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I was born here.

My mother spilled her blood on this soil when giving me life.
My mother spilled her blood on this soil ending her life.

I live here.

I walk this earth. Every footstep connects me to the soil.
The soil connects me to my mother. Every footstep a breath
of life exchanged between us.

Look! Someone made a flag, someone built a framework,
someone caged in their glass house, ivory tower, shackles and chains.

Not my flag, not my frame.

Only my land. Only my birth. Only my life. Only my mother.

cost of freedom buried in the ground

My fathers war. Everyone he killed deserved it. He didn't see their faces. Mostly.

Sometimes he saw their families. We should have bombed the dikes and starved them out.

Kerry knew this war. Kerry told the truth. We vilified him.

We rejected a veteran who told us a truth we do not wish to hear.

We blamed the messenger.

Assault on Fallujah...what is the aim?

Fmr. CPA Adviser on Iraq Invasion: "One of the Most Irresponsible Exhibitions of Poor Planning In Recent History"


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We speak with Larry Diamond, a fellow at the Hoover Institution who served as senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad from January to April 2004 at the invitation of National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice. He blasts the Bush administration's handling of the invasion and calls for Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to be fired and the entire Pentagon leadership to be changed.

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The Knight Ridder news agency is reporting Marines are now expecting the attack on Fallujah will result in the heaviest casualty levels for the US military since the Vietnam War.

Navy Cmdr. Lach Noyes said the hospital near Fallujah is preparing to handle 25 severely injured soldiers a day, not counting walking wounded and the dead. The hospital has added two operating rooms, doubled its supplies, added a mortuary and stocked up on blood reserves.

Yesterday President Bush was asked about Iraq at his mid-day press conference.

• Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He is a professor of political science and sociology at Stanford University. From January to April 2004, he served as Senior Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.

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