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Nicole Belle on Sunday, May 11th, 2008 at 4:15 PM - PDT
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of country singer Eddy Arnold, civil rights pioneer Mildred Loving and ice cream mogul Irvine Robbins, as well as the 24 servicemembers killed over the last two weeks in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Icasualties, there have been 4,075 confirmed deaths in Iraq since the invasion. IBC lists a total of 143 confirmed Iraqi civilian deaths for this week alone.
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143…that’s all. Wait until the Bush “surge” annihilates Sadr City. But you won’t hear about it on the “news.”
Meanwhile aid can’t be sent to Burma for fear that the generals will be confiscating everything. Now THERE”S a country that should be invaded . If only they had oil ……….
Our country crumbles, and yet we have T-shirt ads here.
Take heed C&L. Money corrupts.
So many more names at the end, so much younger.
“pro-life” Chimps’s gift just keeps on giving.
For every life we take a family becomes our enemy. What we call ‘insurgent’ is a native to the area that does not accept our control. We are doing ourselves more damage every day.
VietVet8666 @ 3:
do you have anything relavant to say or just more gop disenfranchisement ?
VietVet8666 @ 3:
So this means you will be sending C&L how much money so they don’t have to advertise?
VietVet8666 @ 3:
T-shirt sales corrupt…. LOL.
In Memoriam to the US Constitution. esp article 1 section 10 and Article 2: section 2 introducing the ‘Civil Assistance Plan’
US troops and Canadian troops roaming freely across our borders and doing civil law enforcement work on the civilian populations.
Theres a word for this I believe.
Sure this should have been voted on in Congress and the people asked about it ?
This is a treaty subject area akin to NATO and needing Congress to approve of etc.
Article 2: section 2
I hope our soldiers come home soon!
We are gonna need help when Blackwater, Homeland Security and FEMA start patrolling the streets…
Birdflu?
Terrorist attack and subsequent (civilian) round up?
Food panic?
Take yer pick!
….what will be the next November surprise? Hmmmmm.
I am curious how this ties in with NSPD 51 (HSPD-20) (whitehouse.gov) no mention there in the public parts about allowing foreign armies free reign over US citizens.
milquetoast @ 10:
It could be the Canadian army too according going by that CAP treaty.
ferrofluid @ 11:
One almost amusing thing is that the COG mission goals that would be implemented in some disaster of some sort,
Bushco has been incompetent in fulfilling so many of them under normal times, and they expect us to believe Washington et al could do this when the brown stuff hits the fan, I think Katrina proved otherwise.
ferrofluid @ 9:
Ha! good post but…
I thought the constitution died on sept 12th 2001!
the day when the patriot act was passed…
(funny how the patriot act was all ready written up) and ready to go the next day…1 DAY after sept 11th…
FEMA has been around since the President Carter days which is thirty years, then the DHS took over in 2003, and then we had 2005 Katrina hurricane and the ‘too bad so sad’ response to the poor people left behind and drowning in New Orleans by the Feds.
A mark of a civilized society is nobody left behind, no matter how poor or brown skinned they are, the federal military style acceptance of percentage casualties should never interfere with civilian rescue attempts and ‘get them out at all costs’.
Washington jokes about how the ‘great unwashed’ were getting a washing were in too bad a taste.
milquetoast @ 14:
yes, amazing how such a weighty tome was ready to be rubber stamped unread.
Not only does the list seem to be getting longer lately, but I also happened to notice this week that nearly half (11 of 24) came from just two states: Tx (6) & Ca (5).
Mugsy @ 17:
Those five would not have died under St. Reagan’s governorship of CA, I believe he was the only state governor to refuse Johnson NG troops to go fight in Vietnam, he needed them for other duties.
ferrofluid @ 13:
Considering that “government” is supposed to be of, by and for we the people…
…just the fact that there is a “continuity of government program”#@&*% …is the almost amusing thing! (to me)
milquetoast @ 19:
Its also amazing how certain subjects make threads toxic, and websites prone to DDoS, as C&L was a bit earlier.
In Memoriam? For who? They’re all paid volunteers right? Are they defending their nation? Nope, they’re mercenaries, just not well-paid like Blackwater, and therefore a whole lot stupider. Effem. You are never supposed to feel sorry for the country boys when the chickens come home to roost, right? I mean, that’s what chickens do.
JBleau, Paris France.
I am still not going to watch George Stepinalottamess, sorry Nicole.
To Mr. Bush Jr.
Are you a Communist, Sir?
Yes!
This would have been the given answer, if the question had been submitted during the Cold War era, before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
How have I came to this conclusion regarding U.S’s President?
Simply because Mr. Bush, through his policies in the Balkan region, follows Stalin’s and Tito’s aspirations for reducing Greece’s national entity.
The pseudonym state, the so-called nation and the newly invented language of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was one of Stalin’s dreams. Both Stalin and Tito manufactured this state, back in August 1944, in the frames of Yugoslav federation.
They simply altered the name of old Vardarska in Macedonia and they baptized the multi-ethnic population of Vardaska constituted by Bulgarian, Serb, Greek Albanians and others into a so-called “Macedonian nation”. Using as a pretext the fabricated name of the state, they claimed that the inhabitants of “Macedonia” are “pure” descendants of Alexander the Great.
Today, Alexander’s descendants they call their state as “free Macedonia” and they argue that Macedonia is under Greek occupation!
They strive to find an exit to the Aegean Sea, following Stalin’s plan to absorb Greek territories and establish a new state, under the protection of the Warsaw Pact, under the name “Macedonia”. This important detail is clearly mentioned in f.YROM’s constitution and is globally transmitted through state propaganda. Their main aim is to incorporate Thessaloniki – Greece’s second largest city – into their national frontiers and proclaim Thessaloniki as their future capital! It is important to note that this kind of propaganda is not presented in the web, but is also recorded in school books.
Back in 1944 U.S reacted rational. Edward Stettinious, the then American Minister of Foreign Affairs declared that “Every discussion about Macedonian nation, Macedonian homeland or Macedonian conscience constitutes unjustifiable demagogy and does not correspond any kind of national or political reality whatsoever”. And he concludes by saying that this kind of behavior is an act of aggression against Greece.
During the I and the II World War and during the Cold War era Greece helped US, and US assisted Greece through the reputable Marshall Plan. However, now Mr. Bush Jr maintains this communist monstrosity and strives to aid f.YROM stealing the unquestionably Greek name of Macedonia from their legitimate title – holder, Greece.
Mr. Bush’s wants to make real Stalin’s and Tito’s dream, put an end to a hundred years of Greko-American friendship and alliance. He supports American enemies, till some years ago. Mr. Bush must answer the following question. Who fought side by side with the American soldiers in Korea. The pseudo-macedonians or Greek soldiers, many of them originated from the ancient Greek soil of one and only Macedonia?
Traditionally, Greeks stood side by side with the United States of America. However, neither Mr. Bush Jr. nor Mrs. Hilary Clinton value this honest attitude. In order to rectify the aforementioned damage to the mentality of the Greek nation, the American President or his Foreign Secretary should admit that: nowadays citizens of f.YROM are not of Macedonian ethic roots, but they come from the Slavs. My proposal to them, if they question this historic fact, is to approach American academic historians or archaeologist. Maybe, after that they will be able to re-approach history form a valid point of view.
Maybe….
Anastasios Kazantzidis
A Greek Teacher