"We speak with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker magazine about his new article, "Up in the Air: Where is the Iraq War Headed Next?" Hersh discusses the ongoing debate in Washington over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, how President Bush is "impervious to political pressure" in his Iraq policy, the capability of the U.S. Army to sustain two or three more years of combat in Iraq and how a reduction of U.S. troops would be
"I asked him [John Howard] if I was able to get on a plane with an HB pencil, which you are able to, and I further asked him if I went down and came and grabbed him by the front of the head and stabbed the HB pencil into your eyeball and wiggled it around down to your brain area, do you think you'd be focusing?"
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"Has it ever occurred to you that you just smash your wine glass and jump at someone, grab the top of their head and put it in their carotid artery and ask anything?"
Italians Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta document the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah last year. Broadcast on the Italian state television network RAI.
The outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame was but one element of a much larger conspiracy: the campaign to invade Iraq. From 2002-3, Rumsfeld and Cheney coordinated a network--inside and outside of government--to plan the invasion of Iraq. The network operated in secret because the case made to Congress and the U.N. was false. The cabal then forced its agenda on the career military, intelligence, and diplomatic staff, resulting
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in numerous removals and resignations. This map shows the linkages between Plame and the four primary cells of the cabal: the headquarters, centered in the Vice President's office; the communications shop at the White House; the intelligence and war planning shop called the Office of Special Plans; and the informal coordination network housed at the American Enterprise Institute.
"The chart indicated we were a mile and a half" from the coral reef when the ship ran aground, Mr Constantino told AFP. He said the August 2005 navigational map was provided by the mapping office of the Philippine Government.
