Iraq Must Not Be Occupied, Says Fahd: “We expect the war to end the moment UN Security Council Resolution 1441 to disarm (Iraq) of weapons of mass destruction has been implemented,” the king said. “We categorically refuse that the war affects Iraq’s unity, independence, resources and internal security or Iraq comes under military occupation. We have informed the United States of the clear Saudi position,” he added.
Guess who will be calling the shots at CNN: “All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval,” it says. “Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved …. All packages originating outside Washington, LA or NY, including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW in Atlanta for approval. The date of this extraordinary message is Jan. 27. “ROW” is the row of script editors in Atlanta who can insist on changes or “balances” in dispatches. A script is not approved for air unless it is properly marked approved by an authorized manager …. When a script is updated it must be re-approved, preferably by the originating approving authority.”
Looming war on Iraq condemned: Germany’s Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, said his country “emphatically rejects the impending war” – a sentiment echoed by his French counterpart Dominique de Villepin, who said the use of force would only exacerbate international terrorism.
The president’s real goal in Iraq: This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the “American imperialists” that our enemies always claimed we were.
Still missing: how many Iraqis died in 1991 Gulf war?: A higher number was arrived at by Beth Daponte, now a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1992 she found herself at the centre of a political storm when, as a demographer in the Commerce Department, her estimate that 158,000 Iraqis died in the war and its aftermath became public. In 1993, having left government service, she raised this figure to 205,500. The largest component was 110,000 deaths attributable to illness in the immediate postwar period: 74,000 more children dying than normally would have done.She estimated 35,000 people died in postwar unrest(other estimates put this figure at least twice as high) and 3,500 civilians were killed in the bombing.
Is Iran Next? This Senate Resolution, Suggests It May Be
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