What Happened at Haditha

"Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.":
Catherine of Siena - (1347-1380) Dominican Tertiary - c.1370

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Another wave of bombers

BY David Hirst

Patients with chronic kidney disease dying for lack of their routine dialysis;
165,000 employees of the Palestine Authority unpaid for two and a half months;
women selling jewellery for fuel or food ... the "humanitarian crisis" of the
West Bank and Gaza.


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"Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to
make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of
a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose
and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the
blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all? -- Samuel Adams -
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."

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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 2474

The War in Iraq Costs
$285,650,112,782
See the cost in your community

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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you
see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce
nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods,
but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by
work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you
- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -
you may know that your society is doomed: Ayn Rand - (1905-1982) Author -
Source: Atlas Shrugged, Francisco's "Money Speech"

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Return to Ishaqi: The Pentagon's Shaky Self-Exoneration

By Chris Floyd

It seems that the Pentagon, that veritable fount of veracity, has probed itself
for the alleged execution-style slaying of civilians in Ishaqi, and found that
the operation -- which left 11 civilians dead, including five children under the
age of five -- was in fact an exemplary feat of arms, strictly by the book.

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"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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Bush's Nuclear Alliance With India at Risk
A proposed nuclear deal with India that the White House considers one of the most important pillars of President Bush's foreign policy legacy is in jeopardy because of growing objections in Congress and abroad.

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"As God walks atop this Wall and weeps,
I hear him say, `These were my sons.'

The sound of his tears fall silenced,
As hands are washed in the Potomac,
And it runs red with waste!

The Pontius Pilates of the new Rome,
Repeat history on full automatic."



Nicholas James Weber
Vietnam Veteran

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What Happened at Haditha
On her syndicated radio show Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Dahr Jamail, Nancy Youssef, Aparisim Ghosh and John Sifton regarding the Haditha massacre.