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jovial1 year, 8 months ago
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"The once cosmopolitan city of Baghdad has been ghettoised. Entire neighbourhoods have been segregated by concrete walls built by the occupation army. The capital is pockmarked with military checkpoints. The Bush administration claims that the "military surge" it ordered is responsible for the dip in the casualty figures from the middle of last year to early this year. According to many observers, the real reason for the dip in casualty figures is the ethnic cleansing that took place for four years in major population centres."
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engineer1 year, 8 months ago
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 8 months ago
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I'd love to see that happen engineer but in all reality I do not think it will ever happen. Congress has repeatedly failed to do anything but talk and the world court- while having warrants issued- may not have the required authority to bring these as*holes before a judge.
The people of the United States may want it and clamor for a trial, but the fact is none of the members -well maybe two, or three would - will never vote for impeachment and a trial.
That leaves only two possibilities. Neither is a good thing. One would require a revolution - hopefully a peaceful one - but very unlikely considering the power wielded by those in control and their reluctance to relinquish that power.
The second is to just give up which is just as bad as the first, since it would not change anything. I believe that is what is referred to as being between a rock and a hard place.
We can only hope something good will happen and all this is just a passing folly.
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Jaydee401 year, 8 months ago
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Remember when some of the Nazi's were brought to the Hague years after the Nuremberg trials by the famous Nazi hunters. They didn't always have the authority either but it didn't stop them did it? One can only hope that the world courts will some day do their job and then leave it up to others if the US fails to cooperate.
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Candida1 year, 8 months ago
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rightfromwrong1 year, 8 months ago
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The USA is fading fast...hyper inflation,middle class unemployment increasing rapidly and a unfathomable debt which is out of control. The USA military services are overstretched and this is why they had to use the national guard in Iraq otherwise they would have had to institute the draft which we all know would have been the end of the war. It was an illegal war with the administration being at least complicit in the 9/11 attacks.
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m-simon1 year, 8 months ago
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Yep. Inflation worse than Zimbabwe. Food riots in the streets. Agricultural production down 90%. Manufacturing production gone. Natural resources exhausted. Forest destroyed for fire wood.
And yet unemployment is at 5.1%. In 1996 under Clinton (best president ever) it was 5.6%.
How long can this go on before the government is overthrown?
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
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Only you twenty eight- percenter conjobs have the wisdom, keen insight and special secret powers to discern what most of the US and the international community haven't yet grasped--Bush is not only the best President to ever inhabit the White House, he's the purest, most perfect and most infallible immortal to ever grace human kind with his presence. if only others could see what wingjobs see so very clearly, the world would be a much better and wonderful place and oil would flow like liquid gold and rainbows and lil fluffy kittens would appear 24 hours a day. ;-)
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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Jaydee40:
The government does not act in our name. They ceased to do so years ago. They have become a government unto the wealthy and the corporations.
Those who cannot see that are sadly not looking hard enough.
We have become a nation of the money loving. Who seek to enrich ourselves thru the suffering of the rest of the world.
There will be those who deny it. Because it hurts for them to admit that greed is what drives America now.
God is not pleased with us or any nation right now. So I'm sick of hearing how God loves America more. Yes he blessed us and we took advantage of it. We think we are great when it is God who is great.
Lets see we haven't won a war in how long. I mean a real war. That would be since WWII.
I wonder why? Could it be our fearless leaders have sold out for money instead of integrity.
Now I love my country but not it's leaders!!!! They are foul and evil men who seek to ensnare the world in their evil.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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We are subjected to "state propaganda" from cradle to grave in true Pravda style. Many "patriotic myths" will have to go before change comes.
There They Go Again
The Crazy Rev. Wright
.. In 1957, Doubleday released Richard Wright's White Man Listen. .. he wrote "...the greatest aid that any white Westerner can give Africa is by becoming a missionary right in the heart of the Western world, explaining to his own people what they have done to Africa."
..Nobody expects the media to educate the public about Africa. The current coverage is consistent with the images found in the Tarzan movies. I'll settle for missionary work among the American public. Free them from entrapment by corporate media, which are causing their brain cells to atrophy. Teach them other points of views that are smothered by noise, and trivialized on You Tube. Then maybe they'll understand where crazy Rev. Wright is coming from.
http://www.counterpunch.com/reed03252008.html
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mark-stevens1 year, 8 months ago
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Cheney 1992 "going into Baghdad, and bringing down Hussien, would do nothing but create a quagmire"...of course, unless Haliburton got a 50 billion dollar contract to sweep the floors.
Have you noticed how few people, "now" voted for Bush!!
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miklkit1 year, 8 months ago
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Here's a link to him in 1994 saying that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY&feat...
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Georgia501 year, 8 months ago
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In the once cosmopolitan city of Bagdad, political dissent was answered with summary execution, often through painful and horrific means. Saddam's sons operated rape rooms with impunity. The underlying horror of Saddam's regime was whitewashed before the international community.
The violence we see now is how foreign-supported insurgents and indeed foreign mercenaries want to keep Iraq a lawless wasteland. With the help of mindless liberal politicians who seethe at the idea of a successful American intervention, they may yet succeed. Just as the North Vietnamese eventually wore down the ARVN a year after the US pulled out and all aid ceased. Then Iraq can become once again a sponsor and perpetrator of international terrorism.
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tchef1 year, 8 months ago
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The Mehdi Militia is lead by, and manned by Iraqis. Yes they have the support of Iran, but they are Iraqi Shiites. Our intervention at this time is just forestalling the inevitable. By bringing down Saddam we have merely opened this country up to civil war. This is the reason they didn't take out Saddam the first time.
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djn3nunez31 year, 8 months ago
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"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
Declaration of Independence.
Notice it says "their right" or "their duty". No where does it say our sons and daughter should be sacrificed spreading our form of democracy, or that we have any right or duty to right the wrongs that occur in other countries.
Our armed forces are tasked with protecting these united states.
Iraq was never a threat to us.
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