On The Brink In Iraq

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We Know Where The Blame Lies, But 'ALL' Of Us Are Responsible For What Has Happened and What May Happen!!!!!

On The Brink In Iraq
by Bob Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com
The die has been cast. Bush must take the blame for destroying Iraq.


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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. -- Thomas Carlyle


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There is No One that can Convince Me that the Repug Leadership, in Congress, Had NO IDEA About this Deal, and also some of the Rubber Stamp Congressional Reps!!

Fearmonger In Chief
by William Greider, The Nation
President Bush sowed the hysteria he is now reaping in the form of the UAE ports controversy.

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He who allows oppression, shares the crime. -- Erasmus Darwin

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Pass It On: The Bushevik Revolution In Pictures
by Kirktoons
Check out posters of the Great Leap Forward Bush-style.

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire

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Posted on Thu, Feb. 23, 2006
FBI memos reveal allegations of abusive interrogation techniques
By Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday

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Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer

February 23, 2006, 7:30 PM EST

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there.

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In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade-unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade-unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. -- attributed to Rev. Martin Niemoller

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Fiore presents: Destroyer Dick


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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2287

The War in Iraq Costs $243,000,413,187 See the cost in your community

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George Bush, protector of Arab rights?
Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate

02.23.06 - AUSTIN, Texas -- So, aside from the fact that it's politically idiotic and at least theoretically presents a national security risk, just what is wrong with the Dubai Ports deal?
As President George W. Bush actually said, "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I'm trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, we'll treat you fairly."

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"All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for thir future security." : The Declaration of Independence (1776)

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Published on Thursday, February 23, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
The Pencil Warrior: Lewis Powell's Memorandum Was A Blueprint for Corporate Takeover

by Dave Wheelock
The bumper sticker has growing relevance: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” As many corporations report record profits and our president announces with a straight face the economy is sound, the gap between the very rich and the rest of us continues to widen, the number of U.S. citizens without health insurance passes 45 million (equivalent to the populations of the eight northeastern states), and the level of American jobs outsourced to cheap labor markets worldwide reaches farther up into the middle class. For the first time in generations the economic outlook of our children is dimmer than that of their parents.

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CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded by Marla Ruzicka, who was killed on April 16, 2005 by a suicide bomb in Baghdad while advocating for the families of Iraqi civilians killed and injured in the conflict. CIVIC believes that civilian casualties should be counted and their families assisted by the governments responsible, and is working to identify victims and help their families.

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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."