Is the World Safer Today?

“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘Our country—when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’”
Schurz, “The Policy of Imperialism,” Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119–20 (1913).

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Rep. John Murtha
Is the World Safer Today?

The President continues to use labels and rhetoric to define his national defense policy, but it simply isn't working. In his State of the Union Address, the President defended his position to both the American public and the world by saying "we will continue to lead" but this does little to repair the damage done by the President's failed policies.
We must insist that this Administration provide the facts behind its labels.


I am sharing with you this letter that I sent to the President this morning articulating exactly this:
Wednesday February 1, 2006
The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. " : Ayn Rand in "The Nature of Government"

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Granny D's Speech in DC Today {2-04-06} at World Can't Wait Rally

Good morning, dear fellow Americans!
Soon, we will all march to the White House, to give physical witness to our concern that America's values lay in tatters as a result of Mr. Bush's sociopathic behavior. I am here this morning to tell the Members of Congress that, although we march to the White House now, our hopes and hearts and expectations look backward down this street to Congress.
Every Member of Congress has taken an oath of office to uphold the Constitution.

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"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Veterans and Survivors of Katrina

From Mobile to New Orleans March 14-19, 2006

March 19, 2006 is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Veterans for Peace is organizing this five-day march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, instead of the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Support Americans in Iraq and the Gulf Coast—bring them home NOW!

{By the way, if you can't make this Visit the Link and Send a Couple of Duckets if you got them as we All progress backwards in Finances, it would be Greatly Appreciated!!}

Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!

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There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with 'a money touch,' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers: Theodore Roosevelt

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On democracy, Arabs mistrust the American messenger:

A very large majorities of Arabs - three out of every four persons - believed that the main motives of American policies in the Middle East were "oil, protecting Israel, dominating the region, and weakening the Muslim world."

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Destabilizing Missiles?:

For the first time since intercontinental ballistic missiles were "captured" in arms control treaties 40 years ago as unique and potentially destabilizing weapons, the United States will muddy the waters by modifying an existing nuclear weapon for use in day-to-day warfare. ******
Iran threatens to close Hormuz in retaliation:
Iran also threatened retaliation against any country providing the US with bases or other means to launch its military campaign.
India-Defence

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“If Everyone In This Country Lost A Brother/Sister, A Son/Daughter Or Grandson/Grandaughter, Things Would Be Very Different”

Vietnam War History 101:
“The Only Glory In War, Is In The Imagination Of Those Who Were Never There”