Iraqi blogger Faiza Al-Araji comes to America
By MEHAMMED MACK
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 12:00 pm

In the midst of a rock-star-style tour of American cities arranged by Code Pink organizer Medea Benjamin — who reached all the way up to Hillary Clinton to secure visas for a delegation of Iraqi women marking the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion at a series of anti-war protests — Faiza Al-Araji, a Baghdad water engineer and blogger (afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com), found herself on the beach in Santa Monica with hundreds of local protesters. Inside a frame of flag-draped coffins, with white crosses marking a grid on the sand, the crowd shaped itself into the symbol of a goddess and the words “Women Say No to War.” One woman suggested, for ceremony’s sake, that Al-Araji place a flower on a soldier’s coffin.

“Why should I do that?” Al-Araji asked. “They killed my people!”

“There is something strange in this country,” she explains. “The people who have commitment to Christianity are aggressive, while the people who have no commitment to religion speak in humanity language. We believe, as Muslims, [that the] message of Jesus was peace. I can’t imagine there is a Christian who is war maker.”

read more:
http://www.laweekly.com/features/13048/an-untamable-voice/

...and Mr. Rumsfeld, even in the 2nd term, 2nd Secretary Of State, distancing himself:

later with the english:

http://www.netscape.de/index.jsp?sg=News_Newsticker&cid=1222017488

english:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/14987.php/Rumsfeld-puzzled-over-Rice's-remark

Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502269.htm

77 TV stations aired 'fake news reports'

Ron Brynaert
Published: Wednesday April 5, 2006

Impressed by the "scope of what they found," Adelstein told the Times that it was a "disgrace to American journalism," and proof of "potentially major violations" of F.C.C. rules.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/77_TV_stations_aired_fake_news_0405.htm

All This For That?

or

All That For This?

The Smoking Gun:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com//archive/0406061libby1.html