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Iran has accused the United States and Britain of stoking the unrest that has broken out among its Kurdish and Arab minorities. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi offered little evidence for his allegations on Sunday, but suggested that Washington and London were giving encouragement to the Arabs and Kurds who have rioted in western and northwestern Iran. "According to some information, the Americans intervened in northwestern Iran. This is not acceptable at all," Asefi told a news conference. "We will voice our objection in this regard soon." Asefi said the United States is stuck in Iraq and is trying...

The media's favorite Gold Star mother is blasting Israel along with the U.S. for being the primary cause of worldwide terrorism. "You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism," Sheehan declared Saturday, in quotes picked up by the Drudge Report. As her protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch enters its second week, Sheehan, called for Bush's impeachment for "war crimes." "And now I'm going to use another 'I' word - impeachment - because we cannot have these people pardoned," she complained. "They need to be tried on war crimes and go...

Peter Jennings Blames the U.S. for Saddam Hussein's Cruelty03/24/2003 Last week, the Media Research Center released a report demonstrating that Peter Jennings has offered the most consistently anti-American, pro-evil dictator reporting of any U.S. news broadcast. Not surprisingly, he continues unabated. Friday night, March 21, at approximately 10:45pm EST, ABC presented a taped interview of four Iraqi women by Barbara Walters. These women, now living in the United States, told horrifying tales of Saddam Hussein's cruelty. Walters finished the interview with agreement by all the women that Iraqi citizens will be "rejoicing when the Americans arrive." Following the taped interview,...

The producer of Elton John's July 4 benefit and concert said the mega-show's hoopla affected fund-raising efforts. By Marcia Gelbart Inquirer Staff Writer Philadelphia's host role in the Live 8 concerts last month may have backfired in at least one way. As Mark Segal sees it, the July 2 mega-show on the Parkway, and all the publicity surrounding it, ate into the $1 million that he expected to raise for area HIV/AIDS service organizations. That money was to have come from the Elton John benefit and concert also held on the Parkway that holiday weekend, on July Fourth. When the...

The other day, Howard Dean condemned President Bush's right-wing Supreme Courtfor the Kelo decision: [Dean] also said the president was partly responsible for a recent Supreme Court decision involving eminent domain.The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is okay to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is Dean said, not mentioning that until he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court this week, Bush had not appointed anyone to the high court.

Jane Fonda has worked as an actress and then retired, gotten married and divorced several times, condemned cosmetic surgery and then had eye lifts and breast implants (and later had the implants removed). The list of reversals is a long one, but in one area of her fabled life Fonda has remained resolute. She refuses to pass up an opportunity to take a stand against American foreign policy when U.S. service men and women are fighting totalitarian forces in the world. Famous for posing, smiling, in a photo on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, Fonda is now planning a national...

Egyptian sources blame Israel for Sharm el-Sheikh terror attacks (Haaretz) I CANT REPLY I JUST CAN'T THE INSANITY !!!!!!!

THE Bush administration showered John Howard with the most effusive public praise in Washington this week. He would have been less pleased by the nickname used privately in Republican circles inside the Beltway where he is known as "Bonsai", the mini Bush. This is particularly hurtful since George W. Bush is known as "Shrub"; that is, a smaller version of his father, George Bush, US president from 1989 to 1993. Still, Howard could not fail to be pleased by the public accolades and the press coverage in Australia. Howard's early moments in Britain were less comfortable. One of the Australian...

The dust hadn’t even settled after the terrorist atrocities in London and already the conspiracy-theories and self-recrimination had begun. Unwilling to blame the actual perpetrators, members of the perennially paranoid among the Western left, the Muslim world, and even the mainstream media had to find someone, anyone else, to blame. Websites such as WhatReallyHappened.com, Indymedia.com, and Al-Jazeera were filled with rumors that all was not as it seemed. Meanwhile, leftist groups accused “imperialist governments” of using the attacks to justify the war in Iraq and insisted on referring to the “so-called” war on terror even as the victims of suicide...

Pakistan 'not to blame for bombs' The UK should try not to blame foreign countries for influencing the London suicide bombers, a leading Pakistani diplomat has said. Munir Akram, Islamabad's ambassador to the United Nations, spoke after reports linking his country to the killers. Three are said to be of Pakistani decent and one is reported to have visited a religious school in Pakistan. Mr Akram told the BBC that Britain had to look at its own problems to understand the root causes of terror. He told The World This Weekend that a particular concern was integrating Muslims into...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair sees the Arab-Israeli dispute as one of the main reasons behind the London bombings. The group claiming responsibility puts it third on a list of grievances. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has attributed last week’s bombings in London to the Arab-Israeli dispute and lack of democracy in the Middle East. At least 70 people were estimated to have been killed in bombing attacks that gripped London last Thursday, with hundreds more wounded. Blair told the BBC that precluding terrorist attacks was not necessarily a question of taking preventative security measures. “The underlying problems have to...

HAVANA -- Cuba blamed the major leagues Friday for the sport being dropped from the 2012 Olympics. Cuba has won three of the four gold medals since baseball was first played at the Olympics -- in 1992, 1996 and 2004. The United States won the gold in 2000, with Cuba getting the silver. "Those who bear most of the blame are the owners of the professional leagues who refuse to free up their ballplayers to compete," Cuban Baseball Federation president Carlos Rodriguez told The Associated Press. "It's a shame because this decision will disappoint millions of young people who practice...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Islamic leaders condemned the London bombings, though many on Friday insisted the United States and Britain, with their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are ultimately to blame for fueling militant violence. Increasing voices, however, say the Arab world has to stop adding "but" to its denunciations of terrorism. Thursday's attack came as a double shock in the Middle East, occurring the same day that al-Qaida militants announced they had killed Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq after kidnapping him and judging him an "apostate" for his country's support of the United States. The bombings also targeted a...

I wonder how long it will take for people like Hillary, Durbin, Kennedy, and the extreme left to put the blame of the terrorists attacks in the UK on President Bush? I can see them now in their "war rooms," trying to strategize their approach on this. Will Kennedy come out of his compound in a drunken stupor? Will Durbin be frothing at the mouth advocating the impeachment of the President?

A letter to the editor July 5, 2005 Dear Editor: The Bush administration and its minions in Congress have been attacking Kofi Annan and others in the United Nations for supposedly mishandling the Oil for Food program funds collected by the U.N. from the regime of Saddam Hussein. The administration is using this bogus issue to attempt to put the seriously flawed John Bolton in place as our ambassador to the U.N., supposedly because we need someone tough to effect much-needed reform. Well, now we find that some of those funds (a whole lot actually) had been deposited in the...

A lawyer for presidential adviser Karl Rove has disclosed that his client spoke with a Time magazine reporter just days before the name of a CIA operative was leaked to the media, but he did not leak the confidential information. Rove attorney Robert Luskin said that Rove did not reveal any secrets, and, furthermore, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has assured him that the adviser is not a target of his investigation. According to Luskin, Rove spoke to Time reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003 - a week before media reports revealed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife...

Foreigners Blamed for Iraq Attacks Associated Press July 1, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi officials have long believed that foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq through its porous borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are behind most suicide missions, and the recent wave of bloody strikes has confirmed that thinking. Authorities have found little evidence that Iraqis have been behind the near-daily stream of suicide attacks over the past six months, U.S. and Iraqi intelligence officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity. The key role of foreign fighters in suicide attacks is one reason...

Stop Blaming the Troops - Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces. Today, the reports of abuse and humiliation at detainment facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba are distracting the world from focusing on winning the war on terror. Although the military chain of command seems to have properly investigated the role of its personnel and held accountable those in the wrong, the civilian leadership in...

Dutch blame France for EU budget breakdown: report Document Actions 21/06/2005 Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot accused France of scuppering EU budget talks by refusing to countenance a cut in agricultural subsidies, according to remarks published Tuesday. Bot said it was "unfair" for the Netherlands and Britain to be singled out for blame over the collapse of a European Union summit at the weekend. The Netherlands, which wants to shave its financial contributions to the bloc, was one of five countries along with Britain, Sweden, Spain and Finland that rejected a compromise EU budget plan for 2007-2013. Britain has taken...