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POPSIraq Vet Made Famous By Photo, Dies. The war was never over for Joseph Patrick Dwyer. He may have physically come home but forever mentally he would remain in the hell hole that Bush and his band of Neocons had created. With the wars suicide rates (Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths) this war hasn't ended for countless troops who are back home. For many years to come, even if the next President can bring em all home (I'm not talking about McCain-McSame) many will suffer and die on their own turf. In that respect the Iraq war will never end, not for many years to come when there will be no one left on Earth who will remember this criminal war. And that is as sad as the war itself. How many more tears will be shed? thinkingblue.blogspot.com http://www.thethinkingblue.com/iraqvetdies.html
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POPSCanada Refuses Stay to Resisters of an Illegal War
There are many people alive today because Canada gave them refuge from another felonious war so long ago in Vietnam. Now, they are turning their backs to resisters even though they themselves, decided not to fight an illegal war. Hmmm, I wonder why? In a free country, one should have the right to protest an unjust war but we are not a free country. The conscientious objectors have no where to turn.. They can't go back to their own country and Canada won't allow them to stay within their borders. Isn't it ironic that Bush and Cheney have illegally kidnapped and transported people out of different countries to deliver them for torture, abroad and have yet to receive punishment for their criminal actions. Yet a resister to an unlawful preempted war gets the book thrown at him. You must fight, and possibly die even if it is only for a neocon pipedream... Something is so wrong with this picture. I sure hope President Bush enjoyed his game of golf today! :mad:
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POPS"No more Iraq occupation funding." How much longer must this illegal, extortionate war in Iraq go on? There has been so much damage caused by this war ranging from the loss of influence to the United States of America, around the world, to the endless casualties of Iraqi citizens. Totals (Especially from the Pro-war, Pro-neocons) are estimated at 84,050 to 91,713 but these figures, although quite shocking, are not the true estimate. A study in 2006 assesses the loss of life at over 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day (A report, which of course, President Bush does not consider credible.). That would mean, every single family most likely, has suffered a loss in this war. Natural disasters that are inundating the news today, such as in Myanmar, . And China's death toll from last week’s earthquake ... Alarming numbers but still dwarfed by the Iraqi totals.
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POPSBELIEVE YOU HAVE NO SAY...? view this video! This man's "word art" is worth a million tears. Millions of tears have been shed and still there is no end to the Iraq War. If you believe you don't have a say in how the world is run... try telling that to the freewayblogger.
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POPSA Must See Video - Ellsberg vs Kristol I came across this video while viewing my email, today. It is startling and that is putting it mildly. I don't know how William Kristol can go about his daily existence without shame. Many words come to mind when I think about this man... delusional, hallucinatory, mad, psychoneurotic, schizoid,schizophrenic. Whatever disorder best describes him; there is no doubt William Kristol is suffering from some sort of frontal lobe damage. What makes this so alarming and quite tragic, is the fact that he was allowed major input, if not the main collaborator, in one of America's worst disasters, The Iraq War. Only he, could come up with the think-tank PNAC. Go To http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com to View Video
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POPSHas the Iraq war suddenly disappeared? It would seem so if you get your news solely from the mainstream media. Hardly a mention of the 5 American soldiers who were killed in Northern Iraq by a roadside bomb, the other day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_080119205312 The anchors are all whooping it up over the presidential race. When they do get serious, the talk turns to how the economy is taking a dive. Anything to take the American viewer away from the illegal war. But for the ones who are still losing loved ones. It will never vanish for them. And also for those Iraqi unfortunates who haven't the means to escape from the Bush/Neocon created HELLHOLE they call home. It will take at least a 100 years, if ever, for the nightmare to fade. Oh, there are articles of the pain and suffering because of this Illegal-War but you have to hunt for them. In case you're still interested, read this sad tale for starters: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-24-smalltowns_N.htm
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POPSNY Times Report 121 Verterans Linked To Killings This story is unbelievably astounding, to think the chickenhawks ordered up a war, an unnecessary war, sent our young, barely trained, people into it. Then, after much wartime physical and mental weariness, those who are still in one piece come home and take their place back into a society, they now are not familiar with. It's comparable to training dogs to a killing madness and after they've outworn their murderous usefulness, putting them up for adoption by unsuspecting families with children. Most of the time, these depressing events are not tracked, so we as a whole, are unaware of their existence. MORE BELOW:
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POPSLAST EMAIL HOME Another young casualty of the Iraq war. When will it stop? When will sanity return? Never, as long as the Bush/Neocon Whitehouse exists. Casualties in Iraq The Human Cost of Occupation Edited by Margaret Griffis - Contact American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 3900 Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list) 3760 Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3439 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3041 Since Election (1/31/05): 2462 American Wounded Total Wounded: 28711 Official Estimated 23000 - 100000 Latest Fatality Dec. 26, 2007 Page last updated 12/26/07 6:32 pm EDT
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POPSAND THE WINNER IS... IRAQ WAR!! Mark Morford, one of the best satirical journalists weighs in on the BEST OF 07, naming IRAQ, winner of BEST WAR OF 2007. The relentless passing of time, has no effects on this war, each year it enters History's Hall of Shame, without end as long as Bush/Cheney are at the helm. It's so agonizingly painful that Morford's column this time in '08 will read again, Iraq named "War of the Year"! Bloody nation cheers 5th straight title. Bush will be speechlost and VP Dick Cheney, will utter "On behalf of myself and my boss who will both go down in history as two of the most insipid and deleterious world leaders you will ever have the displeasure of miserably recalling all your sad and pathetic days," The many years of this calamitous, tragic war have been augural, each year’s outcome predictable, no crystal ball needed. And no matter how WE THE PEOPLE bang our heads against the wall to end it, all we come up with, is a collective BUMP on our anguished heads. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/
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POPSHEADLINE: U.S. Family, attacked by foreign Mercenaries in AMERICA. After watching the video, just Imagine if this was a US Family, attacked by foreign Mercenaries in our America. Blackwater, is probably just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the secrecy that goes on beyond scrutiny within the neocon Whitehouse. (Cheney quote in Sept 2001 - "The dark side, we'll spend time in the shadows and in the intelligence world... a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies.") I wonder what he meant by that..? Perhaps the wheels turning inside the head of Dick Cheney, gave him visions of TELEPHONE TAPPING OF US CITIZENS, TORTURING THOSE WHO GOT CAUGHT IN HIS WEB OF TYRANNY, BUILDING POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMIES PAID FOR BY WE THE TAX PAYERS AND CHERRY PICKING INTELLIGENCE IN ORDER TO STRIKE PREEMPTIVELY, SOVEREIGN NATIONS WITHOUT THE PESKY QUESTIONS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED BY A CONGRESS IN A FREE SOCIETY. (MORE BELOW)
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POPSAN IRAQ WAR VETERAN, IN HIS OWN WORDS. An Iraq War Veteran, in his own words, tells us what it felt like to fight in an unjust war. To come home and feel shame at what his government ordered him to do. Ashamed of wearing the uniform that stood for imperialism. Then explaining the feeling of wearing this same uniform again and finally, feel pride, at trying to bring about peace instead of war. At long last, to have a sense of his own dignity or value even though, being arrested as a war protester. How pathetic is this, lopsided logic of the neocon gods? When a soldier goes to battle for peace he's considered a nuisance but when forced into combat for an illegal land grab, orchestrated by armchair hucksters of war, he's deemed brave. BHOM!!! :mad:
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POPSTHE ENDLESS SUMMER OF DISTRACTION This is a well written remarkable story of how our military is showing signs of... ("You've got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run." The reference to his hit song, "The Gambler," is not facile. The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war, in its complexities and uncertainties, most resembles a game of cards -- let's say Texas Hold'em in honor of the President's adopted state. Over the last four-plus years, we've shoved hundreds of billions of dollars into the Iraqi pot, suffered sobering losses in killed-in-action/wounded-in-action, yet we're still holding losing cards dealt from a stacked deck. Even so, the Bush administration has recently doubled-down instead of folding, hoping to hit an inside straight despite long odds.) MORE BELOW:
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POPSBODY OF WAR - Phil Donahue's new documentary - This is a powerful film enlisting a "REAL" Soldier's plight to live a normal life after being injured in Iraq. His injuries, that left him paralyzed from the waist down, occurred after only 5 days of arrival in the land the Bush Cabal decided to invade. It's heart wrenching and inspiring. With songs written just for "Body Of War" by Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame). Tomas Young, the young man, the film focuses on (Rush Limbaugh's idea of a FAKE SOLDIER) is so courageous in his battle to maintain his sanity within a broken body. He represents all those who have sacrificed so much for the Neocon's idea of reality, while they (THE PNAC) themselves, forfeited nothing except for power. (which they still do not recognize as lost.) A must see movie for those of us who can see beyond the machismo delusions of war! Please watch the youtube presentation, showing a few scenes leading up to the birth of a magnificent body of work.
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POPSPHONEY LIMBAUGH on PHONEY SOLDIERS - the man is SICK! Rush Limbaugh still getting kid-glove treatment on FOXNews.com (WHAT ELSE IS NEW) Reported by Chrish - September 28, 2007 - As noted this morning, FOXNews.com was not covering the story of Rush Limbaugh's insulting comment, calling some US troops who criticize the Iraq war or call for an end to it "phony soldiers" who show up "out of the blue." Read full background at MediaMatters.org. As of 7pm EDT there are two links to stories on the FOX webpage, but note that although they are titled differently and have seperate links, they are the same AP story and are entitled to shift focus to Democrats: Dems Criticize Limbaugh's Comments and Democrats Criticize Rush Limbaugh's 'Phony Soldiers' Remark. Seeing as this is Friday night, fully expect FOX to ignore all weekend (no special on this one!) and dismiss as old news by Monday, unlike with the MoveOn ad, when there was round-the-clock outrage for two weeks with a weekend special to keep the story alive.
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POPSNow I know why I love that damn Keith O. so much! Good news! There's already one out there on the launchpad who has demonstrated his qualifications. I'm talking about Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. He has the journalistic chops and the mind, heart, instincts and courage. Olbermann, who anchors a one-hour nightly news show on MSNBC called Countdown With Keith Olbermann, closes his show every night by saying "1,547th day since Mission Accomplished in Iraq," an hommage to Ted Koppel's "Iran Hostage" coverage, which evolved into Koppel's late-night ABC news show Nightline (the MSNBC show was originally Countdown: Iraq). Then Olbermann throws his crumpled script at the camera, which shatters, a simulated digital effect (something Koppel never did). More Below:
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POPSTELL CONGRESS TO SIGN THE PLEDGE FOR PEACE. 81 HAVE DONE SO! I have clipmarked similar petitions before but it is so important that we not allow Bush and his henchmen to drag the Iraq war on for the sake of saving face, by handing it off to another in 2009. Please join me in telling Congress they must act now, no more excuses. The life you save WILL be someone's daughter or son. Click this link http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/115 I DID! read below:
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POPSTed Rall is America's BS detector (he's got his hands full) Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a liberal columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist whose political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format. Ted Rall's Work Style Rall is one of a new breed of editorial cartoonists who began in the alternative weeklies during the 1980s and early 1990s with wordy, abstractly drawn strips about politics and social issues. His abstract drawing style reflects a distinct break from the cross-hatched style developed by Jeff MacNelly during the 1960s, a house style that had become virtually synonymous with American editorial cartooning. CLICK THIS LINK http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Rallcartn.png To see a Ted Rall cartoon depicting John Kerry and George W. Bush. Bush is always portrayed as Generalissimo El Busho - a vicious military dictator - in Rall's comics.
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POPSPetraeus Report is Irrelevant But the White House incessantly hypes General Petraeus and his endless military minutia because it distracts our attention from the real issues: failure to achieve the 18 benchmarks of "success." In truth, even the White House apparently doesn't "believe" the Petraeus report. Per Newsweek today: "Newsweek has learned that a separate internal report being prepared by a Pentagon working group will 'differ substantially' from Petraeus’s recommendations, An early version of the report, which is currently being drafted and is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year, will 'recommend a very rapid reduction in American forces: as much as two-thirds of the existing force very quickly, while keeping the remainder there.' " Don't Be Fooled Again Don't be fooled, my friends. Or should I say, fooled again? False promises. Bait-and-switch goals. Bluster and bumbling from the presidential bully pulpit. And always... hiding facts that don't support the agenda.
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POPSDemocrats are lying almost as often as the Republicans, about the Iraq War I know the republican war hawks lie to keep the Iraq war going on... there's big profit in it so they take advantage of that but what is little known is, democrat leaders are lying too. John Edwards on his paid rebuttal message said as much... "IN MAY HE (BUSH) VETOED A PLAN TO END THE WAR, DEMANDED MORE TIME TO SHOW THE SURGE COULD WORK AND "CONGRESS" GAVE IT TO HIM..." Come on democrats remember what Abe Lincoln once said... You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. YOU CAN'T FOOL MOST OF US FOR TOO MUCH LONGER... We're on to you!
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POPSLife in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation Dr. Dahlia Wasfi gives a compelling speech on the Iraq occupation by the USA. She tells us the stark reality of the suffering that is going on inside the borders of Iraq and the lack of compassion by the powers who ordered this imperialist takeover under the guise of democracy. She does not mince words and some of what she speaks of is horrifying. Another must see youtube video.
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POPSawh...You're shittin me... THAT IS WHAT I SAID TO MYSELF WHILE WATCHING THIS MUST SEE FILM of John Pilger speaking about his book, "Freedom Next Time". If you have just a speck of respect for today's journalism, Pilger will knock it right out of you! And he is quite believable. To put it on youtube the user PHubb had to break it down into two parts (it gives you time for an intermission but you will quickly want to get back to your seat in front of the computer to see the 2nd half) click here to see his site: http://www.youtube.com/user/PHubb and watch: Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation Pilger talks about Journalism and Democracy in today's world. The incredible speaker John Pilger will give you (liberal and conservatives) an incite to what is happening in our fragile 2 party system of democracy. The lies and propaganda that is spoon fed to us as truth and the absurdities we on both sides of the political divide are led to believe. (continued on part 2)
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POPSTHE SEPTEMBER TAP DANCE ON IRAQ: September 10th 2007 - Rep. Wexler comments on Gen. Petraeus testimony... "eerily similar to Westmoreland and Vietnam..." Rep. Ackerman asks Petraeus, the BIG question My question is while we wait for this to happen, how much more blood should we invest? If it takes another four years, I'd like to know from each of you your best, realistically optimistic view of where Iraq will be in those four years. And if it is, that we spend during that time another 4,000 American lives, creat another 20,000 plus people maimed for life, spend another 600 billion dollars, see our military further decimated more than it has been already, will...this...be...worth...it?
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POPSHEY DICK, ANYMORE BRILLIANT IDEAS, DICK? Recently, I received this message via my youtube account: "Our family band turned my wife Susan's Protest Sign for Cheney - Hey Dick! Anymore Brilliant Ideas? - into a rock song here is the link http://www.thejkirks.com/music-31.html (cut and paste into browser.) Its straight up rock which I thought some of the folks you know might enjoy and maybe there would be some interest in using the song somehow. What if we had a chance to interrogate Cheney? How would we approach it? What Would Cheney Do? Enjoy. John" I downloaded the song from their site: http://www.thejkirks.com/music-31.html and thought it interesting. I knew I would be able to use it soon and today I came across an article calling for Congress to filibuster and end this dreadful Iraq war. http://www.filibusterforpeace.org/ THE PETITION READS: "We should start now to talk about filibustering for the saving of lives and of our country." John Kerry, 1971 http://www.filibusterforpeace.org/ Number of signers as of 09/10/07:
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POPSKeith Olbermann. BUSH IS PLAYING US Bush's increasingly tenuous hold on reality By Adrian Hamilton One explanation for President Bush's rant against Iran last week, following his extraordinary speech comparing Iraq with Vietnam the week before, is that the pressure is finally getting to him. Presidential history, from Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan by way of FDR, is replete with presidents who on grounds of failing powers shouldn't really have been allowed to go on. Besieged by events, cast down by the opinion polls, isolated by the loss of his closest advisers, it would not be surprising if this particular president was now losing it. http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/2817 Join the Sept. 15 2007 March on Washington DC the next war protest!! http://veteransforpeace.org/ http://www.codepink4peace.org/ http://www.troopsoutnow.org/ http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServe.
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POPSNow Bush says Iraq IS like Vietnam... Bush will say just about ANYTHING to keep his war going, going going. It is so obvious, he wants his despicable war to continue until the end of his incumbency, so he can dump it in someone else's lap and I'm sure he's hoping that someone will be a Democrat. Then perhaps all the blame of this sad, quagmire of a war will not be associated with his name in the history books... That's what HE THINKS!
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POPSFOX NEWS: IRAN! deja vu all over again FOX NEWS (or as Keith Olbermann calls it...FOX NOISE) brings to mind, some of the great quotes from Yogi Berra: "It's like deja vu all over again." OR "I never said most of the things I said." OR "It gets late early out there." OR "Ninety percent of this game is half mental." WITH ONE BIG DIFFERENCE ... YOGI'S malapropism was cute, FOX'S malapropism IS NOT! In fact, Fox's ludicrous misuse of words, is LETHAL! Now, we experience the same vulgar manipulation of facts to help the warmongers get us into a war with Iran... Really, they should make it easy on themselves... just take their clips from the past and dub the word Iran in where Iraq was.
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POPSWHILE THEY ENJOY THEIR VACATION, IRAQ'S SADNESS GOES ON AND ON! Lately, I don't agree with CNN's outspoken Lou Dobbs on many issues, but I certainly support his lament two days ago: "The idea that our president, this Congress take time off when we have men and women dying in Iraq, Afghanistan ... there's something at best unseemly about it.. "With all the issues, serious issues confronting the country, they should be hard at work." ____________________ (Photo taken on August 16, 2007: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Army bugler plays Taps during US Army Specialist Christopher Todd Neiberger's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, 1st battalion, 18th infantry regiment, 2nd brigade combat team, Neiberger, 22, was killed by a roadside bomb August 6 in Baghdad, Iraq. Related Reading U.S. Is Destroying and Conquering Iraq, Not "Winning" the War!! http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/257925.htm FROM THIS SITE: http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/257931.htm?nl=1
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POPSAmerica on the Downward Slope: (Bush taking slaps in the face.) BUSH: "My message to him is, when we catch you playing a non-constructive role, there will be a price to pay." (Later, a National Security Council spokesman had to offer a correction, insisting the threat was aimed only at Iran, not Maliki.) Then, to add insult to injury, just a week after Bush and Karzai met in Washington, Ahmadinejad headed for Kabul with a high-ranking Iranian delegation to pay his respects to the Afghan president "in open defiance of Washington's wishes." Think slap in the face. What made this little regional diplomatic dance all the more curious was the fact that Karzai and Maliki are such weak (and weakening) American-backed leaders -- thinkingblue: Everyday in one form or another there is an item of horrifying news coming out of this Iraq occupation by the US. If that isn't enough for Congress to start thinking and acting upon withdrawal then, I guess, nothing will..
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POPSVietNam War Language Of all the people who should have learned from history's past mistakes, George W Bush and his henchmen should have learned from Vietnam. The misery these warmongers have caused humanity is incomprehensible... I came across this quote... a quote of hope in these unbearable times. “Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
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POPSCheney knew in '94 war with Iraq would be a quagmire. Cheney knew in '94, war with Iraq would be a quagmire. And still he was hell-bent on going to war with Iraq. If this doesn't speak Impeachment of Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney... NOTHING DOES! -- The founding fathers had good reasons for rebelling against Britain’s King George III: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power … (he is) abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments.” That’s why our Constitution created checks and balances. -- Whereas, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired with others to defraud the United States of America by intentionally misleading Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 371; http://www.mass-impeach.org/townhall-impeachment/wendell/
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POPSThis terrorist act compared to none other. terrorism n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. By this definition the U.S. was guilty of terrorism some 62 years ago.
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POPShaji haji haji A GLIMPSE INTO HELL! What if you spoke regularly of "haji food," "haji music" and "haji homes"? HAJI: (MEANING) One who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca. An article has been written about the macabre, psychotic perspective the people of Iraq and our soldiers are witnessing as the war goes on and on. The whitewashing by the mainstream media makes one believe IT'S NOT SO BAD AS WAR GOES... But as war goes, it is a horrendous nightmare never to be forgotten. I hope Bush and his Neocon cronies will read this report but I know they WILL NOT! Better to delude oneself when a gargantuan mistake such as this war is made. I am sure they, the culprits who created this hellhole must be using all means possible such as, deluding, deceiving and bamboozling themselves (they can no longer do that to us) to save their sanity. Unfortunately our guys on the Iraqi soil and those who were born there have no such means.
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POPSFOX NEWS IS FAIR AND BALANCED... HUH? The Fox News or better yet Fox Noise (as Keith Olbermann calls it) is and always has been a joke to me. I use to watch it during the early lead up days to Bush's illegal war against Iraq. Until one day they attempted to demonize Saddam Hussein one step further than they already had with their constant pummeling of HE KILLED HIS OWN PEOPLE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1779.htm SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD WMD'S POINTED AT AMERICA and of course, when no weapons were found they bludgeoned their viewers with IT WAS AMERICA'S JOB TO LIBERATE IRAQIS FROM A BRUTAL RULER. But that day when I tuned in (for the last time) and saw a pathetic little dog staggering against a wall and the voiceover said SADDAM HUSSEIN CONDUCTED POISON GAS TESTS ON DOGS... I spoke the word I use frequently when I'm in a state of extreme perplexity... HUH? Let's see now, who was this bit of propaganda directed at? Oh, I know it was for those who don't become alarmed at human beings becoming collateral damage
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POPSA tangled web we weave, when practice to deceive! How sad is this... Our mainstream news would probably spin this like a benevolent story of HELP for the families who are struggling to become American citizens in this wonderful land of opportunity and advantages for the few. But the truth of the matter is... THEY NEED MORE BOOTS TO CONTINUE THIS OUTRAGEOUS WAR IN THE HOPE TO SAVE FACE!! It's hard to believe, all the efforts to continue sending troops to Iraq are only to help this president's place in history because of a war that never should have been waged. A war of lies, no matter the spin, it seems this is the only truth. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott Once again, how sad. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSJust who are the nuts amongst us? Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are considered odd and strange by their parties. When I listen to either of them, I think... IF THESE GUYS ARE :"STRANGE" or "NUTS" ... WHAT THE HELL IS NORMAL???
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POPSSUNDAY MORNING TEARS. I listened to this npr radio broadcast of 3 mothers who had lost sons in Iraq. As a mother myself, my empathy for these women and their loss was intense... I read and hear of the numbers dead each day but the impact is minimal, a quick tear and a feeling of helplessness is scarcely the grip I get when something is so redundant. Until you hear from the actual true sufferers of this war, THE MOTHERS, THE FAMILIES, you can't imagine the cost these people actualize. Please listen to their stories of pain. Especially, Elaine Johnson, one brave mother who dared to call Bush on his lack of knowledge and sensitivity about waging this disgusting collide with reality. Be prepared to undergo the painful tears of sorrow and grief in identification to those unfortunates caught up in a game of chess by the neoconservative think-tanker's who have only power and approval to lose. Please click http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10572647
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POPSTurkey warned Not to invade Iraq ...HUH? We know Iraq is a powder keg but did we know just how much. Bush keeps muttering the word WIN... I can't imagine what the hell he hopes to win... is it OIL, PRESTIGE, POWER or all of the above? Now Turkey is getting effected by the Iraq lawlessness this war has caused. Regional warfare was the cautionary counsel put to the Bush/Neocons about a preemptive war in Iraq which, of course, they turned a deaf ear to... Well, it looks as though we are looking at far more than a Bush WIN in Iraq. While Bush has his wet dreams of becoming the planet's most beloved leader, we just might be looking down the barrel of some indisputable WMD's that are not hidden away in some Bush/Neocon pipedream.
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POPSThe news media tries to manipulate our thinking and succeeds. This is unfortunately the truth. The media has different rules on how they present progressives running for office and conservatives running for what they consider their office. I am so tired of watching these so called news outlets MSNBC, CNN and the other local stations CBS, NBC, ABC, that I resort to Jon Stewart, Colbert and Bill Maher's HBO Real Time (which incidentally has taken an hiatus for about 6 months) for some truth and a bit of well needed laughter. Thank goodness, I can turn to Link TV and Democracy Now... http://www.democracynow.org/ Once in awhile to know what really is going on in the world (although, quite depressing at times)... Without that little reality shot-in-the-brain I would be totally in the dark or worse BRAINWASHED with a permanent pair of rose colored glasses stuck to my face. EXAMPLE OF DEMOCRACY NOW HEADLINES FOR JUNE 1, 2007 - Kidnapped BBC Reporter Appears in New Video - U.S. Embassy in Iraq Plans Posted Online - Sadr Rejects Talks With U.S. - Cl
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