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Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Friday, September 28, 2007
War Without End
To all those who continue to think there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats please take a look at who voted to continue funding the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq:
The Senate (note: the only senator who voted no was Russ Feingold)
The House (note: one of only 14 congressional reps who voted no was Dennis Kucinich)
As a final note, of the presidential candidates in the House and Senate, the only two who bothered to vote were Kucinich and Paul.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Who's on First
"When Gen. David Petraeus goes before Congress next week to report on the progress of the surge, he may cite a decline in insurgent attacks in Baghdad as one marker of success. In fact, part of the reason behind the decline is how far the Shiite militias' cleansing of Baghdad has progressed: they've essentially won."—Newsweek, September 10 issue.
Monday, August 6, 2007
No End
No End in Sight
I want to see this movie although it will probably be hard to find a theater that will show it.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Why I'll Vote Kucinich
Good article over at Democratic Underground:
Dennis Kucinich recently did the unthinkable. He went beyond accusations of Bush’s war being a mistake, to expose the real motivations for the war. Of course, it should have been obvious from almost the beginning that Bush’s motivations for war in Iraq were not at all in accordance with professed American ideals. His claims of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein connections with al Qaeda never had any basis in actual evidence; almost immediately after our invasion of Iraq we moved to protect the oil supply while allowing everything else to go to hell; Bush provided no-bid contracts to his cronies, with little oversight, while billions of dollars went missing; and the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report provides numerous recommendations (or maybe ‘demands’ is a better word) on how the Iraqis should handle their oil.
But Kucinich actually says it out loud: The Iraq War was not a “mistake”; the primary motive of the Bush administration for invading Iraq was to provide a cheap source of oil for American oil companies; we are currently trying to force an agreement with Iraq to gain their consent for our “theft” of Iraqi oil; Kucinich calls Bush’s invasion of Iraq what it was – a war crime; and he points out the obvious: How can our current imperialistic stance towards Iraq possibly lead to stabilization of that country or the surrounding area – as we are currently claiming as our primary reason for staying there?
Friday, May 25, 2007
Give It Up 4 George
The caption could read "My husband gave his life for oil profits and all I got was this lousy flag."
Friday, May 11, 2007
The Good American
Scott Ritter takes the glove off.
It’s a shame for these Legionnaires that the Iraqis couldn’t have turned out to be blond, blue-eyed Germans who looked like us, and whose women could be wooed with chocolate and nylon stockings by the noble American liberator and occupier. Or, short of that, passive Japanese, who freely submitted their women to the massage parlors and barracks of their American conquering heroes while their men rebuilt a shattered society. The simplistic approach of many of the American Legion’s most hawkish advocates for the ongoing disaster in Iraq seems to be drawn from a selective memory which seeks to impose a carefully crafted past experience dating back to the last “good war” (i.e., World War II), expunged of all warts and blemishes, onto the current situation in Iraq in a manner which strips away all reality.
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His article explains nicely the thinking behind those who still support Bush and the "war on terror".
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Quote of the Day
"There are people in Washington ... who never intend to withdraw military forces from Iraq and they're looking for 10, 20, 50 years in the future ... the reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region, and I have never heard any of our leaders say that they would commit themselves to the Iraqi people that 10 years from now there will be no military bases of the United States in Iraq."— former President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 3, 2006
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Just Say No
"Just because we volunteered, doesn't mean we volunteered to throw our lives away for nothing. You can only push human beings so far," says Marc Train, a 19-year old soldier from America's heartland. "Soldiers are going to Iraq multiple times. The reasons we're there are obviously lies. We're reaching a breaking point, and I believe you're going to see a lot more resistance inside the military."
Train's a private in the US Army, stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. But the last time anyone saw him on base was March 16, just before he headed to DC to protest the war he is expected to fight.
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Wouldn't it be great if someday they gave a war and nobody came?
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