Frontline - The Insurgency
The Insurgency
An investigation into the people who are fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in
Iraq.
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Saturday, February 25, 2006
The Insurgency
The Insurgency
An investigation into the people who are fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in
Iraq.
Windows Media or Realplayer
Osama, Saddam and the Ports
Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : Message to Congress proposing the monopoly investigation, 1938
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BushWatch: C-in-C AWOL. Again
by emptypockets
Sat Feb 25, 2006 at 12:19:13 PM EST
"Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
--Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush
30 people were killed this morning, and 140 more people were killed since Wednesdday in the war in Iraq.
7 American troops were killed by two separate roadside bombs on Wednesday.
Iraqi political talks were "in ruins" as the Iraq defense minister warned of a never-ending civil war. There are about 150,000 U.S. troops under the command of President George W. Bush in that country today.
And where was their Commander-in-Chief?
AWOL.
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"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."- Aristotle in Politics, J. Sinclair translation, pg. 226, 1962
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{It Failed Long Before It Even Started}
February 24, 2006, 2:51 p.m.
It Didn’t Work
William F. Buckley
"I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes — it is America." The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. "Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America."
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"...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations."--Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of the USA
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Bill Moyers | Restoring the Public Trust
Bill Moyers speaks on the issue of money and politics: Watching these people work is a study of the inner circle at the top of American politics. It is a Dick Cheney world out there - a world where politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together, all the while carving up the world according to their own interests. It is time to fight again. It's not their government, it's your government.
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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 2287
The War in Iraq Costs $240,888,746,378 See the cost in your community
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More documents prove that top defense officials approved of abuse at Guantanamo detention center
The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents that prove that top Department of Defense officials endorsed interrogation methods at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp that the FBI described as both abusive and illegal.
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"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so." : Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) American humorist and lecturer
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Jason Leopold | Plame Whistleblowers Targeted by Administration
Two top Bush administration officials who played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson nearly three years ago have been removed from their jobs. They were career State Department weapons experts, who disagreed with the White House's pre-war Iraq intelligence and have spoken to investigators during the past two years about the officials' role in the leak, according to a half-dozen State Department officials.
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.": General Douglas MacArthur - (1880-1964) WWII Supreme Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific, Supreme United Nations Commander 1957
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Mark Engler | How Costly Is Too Costly?
Mark Engler writes: In the center of the CostOfWar.com home page, an upward-racing ticker, presented in a large, red font, keeps a steady tally of the money spent for the US war in Iraq. Every time I visit, it takes a moment to sort through the counter's decimal places and make sense of it. The hundreds of dollars fly by too quickly to track. The thousands change a little faster than once a second. As I write, the ticker reads $239,302,273,144.
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"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it: Milton Mayer - Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955
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Paul Krugman | Osama, Saddam and the Ports
Paul Krugman writes that Mr. Bush assures us that "people don't need to worry about security." But after all those declarations that we're engaged in a global war on terrorism, after all the terror alerts declared whenever the national political debate seemed to be shifting to questions of cronyism, corruption and incompetence, the administration can't suddenly change its theme song to "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
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"A radical is one who speaks the truth." : Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. - Congressman, father of famous aviator - June 15, 1957
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The Crime of Opposing War
UK Law Lords yesterday completed a hearing in a case involving over 20 people charged with activities arising from non-violent civil disobedience at military sites designed to stop the rush to war in Iraq.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : Message to Congress proposing the monopoly investigation, 1938
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BushWatch: C-in-C AWOL. Again
by emptypockets
Sat Feb 25, 2006 at 12:19:13 PM EST
"Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
--Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush
30 people were killed this morning, and 140 more people were killed since Wednesdday in the war in Iraq.
7 American troops were killed by two separate roadside bombs on Wednesday.
Iraqi political talks were "in ruins" as the Iraq defense minister warned of a never-ending civil war. There are about 150,000 U.S. troops under the command of President George W. Bush in that country today.
And where was their Commander-in-Chief?
AWOL.
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"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."- Aristotle in Politics, J. Sinclair translation, pg. 226, 1962
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{It Failed Long Before It Even Started}
February 24, 2006, 2:51 p.m.
It Didn’t Work
William F. Buckley
"I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes — it is America." The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. "Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America."
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"...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations."--Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of the USA
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Bill Moyers | Restoring the Public Trust
Bill Moyers speaks on the issue of money and politics: Watching these people work is a study of the inner circle at the top of American politics. It is a Dick Cheney world out there - a world where politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together, all the while carving up the world according to their own interests. It is time to fight again. It's not their government, it's your government.
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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 2287
The War in Iraq Costs $240,888,746,378 See the cost in your community
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More documents prove that top defense officials approved of abuse at Guantanamo detention center
The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents that prove that top Department of Defense officials endorsed interrogation methods at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp that the FBI described as both abusive and illegal.
========
"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so." : Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) American humorist and lecturer
========
Jason Leopold | Plame Whistleblowers Targeted by Administration
Two top Bush administration officials who played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson nearly three years ago have been removed from their jobs. They were career State Department weapons experts, who disagreed with the White House's pre-war Iraq intelligence and have spoken to investigators during the past two years about the officials' role in the leak, according to a half-dozen State Department officials.
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.": General Douglas MacArthur - (1880-1964) WWII Supreme Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific, Supreme United Nations Commander 1957
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Mark Engler | How Costly Is Too Costly?
Mark Engler writes: In the center of the CostOfWar.com home page, an upward-racing ticker, presented in a large, red font, keeps a steady tally of the money spent for the US war in Iraq. Every time I visit, it takes a moment to sort through the counter's decimal places and make sense of it. The hundreds of dollars fly by too quickly to track. The thousands change a little faster than once a second. As I write, the ticker reads $239,302,273,144.
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"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it: Milton Mayer - Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955
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Paul Krugman | Osama, Saddam and the Ports
Paul Krugman writes that Mr. Bush assures us that "people don't need to worry about security." But after all those declarations that we're engaged in a global war on terrorism, after all the terror alerts declared whenever the national political debate seemed to be shifting to questions of cronyism, corruption and incompetence, the administration can't suddenly change its theme song to "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
========
"A radical is one who speaks the truth." : Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. - Congressman, father of famous aviator - June 15, 1957
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The Crime of Opposing War
UK Law Lords yesterday completed a hearing in a case involving over 20 people charged with activities arising from non-violent civil disobedience at military sites designed to stop the rush to war in Iraq.
Veterans and PTSD
Flash Presentation..
Produced by a Fellow Veterans For Peace Member, Kathie Costos:
{If anyone is having trouble viewing Kathies Video, according to site it can be seen only with broadband, I've Downloaded it and than Uploaded it to video.google.com, hopefully so dialups etc. can view. I'm waiting till they approve and send a new URL and will post that up in the messages as well as in the PTSD Section, to the right, of this blog!!}
Produced by a Fellow Veterans For Peace Member, Kathie Costos:
I just did a new video on Veterans with PTSD for them as well as their families. Pass it on. We need to stop the silence on this and fight for them.
Veterans and PTSD
{If anyone is having trouble viewing Kathies Video, according to site it can be seen only with broadband, I've Downloaded it and than Uploaded it to video.google.com, hopefully so dialups etc. can view. I'm waiting till they approve and send a new URL and will post that up in the messages as well as in the PTSD Section, to the right, of this blog!!}
Friday, February 24, 2006
The Children - Results Of Conflicts
Children's mental health affected by insecurity, say specialists
Children increasingly at risk of suffering from mental illness, survey says
BAGHDAD, 7 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The Association of Psychologists of Iraq (API) has released a report stating that the US-led invasion and occupation of the country have greatly affected the psychological development of many Iraqi children.
On The Brink In Iraq
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We Know Where The Blame Lies, But 'ALL' Of Us Are Responsible For What Has Happened and What May Happen!!!!!
On The Brink In Iraq
by Bob Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com
The die has been cast. Bush must take the blame for destroying Iraq.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. -- Thomas Carlyle
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There is No One that can Convince Me that the Repug Leadership, in Congress, Had NO IDEA About this Deal, and also some of the Rubber Stamp Congressional Reps!!
Fearmonger In Chief
by William Greider, The Nation
President Bush sowed the hysteria he is now reaping in the form of the UAE ports controversy.
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He who allows oppression, shares the crime. -- Erasmus Darwin
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Pass It On: The Bushevik Revolution In Pictures
by Kirktoons
Check out posters of the Great Leap Forward Bush-style.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire
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Posted on Thu, Feb. 23, 2006
FBI memos reveal allegations of abusive interrogation techniques
By Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday
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Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
February 23, 2006, 7:30 PM EST
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there.
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In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade-unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade-unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. -- attributed to Rev. Martin Niemoller
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Fiore presents: Destroyer Dick
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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 2287
The War in Iraq Costs $243,000,413,187 See the cost in your community
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George Bush, protector of Arab rights?
Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate
02.23.06 - AUSTIN, Texas -- So, aside from the fact that it's politically idiotic and at least theoretically presents a national security risk, just what is wrong with the Dubai Ports deal?
As President George W. Bush actually said, "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I'm trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, we'll treat you fairly."
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"All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for thir future security." : The Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Published on Thursday, February 23, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
The Pencil Warrior: Lewis Powell's Memorandum Was A Blueprint for Corporate Takeover
by Dave Wheelock
The bumper sticker has growing relevance: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” As many corporations report record profits and our president announces with a straight face the economy is sound, the gap between the very rich and the rest of us continues to widen, the number of U.S. citizens without health insurance passes 45 million (equivalent to the populations of the eight northeastern states), and the level of American jobs outsourced to cheap labor markets worldwide reaches farther up into the middle class. For the first time in generations the economic outlook of our children is dimmer than that of their parents.
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CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded by Marla Ruzicka, who was killed on April 16, 2005 by a suicide bomb in Baghdad while advocating for the families of Iraqi civilians killed and injured in the conflict. CIVIC believes that civilian casualties should be counted and their families assisted by the governments responsible, and is working to identify victims and help their families.
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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."
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We Know Where The Blame Lies, But 'ALL' Of Us Are Responsible For What Has Happened and What May Happen!!!!!
On The Brink In Iraq
by Bob Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com
The die has been cast. Bush must take the blame for destroying Iraq.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. -- Thomas Carlyle
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There is No One that can Convince Me that the Repug Leadership, in Congress, Had NO IDEA About this Deal, and also some of the Rubber Stamp Congressional Reps!!
Fearmonger In Chief
by William Greider, The Nation
President Bush sowed the hysteria he is now reaping in the form of the UAE ports controversy.
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He who allows oppression, shares the crime. -- Erasmus Darwin
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Pass It On: The Bushevik Revolution In Pictures
by Kirktoons
Check out posters of the Great Leap Forward Bush-style.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire
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Posted on Thu, Feb. 23, 2006
FBI memos reveal allegations of abusive interrogation techniques
By Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday
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Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
February 23, 2006, 7:30 PM EST
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there.
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In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade-unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade-unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. -- attributed to Rev. Martin Niemoller
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Fiore presents: Destroyer Dick
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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 2287
The War in Iraq Costs $243,000,413,187 See the cost in your community
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George Bush, protector of Arab rights?
Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate
02.23.06 - AUSTIN, Texas -- So, aside from the fact that it's politically idiotic and at least theoretically presents a national security risk, just what is wrong with the Dubai Ports deal?
As President George W. Bush actually said, "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I'm trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, we'll treat you fairly."
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"All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for thir future security." : The Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Published on Thursday, February 23, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
The Pencil Warrior: Lewis Powell's Memorandum Was A Blueprint for Corporate Takeover
by Dave Wheelock
The bumper sticker has growing relevance: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” As many corporations report record profits and our president announces with a straight face the economy is sound, the gap between the very rich and the rest of us continues to widen, the number of U.S. citizens without health insurance passes 45 million (equivalent to the populations of the eight northeastern states), and the level of American jobs outsourced to cheap labor markets worldwide reaches farther up into the middle class. For the first time in generations the economic outlook of our children is dimmer than that of their parents.
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CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded by Marla Ruzicka, who was killed on April 16, 2005 by a suicide bomb in Baghdad while advocating for the families of Iraqi civilians killed and injured in the conflict. CIVIC believes that civilian casualties should be counted and their families assisted by the governments responsible, and is working to identify victims and help their families.
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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."
Continuing To 'Screw' The Veteran!! The VA, The Government which of Course Is The PEOPLE!!
Gulf War Veteran Gets Placebos Instead Of Real Medicine
{There is a News Video at Site}
Video: Congress Investigates Gulf War Veterans Getting Placebos
POSTED: 4:13 pm EST February 23, 2006
UPDATED: 5:33 pm EST February 23, 2006
A Gulf War veteran undergoing medical treatment said he was given placebos -- or sugar pills -- instead of real medicine.
Like thousands of other soldiers, Army veteran Mike Woods said he developed bizarre symptoms after serving in the first Gulf War -- blackouts, chest pain and numbness in the extremities.
Woods looked to the Veterans Administration for help. He said his VA doctor prescribed him a drug called Obecalp.
"She told me there was this new drug out that would really help me with all of my physical conditions, and my pain. She really wanted me to try it," said Woods.
But when the pill provided no relief, Woods did some research and learned that Obecalp isn't a medicine at all, but a sugar pill. He was shocked to learn the word "obecalp" is placebo spelled backward.
The American Medical Association said placebos should only be used as part of a clinical trial and doctors must be extremely thorough in obtaining informed consent from patients that they may not be getting a real drug.
"Nobody ever said, 'You might be part of a study? You might get a placebo?'" asked reporter Alison Burns.
"No. Never. I never signed up for a study in my life, much less with the VA," said Woods.
Woods recently shared his ordeal with members of Congress investigating complaints about how the government is caring for patients with Gulf War Syndrome.
"The first step to fixing any problem is to recognize the problem is real," said Woods.
"It is absolutely ridiculous that they're giving Gulf War veterans a sugar pill to cure pain. It's like giving a cancer patient a sugar pill to cure cancer," said veterans' advocate Steve Robinson.
"To me, it's so wrong. It's immoral," said Dr. Damian Alagia, Medical Society of Washington, D.C.
Algia agrees that prescribing placebo to patients who haven't provided their consent is unethical. Although, he said research shows placebos are often effective in making a patient think he's getting better.
"Thirty-five percent of the time placebo will work," he said.
But it did not work for Woods --who said getting Obecalp is one more way the government is letting him down after he served his country.
"That's how they treat Gulf War illnesses -- give you a placebo and send you down the road and hope that your mind will cure itself," said Woods.
It might not just be a problem for veterans. Eyewitness News found a number of reports about doctors who admitted giving unwitting patients sugar pills to make patients think they're getting real treatment.
No one from the VA could explain why Woods got a placebo prescription. They said, as a rule, VA doctors are not supposed to use placebos as medical treatment.
To find out if your medications are indeed real medicine, go to a federal database of approved drugs by clicking on Food And Drug Administration.gov -- Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products.
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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."
Thursday, February 23, 2006
An Extremely Tragic Case Of PTSD?
Feb 23, 8:51 AM EST
Iraq Vet Accused of Stabbing Wife 71 Times
Iraq Vet Accused of Stabbing Wife 71 Times
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) -- Army officials have recommended a court-martial for a Purple Heart recipient accused of stabbing his young wife 71 times with knives and a meat cleaver.
"What this looks like ... is an act of rage, or some sort of other unexplainable act," defense attorney Capt. Patrick O'Brien said.
Witnesses testified that Bare had enrolled in treatment programs for anger management and combat stress after his return from Iraq. He had said he was having trouble controlling his anger and didn't like his wife going out and partying, said Michael Collins, a nurse and case manager at Madigan Army Medical Center.
Tammy Can Do It!!!!
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.":
George Washington (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' -Source: Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521)
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The Truth About Dubya And Dubai
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
This focus on an Arab company fuels prejudice and obscures the real issues at hand.
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"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.":
George Washington - (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' - Source: Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521)
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THE LITTLE WAR PRESIDENT THAT COULDN'T
Bold and decisive
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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 2279
The War in Iraq Costs $242,774,532,836 See the cost in your community
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Now running for office: an army of Iraq veterans
All but one of these 11 House hopefuls are in the Democratic Party. [*]
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – They call themselves the Band of Brothers, about 50 men - and a few women - all Democrats, all opposed to the Bush administration's handling of Iraq, and all military veterans.
One more thing: They're all running for Congress this year.
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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."
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Shameful treatment of our veterans Many are homeless; for this they served?
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
For the Monitor
February 19. 2006 8:00AM
Last year the Nashua Planning Board approved a plan to create 15 one-bedroom apartments and five two-bedroom apartments for homeless veterans and their families. The great thing about this initiative was its local recognition of the continuing need of veterans for long-term permanent housing. The not-so-great thing is that the number of potentially eligible New Hampshire veterans far exceeds any available assistance.
For all the words written about the Iraq War, not enough attention has been paid to the honorably discharged veterans, including those with service-connected disabilities, who are sleeping in doorways or alleys or under bridges.
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As the state is a soulless machine,
it can never be weaned from violence
to which it owes its very existence.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi* (1869-1948)
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Feb 16, 2005
DOUG J. SWANSON
VA patients paint picture of neglect
Director acknowledges problems, says Dallas hospital is improving
01:28 PM CST on Sunday, February 13, 2005
By DOUG J. SWANSON / The Dallas Morning News
John Hahn lay marooned in his bed last year at the Dallas veterans' hospital, desperately seeking a nurse. An Air Force vet whose terminal bone cancer had made him a paraplegic, Mr. Hahn required turning every two hours.
That day, March 21, he started at 5:30 a.m. pushing his call button, which rang at the nearby nurse's station. No one came. He pushed it throughout the morning and into the afternoon, and still nothing.
"Called/Requested help for the past 8 hrs," he wrote in his journal.
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A Lesson Quote Brought Back In Support Of This New Generation Being Used:
Vietnam War History 101:
"The Only Glory In War, Is In The Imagination Of Those Who Were Never There"
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Tammy Can Do It!!!!
Disabled in Iraq, veteran makes move into politics
She sees House race as a second chance
By Peter Slevin, Washington Post | February 20, 2006
CHICAGO -- The smiling candidate in rimless eyeglasses and a long woolen skirt maneuvers carefully among tables and chairs as she works a crowded Starbucks. She is taking small steps, and the reason for the slight awkwardness in her gait is not instantly clear.
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Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!
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George Washington (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' -Source: Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521)
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The Truth About Dubya And Dubai
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
This focus on an Arab company fuels prejudice and obscures the real issues at hand.
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"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.":
George Washington - (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country' - Source: Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521)
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THE LITTLE WAR PRESIDENT THAT COULDN'T
Bold and decisive
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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 2279
The War in Iraq Costs $242,774,532,836 See the cost in your community
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Now running for office: an army of Iraq veterans
All but one of these 11 House hopefuls are in the Democratic Party. [*]
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – They call themselves the Band of Brothers, about 50 men - and a few women - all Democrats, all opposed to the Bush administration's handling of Iraq, and all military veterans.
One more thing: They're all running for Congress this year.
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"Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another."
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Shameful treatment of our veterans Many are homeless; for this they served?
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
For the Monitor
February 19. 2006 8:00AM
Last year the Nashua Planning Board approved a plan to create 15 one-bedroom apartments and five two-bedroom apartments for homeless veterans and their families. The great thing about this initiative was its local recognition of the continuing need of veterans for long-term permanent housing. The not-so-great thing is that the number of potentially eligible New Hampshire veterans far exceeds any available assistance.
For all the words written about the Iraq War, not enough attention has been paid to the honorably discharged veterans, including those with service-connected disabilities, who are sleeping in doorways or alleys or under bridges.
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As the state is a soulless machine,
it can never be weaned from violence
to which it owes its very existence.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi* (1869-1948)
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Feb 16, 2005
DOUG J. SWANSON
VA patients paint picture of neglect
Director acknowledges problems, says Dallas hospital is improving
01:28 PM CST on Sunday, February 13, 2005
By DOUG J. SWANSON / The Dallas Morning News
John Hahn lay marooned in his bed last year at the Dallas veterans' hospital, desperately seeking a nurse. An Air Force vet whose terminal bone cancer had made him a paraplegic, Mr. Hahn required turning every two hours.
That day, March 21, he started at 5:30 a.m. pushing his call button, which rang at the nearby nurse's station. No one came. He pushed it throughout the morning and into the afternoon, and still nothing.
"Called/Requested help for the past 8 hrs," he wrote in his journal.
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A Lesson Quote Brought Back In Support Of This New Generation Being Used:
Vietnam War History 101:
"The Only Glory In War, Is In The Imagination Of Those Who Were Never There"
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Tammy Can Do It!!!!
Disabled in Iraq, veteran makes move into politics
She sees House race as a second chance
By Peter Slevin, Washington Post | February 20, 2006
CHICAGO -- The smiling candidate in rimless eyeglasses and a long woolen skirt maneuvers carefully among tables and chairs as she works a crowded Starbucks. She is taking small steps, and the reason for the slight awkwardness in her gait is not instantly clear.
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Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
IAVA - The War Ends At Home
Sand Storm productions presents in association with IAVA:
Homecoming
The war ends at home.
Veteran Films
Homecoming is the first in what we hope will be a series of short films related to the war in Iraq and/or the veterans’ experience upon return. Homecoming focuses on the turmoil war inflicts on its combatants and their families and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Produced by Sand Storm Productions in association with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the hope is that the film will raise both awareness and funds so that IAVA can make this veteran’s issue a part of mainstream media and conversation.
Donations are quick, simple and secure through PayPal.
In addition to donating to IAVA, you pick up a production credit on the film! Credits are tied to the amount donated as follows:
· Title credits: $5,000.00+ ; example: “Large Donor #1” presents in association with… Homecoming.
· Executive Producer (rolling credits): $500 +
· Executive Producer (flash credits): $200-499.99
· Producer: $100-199.99
· Associate Producer: $25-99.99
· Special Thanks: $1-24.99
Donations of $500.00 or more are tax deductible. To make your tax deductible donation, please contact us @ 310-990-7336 or seanhuze@veteranfilms.com . All donors will be included on the cast/crew breakdown on IMDB.
For all other donations, click here or visit Veteran Films . Either way you can make a donation using your checking account, Visa or MasterCard.
Homecoming
The war ends at home.
Veteran Films
Homecoming is the first in what we hope will be a series of short films related to the war in Iraq and/or the veterans’ experience upon return. Homecoming focuses on the turmoil war inflicts on its combatants and their families and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Produced by Sand Storm Productions in association with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the hope is that the film will raise both awareness and funds so that IAVA can make this veteran’s issue a part of mainstream media and conversation.
Donations are quick, simple and secure through PayPal.
In addition to donating to IAVA, you pick up a production credit on the film! Credits are tied to the amount donated as follows:
· Title credits: $5,000.00+ ; example: “Large Donor #1” presents in association with… Homecoming.
· Executive Producer (rolling credits): $500 +
· Executive Producer (flash credits): $200-499.99
· Producer: $100-199.99
· Associate Producer: $25-99.99
· Special Thanks: $1-24.99
Donations of $500.00 or more are tax deductible. To make your tax deductible donation, please contact us @ 310-990-7336 or seanhuze@veteranfilms.com . All donors will be included on the cast/crew breakdown on IMDB.
For all other donations, click here or visit Veteran Films . Either way you can make a donation using your checking account, Visa or MasterCard.
"Why We Fight" - Catch Film Premiere in City Near You
Below is a list of theaters and release dates in cities around the country for the stunning new film "Why We Fight."
“Why We Fight,” the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, ‘Why We Fight’ launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase “military industrial complex”), filmmaker Jarecki (“The Trials of Henry Kissinger”) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.
The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic, ideological – that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?
“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war,” Jarecki notes. “Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?’”
WHY WE FIGHT
RELEASE SCHEDULE
THEATRE NAME / CITY / STATE / RELEASE DATE
TOWN CENTER 5 ENCINO, CA 1/20/2006
SUNSET 5 LOS ANGELES, CA 1/20/2006
ONE COLORADO CINEMAS PASADENA, CA 1/20/2006
MONICA FOUR SANTA MONICA, CA 1/20/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER 6 NEW YORK, NY 1/20/2006
LINCOLN PLAZA CINEMAS NEW YORK, NY 1/20/2006
EDW SO COAST VILLAGE 3 COSTA MESA, CA 1/27/2006
KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA 9 CAMBRIDGE, MA 1/27/2006
EMBASSY CINEMA 6 WALTHAM, MA 1/27/2006
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER PLEASANTVILLE, NY 2/3/2006
SHATTUCK 8 BERKELEY, CA 2/10/2006
ART THEATRE LONG BEACH, CA 2/10/2006
GRAND LAKE 4 OAKLAND, CA 2/10/2006
CENTURY FIVE PLEASANT HILL, CA 2/10/2006
LUMIERE CINEMAS 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2/10/2006
CINEARTS AT SANTANA ROW SAN JOSE, CA 2/10/2006
MARIN THREE SAUSALITO, CA 2/10/2006
CRITERION CINEMAS NEW HAVEN, CT 2/10/2006
DUPONT 5 WASHINGTON, DC 2/10/2006
BETHESDA ROW CINEMA BETHESDA, MD 2/10/2006
MONTGOMERY CINEMAS 6 BELLE MEADE, NJ 2/10/2006
CLAIRIDGE SIXPLEX MONTCLAIR, NJ 2/10/2006
GARDEN TWIN THEATRE PRINCETON, NJ 2/10/2006
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CINEMA BROOKLYN, NY 2/10/2006
CINEMART 5 FOREST HILLS, NY 2/10/2006
UPSTATE FILMS RHINEBECK, NY 2/10/2006
ROSLYN TRIO ROSLYN, NY 2/10/2006
CINEMA 21 PORTLAND, OR 2/10/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER & CAFE DALLAS, TX 2/10/2006
NEPTUNE THEATRE SEATTLE, WA 2/10/2006
CENTURY STADIUM 25 ORANGE, CA 2/17/2006
CINEMAS PALME D'OR PALM DESERT, CA 2/17/2006
KEN SAN DIEGO, CA 2/17/2006
CINEMA CITY FOUR HARTFORD, CT 2/17/2006
SHADOWOOD SQUARE 16 BOCA RATON, FL 2/17/2006
SOUTH BEACH 18 MIAMI BEACH, FL 2/17/2006
SUNRISE 11 SUNRISE, FL 2/17/2006
MIDTOWN CINEMAS 8 ATLANTA, GA 2/17/2006
CENTURY CENTRE CINEMA CHICAGO, IL 2/17/2006
CINEARTS 6 EVANSTON, IL 2/17/2006
RENAISSANCE PLACE CINEMA HIGHLAND PARK, IL 2/17/2006
CAPE CINEMA THEATRE DENNIS, MA 2/17/2006
RED BANK ARTS CINEMA RED BANK, NJ 2/17/2006
FOX 10 THEATRE PORTLAND, OR 2/17/2006
GREENWAY THREE THEATRE HOUSTON, TX 2/17/2006
CINEMARK AT MARKET STREET 5 WOODLANDS, TX 2/17/2006
SHIRLINGTON 7 THEATRES ARLINGTON, VA 2/17/2006
CINEMA ARTS THEATRE 6 FAIRFAX, VA 2/17/2006
MERRILL'S ROXY THEATRE BURLINGTON, VT 2/17/2006
AQUARIUS TWIN PALO ALTO, CA 2/24/2006
CENTURY DOWNTOWN 10 VENTURA, CA 2/24/2006
VILLAGE FOUR CINEMAS BOULDER, CO 2/24/2006
MAYAN THREE DENVER, CO 2/24/2006
GARDEN CINEMA NORWALK, CT 2/24/2006
DELRAY 18 CINEMA DELRAY BEACH, FL 2/24/2006
NICKELODEON 5 NORTH FALMOUTH, MA 2/24/2006
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART DETROIT, MI 2/24/2006
LAGOON THEATRE 5 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 2/24/2006
TIVOLI AT MANOR SQ 3 KANSAS CITY, MO 2/24/2006
RITZ SIXTEEN VOORHEES, NJ 2/24/2006
VILLAGE SQUARE 18 LAS VEGAS, NV 2/24/2006
BALA THEATRE 3 BALA CYNWYD, PA 2/24/2006
RITZ AT THE BOURSE 5 PHILADELPHIA, PA 2/24/2006
ARBOR CINEMAS @ GREAT HILLS AUSTIN, TX 2/24/2006
WESTHAMPTON THEATRE 2 RICHMOND, VA 2/24/2006
RAGTAG CINEMA COLUMBIA, MO 2/25/2006
OSIO PLAZA THEATRE MONTEREY, CA 3/3/2006
PLAZA DE ORO TWIN SANTA BARBARA, CA 3/3/2006
RIALTO LAKESIDE CINEMAS SANTA ROSA, CA 3/3/2006
BETHEL CINEMA FOUR BETHEL, CT 3/3/2006
UA BOYNTON BCH 9 MOVIES BOYNTON BEACH, FL 3/3/2006
MIRACLE FIVE TALLAHASSEE, FL 3/3/2006
KEYSTONE ART CINEMA INDIANAPOLIS, IN 3/3/2006
LIBERTY HALL LAWRENCE, KS 3/3/2006
CANAL PLACE CINEMA 4 NEW ORLEANS, LA 3/3/2006
CHARLES THEATRE BALTIMORE, MD 3/3/2006
TIVOLI THEATRE 3 ST LOUIS, MO 3/3/2006
RIVERSIDE 12 RENO, NV 3/3/2006
ESQUIRE 6 CINCINNATI, OH 3/3/2006
AMC QUAIL SPRINGS 24 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 3/3/2006
AMC SOUTHROADS 20 TULSA, OK 3/3/2006
BIJOU THEATER SAN ANTONIO, TX 3/3/2006
FIESTA 16 SAN ANTONIO, TX 3/3/2006
CINETOPIA VANCOUVER, WA 3/3/2006
HILLDALE 2 MADISON, WI 3/3/2006
DIMOND CENTER 9 ANCHORAGE, AK 3/10/2006
MADISON SQUARE TWELVE HUNTSVILLE, AL 3/10/2006
MARKET STREET CINEMA LITTLE ROCK, AR 3/10/2006
CENTURY ELCON 20 TUCSON, AZ 3/10/2006
NICKELODEON FOUR SANTA CRUZ, CA 3/10/2006
THEATRE N WILMINGTON, DE 3/10/2006
BONITA SPRINGS 12 BONITA SPRINGS, FL 3/10/2006
BELL TOWER 20 FT MYERS, FL 3/10/2006
ROYAL PARK STADIUM 16 GAINESVILLE,, FL 3/10/2006
ENZIAN MAITLAND, FL 3/10/2006
SFS BURNS COURT CINEMA SARASOTA, FL 3/10/2006
TAMPA THEATRE TAMPA, FL 3/10/2006
FLEUR 4 THEATRES DES MOINES, IA 3/10/2006
FLICKS FOUR BOISE, ID 3/10/2006
BAXTER AVE THEATRE 8 LOUISVILLE, KY 3/10/2006
UA SIEGEN VILLAGE TEN BATON ROUGE, LA 3/10/2006
CAMEO ART HOUSE THEATRE FAYETTEVILLE, NC 3/10/2006
AMC OAKVIEW 24 OMAHA, NE 3/10/2006
CENTURY 14 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 3/10/2006
CCA CINEMATHEQUE SANTA FE, NM 3/10/2006
MARKET ARCADE DIGITAL BUFFALO, NY 3/10/2006
CEDAR-LEE CINEMA 6 CLEVELAND HEIGHTS OH 3/10/2006
SCRANTON CULTURAL CENTER SCRANTON, PA 3/10/2006
REGAL DOWNTOWN WEST EIGHT KNOXVILLE, TN 3/10/2006
RIDGEWAY QUARTET MEMPHIS, TN 3/10/2006
GREEN HILLS COMMONS 16 NASHVILLE, TN 3/10/2006
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FT. WORTH FT. WORTH, TX 3/10/2006
ORIENTAL 3 MILWAUKEE, WI 3/10/2006
CREST THEATRE SACRAMENTO, CA 3/17/2006
PALM THEATRE 2 SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 3/17/2006
KEY WEST FILM SOCIETY KEY WEST, FL 3/17/2006
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS HONOLULU, HI 3/17/2006
MANOR TWIN CHARLOTTE, NC 3/17/2006
DARKSIDE CINEMAS CORVALLIS, OR 3/17/2006
BIJOU ART CINEMA EUGENE, OR 3/17/2006
BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMAS 6 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 3/17/2006
COURT SQUARE THEATRE HARRISONBURG, VA 3/20/2006
PREMIERE PALACE WICHITA, KS 3/24/2006
CHELSEA THEATRE CHAPEL HILL, NC 3/24/2006
COLONY CINEMA 2 RALEIGH, NC 3/24/2006
RAGTAG CINEMA COLUMBIA, MO 3/29/2006
MOXIE CINEMA SPRINGFIELD, MO 3/29/2006
RAILROAD SQUARE CINEMA WATERVILLE, ME 3/31/2006
CAROUSEL GRANDE THEATRE GREENSBOROUGH, NC 3/31/2006
MYRNA LOY CENTER TWIN HELENA, MT 4/7/2006
WILMA FOUR MISSOULA, MT 4/7/2006
HOPKINS CENTER HANOVER, NH 4/14/2006
NICKELODEON THEATRE COLUMBIA, SC 4/25/2006
FOUNTAIN THEATRE LAS CRUCES, NM 5/12/2006
“Why We Fight,” the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, ‘Why We Fight’ launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase “military industrial complex”), filmmaker Jarecki (“The Trials of Henry Kissinger”) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.
The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic, ideological – that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?
“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war,” Jarecki notes. “Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?’”
WHY WE FIGHT
RELEASE SCHEDULE
THEATRE NAME / CITY / STATE / RELEASE DATE
TOWN CENTER 5 ENCINO, CA 1/20/2006
SUNSET 5 LOS ANGELES, CA 1/20/2006
ONE COLORADO CINEMAS PASADENA, CA 1/20/2006
MONICA FOUR SANTA MONICA, CA 1/20/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER 6 NEW YORK, NY 1/20/2006
LINCOLN PLAZA CINEMAS NEW YORK, NY 1/20/2006
EDW SO COAST VILLAGE 3 COSTA MESA, CA 1/27/2006
KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA 9 CAMBRIDGE, MA 1/27/2006
EMBASSY CINEMA 6 WALTHAM, MA 1/27/2006
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER PLEASANTVILLE, NY 2/3/2006
SHATTUCK 8 BERKELEY, CA 2/10/2006
ART THEATRE LONG BEACH, CA 2/10/2006
GRAND LAKE 4 OAKLAND, CA 2/10/2006
CENTURY FIVE PLEASANT HILL, CA 2/10/2006
LUMIERE CINEMAS 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2/10/2006
CINEARTS AT SANTANA ROW SAN JOSE, CA 2/10/2006
MARIN THREE SAUSALITO, CA 2/10/2006
CRITERION CINEMAS NEW HAVEN, CT 2/10/2006
DUPONT 5 WASHINGTON, DC 2/10/2006
BETHESDA ROW CINEMA BETHESDA, MD 2/10/2006
MONTGOMERY CINEMAS 6 BELLE MEADE, NJ 2/10/2006
CLAIRIDGE SIXPLEX MONTCLAIR, NJ 2/10/2006
GARDEN TWIN THEATRE PRINCETON, NJ 2/10/2006
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CINEMA BROOKLYN, NY 2/10/2006
CINEMART 5 FOREST HILLS, NY 2/10/2006
UPSTATE FILMS RHINEBECK, NY 2/10/2006
ROSLYN TRIO ROSLYN, NY 2/10/2006
CINEMA 21 PORTLAND, OR 2/10/2006
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER & CAFE DALLAS, TX 2/10/2006
NEPTUNE THEATRE SEATTLE, WA 2/10/2006
CENTURY STADIUM 25 ORANGE, CA 2/17/2006
CINEMAS PALME D'OR PALM DESERT, CA 2/17/2006
KEN SAN DIEGO, CA 2/17/2006
CINEMA CITY FOUR HARTFORD, CT 2/17/2006
SHADOWOOD SQUARE 16 BOCA RATON, FL 2/17/2006
SOUTH BEACH 18 MIAMI BEACH, FL 2/17/2006
SUNRISE 11 SUNRISE, FL 2/17/2006
MIDTOWN CINEMAS 8 ATLANTA, GA 2/17/2006
CENTURY CENTRE CINEMA CHICAGO, IL 2/17/2006
CINEARTS 6 EVANSTON, IL 2/17/2006
RENAISSANCE PLACE CINEMA HIGHLAND PARK, IL 2/17/2006
CAPE CINEMA THEATRE DENNIS, MA 2/17/2006
RED BANK ARTS CINEMA RED BANK, NJ 2/17/2006
FOX 10 THEATRE PORTLAND, OR 2/17/2006
GREENWAY THREE THEATRE HOUSTON, TX 2/17/2006
CINEMARK AT MARKET STREET 5 WOODLANDS, TX 2/17/2006
SHIRLINGTON 7 THEATRES ARLINGTON, VA 2/17/2006
CINEMA ARTS THEATRE 6 FAIRFAX, VA 2/17/2006
MERRILL'S ROXY THEATRE BURLINGTON, VT 2/17/2006
AQUARIUS TWIN PALO ALTO, CA 2/24/2006
CENTURY DOWNTOWN 10 VENTURA, CA 2/24/2006
VILLAGE FOUR CINEMAS BOULDER, CO 2/24/2006
MAYAN THREE DENVER, CO 2/24/2006
GARDEN CINEMA NORWALK, CT 2/24/2006
DELRAY 18 CINEMA DELRAY BEACH, FL 2/24/2006
NICKELODEON 5 NORTH FALMOUTH, MA 2/24/2006
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART DETROIT, MI 2/24/2006
LAGOON THEATRE 5 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 2/24/2006
TIVOLI AT MANOR SQ 3 KANSAS CITY, MO 2/24/2006
RITZ SIXTEEN VOORHEES, NJ 2/24/2006
VILLAGE SQUARE 18 LAS VEGAS, NV 2/24/2006
BALA THEATRE 3 BALA CYNWYD, PA 2/24/2006
RITZ AT THE BOURSE 5 PHILADELPHIA, PA 2/24/2006
ARBOR CINEMAS @ GREAT HILLS AUSTIN, TX 2/24/2006
WESTHAMPTON THEATRE 2 RICHMOND, VA 2/24/2006
RAGTAG CINEMA COLUMBIA, MO 2/25/2006
OSIO PLAZA THEATRE MONTEREY, CA 3/3/2006
PLAZA DE ORO TWIN SANTA BARBARA, CA 3/3/2006
RIALTO LAKESIDE CINEMAS SANTA ROSA, CA 3/3/2006
BETHEL CINEMA FOUR BETHEL, CT 3/3/2006
UA BOYNTON BCH 9 MOVIES BOYNTON BEACH, FL 3/3/2006
MIRACLE FIVE TALLAHASSEE, FL 3/3/2006
KEYSTONE ART CINEMA INDIANAPOLIS, IN 3/3/2006
LIBERTY HALL LAWRENCE, KS 3/3/2006
CANAL PLACE CINEMA 4 NEW ORLEANS, LA 3/3/2006
CHARLES THEATRE BALTIMORE, MD 3/3/2006
TIVOLI THEATRE 3 ST LOUIS, MO 3/3/2006
RIVERSIDE 12 RENO, NV 3/3/2006
ESQUIRE 6 CINCINNATI, OH 3/3/2006
AMC QUAIL SPRINGS 24 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 3/3/2006
AMC SOUTHROADS 20 TULSA, OK 3/3/2006
BIJOU THEATER SAN ANTONIO, TX 3/3/2006
FIESTA 16 SAN ANTONIO, TX 3/3/2006
CINETOPIA VANCOUVER, WA 3/3/2006
HILLDALE 2 MADISON, WI 3/3/2006
DIMOND CENTER 9 ANCHORAGE, AK 3/10/2006
MADISON SQUARE TWELVE HUNTSVILLE, AL 3/10/2006
MARKET STREET CINEMA LITTLE ROCK, AR 3/10/2006
CENTURY ELCON 20 TUCSON, AZ 3/10/2006
NICKELODEON FOUR SANTA CRUZ, CA 3/10/2006
THEATRE N WILMINGTON, DE 3/10/2006
BONITA SPRINGS 12 BONITA SPRINGS, FL 3/10/2006
BELL TOWER 20 FT MYERS, FL 3/10/2006
ROYAL PARK STADIUM 16 GAINESVILLE,, FL 3/10/2006
ENZIAN MAITLAND, FL 3/10/2006
SFS BURNS COURT CINEMA SARASOTA, FL 3/10/2006
TAMPA THEATRE TAMPA, FL 3/10/2006
FLEUR 4 THEATRES DES MOINES, IA 3/10/2006
FLICKS FOUR BOISE, ID 3/10/2006
BAXTER AVE THEATRE 8 LOUISVILLE, KY 3/10/2006
UA SIEGEN VILLAGE TEN BATON ROUGE, LA 3/10/2006
CAMEO ART HOUSE THEATRE FAYETTEVILLE, NC 3/10/2006
AMC OAKVIEW 24 OMAHA, NE 3/10/2006
CENTURY 14 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 3/10/2006
CCA CINEMATHEQUE SANTA FE, NM 3/10/2006
MARKET ARCADE DIGITAL BUFFALO, NY 3/10/2006
CEDAR-LEE CINEMA 6 CLEVELAND HEIGHTS OH 3/10/2006
SCRANTON CULTURAL CENTER SCRANTON, PA 3/10/2006
REGAL DOWNTOWN WEST EIGHT KNOXVILLE, TN 3/10/2006
RIDGEWAY QUARTET MEMPHIS, TN 3/10/2006
GREEN HILLS COMMONS 16 NASHVILLE, TN 3/10/2006
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FT. WORTH FT. WORTH, TX 3/10/2006
ORIENTAL 3 MILWAUKEE, WI 3/10/2006
CREST THEATRE SACRAMENTO, CA 3/17/2006
PALM THEATRE 2 SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 3/17/2006
KEY WEST FILM SOCIETY KEY WEST, FL 3/17/2006
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS HONOLULU, HI 3/17/2006
MANOR TWIN CHARLOTTE, NC 3/17/2006
DARKSIDE CINEMAS CORVALLIS, OR 3/17/2006
BIJOU ART CINEMA EUGENE, OR 3/17/2006
BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMAS 6 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 3/17/2006
COURT SQUARE THEATRE HARRISONBURG, VA 3/20/2006
PREMIERE PALACE WICHITA, KS 3/24/2006
CHELSEA THEATRE CHAPEL HILL, NC 3/24/2006
COLONY CINEMA 2 RALEIGH, NC 3/24/2006
RAGTAG CINEMA COLUMBIA, MO 3/29/2006
MOXIE CINEMA SPRINGFIELD, MO 3/29/2006
RAILROAD SQUARE CINEMA WATERVILLE, ME 3/31/2006
CAROUSEL GRANDE THEATRE GREENSBOROUGH, NC 3/31/2006
MYRNA LOY CENTER TWIN HELENA, MT 4/7/2006
WILMA FOUR MISSOULA, MT 4/7/2006
HOPKINS CENTER HANOVER, NH 4/14/2006
NICKELODEON THEATRE COLUMBIA, SC 4/25/2006
FOUNTAIN THEATRE LAS CRUCES, NM 5/12/2006
Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. -- William Mather Lewis - President ,George Washington University 1923 -1927
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As Goes Hamas
by Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com
How the White House treats the new Palestinian government will be a litmus test for U.S. relations with the Arab world.
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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry 4 August 1822
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Homeland Security Hype
by James A. Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
The domestic threat from exotic weapons or diseases is much smaller than you're being led to believe.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816
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Democracy's Regression
Federal employees in all branches of government are being confronted with the reality of an administration that demands assent.
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Fortunately, many people would prefer to live a simple life in a good society than a life of riches and power in a horrible society. -- Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy
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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 2277
The War in Iraq Costs $242,533,316,996 See the cost in your community
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Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq:
Looking Backward, Forward, And Beyond
By Daniel Jordan and Neil Wollman
The fable of Pandora’s Box applies well to Iraq. War supporters wish us to judge the invasion and war on the removal of the brutal Saddam Hussein. A broad up-to-date analysis yields a disturbingly more negative assessment, with implications reaching far into the future.
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"No, war is not Hell. War is worse than Hell. There are no innocent bystanders
in Hell, but war is full of them."
- CPT Benj. Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, 4077th M*A*S*H
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Video Iraq :
The Reckoning The consequences of our misadventure in Iraq:
Channel 4 - UK Peter Oborne, political editor of the Spectator, reports on the West's exit strategy for Iraq. He believes the invasion of Iraq is proving to be the greatest foreign policy failure since Munich. Oborne argues that the plan to transform Iraq into a unified liberal democracy, a beacon of hope in the Middle East, is pure fantasy.
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As Goes Hamas
by Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com
How the White House treats the new Palestinian government will be a litmus test for U.S. relations with the Arab world.
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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry 4 August 1822
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Homeland Security Hype
by James A. Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
The domestic threat from exotic weapons or diseases is much smaller than you're being led to believe.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816
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Democracy's Regression
Federal employees in all branches of government are being confronted with the reality of an administration that demands assent.
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Fortunately, many people would prefer to live a simple life in a good society than a life of riches and power in a horrible society. -- Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy
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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 2277
The War in Iraq Costs $242,533,316,996 See the cost in your community
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Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq:
Looking Backward, Forward, And Beyond
By Daniel Jordan and Neil Wollman
The fable of Pandora’s Box applies well to Iraq. War supporters wish us to judge the invasion and war on the removal of the brutal Saddam Hussein. A broad up-to-date analysis yields a disturbingly more negative assessment, with implications reaching far into the future.
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"No, war is not Hell. War is worse than Hell. There are no innocent bystanders
in Hell, but war is full of them."
- CPT Benj. Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, 4077th M*A*S*H
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Video Iraq :
The Reckoning The consequences of our misadventure in Iraq:
Channel 4 - UK Peter Oborne, political editor of the Spectator, reports on the West's exit strategy for Iraq. He believes the invasion of Iraq is proving to be the greatest foreign policy failure since Munich. Oborne argues that the plan to transform Iraq into a unified liberal democracy, a beacon of hope in the Middle East, is pure fantasy.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The genesis of a lie:
The genesis of a lie: How George Bush fabricated the Iraqi WMD myth
By Dennis Rahkonen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 21, 2006, 15:44
Maybe we’ve forgotten. Or perhaps we just weren’t paying attention in the first place.
But, before 9/11, the Bush administration itself denied the existence of WMD in Iraq:
"He (Saddam) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." --Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Cairo, Feb. 24, 2001
"We're working toward what will be a significant change in our approach to Iraq in the United Nations . . . The focus is on strengthening controls to prevent Iraq from rebuilding military capability in weapons of mass destruction, while facilitating a broader flow of goods to the civilian population of Iraq." --State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, May 17, 2001
The first quote categorically confirms that no WMD threat, or even a conventional one, existed. The second underscores that fact, by declaring Saddam would have to “rebuild” a capability he didn’t have at the time.
Just weeks before 9/11, Bush himself said the following, with his typically choppy syntax:
"He's been a menace forever, and we will do -- he needs to open his country up for inspection, so we can see whether or not he's developing weapons of mass destruction." --Aug. 7, 2001
Well, Hussein did in fact allow such inspections, and they were ongoing until the immediate lead-up to war. As former inspectors have themselves since said, they’d have found nothing if Bush’s unprovoked aggression hadn’t cut short their task.
Just after 9/11 -- as neocon friends of Big Oil saw a golden opportunity to make their avaricious pipedreams come true -- weapons of mass destruction suddenly became a categorical certainty. No question about it, the evil dictator was about to murder us all, with devices and agents truly horrifying to contemplate!
At first they were alluded to in general yet definite terms:
"He has weapons of mass destruction. The lesser risk is in preemption. We've got to stop wishing away the problem." --Pentagon official Richard Perle, Nov, 2001
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." --Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002
As time went on, contrived specificity fleshed out the bugbear:
"(Saddam) has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons . . . including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas . . . (he) has at this moment stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons." --Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, before the House Armed Services Committee, Sept.18, 2002.
In his infamous show and tell before the United Nations, Secretary of State Powell used bogus pictures of unrelated military equipment (trucks that generated hydrogen gas for barrage balloons, for example) to whip up hysteria that left gullible Americans believing they’d soon die -- gasping for breath, with poison coursing through their veins -- if we didn’t go to war and immediately put a stop to it all!
By the time Bush gave his 2003 State of the Union Address, just two months before the invasion began, the fraudulent rationale that the Downing Street Memo would ultimately reveal to be a complete, cynical falsehood was fully in place, in minute detail.
Saddam Hussein supposedly had “biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax," "materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin," "as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent" and "upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents.”
More than 2,200 dead U.S. troops and $250 billion later, either incredibly stupid or surpassingly dishonest souls still tell us that there was no lie involved, just “intelligence failure.” If we actually believe that, then the true intelligence failure is between our own ears.
Think about high-tech spying carried out in the NSA’s warrantless wiretap affair. Consider camera-equipped Predator drones that crisscross Middle Eastern/Central Asian airspace. Remember both the manned surveillance aircraft and sharp-eyed, orbiting satellites that the U.S. utilizes on a regular basis.
If small groups of U.S. Quakers who oppose Bush’s policy, meeting within four enclosed walls, can have everything they say secretly recorded without their knowledge . . . don’t think all of America’s sophisticated snooping prowess was unable to verify that no huge stockpiles of WMD were lying around, or being moved about, in the mostly open terrain of Iraq.
Such a failure, were it genuine, would constitute the greatest espionage blunder in history. If someone actually got it that wrong, they’d be disqualified from just getting out of bed to face the day, let alone going on to gather information relating to the conduct of the resulting war.
But, of course, it was all a cruel, malicious ruse. An outrageous scam on an unprecedented scale. (An intensely convoluted twisting of recently released “Saddam tapes” attempts to extend that fraudulence.)
Ever since the WMD claim dried up and blew away with the wind, Bush backers have resorted to an endlessly shifting array of fallback justifications.
None of them, however, have any moral weight or intellectual substance. Who says so? Sean Huze, for one. He was a Marine corporal with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion as it attacked Iraq in March 2003.
“For many of us it all goes back to WMD, the president’s primary -- or sole -- justification for the invasion. When they weren't found -- hard to find something that is nonexistent -- the ever-morphing rationale for the war is disheartening for those fighting it. With an ever-increasing number of KIA and WIA, along with the heavy toll on the Iraqi civilian population, more and more vets are asking, ‘Is our sacrifice worth it?’’’ -- AlterNet interview, January 20, 2006
Like many other former and current U.S. military personnel, Huze isn’t buying the bull any longer:
“The war in Iraq has been a total failure and an abuse of power. Whether it’s the world’s second-largest oil reserve, a strategic location for a U.S. presence to intimidate that region of the world or a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein, none of these justify the loss of life and the billions of dollars that the U.S. taxpayer is paying. Bush and the rest of this administration must be held accountable for their colossal failures following 9/11, chiefly focusing on Iraq while Osama bin Laden is still at large, and for manipulating intelligence, lying to the U.N., and for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and U.S. service members.” (Ibid)
Disabusing ourselves of any “mistake” notions regarding Iraq is imperative. It’s all a matter of totally witting wrongfulness by the Bush gang.
The invasion was absolutely illegal and immoral, and the occupation’s attempt to indefinitely control 18 Iraqi provinces is as categorically wrong as King George trying to “keep” the 13 original colonies. Somebody should have told the British to pull their troops out of America -- all of them -- well before our revolutionary war began
Wait. Someone did. Our history books call them “patriots.”
The Iraq war’s 3rd anniversary is coming up in March. Internationally coordinated street demonstrations are being planned. As Vietnam proved, such protests are how the tide is turned . . . toward sanity. Keep an eye out for information about rallies scheduled in your area.
Be there or be prepared to have this debacle keep claiming lives and dollars for years or decades to come, as both America and Iraq are torn to pieces by extreme discontent and the quiet violence of diverted money not spent on crying social needs.
Dennis Rahkonen of Superior, Wisconsin, has been writing progressive commentary for various outlets since the Sixties. He can be reached at dennisr@cp.duluth.mn.us.
What Happens When Soldiers Come Home From War?
Two years later he is no longer a hero. In fact, he's no longer anything to anyone except his family. He's no longer usefull to the Propagandists or those Magnetic Ribbon Patriots[?] because he succumbed to the stresses of war!
One Long Island Soldier Was Called A Hero When He Rescued An Iraqi Child
(Mt. Sinai, Long Island -WABC, October 10, 2005) - Christine Dwyer-Ogno is at a loss. When her brother, Army Private Joseph Dwyer carried a 4-year-old Iraqi boy safely through a fire fight he became a symbol of what many Americans believe the U.S. invasion was all about.)
By N.J. Burkett
(Mt. Sinai, Long Island -WABC, October 10, 2005) -
Tonight we have one soldier's story. Joseph Dwyer of Long Island was called a hero when he rescued a terrified Iraqi child more than two years ago.
These days he's making news for the wrong reasons. His family says he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.
N.J. Burkett with the story.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "To me he hasn't fully left Iraq."
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Christine Dwyer-Ogno is at a loss. When her brother, Army Private Joseph Dwyer carried a 4-year-old Iraqi boy safely through a fire fight he became a symbol of what many Americans believe the U.S. invasion was all about.
Two years later he's become a symbol of something else.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "My mother saw that picture and she wasn't as happy as I was. She made a comment that that kid is going to need help - that kid's hurting and she was talking about her son."
He returned to the U.S. with nightmares and flashbacks and last week in El Paso, Texas Joseph Dwyer held police at bay for three hours after he began firing a 9mm pistol in his apartment. No one was injured. Dwyer was arrested and later released to Army psychiatric teams.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "He's a very sweet person and he always puts other people first so that was not my brother at all."
Joseph Dwyer grew up in Mount Sinai, Long Island, the son of a New York City police lieutenant. He and his wife no live in Texas and are expecting their first child.
Michel Devaux was Dwyer's 8th grade science teacher and himself a Vietnam vet.
Michel Devaux, Soldier's Teacher: "The average individual is not going to step forward and say 'I need help' because you don't want to be tagged that you needed help, that you couldn't cope with this, that you couldn't put away your demons."
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "I want my brother back, not for me. I want him to be healthy, I want him to have a life with his family and his pregnant wife and not in pain, not hurting."
The U.S. military, she says, needs to do more and it is not only about saving Private Dwyer.
What Happens When Soldiers Come Home From War?
One Long Island Soldier Was Called A Hero When He Rescued An Iraqi Child
(Mt. Sinai, Long Island -WABC, October 10, 2005) - Christine Dwyer-Ogno is at a loss. When her brother, Army Private Joseph Dwyer carried a 4-year-old Iraqi boy safely through a fire fight he became a symbol of what many Americans believe the U.S. invasion was all about.)
By N.J. Burkett
(Mt. Sinai, Long Island -WABC, October 10, 2005) -
Tonight we have one soldier's story. Joseph Dwyer of Long Island was called a hero when he rescued a terrified Iraqi child more than two years ago.
These days he's making news for the wrong reasons. His family says he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.
N.J. Burkett with the story.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "To me he hasn't fully left Iraq."
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Christine Dwyer-Ogno is at a loss. When her brother, Army Private Joseph Dwyer carried a 4-year-old Iraqi boy safely through a fire fight he became a symbol of what many Americans believe the U.S. invasion was all about.
Two years later he's become a symbol of something else.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "My mother saw that picture and she wasn't as happy as I was. She made a comment that that kid is going to need help - that kid's hurting and she was talking about her son."
He returned to the U.S. with nightmares and flashbacks and last week in El Paso, Texas Joseph Dwyer held police at bay for three hours after he began firing a 9mm pistol in his apartment. No one was injured. Dwyer was arrested and later released to Army psychiatric teams.
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "He's a very sweet person and he always puts other people first so that was not my brother at all."
Joseph Dwyer grew up in Mount Sinai, Long Island, the son of a New York City police lieutenant. He and his wife no live in Texas and are expecting their first child.
Michel Devaux was Dwyer's 8th grade science teacher and himself a Vietnam vet.
Michel Devaux, Soldier's Teacher: "The average individual is not going to step forward and say 'I need help' because you don't want to be tagged that you needed help, that you couldn't cope with this, that you couldn't put away your demons."
Christine Dwyer-Ogno, Soldier's Sister: "I want my brother back, not for me. I want him to be healthy, I want him to have a life with his family and his pregnant wife and not in pain, not hurting."
The U.S. military, she says, needs to do more and it is not only about saving Private Dwyer.
War of the Quailhawks
Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president: Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Ammendment, Yale Law School, September 22, 2002
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Declassification in Reverse
The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Edited by Matthew M. Aid
For more information contact:
Matthew Aid
William Burr
Meredith Fuchs
Thomas Blanton
202/994-7000
Posted - February 21, 2006
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The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.: Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford historian, New York Times, April 9, 2002
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Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored before Bush Visit
President Bush says he wants to diversify the nation's energy mix to end America's dependence on foreign oil, yet some critics are wary of his commitment and point to cutbacks at a government energy laboratory in Golden. The lab helps develop the very renewable energy technologies the president is promoting. Over the weekend, just before Bush's planned visit to the lab on Tuesday, the government restored the jobs.
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The Last Days of the Ocean
NEWS: We're Pushing Our Seas to the Brink. Can They be Saved? A Mother Jones special report.
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The Fate of the Ocean
By Julia Whitty
NEWS: Assaulted by pollution, overfishing, climate change, trash, and noise, our oceans are approaching a point of no return. The health of the world they feed and protect won't be far behind.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace: Calgacus
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The Media's Next Quarry
by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com
Now that the press has come alive over the hunting accident, will it investigate the bigger scandals where Cheney plays a central role?
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"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.": Peyton Conway March (1864-1955) US Army General, US Army Chief of Staff during the final year of WWI
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War of the Quailhawks
By Tom Engelhardt
COMMENTARY: How Cheney's hunting mishap puts the Iraq invasion in a new light
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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 2276
The War in Iraq Costs $242,303,856,355 See the cost in your community
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Today, I am announcing that I am joining IAVA PAC's Board of Advisors. Anyone who was upset about what happened to my Senate campaign should support IAVA PAC to help ensure it happens to no one else.
That is why IAVA PAC exists – to help those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and want to continue their service through electoral politics. We need your help to achieve this mission. In the coming weeks and months, we will be providing desperately needed funds to campaigns, as well as take to the airwaves on their behalf. If we do not step up now to help these Veteran candidates who served with me, we are dishonoring their service. Please donate to IAVA PAC and join our cause.
Also, this past week, IAVA PAC launched its new blog, The Daily Vet. The Daily Vet will track all the news pertaining to our mission, and include thoughtful analysis of the current events from some of the biggest names out there. Be sure to take a look everyday for your daily fix of politics and national security talk.
Finally, we are now selling IAVA PAC gear. You can order your goods here, and show your support for those Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan that are running for Congress. This is the best way to spread the word about our cause.
Thank you for all your support, and look out for even more exciting news in the middle of the week!
Support the Troops, Send them to Congress!
Paul Hackett
Board of Advisors
IAVA PAC
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Declassification in Reverse
The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Edited by Matthew M. Aid
For more information contact:
Matthew Aid
William Burr
Meredith Fuchs
Thomas Blanton
202/994-7000
Posted - February 21, 2006
*****
The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.: Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford historian, New York Times, April 9, 2002
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Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored before Bush Visit
President Bush says he wants to diversify the nation's energy mix to end America's dependence on foreign oil, yet some critics are wary of his commitment and point to cutbacks at a government energy laboratory in Golden. The lab helps develop the very renewable energy technologies the president is promoting. Over the weekend, just before Bush's planned visit to the lab on Tuesday, the government restored the jobs.
*****
The Last Days of the Ocean
NEWS: We're Pushing Our Seas to the Brink. Can They be Saved? A Mother Jones special report.
*****
The Fate of the Ocean
By Julia Whitty
NEWS: Assaulted by pollution, overfishing, climate change, trash, and noise, our oceans are approaching a point of no return. The health of the world they feed and protect won't be far behind.
*****
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace: Calgacus
*****
The Media's Next Quarry
by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com
Now that the press has come alive over the hunting accident, will it investigate the bigger scandals where Cheney plays a central role?
*****
"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.": Peyton Conway March (1864-1955) US Army General, US Army Chief of Staff during the final year of WWI
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War of the Quailhawks
By Tom Engelhardt
COMMENTARY: How Cheney's hunting mishap puts the Iraq invasion in a new light
*****
Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2276
The War in Iraq Costs $242,303,856,355 See the cost in your community
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Today, I am announcing that I am joining IAVA PAC's Board of Advisors. Anyone who was upset about what happened to my Senate campaign should support IAVA PAC to help ensure it happens to no one else.
That is why IAVA PAC exists – to help those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and want to continue their service through electoral politics. We need your help to achieve this mission. In the coming weeks and months, we will be providing desperately needed funds to campaigns, as well as take to the airwaves on their behalf. If we do not step up now to help these Veteran candidates who served with me, we are dishonoring their service. Please donate to IAVA PAC and join our cause.
Also, this past week, IAVA PAC launched its new blog, The Daily Vet. The Daily Vet will track all the news pertaining to our mission, and include thoughtful analysis of the current events from some of the biggest names out there. Be sure to take a look everyday for your daily fix of politics and national security talk.
Finally, we are now selling IAVA PAC gear. You can order your goods here, and show your support for those Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan that are running for Congress. This is the best way to spread the word about our cause.
Thank you for all your support, and look out for even more exciting news in the middle of the week!
Support the Troops, Send them to Congress!
Paul Hackett
Board of Advisors
IAVA PAC
Monday, February 20, 2006
Constant Conflict - In Case You Missed It
"The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues -- not faction, but rather distraction -- there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.": Plato (427-347 B.C.):
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US Church Alliance: Washington is 'Raining Down Terror' with Iraq War, Other Policies
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell
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Animal Farm: Senior Anglican Links US to Orwell
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"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.": Harold Laski (1930):
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'The Road to Guantanamo' Film Releasing Soon
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. "In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. "The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war… and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." : James Madison, April 20, 1795
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37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty
By Paul Harris
Americans have always believed that hard work will bring rewards, but vast numbers now cannot meet their bills even with two or three jobs. More than one in 10 citizens live below the poverty line, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening.
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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 2273
The War in Iraq Costs $242,057,724,539 See the cost in your community
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By Steve Osborn My God!
What has happened to my nation? My nation that no longer pays more than lip service to its Constitution and Bill of Rights, which have been a beacon to the world for over two centuries. My nation that unilaterally discards treaties that were the hope of a world of peace, guided by law and diplomacy. My nation that will wage a war of aggression against a far off nation that was no threat to it, but that has lots of oil. My nation that gives all of its wealth to the rich and is satisfied to leave its citizens to starve, homeless, unemployed and sickly. Continued
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"The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.": Walt Whitman (1819-1892):
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Why America will reap in Iran what it doesn’t expect
By abid Ullah Jan
Emboldened by their adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, and deluded by the IAEA conclusion that Iraq has no nuclear weapons, the warlords are set to go into a war that will definitely lead to massive bloodshed in the Middle East and the downfall of the United States as we see it.
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." : Thomas Jefferson (1812 )
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WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran
By Heather Wokusch
How ironic that the Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons on the pretext of protecting the world from nuclear weapons. Ironic also that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allowing inspectors to "go anywhere and see anything," yet those pushing for an attack, the USA and Israel, have not.
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.:
Sir Winston Churchill
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In case you missed it:
A look behind the philosophy and practice of Americas push for domination of the worlds economy and culture US Army War College Quarterly There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.
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US Church Alliance: Washington is 'Raining Down Terror' with Iraq War, Other Policies
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell
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Animal Farm: Senior Anglican Links US to Orwell
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"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.": Harold Laski (1930):
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'The Road to Guantanamo' Film Releasing Soon
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. "In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. "The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war… and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." : James Madison, April 20, 1795
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37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty
By Paul Harris
Americans have always believed that hard work will bring rewards, but vast numbers now cannot meet their bills even with two or three jobs. More than one in 10 citizens live below the poverty line, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening.
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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 2273
The War in Iraq Costs $242,057,724,539 See the cost in your community
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What Happened To My Country?
By Steve Osborn My God!
What has happened to my nation? My nation that no longer pays more than lip service to its Constitution and Bill of Rights, which have been a beacon to the world for over two centuries. My nation that unilaterally discards treaties that were the hope of a world of peace, guided by law and diplomacy. My nation that will wage a war of aggression against a far off nation that was no threat to it, but that has lots of oil. My nation that gives all of its wealth to the rich and is satisfied to leave its citizens to starve, homeless, unemployed and sickly. Continued
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"The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.": Walt Whitman (1819-1892):
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Why America will reap in Iran what it doesn’t expect
By abid Ullah Jan
Emboldened by their adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, and deluded by the IAEA conclusion that Iraq has no nuclear weapons, the warlords are set to go into a war that will definitely lead to massive bloodshed in the Middle East and the downfall of the United States as we see it.
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." : Thomas Jefferson (1812 )
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WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran
By Heather Wokusch
How ironic that the Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons on the pretext of protecting the world from nuclear weapons. Ironic also that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allowing inspectors to "go anywhere and see anything," yet those pushing for an attack, the USA and Israel, have not.
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.:
Sir Winston Churchill
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In case you missed it:
Constant Conflict
A look behind the philosophy and practice of Americas push for domination of the worlds economy and culture US Army War College Quarterly There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Why We Fight
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
Broadcast on 03/23/05 BBC
What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life?
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See Also:
As a result of a rash of military-industry mergers encouraged and subsidized by the Clinton administration, the "Big Three" weapons makers—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon—now receive among themselves over $30 billion per year in Pentagon contracts.
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And Also Visit:
Rumsfeld Looking for Way to Attack Iraq
Thursday, February 16, 2006
DoD staffer's notes from 9/11 obtained under FOIA
Broadcast on 03/23/05 BBC
Why We Fight
What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life?
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See Also:
How weapons makers are shaping US military and foreign policies:
As a result of a rash of military-industry mergers encouraged and subsidized by the Clinton administration, the "Big Three" weapons makers—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon—now receive among themselves over $30 billion per year in Pentagon contracts.
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And Also Visit:
Notes from Sep. 11, 2001:
Rumsfeld Looking for Way to Attack Iraq
Thursday, February 16, 2006
DoD staffer's notes from 9/11 obtained under FOIA
Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
Louis Lecoin - French pacifist leader
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FOCUS | Clinton, Menendez Move to Block US Port Sales
Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have introduced legislation to prohibit companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from buying US port operations.
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“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise” :
Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party
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Suicide Attacks on NATO Escalating in Afganistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The campaign appears to be aimed at eroding public support for the alliance's expanded role.
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“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—” : George W. Bush - 43rd US President
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Scandal? D.C.'s Got Nothing On Mexico
MEXICO CITY - Illegal eavesdropping. Fake news stories. It's getting harder these days to figure out which side of the border you're on.
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I have become my enemy. All that training to fight the Soviet Threat in the 60s, 70s, 80s, just so that we could become just like that which they told us they were.
BostonJoe
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The Shame of the Prisons
This week, the world got two chilling reminders of why Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison must be closed.
Who needs sophomoric cartoons to inflame the Muslim world when you've got the Bush administration's prison system?
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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.":
Aldous Huxley -(1894-1963) Author
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John Edwards and John Wilhelm | Making America Work for the Working Poor
A sign of hope for labor: In recent years, new union members have won recognition by circumventing the process of elections run by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). When unions persuade employers to remain neutral and agree simply to check union cards for majority support (a process known as "card check"), unions typically win recognition about four-fifths of the time.
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.:
Sir Winston Churchill
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Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse
· 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse
· 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse
· 660 images of adult pornography
· 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees
· 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts
By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked report from the US army's internal investigation into the scandal.
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"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." --
Robert F. Kennedy
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The History of CIA
Interrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Democracy Now! Audio Interview Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago. Click here to listen
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Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle
Our leader über alles
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn't get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden.
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How Will We Know When We Have Lost, America?
By N K. A
We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital.
Louis Lecoin - French pacifist leader
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FOCUS | Clinton, Menendez Move to Block US Port Sales
Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have introduced legislation to prohibit companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from buying US port operations.
=====
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise” :
Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party
=====
Suicide Attacks on NATO Escalating in Afganistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The campaign appears to be aimed at eroding public support for the alliance's expanded role.
======
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—” : George W. Bush - 43rd US President
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Scandal? D.C.'s Got Nothing On Mexico
MEXICO CITY - Illegal eavesdropping. Fake news stories. It's getting harder these days to figure out which side of the border you're on.
=====
I have become my enemy. All that training to fight the Soviet Threat in the 60s, 70s, 80s, just so that we could become just like that which they told us they were.
BostonJoe
=====
The Shame of the Prisons
This week, the world got two chilling reminders of why Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison must be closed.
Who needs sophomoric cartoons to inflame the Muslim world when you've got the Bush administration's prison system?
=====
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.":
Aldous Huxley -(1894-1963) Author
=====
John Edwards and John Wilhelm | Making America Work for the Working Poor
A sign of hope for labor: In recent years, new union members have won recognition by circumventing the process of elections run by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). When unions persuade employers to remain neutral and agree simply to check union cards for majority support (a process known as "card check"), unions typically win recognition about four-fifths of the time.
=====
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.:
Sir Winston Churchill
=====
Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse
· 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse
· 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse
· 660 images of adult pornography
· 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees
· 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts
By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked report from the US army's internal investigation into the scandal.
=====
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." --
Robert F. Kennedy
=====
The History of CIA
Interrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Democracy Now! Audio Interview Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago. Click here to listen
=====
Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle
Our leader über alles
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn't get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden.
=====
How Will We Know When We Have Lost, America?
By N K. A
We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital.
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