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  • False Freedom isn’t Free - The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 19
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    Today when I was driving back and forth between Camp Casey II and the Crawford Peace House, I saw a lot of signs that say "I’m4W" "Support our Troops" and the one I hate the most: "Freedom isn’t Free." I have excerpted an article I wrote a few months ago called: A Lie of Historic Proportions. I am not feeling well tonight, so I am heading to bed before six a.m. tonight.
    Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first Gulf (…)

  • Local veteran joins mother’s war protest
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sharon Springs man flies to Texas to be with group outside Bush ranch
    By Jake Palmateer
    A Sharon Springs Vietnam veteran has joined Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war activists outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch.
    Elliott Adams, 58, a member of the national organization Veterans for Peace, flew into Waco on Thursday afternoon to relieve fellow members of the group who are returning to New York City.
    Adams said the flight from Dallas-Fort Worth was "a little bumpy" and (…)

  • Poll: Many back right to protest Iraq war
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By WILL LESTER
    WASHINGTON - An overwhelming number of people say critics of the Iraq war should be free to voice their objections - a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines.
    Nearly three weeks after a grieving California mother named Cindy Sheehan started her anti-war protest near President Bush’s Texas ranch, nine of 10 people surveyed in an AP-Ipsos poll say it’s OK for war opponents to publicly share their concerns about (…)

  • Saddam’s political party makes a comeback
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    Saddam Hussein’s political party is staging a comeback, and US military commanders are debating how far to accommodate it in Iraq’s coming constitutional referendum.
    While less tied than before to the ousted dictator, the Ba’athist movement has become an important channel for Sunni Arab political expression, say US officers, helping to promote voting in the October 15 referendum.
    But the New Ba’ath party, as military planners now call it, still flits between engagement in the US-backed (…)

  • GOP hounds start barking in unison
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You can tell in five minutes of channel surfing how Cindy Sheehan frightens the pro-war crowd. One bereaved mom from Vacaville, California, camped outside Bush’s home in Crawford, reproaching the vacationing president for sending her son to a pointless death in Iraq has got the hellhounds of the Right barking in venomous unison.
    Sheehan is castigated in the press, by mainstream liberals as well as mad-dog rightists, for not leaving any wriggle-room on this central point. She says, "Bring (…)

  • Give Us the Answers - Cindy deserves them, and so do we
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On April 4, 2004, Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq. His mother Cindy Sheehan wants President Bush to explain why. He might answer thus:
    "The hard truth is your son’s life was wasted. I accept a share of blame, but only a share. Others must accept theirs, my advisors and supporters, my political opponents and ordinary Americans - particularly ordinary Americans."
    Can good people do bad things? I consider myself a good person. Yet, upon receipt of a coded message, I would have killed (…)

  • A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron Times Staff Writers
    August 25, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
    About to emerge as a key critic was Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who asserted that the administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion.
    At the White (…)

  • The Next World War Starts in Iran
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Whitney
    "We consider that it would be counter-productive and dangerous to use force, the serious consequences of which would be barely predictable." warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry to the Bush Administration about prospective plans to attack Iran
    There’s only one thing that Americans need to remember when the read about the standoff between the Bush administration and Iran. There is no evidence whatsoever that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. But, don’t take my (…)

  • Bush and Death
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I fault this president (George W. Bush) for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our twenty-one year olds who wanted to be what they could be.
    On the eve of D-day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.
    But this president does not know what (…)

  • Letter from a Soldier in Iraq to his Senator
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From: B K
    To: J C Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:29:57 -0400 Subject: Re: HMMWVs
    J C Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff U.S. Senator Olympia Snow 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510
    Dear Mr. C
    We have not received all the 1114 HMMWV’s that are required for our mission.
    I still head out of the gate in a 1025 Humvee that doesn’t have floor armor, basically all you have is armored windows and sub par armored doors. As evident by the bullet holes and shrapnel (…)