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  • Wearing Red to Support the Troops
    9 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 9, 2005 — A few days ago, I received an all-users e-mail from a colleague asking me to show my support for the troops in Iraq by wearing red on Fridays. The message was couched in highly patriotic terms, with the implication that if I didn’t wear red on Fridays, I didn’t support the troops and was unpatriotic. This crystallized a problem I’ve been wrestling with for some time now-how to show my outrage at this miserable war while still supporting the troops.
    I need to jump back in (…)

  • Bring Bush in line
    9 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two years ago George W. Bush, standing under a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln, proclaimed the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Strange isn’t it that two years later June 23, 2005, Bush when questioned about troop withdrawal from Iraq stated: "Whenever our mission is accomplished." Just what is Bush’s mission in Iraq? Is it to drive the price of a barrel of crude oil to $100 or more; to alienate all nations of the world against us; or create (…)

  • Support the war? Then enlist
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sign up or Shut up....
    There is a clear difference between supporting our troops and supporting President Bush’s illegal war in Iraq.
    Supporting the troops means fully funding the VA, which cares for those injured. It means lifting the stop-loss action that forces soldiers to remain in the military against their will.
    Supporting the troops means knowing the truth that there never was a link between the 9-11 terrorist attacks and Iraq. It means appointing an independent council to (…)

  • London Explodes, Washington tenses further
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The crisis that now has Western cities becoming police states — New York, Madrid, London, Washington not only already having experienced mass casualities but constantly on guard and constantly expending great resources to try to prevent further attacks — has deep causes that have been brewing for years. At the top of the list so much political and ideological poison has oozed out of the Arab-Israeli conflict for decades now. The harsh military occupation of the Palestinians, the many (…)

  • The ghost at Gleneagles
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib. By John Pilger
    Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers and watching television in Britain, you (…)

  • U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey Presses for Iraq Probe
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW PALTZ - The Downing Street memos, a series of communications that some say proves the Bush administration fabricated its justification for the war in Iraq, should be the subject of a full-blown Congressional inquiry, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey told the crowd assembled for a presentation on the memos on the SUNY New Paltz campus Thursday night.
    But the lack of checks and balances in the "monolithic" government, in which both the Congress and Senate favor the administration, will make (…)

  • Deceits enervate an Iraq exit
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s latest attempt to justify his Iraq policy with a televised address to America comes as more evidence emerges that the invasion of Iraq was a war of choice. In arguing that the United States must persevere because Iraq has become "a central front in the war on terror," he sounds like the man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court for being an orphan.
    It has long been evident that leading administration officials (…)

  • Combat Vets Say Iraqis Right To Fight Occupation
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Daryl Anderson, 22 I’m from Lawton, Ky.
    I was stationed in Eastern Germany with the Army. On Jan. 15, 2004, my contingent was sent to Iraq. We stayed in Baghdad for seven months, where I was wounded and awarded a Purple Heart.
    After that I was sent back to Germany, where I trained for six months for another tour of duty in Iraq. On Christmas, on leave in the U.S., I decided that I couldn’t go back to Germany and from there to Iraq. If I went back to Baghdad I would have been asked (…)

  • Terrorism is a result of WORLD Leaders MENTAL inability to deal their own FEARS
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To all People in the World,
    The reason terroism exists is that the elite oligarchic class has a HIDDEN AND UNSPOKEN fear of CHANGE. Especially change of anything that would change the BALANCE OF POWER and perhaps empower a larger more effective social semantic of linguistic information sharing and truth seeking. This fear has led them too create state sponsered terrorism and that is because they fear that the global sharing of information and culture on the INTERNET and in global travel (…)

  • Experts: U.S. has no good options for Iraq
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Experts: U.S. has no good options for Iraq
    By RON HUTCHESON
    Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - In the swirling debate over Iraq, all sides agree on one thing: There’s no easy way out.
    Every approach to ending U.S. involvement carries the risk that President Bush’s ambitious effort to transplant democracy will end in chaos and create an oil-rich haven for terrorists. Even the most hopeful predictions envision a fragile democracy struggling to overcome ruthless insurgents and (…)