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  • What We Iraqis Want
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 18, 2005
    We want the Americans to go back home. Iraq is our country, not theirs. However, the Americans seem to think it is their country. It is not theirs now, nor will it ever be theirs, unless they kill all of us, men, women and children. We are raising our children to resist this illegal, this immoral, this un-Christian occupation. I am a Christian, my husband is a Muslim, we both want the Americans out. They are causing us nothing but harm, sickness, poverty and lawlessness.
    We (…)

  • "He called me from Iraq: ’I have no idea what we’re doing here, mom.’
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Nadia McCaffrey, member of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee (Inge Van de Merlen - May 18 2005)
    May 18, 2005
    September 12, 2001: Day 1 after the attacks on the WTC towers in the US. 34-year-old Patrick McCaffrey, husband and father of two, was upset enough to join the Californian National Guard. The National Guard is usually deployed in case of disasters or other emergency situations within the United States. A few days after 9/11 the Bush administration, without (…)

  • Halliburton Protest: 16 Arrested, a Dozen Trampled by Horses
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Action Update: Four women and six men are at Houston Police Southeast, 8300 Mykawa and six men at at Houston Police Central, 61 Reisner. To donate to legal defense, use the paypal account.
    There is a benefit concert tonight with Free Radicals at Helios at 411 Westheimer, where you can come and hear the latest update and party for your right to fight.
    Several people have posted first-hand text accounts of today’s actions: 1, 2, (…)

  • Iraq Quaqmire: What if this is as good as it gets?
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."
    Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, Nov. 18, after offensive against Fallujah
    CHICAGO - Could it be that we’ve misclassified the insurgency in Iraq - that it’s an invertebrate, able to absorb bone-crushing blows because it has no bones to crush? It seems to be more like a dandelion, which, when smashed, only spreads more seeds.
    Seven months after U.S. forces leveled the enemy stronghold, the insurgents (…)

  • Galloway Calls a Spade a Spade
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One Scotsman, Calls a Spade a Spade
    by James Glaser May 18, 2005
    British MP George Galloway was called on the carpet by a United States Senate Investigative Committee and he shocked them by showing up and defending himself.
    Senator Norm Coleman, Republican Chairman of the committee had accused Galloway of making money off the Iraqi oil-for-food program and Galloway was more than Coleman ever expected.
    Galloway, "I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons (…)

  • Former Reagan Official: Only Way to Restore America’s Credibility is Impeachment
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the US. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.
    As intent as Republicans were to impeach President (…)

  • UNITY CALL TO THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT FROM TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) wholeheartedly and unreservedly joins the activists and groups who are calling for a united mobilization against the war in the fall. The absence of such unity amongst the anti-war coalitions only serves to demoralize rank and file anti-war activists and local forces across the country. The grassroots of the movement are looking to those of us who make decisions to put our differences aside in the interests of the struggle to get the U.S. the hell out of (…)

  • Newsweek apology? How about White House retraction of WMD?
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What a joke, the White House carrying on about Newsweek. I’d say Newsweek should retract any article only when the White House admits there were no weapons of mass destruction, apologizes to all Iraqis and Americans, brings American troops home and allows the UN to do what it was originally formed to do, namely protect the vulnerable and to establish and keep the peace.
    Maybe I’m confusing facts with the issues, and the use of reason has no place in this country anymore, but I just can’t (…)

  • A spring morning in the autumn of America
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone’
    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    Mornings on my porch these days are exquisite. I pry myself from my bed and shuffle out into paradise in this (what I call) cool Florida spring. Every day starts out at 70 degrees. Sun flashes through the dense foliage, creating lush shadows and undulating sunbeams flecked with shimmering dust motes. The mockingbird symphony (somewhere between Vaughn Williams and Wagner, I (…)

  • An Open Letter To The Mainstream Media
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Mainstream Media,
    Hello. I am the Plaid Adder. I am one of those people who posts stuff on the internet under an assumed name. Unlike "Jeff Gannon," however, I am not under the mistaken impression that I am a real journalist. I am a lunatic with internet access. I’ve always been ready to admit that. And it’s because I don’t work for a ’legitimate,’ branded, American media outlet that it drives me absolutely fucking NUTS to see you people CAVE to this bullshit administration!
    I meant (…)