Incompetent Design

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. – Howard Zinn



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VETERANS DISCUSS IRAQ
March 24, 2006


Four Iraq war veterans discuss their experiences in Iraq and their views on the war's impact three years after the initial U.S.-led invasion.
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem. – Howard Zinn



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FBI Keeps Watch on Activists
Antiwar, other groups are monitored to curb violence, not because of ideology, agency says.
By Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer
March 27, 2006


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The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace. – Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism



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Freed British Peace Activist Norman Kember Tells World Not to Forget
Plight of "Ordinary Iraqi People"

The three recently freed kidnapped members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams
have returned home. Last week, Norman Kember of Britain, and Canadians James
Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were found after nearly four months in
captivity. We play Kember's statement to the media shortly after arriving in
London.

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A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan



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William Rivers Pitt | Incompetent Design

William Rivers Pitt writes: Last week, George W. Bush got up before a gaggle of reporters and washed his hands of the mess in Iraq. The question of how long an American presence will remain in that country "will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq," said Bush. To be fair, he isn't the only one. The entire administration appears to have become bored with the whole process.



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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... – Thomas Paine