tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52125142011-07-07T16:26:30.244-07:00Margot B War NewsHighlights from the Iraq invasion & beyondMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-53289235022227993882010-04-21T09:13:00.000-07:002010-04-21T09:14:09.895-07:00"Imposed" Mideast Solution Would Stoke Violence - Israel FMJERUSALEM (Reuters) - In a veiled warning to U.S. President Barack Obama, Israel's foreign minister said on Tuesday that any move to impose a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians would lead to greater conflict."Any attempt to force a solution on the parties without establishing the foundation of mutual trust will only Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-47609184472242412042010-04-21T08:19:00.000-07:002010-04-21T08:20:14.805-07:00Toxic Nail Salons: Why Your Nail Polish Color Could be the Next Agent Orange"Pick a color!" a pretty, 38-year-old woman named Pong orders, as I enter Tower Nails, a typical Bay Area nail salon owned and staffed by Vietnamese immigrants of childbearing age.Reds, corals, pinks, creams, blacks, blues, even Kelly greens. Selecting a polish can be as stimulating as shopping for baby names, a fun and Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-59587467119848648072010-03-02T13:14:00.000-08:002010-03-02T13:16:59.943-08:00(Leonard Peltier, May 1976) Share When colonial white society invades and occupies our territoriesthese are not called criminal acts.But when Native people stand up and resist,these acts are considered criminal.But these are not crimes.They are political acts in which our people stand upfor their rights of self-determination, self-dignity, and self-respectagainst the cruel and oppressive might ofMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-66162477844703262812007-04-01T12:11:00.001-07:002007-04-01T12:11:54.529-07:00Dianne Feinstein resigns committee post amid scandal; accused of war profiteeringSource: www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.htmlPosted by Joshua Holland at 12:52 PM on March 30, 2007. SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-44779889260266559432007-02-14T18:33:00.000-08:002007-02-14T18:34:35.811-08:00Conspiracy Theories and Plain Old Liesby Marlow BWe hear a lot of what we assume are conspiracy theories and don't have time to check them out as well as not paying that much attention to the news anyway. We don't have time for that and by most of those around us, we're considered a bit obsessed if we spend too much time on it. Before I retired I got most of my news from the mainstream media and Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-39551675833263696502007-01-01T21:42:00.001-08:002007-01-01T21:42:42.554-08:00Conveniently forgottenSaddam committed most of his crimes when he was an ally of those who now occupy his countryBy Tariq Ali01/01/07 "The Guardian" --- It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging - most of it shown on state television in occupied Iraq. It has been that sort of year in the Arab world. The trial was so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch had to condemn it as Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1164161558347724252006-11-21T18:12:00.000-08:002006-11-21T18:13:56.286-08:00My Election MusingsNov 21st, 2006 in politics by Marlow B America was the big winner in the mid-term election of 2006. The Dem's control both houses of Congress. So now what? We have Nancy Pelosi as Leader of the House starting in '07. She said she wants to clean up the ethics problem that has plagued us for eons in Congress, especially for the last 12 years, all 12 of which have been Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1153939469528104002006-07-26T11:44:00.000-07:002006-07-26T11:44:29.546-07:00You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1152833326830312542006-07-13T16:28:00.000-07:002006-07-13T16:31:05.976-07:00Generous with the fortunes they did nothing to deserveDo they expect us to be grateful?July 14, 2006 Alan Maass examines the philanthropy of today’s robber barons.BILL GATES and Warren Buffett have grabbed headlines lately not for the usual reason of the record fortunes they’ve amassed, but because of the record sums they plan to give away to charity.In June, Gates--cofounder of Microsoft and theMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1152597008050585082006-07-10T22:49:00.000-07:002006-07-10T22:50:58.386-07:00AGE OF GRIEFby John ZerzanA pervasive sense of loss and unease envelops us, a cultural sadness that can justly be compared to the individual who suffers a personal bereavement.A hyper-technologized late capitalism is steadily effacing the living texture of existence, as the world's biggest die-off in 50 million years proceeds apace: 50,000 plant and animal species disappear each year (World Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1151547323593959122006-06-28T19:15:00.000-07:002006-06-28T19:15:23.603-07:00Is Civilization Worth it?As things get worse and worse for us, we're going to need more and more of all the things that give us relief and oblivion and all the things that get us revved up and excited. More religion, more revolution, more drugs, more television channels, more sports, more casino's, more pornography, more lotteries, more access to the Web-more and more and more of it all-to give Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1148873281085627472006-05-28T20:27:00.000-07:002006-05-28T20:28:01.093-07:00The political character/figures have always been Pretenders. They read their scripts on stage. They serve the public no good. ...Shakespeare My ProfileMy Web SiteMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1145139064650697202006-04-15T15:10:00.000-07:002006-04-15T15:12:05.066-07:00Cynthia under attack by Ian BuckleyWith Fox News leading the way, the story of Cynthia McKinney's scuffle with a Capitol cop continues to make the headlines in the United States. An absurdity, one would have thought, given the original incident.The Capitol Hill policeman in question supposedly failed to recognise Congresswoman McKinney, grabbed hold of her, and she responded by allegedly hitting Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1142216953960876792006-03-12T18:29:00.000-08:002006-03-12T18:29:13.983-08:00Scooter Libby’s Client, Marc RichBy: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 11.03.2006 [05:48 ] (136 reads) Marc Rich, Scooter and Bush (22421 bytes) [c] Sophists and Other Scoundrels Part 2: Scooter Libby’s Client, Marc Rich (Part 1: Scooter Libby's Mentor) By Linda Minor October 28, 2005 “The man attacking my integrity and reputation – and, I believe, quite possibly the person who exposed my wife’s Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1140477058968791702006-02-20T15:10:00.000-08:002006-03-12T18:31:34.200-08:00BOROWIT: HALLIBURTON WINS CONTRACT TO RECONSTRUCT CHENEY'S REPUTATION:The Borowitz report offers this satire—or is it?While Halliburton has been known for massive reconstruction projects in such war-torn nations as Iraq, the $42 billion contract represents the first time that the company has been employed to put its reconstruction expertise to work on one embattled human being.“At the White HouseMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1136340857043134972006-01-03T18:13:00.000-08:002006-01-03T18:16:24.913-08:00The Last Word: Noam Chomsky A Tale of Two QuagmiresNewsweek InternationalJan. 9, 2006 issue - Noam Chomsky has been called one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, but it's an accolade the 77-year-old MIT professor doesn't take very seriously. "People just want to hear something outside the rigid dogma they're used to," he says. "They're not going to hear it in the media." Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1134284337077739892005-12-10T22:58:00.000-08:002005-12-10T22:59:58.316-08:00Brother George's Traveling Salvation ShowBy Malcom Lagauche (Jeff Archer)February 9-10, 2004George Bush is tired of running for the presidency of the United State. He's already been there and done that. With recent speeches, one could assume that he is running for a higher position - God's vice president.The president has taken the issue of same-sex marriage and elevated it to a religious level. Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1133116949405375642005-11-27T10:42:00.000-08:002005-11-27T10:42:29.426-08:00America's Corporatocracy Says "No MAS" by Jason MillerWhile he may be dead in the corporal sense, the spirit of Simon Bolivar continues to wage the struggle for freedom from oppression. Hugo Chavez is perhaps the most familiar incarnation of Bolivar's élan vital as he defies the neocolonial policies of the United States, a nation which has supplanted the European colonial empires as looters of Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1132603795522069432005-11-21T12:09:00.000-08:002005-11-21T12:18:56.496-08:00 Dispatch: Bombed in Beijing China’s development is stunning, but not as stunning as the Goddess of Tiananmen Square. By Stewart NusbaumerThis is Stewart’s second dispatch from China, the first is Astounded in China.Beijing, China -- “Hi, me Susie. Where you from?” I turn to my left -- instantly stop! “Ah, the West End Bar,” I stammer. “Huh?” “I mean New York.” With the slanted eyes of Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1131739417983796402005-11-11T12:03:00.000-08:002005-11-11T12:04:31.700-08:00Judy is Out; Wants It Made Clear She Didn’t Screw Libby (Just the American Public) In reporting that Judy Miller is leaving the New York Times (a great victory for the Times newsroom, the blogosphere, and journalism -- sorry no one gets the baklava!), the Times makes a big deal of the dust up over Miller’s anger at a memo in which Bill Keller wrote of “Judy’s entanglement with Libby”.Judy Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1130042643263515522005-10-22T21:43:00.000-07:002005-10-22T21:59:12.503-07:00Source: Orion magazine: www.oriononline.org From the Faraway NearbyRebecca SolnitFire In the SouthIf you want to see what Democracy could be, look to Latin AmericaTHE MOST EXHILARATING and the most promising things going on at this particular moment in history have hardly made news in the USA, or bits and pieces have without a summary that says: Latin America is on fire with revolutions that Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1128814871015851992005-10-08T16:41:00.000-07:002005-10-08T16:43:06.570-07:00** Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **** http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** Open Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi ConstitutionThe following letter was composed by members of the Brussels Tribunal, one of the groups from the WorldTribunal on Iraq. For those interested in international law and theupcoming referendum vote on the Iraqi constitution, this is a must read:We would like to Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1122774368592444592005-07-30T18:46:00.000-07:002005-07-30T18:46:08.596-07:00'I sat there in agony thinking about all that had led me to this private hell. My idealism, my patriotism, my ambition, my plans to be a good intelligence officer to help my country fight the communist scourge - what in the hell had happened? Why did we have to bomb the people we were trying to save? Why were we napalming young children? Why did the CIA, my employer for 16 years, report lies Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1122635156686477452005-07-29T04:05:00.000-07:002005-07-29T04:05:56.693-07:00"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1120678471548994992005-07-06T12:34:00.000-07:002005-07-06T12:34:31.553-07:00"We joke about having transferred from the Marine Corps to the Oil Corps, or the Petrol Battalion, and while we laugh at our jokes and think we're damn funny jarheads, we know we might soon die ... squandered lives with the comedy of combat and being deployed to protect oil reserves and the rights and profits of certain American companies, many of which have direct ties to the White House.”-- Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1119771467872643272005-06-26T00:37:00.000-07:002005-06-26T00:39:22.853-07:00[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus: =Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellowMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1119229485188634782005-06-19T18:04:00.000-07:002005-06-19T18:56:44.900-07:00 NewsletterDate :June 17 2005Why do we do the things we do? Why do we continually make such a mess of things? Temptationby Terrance Watson We are constantly faced with a choice to do good or do evil. At least that’s what they say. But maybe it’s not that simple. A man will gladly cheat his brother, but he will never cheat himself. He’d cheat a cousin before he’d cheat a brother. A man will Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1117509073015127102005-05-30T20:11:00.000-07:002005-05-30T20:11:13.020-07:00Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak: Ralph ChaplinMy ProfileMy Web siteMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1117487589134555862005-05-30T14:12:00.000-07:002005-05-30T14:13:09.156-07:00US Media Censors Uranium Weapons Stories - Depleted Uranium Turns to Poison GasDedication for the year 2120.A Dedication in 2120 might say: Dedicated to the memory of the Iraqi people. Many people believe Iraq was the birthplace of civilization some 5,000 years ago. Iraq was destroyed and radioactively contaminated in an early 21st Century Oil War by a fascist world power, now Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1117422366981963612005-05-29T20:05:00.000-07:002005-05-29T20:06:06.986-07:00The War Prayerby Mark Twain"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1116724495557517932005-05-21T18:14:00.000-07:002005-05-21T18:14:55.563-07:00'This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed . were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.': Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.My ProfileMy Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1115427666937756752005-05-06T18:00:00.000-07:002005-05-06T18:23:10.293-07:00Bush's European Vacation QUESTION: Mr. President, thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to talk to you. You're going to Europe, commemorating 60 years of liberation in Europe. You could have gone to many countries, why did you choose to go to Holland? THE PRESIDENT: First of all, Holland was a stalwart, and the people of Holland were brave and courageous when it came to resisting Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1115302863728023622005-05-05T07:20:00.000-07:002005-05-06T18:16:05.833-07:00George Bush's Fascist AdministrationTopic: spoon-in-his-nose -spoon-in-his-nose Class War: - Even as George Bush ordered the weapons inspectors to leave Iraq the inspectors were supervising the destruction of Iraqi missiles. The inspection process was working. Diplomacy works. Containment works...But war also works. War works for them. It works for Boeing and it works for Halliburton. It works Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1114139122930702782005-04-21T20:05:00.000-07:002005-04-21T20:21:14.920-07:00Obviously Iraq couldn't even come close to matching the extent of destructiveness from the West nor from even the United States alone. Nor can al-Qaeda or Libya or any other Third World country and neither does any other country in the United Nations Security Council. In fact the U.S. spends more, to bully other countries into doing what the U.S. wants, and euphemistically calls it "defense"; Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1111018631152208992005-03-16T16:16:00.000-08:002005-03-16T16:19:21.136-08:00"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1109246594772665422005-02-24T04:02:00.000-08:002005-02-24T04:05:29.640-08:00Can't Turn A Lie Into The TruthAt first every U.S. war is supported by the masses but eventually the truth is disclosed and U.S. misbehavior exposed - and then we hear about the cover-ups, black operations, the massacres, prisoner abuse, intentional targeting of civilians and the death and wounding of Americans and it all seeps out slowly like an oozing wound. The truth has been wounded so many Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1108857281243477822005-02-19T15:54:00.000-08:002005-02-19T16:01:37.336-08:00Silent Holocaust"For the people of Iraq, for the children of Iraq, from the radiation tothe embargo, the war has never ended. There is no escape into normalityand there is no hiding place," says Felicity Arbuthnot. When ProfessorMagne Raundalen, director of the Center for Crisis Psychology in Bergen,Norway, a world-renowned child psychologist and veteran observer ofchildren's terrors in almost Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1108571550914867832005-02-16T08:31:00.000-08:002005-02-19T15:58:45.106-08:00Truly Allah favours the Muslims http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293343853Let's see if I've got this right: * A Muslim hiding in a cave in Afghanistan masterminds the greatest spy operation in History. * The intelligence services of the Western World can't stop it. * The Muslim shuts down the civil air defence systems of North America AND accesses the secret Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1107818858994977732005-02-07T15:27:00.000-08:002005-02-08T12:04:49.080-08:00New Declaration of Independence
We have been asked by a number of people to post this without the Pythonesque humour as it appears to have struck a chord with many of you. What has been pointed out to us is that although when written it was an attempt to show Dubya up as the bumbling fool that he is, the actual content is very scary and very relevant to Americans who value their freedom.........Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1106854963651878732005-01-27T11:40:00.000-08:002005-01-27T11:48:56.683-08:00Full article here
Being with us --- means that you believe that it was us who liberated Europe, it was us who liberated Auschwitz, --- But, to be historically accurate, it wasn’t even us who liberated Auschwitz. As it appears, it was Stalin, the other evil.
Being with us means that you are not supposed to ask too many questions about our own immoral conduct. For instance, you don’t ask why Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1104524238657351852004-12-31T13:17:00.000-08:002004-12-31T12:20:52.553-08:00"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'" : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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" The liberty of a Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1103426091697104472004-12-18T19:14:00.000-08:002004-12-18T19:15:42.016-08:00The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1101374602451276322004-11-25T01:23:00.000-08:002004-11-25T01:24:18.220-08:00No one is taken in by the US lies
The graves of Falluja show the reality of Iraq's occupation
Rana Kabbani
Tuesday November 23, 2004
The Guardian
In an ideal world, the US-appointed interim prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, would find himself answerable for his craven obeisance to his American overlords, instead of using this week's Sharm el-Sheikh conference as an excuse to condemn those Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1100412849887483252004-11-13T22:13:00.000-08:002004-11-13T22:15:36.190-08:00I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder,
and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged: Anne Frank: Jewish girl author Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1100165258159210232004-11-11T01:27:00.000-08:002004-11-11T01:27:38.160-08:00"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more
Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count -
at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where
there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill."
George W. Bush
-Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004
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My Web SiteMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1098209504790591262004-10-19T11:11:00.000-07:002004-10-19T11:11:44.790-07:00Spotted Tail [Sinte-Galeska] (1823-1881)
Native American Chief of the Brule Sioux
“This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. . . . This war has come from robbery--from the stealing of our land.”
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1097191835978230562004-10-07T16:29:00.000-07:002004-10-07T16:31:19.936-07:00
America was founded on the blood, torture, and genocide of MILLIONS!! of Indians!...on theft of Indian lands, deception, fraud, and dishonesty with a long history of protest and dissent. Indeed, it could be argued that had the American Revolution not been co-opted by the rich and powerful this country might have been great. However, even the failure of the revolution to accomplish real Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1096761985146132062004-10-02T17:06:00.000-07:002004-10-02T17:06:25.146-07:00"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1096761870559092962004-10-02T17:04:00.000-07:002004-10-02T17:04:30.560-07:00Brain Dead, Made of Money, No Future at All
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 17 August 2004
To: George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear George:
A pretty awful joke has been making the rounds lately. Some might say it's an awful joke because of the comparison. Most, however, think it's an awful joke because it isn't funnyMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1095296174688962452004-09-15T17:56:00.000-07:002004-09-15T17:58:00.240-07:00The Saudis with all their newfound wealth needed alliances and that is where James Bath and George Bush came in and were important to them. Favors beget favors and patience is a virtue in that part of the world. Favors and support which was guaranteed then comes back later and that is why Prince Bandar kept those ties close and used them to get Saudis out of the country after 9/11 (See Michael Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1095222940226584942004-09-14T21:35:00.000-07:002004-09-14T21:35:40.226-07:00"The ever-growing social inequality in America is incompatible with any meaningful conception of democracy, because democracy has more than just political dimensions. It has economic dimensions as well. A society which permits (let alone encourages) such disparities in wealth has a shallow notion of democracy, indeed. In fact, one might say that there is an unbridgeable contradiction between Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1094482383100965952004-09-06T07:52:00.000-07:002004-09-06T07:53:03.100-07:00War Is A Racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes: Major General Smedley Butler. 1881 - 1940Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1094186996694731212004-09-02T21:49:00.000-07:002004-09-02T21:49:56.693-07:00President Declares "Ownership Society"
Tells Convention He's Ordered Invasion of Social Security Trust Fund
by Greg Palast
[New York] Of all the bone-headed, whacky, breathtakingly threatening schemes George W. Bush is trying to sell us in his acceptance speech tonight is something he and his handlers call, "the Ownership Society." Sounds cool, "ownership." Everyone gets a piece of the action. Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1093724636712139332004-08-28T13:23:00.000-07:002004-08-31T23:13:43.310-07:00" ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press.Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1093116335143058082004-08-21T12:25:00.000-07:002004-08-21T12:25:35.143-07:00Brain Dead, Made of Money, No Future at All
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 17 August 2004
To: George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear George:
A pretty awful joke has been making the rounds lately. Some might say it's an awful joke because of the comparison. Most, however, think it's an awful joke because it isn't funnyMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1092582528656534222004-08-15T08:08:00.000-07:002004-08-15T08:08:48.656-07:00Mad Hatter
It seems that the 'Mad Hatter' policies emanating form the heart of the plutocratic Empire are not just the work of one person. Rather, they emanate from a cabal of religious fanatics bent on an insane and irrational religious crusade that will, most likely, lead to another series of military clashes alike in their brutality to what we have seen imposed on Iraq.
Goals and Strategy ofMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1091047060717011322004-07-28T13:37:00.000-07:002004-07-28T13:37:40.716-07:00The Third Reich.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000:
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich."
-John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum
4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating, "Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals."
Who made Hitler?
Bush Finances Hitler.
http://www.ciagents.com/Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1090300967673539292004-07-19T22:22:00.000-07:002004-07-19T22:22:47.673-07:00 Bush and WWII
from George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley &
Anton Chaitkin
Chapter - II - The Hitler Project
Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy
In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was
preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush
was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son
George,Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1086542145997567522004-06-06T10:15:00.000-07:002004-06-06T10:15:45.996-07:00Nothing Learned in 60 Years
"But neutrality, the avoidance of war, is not the normal aim of governments. Governments are 100%
useless appendages to any society, and have to work to justify their existence in the eyes of those they
rule; one way to do so, proven effective by 5,000 bloody years of history, is to excite small boys -- and
adults with a juvenile perspective -- with the idea of Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1082522363067317592004-04-20T21:39:00.000-07:002004-04-20T21:43:21.936-07:00On March 18, two days before the U.S. invasion, Barbara Bush had an interview with ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer.
''Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen?'' Mrs. Bush declared. ''It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'' Maybe she is right, but I don't think so.
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1080187512142105682004-03-24T20:05:00.000-08:002004-03-24T20:08:35.716-08:00"Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck.
The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for theyMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-108000306737303502004-03-22T16:51:00.000-08:002004-03-22T16:54:28.340-08:00"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1079899959217311242004-03-21T12:12:00.000-08:002004-03-21T12:15:58.356-08:00"COWARDICE, n. A charge often levelled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These 'cowards' are to be contrasted with red-blooded, 'patriotic' youths who literally bend over, grab their ankles, submit to the governmentMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1079767972067394282004-03-19T23:32:00.000-08:002004-03-19T23:36:09.000-08:00They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1079767850678102452004-03-19T23:30:00.000-08:002004-03-19T23:34:07.640-08:00"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses." -Edward Abbey
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1072773839780052482003-12-30T00:43:00.000-08:002003-12-30T00:45:29.450-08:00A senior State Department official, who is active in public diplomacy, says he starts his day pondering the antipathy to the United States.
"Why, in Jordan, do people think Osama bin Laden is a better leader than George Bush?" he asked. "It's not just Arabs who are angry with the United States. It's worldwide."
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1072678642812151452003-12-28T22:17:00.000-08:002003-12-28T22:18:51.403-08:00”The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.” --Plutarch (46-120), Greek historianMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1072309330414207532003-12-24T15:42:00.000-08:002003-12-24T15:43:33.030-08:00"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." -John AdamsMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1072136801891023912003-12-22T15:46:00.000-08:002003-12-22T15:48:01.826-08:00The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1071915848948808332003-12-20T02:24:00.000-08:002003-12-20T02:25:25.860-08:00First published From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College. "The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1071427918749258652003-12-14T10:51:00.000-08:002003-12-14T10:53:07.780-08:00"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 - 399 BCMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1070585293771411922003-12-04T16:48:00.000-08:002003-12-04T16:53:29.483-08:00To 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: (1918)
Margot B World NewsMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1070408396537451522003-12-02T15:39:00.000-08:002003-12-04T16:51:56.030-08:00"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." (Noam Chomsky, The Chronicles of Dissent)
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1068929097326814602003-11-15T12:44:00.000-08:002003-11-15T12:45:27.436-08:00"The Arabs have the oil, but I have the match" -- Ariel SharonMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1068399482407771332003-11-09T09:38:00.000-08:002003-11-09T09:38:24.640-08:00War is at best barbarism. . . . It is only those who have never . . . heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
— William Tecumseh Sherman, Graduation Address
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1068313259404838662003-11-08T09:40:00.000-08:002003-12-04T16:55:43.293-08:00Countdown to Armageddon - Are the Israelis willing to start World War III?
Israel's arming of US-supplied Harpoon missiles with nuclear warheads has triggered a serious escalation in the Mideast. "The Arabs have the oil, but I have the match" -- Ariel Sharon - M. R.
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1068228114669834922003-11-07T10:01:00.000-08:002003-11-07T10:02:14.810-08:00"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe, because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."
PRESIDENT BUSH
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1067304676480053622003-10-27T17:31:00.000-08:002003-10-27T17:31:22.200-08:00"Didn't we secure the oil fields? Aren't we a capitalist country anymore? Can't we sidestep OPEC now? Can't we at least, somewhere in the midst of deception, half-truths and outright lies, catch an honest break? If we're going to fight for a cause that isn't known, get fired on by our own weapons, and get screwed out of our benefits, then at least for God's sake give us something concrete to say Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1067207832055023012003-10-26T14:37:00.000-08:002003-10-26T14:37:16.200-08:00"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice."
—Lord Acton, quoted by US Federal District Court Judge Wolf
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1066352408834112042003-10-16T18:00:00.000-07:002003-10-16T18:00:09.020-07:00People close to the president say that his conversion to evangelical Methodism, after a life of aimless carousing, markedly informs his policies, both foreign and domestic. In the soon-to-be-published The Faith of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), a sympathetic account of this religious journey, author Stephen Mansfield writes (in the advance proofs) that in the election year 2000, Bush told Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1066082316150820332003-10-13T14:58:00.000-07:002003-10-13T14:58:35.516-07:00About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to
the Prophecies,and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor
and opposition. ---Sir Isaac Newton
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1065644043290737912003-10-08T13:14:00.000-07:002003-10-08T13:15:51.283-07:00The Independent - Robert Fisk
Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The US
Officially, Iraq contains 12 per cent of the world's oil reserves - two-thirds of the world's reserves are in just four other countries, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and the Emirates - but it could contain 20 per cent, even 25 per cent. It's possible to argue that it was Saddam's decision to switch from the dollar to Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1065628564442668212003-10-08T08:56:00.000-07:002003-10-08T08:56:03.853-07:00Putin Says U.S. Faces Big Risks in Iraqi Mission --President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says the United States now faces in Iraq the possibility of a prolonged, violent and ultimately futile war like the one that mired the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. "How would the local population treat forces whose official name is the occupying forces?" he asked, suggesting that further hostility to the Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1065504730240085192003-10-06T22:32:00.000-07:002003-10-06T22:32:09.970-07:00What commentators say about George W Bush
'Bush and his crew are looking desperate as the Iraq occupation becomes more of a problem ... Even Republicans on Capitol Hill are restless over his $87 billion budget request for Iraq ... people are questioning Bush's credibility over Iraq. They should'
Leader in the Nation
'Bush is in a lot of trouble. I think they know that now. They could lose this Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064850024272136682003-09-29T08:40:00.000-07:002003-09-29T08:40:24.086-07:00"President Bush revealed this week precisely how well the hunt for Saddam Hussein is coming along: 'I occasionally get a report that, you know, we thought we had him or, you know, we were close to him or something like that...' Thank you, Beavis..." -Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064693890235240642003-09-27T13:18:00.000-07:002003-09-27T13:18:10.216-07:00Rumsfeld's plan to provoke terrorists -- Buried deep in one of its Sunday issues late last October, the Los Angeles Times published a story by military analyst William Arkin about a slew of secret armies the Pentagon had been creating around the world. One such force caught the eye of Moscow Times columnist and regular CounterPunch contributor Chris Floyd, who picked up on the tip and ran with itMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064684708556790312003-09-27T10:45:00.000-07:002003-09-27T10:45:08.256-07:00The Old Hopi sighed and stirred the fire to keep it going. "We got a lot more to think about", he said sadly. "We haven't even got to what the words from the sly foxes in the boxes have been saying and doing." He pulled down another well worn book and paged knowingly to a special place. He adjusted his glasses and began to read slowly: "Of course the people don't want war... Naturally, the commonMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064584694627095922003-09-26T06:58:00.000-07:002003-09-26T06:58:14.013-07:00The citizens of Fallujah: "The Americans have no right to invade houses, search our women and also steal gold and money. The Americans played a double game with the Iraqis. They said they would give us democracy. People only understood what they meant when they came. Outside Iraq, they treat dogs better than Iraqis."
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064510217355232332003-09-25T10:16:00.000-07:002003-09-25T10:16:57.256-07:00"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." (Edmund Burke, political thinker, 1729-97)Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1064365966617488832003-09-23T18:12:00.000-07:002003-09-23T18:12:46.650-07:00"The poor of the world expect an end to violence and war everywhere," Mbeki said. "For us, collectively, to meet these expectations, will require that each and every one of us, both rich and poor ... commit ourselves practically to act. This includes the most powerful."
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063380924021289942003-09-12T08:35:00.000-07:002003-09-12T08:35:23.950-07:00When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?— Eleanor Roosevelt
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063264913338663632003-09-11T00:21:00.000-07:002003-09-11T00:24:38.440-07:00Ground Zero Was a 'Chemical Factory'
"The burning ruins of the World Trade Center spewed toxic gases 'like a chemical factory' for at least six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks despite government assurances the air was safe...." Government will protect you, just do as it says.
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063222900018314742003-09-10T12:41:00.000-07:002003-09-10T12:41:40.030-07:00Russia:
"We have to develop a certain roadmap for Iraq. In it, we should determine a time frame for the creation of a transitional government, the formation of a constitutional assembly, the creation of a constitution and the election of a permanent Iraqi government," Lavrov said.
"And only then can we talk about the formation of an international force for peacekeeping efforts in Iraq," he saidMargothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063213113245968662003-09-10T09:58:00.000-07:002003-09-10T09:58:33.036-07:00In a profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger that appeared in U.S. News in November 1990, the Terminator elaborated on his nascent political views: "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them," he explained. "Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063051647817098342003-09-08T13:07:00.000-07:002003-09-08T13:07:27.863-07:00Excerpts from Bush speech:
"The terrorists have not seen America running, they've seen America marching. They have seen the armies of liberation marching into Kabul and to Baghdad. The terrorists have seen speeding tank convoys and roaring jets and special forces arriving in midnight raids. And sometimes justice has found them before they could see anything coming at all. We will not wait for Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063048827443465682003-09-08T12:20:00.000-07:002003-09-08T12:20:27.450-07:00"This President is a miserable failure on foreign policy."
— Richard Gephardt Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1063004888247204402003-09-08T00:08:00.000-07:002003-09-08T00:08:08.266-07:00 'You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on.'
- George Bush Jr.
Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1062898746853653542003-09-06T18:39:00.000-07:002003-09-06T18:39:06.780-07:00It is not enough to say, as some defenders of the US military in Iraq do, that its soldiers are tired, frightened and under pressure from the simmering guerrilla attacks directed against them. For it is the impression that the US military gives of not caring about those innocent Iraqis that they kill that is stoking resentment.
Iraqis have been killed at vehicle checkpoints and killed in their Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1062896798354202162003-09-06T18:06:00.000-07:002003-09-06T18:06:38.336-07:00"There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212514.post-1062825337142178002003-09-05T22:15:00.000-07:002003-09-05T22:15:37.133-07:00Russia's Ivanov said the situation in Iraq remained serious and urged the United States not to make light of it.
"In this respect, one cannot but express surprise at statements made by some Washington officials that life in Iraq is returning to normal and
becoming better virtually day by day," he said.
"One should not be misled -- the situation in Iraq is becoming not better, but worse day by Margothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08411215822502945401noreply@blogger.com