More Dissent, More Censorship
A quarter of a million people jammed
the streets of the capital this
past weekend, as Mr. Bush
conveniently found himself visiting the US
Northern Command’s HQ in Colorado
Springs.
While veterans from the current
debacle in Iraq and scores of military
families who oppose the Bush Junta
joined the throngs of protestors in
Washington DC to express their
dissent, there were other goings-on
related to Iraq while Bush had his
photo-op in Colorado.
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Violence Leads Only to More
Violence
Ongoing military operations
continue unabated in Al-Anbar province. With names like ‘Operation Iron Fist’
and ‘Operation Iron Gate’ which was launched just days after ‘Iron Fist,’
thousands of US troops, backed by warplanes, tanks and helicopters, began
attacking small cities and villages primarily in the northwestern area of
Al-Anbar.
According to the US military and
corporate media, the purpose of these operations is to “root out” fighters from
al-Qaida in Iraq, along with so-called insurgents.
An Iraqi journalist writing under
the name Sabah Ali (due to concerns of retribution from US/Iraqi governmental
authorities) recently returned from the Al-Qa’im area of Iraq. Her report tells
quite a different story.
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