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Some of Mother Sheehan's Gentle MusingsOn America "We began the killing as soon as we stepped foot on these shores [of America] and the killing has gone on unabated for over 200 years." "There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid."   http://tinyurl.com/7rzr3"This country is not worth dying for.” “America has been killing people on this continent since it was started.""The U.S. government is a morally repugnant system.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915    On 9/11 “9/11 was Pearl Harbor for the neo-conservatives’ agenda.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915  The Jewish Plot "Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was...

What is it that the west, and America in particular, have against Islam and Muslim countries? Plenty, I believe, as does a noted political-analyst friend of mine whom I will not name because he does very sensitive work for the government. First, it was the shame of Guantanamo Bay and the barbaric torture of blindfolding of shackled, red-uniformed Muslim prisoners from Afghanistan, who were brutally tortured in barbaric instances which were fully condoned by George Bush and his former secretary of state, Colin Powell. Then came the destruction of Iraq against all sane admonition by sensible people from around the...

MILWAUKEE - A peace activist who went to Iraq to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is challenging $8,000 in federal fines. Ryan Clancy, 28, filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department in federal court Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The department alleges Clancy went to Iraq in violation of sanctions and offered his services to the Iraqi government to shield its facilities from possible military action. Clancy was in Iraq from Jan. 28, 2003, to March 7, 2003, according the lawsuit. The United States attacked Iraq on March 19, 2003.

It seems as though the [insert most vile metaphor you can think of here] that I blogged about here couldn't stand the heat and/or didn't drum up quite the following that he envisioned. According the Marine Corps Times, it appears that this individual faked his own death, supposedly at the hands of pro-military folks. That fits nicely with his MO, but strangely enough, local law enforcement has no report of it. Of course, since the guy also owns the "Forsake The Police" web domain, I'm thinking that any criminal activity involving his demise might not get the attention that a...

So we have Scott Ritter running around on the Ed Schultz show and most of the Air America hotheads interviewed him. Scott is blathering about the Bush plan to attack Iran in 2005. Don't these nitwit liberals understand that Scott is a reporter for Al Jazeera now? I wonder if he still hangs around McDonalds picking up teeny boppers.

CBS Cameraman Shot By US Troops Under Arrest Troops believe he was working for insurgents, not just covering them as reporter. Just announced on CNN. Developing...

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

I decided to change my ways. After a lot of soul searching, I've realized that the GOP does not have my best interests in mind. I can no longer support an administration and a party that cannot look beyond the immediate future and see the long-term consequences of their actions. I've thought about where this administration's policies will leave me and my future family in 30, 40, 50 years....and I do not like the picture. I never thought I would say this, but I'm turning blue. While some of you may call me a jackass, I am now proud to...

Robert Jensen (rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu) is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. In an article written for The Austin American Statesman, Jensen recently claimed that “The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing.” While Jensen was careful to say that the loss of American lives is not to be celebrated, he insulted our soldiers deeply by saying that their deaths “haven't protected Americans or brought freedom to Iraqis.” Instead, he brushed off their service to our...

Brethren Agree to Revive 'Alternative Service' Draft Programs By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Leaders of the Church of the Brethren say they will follow through on a request from the Selective Service to have "alternative service" programs in place for conscientious objectors if a draft is reinstated. As one of the historic "peace churches" that shun military service, Brethren officials were "cautious" after an unannounced visit by a draft official to a church center in Maryland last October. Officials were worried that the visit signaled that a draft may be at hand. In follow-up meetings, draft officials urged the...

<p>How many more American soldiers need to die before this country wakes up to the massive fraud that is the Iraq war. Let us not forget, as 19 soldiers lay dead in body bags that before this war and 9/11 for that matter, this fraud was started and conceived by Bush, Rumsfield and the other chicken hawk neo cons down in Texas BEFORE the attacks of 9/11. Do the math right- wingers. You are cheerleaders for a regime that is bent on world dominion and to line their pockets with massive oil profits. Let's not forget that Israel is also involved in this international fraud. As they continue their assault on the Palestinian people they have their Mossad operatives in the DOD named Pearle and Wolfowitz controlling the strings of the simple minded Bush.</p>

Paraphrasing from memory here so forgive me, please. Listening to Mark Belling here in Wisconsin. A woman wrote to him about her experience at Walmart on 27th & Layton. Her husband is in Kuwait and will be missing his second Christmas in a row. She took her FOUR kids to Walmart to see Santa. Her one daughter was asking her all week if Santa will see her daddy when he flies over Kuwait, and she told her to ask Santa when she him. Little girl sat on Santa's lap, asked if he was going to Kuwait and he tells here...

I have been writing to numerous people ever since September 11, 2001. That event changed me. Before September 11, 2001 I assumed our government knew what it was doing in the world and I never questioned anything it did, but after September 11, 2001 i started to think ,why would anybody hate us so much as to try to kill as many Americans as possible. My quest for the truth lead me to one very sobering conclusion.........our policies, even before our independence in 1776, has gradually created a world in which we do not realize what people around the world...

"Hopefully Bush will get put on trial for war crimes right now. There was a feeling that he was gonna get re-elected anyway, just because Kerry wasn't a very strong opponent. "There's a small percentage of those people in the south that still wave the Confederate flag. I think George Bush is more of a threat to the freedom of America than (ousted Iraqi dictator) SADDAM HUSSEIN ever was."

What the Republicans did, cleverly, was to establish effective "memes" in the minds of the public and the pundits... Bush became the "winner" of a dead heat, in the midst of an incomplete recount, when a premature victory was declared on her own unnecessary deadline by his Florida campaign co-chairwoman, who also held the crucial post of secretary of state... [I]t was clearly a shameless ploy to slam the door before the election escaped. A meme was born. The other effective GOP meme was the mantra, "we counted, and counted again, and then a third time." These words were chanted...

THE last presidential election in the United States is as American as apple pie. Even till the last second before the event started, nobody in the US or elsewhere knew for sure whether George Bush would retain his job or whether he would be defeated by John Kerry. Characteristic of American presidential elections in recent history, the last one was tough, rough and sometimes acrimonious, although some degree of razzmatazz was also noticeable.Key issues in the run-up to the election were security, the war against terror, the American misadventure in Iraq and the worrisome state of US economy. Generally speaking,...

Just signed up to see what The KKK and it's supporters are up to- as usual I found the most racist, sexist homophobic war monging hate mongering idiots I've ever seen gathered in one place all right here on this one website. It's good to know you assholes are can all be communicated to in one place- since most of you are illiterate and ignorant it will be easy to disseminate info to you redncek losers.

Frome the article: Arafat also has died of a mysterious illness, according to French doctors. For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to assume that French doctors, unlike the French military, are roughly equivalent to their American counterparts. A mysterious illness. This is really my favorite part. Think back for a moment on all the people who have died during your lifetime. Has anyone died of a mysterious illness? No, because we know what all the illnesses are. Did he have cancer? No, they checked. Heart disease? No. Poison? Nope, they checked that too. All they know is that...