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Friday, April 27, 2007

Censored news

Iraq: Nine US troops dead, 20 wounded in Baqubah
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Eleven British troops have been killed this month—the highest monthly toll in four years. Australian troops, who have suffered only a handful of casualties ...
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Eleven US soldiers killed in Iraq on Monday attacks: military
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, is part of the Diyala province, in which the US military announced nine more soldiers killed and 20 others ...
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A message for today on why George Bush should be impeached, from Chris Hedges:

George Bush has shredded, violated or absented America from its obligations under international law. He has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, backed out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, tried to kill the International Criminal Court, walked out on negotiations on chemical and biological weapons and defied the Geneva Convention and human rights law in the treatment of detainees. Most egregiously, he launched an illegal war in Iraq based on fabricated evidence we now know had been discredited even before it was made public.
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A rule-based world matters. The creation of these international bodies and rules, as well as the use of our influence over the last half century to see they were followed, have allowed us to stand preeminent as a nation – one that respects and defends the rule of law. If we demolish the fragile and delicate international order, if we permit George Bush to create a world where diplomacy, broad cooperation and the law are worthless, if we allow these international legal systems to unravel, we will see our moral and political authority plummet. We will erode the possibility of cooperation between nation states, including our closest allies and see visited upon us the evils we visit on others.

From Debra Sweet