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MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS
DEMOCRATS:
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g . Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam. Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII. John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts. Charles Rangel: (…)

The October 27 demonstrations represented another important step forward for the anti-war movement in the United States.
Oct 27 SF 2Over 100,000 people took to the streets in coordinated regional and local protests to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq. The October 27 demonstrations took place just six weeks after the September 15 National March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. that was led by Iraq War Veterans and family members of soldiers and marines.
We have included below a (…)

And... it was the CIA whores in the Middle East that gave us "Freedom Fighters," er, al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden...
Wait, wait, don’t tell me - Who are these forces around Osama bin Laden that the U.S. government has accused? Where did they come from? Who trained and organized them?
The answers to these questions lead back to the CIA—back to major crimes, campaigns and global rivalries of U.S. corporations.
Osama bin Laden first appeared on the stage 20 years ago as a major recruiter (…)

Fingerpointing Over Grounded Helicopters
Sunday October 28, 2007 4:01 AM
By AARON C. DAVIS
Associated Press Writer
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - State and federal officials on Saturday blamed each other for allowing nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters to sit idle while deadly wildfires ravaged Southern California, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to improve the state’s response to battling wildfires.
The head of the state’s firefighting agency lashed out at the Marines and (…)

By Felicity ARBUTHNOT
Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists ..... “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13
They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler? Then Saddam Hussein was “the butcher of Bagdad” and, of course the most dangerous man since Hitler - with weapons of mass destruction which could be unleashed on the world “in forty five minutes”.
Colin Powell lied to the U.N., about the danger Iraq posed to the planet; George (…)

Washington, D.C. - As a result of its first investigation of an accident involving an unmanned aircraft (UA), the National Transportation Safety Board today issued a total of 22 safety recommendations to address what NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker said were "a wide range of safety issues involving the civilian use of unmanned aircraft."
October 17th, 2007 10:32 AM PDT NTSB
The safety recommendations approved by the Board stemmed from the April 25, 2006, accident in which a turboprop- (…)

10-25-07
The Call for Christo-Fascism Awareness Week
December 25 -30, 2007
By Dr. June C. Terpstra
"This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." GW Bush
"God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. And now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.”— GW Bush
Onward Christian Soldiers and One Nation Under God
With the close of this week’s campus programs in the USA entitled (…)

By Camillo "Mac" Bica t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 22 October 2007
Recently, at a community forum on the war in Iraq, three individuals who termed themselves collectively as the "Patriots" made the argument that the war in Iraq was, and continues to be, necessary and important to fighting the war on terrorism, creating stability in the Middle East, and perhaps, even to prevent World War Three. Interestingly, none of the three "patriots" were, are, or intend to become (…)

“Canada is spending more public money on its military today than it has since the Second World War, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
According to the study, by Steven Staples, Director of the Rideau Institute and CCPA Research Associate, and Bill Robinson, Senior Advisor with the Rideau Institute, Canada’s military spending will reach $18.24 billion in 2007-08 — an increase of 9 percent over 2006-07 — and will continue to rise to $19.418 billion by (…)

THE SOVEREIGNTY SHAM
By Peter Fredson
October 26, 2007
. The neoconservative NEW ORDER invaded Iraq by using false statements, killing thousands of its inhabitants, taking all the money in its banks, seizing control of all of its oil, destroying large parts of the infrastructure, and turning control of the country over to Far Right Christians and corporate executives to ravage and loot for fun and profit. It has constructed many firebases and forts, a huge expensive embassy, and (…)