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POPSChina Admits Taking, burying U.S. POW Army Sgt Richard G. Desaufels, of Shoreham, Vt was taken prisoner by Chinese and held until his reported death. Only now are the Chinese admitting not all American POWs were released.
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POPSThe Gitmo Defeat And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation. UPDATE: The 5-4 GITMO decision brings to the front, yet again, John McCain's position on judges versus his own policies. McCain undoubtedly supports the 5-4 decision, yet the justices who voted against it, and argued strenuously against it, are of the kind McCain claims to want on the bench. We have seen the same issue arise respecting campaign finance. This is not to say that McCain won't nominate originalists to the bench. But if he does, he will be nominating to the Court individuals who are better adherents to the Constitution than he is.
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POPSFor His Treatment of Children in the 'War on Terror,' Bush is a War Treaties don't mean much to this president, to the vice president, or to the rest of the administration, but they should mean something to the rest of us. According to the US government's own figures, that is how many kids 17 years and younger have been held since 2001 as "enemy combatants"--often for over a year, and sometimes for over five years. At least eight of those children, some reportedly as young as 10, were held at Guantanamo. They even had a special camp for them there: Camp Iguana. One of those kids committed suicide at the age of 21, after spending five years in confinement at Guantanamo. (Ironically and tragically, that particular victim of the president's criminal policy, had been determined by the Pentagon to have been innocent only two weeks before he took his own life, but nobody bothered to tell him he was slated for release and a return home to Afghanistan.)
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POPSWhen will they ever Learn, when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn
Previously, I've offered the Bush gang some undeserved advice. It was simple and even more obvious with time. Whatever instinct they have to do something, then don't. Do the opposite or do nothing. Everything they touch turns to dust. Just a few: Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, waterboarding, rendition, POWs, Dollar, Oil, Economy, Hamas, Gaza, West Bank, Katrina, civil rights, prisons, racism, FEAR. Only one state has prospered and at the US expense. It's economy roars ahead based on false security and terrorism. Iraq's government partly rules Baghdad's Green Zone. Now Lebanon's government may in time rule a Beirut Green Zone. Only Israel benefits. Bush ignored the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza. Then the US provoked a Hamas military takeover. Why? So Israel could practice judicial assassination and Hamas wouldn't talk peace? Never. And when Hamas through Carter offered the peace to the Zionists? The lamest excuse ever?
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POPSand China is Worse than this? What a perversion of justice. And all for ONE trial with a 9 month sentence so far. Out of nearly 700 POWs there may be only 80 cases after all the torture that they will even bring to their kangaroo court show trail. What a system. What an advert for American 'democracy'. Were the Nazis as unjust as this never mind China. I know one thing for absolute certainty; one country is moving forward while the other is racing backwards. Most countries make at least a pretence at dispensing justice to its foes while Bush appears to intend to deliberately offend normal basic standards and to goad even more terrorism to justify his misnomer 'War on Terror'.
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POPSMaiming in your Name: "the sovereign" Bush In a 2003 memo released yesterday, the US justice department extended the sweeping wartime powers claimed by Bush to military interrogators, giving them freedom from criminal laws when questioning al-Qaida suspects. The 81-page brief was released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which fought the administration in court to secure the release of documents. ...Guardian
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POPSLibrary of Congress POWs in Europe Site As part of an effort to digitize over 25 collections relating to veterans experiences in war and personal memorabilia of vets LOC has striven to make these valuable photos, first-hand accounts available on one of their many subsites. Sibling sites are also available for wars after 1945 including Korea, Persian Gulf et al.
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POPSPOWS Memorobilia -- 8th American AF, B17 Bomber Group Great website with meticulous info dedicated to preserving and honoring the history of the 303rd Bombardment Group (H)'s contribution to World War II. They were stationed in Molesworth, England from 1942 until VE Day 1945. Contrary to the movie Memphis Belle it was the Hells Angels ie. 303rdbg that first flew 25 missions in the Euro Campaign
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POPSPOW Eupherma--Photosnaps, medals , POW artwork Plenty of POW info relating to the The 303rd BG was an Eighth Air Force, B-17 Bomber Group stationed in Molesworth, England. Their motto "Might in Flight". Some of the airmen found themselves POWs in Nazi Germany .Comprehensive well preserved primary docs --Photosnaps, Medals, artwork, journals, id cards and forged papers for escape are found on this terrific site.
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POPSMap of Stalags (Nazi prison camps) of Europe Highlights the locations of the camps (Stalags) mainly in Germany. Some conditions were worse than others depending on overcrowding, the level of escapes tried, even the zeal of the commandant and the guards.
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POPSBerga : a Living Nightmare for Jewish/Jewish Looking American Soldiers Berga was a sub prison that in reality functioned as a slave labor camp set up by the Nazis that was situated in the German state of Thuringia. Jewish American GIs or even GIs looking Jewish to the Nazi command captured from the Battle of the Bulge Campaign in the winter of 1944-45 were singled out from the prison camp Stalag IX-B (Bad Orb) and were moved to Berga. Only 50% Of the 350 American GI inmates survived to see.VE Day due to malnutrition, hard labor, cold & beatings. .
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POPSJohn McCain's Real Story Breaking--Traitor John McCain provided info to the enemy which directly led to the deaths of others, which he gave the North Vietnamese to obtain his medical treatment as a POW. Much more here, including how a book might be immortalizing his true legacy.
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POPSVeterans Against the War Testimony 1971 & 2008 "Over the border they send us to kill and to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten." These lines of Paul Simon's recall to Vietnam veterans the causes for which we went to fight in Vietnam and the outrages we were part of because the men who sent us had long ago forgotten the meaning of the words. Tom Paine wrote, "Those are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." The vets will testify in panels arranged by the combat units in which they fought so that it will be easy to see the policy of each division and thus the larger policy. Each day there will be a special panel during the hours of testimony. Today, a panel on weaponry will explain the use and effects of some of the vicious and illegal weapons used in Vietnam. Tomorrow there will be a panel on prisoners of war composed of returned POWs, parents o
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POPSChinese to assist USA on Korean POWs "The deal is expected to be publicly announced on Friday after final talks to work out details, the Pentagon said." Declassified US Army records from the 1950s show that the US knew of and were tracking hundreds of American POWs in China during the Korean War. Between 1996 and 2005, the US conducted DNA and forensics analysis to identify the remains of many of the missing soldiers excavated from various sites in North Korea. But in May 2005 the Pentagon suspended that co-operative effort, saying the North Koreans had created an unsafe environment for US search teams. ...Al-Jazeera
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POPS Heroism.....Character.....Patriotism...........0 for 3
Then, ten years after his ugly divorce, McCain was fingered as one of the Keating Five—a group of five Senators investigated on ethics charges. McCain was never indicted, an investigation revealed that his Congressional and Senate campaigns had been financed in part by donations from Keating. The federal bail out of Lincoln cost taxpayers $2.6 billion. Patriotism “Why not say to those undocumented workers who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, 'come out from the shadows.'” Amazing—three lies in one sentence: “undocumented workers,” “jobs that the rest of us refuse,” and “come out of the shadows.” And another McCain lie: “In poll after poll after poll, Americans support earned citizenship and a comprehensive solution” Immigration Foreshadows 2008 GOP Contest, by Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, May 25, 2006 http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/060526_mccain.htm Joe Guzzardi Major Mark Smith US Army (retired) Zippos Corner - Why I can not support John M
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POPSJohn McCain, Weak On Defense The McCain approach would require a nation at war to allocate massive resources to processing the enemy through the court system. Interrogating the enemy McCain seized on endless reports in the New York Times about Abu Ghraib and the mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo to push an amendment he attached to the Defense-appropriations bill conferring Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights on al Qaeda terrorists detained in Cuba. Ultimately, judges will be called upon to make what should be presidential war-making decisions. Having already challenged the detention and interrogation of the enemy, McCain said that he doesn't believe the president has the constitutional authority to intercept al Qaeda communications with possible saboteurs in the U.S. unless that authority is granted by Congress. Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt didn't seek congressional authority to secure intelligence because they had the power under the Constitution.
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POPSWaterboarding Demo in Congress !? To Prove not Torture!? "In the war crimes tribunals that followed Japan's defeat in World War II, the issue of waterboarding was sometimes raised. In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. "'All of these trials elicited compelling descriptions of water torture from its victims, and resulted in severe punishment for its perpetrators,' writes Evan Wallach in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law." Begs the question. How could he be charged in WW2 with the WAR CRIME of waterboarding? The recipient was a civilian seemed to be the point? Well so are the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. If there were POWs then it would NOT be a WAR CRIME but as Bush says they are not POWs then it is a WAR CRIME.
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POPSWaterboarding used by other groups as torture taint USA So -- the Spanish Inquisition, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the WWII Japanees soldiers, all used waterboarding torture and now the U.S. Military under orders of George W. Bush and Dick Chaney -- good company we in the U.S. are keeping aren't we.
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POPSMaking fun of American POWs I guess liberals consider it 'chic' to make fun of American POWs. It's simply tasteless but is very revealing at the same time.
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POPS"US Kangaroo Courts won't Jump" No show, show trails (commission) I'm sure George will get some advise on how to do real SHOW TRAILS on his foreign trip. Maybe some help from Australia on Kangaroo Courts! Is there nothing that he can get right? Every instinct he has is, WRONG. Choice, George? The opposite must be correct! Are you the proof that god does not exist? Or else you are the devil! You should be charged with bring the previous good name of America in disrepute! The worst? The rest are angels in comparison. Any anti-termism deterrent value there may have been in breaking International Laws in Guantanamo Bay is now LOST FOREVER. These POWs have done more damage to America in Guantanamo than ever they could have done free! Is of course is only true if you have any value for your reputation! Well?
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