AMERICAblog: Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers. The Bush admin. wants no media coverage.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Welcome to Nazi Germany...had enough?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
How did the nice German people overthrow Hitler? I forget.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
My dad is buried there. I think the Bush administration doesn't honor the dead soldiers and their families. They are afraid if they show to many funerals people will be in the streets protesting. Just like VN. I say if families give permission than I would make a point going to film it. Even if you have to go undercover. Bush people aren't stupid. Bush has turned this country into nazi germany. I never thought in my lifetime this would happen.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
This is precisely why they never reinstated the draft. The media did their job well in the sixties because so many of our kids were dying for a stupid war in Vietnam. Their own families were being touched by it. This war has been about poor kids trying to bootstrap themselves via a GI Bill for college and were mere fodder for Chimpy McFlightsuit's PR stunt. Most of the MSM execs do not have kids dying in Iraq. Most Americans don't. You will probably never see the draft again in the US
ron071
· 1 year ago
Given the view of SouthernYankee, how does one explain ANY voter even considering a vote ffor McSame?
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
what is your point?
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
Im thinking more North Korea rather than Nazi Germany. The German people were well fed and happy. We are going to be starving soon just like in NK...where the gov controls the media. I think that Faux News has been set up to be extremist so we wouldn't notice the change in coverage of all the other stations. It is very sly. Rove is a genius. Like Hitler and the NK leader.
bernieg1
· 1 year ago
Yeah, it's tough living in a cupboard waiting for the door to be knocked down, dragged off to an internment camp, seeing relatives shot in the streets, your businesses shut down, windows smashed, the newspapers stifled, etc. Amerika in 2008, such a tough Nazi-like place. You are right.
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· 1 year ago
"The next-generation remains-transfer case would be heavily insulated and actively cooled to hamper decomposition while bodies are airlifted back to the United States.
The Army wants to keep the cost of the new case, now under development, to less than $2,000 each. More than 5,000 of the current, unlined aluminum cases are now in the service’s inventory. If approved, the transfer-case program would have an estimated cost of $13 million, spread over the next five years.
The service expects to field a $60 million-plus mobile integrated remains-collection system — a temporary, transportable morgue — next year. The program will provide 117 of the mobile systems, Green said, each of which can carry the remains of 16 people in its refrigerated storage area, but still fold up to fit inside a C-130 airplane’s cargo bay."
I don't want remains treated like 'just in time assembly line trucking delivery' or something.
gwpriester
· 1 year ago
Support the troops, eh? ;-)
kirkaracha
· 1 year ago
Support the troops = Fuck the troops.
maggiePA08
· 1 year ago
BREAKING: Rove in contempt of congress!!!
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
Hot diggidy damn!!
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Actually, I believe KKKarl was denied "executive privilege"' and he has yet to be cited for contempt. Hope they don't lose their nerve...
maggiePA08
· 1 year ago
Heard a quick blip on msnbc (before resuming coverage of JonBenet and Christie Brinkley-wow, 2 blondes at once), cant find anything online yet, can you share your source?
maggiePA08
· 1 year ago
Did find this compassionate quote on yahoo tho: Former Sen. Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, referred to the economic slowdown as "a mental recession" and called the United States “a nation of whiners.” http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080710/pl_po...
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
The House Judicial Committee has to agree on issuing Contempt of Congress citation first. Heard it on MSNBC, too...don't pay attention to the blondes.
ron071
· 1 year ago
The votes and actions of Bush and McCain show their real "support" of our troops. If only flag lapel pins were enough. Hypocrites and liars with the nerve to show their faces in public. It is amazing that any single voter could even consider voting again for this duo.
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
Well members of the families could still film their funerals and turn the footage over.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
That left me speechless...well, almost. We all know that this is the Bush/Cheney Private Oil War anyway. Private.
Meanwhile, KKKarl Rove denied "executive privilege" by the House Judicial Committee. Let's hope LInda Sanchez & Co. cite him with Contempt of Congress and pick his ass up. My fondest dream to see him perp walked will come true...
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Yesterday our local daily had a large front page photo and long article on the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. The picture showed a grieving family next to the flag draped coffin which brought tears to my eyes and a sad feeling has stayed with me since. If the whole country saw that every day, they would have long since marched to D.C. and demanded an end to this disgusting war.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Cheney feels that he deserves a Arlington burial when the time comes so officials have to reserve space...
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Well, it's a public site, so I guess we can all go and spit on it.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
OT, but Dennis Kucinich is introducing a single Article of Impeachment against Bush this afternoon in the House. If you want to sign the petition, go here:
If you work for the bad guys and you know it, you follow their rules if you want to keep the job. If you don't want to keep the job, reach for a publicity moment on the way out the door. It is transparent that way. Everybody knows it. No surprises here.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Just heard on MSNBC that the House Judicial Committee has chosen NOT to hold KKKarl in contempt. Linda Sanchez coming on shortly. Can't wait to hear the explanation. More Rethug obstruction of justice?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Older & W, I'm watching MSNBC as well and I didn't hear that as Sanchez spoke. She sounded angry and determined to my ears, I heard nothing about NOT holding little Karlies feet to the fire. Perhaps you or I misunderstood?
I have been searching the net in trying to see if this was true and I can't find any confirmation that the Judiciary Committee voted to NOT hold Karl in contempt. I do find it hard to swallow that (ESPECIALLY at this time) the Dems would back down on holding Karl guilty as charged. We will see...
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Summertime... And the newsies get hazy Phish are humpin' And the laziest lie...
bernieg1
· 1 year ago
Let me get this straight: The vast majority of American people do not know that soldiers are dying in Iraq, so we need to televise the funerals to correct that misapprehension?
On the other hand, if we televised every funeral from WWII we could have exited that war sooner?
I don't get it - tell me again, the purpose of broadcasting these events? Is it to inform or to persuade?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Don't you think an environment of constant, insane danger to some of the best of our bravest youth deserves, at least, the implied respect of a daily mention (with a visual or two) along the pop airwaves of the bill-footing American public???
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
There is absolutely no comparison to be made between WWII and the current insanity except that guns were and are used.
bernieg1
· 1 year ago
Why no comparison? We invaded Germany, a country that never directly attacked us. They were a threat to the region but not to us, as Saddam was a threat to the region but not to us. Where does the comparison fail? That one country represented an ideology that wanted to rule the world? That you can't tell if I'm referring to Nazies or Islam nails the argument. Get out of that one. No comparison - that's hilarious.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
You would get if you were of the VN age. We got news all the time of the battle field and wounded soldiers and dead soldiers. They use to show the planes coming back to the states delivering dead soldiers coffins draped with american flags. That was very moving. The burial sites were also moving. You couldn't help but cry. If they did that today we would have been coming home already from Iraq. Soldiers died in VN for no good reason.
Indpthought
· 1 year ago
What I "get" from the VN age (I was a child, but I knew my father was in a war and could possibly not come home), is that some celebrities went to Communist North Vietnam, were given a one-sided tour of things, manipulated their viewpoints further; made hateful, anti-American radio broadcasts to our troops to demoralize them or to cause them to go AWOL and/or disobey orders. Soldiers would see a naked crying child and compassionately go to pick up the child only to have it blow up in their arms. There were many atrocities in that war. Yes, the discouraging news coverage, the sheer number of deaths, and the slanted views and lies as told by certain well-known parties (who, after the war, went to Russia to receive a "thank you" for their efforts in helping North Vietnam "win" the war). After the war, N.Vietnam officials said that those anti-American speeches by these famous people at rallies across America gave the N.Vietnamese encouragement to hold out longer, knowing the sway of support against the war would be to their advantage. If you want to credit the protesters and/or certain famous people who led rallies and traveled to North Vietnam to sway American opinion, then you must also credit them with the deaths of millions of innocent people in N.Vietnam and Cambodia; because when our forces pulled out of N.Vietnam, literally millions of innocents were slaughtered and Cambodia became one big slave camp and closed society, with the slaughter and enslavement of millions (the Killing Fields). When soldiers came home from the war, they were spat upon and hated because of what certain famous people were saying about our soldiers, calling them "war criminals" and reminding them that the punishment for a war criminal was execution. The punishment for treason also execution. It doesn't have to be an officially declared war to try someone for treason... people have been tried for treason during times of peace. Yes, a lot of soldiers died during Vietnam; but millions died as a result of our departure. Do we really want to see a repeat of that with Iraq? Do we want to blame our leaders for sending the troops this time, instead of blaming the soldiers themselves last time? Yes, blame the leaders, but support the troops and make efforts to bring them home safely, alive, and intact. Do we want to pull out of Iraq immediately, and leave Iraq in a quagmire of civil war and a potential war with Turkey? We cannot. We must pull our troops out of there, but we have to be careful and hopefully give the country back to the people, as we had done with German and with Japan.
Our troops returning home should be treated with respect and honour. Bush takes that return to American soil with honour away from them... it is a shame, and Bush is a son-of-a-bitch, and usurped more power than any president in modern times. I will not miss that asshole when he is out of office. Though I am concerned about HOW and WHEN our troops are withdrawn- concerned for them and concerned for innocent people who are being killed with us there, and potentially even more will be killed if we are not there. I think the fucking Saudis should step in our place and restore order and stop the violence and terrorism. They have U.S. made military planes and equipment and it is their neighbor, not ours. They can also stop the fanatic clerics from public broadcasting of encouraging terrorism and prevent their schools from teaching that Israel and America are the "Great Satan" - if the Saudis claim to be our friends then they should act like they are our friends.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Friend l would like to tell you even in my own family we had a lot of discussion on the VN war. You see my mom was from Italy and experienced bombing from our planes. My mom loved america and became a citizen always saying this is the best country in the world. But she didn't like the US going to war because she had a son who was at an age to be drafted. My dad who had fought in WWII and wounded served 22 yrs in the military and supported the troops. He had been in VN before any of the build up. He retired saying he didn't believe going to VN was good idea for america. My father-in-law retired from the military after 24 yrs. He was in WWII, Korea, and was in VN as an advisor. He said from the beginning it was a bad idea to send troopers their. He got wounded there. My mother-in-law gave him a choice to retire because she didn't want him going back to VN. He retired and it was a good thing because he found out he was to go back. He supported the troops also. I was young lady and had lost friends there. When I go back to Md I go to see the wall in DC. I look at all those young men that will never again be here and never had a chance to get married and have a family. My husband served 21 yrs in the army. He was in for the first Desert Storm. He retired in 95. We supported the troops. I have also had the deepest respect for our military and their families. I moved to a small rural town and a lot of people here have no idea or really have ever been to a military base. Our soldiers work very hard and the families give up a lot. My heart goes out to them. I do not support going to war with Iraq. I see another VN. Bush administration can say all the bull they want but I see it different. But I do, repeat do support our troops. I never showed any difference in VN or Iraq. Our military is great.
Indpthought
· 1 year ago
A comparison to WWII and counting the dead during that war and this war cannot be done rationally. Iraq was not an invading force that conquered country after country, but Nazi Germany did. That was truly a WORLD war, millions were killed, including a lot of civilians; also the forced labor imported into Germany from other countries to work in their factories, the concentration camps.... so, yes, people understood that Germany had to be stopped at all cost, and the more people who died, the more it became America's duty to our allies to step in and end the war, with great assistance from Russia. That was a war that had tremendous support, and people from all walks of life participated and made sacrifices for the war effort, including women working to build aircraft. Iraq is not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination, and the vast majority disapprove of the war in Iraq and want our soldiers home.... because most of us feel we were lied to about this war by our president and his cabinet. We were not lied to about Nazi Germany bombing London, conquering Paris, conquering Austria, Poland, and the extermination of the "undesirables" in concentration camps. No comparison!!
theantibush
· 1 year ago
When we began televising the death and destruction in Vietnam the protests to end the war began.
Bush had every intention of getting Saddam out of power even before 9/11. This is one Bush war that has claimed 4,000 lives so far.
This bastard that we've got for a president is anti-constitution, anti-free speech, anti-free assembly, anti-warran. He's supposed to be upholding the constitution -- not bending it at every step.
I had hope for Democrats but they have plundered ever opportunity to stop him. Now a new and same-old FISA. So much for the Bill of Rights.
And yes, we need to have video coverage. Let's see all the dead, maimed, disabled, and emotionally impaired people that are the result of Bush's war. There are so many people who have lost legs, hands, eyes, and in one picture I saw, half of his head.
If you don't want to see that on TV then don't watch.
LET BUSH GET OUT ON THE FRONT LINES WITH A RIFLE. Maybe the Iraqis will do us a service. Should we televise that funeral?
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Right on!!! Dubya shouldn't worry he'll have dirty dick right behind him to back him up. Actually all the stinking lyingh conniving members of the administration should be sent to fight Bush's War. and the worthless supreme court who handed him the election, and the elected republicons, and certainly the seemingly endless number of fat-assed generals at the pentagon. When was the last time any of these slackers ever really fought in the field?
osage
· 1 year ago
Let's get Americans killed by falsely creating excuses for an unecessary war and then hide their deaths so the American people don't see the consequences of the most murderous and incompetent president America has had to suffer. The needless death of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians is the direct result disastrous Republican politics. And the Republicans take the abominable actions of stopping the American people from seeing American families mourning and honoring the loss of their deserving loved ones. I hate the Republicans in the Bush administration because they do things like this. I absolutely hate them.
jr
· 1 year ago
"only rich white men deserve to be on tv"-Bush 43
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
Has anyone read Bugliosi's book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder? I hope that when this tool leaves office that one, just one, prosecutor has the courage to try this criminal for the acts that he has committed against the service members of this country. This coward has absolutely no respect for the people who have died fighting this illegal war and he needs to be sent to prison. Clinton gets impeached for a b.j. but this incompetent criminal is going to get away with this? Please.
theantibush
· 1 year ago
I believe the best way to get him will be a war crimes trial at the Hague. He's right up there with Slobodan Milosevic.
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
I wish that was a possibility, but I don't see any way how that could happen. I don't see any country trying to impose that kind of will on one of our government officials. No country has the balls to try something like that... yet.
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Why doesn't some corageous reporter ask Insane McBush3 when he thinks about this scandal at Arlington? You know this is one he wont want to answer but it should be asked over and over and over until he does. Always the chance that this might make him blow his top and cause blood to spurt out of his ears. Again, one can always hope!
theantibush
· 1 year ago
If my guess it right, Bush has files on all the reporters and has more dity laundry they could air than J Edgar Hoover ever could amass. Most reporters aren't going to take the chance. This President is the guy who thinks the Bill of Rights was repealed.
bernieg1
· 1 year ago
As to the 4,000 deaths, during the Utopian peacetime of Bill Clinton's term, we lost 4302 service personnel. H.W. Bush and Reagan actually lost significantly more personnel while never fighting an extensive war, much less a simultaneous war on two theaters (Iraq and Afghanistan). Even the dovish Carter lost more people during his last year in office (2392) than GW Bush has lost in any single year of his presidency.
In 2004, more soldiers died outside of Iraq and Afghanistan than died inside these two war zones (900 in these zones, 987 outside these zones). The reason is that there are usually a fair number that die every year in training accidents, as well as a small number of illness and suicide. Yet the MSM would make you think that US soldiers are dying at a high number in these zones, and at a significantly higher number than in past years or under past presidents. This is all simply outright lies and distortion.
It seems that George W Bush is presiding over a war in which there are fewer casualties than in almost any time in our history, so much for incompetence. Cry about all the deaths all you want but more people die in car accidents in a summer month than have died in in 4 years of Iraq. More than 4,000 lives lost in one month than in 4 years of war - shouldn't we be seeing televised funerals of every car death - if we are so concerned with "thousands" of deaths?
Please spare me your tears.
Indpthought
· 1 year ago
I do not believe your statistics for one second. The number of dead soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan outnumber the deaths from the 9/11 deaths of people in airplanes and people in buildings on that day. I agreed with our entering Afghanistan. The treatment of women by the Taliban, alone, was reason enough for the WORLD to enter Afghanistan and to eliminate Taliban rule in that region . Also the Taliban's hospitality to terrorists and their training camps within Afghanistan was also another logican reason, and we did have the sympathy and support from much of the world to enter Afghanistan. Iraq is an entirely different issue, since the documents and things that the world community, the American people themselves, and Congress were told by the Bush Administration were lies. I didn't believe any of it until Colin Powell testified that there were chemical weapons being hussled around Baghdad and showed us satellite photos to prove state their case to the world. Reluctantly, some countries went along with us to Iraq. However, prior to the "invasion" Hussein (Saddam Hussein, not Barak Hussein Obama) agreed to the requests to allow U.N. inspectors full access, but Bush ignored this and it was apparent to me at that time Bush intended to go to war with Iraq at any cost. The cost was high. Many of the vehicles sent to war did not have armor plating, protective gear was not provided to all of the soldiers involved in the invasion. Further, the military has discharged Arabic translators, who are in short supply and essential to collection information, have been fired BECAUSE THEY WERE GAY. Thus, the sexual orientation of much needed Arabic translators was more important to the Bush Administration and the military than the security of our nation and the safety of our soldiers. Further, car accidents are a fact of life, they happen for various reasons- weather, alcohol, poor driving skills, cell phone usage, natural disasters such as landslides, earthquakes, inexperienced teen drives taking risks, and the elderly who do not see or cannot react as quickly, or even becoming confused as to their location and mowing down shoppers at a street market in Santa Monica, California several years ago. BUT, casualties of war are the direct result of being placed in harms way by the falsification of information to the world community by a president who cannot form a sentence containing more than 10 words, makes up words, flips off the camera when he thinks it isn't on, stammered 7 times saying "uh" before answering a question on 9/12. Bush is the worst speakers of any president in my lifetime, thinks he is the decision maker andthat the office of the president can do whatever it likes and cannot understand why he can't order wire taps on anyone at any time. This president also grabbed more power than any other president has in my lifetime; and he does HIDE the dead soldiers returning to American soil, this dishonoring them, because he knows the negative impact it would have on American opinion. Yes, we know there are dead U.S. soldiers, but if the numbers were so inaccurate as you say they are, why hasn't the Bush administration openly refuted those numbers. To my knowledge he has not. A friend of mine assigned to the White House as a Marine says they all hate Bush because they are tired of attending funerals, and Bush doesn't bat an eye over these casualties. And it isn't just U.S. casualties, but casualties from allied troops as well. Wake up and smell the cover-up and lies of the Bush Administration, Bush's inability to answer with clarity certain questions about Iraq and 9/11. Bush took this nation from being out of debt to a deep recession, yet all of his buddies who are heads of corporations or have stock in certain corporations are getting rich off of this war. Just as California was lied to when the energy companies created a false energy shortage and California was duped into signing a long-term expensive contract to fix the mythical problem. When the false crisis was uncovered and CA went to Bush for assistance in the matter, he refused to help. Why? Because his buddies were getting rich off of the deal, perhaps Bush's way of punishing CA for not supporting him in his bid to the White House. How Republicans voted this man in TWICE is beyond my comprehension when it was apparent to me in his first bid for the White House that he was a terrible speaker, which made him sound like a simpleton, he didn't know who any of the world leaders were, he had no real plans, and the platform he ran his campaing on abandoned every promise he made (except for the refund check to all Americans, basically as a way to shut them up about the questionable counting of ballots and the question of whether or not he actually won - a bribe or "shut up" money, as I saw it. He is an embarrassment everytime he speaks publicly. Again, your statistics are so far out there, bordering on the ridiculous, that I question your intelligence and true motives of your comments. I have not and never will vote for a Bush into office. When Sr. Bush said, "read my lips... no new taxes" I screamed at the TV saying "WHAT LIPS? You HAVE no lips"! But your comment was on "casualties under various administrations. Counting bombing attacks on the barracks of military personnel in the middle east, while many of them were sleeping, is not the same as counting soldiers on the battle field. And when Reagan's camp postponed the release of the Iranian hostages until after he was elected, people were killed who were there to rescue them as ordered by the then president, Jimmy Carter. Just to make Reagan look like the hero, hostage releases were detained and U.S. personnel were killed. Further, many were killed in the Reagan/Bush illegal actions to fund the war in Nicaragua. They should have been prosecuted but Reagan conveniently (and perhaps poetic justice) that he had alzheimers. I say "poetic justice" because he opposed stem cell research that could have helped him... Nancy NOW supports stem cell research, of course, because it effected her personally. What a bitch. AGAIN, YOUR NUMBERS ARE OUTRAGEOUSLY OUT OF STEP WITHE EVERY LEGITIMATE NEWS SOURCE AND FROM WHAT WE ARE HEARING FROM SOLDIERS THEMSELVES.
theantibush
· 1 year ago
ANY casualty for a war started by one who evaded their own service is one too many. I still say stick Bush out on the front lines. Put him in a convoy with a non-armored vehicle. Stick him in a helicopter over Sadr City. Any where but here.
That the House of Repsentatives now with a Democratic Majority hasn't done so makes me wonder how in hell they'll run the country after the next election.
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The Army wants to keep the cost of the new case, now under development, to less than $2,000 each. More than 5,000 of the current, unlined aluminum cases are now in the service’s inventory. If approved, the transfer-case program would have an estimated cost of $13 million, spread over the next five years.
The service expects to field a $60 million-plus mobile integrated remains-collection system — a temporary, transportable morgue — next year. The program will provide 117 of the mobile systems, Green said, each of which can carry the remains of 16 people in its refrigerated storage area, but still fold up to fit inside a C-130 airplane’s cargo bay."
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/ap_mortua...
Rove in contempt of congress!!!
Former Sen. Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, referred to the economic slowdown as "a mental recession" and called the United States “a nation of whiners.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080710/pl_po...
Meanwhile, KKKarl Rove denied "executive privilege" by the House Judicial Committee. Let's hope LInda Sanchez & Co. cite him with Contempt of Congress and pick his ass up. My fondest dream to see him perp walked will come true...
http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/
I'm watching MSNBC as well and I didn't hear that as Sanchez spoke. She sounded angry and determined to my ears, I heard nothing about NOT holding little Karlies feet to the fire. Perhaps you or I misunderstood?
I have been searching the net in trying to see if this was true and I can't find any confirmation that the Judiciary Committee voted to NOT hold Karl in contempt. I do find it hard to swallow that (ESPECIALLY at this time) the Dems would back down on holding Karl guilty as charged. We will see...
And the newsies get hazy
Phish are humpin'
And the laziest lie...
On the other hand, if we televised every funeral from WWII we could have exited that war sooner?
I don't get it - tell me again, the purpose of broadcasting these events? Is it to inform or to persuade?
Our troops returning home should be treated with respect and honour. Bush takes that return to American soil with honour away from them... it is a shame, and Bush is a son-of-a-bitch, and usurped more power than any president in modern times. I will not miss that asshole when he is out of office. Though I am concerned about HOW and WHEN our troops are withdrawn- concerned for them and concerned for innocent people who are being killed with us there, and potentially even more will be killed if we are not there. I think the fucking Saudis should step in our place and restore order and stop the violence and terrorism. They have U.S. made military planes and equipment and it is their neighbor, not ours. They can also stop the fanatic clerics from public broadcasting of encouraging terrorism and prevent their schools from teaching that Israel and America are the "Great Satan" - if the Saudis claim to be our friends then they should act like they are our friends.
Bush had every intention of getting Saddam out of power even before 9/11. This is one Bush war that has claimed 4,000 lives so far.
This bastard that we've got for a president is anti-constitution, anti-free speech, anti-free assembly, anti-warran. He's supposed to be upholding the constitution -- not bending it at every step.
I had hope for Democrats but they have plundered ever opportunity to stop him. Now a new and same-old FISA. So much for the Bill of Rights.
And yes, we need to have video coverage. Let's see all the dead, maimed, disabled, and emotionally impaired people that are the result of Bush's war. There are so many people who have lost legs, hands, eyes, and in one picture I saw, half of his head.
If you don't want to see that on TV then don't watch.
LET BUSH GET OUT ON THE FRONT LINES WITH A RIFLE. Maybe the Iraqis will do us a service. Should we televise that funeral?
Again, one can always hope!
In 2004, more soldiers died outside of Iraq and Afghanistan than died inside these two war zones (900 in these zones, 987 outside these zones). The reason is that there are usually a fair number that die every year in training accidents, as well as a small number of illness and suicide. Yet the MSM would make you think that US soldiers are dying at a high number in these zones, and at a significantly higher number than in past years or under past presidents. This is all simply outright lies and distortion.
From http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/04/new_yo...
It seems that George W Bush is presiding over a war in which there are fewer casualties than in almost any time in our history, so much for incompetence. Cry about all the deaths all you want but more people die in car accidents in a summer month than have died in in 4 years of Iraq. More than 4,000 lives lost in one month than in 4 years of war - shouldn't we be seeing televised funerals of every car death - if we are so concerned with "thousands" of deaths?
Please spare me your tears.
He and Cheney should be impeached and convicted. That's why I signed the petition at
http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/
That the House of Repsentatives now with a Democratic Majority hasn't done so makes me wonder how in hell they'll run the country after the next election.