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US pushes through tough IAEA resolution targeting
Iran December 6, 2003 By Peter Symonds
After lengthy and bitter wrangling, the US administration last week forced its
European counterparts to accept an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
resolution on Iran’s nuclear industry that provides the framework for tough
punitive measures against Tehran. During the week-long negotiations, Washington
demanded that the UN Security Council be asked to consider action against Iran
for its alleged breaches of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. US officials
flatly rejected two European drafts of the IAEA resolution as being too soft and
insisted that “a trigger” for further measures be included. wsws.org
Disappointing US jobs figures drive
dollar to new low December 6, 2003 David
Teather in New York The American economy added 57,000 jobs during November
but that figure was far fewer than expected, adding to fears that the upturn is
failing to translate into significant employment growth. The jobless rate in the
US fell from 6% to 5.9%, the lowest it has been since March. November was the
fourth consecutive month of employment gains. Economists, though, had been
forecasting the creation of 150,000 jobs. The disappointing figures sent the
dollar to a new low against the euro. The single European currency was worth
$1.2144, up from $1.2066. The pound also gained, up to $1.7251, from $1.7193 To
sustain the recovery, economists reckon that between 200,000 and 300,000 new
jobs need to be created every month. guardian.co.uk
Surprise! Bush, the fake moderate, lies
again about the economy December 6, 2003 By
Jackson Thoreau Those glowing economic reports are election propaganda For
months, we've been hearing from Bush that the economy is turning around, that
Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy are creating jobs, that the recession was all
the fault of Clinton and then Sept. 11, 2001. It's campaign 2004 time, time for
Bush to act like a moderate. It's time for Bush to feed us some more horse
manure. It's time for me to upchuck. opednews.com
U.S. takes aim at cheaper drugs
December 6, 2003 LUKE ERIC PETERSON Forget about the liquor cabinet. It
might be time to slap a lock on the medicine cabinet. Recently the U.S. Congress
voted to approve a subsidy program that will help its senior citizens cope with
rising prescription drug bills. But Congress refused to go down the road traveled
by most other Western governments: using price caps to rein in spiraling drug costs. The bill, which President George Bush will sign into law
Monday, forbids the government from using its purchasing power to negotiate
better prices with the pharmaceutical industry. It also requires a study to be
undertaken of price controls used in other countries that may hinder the
profitability of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies. thestar.com
"Americans are being scammed"
December 6, 2003 - former 9-11 Commissioner Max
Cleland on CNN's Newsnight, Nov. 13, 2003 Referring to the Bush
Administration's efforts to obstruct the 9-11 Commission's access to critical
documents, former 9-11 Commissioner Max Cleland called them
"disgusting" and "a scam." "Americans are being
scammed," Cleland declared on CNN. President Bush has been trying to
prevent a full investigation of 9-11 for two years now. Only due to the courage
of the 9-11 family members has an official investigation begun, which is still
being thwarted by the Bush Administration's refusal to release critical
documents. The 9-11 Commission is a bi-partisan Commission created by Democrats
and Republicans in Congress to investigate the unprecedented intelligence and
air defense failures of 9-11. Bush's obstruction of this commission is an
outrage and a scandal. Demand the truth! Get
involved today in the 9-11 Truth movement! septembereleventh.org
Global Eye -- Blood Kin
December 6, 2003 Chris Floyd Imagine these banner
headlines, circa, say, 1998: President's Brother in Biz With Red Chinese!
President's Brother Beds Prostitutes as Corporate Perk! President's Brother
Hip-Deep in War Profiteering: The More Blood His White House Sibling Spills, the
Fatter the Family Coffers! oo-boy! There would've been a hot time in the old
media town with all that, eh? Wall-to-wall coverage, 24/7, Fox News frothing,
Washington Post pounding, tabloids screaming -- "Oval Evil: Reds, Beds and
Milking the Dead!" Earnest clucking in the halls of Congress: "We must
get to the bottom of these unsavory connections." But of course, that was
another millennium. In our new, more enlightened age, we humbly accept -- even
celebrate -- the special privileges accorded to the great ones among us. And so,
with a couple of honorable exceptions, the big-time American media lay a nice
soft comfy quilt of silence over last month's revelations about presidential
brother Neil Bush connections." themoscowtimes.com
75 Tons Of Depleted Uranium Polluting
Iraq Report December 6, 2003 by
YellowTimes.org WASHINGTON (NFTF.org) -- U.S. forces unleashed at least 75
tons of toxic depleted uranium on Iraq during the war, reports the Christian
Science Monitor. An unnamed U.S. Central Command spokesman disclosed to the
Monitor last week that coalition forces fired 300,000 bullets coated with
armored-piercing depleted uranium (DU) during the war. "The normal combat
mix for these 30-mm rounds is five DU bullets to 1 -- a mix that would have left
about 75 tons of DU in Iraq," wrote correspondent Scott Peterson. Peterson
measured four sites around Baghdad struck with depleted uranium munitions and
found high levels of radioactive contamination, but few warnings to this effect
issued among the populace at large. rense.com
Rigging Iraq's Elections
December 6, 2003 Ever since Bush was unable to unearth a single weapon of mass
destruction in Iraq, he has shifted propaganda gears and talked more about how
U.S. troops are installing democracy in Iraq. But the truth of the matter is,
Bush doesn't want any old democracy in Iraq. He only wants a so-called democracy
if he can pick the head of the new government. That's why he's resisting the
call from Iraq's leading Shiite cleric to hold popular elections in June. The
Bush Administration fears that a direct election would bring a Shiite to power
whom Washington might not be able to push around. That leader could align with
Iran, or renationalize industries, or order the U.S. troops out. And Bush wants
none of that. progressive.org
Electronic votes touch off doubts
December 6, 2003 By SCOTT SHEPARD The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WASHINGTON -- Election officials and computer scientists are increasingly
concerned that touch-screen electronic voting machines like the ones used in
Georgia may be inaccurate and even susceptible to sabotage. Among some
Democrats, there is deep distrust developing about the devices, particularly
since a top executive in the voting machine industry is a major fund-raiser for
President Bush. ajc.com
EPA's Mercury Proposal: More Toxic
Pollution for a Longer Time December 6, 2003
Earlier this week NRDC and other environmental groups leaked a draft
Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would weaken and delay efforts to
clean up mercury emissions from America's coal-fired power plants. Those 1,100
facilities are the largest unregulated industrial sources of mercury
contamination in the country. The 50 tons they spew into the air every year
amount to roughly 40 percent of total U.S. industrial mercury emissions. nrdc.org
Man Of Peace - Child Of Light
December 6, 2003 By Judith Moriarty It was February 2, 2001, and I had
been invited to travel to Portland, Maine, to attend the sentencing of 77 year
old peace activist Philip Berrigan. Philip did not deny that he and other
demonstrators broke through a fence at a Maryland Air National Guard base and
damaged two A-10 Thunderbolts. Berrigan said that the A-10 aircraft use
armor-piercing ammunition that contains depleted uranium which he believes is
the source of Gulf War Syndrome and the cause of numerous deaths and deformities
of adults and children in Iraq and in our soldiers. He told the judge, of
comparable age, "I was acting according to my conscience and the precepts
of non-violent principles and laws". Berrigan was sentenced along with
Susan Crane, 57, to a year in Federal Prison. Would that he had been an Enron,
Tyco, Worldcom, etc., criminal; or had been involved in the billions of the
Savings and Loans heist (Neil Bush-Silvarado) he'd have been a free man. rense.com
Teacher sues over
limits on history curriculum December
6, 2003 A seventh-grade social studies teacher in Presque
Isle who said he was barred from teaching about non-Christian civilizations has
sued his school district, claiming it violated his First Amendment right of free
expression. Gary Cole of Washburn, a teacher at
Skyway Middle School, sued School Administrative District 1 in U.S. District
Court in Bangor. Cole alleged that complaints by
"a small group of fundamentalist Christian individuals" led to the
creation of a curriculum "which never mentions religions other than
Christianity and never teaches the history of civilizations other than Christian
civilizations." pressherald.com
Secretary
of Defense Aims to Privatize the U.S. Military
December 5, 2003 by
James Ridgeway WASHINGTON, D.C.—If Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld has his way, the vaunted U.S. military of the future will be
transformed into what amounts to corporate-owned units. The daffy secretary
calls his plan "outsourcing." The intention, he claims, is to put the
lid on money going into expanding of the army so it can be diverted to new
technologies such as Rummy's favorite hobby, fighting wars from space. Rumsfeld
has already outsourced much of the logistics and supply functions of the
military to private firms, especially to Cheney's old employer Halliburton.
There are now 90-odd companies competing to provide private soldiers from places
like Fiji and Nepal to work as machine-gun-toting guards in Iraq. villagevoice.com
Interview with anti-U.S. Iraqi cell
December 5, 2003 By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO "It was then I
realized that they had come as occupiers and not as liberators," he says.
"And my colleagues and I then voted to fight. So we began to meet and plan.
We met with others and have tried to buy weapons. None of us are afraid to die,
but it is hard. We are just men, workers, not soldiers." While he says many
American soldiers have offended him and his men, Abu Mujhid acknowledges some
have been polite. Behavior, he says, has saved some of their lives. "There
have been some that say 'hello' or 'peace be unto you' in Arabic to me," he
says. "They give our children sweets and do their jobs with respect. One of
these men I even see as my friend. So we were conducting an operation, about to
shoot at a Humvee one night when I realized it was the nice soldier. I told my
man not to shoot him. "But others treat us like dogs. I saw one put his
boot on the head of an old man lying on the ground (during a raid.) Even Saddam
would not have done such a thing." libertyforum.org
1,700 U.S. soldiers quit Iraq
December 5, 2003 PARIS, (Kyodo via COMTEX) One thousand and seven hundred
U.S. soldiers have deserted their posts in Iraq, with many of them failing to
return to military duty after getting permission to go back to the United
States, according to the French weekly magazine Le Canard Enchaine. The
magazine, known for its satires and exposes, said the French intelligence agency
obtained the information from what it described an "American
colleague." Citing a senior French official posted in Washington, the
magazine also said that 7,000 U.S. soldiers have left Iraq allegedly due to
psychological troubles and other illnesses. Some 2,200 others sustained serious
injuries including the loss of limbs, it said. stockpoint.com
Alarming rise in suicides among US troops
in Iraq December 5, 2003 By Jeff Riley
One grim indicator of the sinking morale of US occupation forces in Iraq is the
alarming number of suicides among American soldiers. The deaths of at least 17
US troops in Iraq—15 Army personnel and two Marines—have been confirmed as
suicides over the past seven months, according to a recent Associated Press
review of Army casualty reports. Nearly all of the suicides have occurred since
May 1, when the Bush administration declared an end to major combat operations.
This number represents more than 10 percent of non-combat deaths there.
According to one estimate, US troops in Iraq are committing suicide at three
times the usual rate. Dozens of other deaths are currently under investigation,
and the real number of suicides could be significantly higher. Over 500 soldiers
have recently been evacuated from Iraq for mental health reasons. The Army has
sent a team of mental health specialists to Iraq to assess what is perceived as
a growing problem of both depression and suicide. wsws.org
US fires Guantanamo defence team
December 5, 2003 James Meek A team of military lawyers recruited to
defend alleged terrorists held by the US at Guantanamo Bay was dismissed by the
Pentagon after some of its members rebelled against the unfair way the trials
have been designed, the Guardian has learned. Some members of the new legal
defence team remain deeply unhappy with the trials - known as "military
commissions" - believing them to be slanted towards the prosecution and an
affront to modern US military justice. "The first day, when they were being
briefed on the dos and don'ts, at least a couple said: 'You can't impose these
restrictions on us because we can't properly represent our clients.' "When
the group decided they weren't going to go along, they were relieved. They
reported in the morning and got fired that afternoon." guardian.co.uk
Bush Ministry of
Disinformation Editor Gets "Freedom" Medal
December 5, 2003 There
are two departments in the Bush Ministry of Disinformation: one for plebian
lowbrows who don't like the read - the Fox News Channel - and another for effete
reactionary highbrows who enjoy newspaper ink on their fingers - the Wall Street
Journal, or more appropriately the War Street Journal since the rag has
repeatedly called for mass murder in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. It was no
big surprise when Bush awarded former War Street Journal editor and now editor
emeritus Robert Bartley with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which should,
for the sake of accuracy, be renamed the Dictator Medal of Mindfuck, since
that's what Bartley, a far rightwing ideologue, has done to the American people,
or those who read the War Street Journal. kurtnimmo.com
Dems want
inquiry into reports of Medicare bribe
December 5, 2003 By William M. Welch and Andrea Stone USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Democrats and a legal watchdog group have asked Attorney General
John Ashcroft to investigate allegations that Republicans offered a House member
$100,000 in contributions for his son's election campaign if he would vote for a
Medicare prescription drug benefit passed by Congress last month. usatoday.com
Israeli Soldier Describes Brutalizing
Palestinians December 5, 2003 Palestine
Chrnicle.com OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - A former Israeli soldier who served three
years in the Gaza Strip has described Israeli treatment of Palestinian civilians
as befitting 'animals, criminals, and thieves'. Furer describes several types of
'sadistic' behaviors by Israeli soldiers including beating Palestinians and then
taking souvenir pictures with them. "I remember how we humiliated a dwarf
who came to the checkpoint every day on his wagon. They forced him to have his
picture taken on the horse, hit him and degraded for a good half hour."
Among the accounts narrated by Furer are stories of soldiers having souvenir
pictures with Palestinians they had beaten up, soldiers urinating on the head of
a Palestinian because the man had the nerve to smile at a soldier and how one
soldier, nicknamed Dado, forced a Palestinian to stand on four legs and bark
like a dog. rense.com
Government By Illusion Of Normalcy
December 5, 2003 By Stan Moore The highest-level participants in the U.S.
Government, of both political parties, are not stupid. They know the depth and
breadth of the massive problems facing our nation and our civilization. And,
rather than solve these systemic problems, they are instead implementing a
policy of illusions of normalcy, security, and prosperity so that the wealthy
ruling elite can siphon and skim the most personal wealth from the economy until
the sh*t hits the fan. Then, it will be every man for himself, with the wealthy
having rigged the national security forces to protect their own physical
interests and security while the "Big Collapse" of industrial
civilization thins out the masses of the "common people". rense.com
Profits and Layoffs
December 5, 2003 By A. Gary Shilling The jobless recovery, much in the
news lately, is a scary notion. That's why optimists seize upon any shred of
evidence that employment is coming back, such as the small downtick in
unemployment claims in mid-November. And we keep hearing that U.S. unemployment
really isn't so bad after all--just 6.1%, versus three percentage points higher
in Europe. So there's nothing to worry about, right? Wrong. Layoffs are a key
concern. And that will have baleful consequences for investors who are betting
on better times. news.yahoo.com
NEOCON IMPERIALISM OR APOCALYPSE NOW?
Part one December 5, 2003 By
B. A. Livingstone "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of
its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. - Samuel Adams. This document is
an attempt to call attention to the geopolitical realities that are the
embodiment of the current Bush administrations foreign policy and its
apocalyptic consequences for the Middle East and the world. chemtrailpatrol.com
Truth is, we’re terrorized because
we’re hated December 5, 2003 By ROBERT
BOWMAN, retired lieutenant colonel and a frequent lecturer on national security
issues. You said that we are a target because we stand for democracy,
freedom and human rights in the world. Nonsense! We are the target of terrorists
because, in much of the world, our government stands for dictatorship, bondage
and human exploitation. We are the target of terrorists because we are hated.
And we are hated because our government has done hateful things. In how many
countries have agents of our government deposed popularly elected leaders and
replaced them with puppet military dictators who were willing to sell out their
own people to American multinational corporations? natcath.com
Is the President a Pathological Liar?
Bush’s unhealthy relationship with reality December
5, 2003 by David CornIt Conservative radio talk-show host Michael Medved
was trying to bait me, to push me into saying something so out of whack about
the commander in chief that I would destroy my own credibility before the
audience of his nationally syndicated show. It was a ruse I’ve become quite
familiar with in recent weeks, since I published a book demurely titled The Lies
of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. In scores of media
interviews, right-wing hosts have pressed me to pronounce Bush the all-time
biggest SOB-of-a-liar in the White House and essentially accuse him of being a
psycho. I have resisted the invitations, choosing to stick to my just-the-facts
case that Bush has misled the public on a host of issues — the war in Iraq,
his tax cuts, global warming, Social Security, his own past and more. laweekly.com
Take the Deal, Ralph!
December 5, 2003 Here’s the bottom line reality: if Ralph Nader runs as a
Green Party candidate for President or as an Independent candidate (which is
apparently a recent consideration of his.), Nader’s candidacy will, in large
part, be a tool of the RNC Campaign to Re-elect Bush. Nader may run as an
Independent, by the way, because some members of the Green Party (although not
all) believe that Ralph has drunk the water: buzzflash.com
In Bhopal, the Poison Still Flows
December 5, 2003 By Pierre Prakash La Liberation Nineteen years
after the pollution episode, contamination continues to kill people in India. It’s
a ghost factory where time seems to have been stopped short nineteen years ago.
Up to now, nothing has been cleaned up at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal
India where the greatest industrial catastrophe of all time took place. Tank
E-610, the source of the gas leak that killed 3,000 people in a single night and
has killed another 10,000 victims since then, is still there in the grass, as an
additional provocation. Set in the vegetation, the gigantic maze of vats and
pipes has never been dismantled. The spun glass and polystyrene that insulated
the pipes fall in tatters. The vats, still full of toxic products, leak onto the
ground. In some places, the obviously noxious effluents take the visitor by the
throat. truthout.org
Shut Up, Don't Think, Don't Learn From Others or
You're Fired December 5, 2003 By Starr Kelso
Michael
Edmondson worked for the same company in the tiny one company town of Elk City,
Idaho for 22 years. He worked his
way up from laborer to supervisor. Along
the way he lost his left thumb in a work accident and later injured his lungs in
a fire at work. On his last work evaluation he received all “very good”
marks from his plant manager.
A public meeting was posted on the company bulletin board encouraging all to
attend a meeting to “Save Elk City.” He
went to the meeting. He did not
speak up at the meeting or express any opinions to fellow employees at work or
otherwise on the issues discussed.
Within days of Michael’s attending the meeting a decision to fire him was made
by the company’s general manager.
The lone dissent on Idaho’s Court warned that “allowing employers to
terminate employment based on an individual’s association and speech regarding
public issues . . .invites employers to squelch the association, speech and
debate so necessary to our system of government.”
As Idaho’s largest daily paper, The Idaho Statesman, concisely
stated in its editorial, “Supreme Court speaks: Shut up and get to work.” opednews.com
Our Railroads: A Classic Example of How Greed is
Destroying our Economy and the Incomes of Working Americans
December 5, 2003 By Chuck
Kelly
*Matthew Rose, CEO of Burlington Northern, made $5,024,285 in 2002.
*Richard Davidson, CEO of Union Pacific, made $16,278,789 in 2002.
Undoubtedly, they cite their outstanding management skills as justification for
such high incomes. These skills would include cutting labor and equipment costs
to the bare bones—to the point where both people and machines are stretched to
their breaking points. Employees not only experience more stressful working
conditions, they also find that their vulnerability to future layoffs prevents
them from pressing for higher wages—even enough to keep up with inflation. In
today’s economy, it seems that only low-level employees must make the
sacrifices necessary for corporate profits. opednews.com
Bush and Blair are in Trouble
December 5, 2003 John Pilger Shortly before the disastrous Bush
visit to Britain, Tony Blair was at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. It was
an unusual glimpse of a state killer whose effete respectability has gone. His
perfunctory nod to "the glorious dead" came from a face bleak with
guilt. As William Howard Russell of the Times wrote of another prime minister
responsible for the carnage in the Crimea, "He carries himself like one
with blood on his hands." Having shown his studied respect to the Queen,
whose prerogative allowed him to commit his crime in Iraq, Blair hurried away.
"Sneak home and pray you'll never know," wrote Siegfried Sassoon in
1917, "The hell where youth and laughter go." thetruthseeker.co.uk
Looting the Future
By PAUL KRUGMAN In
the early months of the Bush administration, one often heard that "the
grown-ups are back in charge." But if being a grown-up means planning for
the future — in fact, if it means anything beyond marital fidelity — then
this is the least grown-up administration in American history. It governs like
there's no tomorrow. Nothing in our national experience prepared us for the
spectacle of a government launching a war, increasing farm subsidies and
establishing an expensive new Medicare entitlement — and not only failing to
come up with a plan to pay for all this spending in the face of budget deficits,
but cutting taxes at the same time. nytimes.com
U.S.
OK'd ' dirty war' in Argentina
December 5, 2003 BY DANIEL A. GRECH (Miami Herald) BUENOS AIRES
New evidence suggests that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine military 'a green
light' in its 1970s-80s campaign against leftists. At the height of the
Argentine military junta's bloody ''dirty war'' against leftists in the 1970s,
then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Argentine foreign minister that
''we would like you to succeed,'' a newly declassified U.S. document reveals.
The transcript of the meeting between Kissinger and Navy Adm. César Augusto
Guzzetti in New York on Oct. 7, 1976, is the first documentary evidence that the
Gerald Ford administration approved of the junta's harsh tactics, which led to
the deaths or ''disappearance'' of some 30,000 people from 1975 to 1983. informationclearinghouse.info
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A New Kind Of Poverty
December 4, 2003 Anna Quindlin THERE’S A NEW kind of homelessness in
the city, and a new kind of hunger, and a new kind of need and humiliation, but
it has managed to stay invisible. “What we’re seeing are many more working
families on the brink of eviction,” says Mary Brosnahan, who runs the
Coalition for the Homeless. “They fall behind on the rent, and that’s it,
they’re on the street.” Adds Julia Erickson, the executive director of City
Harvest, which distributes food to soup kitchens and food pantries, “Look at
the Rescue Mission on Lafayette Street. They used to feed single men, often
substance abusers, homeless. Now you go in and there are bike messengers,
clerks, deli workers, dishwashers, people who work on cleaning crews. Soup
kitchens have been buying booster seats and highchairs. You never used to see
young kids at soup kitchens.” msnbc.com
US Exports $20 million in Shackles,
Electro-Shock Technology Expanding Global Trade, Supplies States US Condemned for
Torture December 4, 2003 (Washington, DC)
A new Amnesty International report charges that in 2002, the Bush Administration
violated the spirit of its own export policy and approved the sale of equipment
implicated in torture to Yemen, Jordan, Morocco and Thailand, despite the
countries' documented use of such weapons to punish, mistreat and inflict
torture on prisoners. The US is also alleged to have handed suspects in the 'war
on terror' to the same countries. The total value of US exports of electro-shock
weapons was $14.7 million in 2002 and exports of restraints totaled $4.4 million
in the same period. The Commerce and State Departments approved these sales,
permitting 45 countries to purchase electro-shock technology, including 19 that
had been cited for the use of such weapons to inflict torture since 1990. amnestyusa.org
US soldiers’ families, veterans go to
Iraq to oppose war December 4, 2003 By
Bill Vann A delegation of family members of US soldiers and military
veterans arrived in Baghdad Sunday on a two-week tour. Most have voiced
opposition to the US occupation, while some said they wanted to see for
themselves the real effects of the Bush administration’s policies in the
country and the conditions facing both US soldiers and the Iraqi people. The
group is led by Fernando Suarez de Solar, a Mexican citizen who lives in
Escondido, California, near San Diego. His 20-year-old son Jesus Alberto was
among the first Marines to die in the US invasion last March. The young man lost
his life to an unexploded US cluster bomb. In the wake of his son’s death,
Suarez, 48, has become a vocal opponent of US policy in Iraq, wsws.org
Lorain County couple raise money to buy
flak jacket for son in Iraq December 4, 2003 (AP)
Henrietta Township - A couple helped raise $1,500 to buy the military's best
bulletproof vest to send their soldier son in Iraq because the government has
not been able to get the vests to all troops. Charles and Marilyn Zvosechz
didn't want their 32-year-old son to wait. Army Sgt. David Zvosechz is stationed
at the Baghdad Airport. The flak jacket, The Interceptor, has ceramic plates
that can stop assault rifle rounds and can shield a soldier from shrapnel,
according to the Pentagon. Older-model vests can protect against shrapnel and
other low-speed projectiles, but not high-velocity rifle rounds. cleveland.com
Washington warns
five countries over weapons of mass destruction
December 4, 2003 (DPA) A high-ranking U S
official has directly warned five countries that pursuit of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) will bring ''adverse consequences'' including seizures of
illicit materials. ''Rogue states such as Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya and
Cuba, whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to US
interests, will learn that their covert programmes will not escape either
detection or consequences,'' said John Bolton, US undersecretary of state for
arms control and international security yesterday. ''While we will pursue
diplomatic solutions whenever possible, the United States and its allies are
also willing to deploy more robust techniques...deepikaglobal.com
Army has denied rape victim counseling, says mom
December 4, 2003 (AP)
TACOMA -- A Stryker brigade soldier from Fort Lewis who said she was raped in
Kuwait has told her mother that the Army has isolated her from her unit and
denied her counseling and other support, including a visit from a chaplain. She
was sent to Camp Udairi in Kuwait with the Stryker brigade last month to prepare
for assignment in Iraq. Wharton said her daughter, a four-year veteran who
joined the Army at 19, told her she was near the camp showers late Friday or
early Saturday when a masked man with "an American voice" hit her in
the back of the head. When she regained consciousness, she said, she was gagged
and bound with cord, then was hit in the head and face again and blacked out a
second time, her mother said. After she awakened a second time, she'd realized
she'd been raped, Wharton said. She said she was still bleeding from the attack
Tuesday, her mother said. "Something has to change, and I understand that
something like this can happen, but I'd expect it from the enemy," Wharton
told The AP. seattlepi.nwsource.com
The Entangling American Alliance With Israel: More of the American Right Catches
On December 4, 2003 by Mark
Dankof for Al Bawaba The American Neo-Conservative War Party, in firm
control of both major political parties in the United States, is getting
increasingly and obviously more desperate. The transparent desperation comes in
the wake of plummeting opinion polls about Mr. Bush’s preemptive war in Iraq.
This in turn is related to brewing public discontent over provably false pre-war
intelligence estimates, skyrocketing war bills, a steady stream of young
American deaths in what is demonstrably now an urban guerrilla war in Baghdad,
the ongoing public exposure of the crooked character of no-bid contract awards
and accompanying war profiteering by the President’s friends in entrenched
places like Halliburton Oil and Bechtel, and insane suggestions by key
Administration advisors that an expansion of the preemptive war doctrine may
soon include Syria and Iran. albawaba.com
Israel Approves Construction Of More
Homes At Settlements December 4, 2003 By
John Ward Anderson JERUSALEM -- The government of Israel has approved the
construction of more than 1,720 new houses in Jewish settlements in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip this year, according to critics of the settlements who say
they undercut a U.S.-backed peace plan that mandates a freeze on settlement
expansion. The planned building is in addition to at least 1,000 homes and other
infrastructure projects under construction in the West Bank, which Israel is
also encircling with a massive fence complex, according to groups and officials
that monitor settlement activity. Two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers began
expanding the boundary of Beitar Ilit, a community of more than 20,000
ultra-Orthodox Jews about five miles southwest of Jerusalem. Beitar Ilit is one
of the fastest-growing settlements in the West Bank; it added 2,900 residents
last year. washingtonpost.com
Fresh-Water Sources Under Threat
December 4, 2003 By Oliver Moore Supplies of fresh water in Canada are
under increasing strain as glaciers recede in some places to levels not seen for
as many as 10 millenniums, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. Canadians have
historically been among the highest users of water in the world, a habit that
many ascribe to the enormous masses of fresh water the country possesses. But
the latest research by Statscan suggests that these bountiful resources are
under threat. rense.com
"the
inexplicable half hour dawdle of our Commander in Chief at a primary
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9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND
Widow's Bush Treason Suit Vanishes in Blink of Media Eye
December 3, 2003 by W.
David Kubiak
Think you're already amazed, alarmed or
appalled enough by the state of US journalism today? Chew on this a while and
think again. Grieving New Hampshire widow who lost
her man on 9/11 refuses the government's million dollar hush money payoff,
studies the facts of the day for nearly two years, and comes to believe the
White House "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen" to launch a
so-called "War on Terrorism" for personal and political gain. She
retains a prominent lawyer, a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania,
who served with distinction under both Democrats and Republicans and was once a
strong candidate for the governor's seat. The
attorney files a 62-page complaint in federal district court (including 40 pages
of prima facie evidence) thepeoplesvoice.org
Human Rights Testimonies from Iraq December
3,
2003 #1
- Testimony of an Iraqi Minor Detained and Mistreated by US Forces "At
2:30am, US troops came to our house, and ordered our entire family outside. They
ransacked the house. They took our money and a gold wedding necklace belonging
to my mother. My father, cousin, older brother, and I were tied and taken away.
We were not told why we were being taken. The first day, our hands were still
tied behind our back with the plastic ties. Because of this, we were unable to
drink any water. My brother asked for some water. The guard gagged him and began
beating him around his mouth until blood started flowing from his mouth. My
brother screamed in pain. We were beaten in the neck, back, and behind."
[The boy demonstrated how and where he was beaten. He indicated that his
buttocks were held apart and he was kicked in the anus]. It is because of this
beating that my father is now suffering from a heart condition. I was released
wearing only my underwear and forced to walk back to my home in broad daylight.
I was humiliated. Also, everyone thought from my dress that I had been caught
stealing. I was also badly sunburned from my time in detention without shade.
The officers told me upon my release, Don't tell anyone about what happened
here, or we'll come pick you up again. cpt.org
A
terrorist nation called the United States of America
December 3, 2003 By PAUL CAMPOS
This is the story of a man who was taken into legal custody under false
pretenses and thrown immediately into solitary confinement. He was held in a
tiny cell, illuminated for 24 hours a day, which he never left except to be
interrogated. Guards would hammer on the cell door every half hour around the
clock, to keep him awake. After a month of this, he couldn't walk any more.
He wasn't allowed to talk without being punished; he could not shower or shave;
he had no access to any reading material, a lawyer, or anyone in the outside
world. After two months, the government that seized him decided that he
wasn't guilty of the crime they had suspected he had committed. But they kept
him in solitary confinement for another five months anyway. The
government's lawyers did everything in their considerable power to keep the
prisoner from getting a hearing. Indeed, they did their best to obscure that the
prisoner even existed: His name didn't appear on any list of arrested or
detained persons, so his family assumed he had been made to
"disappear," as people do sometimes under totalitarian regimes. capitolhillblue.com
Massacre in Samarra:
US lies and self-delusion December 3, 2003 By David Walsh The US military’s
initial account of Sunday’s firefight in the central Iraqi city of Samarra,
uncritically relayed to the American people by a servile media, has proven to be
a tissue of lies. It turns out that the “major victory” over the Iraqi
resistance consisted of American forces blasting away indiscriminately in
Samarra’s city center, killing innocent men, women and children, damaging
property and buildings—including a mosque and a kindergarten—and further
enraging the local population. The Samarra incident in its various aspects—the
battle itself, the military’s claims, the media’s role—is a microcosm of
the US occupation of Iraq. wsws.org
IRAQ: Is the US empire invincible? December 2,
2003 BY DOUG LORIMER Seven months ago, when the US army rolled into Baghdad, the
US war machine seemed invincible. The US rulers seemed to be in reach of
realising their goal of conquering Iraq and using it as a secure base from which
to establish imperial domination throughout the oil-rich Persian Gulf region.
However, Iraq has begun to turn into a nightmare for Washington. Instead of
being a stepping stone on the road to a “new American century” of
unchallengeable US global domination, Iraq has become a military quagmire,
bogging the US army down in a bloody and unwinnable guerrilla war. greenleft.org
Noam
Chomsky, Interview: December
3,
2003 "Of course, it was all about
Iraq's resources' They didn't decide to invade Eastern Congo where
there's much worse massacres going on. Of course it was Iraq's energy resources.
It's not even a question. Iraq's one of the major oil producers in the world. It
has the second largest reserves and it's right in the heart of the Gulf's oil
producing region, which US intelligence predicts is going to be two thirds of
world resources in coming years. The invasion of Iraq had a number of motives,
and one was to illustrate the new National Security Strategy, which declares
that the United States will control the world permanently by force if necessary
and will eliminate any potential challenge to that domination. It is called
pre-emptive war." informationclearinghouse.info
The Year Democracy Ended December
3, 2003 By Bob Fitrakis - freepress.org As the year ends, 2003 will be
remembered by future historians as the year the pretense of democracy in the
United States ended. Since the 1940s, conservatives have accepted the assumption
of economist Joseph Schumpeter that democracy in a mass society existed of
little more than the following: the adult population could vote; the votes were
fairly counted; and the masses could choose between elites from one of two
parties. With the most recent revelations about the 2000 Bush coup in Florida
disclosed in the shocking stolen Diebold memos, the Bush family has signaled
that an authoritarian right-wing dynasty is the future course for American
politics. scoop.co.nz
Who Tried To Bribe
Rep. Smith? Stop
protecting him, Congressman December
3, 2003 By
Timothy Noah On the House floor, Nick Smith was told business
interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote. When he
still declined, fellow Republican House members told him they would make sure
Brad Smith never came to Congress. After Nick Smith voted no and the bill
passed, [Rep.] Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him
that his son was dead meat. slate.msn.com
Reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy to the
Administration's Retreat from Mercury Reductions
December 3, 2003 "Once again the Bush Administration is catering to
industry wishes, letting big polluters off the hook at the expense of the
public's health. Never before have the big polluters had this kind of clout in
any previous White House, and they are cashing in, big time. The Administration
claims this reversal will give power plants more flexibility to reduce mercury
pollution faster, but it really gives them the flexibility to ignore the
dangerous health effects of mercury and the new technologies now available to
control it. Downwind states like Vermont will continue to get reap more mercury
pollution for decades to come while corporate polluters soak up more profits. We
know who the biggest polluters are when it comes to mercury emissions, and the
Administration is preparing to let every one of them off the hook." releases.usnewswire.com
'Bush Is Dangerous, Incompetent, Flakey'
Latham Defends Bush Comments December
3, 2003 New Labor Leader Mark Latham today sought to justify calling US
President George W Bush incompetent and dangerous, saying in a democracy he had
the right to use forceful language. Mr Latham described Mr Bush earlier this
year as the most incompetent and dangerous president in living memory and a
flaky and dangerous US president. He said he made the comments in relation to
the United States-led war in Iraq because he believed the policies were wrong. rense.com
County processed more than 4,000 filings
for foreclosures December 3, 2003 By
Jeffrey Cohan Pittsburgh Post-Gazette An Allegheny County record will be
broken this morning, but it's no cause for celebration. The 9 a.m. sheriff's
sale will culminate the busiest year on record for mortgage foreclosures and
tax-lien sales. For the first time ever, the sheriff's office has processed more
than 4,000 filings from creditors who want to seize real estate from debtors.
Already, creditors have filed more than 400 properties for the January sale,
setting a pace that could push the county above the 5,000 mark in 2004.
"Where is it going to stop?" said Marty Madigan, who has the grim task
of managing the monthly auctions of property for the sheriff's office. In fact,
this year's record of 4,337 is more than three times the total from any year in
the 1980s. post-gazette.com
Bloodiest month in Iraq leaves 105 troops dead
December
2, 2003 By Reeves & Cornwell The bloodiest month since the United
States led the invasion and occupation of Iraq has come to a deadly close
after insurgents killed 14 people from five nations in a weekend of
apparently carefully calculated attacks. Days after President George Bush
slipped briefly into the country on Thanksgiving, his opponents responded by
killing civilian contract workers, military intelligence agents, diplomats
and soldiers. Last night, the Americans claimed they had killed 54 Iraqis. independent.co.uk
It's an
around-the-clock fight to save lives at Iraq combat hospital December
2, 2003 By
Theola Labbe BAGHDAD, Iraq
Since the largest U.S. Army hospital in Iraq opened its doors on April 10,
nearly all U.S. casualties have passed through its first-floor emergency room.
Some come already dead. Some arrive with one arm instead of two, a shattered leg
or a face wiped away by an explosion. Assaults
on U.S. troops have reached as high as 45 a day. The number of soldiers treated
for serious combat injuries is not publicly disclosed. Instead, the hospital
releases statistics on patient admissions — a total of 1,659 U.S. soldiers
through Oct. 30. The combined number of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi patients
admitted per month has increased since September, and this month was expected to
reach about 400, White said. The
worst that Maj. Michael Hilliard, 33, an emergency physician, saw back home in
San Antonio were car-crash and gunshot victims. Here, he estimates he has
treated the broken bodies of more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers. "The
injuries are horrific," he said. "They are beyond anything that you
see in a textbook, and they are the worst that I have ever seen." seattletimes.nwsource.com
CNN And Fox Lied About Sammara Massacre
December 2, 2003
Moshe Ben Gurion Tel Aviv, Israel I do not understand how the American news media is lying over
and over again. Yesterday, Reuters correspondent interviewed locals in
Sammara Iraq, who said that the Americans came and massacred civilians in
the streets. This was 'expected' by the frustrated American military,
since the Iraqi freedom fighters (whom the Americans conveniently call
'terrorists'), killed seven Spanish spies and two Japanese spies the day
before. Later, CNN came with a new fabricated story about killing 54
Fidayeen Iraqi soldiers. CNN exaggeration continue unabated in describing
the 'black uniforms' of the Iraqis, in order to create the impression that
the Americans killed a real fighters and not just massacred civilians in
the middle of the streets as Reuters reported. The American commander
(self proclaimed hero), continued his fables by describing how an American
tank blew up a building with all the 54 black dressed 'terrorists' inside.
REAL AMERICAN HERO! This totally contradicted CNN previous report that a
whole caravan was attacked from different directions, AND NOT from just
one building! Al Jazeera exposed the Pentagon lies
as a simple military bloodbath of civilians ('Mai Lay' all over again): english.aljazeera.net
Thousands In Iran Bay For US Blood
December
2, 2003 TEHRAN More than 10,000 Iranian
revolutionary militia chanted "Death to America" outside the former US
embassy in Tehran on Sunday, wishing defeat in Iraq on the "Great
Satan." "The region will only see
peace and calm when the occupiers get out," Yahya Rahim Safavi, head of
both the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Bassij militia, told the crowd
of men and women who had been bussed to the city centre compound. "We
hope that the US is dealt a humiliating defeat in Iraq, so the US warmonger
administration won't get re-elected to send US children to the Iraqi
quagmire," he added. "The attack on
Islam has begun, but the future of Islam is to spread peace and security
throughout the world," Safavi said. rense.com
Freedom Requires Intelligence
December
2, 2003 By Norman
D. Livergood "If a nation expects to be both ignorant and
free, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
Throughout history, the amount of freedom that humans enjoyed has been roughly
correlated with their intelligence. At present, unthinking, uninformed Americans
(now a large percentage, unfortunately) are suffering from just the kind of
fascistic plutocracy to which their level of intelligence entitles them. They
are rapidly losing their freedom because they have allowed their
intelligence to decrease to the point of suicidal ignorance. hermes-press.com
Rumsfeld wins 'Foot in Mouth' award December 2, 2003 A
bizarre comment by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the hunt for Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction has been awarded the "Foot in Mouth" prize
by Britain's Plain English Campaign. Mr Rumsfeld, renowned for his
uncompromising tough talking, received the prize for the most baffling comment
by a public figure. "Reports that say something hasn't happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things
we know we know," Rumsfeld told a press briefing. "We also know there
are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
"But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't
know." abc.net.au
What
we owe to NAFTA December
2, 2003 By Pat Buchanan Around Oct. 6, 38-year-old auto mechanic Jeff Cook decided
to treat his wife and two daughters to dinner at Chi-Chi's in Beaver Valley Mall
outside Pittsburgh. Within three weeks, Cook, suffering from acute liver
failure, was fighting for his life. To
save him, surgeons had a new liver flown in. They failed. Jeff Cook became,
writes Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times, "the first person to die in
what federal health officials say is the biggest food-borne outbreak of
hepatitis A in the United States." As
cases were being reported in locations hundreds of miles apart, the root of the
outbreak was not some employee at the Beaver Valley Chi-Chi's who failed to wash
his hands. The cause turns out to be green onions, trucked into the United
States – from Mexico. worldnetdaily.com
Global Eye -- Naked Gun December
2, 2003 By Chris Floyd Don't kid
yourself -- and don't let them kid you. When they come at you with that
pious sugar, telling you how they're going to protect you, secure you, keep you
free, you better run and check the back door – because that's where their
goons will be breaking in. Last week, the U.S. Congress approved an expansion of
FBI powers that will allow Attorney General John Ashcroft's federal police to
arbitrarily seize records from a range of private businesses without bothering a
judge or grand jury with any silly-billy nonsense about evidence or even
suspicion of criminal intent. All Ashcroft's boys have to do is say, "Boo!
Terrorism!" and they can take whatever they want. moscowtimes.ru
Army soldier reports rape at camp in Kuwait
December
2, 2003 (AP) TACOMA,
Wash. A soldier reported she was raped at a desert post in Kuwait where
her unit was preparing for its mission in Iraq, a military official said Sunday.
Female soldiers said they were exercising caution in the camp after dark.
There are about 310 women in the brigade of about 5,000 soldiers. "It's
sad. You can't trust your own people," said Staff Sgt. Theresa Spicer, a
supply sergeant with the brigade headquarters. newsobserver.com
A
Coward Goes to Baghdad December
1, 2001 by
Doug Basham Forget
"The eagle has landed." On Thursday, the turkey landed - on many
Americans dinner plates, and on the runway of the airport formerly known as
Saddam Hussein International.
The
stupidity of conservatives never ceases to amaze me, as well as that of the
media (and the majority of the American people, come to think of it). And to MY
way of thinking, no-one has got this trip right yet.
Thus far,
the focus has been on the secrecy surrounding the trip, the choice of Fox News
to accompany the president, (which pretty much sums up his credibility level
when he chooses the television equivalent of the National Enquirer to assist him
in his chicanery). The focus has also been on whether or not it was a wise
decision for the president to make (what? Like wisdom has been a staple of this
administration thus far?) opednews.com
Toll on U.S. troops in Iraq
grows as wounded rolls approach 10,000
December 1, 2003 BY
ROGER ROY The Orlando Sentinel (KRT)
- Nearly 10,000 U.S. troops have been killed, wounded, injured or become ill
enough to require evacuation from Iraq since the war began, the equivalent of
almost one Army division, according to the Pentagon. centredaily.com
U.S. abandons democratic values in
Iraq December
1, 2003 By TOM BRODBECK Winnipeg Sun U.S. President George W. Bush
and his advisors are going to have to come up with a new story pretty fast on
why they invaded Iraq. Because what's left of their only remaining rationale for
killing thousands of Iraqis and maiming thousands more is crumbling so fast,
it's going to be unrecognizable by the New Year. canoe.ca
Only dictators ban television news December
1, 2003 By HELEN THOMAS HEARST NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON -- The raid
by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in
Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread
democracy in the Middle East. Isn't that the first thing dictators do -- shut
down broadcast outlets and newspapers? For those in power, tolerating a free
press is difficult, even in a democracy. As a foreign occupier in Iraq, we are
proving it is intolerable. The terrible irony here is that we pride ourselves on
offering a model to the rest of the world on how to design -- and live by -- our
constitutional freedoms. seattlepi.nwsource.com
Iraq's Shiites Insist on Democracy.
Washington Cringes December
1, 2003 By ALEX BERENSON FOR seven months, the United States has
tried to finesse two crucial questions about the future of Iraq: How much
control will the country's Shiite majority have over the drafting of a
constitution? And how Islamic will that constitution be? The answers could
determine whether Iraq becomes a multiparty democracy, an Islamic theocracy, or
even slides into civil war. Last week, those questions took on a new urgency.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most important Shiite religious leader in
Iraq and probably the most powerful local leader of any kind, said he opposed
the American plan to turn over power to an Iraqi government next year without
direct elections. nytimes.com
US military adopts “no-holds barred” tactics
against Iraqi resistance December
1, 2003 By James Conachy The Bush administration’s response to
the escalating struggle against the occupation has been to direct the US
military to use whatever means it has at its disposal to root out and crush the
Iraqi resistance. Major General Charles Swannack, commander of the 82nd Airborne
Division, which is policing cities such as Fallujah in Iraq’s Al Anbar
province, told journalists on November 18 that commanders had, up until last
month, been “a little bit reluctant” to use helicopter gunships, anti-tank
aircraft and precision-guided bombs against suspected resistance in civilian
areas. “Now,” he declared, “there’s no-holds barred on what we used. wsws.org
Dozens
killed in Samarra carnage
December 1, 2003
US occupation authorities in Iraq have raised the Samarra
carnage toll to 54. An
unnamed military spokesman on Monday did not specify if those killed were
resistance fighters or civilians. Earlier, spokesman
Lieutenant Colonel Bill MacDonald claimed that 46 people had been
killed when troops fought off multiple attacks on military convoys on Sunday.
But local residents said US troops killed innocent
bystanders when they opened fire on anything that moved around midday. english.aljazeera.net
The Soldiers At My Front Door
December 1, 2003 by
John Dear But I was surprised the following morning to hear 75 soldiers
singing, shouting and screaming as they jogged down Main Street, passed our St.
Joseph’s church, back and forth around town for an hour. It was 6 a.m., and
they woke me up with their war slogans, chants like “Kill! Kill! Kill!” and
“Swing your guns from left to right; we can kill those guys all night.”
Their chants were disturbing, but this is war. They have to psyche themselves up
for the kill. They have to believe that flying off to some tiny, remote desert
town in Iraq where they will march in front of someone’s house and kill poor
young Iraqis has some greater meaning besides cold-blooded murder. commondreams.org
'Bush's
Operation Clean Sweep: World War IV in 2004'
December 1, 2003 By John Stanton Even
though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the US presidential election of
2004, his electoral college victory seems assured. With Republican party
governors firmly in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and
supported by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million,
dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other
defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com),
it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office through the back
door that is the Electoral College. And if not the Electoral College then by
benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which kills thousands of Americans and
leads to the suspension of the US Constitution. colombia.indymedia.org
The Invisible Recovery
December 1, 2003 By Steve Perry For months now the front pages of daily
papers across the country have heralded sporadic sightings of a fresh economic
upturn. But for most working Americans, any return to prosperity is barely a
rumor at present. While it's true that the economy has stopped shedding jobs for
the moment (after losing a net 2 to 3 million of them in the first two and a
half years of the Bush administration), the turnaround is so far a fairly paltry
one in which a limited number of new jobs mostly involve menial work for low
pay. Meanwhile the specter of crushing debt--both national and household--looms
ever larger. citypages.com
Snowballing
debt awaits tomorrow's taxpayers
December 1, 2003 By
Ronald Brownstein In just the last few months, Congress, at Bush's request,
has doled out $87 billion to rebuild and secure Iraq and Afghanistan; approved a
$401-billion defense appropriation bill, the largest ever; completed a
$1-trillion tax cut on top of the $1.35-trillion reduction the president won in
2001; and approved a Medicare prescription drug benefit that will cost at least
$400 billion over the next decade, probably more. If the energy bill is revived
next year, add to the list at least another $26 billion in tax cuts for energy
companies. latimes.com
Court Says Redistricting Unconstitutional
December 1, 2003 AP DENVER Colorado
Supreme Court Rules Republicans' Redistricting Unconstitutional; May Impact 2004
Races. In a decision that has national implications, the Colorado Supreme Court
threw out the state's new congressional districts Monday saying the GOP-led
Legislature redrew the maps in violation of the state constitution. abcnews.go.com
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