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ReviewReviewReviewReview The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:24:00 GMT

clipped by: loulairusa2
clipper's remarks: PRAISE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR.
"Throughout our history' the impetus to using force sometimes has seemed as inevitable as water circling an open drain, but war is not always the best way to defend our security interests. Eugene Jarecki examines the evolution of America's views about war,up through the invasion of Iraq.He knows how to ask the important questions, and he keeps asking until he gets the answers. This is the kind of insightful dialogue that can help ensure that when we act, we act not of fear, but are grounded in confidence in our ideals"
- Senator Patric Leahy -

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The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

Educate yourself; do research and then make up your own mind. Don't let the media brainwash you!

Tags: the corporation, eugene jarecki, why we fight, munick, books

The Forever War Of The Mind

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:13:38 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Wars are not over when the shooting stops. They live on in the lives of those who fight them. That is the curse of the soldier. He never forgets.

War is haunting. Death. Pain. Blood. Dismemberment. A buddy dying in your arms.

After America’s wars, the used-up fighters are too often left to fend for themselves.

This is inexcusable, and it comes with frightening moral costs

In his poem “The Dead Young Soldiers,” Archibald MacLeish, whose younger brother died in World War I, has the soldiers in the poem tell us:“We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.” Until we help our returning soldiers get their lives back when they come home, the promise of restoring that meaning will go unfulfilled.

SURVIVING FORT HOOD

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:00 GMT

clipped by: ellington

Clip Source: homefires.blogs.nytimes.com

Surviving Fort Hood

Just as there is no way to explain the internal agony of war, there is no real way to explain what happens in its shadow. This is the domain of tortured minds that may never heal. This may very well be the legacy of Fort Hood.

Forty years ago I was a Marine returning from the war in Vietnam. I returned having been badly wounded in the chest and both legs. I tried to find solace in my scars but could not. I had abandoned my buddies only to come home to unchartered waters. Soon I found myself more terrified in peace than I was in war.

There is no way to sort through the nightmare that took place at Fort Hood. Soldiers are not supposed to die on their way to war and they most certainly are not supposed to die at the hands of those who care for their health.

Tags: fort, hood

ExxonMobil Wins War For Oil In Iraq!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:28:25 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: Bidding war that is...for oil!

Clip Source: www.dailystar.com.lb

BAGHDAD: An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said, adding momentum to Iraq’s bid to unlock its oil riches. With reserves of 8.7 billion barrels, West Qurna is among the prized Iraqi fields eyed by Western oil majors as they face flat or lower output at home and stiff competition from Chinese and Indian oil companies in bidding for oilfields elsewhere.

“The consortium led by ExxonMobil, which includes Shell, won the contract to develop West Qurna Phase One oilfield,” Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said.

The initial deal was signed in Baghdad on Thursday but needs Cabinet approval before it can be finalized.

The 20-year contract is part of a raft of deals Iraq is close to formalizing in a bid to catapult itself to the world’s third largest oil producer after decades of war and economic decline.

This is a supergiant field

Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:03:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

WASHINGTON - November 6 - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:

"Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?

"The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer's money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.

"People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street.

"Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US.

"The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war.

Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts him on veterans health care

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:40 GMT

clipped by: nosebleedlouie
clipper's remarks: Tom Tancredo is a Big War Advocate But Was a Vietnam War Draft Dodger Due to Claims of Depression
http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/020

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

TOM TANCREDO WALKS OFF OVER DEFERMENT INSULT!

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Why Is It We Have Finite Resources For Health Care But Unlimited Money For War?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:56:32 GMT

clipped by: nosebleedlouie

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Dennis Kucinich "Why Is It We Have Finite Resources For Health Care But Unlimited Money For War?

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vergebens

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:19 GMT

clipped by: amilo79

Clip Source: www.trendmile.de

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Vergebens

IST ES VERGEBENS AN DAS ZU GLAUBEN,DASS MAN DAS GUTE NENNT?
War glücklich gewesen,

hab geliebt,gehofft und vertraut.

War wütend gewesen,

hab geflucht,geschrieen und verziehn.

War verzweifelt gewesen,

hab getrauert, geweint und gehofft.

War stark gewesen,

war schwach- hab Kraft gegeben.

War lustig gewesen,

war betrübt- hab Frohsinn geschenkt.

War gut.
war böse- hab ans Gute geglaubt.
UND NUN SAGE MIR, DASS ALLES SEI VERGEBENS GEWESEN?

Veterans Day Coloring Pages

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:58:39 GMT

clipped by: havefunteaching
clipper's remarks: Free Veteran's Day Coloring Pages for Kids. Teachers, Parents, and Homeschool can use these printable Veterans Day coloring sheets.

Clip Source: www.colormegood.com

Veteran's Day Coloring Pages - Page 1

Veteran Casket with Flag

Veteran War Drummer

USA Symbol Eagle and Stars

Welcome Home Troops

United States of America Flag

Folded American Flag

Veteran Memorial Tribute

For Those Who Served Ribbon

Veteran Grandpa Tells Stories

In Loving Memory of Veterans

Veteran Salute with Flag

War Veteran Grave and Flag

Veteran Tribute to Color

War Rifle with Hat

Soldier with Flag

Veteran Troops in Service

Veteran Soldier Honoring

Troops Carrying Flag in March

Soldier Remembering Friends

Blank Veteran Tombstone

Tags: veterans, war, coloring, color, kids

Keep the government out of the news business

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:00 GMT

clipped by: disenchantedcitizen
clipper's remarks: Turning to Washington for help to save the declining news business says much about the mentality of mainstream journalism leaders, an attitude that we and the government are on the same side. This is the mentality that led to the news establishment’s acceptance of the Iraq War.

Go to the clip to learn what happened to Mother Jones after becoming a tax exempt non-profit after it reported on lobbying in Washington.

Once you allow the government or private corporation to have any controlling link to the media you lose independence. Editors become fearful of criticizing the hand that feeds it. Publishers and benefactors become cozy and unbiased reports become fewer and fewer. Journalism becomes a de facto advertisement for consumer products.

We hope in the future we’ll see more I.F. Stones, more guerrilla warriors on the Web, in print and on the air. Because of them—and not because of a government handout—great reporting will survive, as it always has.

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

As news organizations shed decent salaries, reasonable working conditions and job security, the business is heading toward a day when it will attract only inquisitive, rebellious misfits. From this group will emerge a few who are talented, tough and driven enough to become the I.F. Stones of the 21st century

Izzy Stone was a muckraking liberal anti-Cold War journalist who couldn’t get a job during the McCarthy era and went out on his own with the one-man I.F. Stone’s Weekly.

“I made no claim to inside stuff—obviously a radical reporter in those days had few pipelines into the government,” wrote Stone

I tried to dig the truth out of hearings, official transcripts and government documents, and to be as accurate as possible

In the worst days of the witch hunt and cold war, I felt like a guerilla warrior, swooping down in surprise attack on a stuffy bureaucracy where it least expected independent inquiry

Tags: media

U.N. on Israeli War Crimes

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:19 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: The Goldstone Report now has been approved overwhelmingly by the UN General Assembly.

The report calls for Israel to investigate it's war crime accusations...and for the Palestinians to investiage theirs -- and says the slow starvation of over a million and half people in the Gaza Strip should stop.

Now, it seems it goes to the Security Council.

Which means, if things go as usual, the USA will veto it and it will end there.

The USA has does similar actions at the UN for decades, protecting Israel, no matter what.

The USA House of Congress has even gone on record, this week, opposing this war crimes report.

Israel yesterday seized a ship with weapons and said they come from Iran and this was a war crime...also pointing out that Russia, the USA, China, etc. are all guility of war crimes.

The conclusion appears to be that war is a war crime. Everybody's guilty. And let's just forget it.

...um, except when talking about the Nazi's of WWII or the Bosnian Serbs curre

Clip Source: www.jpost.com

UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report

The UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report, paving the way for the matter to be sent to the Security Council.

A total of 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.

Tags: israel, usa, un, war, crimes

kuschelbär

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:21:33 GMT

clipped by: amilo79

Clip Source: members.aon.at

Ich wollt ich wär dein Kuschelbär,
dann wär ich jede Nacht bei dir.
Würd mit dir,
in deinem Bettchen schlafen
und unter deiner Decke schnarchen.
Und lacht mein kleines Kuschelherz,
wüsstest du es, ist kein Scherz!
Ich bin hier, bei dir-
und bin glücklich,
weil ich dich liebe wie keinen Anderen!

kuschelbär

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:18:32 GMT

clipped by: amilo79

Clip Source: members.aon.at

Kucinich Addresses UN Goldstone Gaza Resolution

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:33:59 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: kucinich.us

Kucinich Addresses UN Goldstone Gaza Resolution

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

November 3, 2009, Congressman Dennis Kucinich addresses H.RES. 867 on the House Floor. H.RES. 867 condemns the UN Goldstone Gaza Fact Finding Mission Report.

"Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist."

"Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian."

Clip Source: kucinich.us

"The resolution before us today, which would reject all attempts of the Goldstone Report to fix responsibility of all parties to war crimes, including both Hamas and Israel, may as well be called the "Down is Up, Night is Day, Wrong is Right: resolution."

'The Axis of Idiots' - note from a Retired Marine

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:58:09 GMT

clipped by: billpar
clipper's remarks: You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.

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'The Axis of Idiots'

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers
in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam.. You're a fake

Tags: politics