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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read
Mark Twain
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Stacy Bannerman | Quit Bargaining With the Lives of Our Loved Ones

It's easy to make deals with soldiers' lives when it's not your soldier. According to Stacy Bannerman, it's pretty simple to postpone coming up with an exit strategy when your loved ones are already home.

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence
Benjamin Franklin

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Over 7,000 Killed by Iraq Death Squads

Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months.

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth
Henry D. Thoreau

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Robert M. Sapolsky | A Natural History of Peace
Robert M. Sapolsky contradicts beliefs that humans are "killer apes" destined for violent conflict, but argues their non-violent ability to make their own history.

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Where liberty is, there is my country
Benjamin Franklin

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Tom Engelhardt | The Precipice, the Brink, the Abyss - Iraq

Tom Engelhardt writes: Will we simply continue bumping along that potholed "road" until, six months, or a year, or three years from now, every "solution" ends up leading only to what might be dubbed George's Inferno - and the oil heartlands of the planet are ablaze?

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And though tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people
Hannah Arendt, from her book The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.128

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America the Pitiful
By Charles Sullivan

Calling our form of government a democratic republic does not make it so. We are what we do. By now it should be abundantly clear that most Americans are incapable of recognizing real democracy—because they have never been subjected to one. Perhaps no culture on earth is more materialistic or delusional than ours’. Compared to much of the world, America’s behavior is tragically pathological.

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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

2300

The War in Iraq Costs $245,033,225,327 See the cost in your community

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In case you missed it:
Wasn’t Jesus A Liberal? :

Liberalism has been under assault for years now. The battering of this grand political philosophy has altered the contemporary definition of liberal to the point that Conservatives use it as a profane word. They use it to paint a political opponent as anti-God and anti-American. It has gotten to the point that moderate and liberal Christians are afraid to be open about their political leanings.

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"Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance."
Bruce D. Porter (1952- ) Professor of political science at Brigham Young University - Source: "War and the Rise of the State", 1994

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Ex-Official:
Iraq Abuses Growing Worse :

Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.