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Old 01-05-04, 03:38 PM   #1
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WASHINGTON (April 30) - President Bush on Friday defended his speech a year ago on the deck of an aircraft carrier proclaiming the end of major combat in Iraq and said ''we're making progress, you bet'' in bringing stability to the war-torn country.

CAIRO, Egypt (May 1) - Images of smiling U.S. military police humiliating Iraqi prisoners appeared in newspapers around the Middle East on Saturday, angering Arabs who condemned the United States as a champion of rights only for Americans.

• It will be a year on Saturday since Bush made his carrier speech beneath a banner proclaiming ''Mission Accomplished'' and announced that major combat in Iraq was over.

LOS ANGELES (May 1) - TV anchorman Ted Koppel solemnly read aloud the names of 721 U.S. servicemen and women killed in the Iraq war during an unusual edition of the ABC News program ''Nightline.''

Koppel's recitation - illustrated with corresponding photo, military branch, rank and age of each of the fallen since March 19, 2003 - occupied the expanded 40-minute program Friday night.


• As to the carrier speech, Bush said, ''A year ago I did give the speech from the carrier saying we had achieved an important objective, accomplished a mission, which was the removal of Saddam Hussein.''

(Historical Revisionist Note: Hussein was captured on December 14, 2003, seven months after this speech.)

• ''And as a result, there are no longer torture chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq. As a result, a friend of terror has been removed and now sits in a jail,'' the president said.

• Six U.S. soldiers facing courts-martial in the abuse and indecent acts allegations have been reassigned in Iraq; their boss, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade, and at least seven others have been suspended from their duties at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to the U.S. military.

The prison was notorious under Saddam Hussein's rule.


• ''We face tough times in Iraq,'' Bush said. ''And we've had some tough fighting because there are people who hate the idea of a free Iraq.''

WASHINGTON (May 1) - The New Yorker said it has obtained a 53-page, internal U.S. military report into alleged abuses at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The army report listed abuses such as beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick." The report, written by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, said evidence to support the allegations included "detailed witness statements and the discovery of extremely graphic photographic evidence."

• The photos, taken last year, were inflammatory in an Arab world already angry about the U.S. occupation They showed U.S. troops smiling, posing, laughing or giving the thumbs-up sign as naked, male Iraqi prisoners were stacked in a pyramid or positioned to simulate sex acts with one another. A British newspaper also published pictures showing British soldiers apparently urinating on a shackled Iraqi prisoner of war.

• "Despite many challenges, life for the Iraqi people is a world away from the cruelty and corruption of Saddam's regime" and "we will finish our work," Bush said.

• Some 1,360 Iraqis died in the fighting in April, according to a count by The Associated Press - more than in any month since Saddam's fall.
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Old 01-05-04, 06:08 PM   #3
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CAIRO, Egypt (May 1) - Images of smiling U.S. military police humiliating Iraqi prisoners appeared in newspapers around the Middle East on Saturday, angering Arabs who condemned the United States as a champion of rights only for Americans.
as usual those propogandising arab media types get it wrong. if they cared to be accurate (and honest) it should read ...who condemned the United States as a champion of rights only for some Americans.
the united states of corporate kleptocracy has ceased even pretending to care about equal rights for all its' citizens.

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as usual those propogandising arab media types get it wrong. if they cared to be accurate (and honest) it should read ...who condemned the United States as a champion of rights only for some Americans.
the united states of corporate kleptocracy has ceased even pretending to care about equal rights for all its' citizens.

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• ''We face tough times in Iraq,'' Bush said. ''And we've had some tough fighting because there are people who hate the idea of a free Iraq.''
Who hates freedom

BTW, did anybody dared to inquire about skulls and bones frat @ Yale university?

Very interesting reading
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