The New Anti-War Protesters
By Joseph Rosenbloom
SANDWICH, N.H. — By the end of last week, Maggie Porter’s brick collection totaled 1,099 — and counting.
The bricks are meant to depict the coffins that the United States has been transporting to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware since the Iraq War began. Each brick is wrapped in a miniature American flag and labeled with the name of a serviceman or woman who has died in the war.
Over Columbus Day weekend this month, there was a popular (…)
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More and more military families are supporting the troops by calling for their return.
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EVERY VOTE WILL COUNT
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4 commentsby Mike Schiller
2 days from today, we will finally get to do something we have not done since 1996... pick a President. It’s been a long wait, but the moment is about to arrive. During the summer of 1999, I was living in a different world than the one I live in now. My life revolved only around my needs, my goals, my ambitions, my desires and my pains. Around that time, a person said to me, "In another year, Bush is going to be President", and I laughed. I said, "This is 1999, not 1989, (…) -
Mr. President you should not be our commander in chief
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By Patricia Wilson
TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic challenger John Kerry turned President Bush’s own words into a weapon on Thursday and said it was the Republican incumbent who had jumped to conclusions in Iraq, disqualifying him from being commander in chief.
The Massachusetts senator, energized by his beloved Boston Red Sox’s long-awaited win in baseball’s World Series and a joint appearance with rocker Bruce Springsteen, launched a withering attack on Bush over 380 tons of (…) -
Some 14,000 Marines, sailors expected to be sent to Iraq in Jan.
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(Camp Lejeune, North Carolina-AP) Oct. 28, 2004 - Officials say about 14,000 Marines and sailors, including some from South Carolina, will head to western Iraq beginning in January.
Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has announced that the troops of the Two Marine Expeditionary Force should be in control of its assigned area by late March.
Most will come from units based in North Carolina, though some other Navy and Marine personnel, including reservists and aviators from South Carolina, (…) -
FBI Investigates Halliburton’s No-Bid Contracts
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By John Solomon
Inquiry to determine whether pentagon improperly awarded bids.
The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.
The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year (…) -
Was Bush Wired? You Bet.
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A NASA Photo Expert’s Analysis Makes It Clear: Bush is Lying — he wore some kind of device in each of the three debates. So why won’t the media go near this story?
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html
By Dave Lindorff October 30, 2004
A leading NASA scientist who normally spends his days analyzing and enhancing photo images sent across the depths of space by the Cassini and other space probes has turned his expertise to images of the president in his three (…) -
Letting Down the Troops
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By BOB HERBERT
Not long ago I interviewed a soldier who was paralyzed from injuries he had suffered in a roadside bombing in Iraq. Like so many other wounded soldiers I’ve talked to, he expressed no anger and no bitterness about the difficult hand he’s been dealt as a result of the war.
But when I asked this soldier, Eugene Simpson Jr., a 27-year-old staff sergeant from Dale City, Va., whom he had been fighting in Iraq - who, exactly, the enemy was - he looked up from his wheelchair and (…) -
It’s Not Just Al Qaqaa
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by Paul Krugman
Just in case, the right is already explaining away President Bush’s defeat: it’s all the fault of the "liberal media," particularly The New York Times, which, so the conspiracy theory goes, deliberately timed its report on the looted Al Qaqaa explosives - a report all the more dastardly because it was true - for the week before the election.
It’s remarkable that the right-wingers who dominate cable news and talk radio are still complaining about a liberal stranglehold (…) -
Bush Seeks Limit to Suits Over Voting Rights
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By David G. Savage and Richard B. Schmitt
Administration lawyers argue that only the Justice Department, not the voters, may sue to enforce provisions in the Help America Vote Act.
Washington - Bush administration lawyers argued in three closely contested states last week that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act, which was passed in the aftermath of the disputed 2000 election.
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GRAND JURY INDICTS BUSH & EVIDENCE OF URANIUM AT WTC
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A 9/11 CITIZENS’ GRAND JURY INDICTS ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS &
VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF DEPLETED URANIUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press
A citizens’ grand jury in Los Angeles has voted to indict the highest officials in the administration of George W. Bush for complicity in the events of 9/11.
LOS ANGELES, California - A citizens’ grand jury has voted to indict the highest officials of the U.S. government for complicity in the events of 9/11 after (…)