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...from AlterNet...

Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials
Christopher Scheer, October 30, 2003

Lies, Lies, and More Lies
Monte Paulsen, Dragonfly Review of Books, November 3, 2003

How Many Body Bags?
Robert Scheer, November 4, 2003

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq
by Christopher Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry and Robert Scheer

'Highway Robbery' at Halliburton
Bracken Hendricks and Skye Perryman, November 6, 2003

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The Guardian!

Don't mention the dead
When the body of US soldier Artimus Brassfield was flown to the military mortuary at Dover, Delaware, there were no TV pictures of a flag-covered coffin and hero's salute - the White House has banned media coverage at the base. But can Bush's efforts to hide the body bags quell growing public disquiet over the death toll in Iraq? Gary Younge reports
Friday November 7, 2003

Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war
Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diplomatic channels and US hawk Perle
Julian Borger in Washington, Brian Whitaker and Vikram Dodd, Friday November 7, 2003

Comment
Iraq is not America's to sell
International law is unequivocal - Paul Bremer's economic reforms are illegal
Naomi Klein, Friday November 7, 2003

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EU embarrassed as poll labels Israel world's biggest threat
Yahoo! News, Fri, Nov 07, 2003

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...The Guardian...

US press review: Iraq
Following the death of 16 soldiers in an attack on a US helicopter in Iraq, Jane Perrone looks at the US media response
Jane Perrone, Monday November 3, 2003

Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen
George Bush's America, the wealthiest nation in history, faces a growing poverty crisis. In the first of a three-part series Julian Borger takes the pulse of the US with elections just a year away
Julian Borger, Monday November 3, 2003

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Mondo Washington
The Rumsfeld Watch
More Quackery From the Secretary of Defense
James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, October 31st, 2003 3:00 PM

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American Collective
Dominic Hilton, openDemocracy, 30 - 10 - 2003
Focus on the US: Bush’s briefs, Rummy’s run-ins, Boykin’s bluster

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'Well, You Try To Reconstruct Iraq,' Says U.S. Defensive Dept.
from THE ONION, VOLUME 39 ISSUE 42, 29 OCTOBER 2003

...I couldn't resist...

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