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  texangelwings

  May 25, 2007, 9:41 p.m.

  Thanks, TimA, this was a great find. (I need a kleenex.)

  A big thanks, to all of our soldiers and their families, who are sacraficing so much for us.

  My neighbor is in a quilt club and they are making a quilt for a soldier. This is part of a nationwide quilters projects, that is growing state to state. The goal is to give each soldier who comes home injured gets a quilt for home comfort.
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  bongy337

  May 29, 2007, 4:38 p.m.

  Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

  [Updated edition published November 2005] by William Blum, author of

  Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2

  If you believed that the NATO (read U.S.) bombing of Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights in 1999 was a "humanitarian" act, Rogue State hopefully can serve as a wake-up call to both your intellect and your conscience. It is a mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.

  "Never before in modern history has a country dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today. America is now the Schwarzenegger of international politics: showing off muscles, obtrusive, intimidating.

  The Americans, in the absence of limits put to them by anybody or anything, act as if

  they own a kind of blank check in their McWorld."

  Der Spiegel, Germany's leading newsmagazine, 1997
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  bongy337

  May 29, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  "The United States is good.We try to do our best everywhere".

  Madeleine Albright, 1999

  "A world once divided into two armed camps now recognizes one sole and pre-eminent

  power, the United States of America. And they regard this with no dread. For the

  world trusts us with power, and the world is right. They trust us to be fair, and

  restrained. They trust us to be on the side of decency. They trust us to do what's right."

  George Bush, 1992

  "How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends? [Mu'ammar ]Gadhafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world's policeman."

  Nelson Mandela, 1997
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  bongy337

  May 29, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  "When I came into office, I was determined that our country would go into the 21st

  century still the world's greatest force for peace and freedom, for democracy and security and prosperity."

  Bill Clinton, 1996

  "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame."

  Amnesty International, 1996
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  bongy337

  May 29, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  "Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's immortal line: 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country'."

  Gore Vidal, author, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

  "Critics will call this a one-sided book. But it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace. Even confirmed opponents of U.S. interventionism can find much in this important book that will both educate and shock them."

  Peter Dale Scott, former Professor at UC Berkeley, poet, and author, Deep Politics and The Death of JFK
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  bongy337

  May 29, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  "Bill Blum came by his title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongsâ;;an especially well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power."

  Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC

  "Bravo Blum! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom's lies and propaganda."

  Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

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