Protest to War against Iraq

[SexualWasabi]

Originally posted by perseus
bush's brain, also known as karl rove, leaked that CIA agents identity to one of his longtime journalists buddies that he often leaks shit to. after he cold-called five other journalists that wouldnt do it however...

i cannot reiterate enough how horrible the ruling elite in america has become. truly i cannot imagine a form of painful torture and death that would be awful enough for people like bush, rumsfeld, rove, etc., not to mention their almost-as-evil sub-lieutenants like Sharon, or their behind-the-curtain corporate masters. almost as bad as the mind-numbed masses i guess, working for a new prada suit or a more expensive condo while living on the blood/backs of millions of innocents. not good karma...

ah well, just a rant.

"FUCK BUSH!"

(say it with me now)

"FUCK BUSH!! FUCK BUSH! FUCK BUSH!"

(doesnt that feel better?

Sigh... someone needs to perform a genocide on people like you, then take your blood and bone marrow and sell it on the black market / get the economy going so I can buy more Prada shoes, Hugo Boss shirts and Versace belts to wear out to my favorite trendy overpriced Sushi bar/club.

oh yeah and buy new dubs for my grandma's car

oh and then open a McDonalds and a Texaco Gas Station

[perseus]

Bush ratings fall as weapons fail to show up


That lying fucker (i.e, Tool for the Administration) Kay is back to his old tricks of trying to make Saddam look scarey... Now the logic is:"Ok, we were wrong about the WMDs, but it's not our fault it's Saddams - he tricked us on purpose, that bastard."

What a crock. The time for violent revolution is at hand... hide your $1300 Prada car-trunk tool kit, and your $150 Puma driving shoes - or you could be thrown in the re-habilitation camps too!!

[UGLYDOLL]

A violent revolution is what they want.
They are ready for that.

Screw violence.
The best way to revolt is to quietly, calmly say NO MORE and start over.
That is what they aren't ready for.

They aren't ready for you to never again wear a tie (leash), and they arent ready for you to decide that you have had enough of listening to people you never met.
They arent ready for all the offices to be empty Monday morning and they arent ready for you to turn off the XBOX and talk to your kids.
They are afraid of you choosing to no longer pick up the tab.

It is funny how people automatically say " so what do we do, become cave men?" but to be honest, this is the most cavemen-like we have ever been.

I will never hurt a fly, and that's what they find the most scary.

[Humbaba]

Originally posted by SexualWasabi





Sigh... someone needs to perform a genocide on people like you, then take your blood and bone marrow and sell it on the black market / get the economy going so I can buy more Prada shoes, Hugo Boss shirts and Versace belts to wear out to my favorite trendy overpriced Sushi bar/club.

oh yeah and buy new dubs for my grandma's car

oh and then open a McDonalds and a Texaco Gas Station

[kyoppolife]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/na...05TENE.html?hp


apparently, plame was a "noc". i didn't know what a noc was until i saw that piece of shit spy movie "the recruit" with pacino and farrell. but according to touchstone, nocs are some of the more badass undercover agents.

[perseus]

Originally posted by Humbaba
I'd have to agree with uglydoll. Some things need to be engaged, others need to be disregarded. Violence is what bushies do. We need to be thinking about what kind of republic this will be in fifty years, a long-term solution, and rise above the obsessive hatred and bullshit that we're being fed from the top. If I don't respect Bush as my leader, then he isn't my leader. Freedom begins between the ears.

i agree that violence should be avoided i f possible - violent revolution should be the last resort. but it shouldn't be ruled out altogether... at some point you can sit there and not wear a tie and ignore The Man all you want, but he will come to you and either lock you up for ignoring him, or disenfranchise you from The System in such a way that you cannot survive (i.e, get a job, food, etc.). i am just saying that at some point "turning the other cheek" is no longer feasible or beneficial. sooner or later violence may become the only option... we are certainly a lot closer to that time than ever before in Amerikkkan history. even the reaganite reactionaries mainly benefitted the rich in general with their policies, whereas bush and cronies/controllers are much more blatant, only troubling to benefit their specific coterie of fanatics and former corporations they all worked for. It is beyond contemptuous of the people (citizens, o yea!) whose money they are stealing - not to mention the innocents (millions) they are killing, either directly or indirectly, to keep the dollars flowing. truly there is no death painful enough for the Bush Team, imho.

[perseus]

BUSH'S DECISION TO INVADE IRAQ HAPPENED DAYS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH, DESPITE
HIS ASSERTIONS TO THE CONTRARY

President Bush's decision to attack Saddam Hussein was made within days
after the September 11th suicide hijackings even though Bush claimed on the
eve of his invasion "the American people can know that every measure has
been taken to avoid war."

Read the full Mis-Lead --> http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1221421&l=6031


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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s962017.htm

Iraq rejects Turkish troop deployment
By London correspondent Fran Kelly

Iraq's interim foreign minister has dismissed the Turkish parliament's approval of a deployment of troops in Iraq.

By a vote of 358-183, the Turkish parliament has backed a request from the government to deploy the troops as part of the coalition force trying to restore stability to Iraq.

The government motion limits the duration of the deployment to a maximum of one year but it does not specify how many soldiers will be sent, nor to which part of Iraq they will be deployed.

Speaking after the Turkish vote, Hoshyar Zebari from the US-installed Iraqi Governing Council, says Turkish troops were not welcome and would only complicate the security situation on the ground.

"The security situation will not improve by bringing in more troops or more firepower or more equipment," Mr Zebari said from London.

"The only people who could do this is the Iraqis themselves to be empowered to take charge of the security issue."

Even before the Turkish vote, Iraq's Governing Council had issued a communique rejecting Turkish forces in Iraq.

The United States is proceeding with the military request and Washington has offered the cash strapped Turkish government a multi-billion dollar loan, conditional on co-operation in Iraq.

In New York, the US ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte described the Turkish announcement as positive.

"We certainly welcome the decision by the Turkish government and their parliament," he said.

"As far as the initial reports that I've seen about the Governing Council's reaction, I haven't seen the full text of what they said nor do I know whether that's the last word on the subject."

[perseus]

is this the future of Iraq?



As the months and the years drag on, and the United States is no closer to bringing order to Afghanistan, desperate measures are being taken in an attempt to breathe some life - and credibility - into its campaign in the region. (U.S. Army file)

[perseus]

ok ok, just one more for today - a little irony in the diet never hurt anyone ;)



"All foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq."


-- Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, 21 July 2003

[perseus]

who has a link to one of the stories about the high suicide rate among US soldiers in Iraq?

in other news, this is a kinda interesting guest column from the cincinnati post:
Results of abandoning Iraq more than the U.S. can afford

also:

Saddam 'hiding in home town of Tikrit' - US military

and

Iraqi resistance targets CIA, killing six in suicide bomb

[perseus]

Posted on Tue, Oct. 14, 2003
Bomber targets Baghdad's Turkish Embassy
SABAH JERGES
Associated Press

Turkish TV stations showed footage of a group of youths dancing and wawing their shirts, apparently in support for the attack. The private Turkish television station CNN-Turk said protesters chanted pro-Saddam Hussein slogans and slogans against the planned deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq. The station said about 10 protesters were detained.

[ironmonqui]

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news.../121390.shtml#

Apparently, there are a bunch of form letters being sent on behalf of US troops. But some of them are mailed to places not chosen by the troop(s) in question.

[perseus]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...101502125.html

excerpt:
"Washington was apparently "overconfident" in saying it had al-Qaida on the run with its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq probably boosted support for Al-Qaida among Muslims, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said in releasing its annual "Military Balance," an authoritative guide to military forces and conflicts around the world."

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the multiple identical letters story looks like a classic administration psyops campaign gone wrong.

[perseus]

from the "no, really?" dept...

Halliburton accused of over billing

http://www.dawn.com/2003/10/16/int9.htm

excerpt:

Waxman sent a letter on Wednesday to the White House Office of Management and Budget complaining KBR was overcharging for petroleum products. "From the facts available to us, Halliburton seems to be inflating gasoline prices at a great cost to American taxpayers. The overcharging by Halliburton is so extreme that one expert privately called it 'highway robbery,'" he wrote.

[...]

Halliburton has so far received more than $1.4 billion in work in Iraq to repair and restore the country's oil industry under a no-competition contract issued in March. In another contract providing logistical support, more than $1.6 billion has been clocked so far, with more in the works.

[djbadmonkey]

hmm not entirely unexpected.

Mr. Bush, your thoughts?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...rabs_report_dc

U.N. Report: U.S. War on Terror Radicalizes Arabs
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By Suleiman al-Khalidi

AMMAN, Jordan (Reuters) - The U.S.-led war on terror has radicalized more Arabs angry both with the West and their autocratic rulers who are bent on curbing their political rights, a U.N.-commissioned study released Monday showed.


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The Arab Human Development Report 2003 said Arab countries lagged other regions in dissemination of knowledge. Readership of books was relatively limited, education dictated submission rather than critical thought, the Arabic language was in crisis.


The report, launched in Amman, blamed an absence of "effective and peaceful channels for dealing with injustices" for pushing radical political groups to seek change by violence.


Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, the top U.N. official behind the team of Arab intellectuals who wrote the report, said anti-Arab sentiment in the West after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities was a further factor radicalizing Arabs.