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Medical evacuations in Iraq war hit 18,000
Medical evacuations in Iraq war hit 18,000
By Mark Benjamin , United Press International , Published 3/31/2004 3:04 PM
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- In the first year of war in Iraq, the military has made 18,004 medical evacuations during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon's top health official told Congress Tuesday.
The new data, through March 13, is nearly two-thirds higher than the 11,200 evacuations through Feb. 5 cited just last month to Congress by the same official, William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
In both cases, Winkenwerder described the evacuations as "total evacuations out of theater," and he said both times that the majority of evacuations represented routine medical treatment and not life-threatening injuries.
"As of March 13, 2004, data from the Transportation Command shows 18,004 total evacuations out of theater," Winkenwerder said Tuesday.
"As of February 5, 2004, data from the Transportation Command shows 11,200 total evacuations out of theater," he told a separate House panel Feb. 25.
A spokesman for Winkenwerder, James Turner, said the latest figure represents multiple evacuations for single patients -- including moving some soldiers back into theater. He said the 18,004 evacuations was for 11,700 patients.
Turner did not return e-mails or phone calls Tuesday and Wednesday asking for elaboration.
Winkenwerder appeared Tuesday before a House Government Reform panel with four Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers. Those soldiers offered a litany of complaints about poor health care for reserve and guard troops -- problems they said have been widespread during the war on terror, particularly on return to the United States.
Soldiers described being deployed to war with serious medical conditions and then getting poor and erratic health care upon return -- including months-long waits for doctors, surgeries or treatments. United Press International first reported that problem last October.
Two soldiers said better access to mental health services might have prevented two suicide attempts at two separate bases, and asserted that soldiers are sometimes prescribed powerful drugs by military health professionals in place of medical care. The soldiers also described widespread concern about being put out of the military without fair compensation for wounds and illnesses they received during service.
"Is it a question of incompetent medical care or a question of a well-organized government system that achieves just what it is supposed to achieve?" Retired Army Reserve First Sgt. Gerry Mosley, who served in Iraq, asked the panel.
"Use people, strip them of all human dignity, disrespect them, wear them down, and be pleased when soldiers no longer have the physical and mental capacities to continue to fight to have the same rights and respect as those American citizens for whom we have fought to preserve those entitlements."
Mosley said that after returning from Iraq last summer, he has had to drive 195 miles each way at his own expense to see a specialist. He said the Army put him out of service without compensating him for a neck injury or vertigo apparently triggered from mortar explosions. He can no longer work his civilian job. Since being put out of the Army, he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
The wives of two soldiers also testified. Laura Ramsey, wife of Florida Army National Guard Spc. John A. Ramsey, said through tears that she did not want her husband to serve in the guard anymore, after fighting for nine months to get surgery on his shoulders that were injured in Iraq. "Not after the nine months of hell that we have been through," Ramsey said.
Pentagon health officials described a series of steps they are taking to better screen soldiers for health problems before and after deploying for combat. They also have taken steps to ease the strain at major bases -- including a new policy to send some soldiers back home for treatment near their families after 25 days if they are unfit for duty after showing up for service.
While they wait, the Pentagon has set new standards to help ensure that living conditions are appropriate for sick, injured or ill troops.
Pentagon health officials mostly have emphasized swift and professional care for the acutely wounded by combat in Iraq.
"During Operation Iraqi Freedom, we used far-forward surgical and medical teams and technologies to care for casualties within minutes of injury," Winkenwerder told Congress last month. "Based on the current analysis, 98 percent of those wounded who, in fact, reached medical treatment survived their injuries."
But Pentagon data and interviews with soldiers at six bases in the United States and Europe show combat wounds represent a minority of casualties during wartime. The Pentagon "Operation Iraqi Freedom U.S. Casualty Update" on Tuesday listed a total of 2,998 soldiers wounded in action, in comparison to the 18,004 medical evacuations described by Winkenwerder.
The Pentagon defines a casualty as "any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status-whereabouts unknown, missing, ill, or injured."
More mundane wartime injures seem more prevalent: back and neck injuries, torn knees and elbows, heart and lung problems and mental problems like post-traumatic stress disorder that may not be diagnosed for months after returning from combat.
Soldiers say acute care for the wounded at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is excellent. But ill and injured troops -- particularly National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers -- sprinkled across the United States describe widespread concern for medical care and benefits described by the panel Tuesday. Some are in "medical hold" at U.S. bases while they wait for treatment.
"I have spoken probably with hundreds of soldiers since I was placed in med hold," Spc. Timothi M. McMichael told the panel Tuesday. He is on medical hold at Fort Knox, Ky. "I can only say that the uniform consensus is one of frustration, disappointment and anger. I have had soldiers with 15, 20, even 25 years in the military tell me they are disgusted," McMichael said. "The Army cannot afford to lose the number of senior non-commissioned officers it is losing every day."
In addition to the new policies, Winkenwerder said the Pentagon is racing to do better for these troops, as well as those wounded in combat. "I believe we are doing better. I really do," he told Congress Tuesday. "We understand. We appreciate that there are some issues that need to be addressed. We are aggressively addressing them."
Copyright © 2001-2004 United Press International
By Mark Benjamin , United Press International , Published 3/31/2004 3:04 PM
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- In the first year of war in Iraq, the military has made 18,004 medical evacuations during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon's top health official told Congress Tuesday.
The new data, through March 13, is nearly two-thirds higher than the 11,200 evacuations through Feb. 5 cited just last month to Congress by the same official, William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
In both cases, Winkenwerder described the evacuations as "total evacuations out of theater," and he said both times that the majority of evacuations represented routine medical treatment and not life-threatening injuries.
"As of March 13, 2004, data from the Transportation Command shows 18,004 total evacuations out of theater," Winkenwerder said Tuesday.
"As of February 5, 2004, data from the Transportation Command shows 11,200 total evacuations out of theater," he told a separate House panel Feb. 25.
A spokesman for Winkenwerder, James Turner, said the latest figure represents multiple evacuations for single patients -- including moving some soldiers back into theater. He said the 18,004 evacuations was for 11,700 patients.
Turner did not return e-mails or phone calls Tuesday and Wednesday asking for elaboration.
Winkenwerder appeared Tuesday before a House Government Reform panel with four Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers. Those soldiers offered a litany of complaints about poor health care for reserve and guard troops -- problems they said have been widespread during the war on terror, particularly on return to the United States.
Soldiers described being deployed to war with serious medical conditions and then getting poor and erratic health care upon return -- including months-long waits for doctors, surgeries or treatments. United Press International first reported that problem last October.
Two soldiers said better access to mental health services might have prevented two suicide attempts at two separate bases, and asserted that soldiers are sometimes prescribed powerful drugs by military health professionals in place of medical care. The soldiers also described widespread concern about being put out of the military without fair compensation for wounds and illnesses they received during service.
"Is it a question of incompetent medical care or a question of a well-organized government system that achieves just what it is supposed to achieve?" Retired Army Reserve First Sgt. Gerry Mosley, who served in Iraq, asked the panel.
"Use people, strip them of all human dignity, disrespect them, wear them down, and be pleased when soldiers no longer have the physical and mental capacities to continue to fight to have the same rights and respect as those American citizens for whom we have fought to preserve those entitlements."
Mosley said that after returning from Iraq last summer, he has had to drive 195 miles each way at his own expense to see a specialist. He said the Army put him out of service without compensating him for a neck injury or vertigo apparently triggered from mortar explosions. He can no longer work his civilian job. Since being put out of the Army, he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
The wives of two soldiers also testified. Laura Ramsey, wife of Florida Army National Guard Spc. John A. Ramsey, said through tears that she did not want her husband to serve in the guard anymore, after fighting for nine months to get surgery on his shoulders that were injured in Iraq. "Not after the nine months of hell that we have been through," Ramsey said.
Pentagon health officials described a series of steps they are taking to better screen soldiers for health problems before and after deploying for combat. They also have taken steps to ease the strain at major bases -- including a new policy to send some soldiers back home for treatment near their families after 25 days if they are unfit for duty after showing up for service.
While they wait, the Pentagon has set new standards to help ensure that living conditions are appropriate for sick, injured or ill troops.
Pentagon health officials mostly have emphasized swift and professional care for the acutely wounded by combat in Iraq.
"During Operation Iraqi Freedom, we used far-forward surgical and medical teams and technologies to care for casualties within minutes of injury," Winkenwerder told Congress last month. "Based on the current analysis, 98 percent of those wounded who, in fact, reached medical treatment survived their injuries."
But Pentagon data and interviews with soldiers at six bases in the United States and Europe show combat wounds represent a minority of casualties during wartime. The Pentagon "Operation Iraqi Freedom U.S. Casualty Update" on Tuesday listed a total of 2,998 soldiers wounded in action, in comparison to the 18,004 medical evacuations described by Winkenwerder.
The Pentagon defines a casualty as "any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status-whereabouts unknown, missing, ill, or injured."
More mundane wartime injures seem more prevalent: back and neck injuries, torn knees and elbows, heart and lung problems and mental problems like post-traumatic stress disorder that may not be diagnosed for months after returning from combat.
Soldiers say acute care for the wounded at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is excellent. But ill and injured troops -- particularly National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers -- sprinkled across the United States describe widespread concern for medical care and benefits described by the panel Tuesday. Some are in "medical hold" at U.S. bases while they wait for treatment.
"I have spoken probably with hundreds of soldiers since I was placed in med hold," Spc. Timothi M. McMichael told the panel Tuesday. He is on medical hold at Fort Knox, Ky. "I can only say that the uniform consensus is one of frustration, disappointment and anger. I have had soldiers with 15, 20, even 25 years in the military tell me they are disgusted," McMichael said. "The Army cannot afford to lose the number of senior non-commissioned officers it is losing every day."
In addition to the new policies, Winkenwerder said the Pentagon is racing to do better for these troops, as well as those wounded in combat. "I believe we are doing better. I really do," he told Congress Tuesday. "We understand. We appreciate that there are some issues that need to be addressed. We are aggressively addressing them."
Copyright © 2001-2004 United Press International
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Moogle ! "Gmail" is a New Google Email Service - better or worst than hotmail
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Your Intellectual Property Rights. Google does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video, or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your Gmail account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service.
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Dick Eastman
I have read many fine articles by Dick Eastman in the newsgroups, here is one of them :
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oldman wrote:
> --- theoldman wrote:
> > Will all the dead peoples matter twenty or say
> > thirty years from now?
> >
> > I think not.
> >
> > What loss to the world of an Arab or Baltic
> > cultural past of silly
> > ethnicity by living within artificial borders? ...
> > Will it matter to those who knew them? Very little!
> > A private grief
> > known only to themselves and not cared or wanting to
> > be shared by
> > anyone else.
until now I respected the oldman
wants to erase boarders -- i.e., do away with self-governing nations -- relinquishing control to what -- Adam Smith's Invisible Glove on the iron fist of hereditary aristrocracy rule-by-the-worse screw-humanity oligarchy?
What will all those Arab lives taken today by Zionist mass-murderers (who did 9-11) matter 20 years from now?
What will it matter in so many billion years when the sun going red engulfs the earths orbit or when the solar system finally makes it to the black hole drain that the Milky Way is going down?
The matter is that we are hear and now -- human lives matter because we are humans and we value our lives and we are community so we value everyone's lives -- no matter how much ZIonist hollywood and Zionist educational intellectual-emotional-and-societal dumb-down may seek to darken our minds and souls -- it matters because the means used to effect change
continue as fatal flaws within the change effected -- it matters because evil is in every heart and must be overcome by love and intelligence and all-conquering gentleness -- that it impossible to render the universal human condition better by "killing all the bad people" "all the nationalists" etc. -- because nations not dominated by investment bankers, i.e., true republics by and for the people are the only means of having real community, real freedom, real equality of opportunity, real rule by the servants of all rather than merchant banking houses and the slavish no-alternative "yess-men" who do their bidding against their brother man.
What did Wolrd War One matter which killed off the most promising generation of educated middle-class in history, while the deviant elites strutted around in cool uniforms, speeches were made and financiers agents like Bernard Baruch ensured the masters of the corporations and high-finance war-profiteering made out like the super bandits they are? It mattered -- what could the mind and spirit of man have done had it not been squandered on the wars and depressions engineered for the selfish personal gain of these monsters still at large?
I'm with Solveiga -- and the old man is just the wicked the Old Man we all have and which we all must put down to before we fully belong to the community Mankind.
Or was "oldman" being cosmically sarcastic -- in which case for me it "worked."
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
----- Original Message -----
From: "solveiga k"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Antiwar com] .Do they matter?
> Will the death by bomb or other violence of "the old
> man" twenty years before the time appointed by God or
> nature or fate or what-will-you matter? No, except to
> the old man and maybe his family. Likewise for all
> those others. Each one matters enormously.
> --- theoldman wrote:
> > Will all the dead peoples matter twenty or say
> > thirty years from now?
> >
> > I think not.
> >
> > What loss to the world of an Arab or Baltic
> > cultural past of silly
> > ethnicity by living within artificial borders?
> > They will be all the
> > same and need to act together in order to survive in
> > that world of
> > teamwork, teamwork, teamwork and strife will be
> > eliminated.
> >
> > Will it matter to those who knew them? Very little!
> > A private grief
> > known only to themselves and not cared or wanting to
> > be shared by
> > anyone else.
> >
> > The dead in the Balkans are just as dead as those
> > who die daily in
> > the Palestine areas, and within a span of at the
> > most 20 years the
> > matter will be setled with lesser of the cultures
> > subdued and dying
> > conformed and uniformed into oblivion.
> >
> > The dead in Iraq of today will be forgotten except
> > for those killed
> > by men in the present/ past as the then current
> > populace goes about
> > its daily living needs.
> >
> > The comfortable protestors of today will in all
> > likelihood be
> > looking for smokers and any other socially taboo
> > practioners to turn
> > in for a reward as their civic duty demands.
> >
> > Leading protest for more heating oil in the winters
> > and more
> > medicines when they are ill the 20 years older will
> > still think they
> > are geting ahead and making a difference in the
> > world,until they too
> > are dead and no more.
> >
> > If they have conformed well enough the passing of
> > years will allow
> > them a comfortable apartment or small home with a
> > good socially
> > acceptable mind numbing work of art book to
> > read.Within the home they
> > may have a pet or whatever the local ordinace allows
> > and if lucky to
> > accompany them their 3rd, 4th mate or maybe just a
> > friend to talk too.
> >
> > They will have a good life doing nothing, knowing
> > nothing, but a good
> > life none the less.Boring and stasis is their
> > lot.Comfortable yet in
> > their declining years if they conformed well enough
> > to be able to
> > break the monotony of daily nothingness by going
> > somewhere to be
> > amoung the other nothings.Free to do nothing and
> > liberty to maybe
> > smoke a bowl or drink the allowable limit of
> > approved wines or
> > liquors and argue on the merits of arguing how many
> > angels fit on
> > the angles of a pinhead. Or is it the head of a pin?
> >
> >
> > The democratic election for local street moderator
> > will be hotly
> > contested during the global warmed days of summer
> > and an especailly
> > important ballot issue will be on wether 80 years
> > old is too old to
> > wait before enforced euthansia is administered with
> > the most popular
> > choices being presented as 78 or 79, choose one of
> > the above, being
> > presented.Another issue is wether the amount of
> > unemployed benefits
> > along with social security should be cut 10% or 20%,
> > choose one of
> > the above.
> >
> > The Democratic Government must have at least a
> > mandatory 95% of
> > populace voting before an issue will be
> > counted,unless it is during a
> > National Emergency which everyone can understand the
> > need for of
> > course.
> >
> > Rumors of yet another terrorist act perpetrated by
> > some evil
> > religious bigot in some far remote reaches who may
> > have friends near
> > them will call for ever more vigilance on their part
> > and even tho it
> > causes delays in transportation and production
> > schedules the
> > populace should just leave earlier in order to get
> > to work on
> > time.The unemployed volunteers who do community work
> > will ensure your
> > homes are safe while you are away.
> >
> > No , todays dead will not matter in those times for
> > they who live
> > in the comfortable nothingness of their peace.
> >
> >
>
*************************************
oldman wrote:
> --- theoldman
> > Will all the dead peoples matter twenty or say
> > thirty years from now?
> >
> > I think not.
> >
> > What loss to the world of an Arab or Baltic
> > cultural past of silly
> > ethnicity by living within artificial borders? ...
> > Will it matter to those who knew them? Very little!
> > A private grief
> > known only to themselves and not cared or wanting to
> > be shared by
> > anyone else.
until now I respected the oldman
wants to erase boarders -- i.e., do away with self-governing nations -- relinquishing control to what -- Adam Smith's Invisible Glove on the iron fist of hereditary aristrocracy rule-by-the-worse screw-humanity oligarchy?
What will all those Arab lives taken today by Zionist mass-murderers (who did 9-11) matter 20 years from now?
What will it matter in so many billion years when the sun going red engulfs the earths orbit or when the solar system finally makes it to the black hole drain that the Milky Way is going down?
The matter is that we are hear and now -- human lives matter because we are humans and we value our lives and we are community so we value everyone's lives -- no matter how much ZIonist hollywood and Zionist educational intellectual-emotional-and-societal dumb-down may seek to darken our minds and souls -- it matters because the means used to effect change
continue as fatal flaws within the change effected -- it matters because evil is in every heart and must be overcome by love and intelligence and all-conquering gentleness -- that it impossible to render the universal human condition better by "killing all the bad people" "all the nationalists" etc. -- because nations not dominated by investment bankers, i.e., true republics by and for the people are the only means of having real community, real freedom, real equality of opportunity, real rule by the servants of all rather than merchant banking houses and the slavish no-alternative "yess-men" who do their bidding against their brother man.
What did Wolrd War One matter which killed off the most promising generation of educated middle-class in history, while the deviant elites strutted around in cool uniforms, speeches were made and financiers agents like Bernard Baruch ensured the masters of the corporations and high-finance war-profiteering made out like the super bandits they are? It mattered -- what could the mind and spirit of man have done had it not been squandered on the wars and depressions engineered for the selfish personal gain of these monsters still at large?
I'm with Solveiga -- and the old man is just the wicked the Old Man we all have and which we all must put down to before we fully belong to the community Mankind.
Or was "oldman" being cosmically sarcastic -- in which case for me it "worked."
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
----- Original Message -----
From: "solveiga k"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Antiwar com] .Do they matter?
> Will the death by bomb or other violence of "the old
> man" twenty years before the time appointed by God or
> nature or fate or what-will-you matter? No, except to
> the old man and maybe his family. Likewise for all
> those others. Each one matters enormously.
> --- theoldman
> > Will all the dead peoples matter twenty or say
> > thirty years from now?
> >
> > I think not.
> >
> > What loss to the world of an Arab or Baltic
> > cultural past of silly
> > ethnicity by living within artificial borders?
> > They will be all the
> > same and need to act together in order to survive in
> > that world of
> > teamwork, teamwork, teamwork and strife will be
> > eliminated.
> >
> > Will it matter to those who knew them? Very little!
> > A private grief
> > known only to themselves and not cared or wanting to
> > be shared by
> > anyone else.
> >
> > The dead in the Balkans are just as dead as those
> > who die daily in
> > the Palestine areas, and within a span of at the
> > most 20 years the
> > matter will be setled with lesser of the cultures
> > subdued and dying
> > conformed and uniformed into oblivion.
> >
> > The dead in Iraq of today will be forgotten except
> > for those killed
> > by men in the present/ past as the then current
> > populace goes about
> > its daily living needs.
> >
> > The comfortable protestors of today will in all
> > likelihood be
> > looking for smokers and any other socially taboo
> > practioners to turn
> > in for a reward as their civic duty demands.
> >
> > Leading protest for more heating oil in the winters
> > and more
> > medicines when they are ill the 20 years older will
> > still think they
> > are geting ahead and making a difference in the
> > world,until they too
> > are dead and no more.
> >
> > If they have conformed well enough the passing of
> > years will allow
> > them a comfortable apartment or small home with a
> > good socially
> > acceptable mind numbing work of art book to
> > read.Within the home they
> > may have a pet or whatever the local ordinace allows
> > and if lucky to
> > accompany them their 3rd, 4th mate or maybe just a
> > friend to talk too.
> >
> > They will have a good life doing nothing, knowing
> > nothing, but a good
> > life none the less.Boring and stasis is their
> > lot.Comfortable yet in
> > their declining years if they conformed well enough
> > to be able to
> > break the monotony of daily nothingness by going
> > somewhere to be
> > amoung the other nothings.Free to do nothing and
> > liberty to maybe
> > smoke a bowl or drink the allowable limit of
> > approved wines or
> > liquors and argue on the merits of arguing how many
> > angels fit on
> > the angles of a pinhead. Or is it the head of a pin?
> >
> >
> > The democratic election for local street moderator
> > will be hotly
> > contested during the global warmed days of summer
> > and an especailly
> > important ballot issue will be on wether 80 years
> > old is too old to
> > wait before enforced euthansia is administered with
> > the most popular
> > choices being presented as 78 or 79, choose one of
> > the above, being
> > presented.Another issue is wether the amount of
> > unemployed benefits
> > along with social security should be cut 10% or 20%,
> > choose one of
> > the above.
> >
> > The Democratic Government must have at least a
> > mandatory 95% of
> > populace voting before an issue will be
> > counted,unless it is during a
> > National Emergency which everyone can understand the
> > need for of
> > course.
> >
> > Rumors of yet another terrorist act perpetrated by
> > some evil
> > religious bigot in some far remote reaches who may
> > have friends near
> > them will call for ever more vigilance on their part
> > and even tho it
> > causes delays in transportation and production
> > schedules the
> > populace should just leave earlier in order to get
> > to work on
> > time.The unemployed volunteers who do community work
> > will ensure your
> > homes are safe while you are away.
> >
> > No , todays dead will not matter in those times for
> > they who live
> > in the comfortable nothingness of their peace.
> >
> >
>
Vast majority of Portuguese want troops in Iraq withdrawn : in order to have HUDNA with Al-Qaeda
Vast majority of Portuguese want troops in Iraq withdrawn: poll: "Vast majority of Portuguese want troops in Iraq withdrawn: poll
LISBON (AFP) Mar 29, 2004
Nearly three in four residents of Portugal, or 71 percent, want the country's 128-strong contingent of national guards in Iraq to be withdrawn from the war-ravaged country, a poll published Monday found."
Only one in four backed the continuation of the mission while the remaining three percent had no opinion, according to the poll carried out for top-selling daily newspaper Correio da Manha.
While opposition to the presence of the national guards in Iraq was stronger among supporters of left-wing parties, the poll found a slim majority of backers of the ruling centre-right Social Democrats also want the troops to come home.
Portugal dispatched the national guard contingent to Iraq in November, immediately after a suicide bomb attack on the Italian base at Nasiriyah, in the south of the country.
Nineteen Italians and nine Iraqis were killed in that attack.
The Portuguese national guards are part of a multinational force which is providing security in southern Iraq under British command.
The Portuguese government has come under pressure from left-wing parties to recall the guards since Spain's incoming prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero vowed earlier this month to stand by his pre-election pledge to withdraw Spain's troops from Iraq if the UN does not take charge by the end of June.
Zapatero's Socialist party won an upset victory in elections held March 14, three days after the Madrid train bombings revived opposition to the conservative Popular Party of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's decision to commit Spain to the war.
But Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso has rejected the calls to bring the troops home, arguing he does not set policy based on election results in other countries.
Last week he announced Portugal would be willing to keep its national guards in Iraq after Washington hands over sovereignty of the country to Iraqis on June 30 if asked to do so by Iraqi authorities.
The telephone poll of 600 was carried out by the Aximage polling firm between March 15 and 17.
LISBON (AFP) Mar 29, 2004
Nearly three in four residents of Portugal, or 71 percent, want the country's 128-strong contingent of national guards in Iraq to be withdrawn from the war-ravaged country, a poll published Monday found."
Only one in four backed the continuation of the mission while the remaining three percent had no opinion, according to the poll carried out for top-selling daily newspaper Correio da Manha.
While opposition to the presence of the national guards in Iraq was stronger among supporters of left-wing parties, the poll found a slim majority of backers of the ruling centre-right Social Democrats also want the troops to come home.
Portugal dispatched the national guard contingent to Iraq in November, immediately after a suicide bomb attack on the Italian base at Nasiriyah, in the south of the country.
Nineteen Italians and nine Iraqis were killed in that attack.
The Portuguese national guards are part of a multinational force which is providing security in southern Iraq under British command.
The Portuguese government has come under pressure from left-wing parties to recall the guards since Spain's incoming prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero vowed earlier this month to stand by his pre-election pledge to withdraw Spain's troops from Iraq if the UN does not take charge by the end of June.
Zapatero's Socialist party won an upset victory in elections held March 14, three days after the Madrid train bombings revived opposition to the conservative Popular Party of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's decision to commit Spain to the war.
But Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso has rejected the calls to bring the troops home, arguing he does not set policy based on election results in other countries.
Last week he announced Portugal would be willing to keep its national guards in Iraq after Washington hands over sovereignty of the country to Iraqis on June 30 if asked to do so by Iraqi authorities.
The telephone poll of 600 was carried out by the Aximage polling firm between March 15 and 17.
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"Non-Collateral Damage" : Because of the illegal occupation and the criminal behavior of USA in Iraq
"Non-Collateral Damage"
Because of the illegal occupation and the criminal behavior of USA in Iraq
"
9 American invaders including 4 mercinaries, killed in Iraq
"
"
Mercenaries bodies mutilated, dragged through Fallujah's streets
"
MERCENARIES of BLACKWATER USA : Mercenaries bodies mutilated, dragged through Fallujah's streets
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said at a briefing in Baghdad that it was not known what the coalition contractors were doing in Fallujah — apparently without a military escort — when the attack occurred. U.S. officials, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, said that all four contractors were Americans who worked for Blackwater USA of Moyock, N.C. The officials did not confirm reports from the scene that a woman was among the dead.
Blackwater USA supplies security guards to the Coalition Provisional Authority and has provided protection for Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer, among other coalition officials.
That would explain why some Iraqis reported that dog tags were removed from some of the corpses. These people were not "civilians" or "contractors." They were private troops hired by the CPA - mercenaries.
The US is hiring mercenaries in Chile to replace its soldiers on security duty in Iraq. A Pentagon contractor has begun recruiting former commandos, other soldiers and seamen, paying them up to US$4000 a month to guard oil wells.
Last month Blackwater USA flew about 60 former commandos from Santiago to a 970-hectare training camp in North Carolina. Many of them had trained under the military government of Augusto Pinochet. From there they were taken to Iraq, where they were expected to stay between six months and a year.
The president of Blackwater USA, Gary Jackson, said. "We scour the ends of the earth to find professionals - the Chilean commandos are very, very professional and they fit within the Blackwater system."
As Iraq is under occupation, the heroic Iraq Resistance, has declared very clearly that all Iraq is prohibited to all foreigners, therefore, if real civilians are killed there, it should be counted as "collateral damage". However those mercenaries are not considered collateral damage, but should be counted as intentional damage.
Nokia ventures into the Blogging business ...
Nokia ventures into the Blogging business ...: "Next week at the mammoth CeBIT show in Hannover, Nokia will unveil a new piece of software called Lifeblog. It's likely to be submerged under the thousands of big technology announcements at the show, but the software is an important signal of the rapidly changing mobile phone market, and a sign of what is to come. "
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Anthrax Probe Dismissed
Anthrax Probe Dismissed
U.S. Wants Hatfill's Lawsuit Over Anthrax Probe Dismissed:
'Disbarred' !!!
"Judge Walton was skeptical Hatfill could find work in his field after being publicly linked to the anthrax investigation. 'At least by implication, he's disbarred,' Walton said. 'The information is now out there. The man's a pariah. Nobody's going to hire him."
They did not even send him to Guantanmo !!!
Miss New York : Iraq Propagandist Jaclyn Nesheiwat !!!
Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat pose with Navy Petty Officer Crismon, Marine Lance Cpl Griger, Army Sgt Domingez, and Marine Lance Cpl Henry in front.
Would they have sent her to do propaganda in Iraq if she were a "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" , WASP chick of their own!
This is a leaflet that the Marines have scattered all over Fallujah
:
"'You can't escape and you can't hide ... the coalition will find you and bring you to justice."
This is a leaflet that the Marines have scattered all over Fallujah
Criminals dont like to see their crimes documented !
Criminals dont like to see their crimes documented !
Haaretz - Israel News: "The movie contains controversial statements and four or five scenes that are very problematic,' said Mazza, adding that he had seen the film several times and determined that some scenes should be cut to satisfy those who oppose its screening."
"Jenin Jenin"
Criminals dont like to see their crimes documented !
'Where is God,' an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin.
The film, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. "Jenin Jenin" shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and furniture among the debris. A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She tells what she would do to Prime Minister Sharon if he visited the camp and she shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle. They will keep on producing children, who can continue the fight against injustice.
The sad question forces itself on the spectator. What will become of a country, a people when its children are confronted with war and violence from a very early age?
Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends.
Musharraf left counting the cost
Musharraf left counting the cost
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - The 12-day Pakistani army operation in the South Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan frontier is winding down following the release on Sunday of 12 government officials and soldiers seized by alleged al-Qaeda fighters and tribal allies. Similarly, a number of tribal suspects held by the army have been set free or will be released soon.
Those released by the tribals were among 14 people captured at the start of a clash in which more than 100 people have been killed. After cordoning off the area around Wana in South Waziristan with over 5,000 troops and losing about 50 soldiers in the offensive, the military says that "we have almost achieved our set targets" in driving al-Qaeda fugitives and Afghan resistance fighters from the region.
Tension has been high after the execution of eight Pakistan soldiers, who had been taken hostage by the fighters during an ambush on an army convoy last Tuesday.
The end of open hostilities, however, is only the beginning, and far from achieving its targets, the army, and Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf, are left with far bigger problems than when they first embarked on the mission into the tribal region nearly two weeks ago.
Call for help
Although the Pakistan army has put a brave face on its South Waziristan escapade, claiming that its job has been done, in reality it had to rely on outside help to extricate itself with a semblance of its "face" intact.
After all efforts to pacify the hostile tribals failed - the semi-autonomous regions are notoriously anti-central authority - the government persuaded leading clerics to bring pressure to bear on the tribals to negotiate a truce. The clerics, who belong to the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) religious political party that is well represented in the National Assembly as well as the provincial governments of North West Frontier Province and Balochistan, are usually perceived as anti-US, but in fact, when the chips are down, they dance to Musharraf's tune.
The army sought help from the clerics on two fronts:
Winners and losers
Despite heavy United States pressure for a sustained campaign in Pakistan to once and for all drive all insurgents (both foreign fighters and Afghan resistance) from their sanctuaries in the tribal areas, the operation has now ended.
In terms of the broader picture, the plan was for the Pakistan army on the one side and US troops across the border in Afghanistan to sandwich all resistance between a "hammer and an anvil" and drive them from the Shawal area - an inhospitable no man's land that straddles the border. This is nowhere near to being achieved.
And there has been a strong backlash against the Pakistan establishment, both in the tribal areas and in the country in general, the extent of which has severely rattled the country's leaders. Indeed, according to insiders who spoke to Asia Times Online, there is a perception that, given the failings of the South Waziristan operation, there is an "an intelligence within an intelligence" and "an army within an army" in Pakistan and that factions in these organizations backed the tribals "in the name of Islam". According to sources, more than 150 soldiers of the army and para-military forces refused to take part in the action, including at least one colonel and a major.
The release of a tape last week purported to have been made by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No 2 in al-Qaeda, also shook the establishment. Al-Zawahiri was reported to be the "high profile target" of the South Wazaristan operation. In the tape, al-Zawahiri called Musharraf a "traitor" and urged people to overthrow his government. "Musharraf seeks to stab the Islamic resistance in Afghanistan in the back. Every Muslim in Pakistan should work hard to get rid of this client government, which will continue to submit to America until it destroys Pakistan," the speaker on the tape said.
As a result, for the first time ever, the Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence and the Intelligence Bureau on Friday conducted a survey in which they canvassed the opinions of professionals, including writers and lawyers, on the possible repercussions of the taped speech.
The political backlash of the South Waziristan operation has been so powerful that Musharraf has inducted former dictator General Zia ul-Haq's son, Ejazul Haq, into the federal cabinet as minister for religious affairs in order to use his good offices - as the son of the staunchly pro-Islam leader - with the religious segments of society.
Tribals take stock
Soon after the truce was announced on Sunday and the Pakistan army began returning to its camp, pamphlets in the Pashto language were widely distributed in Bannu, North Waziristan and South Waziristan. They claimed: "Do not ever make the mistake of chasing the mujahideen of the Taliban and al-Qaeda." The pamphlets clearly warned those tribals who had cooperated with Pakistan and spied on the fugitives.
In a public gathering on Monday in Wana in South Wazaristan, religious and tribal leaders gathered to take stock. "It was just like Jasn-e-Fatah [D-Day-like celebrations]," a contact who was present told Asia Times Online. "Wazir tribals presented turbans to more than 100 jirga [council] people as a gesture of thanks and confidence."
Members of the National Assembly in Islamabad and others gave speeches, the gist of which can be summarized as follows:
The meeting concluded that the army had destroyed 84 houses in its search for fugitives, and that claims that the fugitives had used long tunnels to escape were nonsense. In fact, these are trenches that have been used for many years to carry water. Now the army has destroyed them - and with it the region's water system.
The meeting concluded by saying that those who died in the trouble were shaheed (martyrs), and apologized for the army personal who died, saying it was the fault of the "high ups".
(Copyright 2004 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - The 12-day Pakistani army operation in the South Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan frontier is winding down following the release on Sunday of 12 government officials and soldiers seized by alleged al-Qaeda fighters and tribal allies. Similarly, a number of tribal suspects held by the army have been set free or will be released soon.
Those released by the tribals were among 14 people captured at the start of a clash in which more than 100 people have been killed. After cordoning off the area around Wana in South Waziristan with over 5,000 troops and losing about 50 soldiers in the offensive, the military says that "we have almost achieved our set targets" in driving al-Qaeda fugitives and Afghan resistance fighters from the region.
Tension has been high after the execution of eight Pakistan soldiers, who had been taken hostage by the fighters during an ambush on an army convoy last Tuesday.
The end of open hostilities, however, is only the beginning, and far from achieving its targets, the army, and Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf, are left with far bigger problems than when they first embarked on the mission into the tribal region nearly two weeks ago.
Call for help
Although the Pakistan army has put a brave face on its South Waziristan escapade, claiming that its job has been done, in reality it had to rely on outside help to extricate itself with a semblance of its "face" intact.
After all efforts to pacify the hostile tribals failed - the semi-autonomous regions are notoriously anti-central authority - the government persuaded leading clerics to bring pressure to bear on the tribals to negotiate a truce. The clerics, who belong to the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) religious political party that is well represented in the National Assembly as well as the provincial governments of North West Frontier Province and Balochistan, are usually perceived as anti-US, but in fact, when the chips are down, they dance to Musharraf's tune.
The army sought help from the clerics on two fronts:
- To use their influence among the tribes to get them to compromise;
- To prevent the spread of a campaign started by some extreme religious leaders in Islamabad in which soldiers serving in the tribal regions were to be denied funeral rites.
Winners and losers
Despite heavy United States pressure for a sustained campaign in Pakistan to once and for all drive all insurgents (both foreign fighters and Afghan resistance) from their sanctuaries in the tribal areas, the operation has now ended.
In terms of the broader picture, the plan was for the Pakistan army on the one side and US troops across the border in Afghanistan to sandwich all resistance between a "hammer and an anvil" and drive them from the Shawal area - an inhospitable no man's land that straddles the border. This is nowhere near to being achieved.
And there has been a strong backlash against the Pakistan establishment, both in the tribal areas and in the country in general, the extent of which has severely rattled the country's leaders. Indeed, according to insiders who spoke to Asia Times Online, there is a perception that, given the failings of the South Waziristan operation, there is an "an intelligence within an intelligence" and "an army within an army" in Pakistan and that factions in these organizations backed the tribals "in the name of Islam". According to sources, more than 150 soldiers of the army and para-military forces refused to take part in the action, including at least one colonel and a major.
The release of a tape last week purported to have been made by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No 2 in al-Qaeda, also shook the establishment. Al-Zawahiri was reported to be the "high profile target" of the South Wazaristan operation. In the tape, al-Zawahiri called Musharraf a "traitor" and urged people to overthrow his government. "Musharraf seeks to stab the Islamic resistance in Afghanistan in the back. Every Muslim in Pakistan should work hard to get rid of this client government, which will continue to submit to America until it destroys Pakistan," the speaker on the tape said.
As a result, for the first time ever, the Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence and the Intelligence Bureau on Friday conducted a survey in which they canvassed the opinions of professionals, including writers and lawyers, on the possible repercussions of the taped speech.
The political backlash of the South Waziristan operation has been so powerful that Musharraf has inducted former dictator General Zia ul-Haq's son, Ejazul Haq, into the federal cabinet as minister for religious affairs in order to use his good offices - as the son of the staunchly pro-Islam leader - with the religious segments of society.
Tribals take stock
Soon after the truce was announced on Sunday and the Pakistan army began returning to its camp, pamphlets in the Pashto language were widely distributed in Bannu, North Waziristan and South Waziristan. They claimed: "Do not ever make the mistake of chasing the mujahideen of the Taliban and al-Qaeda." The pamphlets clearly warned those tribals who had cooperated with Pakistan and spied on the fugitives.
In a public gathering on Monday in Wana in South Wazaristan, religious and tribal leaders gathered to take stock. "It was just like Jasn-e-Fatah [D-Day-like celebrations]," a contact who was present told Asia Times Online. "Wazir tribals presented turbans to more than 100 jirga [council] people as a gesture of thanks and confidence."
Members of the National Assembly in Islamabad and others gave speeches, the gist of which can be summarized as follows:
- Congratulations to all the tribes for fighting as a united nation.
- The tribes had once again proved their "glorious traditions" of fighting evil.
- The Federally-Administered Tribal Areas will remain independent.
- The Central administration is always hostile to the tribal people and has established new traditions of "cruelty and barbarism".
- Musharraf was misguided about the alleged presence of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri and other al-Qaeda people.
The meeting concluded that the army had destroyed 84 houses in its search for fugitives, and that claims that the fugitives had used long tunnels to escape were nonsense. In fact, these are trenches that have been used for many years to carry water. Now the army has destroyed them - and with it the region's water system.
The meeting concluded by saying that those who died in the trouble were shaheed (martyrs), and apologized for the army personal who died, saying it was the fault of the "high ups".
(Copyright 2004 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
هواجس على أرصفة الوطن - إباء إسماعيل
هواجس على أرصفة الوطن
إباء إسماعيل
أَرَقٌ ،
يُلوِّحُ في المدى
وَيَحطُّ في روحي القلقْ ...
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والروحُ يَحملها الضّياءْ .
أحيا عشرات الآلاف من فلسطينيي الداخل 1948 الذكرى الـ28 ليوم الأرض بمسيرات وإضرابات شلت جميع نواحي الحياة. فقد شارك أكثر من ثلاثين ألفاً في المسيرة المركزية للذكرى السنوية ليوم الأرض وذلك في بلدة عرابة في الجليل شمال الناصرة حيث التقت ثلاث مسيرات جاءت من البلدات المجاورة مع وفود قدمت من القرى والبلدات داخل الخط الأخضر. ويحيي نحو مليون فلسطيني داخل الخط الأخضر الذكرى تخليدا لاستشهاد ستة فلسطينيين برصاص القوات الإسرائيلية داخل الخط الأخضر في احتجاجات على مصادرة الحكومة الإسرائيلية لأراض فلسطينية. وقال نائب رئيس الحركة الإسلامية الشيخ كمال الخطيب إن الحكومة الإسرائيلية تتعامل مع الفلسطينيين داخل الخط الخضر إما لإنهاء هويتهم أو لترحيلهم. كما نظمت بهذه المناسبة مسيرات في رام الله وبعض القرى المحيطة بها والأخرى القريبة من القدس. وفي قطاع غزة تظاهر الآلاف من الفلسطينيين لإحياء الذكرى مطالبين بإنهاء الاحتلال الإسرائيلي للأراضي الفلسطينية. وخرج أكثر من ألفي فلسطيني في مدينة غزة بدعوة من لجنة القوى الوطنية والإسلامية في مسيرة يحملون الأعلام الفلسطينية وشعارات "لا للاستيطان نعم للتمسك بالأرض" و"لا لبناء الجدران لا لهدم المنازل والتجريف ولا لسياسة الاغتيالات". وأحرق المتظاهرون في غزة نعشا كتب عليه القمة العربية ونعشا آخر كتب عليه الجامعة العربية تعبيرا عن احتجاجهم على إلغاء القمة العربية التي كانت مقررة في تونس أمس الاثنين. وخرجت مظاهرات مماثلة في كل من رفح وخان يونس ودير البلح جنوبي قطاع غزة.
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حروب دائمة لصالح اسرائيل
زمرة المحافظين الجدد تسعى لشن حروب دائمة لصالح اسرائيل وليس امريكا !
اذا كان حزب الحرب قد نال غرضه فإنه حصل معه على مالم يسعى اليه : فضح اعضائه وارتباطاته واهدافه. في لحظة فريدة من لحظات الصحافة الامريكية وجه الصحفي تيم روسيرت هذا السؤال مباشرة الى ريتشارد بيرل : " هل تستطيع ان تؤكد للمشاهدين الامريكان ان هذه القضية هي ضد صدام حسين وان الاطاحة به تخدم المصالح الامريكية؟ وماهي علاقة ذلك باسرائيل؟"
فجأة برزت العلاقة الاسرائيلية على السطح، وهذ اما سبب حرجا لحزب الحرب. وعندما وجدوا انفسهم على خط النار، لجأ اصدقاؤنا المحافظن الجدد الى مايفعله تلميذ خائب ، اتخذوا وضع الاقلية المضطهدة.
وقد بدأ الحملة رئيس تحير وول ستريت جرنال السابق ماكس بوت . كتب يقول :" عندما يبدأ هؤلاء المعارضون للمحافظين الجدد يذكرون اسماء مثل ولفوفتز وكوهين يبدو الامر احيانا وكأن المعنى الحقيقي الذي يقصدونه هو (المحافظين اليهود)" ولكنه يقر بأن العلاقة مع اسرائيل هي حسب تعبيره " عقيدة رئيسية للمحافظين الجدد" ويقول ايضا ان استراتيجية الامن القومي للرئيس بوش " تبدو وكأنها مستمدة مباشرة من صفحات مجلة كومنتري (مجلة كومنتري هي مجلة شهرية تصدر عن اللجنة الامريكية اليهودية)."
ويشتكي ديفد بروكس من صحيفة ويكلي ستاندارد بأن الهجوم المبني على الرابطة مع اسرائيل قد ادخلته في جحيم شخصي :" يأتيني الان فيضان من الخطب اللاسامية في بريدي الالكتروني وبريدي الصوتي وصندوق بريدي . ان اللاسامية حية وتزدهر ولكن مركزها الان ليس على اليمين البوكانينين (نسبة لكاتب هذه المقالة المعروف بربطه بين المحافظين الجدد وبين اليهود) وانما على يسار حركة السلام."
اما كاتب العمود في واشنطن بوست روبرت كاجان فإنه يقول " في لندن . . يجد المرء افضل عقول بريطانيا يتحدثون بانجليزية اوكسفورد البليغة ، عن نظريات المؤامرة التي يروجها باتريك بوكانان بخصوص (المحافظين الجدد) - عليك ان تقرأها : اليهود - الذين اختطفوا السياسة الخارجية الامريكية "
ويتهم لورنس كابلان من صحيفة نيو ريبابلك مجلتنا الصغيرة (المحافظ الامريكي) بأنها " تحولت الى منبر لاولئك الذين يزعمون ان الرئيس بوش اصبح عميل . . ايريل شارون و (حزب حرب المحافظين الجدد)".
ويتهم ايضا كتاب مثل بول شرويثق وكريس ماثيوز وروبرت نوفاك وجورجي ان جاير وجيسون فيست وجاري هارت بأنهم يدعون ان " اعضاء من فريق بوش يمتثلون لاوامر اسرائيل وبذلك يظهرون - ولاءات مزدوجة - "
ان المشكلة الحقيقية في هذه ا لمزاعم ليس فقط انها غير صحيحة، وانما المشكلة انها مسسمة للافكار. ان استدعاء شبح الولاءات المزدوجة لاخماد اي انتقاد ومناقشة يرقى الى اكثر من مجرد تلويث للمناقشات العامة . انها الغاء للمناقشات العامة، فكيف يمكن للمرء ان يفند اتهامات تستند الى العرقية؟ انه من المستحيل دحض هذه الاتهامات وهذا مايراد منها.
ماذا يجري هنا؟ لقد رد ميكي كاوس من صحيفة (سليت) بعنوان " لورنس كابلان يلعب على وتر اللاسامية).
مايفعله كابلان وبروكس وبوت وكاجان هو نفس مافعله القس جيسي جاكسون عندما وجد متلبسا باستلام مساهمة كبيرة من شركة فورتشن 500 التي كان يتهمها بالتفرقة العنصرية. لقد لعب على وتر العنصرية. وهكذا ايضا يحاول المحافظون الجدد بتفنيد المنتقدين باغتيال شخصياتهم وتشويه اهدافهم.
وبالتأكيد فإن الاتهام باللاسامية هو الذي يسمم الافكار لأن هذا الاتهام مخصص لالغاء المناقشات العامة وترهيب الخصوم وحظر آرائهم وابتزازهم مع ناشريهم. يقول المحافظون الجدد اننا نهاجمهم لأنهم يهود. اننا لانفعل لذلك السبب. بل نهاجمهم لأن تعطشهم للحرب يضع البلاد في خطر بالاخص حين تجد صداها لدى ايريل شارون.
وفي هذه المرة ، كان الاولاد قد صرخوا (ذئب) اكثر من اللازم . ولم تعد الصرخة تنفع. وكما يلاحظ كاوس، ففي صحيفة كابلان (نيو ريبابلك) ذاتها يكتب ستانلي هوفمان استاذ جامعة هارفارد مايلي حول احد اربعة مراكز قوة في هذه العاصمة دفعت لشن الحرب :
" واخيرا ، هناك العلاقة الفضفاضة مع الاصدقاء في اسرائيل، الذين يؤمنون بتطابق المصالح بين الدولة اليهودية والولايات المتحدة. ان هؤلاء المحللين ينظرون الى السياسة ا لخارجية من خلال عدسات فكرة واحدة مسيطرة : هل هذا جيد ام سيء بالنسبة لاسرائيل؟ فمنذ تأسيس تلك الدولة في 1948 لم تكن رائحة هؤلاء المفكرين طيبة في وزارة الخارجية الامريكية ولكنهم الان متمركزين في البنتاغون حول استراتيجيين مثل بول ولفوفتز وريتشارد بيرل ودوجلاس فيث"
ويتساءل كاوس : اذا كان ستانلي هوفمان يستطيع ان يقول ذلك فلماذا لايقوله كريس ماثيوز ؟ ويلاحظ كاوس ايضا ان كابلان غفل عن ذكر اهم قطعة مدمرة تربط المافظين الجدد الى شارون وحزب الليكود.
في 9 شباط/فبراير نشرت مقالة في الصفحة الاولى في واشنطن بوست يقتبس كاتبها روبرت كيسر قول مسؤول امريكي كبير :" ان الليكوديين هم الذين يحكمون الان" ويسمي كيسر اشخاصا مثل بيرل وولفوفتز وفيث كأعضاء في شبكة موالية لاسرائيل تعمل داخل الادارة الامريكية ويضيف اليهم ديفد ورمسر منوزارة الدفاع واليوت ابرامز من مجلس الامن القومي (ابرامز هو صهر نورمان بودهورتز رئيس التحرير الفخري لمجلة كومنتري التي تتهم كل من ينتقد اسرائيل باللاسامية).
ويشير كيسر الى تفاخر شارون الدائم بعلاقته الوثيقة مع البوشيين فيقول " لاول مرة تتبع ادارة امريكية سياسات مطابقة تقريبا لسياسات لليكود." والسؤال الذي يطرح نفسه : كيف حدث ذلك واذا كانت هذه السايسات بالتأكيد في صالح شارون ، فهل هي في صالح امريكا؟
لقد حان الوقت لقول الحقيقة. لأن امريكا على وشك ان تتخذ قرارا مصيريا: ان تشن سلسلة حروب في الشرق الاوسط يمكن ان تطلق صراع الحضارات الذي حذر منه صامويل هنتنجتون ، حرب نعتقد انها ستون كارثة ووبالا لهذه الجمهورية.
اننا نتهم عصابة من المروجين والموظفين الرسميين يسعون الى ايقاع البلاد في شرك سلسلة من الحروب ليست في صالح امريكا. نتهمهم بأنهم يتعاونون مع اسرائيل لاشعال فتيل هذه الحروب ولتدمير اتفاقيات اوسلو. نتهمهم بالتدمير العمدي لعلاقات امريكا مع كل دولة عربية تقف ضد اسرائيل او تؤيد الحق الفلسطيني في وطنهم. نتهمهم بأنهم جعلوا من الاصدقاء والحلفاء اعداء في كل ارجاء العالم الاسلامي والغربي بسبب عنجهتهم وتعطشهم للحروب.
لم تكن امريكا طوال عصرنا الحديث معزولة عن اصدقائها القدامى كما اليوم. واسوأ من ذلك ، ان الرئيس بوش يساق الى شرك مخصص له من قبل هؤلاء المحافظين الجدد سوف يكلفه منصبه ويسبب لامريكا خسران سلام كسبانه بتضحيات جيلين من اجيالنا خلال الحرب الباردة.
انهم يتهموننا باللاسامية : اي كراهية اليهود بسبب معتقدهم وتراثهم واصلهم. وهذا كذب. الحقيقة هي ان اولئك الذين يرموننا بالاتهامات يكنون (علاقة عاطفية) لدولة ليست لنا ، مما يجعلهم يتصرفون بمصالح بلادهم بافتراض ان ماهو جيد لاسرائيل هو جيد لامريكا ايضا.
المحافظون الجدد
من هم المحافظون الجدد؟ كان الجيل الاول منهم ليبراليون سابقون واشتراكيون وتروتسكيون. وهم مفكرون اكثر منهم اناس عمليون. وقد قيل عنهم ان المحافظ الجديد يصلح ليكون رئيس تحرير مجلة على ان يكون عامل بناء. اليوم ينطبق عليهم القول ان المحافظ الجديد هو باحث مقيم في معهد سياسة عامة مثل معهد انتربايز الامريكي او احد مستنسخاته مثل مركز السياسة الامنية او المعهد اليهودي لشؤون الامن القومي. وبمعنى آخر ان المحافظ الجديد هو شخص ضليع ما هو داخل دبابة الفكر اكثر مما هو داخل دبابة ابرامز. القليل منهم قدم من عالم الاعمال او الجيش. وهم يعتبرون ان دعمهم لاسرائيل هو احدى خصائص سلالتهم. تشمل مطبوعاتهم : ويكلي ستاندارد وكومنتري ونيو ريبابلك وناشنال ريفيو وول ستريت جورنال. وهم يشكلون سلطة غير متناسبة مع عددهم القليل من خلال السيطرة على المؤسسات والصحافة المحافظة ومن خلال تقربهم من الرجال في السلطة.
قرع طبول الحرب
عندما انتهت الحرب الباردة فتش هؤلاء المحافظين الجدد عن حرب صليبية اخرى تعطي معنى لوجودهم. في 11 ايلول / سبتمبر ، جاءت فرصتهم. فقد انتزعوا الكارثة البشعة من اجل قيادة الغضب الامريكي الى حرب شاملة لتدمير اعدائهم : العرب والدول المارقة الاسلامية التي تقاوم الهيمنة الامريكية وتكره اسرائيل.
وعلى اية حال كانت خطة حزب الحرب معدة قبل 11/9 بكثير وعندما كان بوش يبحث عن جبهة جديدة للحرب على لاارهاب بعد ان اطاح بحكم طالبان، وضعوا الطبخة التي اعدوها سلفا فغرق بوش فيها.
قبل تقديم سيناريو حروب المستقبل الامريكية ، تأملوا رد فعل المحافظين الجد على ماحدث في ذلك اليوم الرهيب.
في 12/9 حين كان الامريكيون في قمة الصدمة قال بيل بنيت لشبكة سي ان ان اننا كنا في (صراع بين الشر والخير) وان على الكونغرس ان يعلن الحرب على (الاسلام المسلح) وانه يجب استخدام (قوة كاسحة) . وذكر لبنان وليبيا وسوريا والعراق وايران والصين باعتبارها اهداف يجب مهجمتها. ولم يكن من بين هذه القائمة (افغانستان) مأوى بين لادن. كيف استطاع بينيت ان يعرف اي دولة يجب ضربها قبل ان تكون لديه اية فكرة عمن هجمنا؟
اما صحيفة وول ستريت جورنال فقد قدمت قائمة فورية للاهداف داعية الولايات المتحدة لتوجيه ضربات جوية على (معسكرات الارهابيين في سوريا والسودان وليبيا والجزائر وربما بعض اجزاء من مصر" وترون انه لا يوجد في قائمة بينيت او قائمة وول ستريت جورنال اي بلد كان له يد في هجمات 11/9.
في 15 ايلول / سبتمبر وكما جاء في كتاب بوب وودوارد (بوش في حالة حرب) :" قدم بول ولفوفتز حججا عسكرية لتبرير هجوم امريكي على العراق بدلا من افغانستان" لماذا العراق؟ لأنه كما قال وولفوفتز " بينما الهجوم على افغانستان غير مؤكد لكن العراق نظام استبدادي وضعيف ويمكن قهره بسهولة).
في 20 /9 ارسل 40 محافظ جديد رسالة مفتوحة الى البيت الابيض تنصح بوش كيف يمكن ادارة الحرب على الارهاب. وقد وقع على الرسالة بينيت وبوكهورتز وكيركباتريك وبيرل وكريستول وتشارلز كروثامر . وكانت الرسالة مثل انذار : اذا اراد الرئيس الحفاظ على دعم الموقعين عليه استهداف حزب الله وسوريا وايران اذا رفضا قطع علاقاتهما مع حزب الله والاطاحة بصدام . اي فشل في الهجوم على العراق فإن الموقعين ( سوف يكون مثل استسلام مبكر في الحرب على الارهاب الدولي.)
هنا كان عصبة من المفكرين يملون على القائد العام للقوات المسلحة بعد تسعة ايام من الهجمات على امريكا انه اذا لم يتبع خطتهم الحربية سوف يتهم بالاستسلام للارهاب. ومع ذلك فحزب الله لادخل له في 11/9 . ماذا كانت جريرة حزب الله؟ لقد اذل حزب الله اسرائيل باجلاء جيشها من لبنان.
لقد تم تحذير بوش ان عليه ان يستغل احداث 11/9 من اجل شن سلسلة حروب على الانظمة العربية وهي جميعها لايد لها في ماحدث. ولكنهم جميعا اعداء لاسرائيل. وقد هيمن وجود (ناتنياهو) على التلفزيونات الامريكية داعيا ايانا لسحق (امبراطورية الارهاب). واتضح فيما بعد ان (الامبراطورية) تتكون من حماس وحزب الله وايران والعراق والسلطة الفلسطينية. ماذا فعلوا كل هؤلاء ضد لاولايات المتحدة؟
وقد بدا حزب الحرب متعطشا للحصول على حرب في الشرق الاوسط قبل ان تغير امريكا رأيها. وقد دعا توم دونيلي من (مشروع القرن الامريكي الجديد) امريكا للقيام بغزو فوري للعراق. كتب يقول ( لا حاجة لانتظار الغزو لنشر نصف مليون من القوات . ان اكبرتحد هو احتلال العراق بعد ان تنتهي المعارك.) ومن اقواله (تحتاج الولاياتا لمتحدة ان تشن الحرب على العراق لأنها في حاجة لاعلان الحرب على احد ما في المنطقة والعراق يبدو هدفا منطقيا).
وقد قام يوحنا جولبرج من ناشنال ريفيو بالمصادقة على (مبدأ ليدين) - المقصود به مسؤول البنتاغون السابق مايكل ليدين واحد المحافظين الجدد - والذي وصفه جولدبرج بهذا الشكل:" تحتاج الولايات المتحدة كل عشر سنوات او مايقارب ذلك ان تختار دولة صغيرة ضعيفة وتطوح بها على الجدار، من اجل ان نثبت للعالم اننا نقصد مانقول . " (عندما تساءل السفير الفرنسي في لندن في حفلة عشاء لماذا نخاطر باحداث حرب عالمية ثالثة من اجل " بلد حقير صغير" ويقصد به اسرائيل، امتعضت مجلة جولدبرج)
ولكن على اية حال كان ليدين اقل تهورا . في كتابه (الحرب ضد اسياد الارهاب) حدد الانظمة التي على امريكا تدميرها:
(اولا وقبل كل شيء ، يجب ان نطيح بانظمة الارهاب بدءا من الثلاثة الكبار : ايران والعراق وسوريا. ثم ثم نتصرف مع السعودية . . وحالما يسقط الطغاة في ايران والعراق وسوريا والسعودية العربية سوف نظل مشغولين . يجب ان نضمن استكمال الثورة الديمقراطية . ان الاستقرار مهمة غير جديرة بامريكا وهو مفهوم كاذب. اننا لانريد الاستقرار في ايران والعراق وسوريا ولبنان وحتى السعودية. اننا نريد تغيير الاشياء. ان القضية الحقيقية هي ليست : نطيح بالاستقرار ام لا وانما كيف نسبب عدم الاستقرار؟)
وبعد ان اعتبر الاستقرار مهمة غير جديرة بامريكا مضى لتعريف المهمة التاريخية المطلوبة من امريكا:
( ان اسمنا هو الدمار الابداعي، داخل مجتمعنا وخارجه. اننا ندمر كل يوم النظام القديم من عالم الاعمال الى العلم الى الادب الى الفن الى العمارة الى السينما الى السياسة والقانون. ان اعداءنا يكرهون هذا الطاقة المتحددة والابداع الذي يهدد تقاليدهم (ايا كانت) وتخزيهم لفشلهم في اللحاق بنا. يجب ان ندمرهم من اجل المضي في مهمتنا التاريخية.)
ان مثل هذه الاقتباسات تبين ميلا نحو نهج ليون تروتسكي اكثر منه الى مفاهيم المحافظين الحقيقيين.
بالنسبة لصحيفة ويكلي ستاندارد كانت قائمة ليدين محدودة جدا. يجب الا نعلن الحرب على شبكات الارهاب والدول التي تؤويها وانما حسب صحيفة ستاندارد " يجب ان نعلن الحرب على (اي جماعة او حكومة تميل الى دعم او ايواء آخرين يشبهونهم في المستقبل."
لقد اصاب الدوار روبرت كيجان ووليام كريستول من الاثارة وهما يتصوران امكانية حدوث الهرمجدون (المعركة الفاصلة بين الشر والخير). ان الحرب القادمة ( سوف تنتشر وتمتد الى عدد من الدول . انها ستكون اشبه باصطدام الحضارات التي كان الجميع يأمل في تفاديه. من المحتمل ان زوال بعض الانظمة العربية (المعتدلة) على وشك ان يحدث."
وقد فاق نورمان بودهاورتز في مقالته بمجلة كومنتري ماكتبه كريستول في الستاندارد، داعيا الى ان نشجع حربا بين الحضارات لأن مهمة جورج بوش هي (شن حرب عالمية رابعة - الحرب ضد الاسملا المسلح) وحسب رأيه فإن الانظمة التي تستحق الازالة ليست فقط دول محور الشر (العراق وايران وكوريا الشمالية) وانما يجب ان يمتد المحور الى سوريا ولبنان وليبيا وكذلك اصدقاء امريكا مثل العائلة المالكة السعودية وحسني مبارك في مصر مع السلطة الفلسطينية . يجب على بوش ان يرفض نصائح كولن باول كما يقول بودهورتز و" تكون له الهمة لفرض ثقافة سياسية جديدة على العالم الاسلامي المهزوم كما تطلبت الحرب ضد القاعدة تدمير نظام طالبان. وقد كتب يقول :
( قد نجد انفسنا مضطرين الى الاطاحة بخمسة او ستة او اكثر من الطغاة في العالم الاسلامي (بضمنهم راعي الارهاب في السلطة الفلسطينية ياسر عرفات) واستطيع ان اتصور ان الاضطراب الذي ستؤدي اليه هذه الحرب سيؤدي الى نوع جديد من المهمة الامبريالية الامريكية التي يجب ان يكون هدفها الاشراف على تنصيب حكومات خليفة في المنطقة قابلة للاصلاحات والتحديث بدلا من الانظمة الاستبدادية المومجودة حاليا. كما انصح باقامة نوع من المحميات الامريكية على حقول النفط في السعودية حيث اننا نتساءل يوما بعد يوم لماذا يسمح لسبعة الاف أمير ان يتحكموا فينا وفي الاخرين.)
وقد كان بودهورتز تعبير (الحرب العالمية الرابعة) من اليوت كوهين الذي شوهدت نسخة من كتابه في يد بوش وهو الكتاب الذي يحتفي بتفوق القادة المدنيين للجيوش في اوقات الحرب كما ظهر في قيادة ونستون تشرتشل وديفد بن جوريون.
اذن تشمل قائمة انظمة الشرق الاوسط التي يتفق عليها المحافظون الجدد باعتبارها اهدافا للتدمير تشمل : الجزائر وليبيا ومصر والسودان ولبنان وسوريا والعراق والسعودية وايران وحزب الله وحماس والسلطة الفلسطينية والاسلام المسلح.
من اذن يستفيد من حروب لاتنتهي في المنطقة ليس فيها مايهم امريكا سوى النفط وهو المادة التي يجب ان يبيعها العرب في كل الاحوال ؟ من سوف يستفيد من حرب الحضارات بين الغرب والاسلام؟
الجواب: دولة واحدة وقائد واحد وحزب واحد : اسرائيل وشارون والليكود.
في شباط/فبراير 2003 قال شارون لوفد من رجال الكونغرس انه بعد الاطاحة بنظام صدام من (المهم جدا) ان تقوم الولايات المتحدة بنزع سلاح ايران وسوريا وليبيا.
وقال وزير الدفاع شاول موفاز لمؤتمر المنظمات الامريكية اليهودية .:" لدينا اهتمام كبير في تشكيل الشرق الاوسط في اليوم التالي من الحرب على العراق"
واقترح موفاز انه بعد دخول القوات الامريكية الى بغداد ، يجب على الولايات المتحدة ان تقوم بضغط سياسي واقتصادي ودبلوماسي على طهران.
هل كان المحافظون الجدد يخشون من ان حربا على ا لعراق قد تسقط الحكومات العربية الصديقة؟ كلا ابدا . لقد كانوا يرحبون بذلك .
قال ريتشارد بيرل عن رئيس مصر (مبارك ليس مهما . بالتأكيد حالنا احسن بدونه). وعندما سئل كين ادلمان السفير الامريكي السابق في الامم المتحدة في صحيفة واشنطون مونثلي اجاب ما اذا كانت الحرب على العراق (التي توقع سابقا انها ستكون سهلة مثل المشي على الكعكة - قد تقلقل الحكومات في مصر والسعودية قال ( ذلك افضل لنا اذا سألتني رأيي).
في 10 /7/2002 دعا بيرل مساعدا سابقا لليندون لاروش اسمه لورينت موروفيتش ليلقي خطابا في هيئة السياسة الدفاعية . وفي خطاب ادهش هنري كيسنجر قال موروفيتش عن السعودية بانها (جوهر الشر والمحرك الرئيسي واخطر عدو) للولايات المتحدة. وقال يجب ان تعطي الولايات المتحدة انذارا للسعودية اما (مطاردة وعزل المتورطين في سلسلة الارهاب بضمنهم المخابرات السعودية وانهاء كل الدعايات ضد اسرائيل او نغزو بلادهم ونستولي على حقول ابارهم ونحتل مكة.
وفي اختتام خطابه القوي اقترح موروفيتش (استراتيجية كبرى للشرق الاوسط) وقال (العراق هو الخطوة التكتيكية والسعودية هي الخطوة الاستراتيجية ومصر هي الجائزة). ولم تشر التقارير التي تسربت من هذه الجلسة عن اية سؤال من اي من الحاضرين حول رد فعل العالم الاسلامي للقوات الامريكية وهي تجوس في قبلة المسلمين.
ان مايسعى اليه هؤلاء المحافظون الجدد هو ان التضحية بالدم الامريكي ليكون العالم اكثر امنا لاسرائيل. يريدون فرض السلام على المسلمين بالسيف وان يموت الجنود الامريكان اذا تطلب الامر.
ويقول رئيس تحرير واشنطن تايمز ارنود دي بورشجريف عن هذه السياسة انها (مبدأ بوش-شارون) ويقول (ان الليكوديين في واشنطن كانوا المسؤولين عن سياسة الولايات المتحدة في الشرق الاوسط منذ تنصيب بوش في الرئاسة).
يسعى المحافظون الجدد الى اقامة امبراطورية امريكية ويسعى الشارونيون الى الهيمنة على الشرق الاوسط. وقد التقت الاهداف بالضبط. ورغم ان المحافظين الجدد يصرون على ان احداث 11/9 هي التي صنعت قضية الحرب ضد العراق والاسلام المسلح ولكن اصل خطط حروبهم ترجع الى فترة طويلة قبل ذلك .
(تأمين المنطقة)
ان الرسام الاصلي للخطة هو ريتشارد بيرل وكان مساعدا للسيناتور سكوب جاكسون وقد سمع في عام 1970 في تصنت فيدرالي وهو يناقش معلومات سرية من مجلس الامن القومي مع السفارة الاسرائيلية. وفي كتاب (اليهود والسياسة الامريكية ) الذي نشر عام 1974 كتب ستيفن ازاكس :" يقود ريتشارد بيرل وموريس اميتاي جيشا صغيرا من (الساميين) في الكونغرس ويوجهون القوة اليهودية لاعلاء المصالح اليهودية" . وفي عام 1983 نشرت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز ان بيرل كان يستلم دفعات مالية كبيرة من صانع اسلحة اسرائيلي.
وفي عام 1996 مع دوجلاس فيث وديفد ورمسير كتب بيرل (انعطافة جديدة: استراتيجية جديدة لتأمين المنطقة) وهي دراسة قدمت الى رئيس الوزراء ناتنياهو. وفيها حث بيرل وفيث وورمسير نتانياهو على نبذ اتفاقيات اوسلو التي وقعها اسحاق رابين وتبني استراتيجية عدوانية:
(يمكن لاسرائيل ان تشكل بيئتها الاستراتيجية بالتعاون مع تركيا والاردن وذلك باضعاف واحتواء وحتى ضرب سوريا. ويمكن لهذا الجهد ان يركز على ازالة صدام حسين من السلطة في العراق - وهو هدف استراتيجي اسرائيلي مهم - كوسيلة لافشال طموحات سوريا الاقليمية . وقد تحدث الاردن طموحات سوريا الاقليمية باقتراح اعادة الهاشمية الى العراق.)
في خطة بيرل - فيث- ورمسير ، تظل سوريا العدو الاول لاسرائيل ولكن الطريق الى دمشق يمر عبر بغداد. وكانت خطتهم التي حثوا فيها اسرائيل على اعادة (مبدأ الحرب الوقائية) تفرض الان من قبل بيرل وفيث وورمسير وشركاهم على الولايات المتحدة.
وفي بحثه عام 1997 المسمى (استراتيجية لاسرائيل) يحث فيث اسرائيل على اعادة احتلال (المناطق تحت السلطة الفلسطينة رغم ان الثمن بالدماء سيكون غاليا).
اما ورمسير فقد كتب مسودة خطط حربية مشتركة لاسرائيل والولايات المتحدة (لضرب وتدمير مراكز الاصولية في الشرق الاوسط ، يجب على اسرائيل والولايات المتحدة ان توسع الصراع لتضرب بشكل مميت، وليس فقط نزع سلاح ، مراكز الاصولية في المنطقة - الانظمة في دمشق وبغداد وطرابلس وطهران وغزة. وهذا سوف يجعلهم يدركون ان محاربة الولايات المتحدة او اسرائيل سوف تكون عملا انتحاريا).
وقد صح الدولتين ان تبحثا عن ازمة حيث كتب :" يمكن ان تكون الازمات فرص" وكان قد نشر خطة الحرب هذه في 1/1/2001 قبل تسعة اشهر من 11/9.
وقد كتب المؤلف مايكل لند حول عصابة بيرل وفيث وورمسير قائلا:
(ان اليمين الصهيوني المتطرف الذي ينتمي اليه بيرل وفيث قد يكون صغير العدد ولكنه اصبح قوة مهمة في اوساط صناعة السياسة في الحزب الجمهوري. انها ظاهرة حديثة بدأت في ا لسبعينات والثمانينات منالقرن العشرين ، عندما انضم الكثير من المثقفين اليهود الديمقراطيين سابقا تحالف ريجان العريض.
وبينما يتكلم الكثير من هؤلاء الصقور في العلن عن الحملات الكونية من اجل نشر الديمقراطية فإن الاهتمام الرئيسي للمحافظين الجدد هو قوة وسمعة اسرائيل.)
واليوم : بيرل يشغل نمصب رئيس هيئة السياسة الدفاعية . فيث نائب وزير الدفاع . ورمسير مساعد خاص لنائب وزير الخارجية لشؤون السلاح جون بولتون الذي يؤيد خط بيرل - شارون . وقد كتبت عنه صحيفة هاآرتز الاسرائيلية في اواخر شباط/فبراير :
(قال نائب وزير الخارجية الامريكي جون بولتون في مقابلة مع المسؤولين الاسرائيليين . . انه لايشك ان امريكا سوف تهاجم العراق وسوف يكون من الضروري التعامل مع تهديدات سوريا وايران وكوريا الشمالية فيما بعد.)
في 26/1/1998 استلم الرئيس كلنتون رسالة تناشده ان يستخدم خطاب حالة الاتحاد ليجعل من الاطاحة بصدام حسين (هدف السياسة الخارجية الامريكة ) وان يدعو الى استخدام العمل العسكري لأن (الدبلوماسية قد فشلت)، وقد تعهد الموقعون انه اذا استجاب لهذه المطالب (سوف نقدم كامل دعمنا في هذه الجهد الصعب ولكن الضروري) وكان الموقعون : اليوت ابرامس وبيل بينيت وجون بولتون وروبرت كيجان ووليام كريستول وريتشارد بيرل وبول ولفوفتز. بعد اربع سنوات قبل 11/9، كانت بغداد في رؤوس المحافظين الجدد.
مبدأ وولفوفتز:
في 1992 تسربت من مكتب بول وولفوفتز في البنتاغون وثيقة تثير الاستغراب. وقد وصفها بارتون جيلمان من صحيفة واشنطن بوست بأنها (تخطيط سري لغرض المساعدة في تقرير اتجاه الامة في القرن القادم) وقد دعت مذكرة وولفوفتز الى وجود عسكري امريكي في القارات الستة لردع كل (المنافسين المحتملين من مجرد التفكير في دور اكبر اقليميا او دوليا). على سياسة الاحتواء وهي الاستراتيجية المنتصرة في الحرب الباردة ان تخلي الطريق لاستراتيجية طموحة جديدة مصممة (لاقامة وحماية نظام جديد).
ورغم ان مذكرة وولفوفتز قد نبذت واغفلت في عام 1992 ولكنها اصبحت السياسة الامريكية في تقرير استراتيجية الامن القومي التي اصدرها الرئيس بوش في 21/9/2002. وقد قال عنها مراسل واشنطن بوست تيم رايتش بأنها (تقلب المباديء الاساسية اتبعها الرؤساء المتتابعون على مدى 50 عاما: الاحتواء والردع.
في مجابهة اعداء امريكا تعلن الورقة (سوف لن نتردد من التصرف وحدنا اذا تطلب الامر من اجل ممارسة حقنا في الدفاع عنا لنفس باجراءات وقائية.) وتحذر من ان اي دولة تسعى الى الحصول على قوة تنافس الولايات المتحدة، فكأنها تعلن حربا على الولايات المتحدة.
(ليس لدى الرئيس النية للسماح لأي امة ان تلحق بالتفوق الامريكي الهائل الذي بلغته الولايات المتحدة منذ سقوط الاتاد السوفيتي منذ اكثر من عقد. سوف تكون قواتنا من القوة بحث تردع اي خصوم من السعي الى زيادة القوة العسكرية بأمل التفوق على قوة الولايات المتحدة او مساواتها.)
وينصح روبرت كيجان الامريكيين على توطين انفسهم في عصر من (بناء الامم على نطاق واسع بدون استراتيجية خروج) ولكن هذه الاستراتيجية التي يدعو اليها المحافظون الجدد تنذر بدخولنا عصر يتصف بحرب دائمة من اجل سلام دائم.
المصدر: المحافظ الامريكي عدد 24/3/2004
** الترجمة خاصة بدوريةالعراق - يرجى الاشارة الى دورية العراق عند اعادة النشر وشكرا.
http://www.iraqpatrol.com
Lcpl [Lieutenant Corporal] Boudreaux killed my Dad then he knocked up my sister!
"Lcpl [Lieutenant Corporal] Boudreaux killed my Dad then he knocked up my sister!"
(لفتنانت كوربورال بودرو قتل ابي ثم اغتصب شقيقتي)
هذه ماتقوله اللافتة التي اعطيت لهذين الغلامين العراقيين ليحملاها مع الابتسامات ورفع اصبع الابهام بالاشارة الى استحسان الفعل ، دون ان يعرفا ماذا كتب عليها بالانجليزية!
ان هذه الصورة تقلق الضمير وتعكس طريقة تدريب القوات الامريكية وتشجيعهم على قتل المدنيين دون أي وازع او رادع كما اكدت على ذلك تقارير عديدة. كما تؤكد على ابشع شكل من جرائم الحرب التي تقترفها قوات الاحتلال : القتل والاغتصاب.
وهذه ليست حالة فردية. اننا نشهد سلوكا عاما ينبع من القيادة العليا للاحتلال.
هل هذا ماكان يعنيه بوش حين قال (اننا العالم المتحضر)! انشر هذه الصورة على المواقع وعلى اصدقائك . لقد حان وقت محاسبة الادارة الامريكية على جرائمها.
والجندي الموجود بالصورة والذي لم يتردد في ذكر رتبته واسمه بصفاقة يجب ان يعتقل ويحاسب ليس من قبل الجيش الامريكي وانما من قبل شعب العراق!
ميشيل تشودوفسكي – جلوبال ريسيرتش 24 مارس 2004
Circulate this posting. An international inquiry into Bush Administration war crimes is long overdue. The individual in the picture should be arrested and judged not by the US Military but by the people of Iraq.
Iraq Patrol
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تونـس تعلن تمسكها بعقد القـمة علي أراضيها
تونس ـ أ.ف. ب:
اعلن مصدر مسئول في وزارة الخارجية التونسية مساء أمس آن تونس متمسكة بحقها في عقد القمة العربية علي أراضيها معتبرة أن المشكلة التي أدت إلي الإرجاء غير مرتبطة بمكان عقد القمة. وقال المصدر نفسه في بيان له إن ما وصفه بمحاولة تغيير مكان عقد القمة يعد تغييبا للأسباب الحقيقية الكامنة وراء قرار التأجيل علي حد قوله.
تمسك تونسي بعقد القمة العربية علي أراضيها
تونس ـ وكالات الأنباء:
فجرت تونس مفاجأتها الثانية بما أعلنت تمسكها بحقها في عقد القمة العربية علي أراضيها بعد أقل من24 ساعة علي قرار إرجاء عقد القمة وبعد ترحيب العديد من القادة العرب بإعلان القاهرة استعدادها لاستضافتها. وأعلن مصدر مسئول في وزارة الخارجية التونسية أن تونس متمسكة بحقها في أن تعقد القمة العربية علي أراضيها معتبرة أن المشكلة التي أدت إلي الإرجاء غير مرتبطة بمكان عقد القمة.
وجاء في بيان صادر عن مصدر مسئول في وزارة الخارجية التونسية أن محاولة تغيير مكان عقد القمة يعد تغييبا للأسباب الحقيقية الكافية وراء قرار التأجيل.
كما جاء في البيان أن قرار تأجيل القمة يعود بالأساس إلي تباين عميق للمواقف حول مسائل جوهرية واختيارات مصيرية ذات ارتباط وثيق بتطلعات المواطن العربي, ومستقبل الأمة العربية.
ومن جانبه أعلن السيد حاتم بن سالم كاتب الدولةوزير الدولة التونسي للشئون المغاربية والإفريقية, في حوار تليفزيوني مساء أمس, حول أسباب تأجيل القمة العربية في تونس وماذا بعد التأجيل, أن البيان الذي صدر في تونس ويتضمن قرار تأجيل القمة يعد بيانا تفسيريا, ويتضمن أسباب تأجيل القمة العربية بسبب وجود خلافات عميقة وجوهرية ظهرت في أثناء المناقشات التي سبقت القمة بصدد مسائل تمس المواطن العربي, وهي مسائل مستقبلية واستراتيجية.
صدمة واندهاش وأسف في العواصم العربية لقرار تأجيل القمة
الكويت وسوريا والأردن والبحرين والسودان ترحب بعقد القمة العربية في القاهرة
عواصم عربية ـ من مراسلي الأهرام:
توالت ردود الفعل العربية الرسمية التي اتسمت بالصدمة والإندهاش والأسف تعليقا علي قرار الرئيس التونسي بتأجيل انعقاد القمة العربية التي كان مقررا عقدها اليوم في الوقت الذي بدأ وزراء الخارجية العرب في مغادرة العاصمة التونسية صباح أمس, وغادر السيد عمرو موسي الأمين العام للجامعة العربية وفريق الأمانة العامة علي متن طائرة خاصة عائدا للقاهرة وسط أنباء عن إجراء اتصالات لنقل مكان انعقادها إلي دولة مقر الجامعة العربية مصر عقب التشاور مع القادة العرب خلال الفترة القليلة المقبلة.. وإعلان مصر عرضها استضافة القمة العربية وترحيب الامين العام بذلك.
فقد رحب السيد فاروق الشرع وزير الخارجية السورية باقتراح مصر استضافة القمة العربية.. وقال في تصريحات له في تونس امس ردا علي سؤال بهذا الشأن ـ نحن نرحب بأي جهد عربي مشترك لان العمل العربي المشترك اساس في امن واستقرار المنطقة.
وحول أسباب تأجيل انعقاد القمة قال الشرع ان هذا السؤال يوجه الي تونس لاننا انجزنا الكثير من العمل خلال الايام القليلة الماضية.
وفي عمان أكد العاهل الأردني الملك عبدالله الثاني أهمية تحديد موعد لعقد القمة العربية في اسرع وقت ممكن.
وذكر بيان للديوان الملكي الاردني أن الملك عبدالله عبر خلال اتصال هاتفي مع الرئيس حسني مبارك اليوم عن ترحيب الاردن بعقد القمة العربية المقبلة في مصر.
وفي المنامة, رحب عاهل البحرين الملك حمد بن عيسي آل خليفة أمس بالاقتراح المصري باستضافة القمة العربية. وقالت وكالة أنباء البحرين, إن الملك حمد بن عيسي رئيس الدورة الحالية للقمة العربية, أعرب لدي تلقيه اتصالا هاتفيا من الرئيس حسني مبارك عن ترحيبه باقتراح مصر, مؤيدا انعقاد القمة, ومشيدا بدور الرئيس مبارك في خدمة قضايا الأمة العربية.
وقد عبر مصطفي عثمان إسماعيل وزير خارجية السودان عن تأييد بلاده بشدة لمبادرة الرئيس حسني مبارك بعقد القمة العربية في القاهرة.
وأضاف ـ في تصريحات له أمس بتونس ـ أن هذه الدعوة تأتي في وقت مناسب ومكانها الصحيح, وتملأ الفراغ الذي أحدثه تأجيل تونس المفاجئ للقمة قبل أن يستشري الإحباط في الشارع العربي.
ومن جانبه, نفي الشيخ محمد صباح السالم وزير الخارجية الكويتية أن يكون الملف العراقي ورؤية الكويت له سببا في الخلاف الذي أدي إلي ارجاء القمة, وأوضح أن القرار الذي تقدمت به بلاده في هذا الشأن قد تم عرضه وحظي بموافقة الجميع.
وفي صنعاء توقع وزير الخارجية اليمني أبوبكر القربي أن تجري اتصالات خلال اليومين المقبلين مع القادة العرب بشأن تحديد موعد ومكان انعقاد القمة العربية ورجح أن تعقد في مقر الجامعة بالقاهرة.
وفي بغداد أعرب العراق عن خيبة أمله لقرار التأجيل وقال عضو مجلس الحكم موفق الربيعي إن هذا الوقت تمر فيه الأمة العربية بمرحلة خطيرة ودقيقة, ونحن نأسف لهذا التأجيل, حيث كان المجلس يعقد آمالا كبيرة علي هذه القمة.
وأعربت السلطة الفلسطينية عن خشيتها من تصعيد الاعتداءات الإسرائيلية ضد الشعب الفلسطيني وقياداته بعد تأجيل القمة, وقال صائب عريقات وزير شئون المفاوضات إن حالة الوهن العربي يمكن أن تدفع إسرائيل إلي التحرك لتدمير السلطة الفلسطينية والمساس بالرئيس ياسر عرفات واتخاذ المزيد من الإجراءات والخطوات احادية الجانب.
كما أعرب القائد الجديد لحركة المقاومة الإسلامية حماس في الاراضي الفلسطينية عبدالعزيز الرنتيسي عن أسف حركته لتأجيل القمة.
وفي بيروت صرح رئيس مجلس النواب رئيس الاتحاد البرلماني العربي نبيه بري بأنه لم يفاجأ بهذا القرار لأنه سبق انعقاد القمة بالتحذير من أن العرب سيقدمون المخرج لإسرائيل من مأزقها باغتيال الشيخ أحمد ياسين.
واضاف بري أما وقد اغتيلت القمة فقد قتل الشيخ أحمد ياسين
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Intel's Centrino CPU (Pentium-M)
The idea behind micro-ops fusion is to bundle micro-ops (decoded instructions) together before sending them down the pipeline to the execution units. The idea behind micro-ops fusion is that the pipeline is not used unless a fixed number of micro-ops are ready to be sent down the pipe, thus the efficiency of the overall pipeline is improved. Obviously the downside to this approach is increased latency, but as you will see with a number of the design decisions behind Banias, the power savings enable higher overall performance at the end of the day.
Banias' dedicated stack manager is another power saving tool integrated into the Banias architecture that is designed to manage stack pointers and other stack-related data. Remember that stacks are used to store information about the current state of the CPU including data that cannot be kept in registers due to limits in the number of available registers, thus a dedicated manager can help performance considerably. As usual, whenever efficiency is improved power consumption is optimized which is the case with Banias here as well.
The combination of a very advanced branch predictor, micro-ops fusion and a dedicated stack manager make Banias a very interesting architecture. Despite having a 20 - 50% longer pipeline, Banias still maintains a significantly higher IPC than the Pentium III, which is not an insignificant achievement. Remember from our discussions about the Pentium 4 that IPC (Instructions executed Per Clock) is generally reduced by moving to a longer pipeline, but is made up for by the fact that longer pipeline architectures can reach higher clock speeds. With Banias, we have an architecture that already has a longer pipeline than the Pentium III, thus enabling higher clock speeds, all while boasting a higher IPC - you're in fact getting the best of both worlds with Banias.
In order to feed the higher IPC execution core, Intel outfitted the Banias with a 64-bit 100MHz quad-pumped FSB, identical in design to the Pentium 4's FSB
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Let the downFall of Sharon be end to Zionism
By the Late, great political cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil
