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  • Decorate your town for 4th of July
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO MAKING CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE SIGNS!!!
    In keeping with the overall push to make DU a community of more than just bloggers, but instead, a group of activist bloggers, I offer up the following step by step guide to making CHEAP, attention grabbing signs for, street/freeway blogging (See: http://www.freewayblogger.com ), rallies/protests, posting at your house, etc.
    JUST IN TIME FOR THE 4th OF July Flag-Wave-Athon. Remind them about the war. The ongoing prisoner abuse and (…)

  • ’Last throes’ or latest quagmire?
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Which is it? Do we need 12 more years in Iraq to defeat the violent insurgency, or is the insurgency in its "last throes"?
    Is this war essential to stop terrorism from invading our shores, or was shaky intelligence "fixed" to justify a pre-planned invasion?
    Our own independence celebration this weekend is an appropriate time to take stock of just where we stand on Iraq, given the duplicity of information and mixed-messages coming from the White House and from our British allies.
    The (…)

  • Bush’s words ring hollow at memorial
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I keep going to the memorials, though my head keeps telling me to stay away. It wipes me out for days. My heart tells me it is the least I can do.
    So I go, take my place next to the families of the soldiers who have died, and grieve alongside them.
    It astounded me the other day, sitting in the chapel at Fort Carson, how the loss of one man’s life simply rips to shreds the lives of so many other people.
    I guess I always knew this. Yet it comes home like a sledgehammer when you sit among (…)

  • No US answer to Iraq Conundrum
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMERICA is facing the possibility of defeat in Iraq. The insurgency is as robust and as lethal as ever. Sectarian violence is on the rise, suggesting that civil war is just around the corner. Every day brings its terrible tale of carnage. There seems to be no safety anywhere and certainly not in Baghdad.
    Iraq under American occupation is slipping into uncontrollable chaos. This is the gloomy backdrop to the visit to Washington today of Iraq’s new president, Jalal Talabani.
    For both (…)

  • America Held Hostage: Say no to Bush’s open ended commitment- Demand a timetable for getting out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A majority of Americans now realize that President Bush deliberately misled the nation to promote a war in Iraq. But Mr. Bush’s speech on Tuesday contained a chilling message: America has been taken hostage by his martial dreams. According to Mr. Bush, the nation now has no choice except to keep fighting the war he wanted to fight.
    Never mind that Iraq posed no threat before we invaded. Now it’s a "central front in the war on terror," Mr. Bush says, quoting Osama bin Laden as an authority. (…)

  • Helen Thomas: Cut our losses in Iraq and get out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — President Bush should cut our losses and pull out of Iraq before more Americans — and Iraqis — are forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.
    If he does, he would be a hero and save lives.
    Instead, his reaction to the present fiasco in Iraq seems to be "full speed ahead."
    The president could gracefully withdraw from Iraq by asking the United Nations to take on a peacekeeping role in Iraq.
    If we were to pull out, as we should, the United States would be required to open its (…)

  • Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper As Things Get Progressively Worse For US Troops In Iraq, The American People Will Exact Their Price On A Republican Administration That Has Split The United States In Two M’Hamed Ben Youssef June 27-July 3 Issue Things are getting worse and worse in Iraq where, according to an official report from the American Central Intelligence Agency - in flagrant contradiction to the optimistic declarations of the Republican administration - this country is (…)

  • TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES:
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I hope every single member of the U.S. Armed forces will soon get to come home. You should all be home right now, and I wish all of you a safe return.
    However, I do NOT support what any of you are doing right now. I DO support your well-being and your good intentions, though. You all signed on to do a legitimate and honorable job - to defend the U.S. Constitution and the United States homeland from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. And, many of you believe that is what you are doing. However, (…)

  • Bush’s Uranium Lies: The Case For A Special Prosecutor That Could Lead To Impeachment
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is clear that the Bush Administration made fraudulent statements about the threat that Iraq posed. However, there has been little analysis as to whether specific fraudulent statements about Iraq violated any specific criminal statutes, and thus are worthy of impeachment. A 23-page memorandum provides an analysis of one of the Bush Administration’s fraudulent claims, the claim that Iraq had recently sought uranium for a nuclear weapon.
    In summary that analysis of the current public (…)

  • Rich Procter: ’Iraq - Vietnam redux? A handy checklist’
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Smug, self-righteous, ideologues wielding unproven cocktail party geo-political theories to coerce reluctant Americans into war? Check.
    Original premise of war proven to be bogus long after country commits to ruinous quagmire? Check.
    Old men wave flag, young men die? Check.
    Sons (and daughters) of "Old Man Flag Waving Brigade" in government mysteriously absent from serving in military? Check.
    Leaders promise war as show of American strength, expose to the world our powerlessness? (…)