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  • Holed up on a ranch, Bush won’t mix it up with ’Mom’
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD
    W. can’t get no satisfaction on Iraq.
    There’s an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.
    A new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans now think that going to war was a mistake and that the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. So fighting them there means it’s more likely we’ll have to fight them here?
    Donald (…)

  • US and European allies provoke confrontation with Iran
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Symonds
    The Bush administration with the support of the so-called EU-3-Britain, France and Germany-has seized on Iran’s decision to restart its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan as the pretext for condemning Tehran and threatening UN economic sanctions. Once again Washington and its allies, with the backing of the international media, are conducting a campaign of provocation and lies that will ultimately lead to open confrontation if Iran does not completely capitulate.
    The (…)

  • No Sympathy for the Neocons : Mick Jagger runs with the ’neocon’ meme
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    The news that the Rolling Stones are coming out with a song called "Sweet Neocon" that takes the administration to task for its Iraq war policy is ... music to my ears:
    "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you’re so wrong, my sweet neo-con."
    Wrong? Neocons? They’ll never admit it, although the whole world knows it.
    That’s a defining characteristic of these (…)

  • Baghdad elite flees Iraq and the daily threat of death
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Thomas Harding in Baghdad
    Quietly, in their ones and twos, the professional classes of Baghdad are slipping out of the country to avoid becoming another fatal statistic.
    Iraq is losing the educated elite of doctors, lawyers, academics and businessmen who are vital to securing a stable future. There is also fear that their departure will leave a vacuum to be filled by religious extremists.
    Outside the shelter of the Green Zone, home to the American and Iraqi political leadership, (…)

  • My Country Went to War
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This song is dedicated to Cindy Sheehan. You GO girl!!!
    My Country Went to War Sung to "My Country Tis of Thee"
    by Justis Suffram
    “My Country Went To War” (sung to “My Country ‘Tis of the Thee”) My country went to war Just to please Cheney’s whore Hal-i-bur-ton. Out near the Euphrates Destroy antiquities And murder everyone you please Oh, don’t forget the oil.
    My country lied to me But it won’t cop a plea We’ll stay the course. Bomb them until they’re free We’ll win their liberty (…)

  • A forgotten man, one of many
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Uncle Jeff was just one of about 55,000 Americans whose lives were wasted killing about 2,000,000 Vietnamese people in the 1960s and ‘70s. Someone once told me in all seriousness that my uncle had died defending America, but I just laughed, and that wasn’t even a political response. I chuckled because anyone thinking my uncle died defending America had to be crazy or joking. I remember my Uncle Jeff’s dog and his car, but I don’t remember my Uncle Jeff. He had raised the dog from a pup, a (…)

  • An Apology From a US Christian to Palestinians
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is my apology for Christians in the US to Muslims, the Arab World, and particularly Palestinians. Too many of my co-religionists have made a travesty of the Golden Rule which unequivocally compels us, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
    For example Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority, and a Christian Zionist who doesn’t believe Israel should relinquish any of the illegally occupied territories, was asked by Bob Simon of CBS News: "What about the three million (…)

  • The death of a contender
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "I just want to get it done, come home, and continue my life."
    Those were just about the last words that Gennaro Pellegrini, Jr. — a 31-year-old Philly cop and up-and-coming boxer — said to us when we spoke last last November. In less than 48 hours, Pellegrini was about to step onto an airplane bound for Iraq, along with the rest of his Pennsylvania National Guard unit from Northeast Philadelphia.
    For anyone who’s worried about the return of a military draft, Pellegrini was living proof (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Gives BuzzFlash the Latest from Crawford
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Direct from the drainage ditch, the intrepid protester says "Our spirits are great," but Bush "doesn’t have enough courage to face someone who actually disagrees with him ..."
    A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
    Cindy Sheehan and others are at Bush’s Crawford, Texas, vacation location, bringing a message to Bush that it’s time to bring the troops home. She is a cofounder of Gold Star Families for Peace and the mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, killed in Baghdad April 4, 2004.
    Intrepid, courageous, (…)

  • Leuren Moret to CINDY!
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Cindy - Seeing you camped this week at the gate
    of George Bush’s Texas ranch in Crawford is a very
    powerful statement to the world. Major change begins
    often with a single person.
    We are standing beside you as you stand your ground
    and gain the sympathy of the world - as a grieving
    parent - who has lost her only son because of a "Texas
    longhorn" size pile of lies. Your courage and
    unrelenting national and international campaign to
    stop the Iraq war has made a big impact on (…)