Americans need to read MORE like this

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 7:06 AM PDT

2006/10/18 · 07:06

No video or pictures of coffins coming home.
No MSM reporting on the tragedies and broken lives of victims and their families.

The Washington Post has published a story that almost had me crying.

Support for the war is low, but stories like this should change those minds that still think it's an okay deal.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Read More

Why aren't these deaths being reported on the front pages of the MSM

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Tuesday October 03, 2006 · 9:01 AM PDT

2006/10/03 · 09:01

After the invasion of Iraq, I had trouble sleeping. I would wake up at around 4 every morning and go to my computer to find out how many people had been killed that day in Iraq. CNN would be first and they always had the numbers of Americans killed on the front page of their website.

Sometimes it was just one, sometimes two. But I would sit there and cry for the unnecessary loss of life on both sides.

Three and a half years later, the killing, dying, maiming has steadily increased. Read More

Drug price sticker shock, U.S. vs Europe

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Sunday May 21, 2006 · 8:38 AM PDT

2006/05/21 · 08:38

I was in Italy last week and thought I felt a cold sore developing. I thought, great, I'm in beautiful Italy and about to be disfigured because I didn't think to bring my tube of acyclovir. I have a prescription but rarely have to use it. I paid $7 co-pay so had no idea what the actual cost was.
I thought it may be an over the counter drug in Italy so I went into a pharmacy in Florence and was able to buy a 10 gram tube for 7 euros.
I was curious as to how that compared to the U.S. prices so I went into my local drugstore yesterday, showed the pharmacist the box from Italy and asked him to look up the price on his computer.
Imagine my shock and fury to find out that the same amount, same concentration would cost $208 here for someone without health insurance!
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Former N.O. resident's sad, angry comments from Ireland

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 12:18 PM PDT

2005/09/01 · 12:18

This young woman is a friend of my daughter. She lived in New Orleans with her boyfriend, until he died of a brain tumor a few years ago. I believe 'he' refers to her dead lover.

Now she is studying in Ireland and watching on television the destruction of her former home.
These comments are from her online blog and I thought they were powerful and sorrowful enough to share.
I think the 'he' in her piece refers to her dead lover.
Her post follows.... Read More

More Guckert comic relief

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Saturday February 26, 2005 · 5:30 PM PST

2005/02/26 · 17:30

Lefties are so much more creative and funny than the wingnuts. I was just at http://www.wonkette.com/ and she had a link to this very hilarious song.
http://www.12thharmonic.com/wordpress/?p=728

There he was just waitin' for a pass,
Singin', do-wah diddy-diddy who did he do?
Somethin tells me McClellan likes his ass,
Singin', do-wah diddy-diddy who did he do?
He can't write, can't write,
Can't spell, can't spell,
Can't write can't spell
But he's got something to sell.

check it out!

Suddenly so many 'vehicle accidents' in Iraq

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 4:22 PM PST

2005/02/16 · 16:22

I don't believe this for a minute. It seems that since the 'elections' more soldiers are dying in car crashes than by hostile incidents.
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Bush deliberately misquoted the Declaration of Independence

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Saturday February 12, 2005 · 5:24 AM PST

2005/02/12 · 05:24

because he thinks it's okay to kill non-Americans.

This is from a January article but I just found it and thought it interesting. The website is religious and anti-choice but also very anti-war.
http://www.whtt.org
Bush once again demonstrates that he only believes that American lives are valuable.

"ED- A "forgery" is a mistake made on purpose. Who can detect the deliberate misquote in our President's statement? (see endnote)

Bush declares Sunday National Sanctity of Human Life Day

Politics News from AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush proclaimed Sunday National Sanctity of Human Life Day and Religious Freedom Day.

"The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all Americans are endowed by the Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," Bush noted in a statement.

Bush, who formally opposes abortion, added that: "On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we celebrate the sacred gift of life. Our nation has made significant progress in recent years toward building a culture of life." Read More

Are American deaths in Iraq being hidden from the press?

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 5:06 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 05:06

This link is from whatreallyhappened.com
US Chinook Downed Kills 14, Clashes In Ramadi Kills More
Is there any way to verify that this is true?
Has anyone heard or read anything from other sources? There is no mention at http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293363624

more Iran/Contra gangsters get promoted

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Thursday February 03, 2005 · 5:19 PM PST

2005/02/03 · 17:19

Good god. It was bad enough when these reprobates resurfaced in the first Bush 4 years. Why aren't all these fuckers who are ruining the world behind bars?
From Rawstory.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59235-2005Feb2.html
Indicted criminal who doesn't speak Arabic appointed to 'Ambassador of Baghdad". Now Elliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra affair, was promoted to deputy national security adviser to President Bush.

WTF?

Nadler on perverted cartoon characters

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Friday January 28, 2005 · 8:11 AM PST

2005/01/28 · 08:11

I read this at my favorite fun lefty blog http://maruthecrankpot.blogspot.com/

Nadler taken aback by revelations about SpongeBob's insidious pro-homosexual agenda

"I couldn't agree more," Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said. "We've seen this before with Tinky Winky, the allegedly gay Teletubby. Simply put, kids' cartoons are no longer safe for kids - at least if we want them to develop into bigoted, narrow-minded adults."

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/Spongebob12105.html

I wish he were my congressman!

Ask the White House

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Monday January 10, 2005 · 11:58 AM PST

2005/01/10 · 11:58

Tomorrow at 3pm EST Chuck Blahous Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy will be answering questions that citizens can submit at the White House website. I hope more people ask some hard questions.
This is the question I posted.

Why does George Bush hate elderly Americans, the disabled, as well as widows and orphans? All these people will suffer if he succeeds in his plan to destroy Social Security in order to allow Wall Street to reap the rewards of broker and managers' fees from the so-called 'private accounts'? Social Security has been proven by experts to be the most solvent and healthy social program this country has. Why doesn't Mr. Bush turn his energy to real problems, like poverty, housing, education? Why does he strip low income teen-agers of their only possible chance of affording college, like the Pell Grants?
Does George Bush hate all Americans, or just the needy, the elderly, and the middle class?

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