The Abominations of War

"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they
are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume
that its might makes it right." : Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist

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It's About Building A Movement

Watch the new video from the Campaign for America's Future plugging their conference next weekend, Take Back America 2006.

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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2475

The War in Iraq Costs $286,030,487,316 See the cost in your community

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"A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments
in its hands -- even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no
great thing can really be accomplished.": John Stuart Mill - (1806-1873) English
philosopher and economist

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The Media’s Bloody Footprints

By Mike Whitney

The persistent slaughter in Iraq is not just the work of right wing fanatics and
neocons, but of the information-managers who pumped their lies through the
public air-waves and made the war a fati accompli. They’ve played a central role
in decimating Iraqi society and putting America on the fast-track to ruin.


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"I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready
booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be
ridden.": Richard Rumbold - (?-1626) British Colonel - Source: His final words
on the scaffold before he was hanged in 1685.

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Sheehan: From My Lai to Haditha

The Abominations of War

By Cindy Sheehan

This is the most difficult article that I have ever had to write, but I have to
write it anyway, unfortunately.

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IRAQ BODY COUNT: Death Toll Continues to climb in third year of occupation: 30 Per day in Year 1, 31 per day in Year 2 and 36 per day in Year 3 Warning: these figures could be low:

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FOCUS | Army Manual to Skip Geneva Convention Detainee Rule

The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

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Marjorie Cohn | Stop the Beast

"In an annual security conference on Saturday, Donald Rumsfeld assured the audience, 'We don't intend to occupy [Iraq] for any period of time. Our troops would like to go home and they will go home.'" Marjorie Cohn asks, "Why, then, would the United States be building an enormous embassy in Baghdad and a base so large it eclipses Kosovo's Camp Bondsteel, which had been the largest foreign US military base built since Vietnam?"