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The last two days three members of Muslim Peacemaker Teams were with us. They presented a forum yesterday on their learnings about depleted uranium and its impact on their local Najaf community. They monitored sites across that city and found consistent readings at least double the background readings from the former Tawaitha nuclear site. This parallels similar findings all across south Iraq. Cancer rates are triple the rates before 1991. Rare cancers and cancers in the very young are becoming common. They report cancer spreading across their region as an epidemic. It is more sobering as the two presenters were the director of the Pathology Department at the large public hospital in Najaf and a nuclear physicist who was trained in Britain and was third in the nuclear program of Iraq until he left in the 90's. --Cliff Kindy, from his Irag blog where he is on his fourth peace mission to this country
The Agitator
by Dave Lambert
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by Robert Rouse
Robert Rouse's Left of Centrist home page
In support of a resolution of inquiry
"The White House is completely disconnected from reality,"
---Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, June 19, 2005, in response to U.S. Iraq policy
I bicycled with my spouse on a tandem bike to Jefferson Point on Memorial Day. We parked the bicycle at the bookstore and met U.S.(Mis)Rep. Mark Souder and his son.
I called to him to get his attention as he was headed to the parking lot. Mr. Souder turned to look and I pointed to the bicycle built for two and said, That's what you should be driving.
(With thoughts of his vote to invade the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge still fresh in my mind.) Before he had a chance to say anything, I reached out with my hand to greet him with an immediate follow-up question, Are you going to get us out of Iraq?
Well, not for a while,...
Souder said with resignation and discomfort. The short answer and fat pause immediately triggered my next question to keep the conversation going, his shoulder was pointing to the comfort of his car.
Do you regret voting for the war?
I asked calmly looking Rep. Souder in the eye.
No, but if I'd known I was being lied to, I would have voted to delay going to war to finish things up in Afghanistan.
So Rep. Souder openly admits that he was being lied
to, yet he seems to have no regrets for going into an unjust war. How morally and fiscally bankrupt can our politicians get?
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)
WARNING
Bush resembles now a wounded bull.
A wounded bull is a dangerous animal.
His policy of preemption is dead. He is incapable of building even one single nation for democracy, not even in his own country.
He only sees one way out of Iraq, to order another disasterous military adventure.
There is no limit to the bloody deeds he is capable of doing now in order to survive.
-- paraphrased and translated to the U.S. from Gush Shalom commentary on Ariel Sharon.
Gush Shalom is an Israeli peace organization started in 1993.
"Sharon resembles now a wounded bull.
A wounded bull is a dangerous animal.
His plan is dead. He is incapable of dismantling even one single settlement. He is incapable to get another plan accepted.
His only way out is to order a spectacular military adventure.
There is no limit to the bloody deeds he is capable of doing now in order to survive."
Peace Building by American Friends Service Committee
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. --Mahatma Gandhi
Fort Wayne's Center for Fair Trade
Investigative Reporting / Journalists
"Because the cat-and-mouse game between those committed to abusing power and those equally determined to expose such abuse continues, Palast has recently published an 'expanded election edition' of The Best Democracy. Included in this latest edition is evidence that George Bush put a stop to the FBI's investigation of the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi Arabia along with new reporting on the State Department's pre-war plans for reaping the spoils of war in Iraq." from Interview with Greg Palast, Muckraker Extraordinaire
"The American public is quickly coming to its senses about the utility of our forces in Iraq and our open-ended commitment - with no ending in site. $200 billion later, Osama Bin Laden is still on the run while Iraq serves as a magnet for a new generation of jihadists. The bottom line is that our Iraq policy has become a festering wound that bleeds away more and more of America's wealth, America's security, America's leadership, and America's young men and women in uniform." -- U.S. Rep. Diane Watson, California
July 12, 2005 on HuffingtonPost.com
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
"Her Beautiful Mind"
by Joyce Marcel from Common Dreams News Center, May 4, 2004
School of the Americas/WHINSEC
Vigil and Nonviolent Direct Action
to Close the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC)
November 16-18, 2007
"Saturday April 10, 2004
Message To America's Students
Nader: The War, The Draft, Your Future
We have been down this road before.
U.S. troops sent to war half a world away. American foreign policy controlled by an arrogant elite, bent on projecting military power around the globe. A public misled into supporting an unconstitutional war founded on deceit and fabrications.
As the death toll mounts, we hear claims that the war is nearly won, that victory is just around the corner. But victory never arrives.
As the public loses confidence in the government, the government questions the patriotism of any who express doubt about the war.
When a presidential election arrives, both the Democrat and Republican nominees embrace the policy of continued war.
The military draft comes to dominate the lives of America's young, and vast numbers who believe the war to be a senseless blunder are faced with fighting a war they do not believe in, or facing exile or prison.
The year was 1968. Because voters had no choice that November, the Vietnam War continued for another six years. Hundreds of thousands of Americans like you died, were maimed, or suffered from diseases like malaria. A far greater number of Vietnamese died.
Today, the war is in the quicksands and alleys of Iraq. Once again, under the pressure of a determined resistance, we see an American war policy being slowly torn apart at the seams, while the candidates urge us to "stay the course" in this tragic misadventure. Today's Presidential candidates are not Nixon and Humphrey, they are now Bush and Kerry.
Once again, there is one overriding truth: If war is the only choice in this election, then war we will have.
Today enlistments in the Reserves and National Guard are declining. The Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members to fill local draft boards, as the machinery for drafting a new generation of young Americans is being quietly put into place.
Young Americans need to know that a train is coming, and it could run over their generation in the same way that the Vietnam War devastated the lives of those who came of age in the sixties.
I am running for President, and have been against this war from the beginning. We must not waste lives in order to control and waste more oil. Stand with us and we may yet salvage your future and Americas' future from this looming disaster.
Sincerely,
Ralph Nader" from VoteNader.org
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