Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 238

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   RubDMC on February 5, 2006 at 1:52 pm

   

   Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.

   ” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
   from Dirge Without Music
   by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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   ask on February 5, 2006 at 2:04 pm

   
   Rebel attacks kill nine in Iraq

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   shermanesqe on February 5, 2006 at 2:13 pm

   

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   jimstaro on February 5, 2006 at 2:17 pm

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
   and For The Children – Innocence Lost!

   “I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: `Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: `Our country–when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'”
   Schurz, “The Policy of Imperialism,” Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119-20 (1913).
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   The CIA Leak: Plame Was Still Covert

   CIA “Was Making Specific Efforts To Conceal” Plame’s Covert Status When Outed…
   “But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done “covert work overseas” on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA “was making specific efforts to conceal” her identity,”

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   Powell’s Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a ‘Hoax on the American People’ on PBS Program ‘NOW’
   Friday February 3, 12:19 pm ET

   BE SURE TO READ THIS COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT:

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   “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ” : Ayn Rand in “The Nature of Government”
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   “We had no notions of being heroes … we missed normalcy”:

   Sergeant and sophomore Fonda Fan describes her year in Iraq

   Fonda Fan, a sophomore English major at UC Berkeley, returned in November from a year in Iraq. Now 20, Sergeant Fan joined the Army Reserves at 17, just after finishing high school in Los Angeles. In October 2004, after her freshman year at Berkeley, she was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her unit was stationed in Tikrit, in central northern Iraq. She began her “in country” tour with three other women in the unit, but before long, two were transferred elsewhere. Since her service contract does not end until 2008, she expects to be called up again.

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   Veterans and Survivors of Katrina

   From Mobile to New Orleans March 14-19, 2006

   March 19, 2006 is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Veterans for Peace is organizing this five-day march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, instead of the illegal occupation of Iraq.

   Support Americans in Iraq and the Gulf Coast–bring them home NOW!

   {By the way, if you can’t make this Visit the Link and Send a Couple of Duckets if you got them as we All progress backwards in Finances, it would be Greatly Appreciated!!}

   Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!
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   The new Afghanistan is a myth. It’s time to go and get a job abroad

   As British troops prepare to tackle the Taliban’s remnants, hundreds of thousands of jobless Afghan refugees who returned home to start a new life are queueing up to leave again

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   “The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” — Thomas Jefferson
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   Rep. John Murtha
   Is the World Safer Today?

   The President continues to use labels and rhetoric to define his national defense policy, but it simply isn’t working. In his State of the Union Address, the President defended his position to both the American public and the world by saying “we will continue to lead” but this does little to repair the damage done by the President’s failed policies.
   We must insist that this Administration provide the facts behind its labels.

   I am sharing with you this letter that I sent to the President this morning articulating exactly this:
   Wednesday February 1, 2006
   The Honorable George W. Bush
   President of the United States of America
   1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
   Washington DC 20500

   Dear Mr. President,

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   Granny D’s Speech in DC Today {2-04-06} at World Can’t Wait Rally

   Good morning, dear fellow Americans!
   Soon, we will all march to the White House, to give physical witness to our concern that America’s values lay in tatters as a result of Mr. Bush’s sociopathic behavior. I am here this morning to tell the Members of Congress that, although we march to the White House now, our hopes and hearts and expectations look backward down this street to Congress.
   Every Member of Congress has taken an oath of office to uphold the Constitution.

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   “Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!”

   “If Everyone In This Country Lost A Brother/Sister, A Son/Daughter Or Grandson/Grandaughter, Things Would Be Very Different”

   Vietnam War History 101:
   “The Only Glory In War, Is In The Imagination Of Those Who Were Never There”

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   DuctapeFatwa on February 5, 2006 at 2:24 pm

   Two-thirds majority backs joint military action to thwart Iran’s nuclear program, new Zogby Interactive poll shows

   As President Bush reaffirms his intention to thwart Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a wide majority of Americans favor military action together with allies to prevent Iran from realizing those efforts, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows…

   The comprehensive new Zogby poll shows that 64% of respondents favor joint U.S.-European military intervention to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and 63% favor joint military action with the United Nation to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Another 47% would support unilateral military action by the U.S. against Iran…

   nerdified link

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   dada on February 5, 2006 at 2:38 pm

   
   Peace

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     dada on February 5, 2006 at 2:40 pm

     wrong link, although, not inappropriate

     
     Peace

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   supersoling on February 5, 2006 at 2:57 pm

   
   With sorrow and confusion I count myself among the one third of Americans who don’t support an attack on Iran. What madness.

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   CabinGirl on February 5, 2006 at 3:27 pm

   

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   Oui on February 5, 2006 at 4:04 pm

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   Sunni Chiefs Raise Warnings of Civil War

   BAGHDAD, Iraq Feb 5, 2006 (AP)– Sunni politicians warned of civil war after the bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men were found in Baghdad apparently the latest victims of sectarian death squads.

   Sunni leaders claimed the 14 men were seized last week by Shiite-led security forces. There was no confirmation from the Shiite-led Interior Ministry that government troops were responsible.

   A top ministry official, Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, said the bodies were shot multiple times and dumped in the back of a truck in northern Baghdad. He denounced the killings as a “criminal” act and said “we have nothing so far” to indicate government forces were to blame.

   Leaders of several major Sunni Arab political organizations insisted the Interior Ministry was responsible for the killings.

   Khalaf al-Ilyan, head of the National Dialogue Council, said the men were arrested by Interior Ministry troops at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad and killed in an unknown location.

   “The government is pushing hard toward a civil war,” al-Ilyan told reporters.

   Need Hop To It! BooTrib Action and Event Center to bash some sense in the heads of voters for Midterm Election coming November.

   Dems’ Template for Success: Follow Jack Murtha …  

   

   LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis

   “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
   For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

   ▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

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    Man Eegee on February 5, 2006 at 4:08 pm

    

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    Damnit Janet on February 5, 2006 at 4:51 pm

    If they took all the athletes from America and sent them off to war… then the assholes would be raising hell about war.

    We have Seahawks and Steelers making how much for this fucking game???  While soldiers and Marines are having their paychecks withheld due to DoD errors.

    Apathy and American Lack of Priorities = what’s killing America.

    The stanley cups playoffs… same thing. My country has detention camps and concentration camps and torture camps…. and they count on us not to care.

    (((Rub))) looking at these photos isn’t hard anymore. It’s looking at our neighbors and wodneirng why they don’t care that is becoming intolerable.

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      alohaleezy on February 6, 2006 at 10:03 am

      Wondering the same thing but then again that’s why we “fight them over there”. Not so we don’t have to FIGHT them here but this way it’s out of eyesight and the sheeple don’t care because it does not directly effet their daily lives.

      Alot folks keep asking why there are not millions out in the streets like the Vietnam War protests. It is because there is no draft. If they push Iran there will have to be a draft. Watch the attitudes to change rapidly at that point.

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    Damnit Janet on February 5, 2006 at 7:06 pm