http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antiwar/ en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:02:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414772/posts George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And like Roosevelt's, Bush's changes were perversions of the clear vision the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. What did freedom mean in the era of George Bush? In Iraq in September 2004, the U.S. military constructed Camp Liberty, a tent compound to house Iraqi detainees next to the Abu Ghraib prison. (The torture scandal and photos had been revealed in late April.) Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller declared that Camp Liberty... Campaign for Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414772/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408994/posts President Obama’s announcement regarding U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan – after three months of indecision – brought partisan hypocrisy into sharp focus. He owed his election to a cult of personality and the promise of change, but his aura lost much of its luster as the country found itself still mired in economic crisis and embroiled in two wars after his first year in office. Polls show that the independent voters who were essential to his victory are not likely to support him again because the reality did not reinforce the promise. The same introspection cannot be found among his... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408994/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:38:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406400/posts Hundreds of protesters have gathered near the White House to try and start a new anti-war movement. Saturday's demonstration closely follows President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, in which he said war is sometimes needed to establish lasting peace. Demonstrators in Washington opposed this view, as well as the president's request for 30,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan. "Make it personal, make it personal, because killing is personal. It's immoral. It's personal," chanted protesters. Former Democratic Alaska Senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel led protesters in anti-war chants, while calling for a mass movement to help end U.S. wars... Voice Of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406400/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399698/posts Also statements by Hans Blix and David Kay about Iraq WMD's (Liberals aren't very smart. They need to be reminded again and again and again)..... Tremoglie's Tea Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399698/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:33:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381227/posts Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world. "We recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in black face," civil rights activist Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back coalition which arranged... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381227/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:57:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380319/posts Islamic jihadists routinely characterize anti-terror efforts as part of a "war on Islam." But of course, there is no war on terror, and there is no war on Islam. There is just the Islamic jihad against the U.S. and the West. "Hasan Called War on Terror 'War Against Islam,' Classmate Says," by Justin Blum for Bloomberg, November 6: Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as "a war against Islam," according to a... jihadwatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380319/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:40:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379404/posts ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379404/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:18:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356221/posts Kabul, Afghanistan - When Medea Benjamin stood up in a Kabul meeting hall this weekend to ask Masooda Jalal if she would prefer more international troops or more development funds, the cofounder of US antiwar group Code Pink was hoping her fellow activist would support her call for US troop withdrawal. She was disappointed. Ms. Jalhal, the former Afghan minister of women, bluntly told her both were needed. "It is good for Afghanistan to have more troops – more troops committed with the aim of building peace and against war, terrorism, and security – along with other resources," she answered.... The Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356221/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346613/posts We’ve heard about a few cases – some prominent – of anti-war protesters who claimed to be in the armed services. Today we learn one impostor, Rick Strandlof, may not be charged federally under the Stolen Valor Act. http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346613/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:28:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337424/posts A former Austin woman convicted of threatening to shoot local officials pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making bomb threats against eight U.S. post offices in southern Minnesota. Austin Post-Bulletin (Minnesota) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337424/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:58:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333170/posts THERE were angry clashes in a city centre today as right-wing protesters fought with anti-fascist campaigners in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration by The English Defence League in central Birmingham descended into violence as the group charged along New Street, close to the city's main train station. One onlooker said: "There were about 250 people in total, fighting and throwing bottles at each other." The disorder spilled onto the adjoining Bennetts Hill, a street lined with a number of pubs, popular with shoppers. Dozens of riot police worked to contain the disturbance and a police helicopter hovered overhead.... TheSun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333170/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 03:33:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332957/posts There were angry clashes in a city centre today as right-wing protesters fought with anti-fascist campaigners in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration by The English Defence League in central Birmingham descended into violence as the group charged along New Street, close to the city's main train station. More than twenty men have been arrested. 'There were about 250 people in total, fighting and Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211414/Anti-fascists-clash-right-wing-protesters-Birmingham.html#ixzz0QFxinqVM Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332957/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330523/posts I have a good friend who fought in the 1968 Vietnam Tet Offensive. He talks about how, in the battle’s aftermath, he and his buddies patrolled the streets of Hue City, site of some of the most intensive fighting. He describes walking on the bodies of dead North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers piled several layers high in the strategic provincial capital, and is also quick to remind me that Tet was a stunning military victory for the United States; that in fact, the US did not lose a single military encounter for the rest of the war. Yet, most... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330523/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:46:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328250/posts There is rising disillusion among liberals and peace activists that a president who built his campaign on his opposition to the war in Iraq now views America's other conflict as a "war of necessity". Mr Obama has already added 21,000 extra troops to the 38,000 stationed there by George W Bush. In the next few weeks, he is likely to receive requests from the Pentagon for more when Gen Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanisan, submits a report on the progress of the war. It is expected to paint a grim picture and offer the president three options for... Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328250/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:15:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324232/posts Well, at least Cindy Sheehan doesn't feel the need to hide her affinity for communists anymore."Comrade Carl, aka Carl Dix of the Fort Lewis 6 from the Vietnam War will be appearing with Cindy Sheehan tomorrow at her press conference on Martha's Vineyard.Sheehan long ago became a self-made parody, making it harder for her to top her own buffoonery. But she's trying with her three days of sailing off the Vineyard this week on the "SS Camp Casey".Carl is a graduate of the school of hard rocks, having served two years at Fort Leavenworth for refusing orders for Vietnam. He... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324232/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:47:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321532/posts ust a few years back, she was the media’s darling. Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, led the anti-war charge against George W. Bush. Egged on by the mainstream media and left-wing activists eager to put a “face” to their cause, she camped out in front of Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. The entire situation became a media circus, with Sheehan at its epicenter. We saw her getting her hair cut at “Camp Casey,” saw her visiting her son’s grave with media flunkies in tow, and watched her get up close and personal with Hugo Chávez. Feted... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321532/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321244/posts Cindy Sheehan says she wants to "revive" the anti-war movement. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321244/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320320/posts French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of Winston Churchill in central Paris on the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule. The night time attack saw the bronze hands of the £250,000 statue daubed in red paint. The initials RH were also daubed on the statue, perhaps a reference to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, who flew to Britain at the height of the Second World War to allegedly try and make peace. Instead, Churchill had him thrown in prison in 1941, and the war continued for a further four years. After the war, Hess was tried at... Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320320/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:22:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785587/posts This story deserves more attention than it’s gotten, so I’m going to give it some. The eagle-eyed NZ Bear while running the show at the Victory Caucus noticed a strange little blurb on the website of MoveCongress.org. MoveCongress.org, for those of you fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the group, boasts on its masthead that it wants to “Move Congress to End the War in Iraq.” This morning, the group was scheduled to be blessed with an exclusive briefing from Jack Murtha on how…well, I’ll let you see how MoveCongress.org described Murtha’s agenda: Chairman Murtha will describe his strategy for... Hugh Hewitt/Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785587/posts#comment Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286251/posts Two groups on campus, Anns Race Alternatives (ARA) and Students Against Militarism (SAM), work within these mental limits to foster awareness and practical action necesary to counter the growing threat of war. Though the emphasis of the two p:roups differ, they share an aversion to current government policy. These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track. The Reagan administration's stalling at the Geneva talks on nuclear weapons has thus already caused severe tension and could ultimately bring about a dangerous rift between... Sundial (via NY Times) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286251/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:30:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285425/posts My childhood friend of 31 years visited my home on base, in Quantico, a few months after I gave birth to my first baby. As we took a leisurely stroll one evening through the lingering humidity of early September, I explained to her how different military life is from the world in which we grew up in San Francisco. We passed rows of colorful houses on the tree-lined, manicured blocks and gazed at the playgrounds around the neighborhood, ready to welcome the children of the officers who live there. American flags hung from virtually every front door. The occasional "My... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285425/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262932/posts Freepers: After sleeping on it, I have decided to call you to action! A great injustice is being perpetrated by our main stream media (MSM) and our Commander In Chief (CINC), President Barrack Hussein Obama. The time now is 10:04 CST, 02 JUNE 09, exactly 24 hours after Privates William Long, 23 of Conway, AR, and Private Second Class Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, AR became the first victims of terrorism on American soil since 11 SEP 01 and we have heard no statement from their Commander in Chief, President Barrack Hussein Obama. Almost as egregious as Obama’s silence, we... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262932/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262239/posts <p>Latest Video:Little Rock - One person is in custody, and two others have been transported to a local hospital in serious condition following a double-shooting in west Little Rock Monday morning.</p> <p>Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at the U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock Police Department, two recruiting officers standing outside the office were hit when the unidentified suspect drove up in a black SUV and began shooting.</p> KATV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262239/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252433/posts PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued region. Digg Up. http://digg.com/d1rNnO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252433/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 00:26:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231171/posts Get this! - "Interview: Sgt.Matthis Chiroux -Veteran, war resistor, and outspoken critic of the both the Bush and Obama administrations Mid East and Central Asian Policy faces Military Hearing for "Misconduct" on April 21st. We spoke to Matthis about his upcoming case." DigitalJournal Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231171/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:58:45 GMT