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Jane Fonda, Ruining it for the
Rest of Us America Accidentally Elects Dennis Kucinich
If you want to know about governments, all you have
to know is two words:
Governments lie. - I. F. Stone
Kerry/Edwards
Democratic candidate Kerry vows to maintain US troops in Iraq for years
Asking if Kerry is as
bad as Bush is like asking if a slap in the face is as painful as a
brick to the skull.
But don't you get tired of being slapped around by privileged politicos on hypocrisy hyper-drive -- then having to applaud? It can't be pleasant, no matter how many pretty balloons they drop on your head.
InterAct has been working with Senator Allard and Senator Campbell's offices to introduce a bill Suspending the Sale and Use of Depleted Uranium in Munitions. We've changed our tactics, learn more about this bill and Depleted Uranium. Accounts of Depleted Uranium reported by various media outlets around the world
I'm here [at the World
War II Memorial celebration in Washington, D.C.] to honor the two guys
who were my closest buddies in the Air Corps - Joe Perry and Ed Plotkin,
both of whom were killed in the last weeks of the war. And to honor all
the others who died in that war. But I'm not here to honor war itself.
I'm not here to honor the men in Washington who send the young to war.
I'm certainly not here to honor those in authority who are now waging an
immoral war in Iraq.
World War II is not simply and purely a 'good war.' It was accompanied by too many atrocities on our side - too many bombings of civilian populations. There were too many betrayals of the principles for which the war was supposed to have been fought. Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it - the defeat of fascism. But I deeply resent the way the so-called good war has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we have fought in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors now taking place in Iraq. I don't want to honor military heroism - that conceals too much death and suffering. I want to honor those who all these years have opposed the horror of war. What’s your reaction to InterAct, our stories or our letters? Contact us and we’ll print your comments.
Regardless of the number of troops the
United States puts on the ground or how long they stay there, Allawi's
government is doomed to fail. The more it fails, the more it will have
to rely on the United States to prop it up. The more the United States
props up Allawi, the more discredited he will become in the eyes of the
Iraqi people - all of which creates yet more opportunities for the Iraqi
resistance to exploit.
We will suffer a decade-long nightmare that will lead to the deaths of thousands more Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. We will witness the creation of a viable and dangerous anti-American movement in Iraq that will one day watch as American troops unilaterally withdraw from Iraq every bit as ignominiously as Israel did from Lebanon. The calculus is quite simple: the sooner we bring our forces home, the weaker this movement will be. And, of course, the obverse is true: the longer we stay, the stronger and more enduring this byproduct of Bush's elective war on Iraq will be. There is no elegant solution to our Iraqi debacle. It is no longer a question of winning but rather of mitigating defeat. InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference
Although we have not found stockpiles of
weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq.
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"It looks like we've got some bad intelligence
here," Capt. Ty Johnson, leader of the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, radioed
his commanders back at the U.S. base. "I suggest we finish up and leave.
We're going to end up pissing the town off and making these people into
insurgents."
Joint U.S.-Iraqi Patrols Are Getting Off on Wrong Foot Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy So This is What They Call the New, 'Free' Iraq by Robert Fisk The Reincarnation of Saddam Hussein By Marjorie Cohn Saddam's People Are Winning the War By Scott Ritter Give it Back, George: The Lay Loot that Bought the White House By Greg Palast The Real Enemy Staring Us in the Face By Bob Herbert
Torturing
Children By William Rivers Pitt William Jefferson Clinton Address to Convention As Prepared Populism and patriotism: behind the posturing at the Democratic National Convention By Patrick Martin
Judge a man by his questions rather than by
his answers.
Voltaire
New Stats Show Bush's Deficit Dishonesty Last year, President Bush said "My Administration firmly believes in controlling the deficit and reducing it." But according the Daily Mislead, the government is soon expected to project a record federal budget deficit, even as President Bush demands more money for war in Iraq , and a $1 trillion proposal for more tax cuts.
Bush Tries to Keep Half Million Vets In the Dark President Bush
celebrated the July 4th holiday by praising veterans, saying "we're proud of
your service, we're grateful for the example you have set
Bush & Cheney Mislead on Tort Reform President Bush and Vice
President Cheney continue to dishonestly claim that
For too long now we
have abandoned our flag to those who see it as a symbol of war and
dominance, as a way to crush dissent at home. Flags are flying from
the back of SUVs, rising high above car dealerships, plastering the
windows of businesses and adorning paper bags from fast-food
restaurants. But these flags are intended to send a message: "You're
either with us or you're against us," "Bring it on!" or "Watch what
you say, watch what you do."
The Bush administration will withhold funds from the United Nations population agency for the third year in a row because the agency cooperates with activities in China that promote abortion, the State Department announced.
Richard A. Boucher, the State
Department spokesperson, acknowledged that the goal of the
population fund was to promote voluntary family planning, "but the
circumstances of their operations are such that they are assisting
the Chinese" in managing programs that exact penalties for too many
children and ultimately result in abortions. "We feel by funding
these programs we would be indirectly helping the Chinese to improve
the management of programs that result in coercive abortion, and
that's prohibited by law."
The United Nations agency's
leaders counter that they in no way condone abortion. In fact, they
say, their work in China has greatly reduced coercive family
planning. Active in 32 Chinese counties, the program has helped
drive down the female sterilization rate by 16 percent since it
began operations in 1998, and increased the use of contraceptives,
to 90 percent.
The rate of abortions to live births in those counties is now below the level in the United States, the agency said.
A State Department investigation
in 2002 found "no evidence" that the agency knowingly took part in
managing a program of coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilization. The department's 2004 human rights report on China
acknowledged that the United Nations agency had actively worked to
eliminate target and quota systems for regulating childbirth, though
the government found other methods to keep its policy in place.
Letterman’s Top Ten List: “Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11":
10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth
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by Jodie Hemerda
Through my work, I've always tried to ask hard
questions. Why is it that the wealthiest nation in the world finds it so
hard to keep its promise and faith with its weakest citizens? Why do we
continue to find it so difficult to see beyond the veil of race? How do we
conduct ourselves during difficult times without killing the things we hold
dear? Why does the fulfillment of our promise as a people always seem to be
just within grasp yet forever out of reach?
If you are one of those
who love what President Bush has done for this country and believe you
must blindly follow the president to deserve to fly the flag, you should
ask yourself some difficult questions about just how proud you are of the
America we now inhabit:
Are you proud that one in six children lives in poverty in America? Are you proud that 40 million adult Americans are functional illiterates? Are you proud that the bulk of the jobs being created these days are low- and minimum-wage jobs? Are you proud of asking your fellow Americans to live on $5.15 an hour? Are you proud that, according to a National Geographic Society survey, 85% of young adult Americans cannot find Iraq on the map (and 11% cannot find the United States!) ? Are you proud that the rest of the world, which poured out its heart to us after Sept. 11, now looks at us with disdain and disgust? Are you proud that nearly 3 billion people on this planet do not have access to clean drinking water when we have the resources and technology to remedy this immediately? Are you proud of the fact that our president sent our soldiers off to a war that had nothing to do with the self-defense of this country? If these things represent what it means to be an American these days - and I am an American - should I hang my head in shame? No. Instead, I intend to perform what I believe is my patriotic duty. I can't think of a more American thing to do than raise questions - and demand truthful answers - when our leader wants to send our sons and daughters off to die in a war.
I think the idea that political
advertising is banned from some part of New York City would be repellent
to New Yorkers. I guess we can have a war, but we can't talk about it.
Project Billboard spokesman, Howard Wolfson,
Antiwar Group Says Its Ad Is Rejected
Indonesia AND East Timor
To punish Fidel Castro,
the U.S. Treasury Department last week rolled out new rules sharply
curtailing travel to Cuba by exiles living in the United States.
This would be the same crackerjack Treasury Department that admitted having six times as many agents pursuing violators of the Cuban embargo than it does tracking the finances of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. This Is How You Bring Down Fidel Castro? By Carl Hiaasen
It's dangerous to be right when the
government is wrong.
Voltaire
Bush campaign ads boast that 1.5 million
jobs were added in the last 10 months, as if that were a remarkable
achievement. It isn't. During the Clinton years, the economy added 236,000
jobs in an average month. Those 1.5 million jobs were barely enough to
keep up with a growing working-age population.
War on Terror & Civil Liberties ● Number of "felons" purged from
Florida's voter lists in the 2000 elections: 173,000 And the deception continues... Just weeks after defending both the quality and secrecy of a list of suspected felons to be purged from Florida voting lists, the state's elections office is now scrambling to explain why the list was so flawed that it had to be scrapped. S.V. Date, 7/24/04, Second probe ordered of felon list barring vote We know that the Iraqi people have not had an election yet, so we do not have a democracy over there, we just have a dictatorship of Bush and (Prime Minister Tony) Blair. What kind of stability is there in Iraq when we have to sneak the transfer of power in two days ahead of time for who knows why? Tenet's major mistake was to trade pliancy for access to Bush and budget largesse. But it was Bush, Cheney, and the Defense Department civilians who politicized intelligence analysis to suit their policy needs.
[S]ince Saddam was given PoW status, international
law says he must now be returned to this country and given back his
previous job. I don't want this to happen but that's what international
law says.
Sifting through old
classified materials in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI
translator Sibel Edmonds said, she made an alarming discovery: Intercepts
relevant to the terrorist plot, including references to skyscrapers, had
been overlooked because they were badly translated into English.
Edmonds, 34, who is fluent in Turkish and Farsi, said she quickly reported the mistake to an FBI superior. Five months later, after flagging what she said were several other security lapses in her division, she was fired.
Bush Administration Misleads About Afghanistan In 2002, the Bush administration shifted key special forces out of Afghanistan, effectively removing them from the hunt for al Qaeda. These troops were sent to prepare for an Iraq invasion. That leaves the U.S. with only about 15,000 troops in Afghanistan hunting down al Qaeda, whom they now say are plotting an imminent attack against the country.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? NOT IN CONGRESS The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. Friday, October 4, 2002, and was called to order by the Honorable MARK DAYTON, a Senator from the State of Minnesota. PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: Gracious God, You have endowed us with a thinking brain so we could think Your thoughts after You. That is awesome, Father. You are omniscient; You know everything. You also know what is best for our future as a Nation and our continuing battle with terrorism. This is Your Nation; we are Your people; we are a Nation under Your sovereignty. In response, we make Proverbs 16:3 the motto for this day, ``Commit Your works to the Lord and Your thoughts will be established.'' Throughout this day, we intentionally will submit the work of this Senate to You and seek Your guidance for the resolution on war with Iraq. We claim Your promise for clarified direction in keeping with Your will. We say with the psalmist: I commit my way to the Lord and trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass ..... I rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him--(Psalm 37:5,7). Speak to our minds; we are listening. You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
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