoted Bush Administration Lies for War  Obama betrays anti-war supporters, details on Biden, e.g. preventing anti-war testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee and much more

• Bush Efforts to Cause Chaos Inside Iran  Seymour Hirsh--Fear of War drives up price of oil

• FOX, CNN, TV Generals Promoted War Lies  Many have financial ties (150) to military industrial contractors to promote earmarks for "their" war profits - Video Report NY Times

• "Bismarck for President"  on U.S. need for a statesman to run foreign policy lest we end up with a disastrous policy like that of Kaiser Wilhelm II and "The Walls of Baghdad" about actual U.S. strategy

• GAO Blasts Weapons Budget  breaking down of procurement process, 200-300% cost overruns, "in most cases programs also failed to deliver capabilities when promised," $1.6 trillion of orders are in the pipeline

• Iraq War Will Cost Three Trillion  adding in worn out equipment replacements, care of wounded, benefits for veterans, etc 70,000 vets with hearing loss

• Anti-war Right & Left Unable To Unite Against War Party 

• Polls Show Most Jews Oppose Israel Lobby/Neocons/War Party Hawks 68% unimpressed by "the surge," 67% opposed invading Iraq, wholesale rejection of Bush-Neocon Agenda-- AIPAC, etc are unrepresentative, Bad for America and 'Bad for the Jews' + Glenn Greenwald Most Israelis Want Negotiation with Hamas

• Understanding Iran Sanctions  it's not diplomacy, also Iranians who prosper from U.S. sanctions

• A Scenario of War with Iran  what would happen after an America attack

• Are We Safer Today?  "No" say 9/11 commission's chairmen, "we face a rising tide of radicalization and rage in the Muslim world, a trend to which our own actions have contributed."

• The New Al Qaeda  rebuilt, new younger leaders, profiles of leaders, new recruits

• British Criticize U.S. Bombing & Killing of Civilians in Afghanistan  undermines peace effort, makes NATO hated

• Would Terrorists Follow Troops to U.S. If We Leave Iraq?  biggest canard of The War Party

• Victory Is Not An Option -- The mission can't be accomplished -- Time for a new strategy by Gen. William Odom
   

• Attack on Iran Planned 2 Years Before 9/11 all the details -- as also Wrecking Iraq - policies ordered by rabid Zionist Douglas Feith
   

• Details on Iran Nuclear Capabilities  years away from developing a single bomb
   

• Iran's Role in Iraq  U.S. trained & equipped Shia militias, while Iran agents carried out systematic assassinations of intellectuals, professionals, & 90 military officers and pilots involved in Iran-Iraq war while US suppressing mainly Sunni resistance
   

• Regaining the Middle East  Brent Scowcroft --Washington must focus on Israel Palestinian settlement to regain credibility

• Farewell to Pax Americana  costing too much, allies going their own way, China rising, 72% against

• Iraq Study Group Repudiation of Bush Policies   must deal directly with Arab-Israeli peace process, learn culture, only 6 of 1,000 in Embassy speak Arabic /Consensus from hundreds of sources &  Executive Summary
   

• Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Internet Youtube and Google video show videos taken by soldiers showing censored attacks on U.S. troops- violence never shown on U.S. TV
   

• Intelligence Agencies --Iraq war just creating more terrorists and more hatred for America

• Two Approaches to War Special Forces and regular Army units clash over how to secure Anbar province
  
  

• "We're Not Winning" by John Lehman --"our ability to deter enemies around the world is disintegrating"

• If Bush Wants Real Peace? -- Brent Scowcroft writes now is time for comprehensive settlement --must include West Bank
   

• Israel Planned Lebanon Attack for Over a Year -- always intended several weeks, Bush provides cover (and bombs)   Doing bin Laden's Work For Him by Michael Scheuer

• "Islamo-Fascism" is meaningless, Fascism was anti-religious, unified, nationalistic

• The New American Cold War  What went wrong -- excellent analysis--Expanding NATO; Russia with 25 million Muslims won't follow U.S. lead; arrogance and triumphalism

• How to Successfully Fight Insurgencies --study shows how far away Washington is from any hope of winning
   

• Real Conditions in Iraq  -- secret State Dept memo on deadly risks for any Iraqi working with Americans

• U.S. Must Win War of Ideas   117 foreign policy experts polled
   

• 6/01/06   Marines Haditha Killing Civilians Rocks Washington  cover up and tactics, rage of soldiers, confusion, not trained for occupation, but for search and destroy with maximum force, see also Bill Lind on effectiveness of IED's causing solders to go berserk and destroy good will with civilian populations, 4th generation warfare-- Marine's defense argues that measures were standard procedure to toss grenades and shoot first    Details - army of occupation Newsweek
   

• U.S. Says No Guarantees for Iran  from U.S. attack even if it gives up nuke program

• Details of Iraqi Pipeline Reconstruction Disaster -- Halliburton, hundreds of millions, incompetence, concealment, disaster for Iraq and America -- NY Times

• Special Ops Troops Being Secretly Placed in Many Nations Without U.S. Ambassadors' Knowledge   to avenge or prevent terrorism with secret attacks --Pentagon Replacing CIA
   

• Vital Study Questions Israeli Lobby Control over U.S. Foreign Policy  Univ. of Chicago & Harvard's Kennedy School of Government leaders- very unusual to dare to do so  Wash Post publishes commentaries  and more ----many American Jews opposed to war & empire  Iran Showdown Tests Power of Israeli Lobby  earlier succeeded in scuttling direct negotiations with Iran  No, It's Not Anti-Semitic by Richard Cohen -- how the smears are done  Update 6/07/06  The Storm Over Israeli Lobby  long study by Michael Massing in New York Review --how AIPAC works its will in Washington
   

• Libertarians Bash Bush  CATO Lecture Bartlett Book, "How Bush Bankrupted America, Betrayed Reagan Legacy"  New Poll Details Public Views on Bush --"incompetent" "good" "idiot" most used word words in sequence
   

• U.S. Building 4 Giant Permanent Bases in Iraq desert --belies plans to leave country

• Long War--No End in Sight, Rumsfeld Defense Review -- risks of catastrophic attacks on America greater than ever before, more weapons to fight last war, Trillion Dollar Cost - great for The War Party
   

• Muslims Also Wait for the Rapture Iran's new President also an "end of the worlder" -- Ahmadinejad, like Bush, thinks God tells him what to do

• The Real Choice in Iraq  How to resolve war by Zbigniew Brzezinski

• What Happened to the American Century?  interesting about Buckley and Kristol
   

• Analysis of Iraq Election --Divided nation, Shia control, Iran influence, U.S. trained & equipped Army-Police mostly Shia, loyal to Shia
   

• Italians Issue Arrest Warrants for 22 CIA Agents  for kidnapping--valid in 25 EU nations under Interpol
   

• The Incredibly Terrible Iraq Constitution -- designed for chaos, civil war & dismemberment

• Iraqi "Army" Is Largely Shiite and Kurdish Units  Equipped & trained by U.S. to fight & occupy Sunni cities

• Iraq Constitution & PM
   

• Iran is Judged 10 Years From Nuke  U.S. Intelligence review contrasts with White House statements
   

• The Phony Withdrawal --War Party Plans for Permanent Iraq Bases

• Specters of Militarism Haunt Independence Day   Two New books

• Understanding Suicide Bombers  Univ. of Chicago Study
   

• Bombast from Washington Undermines Iran Moderates

• How Actions in Iraq Recruit More Enemies U.S. soldiers & occupation create vast enmity  New Long Report

• What Do Insurgents Wants?--analysis of different groups and their motives
   

• Endgame - Conservatives After the Cold War

• The Truth About Syria by Harry Browne "don't believe U.S. Government press handouts"
   

• $8.8 Billion Iraqi Money missing no accounting from U.S. occupation
   

• Protection Against Missiles Called Too Costly for Airlines despite horrendous damage fears--Congress prefers to buy irrelevant weaponry to re-fight the last wars $15 Billion spent in '04 for airport protection (WP-2/3/05)

• Orwell's DoubleSpeak in Washington --2004 brings 1984 book's forecasts --fusing Orwell and Kafka
   

• War Enthusiasm Splits Conservatives from Libertarians  Red State Fascism

• American Foreign Policy for Next 4 Years  excellent analysis --coming retrenchment of American empire because budget, military, domestic politics
   

• Holy Avengers by Jessica Stern --the psychology of suicide killers from anti-abortionists to Islamists

• U.S. Support Seen As Disaster for Christians in Iraq 40,000 Chaldeans fled in last month--accused of aiding Americans; Syria destination of most --allows open immigration  Christians Fleeing Iraq --accused of aiding Americans; Syria destination of most --allows open immigration
   

• "We're hated for what we do, not what we are." CIA book by Michael Scheuer  & "They Hate our Policies, Not Our Freedom" Pentagon report

• "Americans Must Have Known About Saddam Oil Scams" says Senate Chairman--$21 billion scammed, (but U.S. objective was to degrade Iraq economy, so why cared about stealing?ed.  See List Blockaded items
   

• Terrorists See Themselves as Winning --what terrorists have in mind

• Bizarro World's Alternate Universe like Orwell--defeat is victory, lies are truths, chaos means winning, etc.

• Scott Ritter on Duelfer Report on Iraq  Iraq had complied with UN & Disarmed   -- War Party continually repeats that he did not

• U.S. Totally Fails Public Diplomacy in Muslim World  Congress won't fund, lobbies prefer to spend money on weapons & boondoggles

• Horrendous Destruction of City  --after a U.S. "victory"

• Imperial Hubris "U.S. fighting a worldwide Islamic insurgency --not criminality or terrorism" by former CIA station chief  "The focused and lethal threat posed to U.S. national security arises not from Muslims being offended by what America is, but rather from their plausible perception that the things they most love and value -- God, Islam, their brethren and Muslim lands -- are being attacked by America," 

• Summarizing the Disaster for America  of Bush's Neo-con policies --by Arnaud de Borchgrave  No Iraq-Bin Laden Connection      
   

• POW Torture News File  history and updates

• Sen Lugar Warns of"Catastrophic Terrorism," from America's policies

• National Security Council Assures Christian Armageddonites  that Sharon leaving Gaza won't stop God's plans to end the world --see Biblical Maps  but   Christian Groups say ties with Israel "worst" ever 
   

• Israel Issues  news, updates, spying, lobbying, etc
   

• Analyzing Al-Qaeda & Protecting America  what to do now

• Bremer's Blunders disbanding Army & bureaucracy, using Israeli methods to make America more hated  "Submit or Die" ----so much for "liberation"
   

• Empire Plans Began with First Iraq War --planned from beginning to find excuse to prevent downsizing military after collapse of communism WASH POST ---- Was Iraq "set-up?" -- Remember April Glaspie

• War Party Original War Aims--fracture Saudi Arabia, end dependence on Russian oil, stop growth/power of China & more-- "Flucht nach Vorn"
   

• + Iraqi Occupation Constitution a Disaster --a wish list, not a constitution--Illegitimate, amateurish and unenforceable
   

• America's Weaknesses --financial, manpower & focus --all limit empire NEWSWEEK
   

• What Americans Can Do to Prevent Terrorism

• + Details of 50 Years of Guerrilla Wars -who won and how by DeBorchgrave

• Good Analysis of Iraq Tribes & History --Carnegie Endowment

• Haaretz Update on Settlements  maps, dates, info

• Brilliant Analysis of American Empire Consequences  by Anatol Lieven of Carnegie --wrecking the international order

• Battle of Algiers --a fascinating update review of the French classic movie --lessons for today

• The Going to War File (Reasons-Forces-Links)

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• Bush-Sharon Axis of Chaos   Foreign policy made by Likudniks and Armageddonites --Arnaud de Borchgrave --Iraq attack planned in '96

• +The Men from JINSA and CSP (Frank Gaffney) military/industrials and Likud interests for war --end treaties--follow the money--run Pentagon

• Islam & Nationalism--compares to cold war nationalism and communists -Anatol Lieven (pdf file)    

SELLING WAR--HOW TO GET AMERICA TO GO TO WAR

• Lebanon Assassination Furthers Neocon and Bin Laden interests  by Pat Buchanan

• How Washington's Pro-war Foundations Work

• The Public Relations War Shop in Washington Rendon 

• Weapons Industrial Complex  promotes strife for business
   

• +Cui Bono --Who benefited from 9/11

• ++ How Hill & Knowlton Public Relations "Sold" the (First) War-Part II How cheap it was to get America to go to war--the payoffs

• How Hill & Knowlton Public Relations "Sold" the War-Part I
   

• Lies in Washington About Iraq --Jude Wanniski & About Gassing the Kurds --it was Iranian gas

• How NATO Sold War --Jamie Shea describes his PR expertise

• ++ Did Bush Sr. Lie About Iraqi Troops on Saudi Border? The big one, the "evidence" (supposed aerial photos) was never released

• The Incubator Babies (cont.)  Update from Kathy Kelly

• ++The Incubator Babies   The Mother of All Lies About Iraq

• Washington Lies about Iraq --    Search engine on How to Sell War

•   Selling War Archive

LOSING OUR LIBERTIES    The First Cost of Empire will be Losing Our Own Freedoms    The Bill of Rights

• "Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."  James Madison, the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution 1795:

• Republicans Enabled Presidential Dictatorship--Military commissions Act --Posse Comitatus

• How to Restrain Presidential Unilateral War Making by Bruce Fein

• Same Agency to Run and Oversee Surveillance Program all human history calls for separation --the growing U.S. police state

• Ashcroft, Patriot Act & Lost Freedoms- he opposed torture and defended constitution against Bush Cheney gang - many links

• Police State Republicans help split the party and conservative movement--60% of Americans now believe Republicans to be the party of Big Government
   

• Will Dems Save Our Civil Liberties?  Unlikely--a summary of losses since Bush

• Welcome to Fascist America We're reached the point where Nazi Germany was in about 1934  Details of "Terrorism Measure" list of "measures" giving President dictatorial powers by James Bovard   Bush Quickly Denies Judicial Review  including over arrested permanent U.S. residents
   

• Congress Guts "Habeas Corpus" and 4th Amendment by Bruce Fein  &  Republican Torture Laws Will Live in History  "The expediency with which the fascists have taken apart democracy in America....." Alternet

• Attorney General Wants Require Internet Service Providors (ISP'S) to save all customers' internet searches & mail for 2 years to fight terrorism -- before it was cuz of child pornography
   

• Bush says Patriot Act violations of constitution OK because gov't already using such powers against drug dealers

• Archives Re-classified Agencies Secretly Removed Declassified Papers From Public Access  --very old from 50 years

•  Update on Renewed Patriot Act -- what's new, what is basic

• Bob Barr, Bane of Republican War Wanters  fights for constitution at CPAC --most delegates support Bush lawlessness
   

• The Growing Police State --Neo-con Jacobins

•  Danger Of the State  Paul Weyrich on protecting our liberties from Washington --a warning for conservatives
   

• Patriots For Checks & Balances  Americans Fighting Patriot Act Renewal-Conservatives, Liberals, Libertarians

• Update on Patriot Act 4th Amendment issues -warrantless searches
   

• Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances --leading conservatives to modify Patriot Act incl. Weyrich, Barr, Norquist, Keene
   

• ++ Why Does The Religious Right Ignore Civil Liberties Issues?  comments of major leader--major breakthrough on this issue
   

•  Conservative Caucus --Howard Phillips top site on Constitution & Rule of Law

• 9-12 A guide to Patriot Act --enough knowledge to talk about details at a cocktail party

• Bush Team Stifles Freedom of Information Act and Ashcroft

• Losing Our Liberties Updates & Archive

FOREIGN VIEWS

• Why Foreign Press is so "Anti-American"  PravdaRu --It's Bush, not America

• Updates & Archive on Foreign Views of U.S.

SANCTIONS and KILLING 

•  Deaths from "Smart" Sanctions     von Sponeck 

• Sanctions Updates and info --lots of links, updates

• Good new Wrap of of information on Sanctions Killing

• Cool War-- Economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction Originally from Harper's Magazine by Joy Gordon.

• ++President Jimmy Carter on U.S. Sanctions -Washington blockades civilians while giving Saddam no way out except his own death 

• Iraqi Children Deaths--Unicef Report also see Morbidity & Mortality Among Iraqi Children 1990-98

• Iraqi Sanctions Time Line refuting lie that sanctions would be lifted when Iraq complied with U.N. resolutions, quotes from U.S. government

• Sanctions Archive-   Best Weapon of Mass Destruction by Millions- Germany after World War I and Iraq today + lots more

CONSEQUENCES OF  BOMBING

• Types of American Bombs --what they do when they hit

• Precision Bombing  --Case study from Yugoslavia

• The War on Terror --A revisionist summing up thru 6/1
   

• Pictures Americans Don't See --U.S. TV Different from rest of world

• + Consequences of the War on Terror isolating America

• FINANCIAL TIMES Wrapup on Kosovo-- "Nato's actions have made the world a much more dangerous place"
   

• $5 Gallon Gasoline if U.S. Attacks Iran

• NATO Triumph may Trigger Nuclear Proliferation --by Joyce Davis, Knight-Ridder -- only defense against US attacks

• Civilian Destruction in Yugoslavia--the detailed report
   

• Life and Death in Iraq 5/99 SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCE long report, pictures, details, current conditions

• U.S. Policies Contribute to Acts of Terrorism by Charlie Reese

Defense Budget Questions

• 6/27/06  Army’s Iraq, Afghanistan equipment costs triple   Price tag in 2007 expected to hit $17 billion, military documents show

• 5/4/06  $62 Billion Savings -- non-partisan study to cut Cold War weapons programs

• 2/26/06 15,300 Earmarks For "Defense" Spending waste and payoffs by the tens of billions  Cunningham's Corruption details

• 5/27/05Analysts warn of DOD budget 'train wreck'

• 5/12/05  U.S. Arms Makers Awash with Cash

• Billions for Offense Weapons, Peanuts for Civil Defense $5 billion to protect civilian airliners from missiles denied, but instead buys "battleships" equivalents, e.g. 100 nuke subs
   

• The Incredible Cost of Military Manpower $100,000+ per man per year ('02)  and now ('06) $40,000 bonuses to enlist

• No Rogue Nation Credible Missile Threat  & Mythical N. Korea Threat

• + North Korea--Spy Pictures Show it an Empty Threat   LONDON TIMES

• Center for Defense Information --lots of info & new thinking

• Analysis of Military Waste and Reform -- new thinking on weaponry & military   Each soldier = 100K/yr--where to save Carlton Meyer (USMC, Ret) Magazine of Future Warfare

Archive of Missile Defense Mis-information

• Military Budget Archive                                              

TheWarParty.com     

• BeltwayBombers,       Neo-conservatives, 

• Neo-cons & Empire      NATO

• The War Street Journal     American Enterprise Institute,  Military/Industrial/Complex   The (Iraq) War Party Names

• The New Warmongers,

• Dispensationalists--  Raimondo's Speech  

• BBC Does Special on The War Party

Presidential Warmaking, the Constitution & UN Charter, Geneva Convention, Nuremberg Judgements, War Crimes

• Iraq occupation a legal minefield   U.S. Subject to 4th Geneva Convention of 1949 --rules after WW II

• New Rules of War --U.S. wants change Geneva Convention to allow massive destruction of civilian infrastructure if purpose is to win wars quickly

• +NATO War Crimes--original indictment

• +NATO/U.S. War Crimes-Serbia and Iraq
   

• U.S. War Crimes under Clinton

• +Nuremberg Trials- first report (often quoted source) --by Freda Utley in "The High Cost of Vengeance" 1948 (now also in German)
   

• War Making Legalities Archive

ANALYZING WASHINGTON POLICIES

• Analyzing Al Qaeda and Protecting America  by JBU

• God's Foreign Policy --Christian Right's policies and allies--the new pressures on Washington

• Special Interests Lose Control of Foreign Policy  but still control Israeli issues

• +Pres. Jimmy Carter  on how Washington demands self destruction of rulers, then devastates and starves the innocent citizenry--(e.g.1.5 million dead Iraqis from US blockade & and now Serbs to die of cold and hunger)
   

• Never Forget "Operation Keelhaul" among World War 2's Crimes against humanity

• +America is not Rome --Why the United States can't be the World's Policeman Supplement for Foreigners-- UNDERSTANDING WASHINGTON --HOW FOREIGN POLICY IS MADE
   

• American Bombing Causes Fear of Terrorism--Col. Hackworth column read out by Rush Limbaugh (12/22/00) to explain fears

• U.S. Bombing--Reason for Terrorist Threat--AP/WASH. POST, experts' quotes
   

• ++Buchanan's "A Republic, not an Empire"  Comments about the furor, NY TIMES, Novak, Rockwell, Raimondo, Bandow, Answering Podhoretz, CATO --also on Taiwan

• ++ George Kennan on America's World Role - America's greatest diplomat- historian views on empire, NATO, etc  More Kennan etal--American empire

• +The New Threats--Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Rethinking Foreign Interventions Can they retaliate? (Foreign Affairs, Feb, 1998)

• Washington's Contradictory & Impossible Compliance Demands

Special Reports:

• Europe's Muslims Could Moderate and separate from fanatics just like Marxists once divided -- the way out which Washington should understand

• Interesting Reports on little known Iraq News

• Roll Call of War votes in U.S. Congress
   

• A Short History of U.S. Mid-East Policies

• UNSCOM Findings in Iraq--all with Iraqi cooperation--none since after war

•  9-11 Report

• Is Applying Libertarian Principles to Israel Anti-Semitic? Carol Moore
   

• +America is not Rome

• Cheap E-Bomb poses great threat to America --why do we develop such weapons which can then be copied?

• Horrific Pictures from the Wars ---not shown to Americans

• UN Resolutions on Iraq--all of them
   

• Death by Government--big site, greatest killer of citizens have been their own governments

• Article with a non-statist Response to 9-11   on Mises Blog

• Understanding Palestinian Misery  TIME
   

• The "Green Peril"--Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat by Leon Hadar, What motivates it and why it is anti-American +  Mid-East Peace Leon Hadar

• Evidence that Saddam did not Gas his own People

• History of U.S. in Middle East 1945-90 by Sheldon Richman, Editor, Ideas on Liberty at FEE

• Does US Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? New CATO study--historical data, details of all past incidents: actions and responses

• Give Foreigners Less Reason to Hate and Fear America America creates its own enemies

• Children in Iraq--UNICEF Report Now 700,000 starved children from 1-5 years old-See also "Deaths in Iraq" (below)  

• Pencils for Iraqi kids (breaking the blockade)

RUSSIA

• Moscow's Anti-U.S. Propaganda & its Effects

• Russia's Weakened Military -- massive corruption, still bullying draftees, corruption covered up because no free press

• Russia Balks at Little Benefit from aiding U.S. War on Terrorism

• Gorbachev at Reagan Funeral --"A lot of forces on both sides had an interest in prolonging the arms race," Gorbachev added, "including military-industrial lobbies on both sides"

• "Sovietization" of U.S. Foreign Policy --A Russian view

• US Caused Russia-China Military Cooperation -House Report on attacks on Serbia & Iraq and NATO expansion

CHINA

• "The Threat We Want, Not the One We Face" debunking the War Party's alarmism by Bill Lind

• China's Military Capabilities --Realistic analysis w/o War Party hysteria     NY Times on China Military --mainly defense & little threat

• China gets American designed weapons from Israel

• Answering Conservatives on China Trade & WTO--10 Points
   

• ++ The "Blue Team" --Washington's Lobby for Conflict with China--Who's Who   More on "Blue Team"       

• 20 Facts about China  --rarely reported to conservatives
   

• CHINA ARCHIVE  -- Spies, Trade, Panama Canal, Answering Hawks

CONSERVATIVES AGAINST BOMBING & EMPIRE

• Why (so many) conservatives Love War and the State  by Murray Rothbard in 1965

• Conservatives Divided by War
   

• Traditional conservatives Rebelling at Neocon Control   of Republican foreign policy

• Real Republicans vs. Texas Republicans = war, big, gov., less freedom
   

• Bill Buckley says would have opposed war --if had known truth about Iraq

• Reconsidering Iraq --list of Conservatives and Generals with second Thoughts --now opposed

• George Will & Other Conservatives Break with Neo-cons

• Conservatives Increasingly Divided by Iraq -- even National Review criticizes Neoconservatives

• A few Conservatives Fight Back against Neo-con takeover of Republicans policies---Big Government & Empire   Devine Report

• Antiwar Conservatives  long site names the many
   

• Conservatives and Wars   --by Bill Lind (Free Congress Foundation)

• ++Conservative Leaders Who Opposed Bombing & Those who Favor--Lew Rockwell's famous list
   

• ++ How Many Enemies Do We Want? by Joseph Sobran's classic from 1999 + latest columns updates

• Conservative Archive--Lots More -- Who, Why, When

Links & Contacts:

• Republic Broadcasting Network  lots of interesting reports "news you won't see on TV

• Liberal Islam Network  out of Indonesia, offering liberal interpretations and debate for Muslim world
   

• The Quest  interesting Muslim site w/links

• Global Security  WW IV Readings  lots of top links

• The Right Web fascinating biographies of neocons
   

• The Magazine of Future Warfare  original thinking on war

• Center for Constitutional Rights

• Angel Fire's Common Sense --good selection on Religious Politics

• Democracy Rising  lots of info
   

• Mid-East Realities  lots of interesting articles

• Thoughtful Links on America and Terrorism

• Education for Peace in Iraq Center --good info on Iraq

•  The Last Ditch Link List --very interesting list of freedom sites
   

• Power and Interest News Report sophisticated international analyses

• Global Security.Org  --top site with lots of info & history

• Jews Against Zionism --list of 77 Jewish Organizations

• CATO's Articles on Iraq --lots of interesting studies
   

• Democracy Unbound -- various anti-empire and pro-freedom links

• Bring Them Home Now  new site --interesting links

• Axis of Justice  --interesting links
   

• Washington Report on the Middle East --the great magazine -all the news

• Council for National Interest --former Congressman Paul Findley edits
   

• UK Guardian Links to Peace Sites in Europe and U.S.

• FAIR   Top reports & corrections on Media

• ++American Council for Judaism Non-Zionist Jewish views   Rabin's Murder

• Archive of Links- -Lots More

History of the First Gulf (Iraq) War

"The Gulf War was one big lie from beginning to inconclusive end" Col. David Hackworth, LIBERTY,  November, 1998

• Questions About the Supposed Iraqi Threat to Saudi Arabia in l990--Aerial Photos were Never Released

• Did Saddam Gas his own People?   &  More

• Lies from Gulf War One --same Cheney-Rumsfeld team today --CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
   

• ++ How Washington Planned Destruction of Iraq's sanitation, irrigation, electricity & prevented rebuilding--by Charley Reese Pentagon Documents   follow-up-- News only reported by Reese & London paper  DIA Document Release
   

• History of political events of the First Iraq War, the "Incubator Babies", Ross Perot, lying PR campaign, etc. A fascinating history of how we got into the quagmire  Ambassador Glaspie and reported "set up" of Saddam

• Case of Supposed Plot on Bush 1 in Kuwait  Not closed by Seymour Hersh
   

• Radio Islam on Line --Whole History of Iraq war--many links, details --How Moslems see it

• Gulf War & Sanctions --very good history/links/updates

• Deaths in Iraq The Lancet and UNICEF

• ++British Use of Chemical Weapons on Iraq Gassing the Kurds in the old days--Churchill and "Bomber" (Dresden) Harris

• Rothbard on Gulf War origins --Kissinger and N.Y. elites

History of the Kosovo War    T'was a Famous Victory  by Phyllis Schlafly

• Untruths About Kosovo War

• Review of NATO War Crimes -First Year Review--Cockburn & St. Clair
   

• +No Cleansing of Kosovans by Serbs before US Bombing  German Government Report.  This means bombing triggered the Albanian expulsions.

• BBC Broadcast Report--How Washington and KLA Provoked the War

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• ++Bosnia Kosovo Mess--How it all Started -- by Bob Reilly, US torpedoed pre-war agreement of '92

• An excellent wrap-up of the war from beginning to end with links to detailed sources by Paul Miniato

• Kosovo Archive

Our Purpose

    This site is about the consequences of Washington's foreign wars, culminating in the 9/11 attack upon America and Washington's response of invading Iraq.  "Most Americans," as Joseph Sobran writes, "have no conception of the depth of hatred harbored against us, because of the (killing) inflicted by U.S. bombs and sanctions." 

"America has squandered its rare "unipolar moment" by rattling its saber and appearing to go it alone........ What it should be doing," says Charles Kupchan, who teaches international relations at Georgetown University, 'is just the opposite: Shoring up alliances, working through international organizations, building a global regime of agreements and laws governing everything from trade to environmental policies. That alone will guarantee the persistence of an orderly, open world...."  US NEWS  The New American Empire

America was once revered in the Muslim world, after Kennedy supported freedom for Algeria from France and Eisenhower got England, France and Israel to withdraw from their conquest of Suez in 1956.  America was so admired that Muslim Malaysia even copied its national flag from the American. 

Instead of the naive, self serving propaganda of Bush's fairy tales about "evil ones" who hate us because we are "good," Americans should better read back to Greek mythology.   There is Hercules story about 10 new enemies springing up for each enemy soldier killed.  That will be the reality until Washington looks at its own policies which generate so much hatred against America.  Instead we are told that Muslim fundamentalism is equivalent to Nazism or communism, and that they plan the re-establishment of the "Caliphate" which ruled from Spain to Indonesia.  So a few Muslim theocrats, without weapons nor an industrial base, with half illiterate populations are a threat to conquer much of the world.  Yet it is us who started the invasions and killing.

America is simply incapable of  "ruling the world."  (See America is not Rome)  Yet many Conservatives, who think that the government can't run a nursery school, believe it can run the world, and indeed, that virtually without allies or abiding by any rule of  (international) law.  Equally many Big Government Conservatives now support new takings of Americans' freedoms in the name of "security."  The dispute over the Anti-Terror PATRIOT Act defined the line between those conservatives who want empire and those who most value freedom.

       Most Americans never supported a program to blockade chlorine for purifying drinking  water or prohibit even pencils for Iraqi school children.  Most Americans don't know of the heinous killing done to Iraqi civilians in their name (by destroying their irrigation, sanitation, and electricity generating systems,  and then blockading reconstruction supplies for 7 years during which time Iraq did comply with UN resolutions).  Most Americans would not support and pay for the Israeli settlers kicking Palestinians out of their homes, if they knew. 

       "Perpetual war serves a number of purposes.....It is under wartime conditions that the U.S. state will, at least initially, face the least resistance as it finishes the......process of gutting the Bill of Rights and voiding inconvenient parts of the U.S. Constitution......It is under wartime conditions that all opponents of U.S. policies anywhere in the world, including within the U.S. itself, can be most easily labeled 'terrorist.'"  This statement would have come from a conservative in 1940.  Today it is from the Left (Alternative Press Review, Spring 2002).

       Foreign dictators have long caused untold human misery.   But it is not for America to cause the further misery of so many innocents, because of  their rulers. (see former President Carter comments).  Nations have always had wars and guerrilla insurrections, but, once America takes sides, then we bear responsibilities.  Consequently, we now have mortal enemies in two of the most treacherous and fanatical parts of the world, the Middle East and the Balkans.  Millions of foreigners, however unjustly, now hate us as the new "imperialists."  More bombing overseas will mean more terrorist attacks upon us.  This because we are not resolving the root causes of their hatred.

To paraphrase President Bush----------

We are not hated because we are "good;"  we're hated because we've been killing them; 

We are not hated because we are "free;"  we're hated because we support the dictators who oppress them;

We are not hated because we are "rich"; we're hated because of our hypocrisy.

The BOSTON GLOBE  (5/16/99) reported:
"In planning the 1991 Persian Gulf War, US officers found a total of 12 bridges for the movement of Iraqi troops in and out of Kuwait. US planes bombed those bridges over and over, with little effect. So they bombed every bridge in Iraq, 160 in all, about two-thirds of them far from Kuwait.  After a while, all bridges were seen and treated equally. Similarly, now in Belgrade, it seems, all military agencies are seen and treated as if they were of equal importance. The Pentagon announced last week that three-quarters of the targets hit in this air war, 270 out of 380, have been 'strategic targets.' Only 110 have been directly connected to the soldiers and militias in Kosovo."  See  "The Bridge on the River Drina"

"By 1998, the chemical weapons infrastructure had been completely dismantled or destroyed by UNSCOM (the UN inspections body) or by Iraq in compliance with our mandate. The biological weapons programme was gone, all the major facilities eliminated. The nuclear weapons programme was completely eliminated. The long range ballistic missile programme was completely eliminated. If I had to quantify Iraq's threat, I would say [it is] zero." -- Scott Ritter, chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq for five years, from an essay by John Pilger (The Guardian 03/04/2000)

"During allied bombing campaigns on Iraq the country's eight multi-purpose dams had been repeatedly hit, simultaneously wrecking flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power. Four of seven major pumping stations were destroyed, as were 31 municipal water and sewerage facilities - 20 in Baghdad, resulting in sewage pouring into the Tigris. Water purification plants were incapacitated throughout Iraq.

"Article 54 of the Geneva Convention states: 'It is prohibited to attack, destroy or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population' and includes foodstuffs, livestock and 'drinking water supplies and irrigation works.'"   LONDON SUNDAY HERALD

“The First Cost of World Empire Will Be Our Own Freedoms”   

"A government strong enough to rule the world is also strong enough to take away the freedom of its own citizens," LUDWIG VON MISES

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