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McCain's hero aura inoculates him against critics

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:02:33 GMT

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WASHINGTON (AP) — How dare you say that about John McCain, war hero?

That, in so many words, is the line of counterattack coming from Republicans who only four years ago dismissed the war service of another decorated Vietnam veteran with his own story of bravery.

Think McCain owns too many houses to relate to the common American? Not fair — he lived in a North Vietnam cell for 5½ years. How dare you?

Question his temperament or his temper? Look what he's lived through.

Yet McCain stands accused of lapses of judgment, moral failings and selfishness. He's been called "dishonest" and a "coward" for putting political expedience ahead of principle in the 2000 campaign, during the debate over the Confederate flag. And it's been said that Hanoi really didn't change the kind of person he was.

It Was Oil, All Along

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:29:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil.

Alan Greenspan said so last fall. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." He elaborated in an interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, "If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands, our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first Gulf War."

What would Martin Luther King say about the war in Iraq?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:56 GMT

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This excerpt from one of King's best anti-war speeches is a fierce condemnation of the kind of war we're waging in Iraq right now:

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King was assasinated exactly one year after he delivered this message of peace. The fact that his message describes our current crisis so perfectly is a testament to the prescience of his vision and a dark reminder of how little progress we've made as a nation. Will you answer his call?

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.

Green Berets Recount Deadly Taliban Ambush

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:26:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

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Ambush In Afghanistan

U.S. Army Special Forces say they were shocked by military tactics used by Taliban fighters who ambushed them near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in their first account of the unreported battle. Lara Logan reports. | Share/Embed

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(CBS) With all the focus on the war in Iraq, we don't

(CBS) With all the focus on the war in Iraq, we don't hear much about the war in Afghanistan any more, even though the U.S. is fighting the Taliban nearly seven years after they seemed to be defeated.

Not since "Black Hawk Down" in Somalia have we heard a story of a small band of elite American soldiers who were so badly outnumbered and fighting for their li

sacifice for the war

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:54:55 GMT

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Images That Changed The World

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:51:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some people might be offended or upset by these images

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Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]

The lynching of young blacks [1930]

Soweto Uprising [1976]

Hazel Bryant [1957]

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]

Phan Thị Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war. The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

Kent State [1970]

Tiananmen Square [1989]

Thích Quảng Đức [1963]

Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]

Albert Einstein [1951]

Nagasaki [1945]

Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]

Dead on the Beach [1943]

Buchenwald [1945]

Anne Frank [1941]

V-J Day, Times Square, [1945]

Casualties of war [1991]

The Falling Man [2001]

U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]

Here's a rare image by the same photographer showing the workers sleeping on the crossbeam.

Migrant Mother [1936]

Omayra Sánchez [1985]

A vulture watches a starving child [1993]

Biafra [1969]

Misery in Darfur [2004]

Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995]

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Johnny Got His Gun

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:07:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.texaschapbookpress.com

People have been writing anti-war books for quite a while, a couple of thousand years, give or take a few centuries. Have they done any good? It's hard to see how, given the 200 million war dead we racked up in the 20th century.

As the American war in Vietnam escalated, so did awareness of Johnny Got His Gun.

Still, if every mother could somehow get every teenage son to read Johnny Got His Gun

Trumbo's premise is devastatingly simple: For 300 pages he puts you inside the head of a World War I veteran. We share Johnny's*** memories of life before the war. With him, we recall how he was swept up in the tide of patriotic fervor as war came closer and closer. He was sure that if his country would just give him a gun along with a bit of training, he could cross the ocean and find glory as he defeated the enemy.

Is war worth it?

Tags: war, suffering

Army desertion up 80 percent since Iraq war

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:21:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

WASHINGTON - Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.

While the totals are still far lower than they were during the Vietnam War, when the draft was in effect, they show a steady increase over the past four years and a 42 percent jump since last year.

“We’re asking a lot of soldiers these days,” said Roy Wallace, director of plans and resources for Army personnel. “They’re humans. They have all sorts of issues back home and other places like that. So, I’m sure it has to do with the stress of being a soldier.”

Tags: war, oil, bush, cheney, halliburton, criminal, immoral

war

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:45:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: War...what is it good for?
Halliburton, Shell, Exxon, fill in the sociopathic corporate pig ______

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Tags: war

1 war thats going well

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:41:50 GMT

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surge “has not worked out as we had hoped”

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:37:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

General Petraeus will be testifying to Congress Monday. Tell your Congressman to ask him about this:

General David Petraeus, the commander of United States forces in Iraq, admitted on Friday that sending 30 000 more troops into the war zone in January had failed to yield the desired results. “It has not worked out as we had hoped,” the general said.[..]

“Many of us had hoped this summer would be a time of tangible political progress at the national level,” Petraeus wrote. “All participants, Iraqi and coalition alike, are dissatisfied by the halting progress on major legislative initiatives,” he wrote.

Though he seems to be saying something different to the press:[..]

“Based on the progress our forces are achieving, I expect to be able to recommend that some of our forces will be redeployed without replacement,” he told the Boston Globe by email on Friday…. “Few of these political solutions would have been possible without the improved security provided by coalition and Iraqi forces.”

Tags: surge, war, gop

Progress?

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:48:37 GMT

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more war mongering from the nazis...republicans

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:49:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Wow! The Jews were portrayed as cochroaches by the German Nazi movement. They don’t even change the insect for propaganda. Somebody has a copy of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.

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“We must kill the Tutsi cockroaches” - Hutu Power Radio.

Or… does anyone rememberanymore?

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What do you expect from Ramirez. His cartoons have been on the same comic level as the “1/2 Hour News Hour” for some time.

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Couldn’t stand him when he drew this type of junk for the L.A. Times. I see he has gotten even more demented. Too much kool-aid for this sickie

Tags: war, hate, death. destruction

American Taxpayers Rise UP!

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:43:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A good read on the ins and outs of war profiteering. Americans, look around your community and think how your tax dollars could have been spent.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government services and for-profit enterprises have been blurred to the point of absurdity -- to the point where wounded soldiers have to pay retail prices for fresh underwear, where modern-day chattel are imported from the Third World at slave wages to peel the potatoes we once assigned to grunts in KP, where private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.

Tags: war profiteers, iraq

give war a chance...surge...surge...surge

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:37:42 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalhumor.about.com

Tags: war, death, destruction, imperialism

Clipmarks | lifecyce1898's 'war' clips

McCain's hero aura inoculates him against critics

It Was Oil, All Along

What would Martin Luther King say about the war in Iraq?

Green Berets Recount Deadly Taliban Ambush

Ambush In Afghanistan

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Army desertion up 80 percent since Iraq war

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Progress?

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American Taxpayers Rise UP!

give war a chance...surge...surge...surge