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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:51 PM
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Bush & Allawi's daily bombs continue to kill and maim women and children
Local residents try to rescue survivors from the rubble of a razed building in Fallujah, Iraq , Saturday Sept. 25, 2004. U.S. warplanes, tanks and artillery units bombed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, hospital officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
AP - Sep 25 8:25 AM



A woman is rescued from the rubble of destroyed houses is rushed to hospital in Fallujah, Iraq , Saturday Sept. 25, 2004. U.S. warplanes, tanks and artillery units bombed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, hospital officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
AP - Sep 24 11:27 PM




Bush and Allawi's 'Strategy':

"The government's strategy is to surround and isolate enemy militias, reach out to the local population and negotiate from a position of strength," he (Bush) said.

"Prime Minister Allawi believes this combination of decisive action and outreach to peaceful citizens is the most effective way to defeat the killers and secure the peace and America stands with him."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1207208.htm

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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:03 PM
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1. I cannot deal with this
it is what I think of when I wake up in the middle of the night. I cannot deal with it. There is nothing brave or commendable about it. The slaughter--the loss of human life, people who are and were simply born in the wrong place, without one admission that it is wrong, wrong, wrong. It just continues on on the orders of a little, priveledged man who revels in death and his power over life and death. It is done in our name--and for nothing. For nothing but his and his supporters sense of misplaced revenge and more importantly, unfettered greed.
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luaneryder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:22 PM
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3. It's hard to wrap your mind around
what's taking place in our name on the other side of the world when we're not being shown the results. The media blackout drives the reality out of the minds of Americans so that they can concentrate on Kobe, Laci, MJ. This Rovian move has proven to be an effective tool. If there is any justice at all * and Rove and a few others will burn for eternity reliving constantly the sorrow and pain they have caused.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 09:40 PM
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5. Whatever good we do there will always be marred by the innocents killed
"How say you, war or not?"
"Not war, if possible, O king," I said,"lest from the abuse of war,
The desecrated shrine, the trampled year,
The smoldering homestead, and the household flower
Torn from the lintel-all the common wrong-
And smoke go up thro' which I loom to her
Three times a monster: now she lightens scorn
At him that mars her plan, but then would hate
(And every voice she talk'd with ratify it,
And every face she look'd on justify it)
The general foe. More soluable is this knot,
By gentleness than war. I want her love.
What were I nigher this altho' we dash'd
Your cities into shards and catapults,
She would not love;- or brought her chain'd, a slave,
The lifting of whose eyelash is my lord,
Not ever would she love; but brooding turn
The book of scorn, till all my fitting chance
Were caught within the record of her wrongs,
And crush'd to death: and rather, Sire, than this
I would the old God of war himself were dead,
Forgotten, rustling on his iron hills,
Rotting on some wild shore with ribs of wreck,
Or like an old-world mammoth bulk'd in ice, Not to be molten out."

Excerpt from, "The Princess: A Medley" by, Alfred Tennyson



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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:08 PM
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2. Not to mention all the cancer that is being caused
right now by all the DEPLETED URANIUM ..coming from these Bombs and all the Bombs since they started Last Year!

Allawi might have it, himself, from just living in Iraq!
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:29 PM
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4. Service is telling us they are fighters.
Every paper over seas must be saying that and our news tells us it is only fighters. God but this is so like Nam.
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