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To the Americans, the Awakening represents a grand process of reconciliation, a way to draw more Sunnis into the fold. But whatever reconciliation the ISVs offer lies between the Americans and the Iraqis, not among Iraqis themselves. Most Shiites I speak with believe that the same Sunnis who have been slaughtering Shiites throughout Iraq are now being empowered and legitimized by the Americans as members of the ISVs. On one raid with U.S. troops, I see children chasing after the soldiers, asking them for candy. But when they learn I speak Arabic, they tell me how much they like the Mahdi Army and Muqtada al-Sadr. "The Americans are donkeys," one boy says. "When they are here we say, 'I love you,' but when they leave we say, 'Fuck you.'"
From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.
In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history.
All of this has been done without the declaration of war from Congress that the Constitution clearly requires, in defiance of the U.N. Charter and in violation of international law. This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
Civil War in Iraq? It has been amusing listening to people debate the terminology for the people being killed in Iraq. A civil war ? Are the people being killed politely? "Please hold still while I drill a hole in your head with this 3/8" drill bit sir." It doesn't matter what this mess is called, it has become a killing field brought about by the stupidity and greed of an un-chosen few. What we have is george dubya. He broke Iraq. I guess the purple fingered people did not understand how the occupation could not provide electricity on a regular basis, but could continuously pump oil through un-metered wells. Has everyone forgotten the only thing secured in Iraq during the initial invasion were the oil fields? Where is the money from all of the oil pumped going anyway? Have there been any stories in the press or reports from the government on who is receiving the revenues from this oil?
Our Congresspeople and Senators who were (sheepish isn't quite the word) to vote for the AUMF, should resign. Keep all of their bullshit excuses to themselves and display if only once in their privileged lives a sense of honor. (Hari-kari anyone?) Anyone who doesn't fully support withdrawing our troops, and paying neighboring countries Armies to straighten up the mess this mess has created, is stuck on stupid. It would definitely cost less than staying there, but then nothing would go *boom*, war profiteers wouldn't make as much money, and the intellectually challenged little prez might get us into something that would really cause damage....Like Iran... or North Korea....Or China just might want to cash the trillion dollars in American debt that it holds. Did I say "trillion dollars"? Yes, I did.
I was truly worried about the election. The truth is, they didn't steal enough votes.
Pelosi is an ass.
Reid is soft.
I have a plan.
All of us who support the IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM IRAQ and the IMPEACHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT of george w., the only miselected president of the United States...{{{{{{drumroll}}}}} change our voter registration to NO PARTY AFFILIATION...
They will notice that change right away, if enough people participate.
You can always switch back before the primary...
A large number of voter registration changes nationwide will not go unnoticed. Some reporter will write a story about the number of voter registration changes, and hopefully other larger sites will pick up on this campaign. Sane people want bush put away. Hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions switching their registration to "Unaffiliated" would send a clear signal to the house of what is expected of the new majority. I've switched mine, please help get this message to the idjits on the hill. Some states require only a phone call, others require a stamp. Your county, voter registration department. I should probably make a list, but I bet somebody else already did? 42 seconds of google has produced this link: http://www.declareyourself.org/index.php . Don't you just love the internet?
**** NOTICE******
You can click the "have registered to vote before" and simply change your party affiliation to undeclared. Some states need a stamp.
This is the first time I am applying for voter registration.
I live in a rural area and do not have a street address or I have no address.
I have registered to vote before, but:
This application is for a change of name.
This is the first time I am registering from my current address.
This application is to register with a new or different party.
I live in a rural area and do not have a street address or I have no address.
State Specific Eligibilty Criteria
Please respond to the following Nevada specific eligibility criteria.
Yes No
I am a citizen of the United States.
Yes No
I will have attained the age of 18 years on the date of the next election.
Yes No
I will have continuously resided in the State of Nevada, and in my county, at least 30 days and in my precinct at least 10 days before the next election.
Yes No
I am currently NOT serving prison time, probation, or parole as a felon
Yes No
I am not determined by a court of law to be mentally incompetent.
Yes No
I claim no other place as my legal residence.
A couple more clicks, (Don't forget to select the I DECLINE TO STATE A POLITICAL PARTY ) and you will have made the intent of your vote in the 2006 midterm elections abundantly clear. Let's face it, too many of the fools on the hill are running in the 2008 election already without giving proper weight to the results and expectations of those who voted in the 2006 elections.
Here is the link again: http://www.declareyourself.org/index.php , It took me all of four minutes to complete the form, including getting up to get my drivers license. There are three steps to the process, all painless.
stupid dubya is the spoiled rich kid playing with power, similar to the child with the matches and newspaper under the stairs.
Additionally, you don't have to support the impeachment *and* imprisonment of bush. You can just support the impeachment and the withdrawal of the troops from Iraq. You can support the sky being blue and join this motion.
Of course...you may end up on the "do not fly list".
I think voter intent can be determined between elections without questionable polls...one time...when it is really important? Americans and Iraqis are being killed daily, millions of dollars are being stolen daily. The working class is being reduced to third world status. If I could lose eight billion dollars and get a medal, I'd lose eight billion dollars every day. This is the capitalist society the bush "base" believes in. The burden for society is shifted to the working class, "trying to get by" working stiff.
Let's give the elected a strong motivation to get it right.
1. The war in Iraq must end. With the (supposed) consent of the American Voting Public the Congress and Senate approved the Authorization to Use Military Force . A "Stupid is as stupid does ma'am" moment. The intelligence, (not the secret agent kind) of every member of Congress and the Senate who voted to authorize the madman to invade Iraq is in question. I wonder if their dictionary includes the word "obvious" ? Unfortunately, that includes Hillary. SIDE NOTE TO OBAMA: Don't run, a black man named "Obama" has about as much chance of becoming president of the U.S.A. as he does of becoming the prime minister of Israel.
2. This administration has violated the principles of the United States egregiously. Disregarding the Geneva Conventions, the writ of Habeas Corpus and the illegal wiretapping of Americans are more than sufficient causes for the removal of these criminals. No free rides, treat them like a black man in Vidor, Texas.
3. Only through the impeachment and removal of these criminals will the precedents set by this idiot be deemed unconstitutional and illegal. It is not amusing that every change bushco has made to the structure of the federal government (FEMA, NSA, FBI/CIA, Medicare, Federal bidding process, Bankruptcy reform, etc.) were made to fix something that wasn't broken, but to cover up for the incompetence of this administration or to enrich what bushw refers to as "his base".
Let's call this the "PINK SLIP" campaign. All the ribbon colors are taken already. Here is our logo/banner and if you put this on your site, please link it to this article.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military casualties have surged in Iraq in recent weeks, with U.S. troops engaging in perilous urban sweeps to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad while facing unrelenting violence elsewhere.
At least 44 U.S. troops have been killed so far in October. At the current pace, the month would be the deadliest for U.S. forces since January 2005. After falling to 43 in July, the U.S. toll rose in August and September before spiking this month. The war's average monthly U.S. death toll is 64.
We have an Average! bush's blunder has averaged 64 American soldiers being killed a month. That is TWO EACH DAY. According to the most honest assessment of Iraqi deaths, Average Iraqi deaths per month is 15,476. How many people are going to die because of bush greed?
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.
These men advocate a doctrine of permanent war, a doctrine which, as William R. Polk points out, is a slight corruption of Leon Trotsky’s doctrine of permanent revolution. These two revolutionary doctrines serve the same function, to intimidate and destroy all those classified as foreign opponents, to create permanent instability and fear and to silence domestic critics who challenge leaders in a time of national crisis. It works. The citizens of the United States, slowly being stripped of their civil liberties, are being herded sheep-like, once again, over a cliff.
Those in Washington who advocate this war, knowing as little about the limitations and chaos of war as they do about the Middle East, believe they can hit about 1,000 sites inside Iran to wipe out nuclear production and cripple the 850,000-man Iranian army. The disaster in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli air campaign not only failed to break Hezbollah but united most Lebanese behind the militant group, is dismissed. These ideologues, after all, do not live in a reality-based universe. The massive Israeli bombing of Lebanon failed to pacify 4 million Lebanese. What will happen when we begin to pound a country of 70 million people? As retired General Wesley K. Clark and others have pointed out, once you begin an air campaign it is only a matter of time before you have to put troops on the ground or accept defeat, as the Israelis had to do in Lebanon. And if we begin dropping bunker busters, cruise missiles and iron fragmentation bombs on Iran this is the choice that must be faced—either sending American forces into Iran to fight a protracted and futile guerrilla war or walking away in humiliation.
“As a people we are enormously forgetful,” Dr. Polk, one of the country’s leading scholars on the Middle East, told an Oct. 13 gathering of the Foreign Policy Association in New York. “We should have learned from history that foreign powers can’t win guerrilla wars. The British learned this from our ancestors in the American Revolution and re-learned it in Ireland. Napoleon learned it in Spain. The Germans learned it in Yugoslavia. We should have learned it in Vietnam and the Russians learned it in Afghanistan and are learning it all over again in Chechnya and we are learning it, of course, in Iraq. Guerrilla wars are almost unwinnable. As a people we are also very vain. Our way of life is the only way. We should have learned that the rich and powerful can’t always succeed against the poor and less powerful.”
Could this be the "October Surprise" rove promised the really stupid people who still support the evil bush administration policies? These vessels arrival off the coast of Iran exactly one week before the November elections is very suspicious. If/when they are attacked does anyone doubt that the moron in charge will blame the Iranians and use this as an excuse to initiate hostilities with Iran? Just an FYI bush, Iran has some really fast land to sea missiles, and when I say fast, I mean supersonic. Israel managed to lose one of their ships off the coast of Lebanon to one of these missiles, you might want to investigate that before placing our ships too close to the coastline of Iran. When I say fast, I mean torpedoes that travel at two to four times the speed of sound. Now I'm no rocket scientist, but I do like math. Iran has torpedoes and land to sea missiles that travel reportedly a minimum of 1520 miles per hour. Keeping in mind that this information is dated, it is very likely that performance of these missiles has been improved. Let's let someone more knowledgeable explain this:
The Moskit is a large supersonic anti-ship missile. Designed by the Raduga Design Bureau, development of the Moskit began in the 1970s. The Moskit entered Soviet military service in the 1980s aboard Sovremennyy-class guided missile destroyers and several classes of fast attack boats. An air-launched version of the Moskit was first displayed in 1992, and Raduga also reportedly began designs for a surface-to-air variant. Neither variant had entered production as of April 2002. The Moskit's control system is manufactured by NPO Altair. Missile assembly takes place at the Progress plant in Arsenyevo in Primorskiy Kray.
The Moskit is powered by a ramjet engine and has an estimated top speed of Mach 2.5. It has a launch weight of 3,950kg and carries a payload of 300kg. The Moskit has a range of 120km (250km air-launched), but tests of the Moskit using a high trajectory showed the possibility of increasing its range to 300km.
The Sunburn missile has never seen use in combat but has been extensively field-tested by the Russians which probably explains why its fearsome capabilities are not more widely recognized. The Russians have been known to leak, via double agents, incorrect technical data to the US Defense Intelligence Agency. Other cruise missiles <>have<> been used, of course, on several occasions, and with devastating results. During the Falklands War, French-made Exocet missiles, fired from Argentine fighters, sunk the HMS Sheffield and another ship. And, in 1987, during the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Stark was nearly cut in half by a pair of Exocets while on patrol in the Persian Gulf. On that occasion US Aegis radar picked up the incoming Iraqi fighter (a French-made Mirage), and tracked its approach to within 50 miles. The radar also “saw” the Iraqi plane turn about and return to its base. But radar never detected the pilot launch his weapons. The sea-skimming Exocets came smoking in under radar and were only sighted by human eyes moments before they ripped into the Stark, crippling the ship and killing 37 US sailors.
Not only is the Sunburn much larger and faster, it has far greater range and a superior guidance system. Those who have witnessed its performance trials invariably come away stunned. According to one report, when the Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani visited Moscow in October 2001 he requested a test firing of the Sunburn, which the Russians were only too happy to arrange. So impressed was Ali Shamkhani that he placed an initial order for six of the missiles.
btw, someone should let bush know that we don't have the ground forces to occupy Iran, and simple bombing missions are not going to achieve anything other than the complete disintegration of Iraq, a huge spike in world oil prices, expanded and increased mid-east turmoil, and more unnecessary death.
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