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Military Recruiting Vans visit local High Schools:
possible schedule:
Date School District / City Link (Address / Directions)
10/14 Clover Park H.S. Clover Park (Lakewood)
http://cpsd.cloverpark.k12.wa.us/Schools/HighSchools/CloverPark/CloverPark.asp
10/15 Curtis H.S. Unive. Place (Univ. Place)
http://www.upsd.wednet.edu/schools/chs/homepage/iepage.html
It was spotted at Edmonds / Woodway High School on October 12, 2004
at 1400 Hr PDT
Army Adventure Vans
- Is the Army coming to your community? Find out the schedules for the Army Recruiting Vans.
The U.S. Army and Navy Recruiting Commands are deploying a powerful
recruiting weapon -- and they're using America's schoolyards and classrooms
to do it. The Army Cinema Vans, the Army Cinema Pods, the
Army Adventure Van and the Navy Exhibit Centers are crisscrossing
the country as we speak, with high-tech "educational" shows
that glamorize military life.
See also http://www.usarec.army.mil/MSBn/Pages/adventure.htm (bottom) for a 360 degree zoomable view of the inside of one of these vans.
Monday, November 1, 2004
The War Comes Home: Vets find acceptance, help from their fellows
EDITOR'S NOTE: The war veterans in the South End Vets Group agreed to let a reporter sit in on a group session with the provision that their names not be used. The group meets Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. Vets interested in information can leave a message with Bill, Todd or Russ at 253-939-6541.
Weekend Edition
November 6 / 7, 2004
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
Lessons
They Won't Learn from November 2:
A Word from Nader; A Last Look at Kerry and Michael Moore
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Vets are front and center in this presidential race
NEW YORK -- To veterans cheering inside Madison Square Garden, President Bush is a decisive commander protecting America from terrorists.
To veterans protesting outside, Bush is a liar who misled the nation into war.
Wes Hamilton, a Vietnam veteran from Olympia, took a train across the country to New York this week to protest the Bush agenda. Hamilton, who was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July, said he's "outraged" by Bush's performance as commander in chief.
Friday, November 5, 2004 · Last updated 4:34 p.m. PT
Ohio machine error gives Bush extra votes
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.
Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.
All
Along the Watchtower By
William Rivers Pitt t
r u t h o u t | Opinion
Thursday,
20 June, 2002
Stanley
Hilton, a San Francisco attorney and former aide to Senator Bob
Dole, filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3rd.
The class-action suit names ten defendants, among whom are George W.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Norman Mineta.
Hilton's
suit charges Bush and his administration with allowing the September
11th attacks to take place so as to reap political benefits from the
catastrophe. Hilton alleges that Osama bin Laden is being used as
a scapegoat by an administration that ignored pressing warnings of the
attack and refused to round up suspected terrorists beforehand. Hilton
alleges the ultimate motivation behind these acts was achieved when
the Taliban were replaced by American military forces with a regime
friendly to America and its oil interests in the region.
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Kerry Supporters Largely Accurate
Swing Voters Also Misread Bush, But Not Kerry
As the nation prepares to watch the presidential candidates debate foreign policy issues, a new PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that Americans who plan to vote for President Bush have many incorrect assumptions about his foreign policy positions. Kerry supporters, on the other hand, are largely accurate in their assessments. The uncommitted also tend to misperceive Bush’s positions, though to a smaller extent than Bush supporters, and to perceive Kerry’s positions correctly. Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments: “What is striking is that even after nearly four years President Bush’s foreign policy positions are so widely misread, while Senator Kerry, who is relatively new to the public and reputed to be unclear about his positions, is read correctly.”
Kerry Won
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Kerry
won. Here's
the facts.
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America's next president The incompetent or the incoherent?
From The Economist print edition
With a heavy heart, we think American readers should vote for John Kerry on November 2nd
Economist Magazine Endorses Kerry
Guardian, UK -
... The conservative magazine, which backed the Iraq war, said it was supporting Kerry ``with a heavy heart,'' but that the errors of the Bush administration couldn ....
http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329802
'American Conservative' endorses Kerry
KATC, LA -
'The American Conservative.'. A magazine edited by three-time presidential candidate and conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, gave Kerry the nod. ...
It's Kerry!
The
American Conservative Endorses Kerry for President
Independent Media TV -
... magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative ...
Endorsing
the candidates
Louisville Courier Journal, KY -
... prematurely in Editor & Publisher magazine,
The Courier-Journal today endorses John Kerry for ... reports
that the traditionally conservative paper serving ...
Allawi
shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses
But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence.
Too much going on and too busy in Boston to report it all, but ask: Why police snipers on Boston State Capitol Building? Why Boston Fire Department personnel in SWAT outfits with Boston PD and Federal Protection Svc and Boston Transit Police and why Military Personnel being used in law enforcement actions in violation of the Posse Comitatis Act?
George Herbert Walker Bush's Carlyle Group is buying the Loew's Theater chain which is currently showing Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" movie. SEE IT NOW WHEN YOU STILL CAN.
I hope everybody is going to see FAHRENHEIT 911 this
weekend. I think that people will think again about (so called) focus
groups if this movie makes a box-office record for opening weekend sales.
Let's all go and see the movie they almost censured before we could
see it.
Showings are already selling out in some areas. You might have better
luck if you use Fandango.Com
which I used to get my tickets. The extra dollar per ticket is my assurance
that I have tickets for the 7:45 showing on Friday Night.
(Cliff)
There are two other great films out that you should recommend to the
group.
On is called "Control Room" (Varsity) which is all
about the Al Jazeera news
network. Thewre are some revealing shots of Rumsfeld in that one. The
other
is called "The Corporation" (Harvard Exit) and is a
very compelling piece
about corporations, what they are doing, and what we can do about it.
Rob
My thought for the day:
We seem to be trying to do what El Quaida doesn't want. Sometimes I wonder if we aren't doing what we might otherwise not want just to spite El Quaida. What are we SUPPOSED TO DO if El Quaida tells us to have a nice day? What do you do when Governor Ridge tells you to go to orange alert?
While Building Police, Iraqis Will Reduce Force Planned Buyout Program to Cut 30,000 Officers
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 20, 2004; Page A20
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has brought back so many of Saddam Hussein's
police officers and recruited so many new ones that a $60 million buyout
program is being created to cut their ranks by 25 percent, senior U.S.
government officials said.
Former U.S. Officials Call for a New Administration
Guantanamo should have been clue to future
Certainly there is such a culture, not only in our military, but, according to the polls, in as much as 40 percent of our population. The group of men and women propagating this culture took this country into an illegal war, laughing at the United Nations and the world's distress, saying to all who would listen that the United States is above the law -- or perhaps, the United States is the law.
This group of leaders established a prison in Guantanamo and bragged to the world that this prison was outside of all law except that of George W. Bush and his minions, that people would be held in that prison without charges or lawyers or any contact with the outside. In our first pictures of that prison (at that time), detainees could be seen with the same government issue canvas bags over their heads as the Iraqis wore in Abu Ghraib. And yes, though benign compared with the other atrocities, hooding a prisoner is also a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
How many times have we heard the commander in chief tell us that Iraqis are "thugs, killers"?
When four mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, who ordered punishment for the entire city? This was not a military action, but a war crime.
.Ken Slusher
Seattle
In Pictures: Israeli Peace Rally
Murky Facts on Sick G.I.s
by Juan Gonzalez
No soldier from a New York Army National Guard unit that returned from Iraq last month has so far tested positive for depleted uranium, Pentagon doctors claimed this week.
"None of the samples processed have measurable amounts of DU," said Lt. Col. Mark Melanson of the Army's Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in Aberdeen, Md.
Were you in SEATTLE in 1999 at the WTO Protests?
This is a message from the primary attorney on the litigation against the City of Seattle over the WTO. For those arrested at First Avenue and Broad Streets on December 1, 1999, there have been two important, recent developments in the case.
1. Judge Pechman finally gave her preliminary approval to the settlement reached in January. As a result, today we are mailing, to all of the class members for whom we have addresses, a notice explaining the details of the settlement and a claim form approved by the court. If you have given us your address, you should be receiving this sometime next week. To receive a settlement award, you MUST a) be a member of the class arrested at First and Broad, and b) return your claim no later than June 22, 2004. If you were arrested at First and Broad but do not receive a notice in the mail within 10 days, please either email us (at Allison@hagens-berman.com ) or call us at 1-877-694-0660 (press 9, then 7).
If you are returning a claim form but were arrested and booked as a John or Jane Doe, I strongly encourage you to provide us with whatever other information you have that indicates you are a class member, such as your processing number or a copy of your processing papers.
2. On our motion, Judge Pechman also recently ordered the City to seal the arrest records for all of those arrested at First and Broad, and furthermore to remove all records of the arrests from the databases it uses to give information to outside agencies. This should help considerably in clearing the records of those who were arrested at First and Broad, although even after the City cleans its databases, there may be some residual effect in national databases that have the old information. We had requested that the court order the City to inform any such databases, but the order did not go that far. A copy of the court's order is attached to this email.
For those arrested inside the city's no-protest zone, not at First and Broad, we continue to await the decision of the Ninth Circuit. We hope to eventually be able to send a similar email telling you that we have also recovered on your behalf and that your records have also been sealed. For now, all we can do is wait and hope the court rules in our favor.
Tyler Weaver
Hagens Berman LLP
The
Fallen Friday,
April 30
On Your Local ABC TV Station
The
war in Iraq began on March 19, 2003. Since that day, according to the
Department of Defense, 725 Americans have been killed in Iraq. We think
it is only fitting that for one night, we present their names. All we
would hope is that all of you who watch will take a moment at least to
think about that sacrifice.
• Controversy
Over 'The Fallen'
• Sept-Dec
2003 | June-Aug
| March-May
Stations to Boycott 'Nightline's' List of the Fallen
By Lisa de Moraes
Friday, April 30, 2004; Page C07
The country's largest owner of television stations announced yesterday that it has ordered its eight ABC affiliates not to carry tonight's "Nightline" broadcast, in which the names of hundreds of U.S. servicemen and women killed in Iraq will be read as their photographs appear on-screen.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest owners of TV stations across the country, yesterday made a unilateral decision to deprive hundreds of thousands of viewers the right to see tonight's Nightline broadcast honoring the soldiers killed in Iraq. That a corporation can tell the citizens in the communities they are supposed to serve that they have no right to view this program shows the incredible power of media consolidation.
Take Action Now!
Take Action: Call CEO David D. Smith at 410 568-1500 x1504
Take Action: Write CEO David D. Smith
Please pass this alert on to your friends and family.
Read the Washington Post Article.
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Kirkland
man dies in Iraq ambush
By Sara
Jean Green
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
Jake Herring received a Purple Heart after he was hit by shrapnel in December and could have come home to Kirkland.
Instead, he chose to stay in Iraq and fight.
The Lake Washington High School graduate died either yesterday or Tuesday in a roadside ambush west of Najaf, friends said yesterday. The 21-year-old member of the Fort Lewis-based Stryker Brigade was killed and three other soldiers were injured by rocket-propelled grenades.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Kirkland
soldier killed in Iraq
Wounded earlier, he stayed with unit -- and died
of second wound
Army Spc. Jake Herring, 20, of Kirkland might have come home after he was wounded in Iraq and received a Purple Heart.
Instead, the 2001 Lake Washington High School graduate remained with his unit, Fort Lewis' Stryker brigade.
Yesterday, Herring died after being wounded a second time in a Tuesday night grenade attack west of Mosul, Iraq. He was among four soldiers wounded in the attack. The Army rushed all of them to the 67th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, where Herring died.
April 20, 2004
Negroponte,
a Torturer's Friend
Bush's announcement that he intends to appoint John Negroponte
to be the U.S. ambassador to Iraq should appall anyone who respects human
rights.
Negroponte, currently U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., was U.S. ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s and was intimately involved with Reagan's dirty war against the Sandinistas of Nicaragua. Reagan waged much of that illegal contra war from Honduras, and Negroponte was his point man.
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David Korten: Renewing the American Experiment
David Korten believes we are at a critical juncture in history where the ruling and corporate elite are eager to roll back nearly 200 years of social progress. So what is the common citizen, with limited resources and access to media or power, to do? An insider in the development establishment for almost thirty years, David Korten has severed his ties to the past, and is now president of the People-Center Development Forum. He is the author of When Corporations Rule the World.
David Korten Renewing the American Experiment
April 25, 2004
Vietnamese advice to U.S.: Leave Iraq
Former foe warns of quagmire
NATION/WORLD
By BEN STOCKING
Knight Ridder Newspapers
HANOI, Vietnam -- The Vietnamese people have some friendly advice for the United States: Don't make the same mistake twice. Get out of Iraq before it's too late.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Veterans For Peace Offers A Debt of Gratitude
Saint Louis, MO (Veterans For Peace) April 22, 2004. We read, with dismay and anger, in the April 22 Seattle Times, of the firing of Tami Silicio and David Landry from Maytag Aircraft for taking a picture of flag-draped coffins in a military transport aircraft and allowing its publication. Tami is said to have hoped "the publication of the photo would help families of fallen soldiers understand the care and devotion that civilians and military crews dedicate to the task of returning the soldiers home."
(Note from the Webtender: Please DO NOT Hide the bodies of our American
Dead from the war. IF WE DO NOT KNOW, then when are we going to know when
to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.)
Air Force adds to controversy with its own coffin photos
By Hal
Bernton and Ray
Rivera
Seattle Times staff reporters
The week before Kuwait cargo worker Tami Silicio lost her job for releasing a photograph of soldiers' coffins, the Air Force made its own release of several hundred photographs of flag-draped coffins to the operator of an Internet site.
The Air Force photos were shot by personnel at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and released — reluctantly — in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by a 34-year-old First Amendment activist.
US
tactics condemned by British officers
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 11/04/2004)
Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate.
One senior Army officer told The Telegraph that America's aggressive methods were causing friction among allied commanders and that there was a growing sense of "unease and frustration" among the British high command.
The officer, who agreed to the interview on the condition of anonymity, said that part of the problem was that American troops viewed Iraqis as untermenschen - the Nazi expression for "sub-humans".
KCRW / NPR
/ KUOW TO THE POINT
April 22, 2004 - War and the Environment
Armed conflicts take a terrible human toll on human life, but what about
the places where they occur? Thursday, on this Earth Day, Warren Olney
looks at war and the environment, from the mountains of Afghanistan to
the marshes of Iraq.
Will air Thursday, April 22, 2004. [GUEST
LIST & LINKS]
show for
Thursday, April 22, 2004
War and the Environment
Armed conflicts take a terrible human toll on human life, but what about the places where they occur? Thursday, on this Earth Day, Warren Olney looks at war and the environment, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the marshes of Iraq.
NOTE: Dr Kilpatrick who was guest on this show. Dr. Doug Rokke has told us about Dr Kilpatrick. You can see how he talks and respond to the show. WE SHOULD PUSH TO GET DOUG ROKKE ON THIS SHOW.
This is a transcript from AM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 08:00 on ABC Local Radio.
You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO and WINDOWS MEDIA formats.
Sacked Defence adviser speaks out
AM - Monday, 12 April , 2004 08:00:50
Reporter: Alexandra Kirk
Ms Errey, a former bureaucrat with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, says she lost her job for refusing to write that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
She says she was asked to be party to, what she believed was "sexed up" propaganda about Iraq's capabilities, which she says would have misled the public.
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Woman loses her job over coffins photo
By Hal
Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based
cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers
was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.
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Military
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This week in the comic strip Doonesbury, the helmet-wearing character B.D. lost a leg in Iraq. And his military comrades had to take off B.D.'s helmet. Commentator Ben Walker says, for him, seeing B.D. without his helmet for the first time has brought home the impact of American casualties in the war. |
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
State veterans and troops' families feel betrayed on WMD issue
With Washington state contributing more than 10,000 hometown troops to the war in Iraq, some veterans of past wars and families of soldiers serving there feel deceived about the Bush administration's premises for the conflict.
For those who want to see another side of the issues Aljazeera.Net has an english edition
Sadr
backs UN peacekeepers
19/04/2004 13:29 - (SA)
Najaf, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has reversed his opposition to the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Iraq as long as certain conditions are met, a close aide said on Monday.
"We favour the despatch of such a force on condition that it be made up of Muslim countries or countries which did not join the occupation of Iraq, such as Russia, France or Germany," Qais al-Khazaali, spokesperson for Sadr's banned Mehdi Army militia said.
Peace Action board member Rahul Mahajan is currently in Iraq and is reporting via his web site’s blog http://www.empirenotes.org/
He is reporting what’s really occurring on the ground at great personal risk. It’s worth taking some time to check out his valuable work.
Best,Scott Scott Lynch
Communications Director
Peace Action National Office
Pre-election
attack warning
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 19, 2004
WASHINGTON - The
United States is bracing for possible terrorist attacks before the November
presidential election, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said
yesterday.
Thousands protest Israel's killing of Rantissi
Demonstrators call for jihad
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, April 19, 2004
CAIRO: Tens of thousands of Palestinians and their Arab sympathizers took to the streets across the Middle East on Sunday in angry demonstrations against Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz Rantissi.
Refugee camps in Jordan exploded in protest after Rantissi's death Saturday in an Israeli missile strike, the second major hit against Hamas after the extremist movement's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was killed last month.
George
Bush and the Rise of Christian Fascism
Rev. Rich Lang
Trinity United Methodist Church Seattle. <oddrev@yahoo.com>
02/14/04: (ICH) The men who wrote the Constitution of the United States knew that we human beings have a tendency to 'not get along with each other'. They knew that if power accrued into the hands of an elite the experiment of democracy (power spread out into the realm of the people) would be over. So they created a system of checks and balances which blocked access to any one person, or any one special interest or elite gaining too much power over others. Thus our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government "checked" each other. The media was yet another "check" on the accrual of too much power as was the Bill of Rights which was written into the Constitution. The system wasn't perfect but it kept alive the possibility of true democracy. It kept alive the dream that one day "we the people" could live in a peaceful commonwealth where every person has what they need to survive and thrive.
Rev. Rich Lang on The Rise of Christian Fascism
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/169362_vvicky16.html
In Their Own Words: Vicky Monk, peace activist and mother soldier in Iraq
Friday, April 16, 2004
EDITOR'S NOTE: On Wednesday, a number of American military families seeking the return of U.S. troops from Iraq went to the White House to present letters to the Bush administration and scatter flowers in honor of lives lost. This is the Washington, D.C., account of Vicky Monk, a Sammamish peace activist and mother of 21-year-old Army Spc. Tim Monk, one of about 21,000 soldiers in Iraq whose tours have just been extended beyond the promised year's duty. Their mother-son story was profiled in the Seattle P-I on Dec. 10, 2003. To read that story, go to: www.seattlepi.com/local/151822_clyke10.html
UNVERIFIED, BUT PERSISTENT STORY (ALSO REPORTED ON PACIFICA RADIO: DOWNLOAD THE MP3 FROM APRIL 15, 2004)
M I L I T A R Y M A T T E R S | no. 22
The Bridge — A Rant
by Stan Goff
WARNING: This commentary may cause anxiety.
The United States government has initiated a chain reaction that it can no longer control. The stalled vengeance assault on Fallujah is merely a symptom. So is the uprising triggered by the US closure of a Shia newspaper in Sadr City, Baghdad, followed by the gunning down of the demonstrators who protested. (Ah, yes, we don't even hear about that when they talk about the latest demon, Muqtada al-Sadr… Memory is so short.)
Maureen Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
April 6, 2004
by Maureen Farrell
On Dec. 31, 2003, New York Times columnist and former Nixon speech writer William Safire offered his standard New Year’s predictions. This time, however, one item stood out. In addition to speculating on everything from which country would next "feel the force of U.S. liberation" to who would win the best picture Oscar, Safire predicted that "the 'October surprise' affecting the U.S. election" would be "a major terror attack in the United States." [Salt Lake Tribune]
Bush: Nothing in pre-Sept. 11 memo to warn of terror attacks
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READ BOTH PAGES of the Presidential Daily Briefing from August 6, 2004
Join fellow veterans in signing the Veterans Call for Nuclear Disarmament letter. It will be delivered to members of Congress as they debate funding increases for nuclear weapons. Partner with Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI) and Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) to help make our world a safer place.
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With best regards,
Charles Sheehan-Miles
Executive Director, Nuclear Policy Research Institute
Board of Directors , Veterans for Common Sense
Poisoned?
Shocking report reveals local troops may be victims of america's high-tech weapons
By JUAN GONZALEZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq
are contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium
shells fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found.
They are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military
Police, who say they have been battling persistent physical ailments that
began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah.
Friday, April 2, 2004
In the Northwest: In Europe's eyes, Bush's U.S. is a world-class villain
By
JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
EDMONDS -- During more than 30 years of traveling, writing and filming TV shows in Europe, Rick Steves has never found feelings toward an American government so hostile as today's attitudes about the Bush administration.
The Puget Sound-based travel entrepreneur cites a gag in which mug shots of President Bush are being plastered on "Beware of Dog" signs across Western Europe.
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
On Wednesday night at 8:00 pm (check your local listings for the time in your area) on CBS, 60 Minutes II aired (erred?) a segment on Camilo Mejia, the Florida National Guard Staff Sargeant who did not return to Iraq from R&R leave and has recently turned himself in. Camilo, having served in Iraq (AFTER SERVING ALL 8 YEARS OF HIS CONTRACT HONORABLY) , has taken a stand of conscience against war, has filed an application for conscientious objector status and has spoken out against the war in Iraq. He is the son of MFSO member Maritza Castillo. You can get more information at the CBSNews.com website at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/29/60II/main609216.shtml
Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants
Silent
Genocide
By Robert C. Koehler
03/25/04 "Tribune Media Services" -- "After the Americans destroyed
our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing
to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted
them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death."
This will not be easy to read, especially if you've projected evil out
of your own heart, into some cave in Afghanistan or a spider hole in Iraq,
and reduced the age-old question it inspires to this one: How can we bomb
it off the face of the earth?
Before the damage we inflict grows greater, before history's judgment
gets worse, before we contaminate the whole world - even before we vote
in the next election - we must stop what we're doing. We must stop now.
It's time to listen for a moment not to defense analysts briefing officers,
pols or pundits, but to people like Jooma Khan, a grandfather who lives
in a village in Laghman Province, in northeastern Afghanistan
Special Feature
President Bush, VP Cheney, and Top Advisors Made over 200 Misleading Public Statements on Iraq Threat
A detailed report and accompanying searchable database released by Rep. Waxman identifies 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice in 125 separate public appearances.
- Iraq on the Record Report and Database
Introduction
A year after US-led forces launched war on Iraq, the promise of improved human rights for Iraqis remains far from realized. Most Iraqis still feel unsafe in a country ravaged by violence.
Every day Iraqis face threats to their lives and security. Violence is endemic, whether in the form of attacks by armed groups, abuses by the occupying forces, or violence against women. Millions of people have suffered the consequences of destroyed or looted infrastructure, mass unemployment and uncertainty about their future. And there is little or no confidence that those responsible for past and present human rights abuses will be brought to justice.
Washington State Congressional Delegation and Iraq
by Dana Briggs and Audrey Byrd
March 18, 2004
Article VI of the Constitution mandates that each federal-level
official take an oath of office. This oath and its text are set
by statute (5 U.S.C., §3331). In part, the oath states, "I
do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution
of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; …"
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