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James Glaser: George Bush Might Call Me a Defeatist / John Pilger: The Quiet Death of Freedom

Jim Glaser, a Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran and Commander of American Legion Post 499, works to educate the American public on the consequences of war. His personal website is James-Glaser.com.

My thanks to Tom Feeley of Information Clearing House (ICH), for so diligently sending me his daily, very informative newsletter. This particular newsletter is especially outstanding, containing articles by several noted, outspoken writers who intrepidly speak the truth such as James Glaser, John Pilger, Tom Engelhardt, Manuel Valenzuela, and the Iraqi blogger Riverbend (Baghdad Burning), and others.

These articles are headlined including short excerpts here, with links to the full articles, and I highly recommend reading them in their entirety.

Much appreciated, Tom! -- AMD

"When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...." : Daniel Ellsburg to the US Senate on Foreign Relations, May 13, 1970

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“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.” : Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)

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“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.” : Dwight David Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.” : Jimmy Carter (American 39th US President (1977-81). Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002. b.1924)


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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +


Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2187


The War in Iraq Costs
$231,575,160,866+
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George Bush Might Call Me a Defeatist:

By James Glaser

I’m telling you we are not even close to winning Bush’s war in Iraq. We have been in Iraq almost three years, and American troops are still in a lock down. No American trooper can take a stroll down the streets of Baghdad or any other Iraqi city.
Read full article here

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The Quiet Death Of Freedom

By John Pilger

Bush has carried out the recommendations of a Messianic conspiracy theory called the "Project for a New American Century". Written by his ideological sponsors shortly before he came to power, it foresaw his administration as a military dictatorship behind a democratic façade: "the cavalry on a new American frontier" guided by a blend of paranoia and megalomania.

"...From 1945 to 2005, the United States attempted to overthrow 50 governments, many of them democracies, and to crush 30 popular movements fighting tyrannical regimes. In the process, 25 countries were bombed, causing the loss of several million lives and the despair of millions more." (Thanks to William Blum's Rogue State, Common Courage Press, 2005)
Read full article here

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A Cult of Presidential Power

The Unrestrained President

By Tom Engelhardt

While much has been made of feverish Christian fundamentalist support for the President, the real religious fervor in this administration has been almost singularly focused on the quite un-Christian attribute of total earthly power.
Read full article here

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The Army of Good Americans

Marching Forward

By Manuel Valenzuela

One day, in the not too distant future, in the middle of the night, a knock will come at their door, it being not a dream nor a fantasy, its noise an ominous reminder of the police state now upon America, coming to serve power on those who thought they had nothing to fear by sacrificing liberty and freedom for so-called security.

" Thinking that in allowing for warrantless wiretaps and NSA eavesdropping because they have nothing to hide will not affect them, they have helped seal their own fates, for in the evisceration of rights of minorities those of the majority are next to follow. In granting dictatorial powers to their Dear Leader, in the misguided belief that only he can protect them from bogeymen, the army of good Americans is opening the doors to the coming police state, for in such a place those apologizers of criminality soon find themselves on the receiving end of what they helped engender. In pushing for the extension of the Patriot Act, in the naïve belief that its laws only affect bogeymen, the army of good Americans is conditioning its children to a future of less freedom and rights, for the future will never miss what they never had."...
Read full article here

Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst and Internet columnist. His articles as well as his archive can be found at his blog, www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com, and at Information Clearing House as well as at other alternative news websites from around the globe. Mr. Valenzuela is also author of "Echoes in the Wind", a fiction novel. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net
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When Sharon Meets His Maker

By Gilad Atzmon

A peaceful man is on his way to meet his Creator. The Lord may ask him, just as he enters the gate of heaven, “Hey Grandpa Arik, why are your hands so red?”
Read full article here

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Seven U.S. Soldiers Among 132 Killed In Iraq:

A suicide bomb attack in the city of Ramadi killed more than 70 and wounded 65, said Mahmoud al-Dulaimi, a doctor at Ramadi's main hospital.
Read full article here

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Iraqi Girl Blog: Baghdad Burning:

Here we are in the first days of 2006. What does the ‘6’ symbolize? How about- 6 hours of no electricity for every one hour of electricity? Or… 6 hours of waiting in line for gasoline that is three times as expensive as it was in 2005? Or an average of six explosions per day near our area alone?
Read full article here

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IMF Occupies Iraq, Riots Follow:

Bad enough that the U.S. military is occupying Iraq. Now the IMF is occupying the country.
Read full article here

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Out of Iraq Events Planned in Over 130 Cities:

Local organizations have planned over 130 Out of Iraq events around the country on or about January 7th. Most of the events are town hall forums, and several will feature members of Congress, including Bobby Scott, Diane Watson, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith, Bob Filner, Martin Sabo, Jim Moran, Marty Meehan, and John Murtha
Read full article here

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CIA had plenty of evidence Iraq had no illegal weapons, book reveals:

THE CIA had evidence from 30 Iraqi weapons scientists that Saddam Hussein had abandoned its weapons of mass destruction programs long before the US invaded, an explosive new book on America's spying operations says.
Read full article here

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UK: Anger as Britain admits it was wrong to blame Iran for deaths in Iraq :

MPs and soldiers' families have demanded an explanation from the Government after a U-turn over claims that Iran was complicit in the killing of British soldiers in southern Iraq.
Read full article here

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posted by Annamarie at 8:32 PM