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  • URGENT: House Investigation of Downing Street Minutes Nears Vote Deadline
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Reported on Wednesday, August 24, by a meager number of media outlets (a search on Google News produced all of ONE result, this, from Political Affairs Magazine) Congressman Jim Leach (R) of Iowa has become the first Republican to publicly announce that he would cosponsor the bill (H. Res. 375) by representative Barbara Lee (D) of California.
    The bill, a resolution of inquiry, introduced by Lee in the House of Representatives on July 20, 2005 and referred to the Committee on (…)

  • SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN : CAUSE WE KILLED ALL THEM EVIL INGRATE MUSLIMS.
    By Peter Fredson
    A Slight Satire
    I once lived in Texas and know what them Bush whacker critters in Crawford think. Fer instance:
    Yeah, we brought them Iraqi bastards freedom and democracy, and got precious little thanks for it. We did it with 140,000 soldiers, Humvees, helicopters, fighter jets, cruise missiles, heavy tanks, large cannon, grenades, automatic rifles and all that other peacemaking (…)

  • Where is Peace?
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman War is promoted. Anti-war responds. Anti-war protests. War counters. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. Peace. Freedom to make a choice.
    Sgt. Kevin Benderman sits in confinement at Ft. Lewis, Washington. His crime? Making a choice. He chose Peace.
    It’s not about one side winning and the other side losing. Not to Sgt. Benderman. It’s about having knowledge. We all have the right to know the truth about our options, and to be educated in our choices. We (…)

  • Caravan to Crawford to Rally Support for Cindy Sheehan, The Gold Star Families, Military Families and Veterans
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Join us afterward for Hoe-Down BBQ from 2:00 - 5:00
    We’re Inviting George and Laura to join us for some good food and conversation. We have a few questions to ask him!
    The vigil of Cindy Sheehan and the other families and veterans in Crawford has struck a chord with the American people. Like these Gold Star moms, we ask the President to take a few moments of his five week vacation to tell them why brave Americans like Casey Sheehan have been sent to their deaths in Iraq.
    Cindy has also (…)

  • ’Protesters embolden terror’: Bush - it
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    comment: Now Bush is dishonoring Iraq veterans that speak out who are fighting his wars of agression. What a guy! So why doesn’t he say that to Cindy’s face? Coward.
    US President George W. Bush contrasted a military mother whose five sons and husband have served in Iraq with anti-war protestors he said risked emboldening terrorists.
    "There are few things in life more difficult than seeing a loved one go off to war. Here, in Idaho, a mom named Tammy Pruett ... knows that feeling six times (…)

  • Cuba TV Analyzes Bush Fundamentalism
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The threats and failures of President Bush’s warmongering fundamentalism was the main topic on Thursday’s edition of the Cuban prime time TV and radio show “The Round Table”
    The panelists highlighted that US popular support for the war on Iraq is dropping fast and that the peace movement is gaining momentum at the cost of the president’s approval rating.
    The Iraqi resistance actions continue targeting US troops and the death toll has now reached 1,870. At the same time, over (…)

  • Is Bush al-Qaeda’s ’Useful Idiot’?
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Western intelligence agencies are right - that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the two-year-plus military occupation have been recruiting boons for Islamic terrorism - why is it logical to commit American troops to an indefinite deployment there? Won’t that just create more terrorists?
    Put differently, has George W. Bush’s Iraq policy done more to help than hurt al-Qaeda, from Bush’s hasty decision to redirect U.S. military assets from Afghanistan to Iraq while Osama bin-Laden was (…)

  • BUSH REGIME ROTTEN TO THE CORE
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DETROIT — A storm of anti-war protests and sentiment is sweeping across the nation. Finally, reality and truth are trumping President George W. Bush’s lies. Even the perpetual propaganda machine of the corporate media can no longer manufacture consent for Bush’s monstrously bad policies and decisions.
    A storm of anti-war protests and sentiment is sweeping While most Americans work and struggle with lower wages, a sputtering economy and rising gas prices, Bush still basks in the Texas sun (…)

  • America Library Association calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sandy English 25 August 2005
    At its annual conference in Chicago earlier this summer, the 182-member Council of the American Library Association, representing more than 65,000 librarians, passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
    The resolution stated: “The justifications for the invasion of Iraq have proven to be completely unfounded and the war already has taken the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 1700 U.S. soldiers and these (…)

  • Lessons (of Vietnam)? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Lessons!
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Vietnam War ended in the spring of my senior year in college, but most of us paid little attention to the tanks that rolled into Saigon or the last helicopter taking off from the U.S. Embassy there. For the most part, our war had ended two years earlier at the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, and the abolition of the draft three months later, when those draft cards we carried in our wallets were to become historical oddities.
    After that, the public debate was on (…)