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Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsAnti-war demonstrators marched in a dozen U.S. cities on Saturday to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and a cut-off of funding by Congress.
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bobo-in-texas1 year, 8 months ago
A better and more accurate headline would read "Small groups engage in public political masturbation in 11 US cities"
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"San Francisco responds with typical excess"
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Codi69341 year, 8 months ago
From a soldier's point of view, just another kick in the face. Thanks I needed that, again!!!
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dissent1 year, 8 months ago
Hey, bud, some things in this life and world are just a little bigger than how personally you choose to take it. Most people figure that out when they grow up and out of adolescence.
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
and what about when bush underfunds the VA, sends troops overseas for the good of the corporations, places troops in battle without the proper equipment, puts troops in situations where they're damned if they do and damned if they don't?
bush has been kicking our troops in the face ever since he turned his eye on iraq.
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CaptainLucid1 year, 8 months ago
I respect you Codi because you do a job I could not handle. I think we have a top notch military which deserves much praise. When we protest we are not protesting you. We are protesting the draft dodging chicken hawks who abused you because they wanted to steal oil. We protest because we think you deserve better than being sent out as cannon fodder by W. We think you should be at home with your family.
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mayeye1 year, 8 months ago
My question is did you serve in the war? From what I understand the welcoming of American soldier's has been over for quite sometime. People who are against the war believe the soldiers have done what they were asked and we are grateful for that service, we want them home. And none of this is meant as a kick in the face. This is meant to end a war that can not be won. People have to want freedom, they can not be forced to live like we want them to live. Let the citizens of Iraq fight their own wars they have for 1000's of years we can not change them. God helps them whom help themselves.
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libsRfunny1 year, 8 months ago
I assume you are referring toe the bogus "world peace organization," which was a sham organization created by the Soviets and international communist organizations intent on waging a PR war in the U.S. knowing full well that was the only way the communist North Vietnam could win. Even Gen. Giap said they were ready to give it up until the likes of Hanoi Jane started spewing their ignorance.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
Poor libRfunny - he just can't get over the fact that Vietnam was ended when our troops rebelled against being killed for lies. Coming up in Iraq.
"Sir! No Sir!"
The Story of the GI Anti-War Movement
..."Sir! No Sir!" documentary chronicles the "seditious" Anti-war Movement of active duty GI's and their supporters during the Vietnam War. This lost, er, stolen, from our collective memory Movement had as much or more to do with the US Military Machine's eventual abandonment of its devastating multi-million corpse-creating SE Asian wet dream as did its civilian counterpart...
... This history with the Pentagon itself citing a total of 503,926 "incidents of desertion" from 1966--1971 alone; officers being "fragged" (killed by their own troops); and, by 1971, entire units refusing to go into action is brought to life here at a yet another time of Imperial overreach....
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly08052006.html
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denbenenki1 year, 8 months ago
general giap?
how riduculous of you to believe the vietnamese fought becuz jane honda denounced the invasion...
when your 12 y-o daughter is running down the street naked, her flesh burning from naplam---
THATS A GOOD REASON TO KEEP FIGHTING!
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aceofspades11 year, 8 months ago
I had another posting on another site before I saw this. It's about time!!! anyone who thinks it is against our soldiers is just nuts - We want to save our soldiers from dying for nothing - If we don't stop this insanity there will be another wall covered with the names of the lost & children touching the names of their dead parents who died for Bush Cheney & co. Iraq is a civil war - not political in Iraq itself - let them kill each other without our soldiers being their cannon fodder
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nostalgia1 year, 8 months ago
"anyone who thinks it is against our soldiers is just nuts"
It really doesn't matter what you think
How do soldiers see it?
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
This is a civil war the United States and Israel started. Not only did the United States invade Iraq, it dissolved the entire Iraqi government, military, police and intelligence apparatus. George W. Bush thought democratic magic would solve everything. It did not.
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daveweiss8021 year, 8 months ago
Just a reminder....Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister that announce that he had achieved "Peace in our time" by negotiating with Adolph Hitler. He had the best of intentions but millions of people were killed. Having not learned this lesson, I can only assume that these protesters are committing a treason against this country.
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silvera1 year, 8 months ago
In light of the idiocy of this "war" that we've witnessed for the last 4 years...the needless deaths on both sides, the destruction of a country, the corruption and war profiteering, the erosion of our civil rights, the looting of our treasury...to call the actions of those that protest this insanity as treasonous is perhaps the stupidest most ignorant reply I've witnessed on this or any other site to date, and believe me, there have been some real winners.
If the planet manages to survive his reign, I predict the history books will rank George W. Bush right up there with Hitler, and if there is anything currently analogous to Chamberlain it is the enablers (appeasers) of this genocidal maniac, both Republican and Democrat. These are the real traitors to our country.
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CaptainLucid1 year, 8 months ago
Are you trying to construct an argument? You are failing completely. Yes Chamberlain made a big mistake by trying to appease Hitler. But what the hell does that have to do with protesters against the iraq oil war? If you really want to make comparisons it works like this. Hitler dressed a bunch of convicts in Polish army uniforms, machinegunned them, and then attacked Poland because "They attacked us". W made up some claims about WMDs and a terrorist connection and then attacked Iraq. W admires Hitler. W's grandpappy did Hitlers banking. Who is treasonous bitch?
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
Oh well, at the same time the zionists were negotiating their collaboration with hitler. By your logic, any support for israel is therefore collaboration with nazis.
51 Documents:
Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
... Zionist factions competed for the honor of allying to Hitler. By 1940-41, the "Stern Gang," among them Yitzhak Shamir, later Prime Minister of Israel, presented the Nazis with the "Fundamental Features of the Proposal of the National Military Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zvai Leumi) Concerning the Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe and the Participation of the NMO in the War on the Side of Germany."
Avraham Stern and his followers announced ...
http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner1223.html
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
Daveweiss802,
Do you also think Al Qaeda is comparable to a military giant like Nazi Germany, even if it really existed? Or, do you think that Iraq in 2003 was comparable to Germany in 1938? And do you believe that the world has not changed in 70 years?
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nikkibabe1 year, 8 months ago
I guess there were no Republicans in the demonstrations. Those are the warmongers who want to continue the occupation of Iraq amidst widespread humanitarian and refugee crisis.
For all practical purposes, more than half of Iraq has already been bombed out of existence.
Hope we will see and end to this crisis on 1/20/2009.
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Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
Warmongers, occupation, humanitarian and refuge crisis, and bombed out of existence. Why do you use such loaded rhetoric about what is happening there. That makes what you are saying mostly ignored by reasonable people.
Warmongers are those who enjoy war for wars sake and to gain territory. Lets see, we annexed all the territory we conquered in the last century right. Our leaders enjoy seeing people die and crippled right. That is what you are saying. If you really believe this you need therapy.
Occupation means we are going to stay there in control of the country. We allowed the people there to set up their own government and to create an army and police who are slowly taking control of their own country
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DRK11 year, 8 months ago
aniokly:
sure am happy to know you`re sleeping well.i`m not.we don`t have controll of our borders and we`re still in iraq after 4 yrs.Including private contractors-we have over 300,000 americans over there.we have sophisticated airpower available.we`re using state of the art technology and weaponry--and we still can`t control a relatively small number of insurgents and TERRORISTS.i feel real safe.no wonder the TERRORISTS are emboldened and the whole world is laughing.
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blowback1 year, 8 months ago
The terrorism we have faced this century is the
fruit of our foreign policy for more than 50 years.
The seeds of hatred planted in the region today are
now at such an industrial agricultural scale that
they will spawn the terrorism of the short, medium
and long-term future. Hang on to your hats, we're
heading for a bumper crop.
As they say, what goes around comes around.
Sleep on that, aniokly.
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saintetienne1 year, 8 months ago
"and the whole world is laughing."
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Now I'M laughing!!
Oh, DORK1, were you picked on as a child? Were you the one everybody threw snowballs at on the playground? I'll bet people STILL point at you and laugh when you walk down the street, even as an "adult".
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
"the whole world is laughing"
Yes, DORK1, because in the end, it's all a popularity contest, isn't it? We need to stop the war, call the troops home, surrender the Middle East, apologize to everybody, give up our oil interests and start kissing everyone's ass, so that they stop laughing at us.
HAHAHAHAHA!! You HAD to have been picked on as a kid. No adult with an ounce of self-respect would make such a ludicrous statement. Turn your TV off, DORK1. The real world is not "Survivor" or "America's Next Top Model". There's no popularity contest, and if the world is laughing at us, laugh back harder.
Sheesh, what an idiot!
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xlegultx1 year, 8 months ago
We're not using the state of the art technology because the money going towards the war is not used for our soldiers. Just look at all the accounts of private contractors using superior equipment when compared to what our soldiers are using.
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aceofspades11 year, 8 months ago
Aniokly - maybe that is the problem - you are sleeping WAKEUP & SMELL THE COFFEE - or the stink from Washington.
& how dare you question the patriotism of those who question the actions of a corrupt administration.
We are acting in the best traditions laid down by Thomas Jefferson - by your assessment he was a traitor to American ideals , I think you need a little more reflevtion & less sleep
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HMMace1 year, 8 months ago
Now all you have to do is tell arabia to quit preaching hate towards us, and all will be peachy keen...
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quackpot1 year, 8 months ago
blowing up people's homes and killing their families as collateral damage is not a particularly effective means of expressing the "do not hate" message.
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
Why don't we stop provoking hatred by automatically supporting Israeli Nazis? A high portion of the Israeli government really does deserve to be called Nazis. If they could, they would kill everyone who stood in the way of Greater Israel. That includes Americans.
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Momade1 year, 8 months ago
This is a Very Shocking Video, please follow the link bellow if you want to watch it:
Please be seated when watching this video, as its Very Shocking.
After watching this, tell me, who will you punish & how?
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Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
Another lying rant Daylight?
Don't like the term Islamo Fascist term because it fits a small percent of your religion?
Steal oil? We have the incredible sum of $0 in oil flowing into the US.
"war is redirected against the Zionists and the Neocons"
Are you going to join the Islamo Fascists who wish to come here and blow up the innocents?
Why do the terrorists in Iraq kill and blow up mostly the Moslem civilians who want their own government to succeed?
Why does Iran who is controlled by the mullahs send money and arms to all sides so they can kill and blow up each other? These are brother Moslems killing brother Moslems.
I thought the IRA was bad back then but Islamo Fascists go much farther.
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jimdoze1 year, 8 months ago
When we pull out, the Turks will drop out of NATO and take the oilfields in northern Iraq while chasing down the PKK. The Iranians will take the oilfields in southern Iraq, test an atomic weapon in the Iraqi desert and test long range delivery systems into the Indian Ocean... it's only a matter of time... maybe 5 years at the outside... but, so what if it is 10?
I would also submit that the same general sequence would have followed had we left it alone and those players had become convinced that Saddam was bluffing with WMDs.
I'll leave it to your imagination what will follow... I can assure you, it won't be good... to the point that it will make what is going on in Iraq now look like a Sunday School picnic.
War is hell. Always has been and always will be. The key is to avoid the inferno.
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/dante/images/magn...
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
More scare mongering from jimd!
Livni: Iran nukes pose little threat to Israel
By Gidi Weitz and Na'ama Lanski, Haaretz Correspondents
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel...
Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916758.html
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dissent1 year, 8 months ago
But we HAVE left the Iraqi people to fend off outsiders, and the outsiders are US!!! The funny thing is you know it too. Without missing a beat you then go on to say "WE DO NOT BELONG THERE." I can see you're having some perceptual/conceptual issues here.
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Flyboy621 year, 8 months ago
On the contrary...What he means is we (Americans) are not compatible in a Muslim country. Many of us like to "Party Naked" and that is an offense punishable by death in most countries in the Middle East.
Women who disobey their husbands in these countries are summarily hanged in the town square. I could go on...
We are trying to fix something that's been broken for centuries. How can anyone expect it to be done in a year or two?
Also I don't think Sniper91 has been there recently as our folks are not working nearly as hard as we used to.
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KMFDM1 year, 8 months ago
Hey Sniper. We have our difference and really dont like each other but, I have to agree with you on that one. Regardless of how you feel wether this war is justified or not, we are stuck their for a time being. We sturred things up in the middle east really bad, and to just walk away would be foolish. I support any action that can efficiently bring this occupation to a end, so therefore I support the protestors, hopefully they will pressure our leaders to do that, and our soldiers who have sacrifices themselves for this war, regardless if it is right or wrong.
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miklkit1 year, 8 months ago
sniper91: I agree with you except that we need to do the honorable thing, admit we are wrong and withdraw.
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buckfush5001 year, 8 months ago
It's amazing how the right wingers can ravage a country (600,000 dead, 4 million refuges) and still claim the moral high ground. And all they have to do is call anyone who disagrees "liberals". The policies that they call liberal in the U.S. are exactly what they are pursuing in Iraq, under the guise of nation building. Nation building was always bad to them until now. I guess it's ok if you add a some bombing, killing and torture.
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Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
"(600,000 dead, 4 million refuges)"
Prove these ridiculous "facts". We have embedded reporters with our troops. If anything like this happened by our troops it would be all over the TV, newspapers, radio, etc. Throwing out numbers like that is just a rant. The mass graves were populated by Hussein and sons.
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mojobebop1 year, 8 months ago
it would seem the stategy is finally having an effect.
those on far left are equivilent to islamo-facists
in their fervor.
congress dems, & politicos would end it because any
victory now would help republicans.
nobody wants war. to pull out would be madness.
bush messed up. (as he did w/the borders).
but we have to do the right thing in iraq.
i support the troops. this war will be generations induration. without unity the us will fall.
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Flyboy621 year, 8 months ago
The sooner the misguided idealogy that was the 60's fades into obscurity the better it will be for the world.
The U.S. would not be in Iraq if Sadaam had simply
1. Not tried to "save face" by killing the Kurds in the north
2. Not tried to "save face" by doing the same to the Shia in the south
3. Demonstrated the disposal of the Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear weapons he posessed.
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
Just to compare Saddam's recordkeeping to the DoD - lol- wait, wait, let me catch my breath - lol,lmao....
$1 trillion unaccounted for, equipment, including tanks missing, thousands of weapons issued in Iraq whose location in 'unknown', Saddam's weapons caches located and not secured, contractor fraud, ...
Glass houses,... throw stones, ... and so on.
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aceofspades11 year, 8 months ago
Flyboy62 - I gotta say your comment on our presence in Iraq , although I do not agree with being there, is one of the most lucid postings on it here.
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chiefexecutivedomesinc1 year, 8 months ago
This war is all about oil theres no two ways about it . If Iraqs main product was bananas we would not be there.Additionally oil or petroleum is a finite resource once its gone its gone and we will have to find some renewable resource to replace it .Why wait why arent we spending even just a small fraction of what this "war" is costing on finding and developing more efficient ways of producing renewable fuels ?
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
Don't talk too soon - the U.S. has gone to war before for the United Fruit Company, it might again.
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Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago
I'm afraid your idea is far too bold for the losers in Wash. to grasp.
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