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Monday, January 1, 2007

3,000 dead US troops, 60,000 dead civilians, Iraq wrecked.

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In Desert Storm the US lost 148 and Iraqi civillian dead numbered 35,000.

Today there are now over 3,000 dead US soliders in Iraq and there are almost 60,000 Iraqi civillians dead.

According to Bush's spokesman Scott Stanzel the US president "grieves for each one that is lost" and "will ensure their sacrifice was not made in vain."

Saddam has answered for his butchery. Will Rumsfeld and Bush answer for their role in these deaths?
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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Political Quote of the day- Saddam Hussein

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"Long live great Iraq and its people.
Long live Palestine, free and Arab from the river to the sea.
God is greatest.
May the despicable ones be despised."

---Saddam Hussein, in his letter to the Iraqi people published just before his execution for crimes against humanity.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

Ford disagreed with Bush on Iraq

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In a 2004 interview embargoed for release after his death, former president Gerald Ford told the Washington Post the war in Iraq was unjustified and that he very strongly disagreed with President Bush's reasons for attacking Iraq.

In videos released only today Ford says he felt that President and his top advisers had made a "big mistake" in starting the war in Iraq. Ford pulled the US out of Vietnam when he inherited the Vietnam War and was in office when the US accepted defeat.

Ford made this remarks in interviews taped for Bob Woodward (the Bob "Watergate" Woodward) was writing.

Donald Rumsfeld served under Ford as Secretary of Defence and Dick Cheney served as Ford's chief of staff. Ford says on the tapes that Cheney has become more pugnacious with time.

Bit late now Gerald but at least you said it! They used to say you weren't too bright but you were smart enough to know that the reasons for an invasion of Iraq were complete rubbish and smart enough to know not to involve the US in another Vietnam. If you weren't the brighest, Gerald, then what does it say for the intellect of George W Bush?

Answers in the comments boxes below. Best one wins a prize.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

School kids trade arms here in Ireland - Afterschool Arms School

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In April of this year the Leaving Certificate students of Colaiste Chríost Ri in Portlaoise set up a company called 'Seachtar" to buy and sell arms.

Even more shockingly they did this legally as Ireland has some of the weakest arms control legislation in the EU. Despite the thousands who died in the troubles we don't bother to restrict the control of deadly arms or torture devices such as thumbs cuffs, leg irons and stun sticks.

This disgraceful situation was highlighted by UK activist Mark Thomas in a programme for Channel 4. Using pupils from the UK to trade guns he discovered that in the UK a licence was required to trade guns but not required in Ireland. So he got pupils to travel over and use their mobile phones at the side of the road here in the republic of Ireland.

Mark Thomas also used pupils in Ireland to buy and sell arms, importing them to Ireland and exporting them to contacts all over the world without question or hinderence from the Irish Government. To do this he secured the cooperation of six schoolgirls and Sr Barbara Raftery. They were so good at trading that they were asked to become agents for Korean electro-shock equipment dealers.

This is more than just a possiblity it is acutally happening and Ireland is being used to faciliate this deadly trade. According to Amensty International (Ireland) "arms brokers operating out of Ireland, despite clear evidence linking them to shipments to Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone."

What also surprised me and disapointed me was the lack of coverage of the story and the lack of public outcry though some paper's did cover it and the Irish Times did an excellent follow-up interview here.

The programme was called ‘After School Arms Club’ was screened by Channel 4, as part of their Dispatches series on Monday April 3rd.

Download the video here (it takes five minutes on Broadband if you are lucky enough to live somewhere that you can get Broadband). This download is courtesy of Indybay.org

For more information visit the After School Arms Club and read the article by Mark Thomas entitled Mark Thomas - plays "let's start an arms company"
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

When the Levees Broke - Spike Lee's documentary on New Orleans

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Watched Part 1 of Spike Lee’s "When the Levees Broke" which is billed as a requiem for New Orleans last night on BBC 4. I strongly recommend it and I will be watching Part 2 tonight at 9pm on the same channel.

Lee says he knew he had to make a documentary on the flooding of the city during Katrina when he watched reports of it on the news while in Italy. "I just couldn't believe this was happening right now in America. It was one of those moments where you know someone will ask you years from now, 'Where were you when Katrina happened?' "

What went on there was terrible. People sat on their hands while people drowned and there was bickering over city powers, state powers and federal powers though the Mayor of New Orleans Nagin comes across well. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was shoe shopping during the crisis, do not.

If Part 2 is half as good as the first two hours (Yes! It’s four hours long) then it is one of the best documentaries I have seen in years. Though I do believe that Lee’s documentary promotes the idea that certain parts of New Orleans were flooded deliberately. Just have to wait and see.

I will report back tomorrow.
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Saddam to Hang

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If Saddam is to hang for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis then who will hang for the deaths of the 40,000 Iraqis who have died since the "liberation" of Iraqi?

Why does George Bush keep referring to "Victory" and "winning" in relation to the situation in Iraq?

Surely the invasion of Iraq was a liberation not a war?

Or wait, was it about getting rid of all of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Or was it about getting rid of Saddam the evil dictator who was kept in power by the US for decades when he suited them?

Well it can't have been about oil or anything grubby like that.

So it must be about "Victory" and "winning". It just has to be.
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