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  • Bush Supporter runs over memorial crosses at Camp Casey
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Galindez
    Monday 15 August 2005 9:50 PM
    Reality Hits Camp Casey
    The last 10 minutes have been very difficult here. I am at the Peace House editing video. First came a phone call that someone drove their vehicle over the Arlington West Crosses at the camp. I will head out to the camp now to get more details.
    Within minutes one of the volunteers logged on to a website and learned that her friend was killed in Iraq. She burst into tears, Cindy was sitting across the room and (…)

  • A Sunday Drive to Crawford
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by sparosnare
    The trek began early Sunday morning - a decision to drive 181 miles to support Cindy Sheehan, a courageous mother who lost her son in the Iraq War. She has taken a stand against the war, and against those who lied to justify the war, right outside the gates of George Bush’s ranch. She’s camped out in a ditch, literally, waiting for the President to speak with her. Waiting for him to take 10 minutes and answer her questions.
    So there we were - two cars, two adults, 3 kids (…)

  • Bush ’Mulling Options’ for War Against Cindy Sheehan
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, TX — President George W. Bush is "mulling options" for a possible military strike against Cindy Sheehan, said one of his top political aides.
    "Cindy Sheehan’s actions over the last few days are the same sorts of things that terrorists would do. I count her protest to be an attack against my poll numbers," said President Bush.
    Earlier today, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz urged the President to bomb Mrs. Sheehan.
    "Let her eat bombs," exclaimed the World Bank (…)

  • Bush refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, The refusal of Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, in spite of the pain of families who have lost their sons in the war is today highlighted by U.S. media.
    Confronting the increased casualties and a fall of support for the war, Bush said that it was too soon to talk of withdrawal, The New York Times reported.
    CNN for its part, reported Friday after an analysis of the situation that the Iraqi crisis is weighing heavily in the minds of United States citizens regarding the 2006 (…)

  • Uri Avnery : A Miracle of Rare Device
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    A picture engraved in memory: Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. Around him the storm is raging. The Members rush about, shouts ring out from all sides. The Member on the podium waves his arms, denounces and curses him. Sharon sitting at the government table. Alone. Immovable. Massive and passive. No muscle in his face is moving. Not even the nervous tic of his nose, that was once his trade-mark (and that many people considered a kind of lie-detector). A rock in the raging sea. (…)

  • In Texas, A Time to Circle the Minivans
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Activists Protest the War, Or Protest the Protesters
    By Michael A. Fletcher
    CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 13 — Barbara Cummings was home in San Diego Monday, listening to an Air America radio broadcast, when she heard the tale of a woman who was coming here to join Cindy Sheehan in her growing protest against the war in Iraq.
    The woman on the radio had a son who had signed on for a second tour of duty in the Army after losing his job. In two weeks, he is scheduled to ship out to Iraq. Cummings (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: Rosa Parks or Jane Fonda?
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Freeman Is Cindy Sheehan the Rosa Parks or the Jane Fonda of the War in Iraq? Is she the lonely sentinel, standing righteously against injustice? Or a self-centered publicity seeker, endangering American soldiers in the War?
    The question is something of a political Rorschach test, telling us more about ourselves and our appraisal of America’s wars than about Sheehan. But asking it and understanding the issues behind the question might help us find a solution to the illegitimate (…)

  • Poll: Many now saying war has left U.S. no safer
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dick Polman
    Bedeviled by the mounting casualties in Iraq and increasingly confused by the mixed messages emanating from war leaders, Americans in large numbers are losing confidence in the mission.
    New polls report that, for the first time, a majority of Americans reject President Bush’s contention that the war over there is making us safer over here. Indeed, barring major immediate progress in Iraq, 2005 may well be remembered as the year when public opinion went south and never came (…)

  • Election Fraud Continues in the US : New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Phillips
    In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.
    New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly Pomona now shows (…)

  • Bring ’Em On!
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bring ’Em On! The Bush Administration’s Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism (links-annotated version) by Steve Perry 1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward. Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a US invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary (…)