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"Our soldiers are sitting ducks in a shooting gallery.
If we really cared about them, we would bring them home."
Dennis Kucinich
mp3 of floor speech
Is anyone really going to disagree with that? I think it rings true, if we really cared about our young men and women, then we would bring them home.
Bring the Troops Home: Impeach
Our young men and women were sent to Iraq on lies, yet now we must stay.... just another lie- yet it’s accepted as truth because the Democratic Leadership (…)

Now in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I stand alone,beweeping deserved fate. God in his heaven shuns my clueless cries, I look upon myself and see a sorry state. The public views me now as one pathetic dope lost,whithout a whim, and with friends distressed. Desiring a devout nod from Neoconers yet with hope, those failed pretenders who were always second guessed. Yes, in these thoughts, the voters are despising, sadly I think of me....it is too late. like foul stenched pond scum rising (…)

SHADOW INAUGURATION As his critics dismiss it as an act of a loser’s desperation, Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador declares himself president ’Parallel’ government begins
By MARION LLOYD
The left struggles in Mexico,Parallel government launched in Mexico Protesters clash with police in Oaxaca ,Leftists rally in Mexico City, Oaxaca
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s nearly five-month-old political standoff took a surreal twist Monday when the losing presidential candidate was "sworn in" before tens (…)

by JULIE WATSON
The Mexican government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blamed "the highest command levels" of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The report ends a five-year investigation by a special prosecutor named by President Vicente Fox to shed light on past crimes, including a 1968 student massacre and the disappearance of hundreds of leftist activists (…)

U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR: PROMOTING FREEDOM OR FUELING CONFLICT? U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since September 11
A World Policy Institute Special Report by Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, with Leslie Heffel June 2005
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/wawjune2005.html#execsum
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush’s pledge to "end tyranny in our world" than the United States’ role as the world’s leading arms exporting (…)

by Jason Miller
[I dedicate this essay to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman’s creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual.]
We have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the earth’s resources, the land and its riches and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These (…)

George W. Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 650,000 Iraqis
and 2,800 American GIs and counting. Jr. was protected in Indonesia by more than 18,000 troops upon his visit to that country hours ago.
OJ Simpson was acquited of killing two people and yet his new book and television special, "If I Did It," were canceled by News Corp.

by Daniel Patrick Welch
Giddy as Mikado schoolgirls, Democrats and their allies on the left are positively gushing over their election gains of November 7. In the US’ two-party duopoly, voters are restricted to shifting power from one side to the other to voice their dissatisfaction with government. And, to be fair, voters did their part, kicking out congressmen, senators and governors from coast to coast.
But hopes that this shift will lead to real changes in policy are, as Cosmo (…)

To support Bellaciao sign here
by Matt Norman Victoria, Australia
Dear Roberto,
I have read with much disgust the plight who have yourself in, with regard to comments made by you or your webpage relating to “Shipyards of St Nazaire”
I would like you to keep me fully informed of what your government or judicial system does to you about this matter. I will bring the full force of public opinion onto the French Government and Justice system if you are not able to speak your mind and (…)

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the (…)