From Al Jazeera

Blix condemns 'militaristic' US

Thursday 01 June 2006, 23:08 Makka Time, 20:08 GMT

A former UN weapons inspector has urged Iran and Israel to end their nuclear activities and criticised the US for seeking militaristic remedies to disagreements.

The recommendation was one of 60 put forward in a report prepared by the 14-member Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, an initiative of the Swedish government set up in 2003.

Hans Blix, who led the UN search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq before the US-led invasion, presented the report to Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general.

The report said US leadership was crucial in halting the spread of nuclear weapons.

"If it takes the lead, the world is likely to follow. If it does not take the lead, there could be more nuclear tests and new nuclear arms races," Blix said in the introduction to the report.

Yet Blix said that the US had "looked more to its own military power for remedies" instead of strengthening international treaties and institutions.

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The President Addresses the Good American People about
Total Victory, Evil WMD, and VNTME 

Monday 12 June 2006

Office of the Press Secretay

The Out House 

Text of President Bush's
Televised Address to the Nation 

Embargoed until Tuesday, June 13,
8:00 pm 

‘My fellow Americans. 

Given all the turning points in
Iraq that we have experienced together, my trusted advisors have urged me to
speak cautiously at this triumphant moment. 

None of us wants to get dizzy
with success, after all. But I feel it's important to share good news with you,
the American people. We have reached a milestone on the road to victory and you
deserve to know my innermost thoughts at this moment of momentousness. We are
truly in a state of big Mo, as my Poppy would say. 

Let me take you back along the
glorious path that we have traveled together so far: On D-Day, we landed at
Basra. We advanced speedily through the hedgerows of southern Iraq onward to
the totalitarian Islamofascist regime's capital in Baghdad, which we took. 

Then, for three hard years, we
faced our Battles of the Bulge: We bent, but we never broke. We captured
Saddam. We - I mean they, the Iraqis - held parliamentary elections. In the
Green Zone, we're building the world's biggest U.S. embassy, as big as historic
Vatican City in Rome, Italy. 

And now, just last Thursday, came
the major turning point toward total victory in Iraq: two Made-in-the-USA
500-pounders from the skies got rid of al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born terrorist
that bin Laden called the "Prince of al Qaida in Iraq." 

At 6:15 p.m. Baghdad time,
Special Operation Forces, acting on tips and intelligence from good Iraqis,
confirmed Zarqawi's location, and delivered justice to the Gillette-hating
jihadist whose evilness was proved because he couldn't shoot straight with an
M-16 and wore white American tennis shoes - a video from the Defense Department
demonstrated this beyond the shadow of a doubt. 

With Zarqawi now in Christian
hell, we can continue our war on terror with renewed confidence and energy. We
can pursue even more than before the main goal of this good war: to eliminate
weapons of mass destruction, the evil WMD of all shapes and forms that threaten
to ruin our country. 

To keep Americans safe from WMD,
I continue to ask the help of the Almighty. I pray every day that He give me,
as well as the good vice-fighting Vice President and the good Secretary of
Defense, leadership skills. Our prayers have been answered. We, blessed by Him,
are your triple-punch access to safety, your home team against the axis of
evil. 

Thanks to God and our dedicated
men and women in uniform, we now know that there are no evil WMD in Iraq. For
that great achievement I also thank you, the American people. 

How can I ever forget our joint
celebration of our sacred shock-and-awe triumph in the not-good cradle of evil
civilization! How can I ever forget when I landed on the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln, greeted so enthusiastically by our military and filmed so
patriotically by the good folks from FOX! 

In my flight suit, I could hear
you all inside my heart cheering me on as you sat in front of your TVs. I could
feel the goodness in your hearts, how you supported me and my good war. I felt
good all over. Despite terrorists, revisionists, and all the evil people who have
infiltrated this country - even as we send our troops to every border - I still
do. 

Our fight against WMD is now
being fought here at home as well. The millions of telephone calls that our
now-good, reformed intelligence community carefully analyzes give us more and
more leads into evil WMD, actual or potential. 

Let me cite an example of our
success. The good Martha Hsubdam, of Topeka, Kansas, called her good
sister-in-law Mary in Cincinnati, Ohio. She said that her not-so-good teenage
stepson Joe, without telling her about it, was fooling around with an evil new
computer "game" called "Terror Is an Error." 

Our good folks at the National
Security Agency, always on the alert, intercepted that good-to-know-about phone
conversation. Now, not-good Joe, who has acne because he secretly studied the
Koran, is in a maximum security jail, serving a ten-year sentence. 

Imagine what would have happened
if not-good Joe were not behind bars: He might have grown a bad, smelly beard,
joined the evil Al Qaeda, and started making vicious WMD with his chemistry
set. He could have become a Zarqawi here in the homeland. But dedicated law
enforcement prevented this. That's the kind of good work that makes me sleep
good at night, after I've said my prayers, read my Bible, and kissed my good
Laura good night. 

My fellow Americans, we are also
taking steps to eliminate another type of WMD that we have discovered yet again
in our midst on the eve of another good American democratic election -
Women/Men Destroyers. These are evil people who don't believe in our
traditional good marriage of a man and a woman, the kind of marriage Laura and
I are blessed to have thanks to divine intervention. These holy-matrimony
haters refuse to accept, as I said recently, that "marriage cannot be cut
off from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening this good
influence on society." 

My weapon in this good struggle
against violent, non-traditional marriage extremism or VNTME is the Marriage
Protection Amendment. Some not-good VNTME supporters kept the amendment from
passing in the Senate this time, but we will never stop working to make it part
of the laws of our good land. 

Finally, my fellow Americans, we
have not forgotten WMD overseas, even in the wake of our mission accomplished
in Iraq and the liquidation of Zarqawi. We are now focusing on an evil country
called Iran. 

Trust me, I won't urge the
Uraniums to "bring it on," as I have learned from my infrequent
mistakes. Instead, here's what your government, now better than ever after its
heck of a job with Katrina, is doing even if such a new initiative sounds
sophisticated: We are demanding that Iran stop thinking about making mushrooms
dishes and start focusing on Rice recipes, at least for a while. If that
doesn't work, all options are on the table, including Texas barbeque with
homeland-made Zarqawi sauce and Haditha seasoning provided free of charge by
the Pentagon. 

May God continue to bless
America.’ 

John Brown Helps The
President Address the Nation

From Al Jazeera

Bodies flood Baghdad morgue

Wednesday 05 July 2006, 16:31 Makka Time, 13:31 GMT

Baghdad's central morgue received 1,595 bodies last month, the most since the bombing of a Shia shrine in February prompted a wave of sectarian killings.

Doctor Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, the morgue assistant manager, said on Wednesday that the tally for June compared with the 1,375 bodies the morgue received in May and 1,155 in April.

"June is the highest month in terms of receiving cases of violence since Samarra," he said.

Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head, he said, a common feature of sectarian, execution-style killings.

Iraq's health, interior and defence ministries consistently provide lower figures than those released by the morgue.

The figures show that the level of violence in Iraq has increased even after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, in a US air strike on June 7.

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Gus: three years ago, the "Mission Accomplished" banner was hoisted on that aircraft carrier "USS PressRelease", and if, conservatively, we count the bodies that land in Baghdad morgue alone, more than 40,000 Baghdadians have died violently since. We can also conservatively count about half of that landing in various morgues around Iraq...

Thus since the end of the war more than 60,000 people have been killed violently, not counting those who are injured and maimed for life, a figure usually about 5 times this amount conservatively... say 300,000... These are massive figures!

It is time for decent Australians who have supported the war under the false pretence of our government now to open their eyes that things are NOT improving despite the repeated calls by our masters to be patient and that "we shall prevail". I have news for you: We might "prevail" if we kill every single Iraqi...

As the death toll mounts, at least 70 per cent of the population is blaming the occupation forces for it... But the occupation forces under political orders are using vague and indefensible excuses to stay in order to protect a puppet government that eventually will fall in the hands of fundamentalists whether we like it or not.

Since our foray in nation building there, with a massive lie as our flagship, we have basically destroyed everything that was creating a civil society. Now the US are building another "Green-Zone" in another Iraqi city to alleviate the growing threat of more insurgency. This can only create a middle ages feudal appearance to what was once was a progressive society albeit bloody, with complex interference from the western nations including the CIA encouragement to the Kurds to revolt against Saddam.

Now we have a bloody regressive society with a simplistic US administration notion of nation building. Things are not going to improve in the complexity that the US administration does not — and has no intention — to comprehend, are they?