Wednesday, April 19, 2006

IRAQ IS FIRST-Female Combat Amputees

"[T]he Administration has seized the power of Congress to make the laws, they have seized the power of the judiciary to interpret the laws, and they execute them as well. They have consolidated within themselves all of the powers of the government."
-- Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory, March 25, 2006


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China Sole Manufacturer of Material for U.S. Missiles

It was in his 2003 State of the Union Address that President George W. Bush expressed his administration’s objective to “strengthen global treaties banning the production and shipment of missile technologies.” It was thereafter, between 2003 and 2004, in which the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) allowed the last manufacturer in the U.S. that provided a key element instrumental in cruise missile guidance, to be relocated to the Peoples’ Republic of China.

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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar Bradley

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Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Stand Your Ground Against Right Wing Veteran Extremist Views of PTSD - Only Valor Stolen is from Vets with PTSD.

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. – Thomas Carlyle

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Tuesday, 18 April 2006
First Shots Fired In The PTSD Claims War Report by Tom Berger, Chair of Vietnam Veterans of American, PTSD Committee

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War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed. – John Cory

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Afghanistan's new militant alliances {Abit Of How ALL This Started}

"It was just very, very exciting to be in that room with those men with their huge white teeth."
Afghan warlords have often formed unusual alliances in times of conflict, but even by their standards holding a war council in the presence of a clearly giddy beauty queen dressed in a pink jump suit and answering to the name of Snowflake was hardly standard fare.

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein (attributed)

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Afghan poppy growers want protection from Cdn forces
{Hmmm, 'Peace and Democracy' or 'Make Sure 'Suits' Get Their Booty', Tough Call!! [Bettin On The Suits]}

Richard Foot, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A large group of Afghan poppy farmers has handed Canadian soldiers an unusual offer, pledging not to grow the illicit flowers next year if they're allowed to harvest their poppy crop this year with no interference from Afghan officials intent on smashing the country's opium trade.

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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Injured women put new face on war
BY DONNA ST. GEORGE
WASHINGTON POST
Posted on Wed, Apr. 19, 2006

WASHINGTON - Her body was maimed by war. Dawn Halfaker lay unconscious at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her parents at her bedside and her future suddenly uncertain. A rocket-propelled grenade had exploded in her Humvee, ravaging her right arm and shoulder.

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War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. – Erasmus

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