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  • Cindy Sheehan : the Amazing Hypocrites
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    Wednesday 22 March 2005 - This past weekend was the two-year anniversary of the beginning of "shock and awe" of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never have known.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events "barely a ripple." I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there (…)

  • Bush and Blair in the Land of Make Believe - Iraq: the Unwinnable War
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    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.
    The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have (…)

  • War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S. Domestic Effort Is Big Shift for Military
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    By Bradley Graham
    COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
    The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 (…)

  • Bush defends refusal to meet Cindy Sheehan "I think it’s important for me to go on with my life"
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it’s also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.
    Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.
    "But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there’s somebody who has got something to say to the president, (…)

  • Camp Casey Day 8- WOW!!!
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    It is not often that, I, Cindy Sheehan is at a loss for words. I will try and describe today, though. It was the most incredible, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, powerful, miraculous event I have ever been apart of. I was so humbled and honored at the outpouring of love and support that arrived in Camp Casey today.
    It was a busy morning of interviews and problem solving. I had interviews with some network shows and a photo shoot for the Vanity Fair article. Almost all of (…)

  • Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by FRANK RICH
    LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
    A president can’t stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won’t stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in (…)

  • Psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz on Torture at Abu Ghraib
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Welcome to Talk Nation Radio produced in New England at WHUS Storrs.
    Talk Nation.org for news and discussion on politics, human rights, and the environment.
    I’m Dori Smith
    Our guest today is
    Stephen Soldz of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
    He describes himself as a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and social activist, and while teaching at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis he also finds time to write and perform research duties on a web page he (…)

  • The Iraqi People Stand With Cindy Sheehan- End The Occupation Now!
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Majorities of both Sunni Arabs (82%) and Shiites (69%)
    Favor U.S. forces withdrawing either immediately or after
    an elected government is in place."
    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.... Zogby Poll
    The crowd responded by chanting: "Yes, yes to elections! No, no to occupation!"
    "What our religious leadership is doing today is at the heart of its mandate," cleric Faras al-Tatrasani, 36, said. "We are http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/... demanding democracy. And that’s what (…)

  • OUTING BUSH
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OUTING BUSH
    August 13, 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    Like many people, I spent part of the past 5 years trying to decipher the complexities of the collective mind of George W. Bush. I have collected gigabytes of files concerning his activities, propensities, quotations, quirks, speeches, gaffes, emotions, ego-trips, prayers, threats, disdain, swaggering, smirking, and ties to influential individuals.
    I have linked some of Bush’s ties to Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, (…)

  • Vacation From Reality
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, taking the same August-long break that he did in the summer before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The appeal of Crawford appears to be that it provides the President with an opportunity to put aside all the troubles of the world and to focus on fixing fences and clearing brush. After all, it was during his previous vacation that Bush ignored an August 6, 2001, briefing document titled: "Bin (…)