Congress should deliver the war supplemental bill in a flag-draped coffin By Mary MacElveen April 29, 2007
On Tuesday which is the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech, the $120 billion war supplemental bill is scheduled to be delivered to President Bush’s desk. On that day four years ago, in self-serving pageantry, President Bush flew onto the U.S.S. Lincoln in a fighter jet wearing a uniform he had no business wearing. In learning today that nine (…)
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Congress should deliver the war supplemental bill in a flag-draped coffin
29 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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The loser continues gambling
29 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The majority of americans have shown their will to withdraw the USA troops from Iraq. The Democrates have insisted on this view and they are working to inforce this will by legislating laws to plan the widrawal of troops. The senate and congres have voted for a planned withdrawl recently. However Mr Bush is still behaving arrogantly and thretening to veto the laws of the congress.
Mr Bush is behaving like the losing gambler, who bids for higher money as he loses more. The problem in (…) -
Iraq and American Death Count to 2017
28 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The major problem of war, aside from the death and destruction that it causes, is that it becomes extremely difficult to obtain accurate information about the events leading up to a conflict, about what is occurring at the present, and what is to be expected for the future. Basically, the most universally applicable statement regarding war is that "The first casualty of War is Truth".
The reasons for the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies are varied, what is occurring at (…) -
A word is worth a thousand pictures
27 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsby Cpl Cloy Richards, USMC
6 Marines 3 standing tall and proud in the foreground 3 crouching in the foreground 6 Marines posing in Fallujah, supposedly the "Graveyard of Americans". 6 young, strong men with battle hardened countenances. 6 marines in great health posing with rifles, deep in enemy territory. How brave they look, how American.
They can go to any country in the world, kick ass and take pictures to show the folks back home what their tax dollars are paying for. That picture (…) -
Israel Requests 3,500 Mk84 Bombs
25 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsPosted 24-Apr-2007 06:21 Related stories: Americas - USA, Bombs - General, Contracts - Intent, General Dynamics, Middle East - Israel
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress of Israel’s request for 3,500 MK-84 general purpose bomb units, which are 2,000 pound bomb bodies. The Mk84 versions Israel is requesting would carry about 945 pounds of tritonal (about 80% TNT/ 20% aluminum) explosives, as opposed to using H-6. Mk80 family weapons can be fitted with a number (…) -
From an Angry Soldier
23 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
18 commentsI’m having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I’m going to write this while I’m pissed off enough to do it right.
I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you’re all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like (…) -
I’LL NEVER FORGET...AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU!
23 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBush: Saddam tried to kill my dad
Rumsfeld: Why bomb Afghanistan? Iraq has much better targets!
Condi: Who could have imagined planes being used as weapons?...and...We don’t want a smoking gun to become a mushroom cloud...or (at a hearing) I believe the memo said "bin Laden threatens to attack US"
Colin Powell: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction which threaten their neighbors and our country.
Tom Ridge: (Homeland Security Chief) The color code actually wasn’t very successful. (…) -
FOUR DAYS OF “SIMULATED” NUCLEAR TERRORIST SCENARIOS IN THE US & EUROPE
21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commenthttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/190407resolve.htm
Noble Resolve 07: FOUR DAYS OF “SIMULATED” NUCLEAR TERRORIST SCENARIOS IN THE US & EUROPE
DL Abrahamson False Flag News Thursday, April 19, 2007
From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by (…) -
Bush Wants Guard Out of Country. Why?
21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsMr. Bush is secretly sending most, if not all, National Guard troops out of the country. He intends to send nearly EVERY unit-available or not. As many know, the Guard has the special duty of assisting and defending the nation on its home turf.
After Katrina why, you say, would he want all of our troops out of the country? Who will be left to help in times of "trouble?"
BLACKWATER security, that’s who-the same ones who violate Geneva in Iraq.
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Support : An Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq
21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Memorial Day Weekend-"A Soldiers Walk for Soldiers"
*Public participation to support our troops in their communication to end the war is vital*
Mark your calender for May 27, 2007 - Meet at the Ohio Statehouse Veterans memorial in downtown Columbus at 12:30 pm. Speakers to be announced.
Support our active duty military in their "Appeal for Redress" walk of support- for brothers and sisters in arms, on Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday May 27, 2007 step-off at 1 PM.
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