Candles on the Eve of War: an Observance on the Passing of George Tiller

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Tuesday June 02, 2009 · 4:43 PM PDT

2009/06/02 · 16:43

The last time I entered a church was the night of September 11, 2001. I'm not a believer and neither was my partner. We went anyway. We needed to be away from the television hammering our brains with electron flashes of fire and death. We needed to not be alone with that any more.

The church passed out small white candles to everyone who came. We all lit them, one candle to another, and held the flame in our hands in gathering dark and grieved for thousands dead. Tried to understand a hatred without limit, erupting out of another universe, a place of evisceration and burning and screams.

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 2:50 PM PDT

2006/10/04 · 14:50

Over the last several weeks, a variety of information sources have reported US military movements and internal US government discussions that, to some, suggest preparations for an attack on Iran within the near future.

The purpose of this post is to assemble and summarize these reports in one place, the better for Daily Kos readers to try to make sense of them. It's harder to get a handle on these reports when they're scattered across a number of websites, diaries, and comment sections.

The information I refer to comes from a variety of sources, including not only media outlets but also anecdotal reports from family members of US personnel.

If anyone who reads this diary has additional news to report, such as first hand accounts from service members with knowledge of seemingly unusual military activity, I urge you to post these reports in the comments. Of course, doing so could mean that you have "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States" under the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006. I really don't know. Read More

This Is the Way It Ends: Attack on Iran May Be Imminent

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 8:17 PM PDT

2006/05/12 · 20:17

Rawstory has reported that two US aircraft carriers are steaming toward the Persian Gulf to join the one already there. Unspecified military scuttlebutt, says the site, tells of a coming attack on Iran, as early as June of this year. Within seven weeks from today.

Maybe the reports will turn out to be incorrect. Or premature. Maybe we have a little longer before the world we know is gone.

I'm trying to be as detached as I can in my thinking, trying not to get caught up in despair and anxiety and fear. But I am afraid, afraid of where our country and the world are going, more so than I've ever been in my life. More than I was when everyone worried about the Red Menace launching a nuclear bolt from the blue. I go about my daily business and I just want to scream at people. Don't you realize that all of this is over? Read More

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