1/31/2003

IF WE DO NOT CHOOSE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE WAR NOW, WE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO FIGHT FOR THE WAR FROM NOW ON.

1/31/03 Caught on Tape US claims to have tape that incriminates Iraq

THREE REASONS NOT TO ASSUME THE TAPE IS GENUINE

1/31/03 The US has used faked taped before

1/31/03 Israel has used fake radio messages to trick the US into attacking Israel's enemies before.

1/31/03 Computers can mimic any desired voice.

1/31/03 Brits Ban Anti-War March

1/31/03 The MacDonald case Was Dr. MacDonald framed, and is that why the US Government is delaying tests that might exonerate him?

1/31/03 Israel asks US for more money

1/31/03 Coca Cola to cut 1,000 US jobs

1/31/03 US tries to revive "Aluminum tubes" issue.

1/31/03 Scientists say bioterror threat 'exaggerated'

1/31/03 IAEA chief says Iraq 'not in material breach'

1/31/03 No proof Iraqi spies using Canada: CSIS 'Claim unsubstantiated': Recruits reportedly sent into U.S. to stir anti-war protest Darn, and I was starting to believe that last one! :)

1/31/03 16-Month Study of 9/11 Attacks Begins The conclusion will be that the US Intelligence agencies should get more money and the American people should mind their own business.

1/31/03 Users desert AOL Nobody likes spies and censors.

1/31/03 US Airways pilot pension plan in peril

1/31/03 Steel pension load drains U.S. insurance program Somewhere, some accountant type is thinking, "Gee, a biowar attack that kills off all these old and weak people would really fix our bottom line!"

1/31/03 Pension Benefit Agency Reports Record Deficit

1/31/03 The Real but Unspoken Reasons for the Upcoming Iraq War In November of 2000, Iraq changed from the Dollar to the Euro as the currency for oil transactions. Since then, as the dollar has slipped in value, the price of Iraq's oil has increased for those nations still using the Dollar.

1/31/03 Pentagon stocks up on body bags Picture your child in one of them. Now picture what you can do about it.

1/31/03 DETAILS OF UPCOMING LONDON PROTESTS! Okay, if we can't use Hyde Park, how about holding the rally on Downing Street?

1/31/03 Israel oil company hints at "recent discoveries". Under the West Bank, maybe?

1/31/03 One Man's Quest to Expose the Truth, and Rewrite History Something to read when considering all the "helicopter accidents" claiming the lives of your sons in Afghanistan.

1/31/03 Cheney: 'Survival of civilization' at stake Note the arrogant implication that Cheney's enemies have no civilization.

1/31/03 Top Interior Official Broke Law by Deleting Indian Trust Records Along with looting Social Security, the US Government has been balancing its books by looting various other trust funds, including those belonging to Native Americans.

1/31/03 DOD "suspends" declassification of historical documents. Must be pretty embarrassing stuff!

1/31/03 UN: NO PROOF IRAQ HAS NUKES

1/31/03 Evidence torpedoes SBC web patent I'm going to patent sex, so that whenever any of you do it, you have to send me five cents! :)

1/31/03 Florida May Destroy Ballots From 2000 Election Records from most controversial election in history to be pulped.

1/31/03 Israel starts to make its move on the Temple Mount Not that Sharon cares, but the UN has declared Jerusalem an international city, and NOT a part of Israel.

1/31/03 Bush to hand out certificate to those who do 100 hours of work. Getting around that old minimum wage law, eh?

1/31/03 Portland vetoed anti-war measure, so COUNTY passed one! "Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey stated that she had been told that her political career would be over for introducing this resolution"

1/31/03 US is misquoting my Iraq report, says Blix

1/31/03 Expert rules out link between Iraq and al-Qaeda

1/31/03 US to announce Iraqi campaign within 3 weeks - Russian General Staff source

1/31/03 IF DISSENT IS TREASONOUS, THEN WE'RE ALL TRAITORS

1/31/03 George Bush with clown's nose T-shirt gets airing in Brazil

1/30/03 Satire or anti-Semitism: For and against

1/31/03 Satire or Anti-Semitism? The cartoonist writes

For far too long, individuals in Israel have evaded criticism of their actions by equating criticism for what they do with hatred for all Jewish people. Anti-Semitism is defined as a hate of Semitic people just because they are Semitic people. Anti-Semitism is race hate because of what people are, and pretty much most people agree that this is wrong. But hate of what individuals DO is not hate of what they ARE. Ariel Sharon is not being criticized for being Jewish, he is being criticized for being a war criminal, for defying the UN far more than Saddam does, for working overtly and covertly to destroy any and all chances for peace in the Mideast, for being a direct and immediate threat to every non-Jewish population in the region, for having weapons of mass destruction, and for using his supporters in the United States to enslave the American taxpayer to support Israel's failure to support itself.

Ariel's shills scream "anti-Semite" whenever any of these unpleasant facts are mentioned. When the story broke about the huge Israeli spy ring and their links to 9-11, Israel's shills screamed "anti-Semite" and demanded newspapers and TV networks not cover the story. When evidence from the security system showed Dr. Philip Zack entering the lab without permission where the Anthrax that had been mailed across the country came from, Israel's shills screamed "anti-Semite" at every mention of Zack's name while Barbara Rosenberg pointed the FBI down the dead-end street leading to Dr. Stephen Hatfill.

Use of the "anti-Semite" smear-tactic allows Mossad operatives an immunity to operate inside the United States undreamed of by any other foreign intelligence service. Can you imagine the KGB announcing that they intended to carry out assassinations inside the US, or the total silence the US mainstream media and government that greeted Israel's admission of the same?

A moment's thought will reveal just how ridiculous it is to equate criticism of an individual with hate of a race. Is criticism of Hitler dismissed as "anti-Aryanism", or criticism of Stalin ignored as being "anti-Slav"? It's silly. And it is equally silly to play the same game by claiming that criticism of Ariel Sharon is "anti-Semitic". Ariel Sharon is master of his own destiny. Of his own free will he has chosen to do what he has done. And much of what he has done bring shame on the entire Jewish people.

The irony is that the same people who are trying go blur the line between criticism of individual actions and hate for an entire people are succeeding. Anti-Semitism is on the rise because the link is constantly being made that if criticism of Ariel Sharon is criticism of the entire Jewish people, then all Jewish people must be like Ariel Sharon.

This is nothing new. Ambitious individuals within the Jewish culture have played this same game for thousands of years, committing crimes and justifying them with the Talmud, then hiding behind their friends and neighbors by claiming criticism of the crime is criticism of the entire people. Eventually the frustration of the people against whom the crimes are being committed reaches a breaking point, and the entire Jewish people once again becomes a target for the crimes committed by only a few individuals.

One need only look at the numerous times throughout history that the Jewish people have been expelled and persecuted to realize that this trick of concealing individual crimes behind claims of race hate goes back a very long time indeed. When one considers the extremely diverse locations and populations in the above list, one immediately realizes that the only common factor in all those confrontations was the Jewish people themselves, used as shields and sacrificial lambs by their own corrupt leaders, just as Ariel Sharon is doing to the Jewish people of today.

UPDATE: No sooner had this article been put up but WRH got hit with an email bomb from melisa.cefarm.rzeszow.pl . The ISP is tracking down the user in question and promises to report them to the police.

1/31/03 Israel: Sharon’s victory presages internal strife amidst escalating aggression

1/31/03 US launches large military operation in southern Afghanistan I told you 14 months ago that Afghanistan was not going to be the slam-dunk the US Government promised.

1/31/03 Chinese capitalism: industrial powerhouse or sweatshop of the world?

1/31/03 INS workers charged with shredding documents The INS has just lost all credibility in claiming who is and who is not legally here.

1/31/03 Mr. Blair is far from perfect, but he is a sane voice in the President's ear - The Prime Minister has steered Bush into taking the United Nations route, and made this a crusade to uphold UN resolutions A true leader would tell Bush and Sharon to kiss off.

1/31/03 HELP US FIGHT THE MEDIA MONOPOLY!

1/31/03 ISRAEL - Spying & Eavesdropping On Every American, President included......

1/31/03 Tinker, tailor, soldier, journalist Has Fleet Street been over-run by the intelligence agencies? David Leigh unravels the hidden network of spooks at the heart of the British press.

1/31/03 Surveillance & Society Home Page

1/31/03 US seeks to delay Mideast peace plan What Sharon wants, Bush wants

1/31/03 Al Qaeda built a dirty bomb Ee eye ee eye oh! (Sorry. Couldn't resist)

1/31/03 Congressman running online poll regarding war What with Freepers et al running around and trying to skew the polls, I think the real measure of how many Americans support this war lies in seeing how many volunteer to go fight it themselves.

1/31/03 New Korea bomb evidence alarms US Korea actually has weapons of mass destruction and there is no end of hard evidence the US can find to prove it. But in Iraq, nobody can find a thing. Think about that for a moment.

1/31/03 Big freeze brings travel chaos Tell me again why we have to be worried about global warming?

1/31/03 AOL Considers Selling Core Assets You can't buy up all the media and use it to feed lies to the people and still expect to make a profit.

1/31/03 Microsoft security effort 'failing' You can't patch Swiss cheese.

1/31/03 Blix Says He Saw Nothing to Prompt a War

1/31/03 U.S. intelligence agencies are closely monitoring Iraq's military forces and the ruling Ba'ath party in Baghdad. Spy agencies are looking carefully for signs that Saddam Hussein will start a pre-emptive attack before U.S. military forces can complete their buildup in the region. "We suspect he will try to do something," one defense official told us. Remember those Israeli commandoes running around Western Iraq searching for a Scud launcher?

1/31/03 The German Intelligence Briefing of April 5, 2002 There is a growing body of information slowly and very reluctantly emerging that points to a flood of authoritative intelligence information being made available to the administration prior to 9/11. This document is a translation of a German report, issued from the BND main office at Pullach in Bavaria.

1/31/03 9/12/2001, Fireman: "On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building. "

1/31/03 9/12/2001, Financial Analyst: "Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on. "

1/31/03 WHAT DID THE GOVERNMENT KNOW AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?

1/31/03 The strange "collapse" of WTC7

1/31/03 EPILOGUE - THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

1/31/03 Bush signed secret document allowing use of N-Weapons

1/31/03 Iraq: U.S. Could Plant Weapons Evidence Oh come ON, now, they wouldn't do anything like THAT, right? Of course, the US has admitted already having special operations groups inside Iraq.

1/31/03 U.S. seeks Canada's help while hiking lumber tariffs: B.C.

1/31/03 UN Security Council can't even get Israel to obey any international law; violating Lebanon's sovereignty

1/31/03 Signs of diplomatic crisis between Belgium, Israel

1/31/03 A brief study in advanced economics ‘The community of the nation does not live by the fictitious value of money, but by real production which in its turn gives value to money. This production is the real cover of the currency, and not a bank or a safe full of gold.” Boy, are YOU going to be surprised when you find out who said that!

1/31/03 Israeli jets buzz Lebanon "Go on, SHOOT at us; we double-dog dare you, goy bastards!"

1/31/03 UK sells chemical weapons to the world You're busted Blair, now shut up about Iraq.

1/31/03 Public back campaign against war on Iraq

1/31/03 British agents helped Iran to make killer gas There is the pretext for the invasion of Iran

1/31/03 Eight out of 10 Britons oppose unilateral war on Iraq

1/31/03 US Mutual Funds lose $46 billion in investment capital.

1/31/03 Former Iraqi Nuke Scientist Gives Insight Into Saddam's WMDs Records show Iraq was actively pursuing bomb-making capability from at least the early 1970s. But the pursuit really began in earnest, Khadduri says, after Israel bombed Iraq's French-designed Osirak reactor in 1981. ""The Gulf War was the end of the development of Iraq's nuclear capability. It began to disintegrate very quickly after that," Khadduri says. "Buildings and hardware related to the nuclear program were either bombed or dismantled by U.N. inspectors during this time, according to reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency."

1/31/03 Malnutrition in Gaza 'as bad as Zimbabwe' says Clare Short

1/31/03 White House Lashes Out at Iraq Critics What are you going to do Dubya? Cry? Bomb us? Get drunk or stoned? This is a Democracy. The will of the people is the law of the land. If you can't live with that, find another job.

1/31/03 Japan's jobless rate at record high, fuels economic gloom

1/31/03 Norway will NOT support Iraq war even with UN Resolution.

1/31/03 Anti-war message gains visibility

1/31/03 Vandals strike billboards on I-75 THIS IS THE SORT OF STUNT PULLED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMANTS TO MAKE THE PEACE MOVEMENT LOOK BAD. ANY TIME YOU SEE SOMEONE TRYING TO TALK OTHERS INTO ANY DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, YOU ARE PROBABLY LOOKING AT AN FBI MOLE SENT IN TO EMBARRASS YOUR GROUP. HOPEFULLY THEY WILL REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH "I AM AN FBI INFORMANT" WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEAD IN SOMETHING THAT TAKES A WHILE TO COME OUT.

1/30/2003

1/30/03 Blix gives thumbs up to Negroponte

1/30/03 OPERATION ORE Hailed as protector of the innocent, Britain's child-porn investigation rocketed into prominence when it bagged famed rock guitarist Pete Townsend, then slammed into a wall when the investigation led into the highest reaches of Tony Blair's Government!

1/30/03 Questions About the Supposed Iraqi Threat to Saudi Arabia in l990--Aerial Photos were Never Released!! Something to keep in mind as the US Government starts cranking out more "proof" on Saddam

1/30/03 One Voice For Peace - Australia

1/30/03 Mandela says Bush 'ready to plunge the world into a holocaust'

1/30/03 Al-Qaida Made Bomb in Afghanistan Looking for anything the public will buy.

1/30/03 Powell is not bringing `a smoking gun' against Iraq to the U.N. next week, U.S. official says

1/30/03 Hate speech? You want to see hate speech?

1/30/03 US Patriot missiles ready for shipment from Germany to Israel Okay, let's see. Israel makes their own sir defense missile. But they SELL those for money. Then, when they need air defense missiles, and don't have any because they sold them, the US just GIVES Patriot Missile batteries (which you paid for) to Israel for its defense. That about it?

1/30/03 BUSH: Osama behind Anthrax Letters! "Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the lab building at night was Langford's predecessor, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992" --"Anthrax Missing From Army Lab", The Hartford Courant, January 20, 2002 By JACK DOLAN And DAVE ALTIMARI, Courant Staff Writers

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1/30/03 Dow Chemical cuts 4000 jobs

1/30/03 Stocks Fall on Disappointing GDP Report

1/30/03 ANTI-WAR PROTESTORS ARE IRAQI SPIES! The bovine excrement meter just shot the needle across the room and out the door.

1/30/03 Freep THIS! How Free Republic skews the online polls

1/30/03 Peace vigil causes stir Shaken, not stirred!

1/30/03 Mandela condemns US stance on Iraq

1/30/03 ANOTHER ANTI-WAR PROTEST COMING UP BE THERE, OR I WILL SEND FROGS TO CREEP IN THROUGH YOUR WINDOW AT NIGHT AND NIBBLE ON YOUR FINGERS! :)

1/30/03 Weapon Hunt - In The USA

1/30/03 Employment flat-lined! Ads for jobs declining in all 9 regions of the nation.

1/30/03 Antiwar message delivered to Kirk

1/30/03 Okay, the link goes from Saddam, to his account's hairdresser's sister's cousin's lawyer's uncle's doctor's receptionist's psychic hotline's late-shift supervisor's husband's podiatrist's dentist, who knows Osama.

1/30/03 Cops shoo anti-war group from Kirk’s Deerfield office What do you think this is, a representative government?

1/30/03 Student activism alive at area campuses

1/30/03 Anti-War Protesters Announce Rally For 'Millions'

1/30/03 Iraq Turns Spotlight on Israel at U.N. Arms Body Israel DOES have weapons of mass destruction, and it is obvious from recent events in Gaza and Hebron that Israel is a clear and present danger to their neighbors. And Israel has defied far more UN Resolutions than Iraq has.

1/30/03 Police Pepper Spray CU Antiwar Protesters - Students Surge Into Student Union To Replug Speakers PLEASE KEEP THE PROTESTS PEACEFUL. EVERY ACT OF VIOLENCE WILL BE USED BY THE MEDIA TO MAKE THE PEACE MOVEMENT LOOK BAD.

1/30/03 Women in Black nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

1/30/03 The Israeli Massacre of Palestinians - March 6-16, 2002

1/30/03 The Israeli Massacre of Palestinians - March 29 - April 18, 2002

1/30/03 Peace protesters appear in court The Repression Begins

1/30/03 Five Degrees of Osama Here's how the dots connect: Kean is a director of petroleum giant Amerada Hess, which in 1998 formed a joint venture--known as Delta Hess--with Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabian company, to develop oil fields in Azerbaijan. One of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi patriarch married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters.

1/30/03 US Economy slows to 0.7 percent Next stop, full stall.

1/30/03 Only The Public Can Stop The White House Warriors

1/30/03 Anti-war group uses shock tactics BELFAST'S main shopping center resembled a bomb site today as an anti-war protest group re-enacted a Baghdad war scene. Royal Avenue took on visual aspects of the terror associated with aerial bombardment as part of a campaign against a war in Iraq.

1/30/03 World tells leaders on warpath to hold on

1/30/03 The Crusade to Baghdad

1/30/03 “Al-Hayat”: Russian, Lebanese companies sign major diamond deal That's got to make Israel nervous.

1/30/03 War set to start on Feb. 22, and of Haij?

1/30/03 K.N.O.W. responds to president's State of the Union address

1/30/03 Ads rushing out of Limbaugh show? KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! NOBODY CALLS PEACE ACTIVISTS "ANTI-AMERICAN" WITH IMPUNITY!

1/30/03 LIST OF LIMBAUGH SPONSORS TO CALL!

1/30/03 Powell to bring photos to U.N. Like those photos of Iraqi troops on the border of Saudi Arabia that turned out to be fakes?

1/30/03 This time I'm scared "in the final days before the war started on January 9, the Pentagon insisted that not only was Saddam Hussein not withdrawing from Kuwait - he was - but that he had 265,000 troops poised in the desert to pounce on Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon claimed to have satellite photographs to prove it. Thus, the waverers and anti-war protesters were silenced. "We now know from declassified documents and satellite photographs taken by a Russian commercial satellite that there were no Iraqi troops poised to attack Saudi. At the time, no one bothered to ask for proof. "No one except Jean Heller, a five-times nominated Pulitzer prize-winning journalist from the St Petersburg Times in Florida, who persuaded her bosses to buy two photos at $1,600 each from the Russian commercial satellite, the Soyuz Karta. Guess what? No massing troops. "You could see the planes sitting wing tip to wing tip in Riyadh airport," Ms Heller says, "but there wasn't was any sign of a quarter of a million Iraqi troops sitting in the middle of the desert."

1/30/03 In war, some facts less factual

1/30/03 Bush Iraq Evidence Lies

1/30/03 Sharon’s Qaeda

1/30/03 Government Policy and False Prosperity : “Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.” The big lie of capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That is false. Capitalism works only if there is a wealth differential. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of people are intentionally kept poor enough to be forced to take the thousands of menial, distasteful, and dangerous jobs without which society cannot operate. If everyone were millionaires, there would be nobody willing to take out the trash, repair the sewers, or bury the dead. In a capitalist society, a key function of the government is to absorb increases in productivity (with taxes, manufactured debt, and gratuitous regulatory compliance) so that the general population continues to earn only what it needs to live on.

1/30/03 Bush’s State of the Union speech: the war fever of a ruling elite in crisis

1/30/03 10,000 march and rally in Pittsburgh against Iraq war

1/30/03 "Countdown to February 22"

1/30/03 Yes, That Really Was the President of the United States

1/30/03 Stop. Think. Listen Stop the rush to war. Think of the consequences. Listen to reason

1/30/03 Bush to Create Terrorist Threat Integration Center I guess he's worried we don't believe there is a terrorist threat.

1/30/03 WELCOME TO AMERISRAELISTAN - Observations on the transformation of American Democracy into the prospects for Hell The Zionification of America continues

1/30/03 NO Evidence of Iraqi Weapons UNTIL After War FIRST WAR THEN EVIDENCE: I wonder if we're going to get the 'lampshades and soap made out of Kurdish skin" hoax.

1/30/03 Los Angeles City Council Sides With Police Proposal to Ignore Unverified Burglar Alarms Hear that, LA burglars? Open season!

1/30/03 Why an attack now would be so very dangerous

1/30/03 Beware Bush's nuclear option

1/30/03 All Bush wants is Iraqi oil, says Mandela

1/30/03 Dollar driven down by war fears That means that the debts held by foreign interests just became harder to pay off.

1/30/03 Coming soon to a peace protest near you.

1/30/03 W pushes war, but people push back Whoever pushes next to last, loses.

1/30/03 Iraq Paper: Bush Speech 'Hollywood Farce' Hollywood would have been more convincing. Come to think of it, if a real expert had handled the Vince Foster cover-up, I probably wouldn't be here! :)

1/30/03 International Support Scarce for Iraq War Bush, Blair, Howard, and Sharon want this war. Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? Hello?

1/30/03 Israeli Troops, Tanks Sweep Across Hebron You're paying for this slaughter. And you're going to go on paying for it because the US Government is more worried about what Israel wants than what you want.

1/30/03 Wondrous proof!

1/30/03 Beating around the Bush "In fact, according to Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Leading Republicans across the country received White House memos designed to guide their interviews with reporters after Bush's speech. The GOP officials were told to promote Bush's plans for the economy, jobs, health care `compassionate' faith-based community services and, lastly, Iraq.'' Also on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Junior himself was meeting with two (unnamed) newspaper columnists and then lunching with '11 anchors of network evening news and Sunday shows.' " Another good one from Antonia

1/30/03 Editorial: Bush's weak case for war on Iraq

1/30/03 White House cancels poetry reading "There once was a doofus named dubya, who started a war and ...."

1/30/03 Key powers not swayed by Bush

1/30/03 Protesters Tell Bush, 'We're Not Buying It' In fact I want my money back!

1/30/03 Gladiators In my version, they use chain saws.

1/30/03 My government reads Unknown News, just like I do!

1/30/03 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - King Charles beheaded for conspiring against his own people. Sometimes, the old methods are the best!

1/30/03 Jordan will allow search and rescue missions from its bases.

1/30/03 US Donates f-16s to Jordan You paid for them.

1/30/03 Oil is the reason for war

1/30/03 Israel stages massive Hebron raid

1/30/03 US Forces Will Use Controversial Banned Ammo This is worth a repeat because any use of fragmentation rounds is a war crime.

1/30/03 University rule change sought after Israel row Once again, criticism of Israel is to be made a punishable offense

1/30/03 WEBLOG FROM AN AMERICAN IN BAGHDAD

1/30/03 The Iraq Peace Team Group bringing medical supplies into Iraq and documenting the effects of the sanctions.

1/30/03 Group kicks off Israel divestment drive Freedom means deciding who and who not you want to do business with.

1/30/03 'As far as I'm concerned Bush declared war' "It sounds like he's not listening to anyone. He just wants a war." Without a war, the US Government will soon go out of business.

1/30/03 Report blames Israel for Palestinian hell

1/30/03 Concrete Evidence of Israeli Apartheid The smooth straight road is Jews-only. Everyone else has to use the older winding road or get shot.

1/30/03 ''Who leaked Iraq's arms declaration?''

1/30/03 Israel demolish four Palestinian homes, kills 13 Palestinians in al-Zeitoun quarters A Palestinian medical source said yesterday that one Palestinian died of his wounds he had since last Sunday in the "massacre" committed by the Israeli forces in Gaza. The medical source said that Munir Abdul Hey Mursi ( 26 year old) died yesterday morning at the hospital after he was shot in the head. With the death of Mursi, the number of Palestinians who died in the Israeli operation in Gaza increased to 13 together with wounding 65 Palestinians, six of them in critical conditions.

1/30/03 CIA Wins Control of Terrorist Data Mining Program Great, the Bozos who lied to Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs get control of the project.

1/30/03 The president didn't address state of union

1/30/03 Graham: Show me evidence I'll trade you for the name of that foreign power that aided the 9-11 attacks, that we're not supposed to know about for 20-30 years.

1/30/03 UN Security council 11-15 for more time for inspections.

1/30/03 Schröder Remains Opposed To War On Iraq I predict a "terrorist" attack in Germany to change his mind.

1/30/03 Russia: Unaware of Iraq Links with Al Qaeda

1/30/03 Bush, Berlusconi to Discuss Iraq Interesting timing, since Berlusconi is under pressure to step down over his corruption trial. Will Berlusconi be saved (and US access to Italian bases guaranteed) by a "terrorist" attack?

1/30/03 Iraqi warheads test negative for chemical agents No weapon of mass destruction here!

1/30/03 IAEA's Elbaradei says Iraq NOT in 'Material Breach' Bush: They are TOO!

1/30/03 US Will Announce Iraq War In 3 Weeks

1/30/03 Japan: IAEA Says Missing Japanese Plutonium Is Safe I have a real problem with this story. Either the plutonium is there or it isn't and this is a huge mass, 206 Kg (about 453 pounds). And we are supposed to accept that by using a different scale, the missing amount was accounted for. This story sounds strangely like the US MUFF (Material Unaccounted For) scandal which was explained away as accumulation in the plumbing of the refining system. Then years later we discovered that the missing material was inside Israel's first generation of nuclear weapons.

1/30/03 Upcoming Anti-War Activities!

1/30/03 Lake Street anti-war rally draws large crowd

1/30/03 COLORADO POLICE ATTACK PEACE DEMONSTRATORS WITH PEPPER SPRAY!

1/30/03 Threat Assessment: Officials Warn of Terrorist Attacks in Europe ...targeting those nations not supporting Bush's war, of course.

1/30/03 The Hard Cell in the Eternal City Third article down. FWIW, while Christians were persecuted in many places in ancient Rome, there is no archaeological evidence that they were fed to the lions in the Coliseum itself. The story appears to have been created to justify the appropriation of building materials from the ruins for use in building the Vatican.

1/30/03 Phantom Flight From Florida The twin-engine Lear jet streaked into the afternoon sky, leaving Tampa behind but revealing a glimpse of international intrigue in the aftermath of terrorist attacks on America. The federal government says the flight never took place. But the two armed bodyguards hired to chaperon their clients out of the state recall the 100-minute trip Sept. 13 quite vividly.

1/30/03 Anti-war protest ban is "stupid" 500,000 anti-war protestors will descend on London February 15th. Blair doesn't want to look at them and is slamming the gates on Hyde Park. Clearly, a confrontation must result.

1/30/03 Anti-War Protesters to Rally With 'Millions' OKAY FOLKS, MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW. LET US SEND THE CHICKENHAWKS A "VALENTINE" THEY CANNOT IGNORE! By making THIS protest twice the size of the last one, you can and will send a message that the Peace Movement is NOT GOING AWAY. The pro-war faction is trying to pretend that the Peace Movement is a passing fad, that you will get tired, that you will give up hope, that you will quit. YOU CAN PROVE THEM ALL WRONG on February 15th! The people of the world are about to do something that has never before happened, stand up together in unity and tell their rulers to call off a war! BE THERE or spend the rest of your life explaining why!

1/30/03 Bush Wants Drug Addicts to Pray They do, for a cheaper supplier!

1/30/03 9-Digit 'Social' Overused as ID

1/30/03 Few Clues in Web Worm Whodunit - Leading experts on Internet security are skeptical that the FBI and other investigators will be able to track down whoever was responsible for last weekend's attack on the Internet. Hackers in uniform?

1/30/03 Trinidadian Islamic group threatens to use chemical and biological weapons Set-up.

1/30/03 The reasons may have more to do with organizational rivalries than with high moral principle, but it is nonetheless gratifying to see the growing Jewish opposition to the Holocaust mercenaries.

1/30/03 FEMA CAMPS/MARTIAL LAW

1/30/03 Only last September, Cruise and Spielberg backed Bush. But not any more!

1/30/03 Jobless Claims Rise in Latest Week

1/30/03 NOT IN OUR NAME More than 160,000 people have signed the Mirror's anti-war petition, with letters, faxes, emails and text messages continuing to flood into our offices.

1/30/03 Plan to assassinate the President of oil workers' union I smell CIA working to bring more oil under US control

1/30/03 Black Box Voting How US elections are stolen!

1/30/03 U.S. CHUCK HAGEL NOW ADMITS OWNERSHIP IN VOTING MACHINE COMPANY - SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE DIRECTOR RESIGNS

1/30/03 The LIBERTY HOUR Broadcast File Links

1/30/03 Balkanizing the World

1/29/2003

ANTI-WAR IS NOT ANTI-AMERICAN 

A note of thanks.

I am trying to be low-key about the donations issue and ad sales. But I felt I needed to send a special thanks to all those people who have been donating. The funds coming in are going to help turn this web site into a far more powerful resource for those who, like me, refuse to live with a government that lies to the people, and those who, again like me, are dedicated to stopping the war. Thanks for being a part of the magic.

1/29/03 Newspaper Editorials Turn Against War

1/29/03 U.S. Fails to Sway U.N. Council on Iraq

1/29/03 Interdependent Bankruptcy

1/29/03 WHY I AM OPPOSED TO A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT I originally wrote this a few years ago. In light of the above article I think it's worth another look, especially the 10th paragraph.

1/29/03 Myers confirms U.S. troops in north Iraq

1/29/03 AOL Time Warner Posts 2002 Loss of Nearly $100 Billion AOL Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, on Wednesday posted a loss for all of 2002 of nearly $100 billion, the largest annual loss in U.S. history. 

1/29/03 No One To Tell - FBI whistle blower gets turned away

1/29/03 "And the horse you rode in on" I always wondered how the horse felt about that.

1/29/03 A.N.S.W.E.R. JANUARY 29 PROTESTS

1/29/03 A.N.S.W.E.R.'s response to Bush's State of the Union address: COORDINATED PROTESTS SET in 100+ CITIES--JAN. 29 Emergency Response to February 5 declaration of war

1/29/03 Anti-war crowd reacts in anger Sometimes, anger is the appropriate reaction.

1/29/03 Quick, Form the Box Office It seems the incident with the taped-over "Made in China" may be a Federal Offense.

1/29/03 Iraq: U.S. has no evidence

1/29/03 Iraq rejects al-Qaeda links

1/29/03 FBI'S COINTELPRO

"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain."--John F. Kennedy

1/29/03 'Cloned baby' hiding out. ... in Israel.

1/29/03 Iran outraged by Bush speech

1/29/03 The real state of the union

1/29/03 Bush Iraq Evidence Lies

1/29/03 2,000 gather at Orpheum to protest war on Iraq

1/29/03 Blair: North Korea is next Help yourself, Tony. Here's some Kimchee and a Foder's Guide to help you on your way!

1/29/03 Valley nuns to serve time over protest - Two sisters to spend three months in prison for incident in Georgia

1/29/03 Students square off over speaker Note Pipes' claim that not agreeing with his views is "extremist".

1/29/03 Hundreds of US troops locked in fiercest Afghan battle for nearly a year Remember when Bush claimed the war in Afghanistan would be a quick one? And now he is making the same claim about Iraq?

1/29/03 Cleveland City Council unanimously passes anti-war resolution

1/29/03 Verdict against gun maker quashed More people are killed with baseball bats than with machine guns in the US. Does it make sense to sue the baseball bat manufacturer for the crime committed by someone using their product?

1/29/03 US FORCES IN GULF USING BANNED FRAGMENTATION AMMO! Called "MK-211 Raufoss," the projectiles reportedly are designed for improved armor penetration and are best known for both fragmentation and incendiary effects. The bullets have been produced by Nammo, formerly Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikk, a market leader in the field. Johs Norheim, head of business development for Nammo, confirmed to Norwegian newspaper Nationen Tuesday that the company has sold MK-211 to the American military, but he declined to reveal details. Documents from the American defense department indicate the US Army budgeted around NOK 70 million (USD 10 million) for MK-211 purchasing over the past six years.

1/29/03 ''Blowing the U.N. a goodbye kiss''

1/29/03 Figaro And The Maestros

1/29/03 Alan Goldspan? Seemingly out of the blue, the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman is hinting at a return to the gold standard. If so, currency markets are in for a shock.

1/29/03 Treasury nominee: Deficits not worrying They are to those of us whose children will be enslaved to those debts.

1/29/03 US refuses to rule out its ultimate weapon

1/29/03 Big Oil pushes the White House for a war with Iraq

1/29/03 Crowd gathers in support of peace

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1/29/03 Blix report to the UN: diplomatic charade masks US imperialist war aims The report delivered Monday by chief weapons inspector Hans Blix to the United Nations Security Council was clearly crafted to placate the Bush administration and provide a measure of grist to its war mill. Blix was unable to produce a single piece of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, but nevertheless indicted Baghdad for failing to comply fully with last November’s Security Council resolution.

1/29/03 Britain: Police raid on mosque aimed at intimidating immigrants Germany: Gestapo raid on synagogue aimed at intimidating immigrants. See how it reads now?

1/29/03 ''U.S. unilateralism a threat to world peace''

1/29/03 A Pyrrhic victory A little bit of advice to Sharon's most loyal friends, advisers and supporters: Don't brag, don't dance on the rooftops, don't drink too much champagne. The election exercise could yet turn out to be Sharon's Pyrrhic victory. For those who don't know, the Greek King Epirus, beat the Romans but lost his army, and in the third century BCE, coined the phrase "another victory like this and we're lost."

1/29/03 S. Korean Envoy Unable to Meet With Kim

1/29/03 NINETEEN civilian American aircraft have transported weapons through Shannon Airport in the past week alone. Wasn't Bush screaming about Saddam hiding his weapons behind civilian cover?

1/29/03 Bush Rhetoric on Iraq Divides Congress

1/29/03 Ithaca (NY) Officials to Denounce PATRIOT Act

1/29/03 Blair Says He Knows of Iraq Links with Al Qaeda And THIS time, he really, REALLY means it!

1/29/03 It seems we are meant to believe that the children of Iraq somehow deserve their fate, writes Carmen Lawrence.

1/29/03 Iraq is in 'material breach' of resolution, says Straw NO WEAPONS, NO BREACH. PUT UP OR SHUT UP, PEOPLE.

1/29/03 Prevent 'catastrophe' over Iraq, pleads EU

1/29/03 The "Other" State Of The Union

1/29/03 Bush league has tin ear for other voices

1/29/03 Locals aren’t convinced war is needed The same is true here. I haven't met a single person around here who favors the war, although a great many think it is inevitable. I don't know where the mainstream media is getting all these people their polls claim support the war but my recommendation is to take everyone who answers a poll question that they support the war and hand them a rifle, ship them to the Mideast, and let us SEE just how much they really support this war. Because I note that the people most vocally in support of the war appear to be avoiding having to fight in it themselves.

1/29/03 Ari & I Ohh, Ari, you are so *ucking funny! Iraq invaded Kuwait with US blessing because Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields. The invasions of Saudi Arabia and the missile lobs at Israel happened AFTER Saddam realized he had been set up and double crossed by the US. The bottom line is Saddam is what the US government made him and if you think he needs to be dealt with then take off that microphone, and go do it yourself. Because the longer you stand there in the protected safety of the White House insisting OTHER people have to go fight your war, the more obvious it is you are a hypocrite.

1/29/03 Grate of the Onion Regress I guess Bush forgot the part about burning the heretics at the stake.

1/29/03 Analysts: No evidence of Iraq, al-Qaida cooperation "President Bush invoked a grim and powerful image in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, asking Americans to imagine what would have happened if the Sept. 11 hijackers had been armed with poison gas or germs." "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

1/29/03 Congressional analysts see deficits of $199 billion this year, $145 billion 2004 But we have plenty of cash to send to Israel, and to pay for a war, right?

1/29/03 Bush listens to campaign contributions, not public opinion Government by eBay?

1/29/03 A presidency at the brink "Will a war once again bail out a faltering presidency? " No.

1/29/03 America's dangerous new style of war And North Korea is copying it. Claiming the US is planning an attack, North Korea just declared its right to defend itself via pre-emptive attack, citing the US as the precedent.

1/29/03 American Accused of Trying to Get Missiles for Al-Qaida Claims FBI Framed Him Oh come ON now, the FBI would never, ever, EVER, do a thing like that! (Would they?)

1/29/03 Reading between Bush's lips - The most striking aspect of President Bush's State of the Union speech was what he didn't say -- that runaway budget deficits could plunge the United States into a fiscal black hole from which we'll be clawing our way out for years to come. Actually, the US Government is already in a fiscal hole that nobody can slaw their way out of.

1/29/03 Dollar driven lower by Bush's speech. The orchid by the TV is looking pretty sick this morning, too.

1/29/03 Bush speech deepens war doubts When it comes right down to it, no weapons, no breach. Period, end of discussion.

1/29/03 Comcast refuses anti-war ads during State of Union

1/29/03 Bay Area skeptics find Bush's case on war unconvincing

1/29/03 Beware the Ides of March

1/29/03 NEW GUN BILL IN CONGRESS: MORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLAPTRAP Congress needs a good clap in their trap!

1/29/03 9/11 Commission Meets Behind Closed Doors There's your first clue.

1/29/03 Widely used police interrogation technique can result in false confession "All I know is for hours on end I said 'No, I had nothing to do with it.' Next thing you know I'm sitting here going 'Sure, why not. I did it.'

1/29/03 US Army gave chem-bio warfare training to Iraqis BOMB 'EM, BOMB 'EM, BOMB 'EM! No, wait, they're our guys, right? Never mind.

1/29/03 Bribe to Turkey now raised to $4 billion Okay, cancel the new hospital.

1/29/03 Mr. President, get real!

1/29/03 Iraq sheltering al-Qaeda says UK Show them to us, Tony. Otherwise, shut up.

1/29/03 Supporting terrorism

1/29/03 Steven Spielberg comes out against the war! Way to go STEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A photo of Steven and I in happier days when making movies was all either of us had to worry about. (Yes, that is a polyester leisure suit; I was young, innocent, and tasteless back then.)

1/29/03 Sharon set to ignore Bush's peace roadmap Sharon: "I won't take Sh*t from Colin!!"

1/29/03 PILGER: BLAIR IS A COWARD I look at Blair and Bush and I am reminded of the movie Shrek, in which Lord Farquaad of Duloc (John Lithgow) states that some of his knights may die fighting the dragon, but it is a sacrifice that he (Lord Farquaad of Duloc) is willing to make.

1/29/03 Hunt for 1,200 Britons who trained with al-Qa'eda

1/29/03 The one place where Bush is welcome to start a war!

1/29/03 Iraq war will be good for Israel Then let Israel fight it.

1/29/03 Russia U-turn could signal backing for Iraq invasion

1/29/03 U.S. Says 15,718 More Reserve Troops Called Up

1/29/03 Kennedy Wants Bush to Give Congress Iraq 'Evidence'

1/29/03 Kennedy to seek new measure on war with Iraq - 'Much has changed' since Congress authorized force, he says

1/29/03 Peace rally ban 'could spark riot'

1/29/03 READER PHOTOS FROM AUSTIN PROTEST

1/28/2003

WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FROM WAR? 

Mr. Bush, it's pronounced "new-clee-ar", not "nuc-u-lar". Nobody is going to take you seriously about Iraq's mythical nuclear threat when you can't even say the word correctly. Look at how the word is spelled, "Nuclear". The 'c' is followed immediately by the 'l'. There is no vowel 'u' between them. You make the whole nation look bad when you do that. The world is laughing at you! We need to have a Constitutionally mandated IQ and literacy test for high office!

Now, with regard to your claim that Iraq is estimated to have such and such weapons, even though nobody can find them, I would like to remind you that it was the official position of the US Government, as reported on PBS and other media, that "Gulf War Syndrome" was triggered NOT by the various injections given to the US soldiers but by being downwind of bombed Iraqi biological weapons storage facilities. Now, unless you have an exact count of what was in those bombed facilities, then it is impossible for the UN to have an accurate estimate of what Iraq has or does not have, even though the US did supply most of that original material. Of course, if you want to come clean and admit that Gulf War Syndrome wasn't caused by being downwind of bombed Iraqi weapons storage depots, that's another matter. But you can't have it both ways. You can't claim that bombing an unknown and unknowable number of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons caused Gulf War Syndrome, then turn around years later and claim to have an accurate count of weapons Iraq is supposed to have.

Finally, with regard to Hydrogen. The Hydrogen/Oxygen fuel cell is not an energy source, it is an energy storage device, like a battery. The production of pure Hydrogen and its cryogenic storage USES energy. Where does that energy come from? Right now, from fossil fuels and nuclear ("new-clee-ar") power. Hydrogen sounds good, but it isn't less polluting; the pollution is simply spewed out somewhere else. It doesn't create power, it simply stores it.

1/28/03 Source of Pentagon Papers Critiques Iraq Coverage "[O]ut of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government; you can't believe what they say; and you can't rely on their judgment. And the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the president wants to do even though it's wrong, and the president can be wrong." -- Donald Rumsfeld, discussing The Pentagon Papers with H.R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff (and, later, convicted felon).

1/28/03 International Paper Announces Mill Closure

1/28/03 Hypocrisy About Biological Weapons

1/28/03 Response to the State Of The Union

1/28/03 Evidence is scant and some policy nuances are lost in Bush speech

1/28/03 Kennedy seeks to force Bush to show 'evidence'

1/28/03 Newspaper Editorials Turn Against War

1/28/03 Nuclear report on Iraq challenges U.S. rationale

1/28/03 Japan 'loses' 206kg of plutonium

1/28/03 Number of manufacturing layoffs keeps climbing in Minnesota Worst slump since 1969

1/28/03 A Timeline of CIA Atrocities Why is the world in such a mess?

1/28/03 Blair may slow, but not stop Bush at Iraq 'wear council'

1/28/03 Lieberman Says Bush Too Cautious 'I will stand with him at the critical moment to reduce the threat the Iraqi regime poses to the safety of the world,' he said." Okay, Joe. Here's a rifle, a parachute, and a plane ticket. Nice knowing you.

1/28/03 ‘Heavy blow’ to peace as Sharon sweeps polls One of two cases applies. Either the Israeli people support genocide and corruption, or Israel's elections are as crooked as America's.

1/28/03 DYER: America's Reasons for Pressing War With Iraq Don't Make Sense

1/28/03 EarthLink to Cut 25 Pct. of Work Force

1/28/03 Cartoon in UK paper draws Israeli protest If the shoe fits, Ariel...

1/28/03 The State Of The Union Drinking Game Thish wash funee.

1/28/03 ANTI-WAR MEASURE PROMPTS HEARTY DEBATE

1/28/03 Comcast refuses anti-war ads during State of Union Freedom of speech? What's that?

1/28/03 The United States has gone war-mad

1/28/03 Records from fallout from 1950s nuclear tests I am old enough to recall being kept indoors at school because of radioactive fallout from a Nevada test. If the US does indeed go ahead and use nuclear weapons in Iraq, the rest of the Arab nations will feel the after-effects

1/28/03 6 anti-war protesters spurn deals, face trial

1/28/03 Urbana council supports anti-war position

1/28/03 Nuns sentenced for trespassing during protest They can't arrest us all, you know.

1/28/03 Anti-war message delivered to Graham

1/28/03 US to Invade Iraq for Radical JINSA Zionism and Oil

1/28/03 Unable to get at Al-Qaeda, America goes after Iraq instead Iraq was the target all along. Al Qaeda is the manufactured excuse.

1/28/03 Iraq to lead UN disarmament body Now, about those 400 nukes Israel has...

1/28/03 Mayor Street: Thousands of City Job Cuts Coming Philadelphia is broke!

1/28/03 Where are all the protest songs? Clear Channel has "suggested" they not be played.

1/28/03 Poland's Holocaust The victims you were supposed to forget. Read this site carefully.

1/28/03 Opposition to War Can't Be Labeled

1/28/03 Joe Farah tries to justify the war - "Iraq is a target because Iraq has attacked the U.S. Iraq attacked the U.S. through its surrogates in al-Qaida. There is evidence it attacked the U.S. before that – in Oklahoma City, possibly off Long Island Sound in the downing of TWA Flight 800 and probably in the first World Trade Center bombing. " And Elvis. Iraq killed Elvis, too. Don't forget that. And there is substantial evidence that Jack the Ripper was an Iraqi.

1/28/03 Involuntary Transfer = Ethnic Cleansing

1/28/03 Experts said the Iraqi leader is already preparing to launch deadly chemical attacks on British troops if they invade. You were expecting roses?

1/28/03 Academics slam pro-Israeli speech at York U.

1/28/03 Unjustifiable warfare: Where does the evil lie?

1/28/03 Pro-Israelis Have Revised Recent Middle East History "So far no one has suggested that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by tidal waves or the Dresden fire storm was caused by German kids playing with matches. That's why it was irksome to watch Ariel Sharon, with a few well-chosen friends, attempt, in an American courtroom, to revise recent Middle Eastern history. "

1/28/03 PROTEST TOMORROW IN DALLAS!

1/28/03 Kurds play precarious role in northern Iraq

1/28/03 Saddam's Bodyguard Reveals Secret Arsenal Note that this man and his family were smuggled out of Iraq, given new identities and who knows how much money by the 'By way of deception' people, and we're supposed to believe this man over the UN inspectors?

1/28/03 Embattled Bush now faces trouble on many fronts Nobody likes a dumb bully.

1/28/03 UPDATE ON RUSH LIMBAUGH BOYCOTT! More advertisers desert!

1/28/03 I2 Technologies Reports SEC Probe

1/28/03 Protesters take message to US Embassy

1/28/03 9/11 Commission Meets, Chooses Director 16 months after the crime. I'm impressed!

1/28/03 FBI 'seeks 3,000 missing Iraqis'

1/28/03 Resettling Iraqi POWs in U.S. Criticized; Lawmakers Urge Clinton to End 'Potentially Dangerous' Oh, THOSE Iraqis!

How can the same government that can track you down for an unpaid parking ticket "lose" 3000 Iraqis?

1/28/03 Israel voter turnout lowest in years. I'm sure Sharon will be glad to fill out absentee ballots for those who couldn't show up.

1/28/03 Peace rally in Delmar

1/28/03 Iraqi Adviser Criticizes U.N. Report A senior Iraqi official insisted Tuesday that Iraq holds no banned weapons and said that U.N. inspectors' reports critical of Baghdad's cooperation was not a ``proportional representation'' of the facts. ``I would like first of all to say Iraq has been free of any weapons of mass destruction since the end of 1991 and all the inspections ... have proven this fact,'' Gen. Amir Rashid told reporters.

1/28/03 Win Without War TV Spot

1/28/03 Shalom: Iraq war will be good for Israel Then Israel should fight it.

1/28/03 20 arrested in Denver anti-war protest

“The only difference between Saddam Hussain and George Bush (Jr, & Sr) or any other world leader for that matter, is that they have had less marketing dollars spent exposing THEIR misdeeds.”-WRH reader

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?

The above image is a scan of a piece of Trinitite. This is desert sand that was underneath the explosion of the world's first Atomic bomb. The heat from that blast melted the sand into a green glass, not unlike the Fulgurites that result when lightning hits sandy soil.

Now, imagine an entire nation looking like the above sample, melted into green glass. It's not a fantasy. The US spent $5 trillion dollars building a nuclear deterrent capability that can actually do it, melt an attacking nation into green glass. The USSR knew it, the world knows it, Saddam knows it.

Even if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and even if Iraq had the long range ICBMs to reach across the Atlantic with, Iraq would still not be a threat to the US because any attack with a weapon of mass destruction would be national suicide.

Those that insist that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are a threat that justifies invasion are in essence claiming that the US Government took $5 trillion of your money (over $17,000 from each of you alive today) in a gigantic swindle, because the $5 trillion nuclear deterrent isn't a deterrent after all, that it doesn't work, that nobody is really afraid of it, because they all know it was just a hoax to soak the American taxpayer for another several thousand dollars. Was it all a hoax, Mr. Bush? Did the American people foot a $5 trillion bill for a deterrent system that isn't really a deterrent?

Either the deterrent works or it does not. If it doesn't, then the American taxpayers have been defrauded on a grand scale. But if the nuclear deterrent does work, then Iraq can have all the weapons of mass destruction they want, they just won't dare use them. Maybe they can put them in a museum or something. But they won't dare use them against the United States because they don't want to end up like that piece of green glass at the top of this article. There is no need to invade over the issue of weapons of mass destruction. There never was.

Of course, the issue has shifted. The UN inspectors have found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. They found some documents ABOUT weapons of mass destruction, but documents are not a weapon of mass destruction (with the sole exception of the 1040 form). The UN inspectors found a bunch of old empty artillery warheads from 1988, but empty warheads are not a weapon of mass destruction, and tests show that these empties were never weapons. Soil samples have tested negative for chemicals or radioactivity indicating weapons development. Iraq has allowed the inspectors to pretty much go everywhere they want without hindrance, even into Saddam's home. Imagine the KGB demanding and getting permission to peek into every closet and drawer in the White House and you will get an idea of just how much Iraq is cooperating. The CIA gave the UN inspectors a list of sites they were convinced had weapons of mass destruction. Nothing.

But Bush still wants his invasion, and since there are no weapons of mass destruction to scare the public into supporting a war of conquest, the issue is changing. Saddam may be cooperating, but he isn't cooperating ENOUGH (as defined by the US). And horror of horrors, Saddam might actually still be ever so slightly resentful of the way he is being bullied around by the US Government. He's only a head of state, why should HE feel insulted by the intrusions into his nation and his home, right?

So, today, Bush and his buddies are trying to spin resentment and a failure to cooperate more than Saddam already has into a reason to invade Iraq and, as the US already admits it plans to do, grab the oil wells.

This plan proves that the oil is the real goal, because if weapons of mass destruction were the real issue, then there would be no need to risk American lives invading Iraq. If Iraq were to have a weapon of mass destruction and use it against the US, the US could just stand back and turn the entire nation into green glass just like that at the top of this article. That's what we all paid that $5 trillion for. And unless the US Government wants to admit that $5 trillion nuclear deterrent is a hoax, then we should use it as it was intended to be used, to deter an attack without having to invade a foreign attacker.

1/28/03 Israel To Pursue Arafat Siege Despite UN Resolution This is an older story but relevant today in that Bush is trying to start a war against Iraq for "not cooperating enough" with a UN Resolution, while Israel (which actually HAS weapons of mass destruction) flagrantly defies UN Resolution after UN Resolution.

1/28/03 Minister rips 'evil' U.S. leadership

1/28/03 Caveat Preemptor! Until last week many Americans were inclined to take your top aides at their word that the looming war with Iraq is not about oil or vengeance but rather about Iraq's "continuing pursuit of "weapons of mass destruction." Now all but the most unquestioning loyalists are having serious second thoughts.

1/28/03 The U.S. Is Looking for an Excuse To Fight

1/28/03 President Bush will use his nationally televised State of the Union address tonight to accuse Saddam Hussein of providing chemical weapons training to al-Qaida terrorists, the White House said. Just like the US provided to Saddam!

1/28/03 U.S. Considers Launching Nuclear Attack Against Iraq

1/28/03 Countries unite to say no to war

1/28/03 Falling support for Iraq attacks

1/28/03 Anti-war protest at Halliburton Offices

1/28/03 Thousands protest 'butcher' Bush in Damascus

1/28/03 17 anti-wear protestors arrested at UN

1/28/03 Prior Knowledge of Sept. 11 Not Just Urban Legend "After federal agents questioned DiLorenzo, police detectives questioned her fourth-period class to see if anyone else had heard the boy's comments. Once the detectives were finished, the boy and his brother forcibly were taken to the 62nd Precinct headquarters, where two investigators with the FBI-JTTF questioned them for several hours. Their father, who was in Israel at the time of the attacks, was scheduled to fly home Sept. 11 on a commercial airliner, but he was delayed when all flights to the United States were grounded. " "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

1/28/03 The 9-11 Prior Knowledge Archive"

1/28/03 Congress Meets Wall Street: How Big Corporate Campaign Contributors are Buying America...And What the Rest of Us Pay

1/28/03 Dekker's helicopter crashed on way to showdown over Huffman Aviation "Meanwhile it was learned that Dekker’s still-unexplained helicopter crash last Friday came while he was en-route to a Venice, FL. meeting to sign papers relinquishing control of terror flight school Huffman Aviation. Although the two events have not been linked by law enforcement, the strange timing adds another bizarre twist to the saga of the 46-year old Dutch national, who gained international prominence for running the flight school that trained both terrorist pilots who crashed into the World Trade Center."

1/28/03 Desert Caution Once 'Stormin' Norman,' Gen. Schwarzkopf Is Skeptical About U.S. Action in Iraq

1/28/03 Uncertainty about a possible war in Iraq is dripping poison into the US and world economies, paralysing capital expenditure and hiring by businesses

1/28/03 FBI wants to speak to thousands with Iraq ties "Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is considered career suicide." -- Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale

1/28/03 Bush to show direct link of Iraq, al Qaeda "There is a 'Q' in 'Iraq' and a 'Q' in 'Al Qaeda'! BOMBS AWAY!

1/28/03 Blanket hack muffles RIAA site--again

1/28/03 INSPECTORS: GIVE US MORE TIME BUSH

1/28/03 REMEMBER WHEN SADDAM WENT INTO KUWAIT? The US told him it would be okay.

1/28/03 Bush befuddled over Blix report How to justify an invasion.

1/28/03 Dept. of Homeland Security site switches to Linux from Windows 2000 Oh oh, NOW we're in trouble! :)

1/28/03 ALERT: MASS ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATION IN SAN FRANCISCO MOVED TO SUNDAY, FEB. 16

1/28/03 Iraq anti-war movement becomes a 'cause celeb' Suddenly, I'm "in" again! :)

1/28/03 Anti-war rally draws thousands

1/28/03 WE JOIN ANTI-WAR SHIP BLOCKADE

1/28/03 COURAGEOUS OR FOOLHARDY?

1/28/03 Crooks harvest bank details from Net kiosk

The above poll is quite revealing. It shows that many Americans have become convinced that the 9-11 hijackers included Iraqis, even though the official list of suspects does not include anyone from Iraq. This suggests that the belief that Iraq actually has weapons of mass destruction is equally doubtful.

1/28/03 Israel's most potent psychological weapon is the holocaust. The Zionist battle cry is "Never again!"

1/28/03 New York Times offers “friendly advice” to abort the anti-war movement

1/28/03 US faces record budget deficits, new spending cuts How can you have budget cuts and record deficits at the same time? Because MOST of the tax money is going to pay off the debts run up by the US Government accumulating from before you had the right to even vote on the issue of whether you would agree to repay the money the government was borrowing.

1/28/03 Sharon headed for election victory How do you say "Election fraud" in Hebrew?

1/28/03 How the world sees what is going on.

1/28/03 TOO MANY SMOKING GUNS TO IGNORE: ISRAEL, US JEWS, IRAQ

1/28/03 Microsoft fails Slammer's security test

1/28/03 United For Peace Events.

1/28/03 USA-Iraq: It Is an Oil War After All

1/28/03 Billions For Invading Iraq And Homelessness For Veterans

1/28/03 Another Sad Week for Federalism The most likely guilty party, the one with the means, motive and opportunity to commit such a crime is the US government, or more precisely, a shadow government within the larger entity.

1/28/03 Celebrities: No War! "But few have criticized the government as strongly as Moby. On his official Web site, the electronic pop star wrote, "The worst terrorist attack on the United States was perpetrated by people who had been trained by money that came from the United States (CIA training camps in Afghanistan) and led by a leader (Bin Laden) who comes from a family with long-standing ties to Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney. Not to mention that the Bush-appointed heads of the CIA and NSC did nothing to prevent this terrorist attack, even ignoring information that had been presented to them by their own agents."

1/27/2003

WHEN THE WARHAWKS STUMBLE IS WHEN PEACE ACTIVISTS NEED TO WORK HARDER  

1/27/03 "Shock and Awe": Guernica Revisited Bush seems determined to follow in the footsteps of Hulagu Khan and Tamerlane, the Mongol warlords who laid bloody waste to Baghdad in 1258 and 1401.

1/27/03 Short sharp war 'would lift economy' There's a reason to murder a million people.

1/27/03 An engineered crisis The desire for hegemony over the Middle East - not Iraq's weaponry or even its oil - is America's real motivation for war,

1/27/03 Israel's Apartheid Wall: we are here and they are there

1/27/03 UN risks losing relevance: Powell It's Powell who has lost relevance.

1/27/03 '20 al-Qaeda terrorists' plan attack Most Al Qaeda turn out not to be Al Qaeda. "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

1/27/03 Empty warheads and documents are not enough

1/27/03 I admit my mistakes about Israel [

1/27/03 Putin tells Blair Iraq inspectors must go on

1/27/03 YOU are Being LIED To , (BIG TIME)

1/27/03 "120 House members say: Let inspectors work" !!!

1/27/03 Israel Goes Too Far

1/27/03 US More Isolated on Iraq After Arms Experts Report

1/27/03 Asia expresses concern over U.S. rhetoric

1/27/03 UN must continue weapons inspections in Iraq: Russia

1/27/03 Japan rules out automatic support for attacks on Iraq

1/27/03 'Bush's biggest lie and dirtiest little secret'

1/27/03 FORMER UN HEADS ATTACK WAR PLANS

1/27/03 City Council Resolution Against the War - Santa Barbara

1/27/03 Editorial: U.N. inspectors weigh in "But categorical assertions that Iraq does possess contraband arms need to be documented with fact, not simply informed conjecture, especially since the inspectors have not yet found evidence of their existence. At some point, and soon, President Bush should support his case with some evidence." And the evidence better be able to withstand close examination.

1/27/03 Bush Address Won't Include New Iraq Data Imagine my shock.

1/27/03 U.S Congress may push for military draft If you're going to have to fight anyway, maybe you should get to decide your own enemies.

1/27/03 U.S. planning to release intelligence on Iraq "All the sites that the United States and the Britons alleged in their two recent reports produced weapons of mass destruction were repeatedly inspected, X-rayed, and environmental samples were taken, to make sure that nothing happened there," said Mohammed Aldouri, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations. "The result is to prove that Iraq is clear of weapons of mass destruction" at those sites.

1/27/03 Smith: Let's take Saddam's black gold "The United States should no longer buy oil from Iraq, but steal it, U.S. Sen. Bob Smith, R-Wolfeboro, told hundreds of New Hampshire Republicans gathered last night at a party fund-raiser. "Why don't we just take his oil?" Smith bellowed to the crowd during a fiery 13-minute speech, referring to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "Why buy it? Take it!"

1/27/03 Wealthy donors sent large checks in recent years to several little-known American charities that said they were financing Israeli academic studies and cultural exchanges. But more than a million dollars was instead funneled secretly into a political campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, sparking an embarrassing probe by the Israeli attorney general on the eve of Tuesday's Israeli parliamentary election.

1/27/03 Experts Track Internet Virus to Hong Kong Doesn't mean it's FROM Hong Kong, only that it was first deployed there.

1/27/03 Report: U.S. donors to Sharon allegedly violated U.S. tax law

1/27/03 Scott Laderman: In timing and in size, last weekend's antiwar protests made history Double them next week!

1/27/03 US Groups Funneled $1m To Help Sharon

1/27/03 CANADIAN JOURNALISTS TO RECEIVE B'NAI B'RITH AWARD Check out the guest speaker.

1/27/03 Wolfowitz cites reports Iraq has infiltrated UN inspections team Desperation on the cusp of madness.

"NOT COOPERATING ENOUGH" AS JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR?

  Remember back when Bush started his tirade about Iraq? Iraq, it was claimed, had weapons of mass destruction. They had nukes, they had germs, they had Anthrax (most of which the US gave Saddam in the first place).  The threat of those weapons was the justification for an unprovoked  pre-emptive invasion, unprecedented in US history. Well, it seems that nobody mentions those weapons of mass destruction any more because the UN inspectors couldn't find any. Samples of soil taken across Iraq showed no trace of radioactivity associated with nuclear weapons development (albeit there is ample radioactivity from the depleted uranium weapons the US left all over the place). The much ballyhooed chemical weapons warheads turned out to be from 1988, and were not only empty, but tests proved they had never held chemical weapons at all. An empty warhead isn't a weapon. It's a door-stop.

  The CIA finally coughed up a "secret" list of "sites of concern", and the UN inspectors quickly flew to those sites, unimpeded by the Iraqi government, and found...nothing. Nada. Zilch, Zip. Zero. 

  The UN inspectors have found nothing that is an actual component of a weapon of mass destruction. If you want a weapon of mass destruction you have to go to Israel with its 400 nuclear weapons, which from its current actions in the Gaza strip is provably a threat to other people in the Mideast. Israel, it must be noted, stands in defiance of more UN Resolutions than Iraq is. 

  However, the US isn't going to Israel because, surprise, surprise, weapons of mass destruction aren't the issue any more. The issue justifying an attack is one of cooperation! And it isn't that Iraq isn't cooperating, because Blix's report makes it clear that they are. The new war-cry is that Iraq isn't cooperating ENOUGH, that Iraq isn't volunteering to provide the UN inspectors with items they AREN'T asking for, all on the assumption that Iraq actually has something to volunteer WITH, which is unproven.

  Now, here's the problem. Even if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, they are not a threat to the USA. Iraq has no means to reach all the way across the Atlantic to North America with a nuke, even if he had one, and were he to try, the US nuclear deterrent (you know, that $5 trillion and counting monster the "be afraid of Iraq" people keep ignoring) would turn Iraq into a green glass parking lot.

  So, Iraq wasn't a threat to the US even with weapons of mass destruction. And if he was, there is no need to invade Iraq and capture the oil wells as the US has announced it intends to do. The US can destroy Iraq any time it wants to. 

  So now the issue is "not cooperating enough". Can anyone think how it is possible for Iraq's "not cooperating enough" justifies a war? In the absence of any proof of weapons of mass destruction, how "not cooperating enough" is any kind of a threat to the USA justifying invasion is a mystery. 

  The answer is, "not cooperating enough" is a desperate reach to invent a war out of thin air, because Iraq is cooperating, and the UN inspectors have found nothing that is a direct threat to the people of the United States. Therefore, there is no justification for the US to invade and grab those oil wells as the US has announced it intends to do.

 Except, of course, to grab those oil wells, as the US has announced it intends to do.

Quotes from Blix's report on Iraq.

"I turn now, Mr. President, to the key requirement of cooperation and Iraq's response to it. Cooperation might be said to relate to both substance and process. It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide cooperation on process, notably access.

"A similar decision is indispensable to provide cooperation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course.

"An initial minor step would be to adopt the long overdue legislation required by the resolutions.

"I shall deal first with cooperation on process. In this regard, it has regard to the procedures, mechanisms, infrastructure and practical arrangements to pursue inspections and seek verifiable disarmament. While the inspection is not built on the premise of confidence, but may lead to confidence if it is successful, there must nevertheless be a measure of mutual confidence from the very beginning in running the operation of inspection. Iraq has, on the whole, cooperated rather well so far with UNMOVIC in this field.

"The most important point to make is that access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect. And with one exception, it has been [without] problems. We have further had a great help in building up the infrastructure of our office in Baghdad and the field office in Mosul. Arrangements and services for our plane and our helicopters have been good.

"The environment has been workable. Our inspections have included universities, military bases, presidential sites and private residences. Inspections have also taken place on Fridays, the Muslim day of rest, on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. These inspections have been conducted in the same manner as all other inspections. We seek to be both effective and correct. "

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/27/sprj.irq.transcript.blix/index.html

The US mainstream media is trying to spin the Blix report so hard the propellers are going to fall off!

NOW IS THE TIME TO CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND THIS WAR BE STOPPED.

Congressional contact info is at www.congress.org

1/27/03 UN inspectors to issue tough report on Iraq Translation: THEY DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING! NO NUCLEAR MATERIALS FOUND. NO CHEMICAL WEAPONS FOUND. NOTHING. NADA. ZIP. ZERO. AIN'T THERE.

1/27/03 Puppet On A String: Hamas Dances To Israel’s Tune

1/27/03 Anti-War Protests to Hit Atlanta Streets

1/27/03 Job Woes worsen

1/27/03 Editor 'provided cover for spies' Another reason not to trust the media

1/27/03 US' spin: Iraq may be cooperating but they are not cooperatin