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  • Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden Ted Rall July 04, 2005 NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
    If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on (…)

  • We’ll bring our troops home, whether Bush likes it or not
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush and Rumsfeld reject the idea of a timeline to withdraw from Iraq. Bush says we need to "stay the course." Rumsfeld says we’ll be there another 10 years. I wonder if these men would be willing to go through what our soldiers do: Occupying a country that is increasingly hostile to U.S. presence, where more and more we look like a foreign occupying power than a liberating army.
    I am sickened every time I hear about another soldier killed in their Humvee, or scores of Iraqi kids blown up (…)

  • ...truth through the night...
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Help give "truth to the night".
    Please do MORE than just wave the flag on July 4th.

  • Decorate your town for 4th of July
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO MAKING CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE SIGNS!!!
    In keeping with the overall push to make DU a community of more than just bloggers, but instead, a group of activist bloggers, I offer up the following step by step guide to making CHEAP, attention grabbing signs for, street/freeway blogging (See: http://www.freewayblogger.com ), rallies/protests, posting at your house, etc.
    JUST IN TIME FOR THE 4th OF July Flag-Wave-Athon. Remind them about the war. The ongoing prisoner abuse and (…)

  • ’Last throes’ or latest quagmire?
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Which is it? Do we need 12 more years in Iraq to defeat the violent insurgency, or is the insurgency in its "last throes"?
    Is this war essential to stop terrorism from invading our shores, or was shaky intelligence "fixed" to justify a pre-planned invasion?
    Our own independence celebration this weekend is an appropriate time to take stock of just where we stand on Iraq, given the duplicity of information and mixed-messages coming from the White House and from our British allies.
    The (…)

  • Perfect 4th of July Dessert- Impeachment Pie
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SANTA CRUZ - David Jackman is not one to complicate his restaurant with indiscriminate kitsch.
    Yes, there’s the 2003 Thanksgiving Day President Bush Action Figure - a beaming plastic Dubya in a flight jacket, presenting a plastic turkey.
    And there’s the caustic collage on one wall of Chocolate, Jackman’s Pacific Avenue bistro, where he showcases favorite satiric images of the president and his administration.
    But all decor - and food - must be made, supervised, or selected by Jackman (…)

  • Bush’s words ring hollow at memorial
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I keep going to the memorials, though my head keeps telling me to stay away. It wipes me out for days. My heart tells me it is the least I can do.
    So I go, take my place next to the families of the soldiers who have died, and grieve alongside them.
    It astounded me the other day, sitting in the chapel at Fort Carson, how the loss of one man’s life simply rips to shreds the lives of so many other people.
    I guess I always knew this. Yet it comes home like a sledgehammer when you sit among (…)

  • No US answer to Iraq Conundrum
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMERICA is facing the possibility of defeat in Iraq. The insurgency is as robust and as lethal as ever. Sectarian violence is on the rise, suggesting that civil war is just around the corner. Every day brings its terrible tale of carnage. There seems to be no safety anywhere and certainly not in Baghdad.
    Iraq under American occupation is slipping into uncontrollable chaos. This is the gloomy backdrop to the visit to Washington today of Iraq’s new president, Jalal Talabani.
    For both (…)

  • America Held Hostage: Say no to Bush’s open ended commitment- Demand a timetable for getting out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A majority of Americans now realize that President Bush deliberately misled the nation to promote a war in Iraq. But Mr. Bush’s speech on Tuesday contained a chilling message: America has been taken hostage by his martial dreams. According to Mr. Bush, the nation now has no choice except to keep fighting the war he wanted to fight.
    Never mind that Iraq posed no threat before we invaded. Now it’s a "central front in the war on terror," Mr. Bush says, quoting Osama bin Laden as an authority. (…)

  • Helen Thomas: Cut our losses in Iraq and get out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — President Bush should cut our losses and pull out of Iraq before more Americans — and Iraqis — are forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.
    If he does, he would be a hero and save lives.
    Instead, his reaction to the present fiasco in Iraq seems to be "full speed ahead."
    The president could gracefully withdraw from Iraq by asking the United Nations to take on a peacekeeping role in Iraq.
    If we were to pull out, as we should, the United States would be required to open its (…)