Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 21:50.
George Bush Aug. 28 told an American Legion convention: "Iran’s pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust... We will confront this danger before it is too late."
Of course nothing has escalated instability in the region like Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq, but try telling him that.
"The most important and immediate way to counter the ambitions of al-Qaeda and Iran and other forces of instability and terror is to win the fight in Iraq," he declared.
Bush said there were "unmistakable signs" that the US troop "surge" was paying off with lower levels of violence. Could have fooled us.
Shortly before Bush spoke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran and neighboring countries were ready to fill the "power vacuum" emerging in the Middle East as US power in Iraq wanes.
"You [the US] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire. You have no choice but to accept the rights of the Iraqi people," Ahmadinejad said.
"I can tell you there will be a power vacuum in the region. We are ready with other regional countries, such as Saudi Arabia, and the people of Iraq, to fill this vacuum." (YNet, London Times, Aug. 29)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Bush invokes "nuclear holocaust"
George Bush Aug. 28 told an American Legion convention: "Iran’s pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust... We will confront this danger before it is too late."
Of course nothing has escalated instability in the region like Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq, but try telling him that.
"The most important and immediate way to counter the ambitions of al-Qaeda and Iran and other forces of instability and terror is to win the fight in Iraq," he declared.
Bush said there were "unmistakable signs" that the US troop "surge" was paying off with lower levels of violence. Could have fooled us.
Shortly before Bush spoke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran and neighboring countries were ready to fill the "power vacuum" emerging in the Middle East as US power in Iraq wanes.
"You [the US] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire. You have no choice but to accept the rights of the Iraqi people," Ahmadinejad said.
"I can tell you there will be a power vacuum in the region. We are ready with other regional countries, such as Saudi Arabia, and the people of Iraq, to fill this vacuum." (YNet, London Times, Aug. 29)