U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006

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U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006
An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and nearly one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows...
...Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11...
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075
Editor's Note: We proved years ago that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, so 90% of our soldiers just proved to us how strong the propaganda is that our government is falsely feeding to our fighting men and women.
[RNC]
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California’s massive inmate population is the fruit of three decades of bipartisan efforts to whip up anti-crime hysteria and push through increasingly severe and long-term punishments. Some examples include a “Three Strikes law” authorizing life imprisonment for non-violent felonies, draconian drug sentences and, most recently, the ominously named California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act, which can add up to 10 years to a person’s sentence if the crime was committed “in furtherance of a gang”—one of the more amorphous legal standards in criminal law.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/pris-f27.shtml
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http://suetheterrorists.net/

Editor's Note: The link above has been on this home page for most of the year because, G. W. Bush, Dick Cheney and most of their cabinet are being sued for 7 billion dollars by the families of 9/11, for helping to plan and assure that the 9/11 attacks were carried out as planned. This case first went before a U.S. judge on 1/3/2005, and it's currently being appealed in the 9th circuit court in Ca... Regardless of what political party you favor, I feel when the president of the U.S.A. is being sued for 7 billion dollars, it's the medias obligation to bring these facts to the American people.
[RNC]
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Bush Threatens Veto against Bid to Stop Port Deal
Facing a sharp bipartisan backlash, Bush took the unusual step of summoning reporters to the front of Air Force One to condemn efforts to block a firm from the United Arab Emirates from purchasing the rights to manage ports that include those in New York and New Orleans...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022206K.shtml
Editor's Note: If you didn't know for sure that 9/11 was an inside job, would you as President of the U.S. sell our ports or would you keep them to lessen terrorist threats in the future ?
As you can see from the story below, we would have had Bin Laden 2 years ago, but it would have hurt the sale of our ports to his close friends.
[RNC]
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UAE royals, bin Laden's saviours
March 25, 2004
The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.
Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as well, he said.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/25osama.htm
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BYU's Dr. Steven Jones Blows the Roof
off a Utah Auditorium
to subvert the constitution of these United States and to con the American public, mesmerized by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding incantations of freedom and patriotism, into going along with their mad
plans for world domination.
Physics Professor Steven Jones Packs Lecture Hall and Overflow Rooms
Huge Crowd Hears of 9/11 Big Lie, WTC Controlled Demolition
Communications Professor Philip Gordon will be writing a story on the talk
for MUJCA-NET. Look for it to be up in a few days at http://mujca.com
http://www.gnn.tv/B12675 (great pictures!)
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/163875/3/
Questions remain from 9/11 report, professor says
ANNA CHANG-YEN - Daily Herald
A BYU physics professor speaking on Wednesday night implied a government
cover-up of what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001, and cast doubt on the
blame placed on Osama bin Laden...
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Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/
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The World Trade Center Dust
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_DeceptionDust.htm
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On September 18, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the meeting, at the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia where our Constitutional Republic was formed, Mrs. Powel directly asked him, “Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Mr. Franklin responded,
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
This has never been more important than today. Can we keep it? We can, only if we are willing to learn how it works and only if we hold the government accountable to the law!
http://www.teamlaw.org/
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Editor's Note: Why is this news site here at this point in history ? Because I give 150% of my support to our American soldiers. How can I give 150% when 100% is all that is mathematically or humanly possible ? That's easy... Just take half of the potential support away from the illegal Administration that wrongfully put them in harms way, and give that much needed support to our soldiers !
[Rev. Neil Colton]
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FOCUS | Charlie Anderson: Can We Come Home Now?
Charlie Anderson, a Navy Hospital Corpsman with the Marine Corps, details his feelings of betrayal by his government for sending him to a war without purpose, his destroyed marriage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106X.shtml
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A Letter From the Troops
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/32950/
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Veterans Group Issues
"Declaration of Impeachment"
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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Iraq War Veteran Garett Reppenhagen
'I Trusted My Country'
Iraq War Veteran Garett Reppenhagen writes that "in February of 2004, it was my turn to go to war. I was with 2-63 AR 1st Infantry Division stationed in Baquba, Iraq, as a Sniper in a six-man team. During my year there, I saw a lack of effort by our government to provide the US Soldier with the ability to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. As events unfolded, like Abu Ghraib and the battles in Fallujah, a growing resentment of the Iraqi people swelled the support for the insurgency. Our mission there became impossible."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030106S.shtml
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A list of Peace organizations can be found at Parallel Worlds
http://www.netplo.com/pworldspeace.html
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Why the U.S. Must Stay in Iraq
There have been many reasons given for the war in Iraq, from weapons of mass destruction to the cause of freedom and democracy in the Middle East. But the one reason which continues to remain below the radar for most Americans is that the United States government is bankrupt...
http://stevemoyer.us/stayiraq.htm
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Toll in Iraq's Deadly Surge: 1,300
Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major US offensives, according to Baghdad's main morgue. The toll was more than three times higher than the figure previously reported by the US military and the news media.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022806J.shtml
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Pro-war parents:
How to get your kid into uniform
This one is for you parents who think our fight in Iraq is a really swell idea...
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/07/18/bethcol0.htm
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Wrapping in White Light
A powerful tool to protect you and your loved ones.
http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/creator/wrappinginlight.htm
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Bill Moyers | Restoring the Public Trust
Bill Moyers speaks on the issue of money and politics: Watching these people work is a study of the inner circle at the top of American politics. It is a Dick Cheney world out there - a world where politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together, all the while carving up the world according to their own interests. It is time to fight again. It's not their government, it's your government...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406A.shtml
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Detention Centers in USA
There has been a volley of internal discussion within Waves on a recent New York Times piece announcing $385 million
dollars going into Halliburton's hands to produce detention centers around the country. Not prisons for the criminal, mind you detention centers for speculative purposes. This is just the newest iteration of the "camps" dialogue that's been going on for thirty years in this nation, and longer. It's indeed worrisome, given the climate in
American politics, to see new activity in this arena..
In order to understand it we need to look at the history of FEMA...
http://planetwaves.net/
More at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html
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George F. Will: No Checks, Many Imbalances
Conservative columnist George Will sets out to condemn the Bush administration's "monarchical doctrine," but seams to dance around the question of what the consequences should be for breaking the law.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021806Z.shtml
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Email Forward Of The Week !.
NOT A NEWS STORY... OR IS IT ?
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers for your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5 Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years in your life, is now cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to!
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The Golden Rule is a decent ethical principle, but it could be even better.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" presumes that
others enjoy what you enjoy. But that's wrong. There are many things
you'd like to have done unto you that others would either despise or be
bored by. Here's a new, improved formulation, which we call the Platinum
Rule: Do unto others as they would like to have you do unto them.
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(Origin often unknown - Received in emails.)
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Back To The News
Jason Leopold:
White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak
Jason Leopold has learned that 250 emails from Dick Cheney's office, relating to the outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, that the White House claimed did not exist, in fact do. Those newly re-discovered emails have been turned over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and are said to be explosive.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406Y.shtml
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Bush is done for
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/cenk/32962/
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Paul Krugman: Osama, Saddam and the Ports
Paul Krugman writes that Mr. Bush assures us that "people don't need to worry about security." But after all those declarations that we're engaged in a global war on terrorism, after all the terror alerts declared whenever the national political debate seemed to be shifting to questions of cronyism, corruption and incompetence, the administration can't suddenly change its theme song to "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406Z.shtml
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Bush Administration Breaks Record
Administration Borrows more from Foreign Nations
than Previous 42 Presidents Combined
A release from John Tanner (D-TN)
Washington, D.C. - President George W. Bush and the current Administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.

Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation's history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the U.S. Treasury Department. In the past four years alone (2001-2005), the Bush Administration has borrowed a staggering $1.05 trillion.

"The seriousness of this rapid and increasing financial vulnerability of
our country can hardly be overstated," said Rep. John Tanner (D-TN)
http://www.dccc.org/stakeholder/archives/003836.html
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Joke Break !
THIS IS A JOKE, IT'S NOT A NEWS STORY, OR IS IT ?
Dear IRS,
Enclosed is my 2005 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.
Please note the attached article from USA Today, wherein you will see the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat.
I am enclosing four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers (value $1029), bringing my total remitted to $3429.00.
Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one 1.5" Phillips Head screw (article from USA Today detailing how HUD pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws is enclosed for your convenience.)
It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.
Sincerely,
A Satisfied Taxpayer
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Earth
God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day.
He inquired of God. "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction, and proudly pointed downwards
through the clouds. "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm
going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For
example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity
and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over
there I've placed a continent of white people, and over there
is a continent of black people. Balance in all things," God
continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be
extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God. "That's Washington State, the most glorious
place on earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams,
lakes, forests, hills, plains, and coulees. The people from Washington
State are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous,
and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be
extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, and they will be
known throughout the world as diplomats, and carriers of peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then proclaimed,
"What about balance, God? You said there would be balance."
God smiled. "There is another Washington...wait until you see the idiots I put there."
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Back To The News
May 19, 2005 is the 1,346th day since the attacks of 9/11.
That is the same length of time from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the end of WWII
on V-J Day (Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 24, 1945).
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FBI 'Warned Military on Guantanamo Techniques'
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at Guantanamo Bay warned military interrogators that some aggressive interrogation techniques were illegal, according to documents released on Thursday. The American Civil Liberties Union released internal FBI memos that outline agents' concerns about the interrogation tactics being used by Defense Intelligence Agency interrogators at the prison.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406R.shtml
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White House Civil Liberties Board Has Never Met
For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism. Someday, it might actually meet.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022006R.shtml
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From General Wesley Clark
The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces...
http://www.securingamerica.com/
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***** In Today's America There Is A More Powerful Act Than Voting Blue...
And That's Buying Blue ! *****
You may have voted blue, but every day you unknowingly help dump millions of dollars into the conservative war chest. By purchasing products and services from companies that donate heavily to conservatives, we have been compromising our own interests as liberals and progressives.
BuyBlue.org is a concerted effort to lift the veil of corporate patronage, so consumers can make informed buying decisions that coincide with their principles.
Currently, we are developing an extensive and interactive website where users will be able to monitor corporate activity in real time. We cannot do this alone; we need an army of Blue buyers to be the eyes and ears of this movement. All we have to do is put our money where our mouth is to make it profitable to be ethical.
Our collective buying power WILL make a difference, and we WILL be heard.
http://www.buyblue.org/
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Quotes of The Week
"Things would be a lot easier if I was a dictator."
[Governor George W. Bush- before he was President]
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"Humans everywhere have Inherent, Innate, Ingrained, Instinctive, Intuitive, and Inalienable Natural Rights
ALL of which need to be legally and actively protected."
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"Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay"
[A. Einstein]
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"You only have until a ship sinks to get the lifeboats into the water."
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"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand
up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Allow yourself that conceit - to believe that the flame of democracy
will never go out as long as there's one candle in your hand."
[Bill Moyers]
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"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments"
[Napoleon Bonaparte] French Emperor - 1769-1821
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"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor,
so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms
and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."
[Aristotle]
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
[Susan B. Anthony] - 1896
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As Sy Hersh, a well know reporter put it:
"The Democrats are living in fear, reporters are living in fear and all any of us
can do is to turn to the internet in search of the truth."
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"Peace begins with a smile."
[Mother Teresa]
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"Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted".
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New York State Facts - kids room

What is a Billion?
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one
advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into
perspective in one of its releases:
A billion seconds ago - it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago - Jesus was alive
A billion hours ago- our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago - was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the
rate that the Federal Government in Washington D.C. spends it.

Editor's Note: A viewer wrote in on 6/29/2005, telling me the statement above was wrong.
Here is what he had to say...

On your website you have a statement about what is a billion:
1 Billion Seconds ago it was 1973 not 1959
1 Billion Minutes ago Jesus had died and been risen for over 60 years
Depending on the Budget the 8hrs 20min might actually be a lot faster.
(The 8.333hrs is dependent on a yearly budget of 1.051 Trillion dollars)
His source: www.snopes.com

My Thoughts...
Since the annual budget that President Bush proposed for the up coming year is over 2.4 Trillion dollars... That would mean that our government is now spending your tax dollars at the rate of over 2 billion dollars every 8 hours !
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Despite what President Bush says, the war on Iraq is not over. The cost of this war to the American tax payer is going up every second. Since we can't put a price on human lives, we will just give you the figures in tax dollars that the American tax payers have paid as of right now. These figures were provided by the Costofwar.com website.

Cost of the War in Iraq

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