The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.

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Puppet Maliki speeches ignore threats, discharges, forced migration, mass kidnappings, assassinations of Iraqi academics, destruction of educational institutions & archaeological sites, the looting of Iraqi musea...

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British Conservative Party leader David Cameron slammed the secrecy of the Iraq War Inquiry: "The inquiry needs to be — and needs to be seen to be — truly independent and not an establishment stitch-up."

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Professor Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the President of the National Lawyers Guild, interviews Abu Ghraib boss General (now Colonel) Janis Karpinski about US torture command chain.

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The two most authoritative estimates of violent deaths because of the war are more than 600,000 through 2006 (according to the Lancet medical journal study) and more than one million through 2007 (ORB).

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PETITION for shoe-throwing, Iraqi journalist HERO

PETITIONS are circulating for the well-being of courageous Iraqi journalist HERO, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at George W Bush in Baghdad, Occupied Iraq. Please sign them.

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Outstanding UK-based, expatriate Australian, award-winning writer John Pilger offers a gloomy assessment of Barack Obama's forthcoming administration based on Obama's words and deeds so far.

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Obama WINS #1 but DRAWS on IGNORING Muslim Holocaust

Obama WON hands down in the first debate with a bumbling, jingoistic, geriatric McCain, the child-bombing "war hero" but DREW with McCain in terms of Jingoism and Ignoring of the Muslim Holocaust.

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A large group of US, UK & global writers - including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and UK Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter - have issued the powerful Le Feyt Declaration: Peace in Iraq is an option

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Media-ignored 9-11 Crime - 9-11 Million Dead in Bush Wars

We still do not know who did 9-11 (3,000 Americans murdered, possibly with US complicity) but authoritative UN data tell us of the REAL 9-11 atrocity - 9-11 million deaths associated with the Bush Wars (1990-2008).

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Obama, McCain, Iraqi Genocide & Afghan Genocide

Obama promises to get out of Iraq (1990-2008 excess deaths 4 million) but to continue in Afghanistan (2001-2008 excess deaths 3-6 million). McCain will continue both holocausts and possibly more.

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Carbon Burning, Zionism & War Kill 1 million Americans Yearly

Americans have had a long love affair with carbon burning (burning of vegetation, wood, coal, gas and oil). It can be estimated that about 1 million Americans die each year from carbon burning and related violence.

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The article reports a recent lecture by US economics Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) on the $3 trillion accrual cost of the Iraq War and the shattered lives of surviving US veterans.

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The Australian Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) said the Iraq war was illegal because it was not backed by the UN and it supports the legal brief sent to the International Criminal Court

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A legal brief peace from activists, lawyers, academics and politicians sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging former prime minister John Howard committed a war crime by sending troops to Iraq.

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5 years and 3 months after the coalition invasion began, Australia is withdrawing 550 combat troops from Iraq , leaving about 1000 Australian forces in the region with navy, air force and at US Green Zone HQ.

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Article about Hay festival 2008: Experts on the huge and varied costs of the Iraq war made for a compelling festival session, especially re the book "Three Trillion Dollar War" by US Professors Stiglitz & Bilmes.

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Michael Levy writes about forthcoming books about Tony Blair, one by himself and and another by Cherie Blair and the spat between them over "who really knows what" and close publication dates.

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Petrol prices have hit a record high in Australia. On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Question and Answer program PM Kevin Rudd blamed the Iraq War in part for the record oil prices.

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As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other.

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