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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:27 PM
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OFF TO WAR
This photo plus the headline "OFF TO WAR" took up the entire top half of the front page of today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Immediately below this photo was a story about death of 23 Marines from Ohio this week.

People need to see photos and headlines like this every single day. The average American is too insulated from the actual costs of Bush's war.


John Beale, Post-Gazette
MOMMY HAS TO GO
Tech. Sgt. Tracey McArdle, of Edinboro, hugs her son, Tyler, 7, before being deployed with the 911th Military Airlift Wing to offer support for the war in Iraq. This is the third deployment for McArdle.


http://www.post-gazette.com/
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:28 PM
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1. Heartbreaking, and 3rd deployment?
:cry:
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:31 PM
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3. Yeah, 3rd deployment.
Oh, and that sanctimonious idiot, Rick Santorum was on a local talk radio show today pontificating about the importance of mothers being at home for their kids. Sometimes you just want to scream.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:54 PM
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22. What an effing hypocrite.That would make an extraordinary LTTE. nt
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 08:13 PM
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58. is that jackass doign anything to faciliate that?
Those fuckers talk out of their hats and then offer no real solutions. As far as I can tell many mothers would love to be home with their kids. There's just this little problem called "paying the rent" ...
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Shredr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:24 PM
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17. My feelings exactly
While Bush remains deployed in Crawford.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:43 PM
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20. This shit is driving me bonkers!
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 08:01 PM
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56. me too
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:13 PM
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45. A dentist in our town, with two young children and a once thriving, now
dying practice, is right now in Iraq on his third deployment there. He was in the first group to go over BEFORE the official shooting started in 2003.

And he is there not as a dentist, and not as a medic, but as an infantry soldier.

His biggest mistake was in being a member of the reserves when Bush grabbed the presidency.

The Bush administration and their supporters are not just destroying the physical and mental health of these men and their famailies. They are also destroying their livelihoods and their abilities to provide for their families.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:30 PM
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2. The average white middle class 'American' male who...
was the most ardent backer of the war and will never see a war are the worse. This is a sad picture. I know too many of these types who were all gung ho for the war but did not want to fight it(the oil war). :argh:
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:35 PM
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4. Another happy foot solder in bush's oil war.
er, I mean freedom fight, ...I mean fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here, I mean..
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 08:35 PM
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59. er I mean
hehee
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:41 PM
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5. Oh, I wish she weren't doing that.
That little guy needs her so much more than Bushco does. She must not have any alternative -- western PA is hardly a hotbed of economic opportunity.

God, what a tragedy.
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:44 PM
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6. It wouldn't make any difference if people saw it everyday.
The Chimperor is going to do what he wants. Most people might not like the war, but that won't stop them from voting for Repugs.

I think the latest election in Ohio showed just how screwed up the people of this country are. Dem war veteran versus corrupt Repug crone. Easy choice right? You would think so.

People won't turn on the Repugs until they feel real pain in their pocketbooks. Short of that, the Repugs can commit whatever outrage they want.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:49 PM
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8. It's a very slow process, but I think it can make a difference
It was the constant visual reminders of the costs of the Vietnam war that turned the American public against the war. Also, I look at Ohio as a positive. Hackett did incredibly well in a congressional district that is one of the strongest Republican strongholds in the country.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:51 PM
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9. And I do not pass any hankey pankey either
we are getting to the pont that stealing will be far harder
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:56 PM
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23. There is a tremendous cost to the children of the soldiers in Iraq
and Afghanistan. This is a relatively new situation with these conflicts.

There is going to be hell to pay in a few years.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 05:48 PM
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7. Ah yes, working class fighting the wars
that the rich want...

yesterday I told a yuong Pug to put up or shut up!

Damn yellow bellied chicken hawk
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:18 PM
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10. This photo should run next to headlines of Bush going on vacation.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:25 PM
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11. Yes run that mother's photo next to this one of the Vacation President
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radar Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:56 PM
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13. Or maybe a pic of Jenna enjoying the nightlife in DC?
"First daughter party girl Jenna Bush was spotted last Saturday night at Zucchabar in DC..."
There's something about Jenna
by John in Paris - 8/01/2005 03:43:00 PM
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/08/theres-something-about-jenna.html

For what it's worth, it's confirmed - that was Jenna dry-humping the bf in Adams Morgan
by John (temporarily) in Paris - 8/04/2005 07:09:00 PM
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/08/for-what-its-worth-its-confirmed-that.html
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dcfirefighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:00 PM
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15. Can't believe Jenna was in Adams-Morgan
Not a very republican area, lots of crowded, smoky, multicultural bars & clubs. Nice place to get your drink on.

I figured that even Georgetown was beneath her.
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:48 PM
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12. I just showed this photo. to one of my twin 7 yr olds and hugged him
a little longer than usually. They're starting to ask about the war and the whys and the whos and whether they'll have to go too. Someday,I want them to be the most aware, questioning, recruiter-proof teens that ever walked the face of this earth!F--k these greedy neocons; they can't have these kids!
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:57 PM
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14. THIRD DEPLOYMENT?
Unbelievable. And unbelievably sad.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:03 PM
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16. Yes, the print edition of the paper noted that she also has a 4 year-old
daughter.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:52 PM
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21. I don't know whether to scream or cry
or maybe both. I understand that nobody made any of the soldiers join up, but just because they did, and just because they are following their orders doesn't give this administration the right to abuse them like this -- and sending them back again and again and again is abusive, IMHO.

:mad: :cry:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:03 PM
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24. That child is saying goodbye to mommy for the third time.
I just pray it's not the LAST time.

That is trauma we're witnessing, and it will soon be on a grand scale; multiplied by tens of thousands.

Sleep well in Crawford, George Bush.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:35 PM
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28. Yeah, those are some "family values" Republican style.
Bush will be playing cowboy on his fake ranch while this child goes to bed without his mother's kiss every night and has to worry about death and war at an age that he should have no greater worry than what to do with the remaining days of his summer vacation.

I can't imagine this mother's pain. It would have killed me to have to leave my kids at such a young age.

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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:42 PM
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18. Will it take the trauma of the children to stop it?
It's beginning to look that way.

In Vietnam, few soldiers had children; contrast that with this occupation.

I'm crying; I can't imagine having to say goodbye to my son--especially not for the THIRD TIME.
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:55 PM
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55. Monk burned themselves alive in the Viet Nam era.
and now children send their mothers into battle. What will it take this time to stop this madness?


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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:42 PM
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19. It seems like the Post-Gazette is getting a little bolder
with their war coverage. Yesterday their main headline (and it was very large) was about the 14 Marines killed.

This picture is heartbreaking.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:25 PM
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27. And you can bet that Scaife's Tribune Review would NEVER run a photo
Edited on Fri Aug-05-05 08:26 PM by PA Democrat
like this one.

The Tribune Review is the local competing newspaper owned by by RW billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 08:10 PM
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57. We need to get this photo out there!
kik
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:16 PM
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25. Photographs like these will wake the people up.
There are few of us who cannot imagine what it would be like to have your child in a situation like this.

Here is another compelling, heartbreaking photo from a thread two days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4250790
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:17 PM
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26. This picture has to be blasted EVERYWHERE - Wide distribution
Made me cry... just thinking of the tears
that kid is gonna suffer if Momma doesn't
come back.

This world is too fucking cold.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 01:49 PM
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40. I sent a letter to the editor
..thanking them for their bravery and kindness in showing the true cost of this war.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 02:32 PM
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43. The Post Gazette has been doing a better job than most reporting on Iraq
Today they ran the photo below on the top half of the front page.


U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Crosby, 20, of Alamogordo, New Mexico, from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, sleeps with his hand on a picture of his wife, Kandice Crosby, during a lull in the fighting in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. A roadside bomb nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon, and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
http://www.post-gazette.com/images3/saturday.pdf
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:56 PM
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51. Godspeed your baby's return, too
And thanks for writing the PG. We say every day... "Send em all home"
:thumbsup:
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WHAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:00 PM
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29. stay. safe.
This is a heart-wrenching picture.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:16 PM
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30. oh my gosh, I got chills
how heartbreaking.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:16 PM
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31. my god what are we doing. look at that baby in her arms
those closed eyes, the wrapping and folding into one.

heartbreaking. heartbreaking
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:34 PM
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32. This photo actually made me cry!
3rd Deployment!
She and her family suffer for *'s war chest.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 02:38 AM
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33. I am choked up. That picture is so powerful...
I have two little ones at home. It would tear me to shreds to have to leave them to fight this filthy, corrupt war. To hug them that last time and not know if I would ever get to hug them again would drive me absolutely insane. I don't know if I could handle it.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 04:19 AM
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34. Beautiful photograph.
Tender and profound.
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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 05:19 AM
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35. My heart is breaking ....
3rd time, FGS somebody make it stop. :cry:
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:05 AM
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36. Oh that is horrible
Look at that. If that doesn't make ya sick.....

I hope with all my heart that child will once again be able to put his arms around his mother's neck like that.

As a mom the thought of leaving my babies like that is unbearable.

Ugh.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:21 AM
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37. and the moran in chief** is clearing brush at the pig ranch
this is unbearable. :(
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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 01:37 PM
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38. I`m going to scream!
That AWOL, POS Bush and his maniacal sidekick Cheney are war criminals enjoying a lengthy vacation. Ms. McArdle is about to begin her third tour. THIRD!!!! It`s so twisted.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 01:42 PM
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39. We need to unify on this
We are against the war largely because we DO support our troops.My son has done 2 tours in Baghdad so far.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 02:04 PM
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41. I agree
We can support the troops by insisting that they be used only in true matters of national defense. I think that so many people have been silent about Iraq because they have not had to pay any personal price for the war. Only the few who have loved ones who volunteered to serve our country have been called upon to make a sacrifice. Bush handed out tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans whose children rarely go off to war and told everyone to go shopping.

I hope your son is soon home safely with you.
:hug:
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 02:07 PM
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42. Thanks...
Me,too-I have dedicated all my energy into ending this bogus war.
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 03:33 PM
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44. FUCK!
I hate these bastards in Washington so much.

What happens when our Sept. 24th protest is ignored? Are we taking to the streets to stop these murderers?

:mad: :mad:
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:30 PM
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46. This lady NEEDS to be the new WORLD WIDE poster for stopping the war!
Remember this one?



Tech. Sgt. Tracey McArdle's picture should be the NEW poster.

STOP THE MASTER OF DISASTER -- NOW!!!
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 08:52 PM
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60. Bingo!
Im sending copies
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:32 PM
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47. Ain't it great? L'il Dude is wearing his camos too!
And when it's his turn, off he'll march.
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:34 PM
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48. That poor mother deserves to be with her son loving him every day
instead of scum-infested Iraq.
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:43 PM
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49. I AM VERY PISSED! What kind of a country sends its mothers to war???
Answer: ONLY MOTHER-FUCKERS

GRRR

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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 03:42 PM
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61. KICK
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 06:45 PM
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50. 3rd deployment? That's uniquely American ...
Bush is a war criminal. We must regain control of our Nation and punish the neocons with HARD TIME.

Justice will not be done until Bush and Cheney are serving life sentences in federal prison for their crimes against the American people, the Iraqi people, and all humanity.

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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:39 PM
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54. kiik
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:01 PM
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52. Photo of the Decade!
Must be seen coast to coast!


THE PHOTO OF THE ANTI WAR MOVEMENT!
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:06 PM
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53. A Modern Madonna and Child! Incredible!
THe best photo ever taken
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 03:45 PM
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62. Great analogy..
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