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  • How Bush’s policies doomed New Orleans
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004
    Over the last coupla days there has been some wailing and gnashing of (…)

  • The Roller Coaster Ride
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Monica Benderman
    In an amusement park that I used to take our kids to, there was a roller coaster ride called the “Corkscrew.” It turned, and twisted and even reversed itself and went backwards after the first full cycle of track was completed. We would stand in line for an hour just to have a 3 minute ride, only to get back in the hour long line and do it again. We paid for this, and at the end of the day, I wondered why as we left the park with heads spinning and knees trying to (…)

  • Open Letter to The Attorney General of the United States of America
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Alberto Gonzales,
    Attorney General of the United States of America
    According to the information supplied by the International Press, on August 9, 2005, the Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Atlanta declared null and void the decision passed in Miami which had condemned Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, René González Sehwerert, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort for infiltrating the extremist Cuban American groups in the south of (…)

  • THE MOTHERS ARE COMING!
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    "Sarah, if the people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." Bush 41 to reporter Sarah McClendon, Dec. 1992
    It’s an amazing thing. Doctors’ offices in New York and Washington will likely be standing-room-only in a couple of months. I can see it now — the look on a nurse’s face when she asks the vacuous, target-eyed media twits when they are "due," and each one chirps happily, "May (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 23)
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
    In My Life, I Loved You More
    Since I began my vigil in Crawford, an average of 2.69 per day of our nation’s brave and noble troops died in Iraq for George’s cowardly and ignoble war. 2.69 families per day have been devastated for no reason except that: we have to continue killing American soldiers because so many have been killed already. My heart and soul go out to these families who had a loved one killed so needlessly and avoidably.
    How many more are (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 22
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In My Life I Loved You More
    by Cindy Sheehan
    Since I began my vigil in Crawford, an average of 2.69 per day of our nation’s brave and noble troops died in Iraq for George’s cowardly and ignoble war. 2.69 families per day have been devastated for no reason except that: we have to continue killing American soldiers because so many have been killed already. My heart and soul go out to these families who had a loved one killed so needlessly and avoidably.
    How many more are we as Americans (…)

  • I Met A Dead Soldier Named Casey
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mother of a dead soldier stood in front of me and told me about her son. She told me his name was Casey. Casey Sheehan. She asked me to meet him. I agreed. I came to Crawford, TX to meet him.
    The debate about Cindy Sheehan rages on and I’ve sat down and reflected on a lot of things.
    When I was growing up, my parents always told me that you’re supposed to respect people. When you go to your little friends’ houses to play, respect their parents and abide by the rules that are set (…)

  • The Reality-Challenged Challengers to Cindy Sheehan
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Americans should get a grip on reality. If we were invaded, we would fight till the invaders left. That is what Iraqis are doing and will continue to do until they drive us out. Then, after a period of healing, we can become friends once again. Our enemies in Iraq are enemies of our own making. Let us never forget this reality."
    by Stan Moore
    It is probably the fault of the media. Or maybe the failure of the public education system. Whosoever fault it is, the American citizens who have (…)

  • UNTANGLING THE BALL OF BUSH LIES
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNTANGLING SOME BUSH LIES
    By Peter Fredson
    Let me see if I can untangle the huge knot of lies that Bush has made into a large sticky ball.
    He has claimed a dozen or so times that he "wants to stay the course."
    By that he means he intends to stay in Iraq, a foreign country which up until a few years ago was a sovereign country. Bush says that he must "stay the course" because he has to kill "insurgents" in Iraq, before they decide to come here. He wants to attract them to Iraq, by (…)

  • Dear Settlers : "Dear" in the most literal sense
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    At long last it must be spelled out, without hypocritical pity, without "if" and "but".
    We have paid billions of shekels in order to settle you in the Gaza Strip. We have paid billions to keep you there, and most of you have lived there at our expense. We paid billions to defend you, and dozens of soldiers, male and female, lost their lives doing this. Now we are paying billions (Eight? Ten? Twelve?) to get you out of there and pay you generous compensation.
    But all this (…)