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yes_justiceI don't think many Americans really comprehend the level of violence Iraqi people suffer, myself included. Most of us would like our soldiers to come home. Yet, the Iraqi people are home now. They live and die the disaster of our invasion and occupation just as they live and died under Saddam while we propped him up. The real security mom's are found in Iraq. Iraqi journalists are virtually under house arrest, yet the keep reporting about life on the street, as if they were living on the street.
A full scale military assault on Sammara began hours before the debates, seizing the city hall and police stations. Over one hundred Iraqi slain, hundred wounded, and one fallen US soldier. Eight Iraqi killed in Basra. Twelve Iraqi killed in Sadr city clashes. Fallujah air raid kills Iraqi family of four. One soldier killed and several wounded in a rocket attack in Baghdad. A full scale attack on Fallujah is in the works. This is liberation?
The Pentagon strongly encourages the press to paint a happy face on the carnage.
The stunningly beautiful Italian aid worker who was kidnapped declared solidarity with the Iraqi resistance:
Anyway, Kerry sounded better than Bush. At least, I came away from the debate with that perception. I cannot ignore the fact that both Kerry and Bush are competing to be the leaders of a deadly empire. Kerry claims he will run a smarter empire, and he may be right, and that may be the right thing to do, but the fact is that a smarter empire remains a deadly empire.
All this talk of nuclear weapons in the hands of a rouge terrorist being the biggest threat. While its a threat, I am more gravely concerned about nuclear weapons in the hands of state terrorists - in the hands of countries with histories of actually detonating them on cities, namely my own.Neither candidate addressed our plans for mini-nuke development, new and improved and easier for a terrorist to carry in their lunchbox or backpack!!! Neither candidate discussed reducing our own stockpiles of WMD's. They must foolishly believe that our nukes will never ever fall into the wrong hands. But they will.
Nary a mention of Palestine in the debate. Yesterday was the bloodiest day in Gaza in the last two years.
Yes, I am voting for John Kerry. Bush still gotta go, and John Kerry never called me a terrorist, and has actually been to a protest before...Pax Americana.
"And the stocks are going up in
some safe place in America
Sing a song for Basra." - David Rovics (July, 2001)
"Song for Basra" - ( play lo-fi stream - play hi-fi stream - Download MP3 - Read Lyrics/Story )
A full scale military assault on Sammara began hours before the debates, seizing the city hall and police stations. Over one hundred Iraqi slain, hundred wounded, and one fallen US soldier. Eight Iraqi killed in Basra. Twelve Iraqi killed in Sadr city clashes. Fallujah air raid kills Iraqi family of four. One soldier killed and several wounded in a rocket attack in Baghdad. A full scale attack on Fallujah is in the works. This is liberation?
The Pentagon strongly encourages the press to paint a happy face on the carnage.
The Bush administration, The Washington Post reports Thursday, worried that negative stories like these are dominating the news headlines during an election period, has decided to send out Iraq Americans to bring what the Defense Department calls "the good news" about the situation in Iraq to US military bases.Okay. Put on blinders, sprinkle fairy dust, clap louder, and it will all get better. Right.
The Post also reports that the administration is moving to "curtail distribution" of reports that show the situation in Iraq growing worse. In particular, the US Agency of International Development said this week that it will "restrict distribution" of a report by its contractor, Kroll Security International, that showed the number of attacks by insurgents had been increasingly dramatically over the past few months. Attacks have risen to 70 a day, up from 40-50, since Iraqi Prime Minister Alawi took office in June.
The stunningly beautiful Italian aid worker who was kidnapped declared solidarity with the Iraqi resistance:
In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, Simona Torretta also called on Rome to withdraw the troops it sent to Iraq to support its US ally. "I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "You have to distinguish between terrorism and resistance. The guerrilla war is justified, but I am against the kidnapping of civilians." Torretta and her Italian colleague Simona Pari, both of them 29, were freed on Tuesday, three weeks after being snatched from their Baghdad office.Amazing.
Anyway, Kerry sounded better than Bush. At least, I came away from the debate with that perception. I cannot ignore the fact that both Kerry and Bush are competing to be the leaders of a deadly empire. Kerry claims he will run a smarter empire, and he may be right, and that may be the right thing to do, but the fact is that a smarter empire remains a deadly empire.
All this talk of nuclear weapons in the hands of a rouge terrorist being the biggest threat. While its a threat, I am more gravely concerned about nuclear weapons in the hands of state terrorists - in the hands of countries with histories of actually detonating them on cities, namely my own.
CORRECTION:
From the transcript
Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense.
You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
Not this president. I'm going to shut that program down, and we're going to make it clear to the world we're serious about containing nuclear proliferation. --John Kerry.
Thank youabadman for calling me on my shit. I still stand by the statement: Our nuclear arms race is a nuclear war we are waging upon our future generations.
Nary a mention of Palestine in the debate. Yesterday was the bloodiest day in Gaza in the last two years.
Yes, I am voting for John Kerry. Bush still gotta go, and John Kerry never called me a terrorist, and has actually been to a protest before...Pax Americana.
"And the stocks are going up in
some safe place in America
Sing a song for Basra." - David Rovics (July, 2001)
"Song for Basra" - ( play lo-fi stream - play hi-fi stream - Download MP3 - Read Lyrics/Story )
