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  • What One Mom Has to Say to George Bush
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war," Cindy Sheehan told 200 cheering members of Veterans For Peace at their annual convention in Dallas last Friday evening. She then announced she would go to Bush’s vacation home in nearby Crawford, Texas and camp out until he "tells me why my son died in Iraq. I’ve got the whole month of August off, and so does he."
    Sheehan left the VFP meeting on Saturday morning and is now in Crawford with a couple dozen (…)

  • Thousands Mourn Tragic Deaths at Memorial for Lima Company in Ohio
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CLEVELAND — On the stage sat a helmet, a pair of worn soldier’s boots and a folded American flag. In the audience were thousands who turned out Monday night to honor 16 fallen Marines and their hard-hit Ohio battalion.
    "Our own band of brothers," Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones said during an hour-long memorial service of prayers, bagpipes intoning "Amazing Grace" and montages of the troops from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines who died in the past two weeks in Iraq.
    "Close your eyes (…)

  • Sixty One Names in june and Counting In IRAQ
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CoastalPost Article — July 2005
    My July 2005 Coastal Post article covers the recent June 2005 casualties in Iraq, the exchange between Rumsfeld and Kennedy of June 23rd, and evidence pointing to strange events surrounding the Wellstone plane crash of Oct 2003. Researching this article was a heartbreak and a half. To arrive at this simple listing of sixty-one names, I visited a most excellent website compiled by CNN (of all the media!) This site listed not only American dead, (…)

  • Given Rove, Bush actions, what don’t we know?
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Given Rove, Bush actions, what don’t we know?
    Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
    Is it conceivable that when George W. Bush said in 2003, after the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame was leaked to the press from the White House, that he didn’t already know what is now known, that his political assassin Karl Rove was the "official" who leaked this information?
    Rove leaking the identity of Plame was payback for a New York Times article revealing the administration’s (…)

  • Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi’s Salt March to Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win — when truth and justice is on his or her side.
    Now, in 2005, along comes Cindy Sheehan, the California woman whose altar-boy son Casey was killed in Iraq last year. As you may have heard, Sheehan and some supporters have been camping out outside the Bush ranch in Crawford, Tex., refusing to leave (…)

  • Gold Star and Military Families from Across Country to Join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ — More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August.
    Starting today, Gold Star families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arkansas and other states whose loved ones have died as a result of the war in Iraq will be joining one of their members, Cindy Sheehan, at the (…)

  • Can you spot the real threat to national security?
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Can you spot the real threat to national security?
    Let’s see... there’s this guy.
    Turns out Bush could have nailed him years ago.
    According to the CIA field commander at Tora Bora, U.S. intelligence absolutely knew that Osama Bin Laden was not only present, but virtually trapped
    All the CIA and Special Forces guys needed was additional conventional support to cut off his escape, and Bin Laden would have been arrested.
    This was in December of 2001.
    But Bush and Rumsfeld never sent (…)

  • Mr President, there’s someone waiting, and waiting, to see you
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Texas ambush ... Cindy Sheehan on the road leading to Mr Bush’s ranch. She has vowed to camp out until the President agrees to see her. Photo: Reuters
    Crawford, Texas: The US President draws anti-war protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road towards George Bush’s ranch last weekend to try and tell him face to face to pull all US troops out of Iraq.
    Mrs Sheehan’s son, Casey, was killed last (…)

  • Why the AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Karl Rove
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last week, the Justice Department issued a new indictment of Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon official accused of passing secrets to officials of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying outfit. The indictment is bad news for the Bush White House and Karl Rove.
    That’s not only because the Franklin case is embarrassing for the administration, the Pentagon, and their neocon allies. (Franklin worked with Douglas Feith, who until recently was a senior Pentagon official close to the neocons.) The Franklin (…)

  • Chavez: U.S. will ’bite the dust’ if it invades
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told thousands of visiting students that if U.S. forces were to invade the South American country, they would be soundly defeated.
    The U.S. government has strongly denied Chavez’s claims that it is considering military action against Cuba’s closest ally in the Americas.
    But Chavez said late Monday that the U.S. government, which "won’t stop caressing the idea of invading Cuba or invading Venezuela," should be warned of the (…)