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OH, what a dirty war! Now we see, not through a glass darkly, but through the clear window of American power.
President George Dubya Bush last night smirked his way through the path to victory in Baghdad. His cruel, self-important conviction shone through a television appearance in Tampa, Florida.
This is the way the world will be [...]

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With fewer companies owning more media outlets, the lack of tolerance for opposing views increases, former Vice President Al Gore told a college audience here last night.
Using recent attacks on the Dixie Chicks that followed anti-war comments by one group member as an example, Gore said big corporations threaten the true meaning of democracy because [...]

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Iraq said today that yesterday’s raids on Baghdad, including an apparent stray missile strike on a crowded market, had killed 36 Iraqi civilians.
Since the conflict began 350 civilians have been killed by US-led raids, said the Iraqi health minister, Umeed Madhat Mubarak. The 36 deaths had occurred over the last 24 hours, over which time [...]

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This morning appx. 7:45 CNN ran the footage of the market where 15 civilians were killed by coalition bombing. After the story ran, she inserted the editorial comment that the civilians may have been shot by Saddam for propaganda reasons…{{link http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=11384&forum=DCForumID66/ MORE DISCUSSION}}

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The nation’s top military officer acknowledged today that the Pentagon’s strategy to shock the Iraqi regime quickly with a dramatic early air bombardment has not worked exactly as planned…{{link http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26AIR.html/ MORE}}

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by Michael C. Ruppert
March 24, 2003, 2100 EDT (FTW)

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A large contingent of Iraq’s elite Republican Guard
headed south Wednesday in a convoy of at least
1,000 vehicles toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq
- an area that already has seen the heaviest
fighting of the war…{{link http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2511079,00.html/ MORE}}

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At least 15 scorched corpses littered a poor residential street in Baghdad on Wednesday after U.S. bomb and missile strikes intensified on the city, Reuters witnesses said.
Residents and Iraqi officials said two missiles slammed into the area, leaving burned bodies, mangled cars and rubble from broken buildings. Flames poured from an oil tanker.
Reuters correspondents counted [...]

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim opposition group said on Wednesday there had been disturbances, but no uprising, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20030326/wl_nm/iraq_basra_dc/ MORE}}

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Fierce sandstorms are holding up US-led forces in their advance towards the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. BBC correspondents travelling with coalition troops say all units have been halted, with visibility reduced to just a few metres.
The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, acknowledged the weather was slowing down the advance, [...]

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Pentagon caught off-guard by news reports
Inability to control message could be threat to support
WASHINGTON — Don’t believe the hype, the Pentagon warned yesterday: Journalists are taking the war out of context.
With rapid-fire events in Iraq unfolding at times ahead of the Pentagon’s ability to explain them, Bush administration officials are concerned that a distorted view [...]

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Arab countries have condemned the “aggression” against Iraq and called for the immediate withdrawal of US and British forces from the country.
Iraqi foreign minister appeals to the Arab world
The move came at a summit of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo.
A final resolution also calls on Arab states not to participate in [...]

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By: Jerald Cumbus
The leader of the coalition forces stares out across a dusty plain moving-in to lay siege to one of the largest cities in the Arab world. 100,000 tough and battle-hardened troops equipped with the best military weapons of the day back him up. Meanwhile “The amir of Damascus, Mu’in ad-Din Unur, [...]

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MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir
Putin warned U.S. President George W. Bush by telephone on
Monday to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq, a Kremlin
spokesman said.
“In an exchange of views on the Iraq crisis, the Russian
side emphasised the humanitarian consequences of military
action,” he said.
“V. Putin confirmed Russia’s stated position [...]

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