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We Are Not At War |
I'm sick and tired of hearing, "We're a nation at war" and, "....in a time of war." We are NOT at war, we are engaged in state-sponsored terrorism on a multi-theater scale. Pro-war advocates love to hammer others over and over and over with their signature motto; especially when confronted with facts, law and logic. For pro-war types, this is the phrase that pays, along with, "Do you want to win the war on terror or what?" These phrases of fear are the meat and potatos for pro-war scalliwags.
If you support the idea of our government having to follow its own laws and constitution, then the next time someone tells you, "We're at war, blah, blah, blah....." be sure and remind them that we are NOT a nation at war, but a nation at large, criminally speaking; a nation at variance with our own laws and constitution. In other words, the U.S. military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan are ILLEGAL as hell and have no basis in U.S. or int'l law whatsoever. In other words, the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes and subsequent military occupations is unlawful AND unconstitutional.
Instead of holding U.S. politicians accountable for unconstitutionally giving Bush faux authorization to use force against Iraq, Americans are supporting, funding and rewarding these professional criminals into a lifetime career of state-sponsored crime. Hillary publicly stated she didn't know Bush was going to use force against Iraq when she voted YES on Lieberman's war bill entitled, "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002." btw, Hillary voted AGAINST the alternate amendment requiring Bush to send U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq before using force.
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More Than 200 Dead As Battle Rages In Baghdad |
THE toll from fierce fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City has risen to at least 200 dead and more than 1,000 injured, according to doctors in the besieged suburb.
US and Iraqi troops killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy fighting there yesterday against the Mahdi Army loyal to the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The reports from Sadr City hospitals suggest far higher casualty figures than previously reported, although they cannot be independently verified. Dr Qassem Mudalal, the director of the Imam Ali hospital, said: "There are 230 killed, I can confirm, in the hospitals of Sadr City. I've been living in the hospital for two weeks.
"I can't leave because of the siege and it's too dangerous to be on the streets because of snipers and bombs."
He said most had died from shrapnel wounds. Other doctors claimed only a minority of the dead appeared to be militants.
The Iraqi government yesterday briefly lifted a blockade of the suburb, and allowed about 20 lorries loaded with food, blankets and medical supplies to enter the area.
An American convoy was struck by at least 10 roadside bombs while moving in to support Iraqi soldiers setting up a checkpoint in the west of the city, the US military reported.
There was no sign of a cessation of hostilities between al-Sadr and Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. "Children, women and old men have been injured and killed and there are no ambulances," said Um Ali, a housewife, by telephone from her home in Sadr City. "The hospitals have no first-aid supplies and there are so few doctors."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3736223.ece
"The Iraqi people understand what this crisis is about," said Paul Wolfowitz in March of 2003. "Like the people of France in the 1940s, they view us as their hoped-for liberator."
- Marie Colvin and Ali Rifat
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