[CTRL] US Army Study Criticizes Bush War on Terror

2004-01-12 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Study Published by Army Criticizes War on Terror's Scope By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 12, 2004; Page A12 A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration's handling of the war

[CTRL] The Bush Gang

2004-01-11 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-phillips11jan11,1,59 027 The Barreling Bushes Four generations of the dynasty have chased profits through cozy ties with Mideast leaders, spinning webs of conflicts of interest By Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips' new

[CTRL] Mad Cows Jump Over US Moon

2004-01-11 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- The Guardian Culture of indifference leaves America open to BSE Suzanne Goldenberg talks to insiders who warn of failings in a lax inspection regime Monday January 12, 2004 When the first case of mad cow disease was diagnosed in America a caustic joke began the rounds of the

Re: [CTRL] PESTICIDE LINK TO MAD COW DISEASE: 450 DEATHS of CALFS..WHY????

2004-01-06 Thread flw
were doomed to slaughter regardless of any threat of Mad Cow. Probably better off killed now then consigned to tiny dark boxes where they are raised for veal. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds

[CTRL] SaddamGate - The Story Continues

2004-01-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Saddam's capture: was a deal brokered behind the scenes? When it emerged that the Kurds had captured the Iraqi dictator, the US celebrations evaporated. David Pratt asks whether a secret political trade-off has been engineered For a story that three weeks ago gripped the

[CTRL] Conventional Wisdom Was Correct - Neocons and Bush Wrong

2004-01-05 Thread flw
of the King, the Kingdom will follow. So much for our 'constitutional republic'. flw washingtonpost.com Foresight Was 20/20 By Jackson Diehl Monday, January 5, 2004; Page A17 The Bush administration has been hammered for failing to anticipate or plan for the many problems of postwar Iraq or to set aside

[CTRL] Flak jackets on for 2004

2004-01-03 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Mr Bush has one priority for 2004: Get America out of Iraq. Fast. Iraq is breaking up into rebels and collaborators, with a vast heap of innocent bodies turning up each day at the morgues. By Robert Fisk The Independent (UK) - January 2, 2003: Ever since Daniel Pipes - he of

[CTRL] PESTICIDE LINK TO MAD COW DISEASE

2004-01-03 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- SOME SUSPECT PESTICIDE LINK TO MAD COW DISEASE http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/secondopinion010525.html NICHOLAS REGUSH, ABC NEWS - What if it turns out that the human form of mad cow disease is triggered by environmental factors - and not by infectious beef

[CTRL] Transfer Tubes

2004-01-03 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- YOUR SON ISN'T DEAD, HE'S JUST IN A TRANSFER TUBE http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Transfer_tubes DISINFOPEDIA - In order to continue to sell an increasingly unpopular Iraqi invasion to the American people, President George W. Bush's administration sweeps the messy

[CTRL] 14,000 US casualties in Iraq to date

2004-01-02 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- 12-29-2003 Saddam in the Slammer, so why are we on Orange? By David H. Hackworth Almost daily we're told that another American soldier has sacrificed life or limb in Iraq. For way too many of us - unless we have a white flag with a blue star in our window - these casualty

[CTRL] There NEVER Will Be A Real Saddam Public Trial

2003-12-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- NO REAL SADDAM TRIAL in 2004: CRUCIAL HISTORY the AMERICANS Now Desperately Want Saddam Quieted About Without the full history-as embarrassing as that record might be to the last five U.S. presidents-the American people cannot judge whether the nation's security will be enhanced

[CTRL] Neo-Cons Are Back - Crazier Then Ever!

2003-12-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Wednesday 31 December 2003 telegraph.co.uk Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 31/12/2003) President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style

[CTRL] Revealed: How MI6 Sold the Iraq War

2003-12-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Revealed: How MI6 Sold the Iraq War By Nicholas Rufford 12/28/03: (The Times - London):THE Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised

[CTRL] No Christmas cheer in caged-in Bethlehem

2003-12-24 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Last update - 02:48 25/12/2003 No Christmas cheer in caged-in Bethlehem By Arnon Regular and Amos Harel Bethlehem, encircled by its occupation army, woke up to

[CTRL] The Saddam Scam

2003-12-23 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- SADDAM DRUGGED, CAPTURE STAGED, U.S. TRICKS WORLD OPINION ONE MORE TIME MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 23 December 2003: Will there really be a serious trial of Saddam Hussein? Not likely. Only a carefully choreographed 'show trial' is likely,

[CTRL] Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Saddam After Kurd Gassing

2003-12-19 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Iraqis, Documents Show Trip Followed Criticism Of Chemical Arms' Use By Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 19, 2003; Page A42 Donald H. Rumsfeld went to Baghdad in March 1984 with

[CTRL] Americans Flew Saddam Out of Iraq In April

2003-12-17 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Iraqi Comdr. Says He Saw US Fly Saddam Out Of Baghdad By Bill Dash 12-15-3 Note - Since the officer could not see the occupants, we cannot know for certain who was inside. It is possible this was a group of Saddam's top officers and officials who had made deals - sold out - to

[CTRL] A year of stunning growth in government

2003-12-07 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Christian Science Monitor December 08, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1208/p01s02-uspo.html The most irresponsible year ever US spending surges to historic level Vote on gargantuan bill in Congress caps a year of stunning growth in government. By Gail Russell

[CTRL] Democratic Hopefuls Play Down Gun Control

2003-10-26 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Democratic Hopefuls Play Down Gun Control By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page A01 MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Democratic presidential candidates are distancing themselves from tough gun control, reversing a decade of rhetoric

[CTRL] Hi Tech Intell Failure in Iraq

2003-10-25 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Intelligence Problems In Iraq Are Detailed By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 25, 2003; Page A01 The U.S. military intelligence gathering operation in Iraq is being undercut by a series of problems in using technology, training

[CTRL] Shocking Dishonoring Of Our Soldiers

2003-10-25 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Hiding or Honoring the Fallen? Saturday, October 25, 2003; Page A22 I was outraged by the Oct. 21 Federal Page story Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins. Forbidding the media to cover the return of soldiers who died for this country is abominable.

[CTRL] Guantanamo guards embrace Islam

2003-10-14 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Aljazeera Tuesday 14 October 2003, 9:46 Makka Time, 6:46 GMT Guantanamo guards embrace Islam Could contact with prisoners be having an effect? A number of the US troops guarding the 660 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban detainees in Guantanamo Bay have converted to Islam,

[CTRL] MYSTERY BLOOD CLOTS KILL TROOPS

2003-10-07 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- MYSTERY BLOOD CLOTS KILL TROOPS http://www.military.com UPI - Unexplained blood clots are among the reasons a number of U.S. soldiers in Operation Iraqi Freedom have died from sudden illnesses, an investigation by United Press International has found. In addition to NBC News

[CTRL] Worldwide Hatred for America

2003-10-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- October 06, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1006/p09s01-coop.html American carefree tourists, beware By Doug Bandow JAKARTA, INDONESIA - 'It's dangerous here for Americans, said my cab driver. No question. A few blocks away sat the J.W. Marriott, its facade broken

[CTRL] Dying to Kill Us

2003-09-22 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- September 22, 2003 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Dying to Kill Us By ROBERT A. PAPE CHICAGO - Suicide terrorism has been on the rise around the world for two decades, but there is great confusion as to why. Since many such attacks - including, of course, those of Sept. 11, 2001 - have been

[CTRL] Righteous Israeli Pilots Say No To Murder

2003-09-18 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Friday, September 19, 2003 Elul 22, 5763 Israel Time: 01:58 (GMT+3) Reserve pilots to refuse liquidations By Lily Galili A group of reserve pilots in the Israel Air Force is planning to publicly announce their refusal to participate in attempts to assassinate senior wanted

[CTRL] RepubliKrats DemiKans March Us Off The Fiscal Cliff

2003-09-17 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-budget17sep17,1,6085724.story?coll=la -home-headlines Federal Budget Disaster Seen, but Won't Be Heard By Janet Hook Times Staff Writer September 17, 2003 WASHINGTON - Something remarkable will happen here today. A senior congressional

[CTRL] Big Lie or Big Mistake?

2003-09-06 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds By Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, September 6, 2003; Page A01 Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe

[CTRL] This war on terrorism is bogus

2003-09-06 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- This war on terrorism is bogus The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination Michael Meacher Saturday September 6, 2003 The Guardian Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war

[CTRL] More Govt Anti Drug Propaganda Exposed

2003-09-06 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 6, 2003; Page A03 Scientists at Johns Hopkins University who last year published a frightening and controversial report suggesting that a single evening's use of

[CTRL] Alaskan Law Enforcement Dazed, Confused, Suffering Denial

2003-09-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Alaska Appeals Court Legalizes Simple Marijuana Possession, Law Enforcement Dazed and Confused, Suffering Denial Alaska citizens have the right to possess less than four ounces of marijuana in their home for personal use. -- Alaska Court of Appeals, Noy v. State, August 29, 2003

Re: [CTRL] The God-Hater Test

2003-08-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- I failed the test. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half

[CTRL] Letter from Iraq

2003-08-28 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Dear all, The intense heat has turned my black jeans white with the salt of my sweat. The crowds surge and push and crush me as I wind my way through. The violent sun beats my head, dizzying me. I try to steady myself. I take a deep breath but smell nothing but dirty socks and

[CTRL] Big Expensive Secrets

2003-08-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Classified Spending On the Rise Report: Defense to Get $23.2 Billion By Dan Morgan Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 27, 2003; Page A23 Black, or classified, programs requested in President Bush's 2004 defense budget are at the highest level since 1988, according to

[CTRL] Why I Refuse to be a Juror in Federal Court

2003-08-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- 8/22/03 The Honorable Rufus G. King III Chief Judge Superior Court of the District of Columbia Moultrie Courthouse 500 Indiana Ave., NW, Room 3500 Washington, DC 20001 Re: Jury Summons, August 25, 2003, JIN # 559075 Dear Judge King: I write you from a different corner of the

[CTRL] Police State Update: The war on civil liberties road show

2003-08-26 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Liberty Action of the Week: August 26,2003 The war on civil liberties road show by Mary Lou Seymour The Justice Department says its traveling road show to tout the benefits of the Patriot Act is intended to combat misunderstandings the public has about the sweeping legislation

[CTRL] The Real Wesley Clark

2003-08-25 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE WESLEY CLARK MYTH NOW THAT establishment favorite Edwards is fading in the Democratic primaries, there is increasing talk in similar circles of launching a campaign for General Wesley Clark, some of it so absurd that it compares Clark to Eisenhower. But the Clark boosters

[CTRL] America Brings Freedom to Iraqis

2003-08-17 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Porn, Drugs, Weapons Hit Baghdad Streets 2 hours, 1 minute ago By ANDREW ENGLAND, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Quranic verse plastered on a monument to freedom carries a simple message - God will send a plague on those who deal in drugs and spread corruption.

[CTRL] Tourture in Israel is routine

2003-08-17 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Homepage Search site News Updates Monday, August 18, 2003 Av 20, 5763 Israel Time: 04:02 (GMT+3) `Tourture in Israel has again become routine' By Moshe Reinfeld A report released yesterday by the Public Committee Against Torture claims that the use of torture in the

[CTRL] CIA Gave Warning. (Warning Ignored)

2003-08-14 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/222/nation/ BOSTON GLOBE - Bryan Bender CIA warned administration of postwar guerrilla peril In February, the CIA gave a formal briefing to the National Security Council, including Defense Secretary Donald H.Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney,

[CTRL] Kabul - That Wild and Crazy Party Town

2003-08-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Afghanistan gets its first party town Sunday, August 3rd, 2003 Email to Friend | Printer Friendly Version The Guardian - The old man in a turban stared in disbelief at the row of Land Cruisers parked in a smart Kabul street, their drivers waiting for the partygoers in the house

[CTRL] Massive US Job Bleed to China

2003-08-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR from the August 05, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0805/p01s02-usec.html Booming China trade rankles US Trade deficit with China, now running at $120 billion a year, surpasses the total US trade gap of six years ago. By Ron Scherer |

Re: [CTRL] We Already Know the Administration Was Lying

2003-08-02 Thread flw
) are much more efficient killers of soldiers and civilians. BTW, even cursory research shows Saddam's poison gas program was encouraged and facilitated by the US during the Iraq/Iran war when the US adopted Saddam as its proxy to fight the Ayatollahs. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER

Re: [CTRL] We Already Know ... [CTRL] Gassed Kurds

2003-08-02 Thread flw
zone' to butcher the Shiites and Kurds. Now we cry crocodile tears The WMD BS is agiprop invented by the neo-cons. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap

[CTRL] Israel Passes New Racist Apartheid Marriage Laws

2003-07-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- New Law for Israeli-Palestinian Couples Thursday July 31, 2003 4:39 PM By GAVIN RABINOWITZ Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel

[CTRL] no comparing Jewish blood to Palestinian blood

2003-07-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- ISRAEL'S FOPPISH SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS SHULAMIT ALONI, HAARETZ - Since the start of the intifada, more than 800 Israelis, mostly civilians, have been killed by Palestinians. We, justifiably, call it murder. Some were killed by suicide bombers and the rest with other instruments of

[CTRL] US studies Israeli abuse of Palestinians to learn how to treat Iraqis

2003-07-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- U.S. ARMY OFFICERS GO TO ISRAEL TO LEARN HOW TO TREAT IRAQIS LIKE PALESTINIANS http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=323102contrassID=2su bContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y AMOS HAREL, HAARETZ, ISRAEL - An American military delegation recently visited Israel

[CTRL] Israel Targeting Children?

2003-07-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Monday July 28, 2003 The Guardian 'I can't imagine anyone who considers himself a human being can do this' On Friday a four-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by a soldier - the most recent child victim of the Israeli army. Chris McGreal investigates a shocking series of

[CTRL] Huge Liability Trap for US in Iraq

2003-07-25 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- FINANCIAL TIMES A legal minefield for Iraq's occupiers By David Scheffer Published: July 23 2003 20:50 | Last Updated: July 23 2003 20:50 The deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein will provide a welcome morale-boost for the Anglo-US forces in Iraq. It has become all too clear in

[CTRL] 1000's Of Cases of Mad Cow Unreported in US

2003-07-24 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Date: Wed 23 Jul 2003 From: ProMED-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: Zwire.co, United Press International (via COMTEX), Tue 22 Jul 2003 [edited] http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9882702BRD=1713PAG=740dept_id= 226965rfi=6 USA: Concern that CJD Screening May Miss Thousands

Re: [CTRL] Rense and Savage...a combo

2003-07-13 Thread flw
? 'An anti-Germanite' if you criticize Germany? How about all the recent 'anti-Gaulites' that recently came out of the closet. BTW, what do you call an anti-Arab? Is it an anti-Semantical Semite? Or perhaps a racist anti-Arab would simply be called a Lukudite. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION

Re: [CTRL] Ron Paul Speech - Neo-conned

2003-07-12 Thread flw
contribute $$ to. I guess Hyde is just as bad as Bernie Sanders, another phony socialists. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid

Re: [CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Charles P. Kindleberger, 92, Global Economist...

2003-07-11 Thread flw
difference is that the Repubs are proud to deliver corporate welfare while the Dems. hang their head slightly while doing so. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap

[CTRL] WHERE'S RICHARD PERLE?

2003-07-11 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- WHERE'S RICHARD PERLE? http://www.arabia.com/newsfeed/article/english/0,14183,405688,00.html WILLIAM HUGHS, PALESTINE CHRONICLE - Perhaps we should take a break on looking for Saddam Hussein, Usama bin Laden, William Slots Bennett, or, even James J. Whitey Bulger. For me, the

Re: [CTRL] BANKRUPT PARANOIA MAGAZINE!

2003-06-24 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Hey, flw, good suggestion! Mail any copies of that rag, PARANOIA, right to the FBI! If we work together, we can get that magazine off the stands and into the trash cans where it belongs! Best, T. Casey Brennan Aha! I see that PARANOIA mag. has gotten to you too! No doubt

[CTRL] Letter from the Sunni Triangle -- June 20, 2003

2003-06-20 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Dear All, The grassy fields sway as the American helicopters patrol the green, bountiful bluffs and floodplains of the Tigris River. I'm with my translator, Tahseen, the same one who worked for me during the war. He made a small fortune working for me during those months. I urged

Re: [CTRL] BANKRUPT PARANOIA MAGAZINE!

2003-06-19 Thread flw
' it probing my mind... telling me lies, laughing at me... I mailed it to the FBI. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters

Re: [CTRL] Why most Americans are unable to perceive and protest America's slide into fascism

2003-06-18 Thread flw
the old elite would be replaced by a new highly educated and efficient Party elite. flw www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters

[CTRL] Ex-Army boss: Pentagon won't admit reality in Iraq

2003-06-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- USA TODAY Posted 6/2/2003 11:06 PM Updated 6/3/2003 12:17 AM Ex-Army boss: Pentagon won't admit reality in Iraq By Dave Moniz, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The former civilian head of the Army said Monday it is time for the Pentagon to admit that the military is in for a long

[CTRL] GAO: 350,000 Gulf War Vets Exposed to Poisons

2003-06-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com GAO Triples Estimates of Gulf War Fallout By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 3, 2003; Page A21 Congressional researchers recommended yesterday that Congress ask the Pentagon to triple the number of U.S. troops presumed to be exposed

[CTRL] BSE RISK, CHICKEN BREASTS

2003-06-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- BSE RISK, CHICKEN BREASTS - UK EX NETHERLANDS (03) ** A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 From: Julian

[CTRL] Russia concerned over Israel's nuclear weapons program

2003-06-02 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Haaretz News Updates Monday, June 02, 2003 Sivan 2, 5763 Israel Time: 05:07 (GMT+3) Russia concerned over Israel's nuclear weapons program By Aluf Benn Russia recently expressed concern over Israel's nuclear program and demanded that this be placed on the agenda of

[CTRL] Coalition of Willing Stiffing US on Troop Relief

2003-05-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Relief for U.S. troops lacking By Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's search for troops from other nations to replace U.S. soldiers in the force that is stabilizing postwar Iraq has fallen short of expectations, and U.S. officials face the prospect of keeping

[CTRL] Shocking 20 Billion $$$ Corporate Welfare Givaway

2003-05-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Boeing deal comes at taxpayers' expense May 29, 2003 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST No sooner did Congress adjourn last Friday for its Memorial Day recess than the Pentagon declared victory for the Boeing Co. over U.S. taxpayers. Against advice from federal budget

[CTRL] Top Bush Hawk Admits Iraqi WMD Lies for War

2003-05-30 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- INDEPENDENT NEWS HEADLINES WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz By David Usborne 30 May 2003 The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically

[CTRL] WHY DO WE HAVE THE WAR ON SOME DRUGS, ANYWAY?

2003-05-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- WHY DO WE HAVE THE WAR ON SOME DRUGS, ANYWAY? SAM SMITH - The angry American reaction to Canada's move towards sanity on drug laws raises a question that is seldom asked, let alone studied by academics or the media. Given that the drug war has been a demonstrable failure why does

[CTRL] US 'faces future of chronic deficits'

2003-05-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE FINANCIAL TIMES US 'faces future of chronic deficits' By Peronet Despeignes in Washington Published: May 28 2003 21:57 | Last Updated: May 29 2003 1:16 The Bush administration has shelved a report commissioned by the Treasury that shows the US currently faces a future of

[CTRL] Iraq puts Jews in Bush's corner

2003-04-06 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Wars against terrorism, Iraq put Jews in Bush's corner Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published April 6, 2003

[CTRL] Post-War War Begins

2003-04-06 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- U.S. Plan For Iraq's Future Is Challenged Pentagon Control, Secrecy Questioned By Karen DeYoung and Dan Morgan Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, April 6, 2003; Page A21 As it anticipates imminent victory in Iraq, the Bush administration is facing questions, criticism and the

[CTRL] Time Running Out For Bush's Economy

2003-04-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE WASHINGTON POST For Bush, Time to Mend Economy Is Running Out By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 5, 2003; Page A01 The Labor Department's report yesterday that the U.S. economy shed 108,000 jobs in March underscored an emerging threat to President

[CTRL] Israelis Shoot American Terrorist Peace Activist

2003-04-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Apr 5, 9:06 PM EST U.S. Peace Activist Shot in West Bank JERUSALEM (AP) -- An American peace activist volunteering as a human shield in the West Bank was seriously wounded on Saturday when Israeli troops allegedly opened fire on him. Brian Avery, 24, from Albuquerque, N.M.,

[CTRL] Why We Will Win The War And Lose The Peace

2003-04-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- NY TIMES April 4, 2003 Arab Media Portray War as Killing Field By SUSAN SACHS CAIRO, April 3 - It was a picture of Arab grief and rage. A teenage boy glared from the rubble of a bombed building as a veiled woman wept over the body of a relative. In fact, it was two pictures:

[CTRL] Bush Warned by Israel Lobby

2003-04-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) cited concern that the United States is undercutting Israel. (File Photo/Ken Lambert -- AP) Bush Meets Resistance on Mideast Plan Key Hill Allies Call for Greater Commitment to Israel's Concerns About Road Map By Jim VandeHei Washington

[CTRL] Iraq Will Cost The US Taxpayer Big Bucks

2003-04-04 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-war-iraqdebt4apr04010421,1,3763 271.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld%2Dmanual WAR WITH IRAQ Iraq Debts Could Add Up to Trouble By Warren Vieth Times

[CTRL] Another conservative myth bites the dust

2003-04-02 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- American Newsreel Another conservative myth bites the dust By DOUG THOMPSON Apr 2, 2003, 06:00 One constant exists in the Internet universe: Pick on something near and dear to conservatives and they will flood your email box with nasty messages, calling you a traitor or

[CTRL] Baghdad's defences belie death toll fears

2003-04-02 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- FINANCIAL TIMES Baghdad's defences belie death toll fears By Paul Eedle in Baghdad Published: April 1 2003 17:28 | Last Updated: April 1 2003 17:28 The defences of Baghdad do not look much: sandbagged emplacements outside government offices, trenches in parks and palm groves,

[CTRL] Sex Rules For The House Gym

2003-04-02 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- SAFE SEX FOR CONGRESSMEMBERS: A GUIDE http://www.hillnews.com/news/040203/guide.aspx HILL NEWS - An explicit guide to safe sex in the House gym that vividly describes sex acts illegal in 14 states is causing discomfort among some lawmakers. At least one piece of advice deals

[CTRL] Quote of the Day

2003-04-01 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- It just crushes morale. - Corporal Jonathan Kibler complains about the shortage of cigarettes on the front line. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are

[CTRL] HALF OF SENATE, THIRD OF HOUSE SHOWS UP FOR AIPAC

2003-04-01 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- HALF OF SENATE, THIRD OF HOUSE SHOWS UP FOR ISRAELI LOBBY MEETINGS http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63578-2003Mar31.html DANA MILBANK, WASHINGTON POST - This week's meeting in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has put a spotlight on the

[CTRL] Pentagon To Run Iraqi Colonial Appointments

2003-04-01 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- KAREN DEYOUNG AND PETER SLEVIN, WASHINGTON POST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63223-2003Mar31.html - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has rejected a team of officials proposed by the State Department to help run postwar Iraq in what sources described as an

[CTRL] Iraq: The Public Divides

2003-04-01 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE INDEPENDENT Deeply divided US agrees on only one issue - support for the troops By Andrew Gumbel, in Los Angeles 02 April 2003 In the eyes of the American public, the conflict in the Middle East is going in one of two radically different ways. For those who were broadly

[CTRL] War On Freedom Update

2003-03-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Liberty Action of the Week for April 1,2003 War on Freedom on its many fronts by Mary Lou Seymour War, war, and rumors of war. There's Bush's War of Aggression against Iraq (and who knows who else in the future), the War on Civil Liberties at home, and the War on Medical

[CTRL] War Within a War: Rising fears Iraq could become haven for Al Qaida-type groups

2003-03-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- HARETZ (Israel) Tuesday, April 01, 2003 Adar2 28, 5763 Israel Time: 04:57 (GMT+3) Analysis / Rising fears Iraq could become haven for Al Qaida-type groups By Zvi Bar'el The report that 4,000 suicide volunteers are in Iraq is more exotic than a strategic threat at this stage,

[CTRL] War Analysis From Israel

2003-03-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday, April 01, 2003 Adar2 28, 5763 Israel Time: 05:03 (GMT+3) A bushel of mistakes By Yoel Marcus No one knows if Saddam really has all those look-alikes they say he has, but it's a shame Bush doesn't have one. Maybe he could do a better job of running the war, with a lot

[CTRL] No 'Best-Case' Scenario

2003-03-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback No 'Best-Case' Scenario: What Are The Alternatives? March 31, 2003 Now that the phoney war is over and the shooting has commenced in earnest, some of the pre-war fog has lifted, even as new uncertainties are being created on the

[CTRL] RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS

2003-03-31 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS HOWARD WITT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - When Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, gives a speech Monday to roughly 4,000 members of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group, her remarks will be closed to the

[CTRL] US Media - Tame Little Pussycats

2003-03-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- FINANCIAL TIMES A gulf in the war of words By Jurek Martin Published: March 28 2003 17:35 | Last Updated: March 28 2003 17:35 It may have been a figment of the imagination - I was listening to the radio last Saturday not watching TV - but I thought I heard General Tommy Franks,

[CTRL] The Point of No Return

2003-03-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Point of No Return Analysis:Iraq war matter of life and death By DALAL SAOUD UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 29 (UPI) -- The coalition forces and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein have reached the point of no return and their only option

[CTRL] Quote of the Day

2003-03-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- The sad thing is that America has fallen into the trap set by Bin Laden. Dr Dalil Boubakeur (Rector of the Paris Mosque) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic

Re: [CTRL] Bush WORSE then Clinton

2003-03-29 Thread flw
AND what the Republicans say about the Dems is also very true. Demicans and Republicrats - both totally corrupt institutions. flw A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds

[CTRL] Pro War Neo-Con Perle Helped China Get ICBM Technology From Clinton

2003-03-29 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- PERLE INVOLVED IN CLINTON SCANDAL STEPHEN LABATON, NY TIMES - http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/business/29PERL.html While he led an influential Pentagon advisory board, Richard N. Perle advised a major American satellite maker, Loral Space and Communications, as it faced

[CTRL] War Problems

2003-03-28 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- American Newsreel What price war? By DOUG THOMPSON Mar 28, 2003, 06:03 New polls show 70 percent of Americans support the war with Iraq but that support is, as pollsters like to say, a mile wide and an inch deep. That means it wouldn't take much to turn public opinion in this

[CTRL] War increases Arab hatred of America

2003-03-28 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Updated: Mar 28th, 2003 - 07:33:05 America at War --- - War increases Arab hatred of America By LANCE GAY Scripps Howard News Service Mar 28, 2003, 07:20 The Arab view of the United States could hardly

[CTRL] Confession of the Day

2003-03-28 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against. - Lieutenant General William S Wallace of V Corps, quoted in the New York Times. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange

[CTRL] A 1982 Israeli war has modern echoes for US in Iraq

2003-03-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- from the March 27, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0327/p13s01-woiq.html A 1982 Israeli war has modern echoes for US in Iraq By Nicholas Blanford | Special to The Christian Science Monitor BEIRUT, LEBANON - The parallels between the US-led invasion of Iraq and

Re: [CTRL] Bush's Secret Plan

2003-03-27 Thread flw
machine is spinning faster and faster. Even I doubt they'd be *this* foolish. Bush isn't suicidal. I am sad to say that apparently the Bush Gang has surreptitiously printed up several million Iraq 'mini-deeds' and will be handing them out before the 2004 Presidential election. flw A HREF=http

[CTRL] Saudi Youth Now Hate America

2003-03-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE WASHINGTON POST By Carol Morello Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 27, 2003; Page A32 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 26 -- The young sons of Selwa Hazzaa consider it a mark of shame that they were born in the United States, a country whose military they now see

[CTRL] Assad predicts defeat for US and Britain

2003-03-27 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Assad predicts defeat for invasion force Mood of militancy grows as chief cleric calls on Muslims to launch suicide attacks Jonathan Steele in Damascus Friday March 28, 2003 The Guardian Syria's President Bashar al-Assad yesterday became the first Arab leader, other than Saddam

[CTRL] Twilight of the US Empire?

2003-03-26 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- THE GUARDIAN Bush fiddles with economy while Baghdad burns Could a faltering dollar and global rebellion against its values presage the decline, and eventual fall, of the American empire, asks Mark Tran Wednesday March 26, 2003 The war in Iraq is not going as smoothly as the

Re: [CTRL] 'See men shredded, then say you don't back war'

2003-03-26 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Perhaps when the Clinton Gang gassed and burned alive over 40 children at Waco their families should have asked Saddam to invade the US to put an end to such atrocities and hold the war criminals in the US govt accountable. flw A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org

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