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["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance.  It is also owed to justice and to humanity.  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong: James Bryce

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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!: Albert Einstein

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Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots.  What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?: Adlai Stevenson

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Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind.  We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands.  The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race.  Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury: William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838 

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1 YEAR & 157 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ.

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This is a must watch video

Video: Hijacking Catastrophe : 

Documentary featuring Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali, and many more experts speaking about the Neo-Con agenda and the cloud of fear which the Neo-Cons have settled over America. 

This is a must watch video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

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Violence Sweeps Iraq, Killing 110: 

At least 110 people were killed across Iraq on Sunday in a sharp escalation of violence that saw gun battles, car bombs and bombardments rock the capital. http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6213072

http://tinyurl.com/4mncn

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Ambulance hit as US planes pound Falluja: 

US forces have launched air strikes on the Iraqi town of Falluja, killing up to 18 people, including women, children and an ambulance driver. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/19287CF7-A5CE-4D8F-988B-F3CB37B6F1FF.htm

http://tinyurl.com/5pqws

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Iraqis Mourn Their Dead Away from Media Glare: 

According to statistics compiled by Iraq's Health Ministry, 3,186 civilian Iraqis have been killed since April of this year alone, in violence and lawlessness across the country. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6219199

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Patrick J. Buchanan: A peace bloodier than war: 

The Congress may have given the president a blank check, but this nation never signed up for an endless war to make Iraq safe for democracy. Nor will Americans pay an endless price in blood to achieve it. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40423

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Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President: 

The inability to take responsibility makes Bush genuinely unable to lead: he can bully others and seem to act decisively, but he retreats from threatened confrontation (he says "bring em on" only when embedded behind the Secret Service thousands of miles away from the battle). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6899.htm

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Bush family history shows a dark past unseen by most: 

Few would argue that trust, like democracy, is earned and not inherited. So how is it that we've missed the lessons of four generations of Bush family history? http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7252~2397258,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/6zngl

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Andrew Greeley: Voters have no choice on Iraq : 

Bush's suggestion that the ''insurgents'' are mostly Arab troublemakers who have sneaked into Iraq is laughable. He has created in Iraq a nation of terrorists who will come back to haunt us. http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel10.html

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Poll: Americans Resigned To Terror: 

Seven in ten Americans say Americans will always have to live with the threat of terrorism in the U.S. Just a quarter thinks the U.S. can someday eliminate the threat of terrorism. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/10/opinion/polls/main642693.shtml?cmp=EM8707

http://tinyurl.com/3lyvs

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How George Bush bankrupted the war on terror: 

Are we safer after invading Iraq? No. Would we be safer if we'd spent the hundreds of billions the war has cost on improving our own security at home? Yes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6900.htm

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Chalabi aide in Israel: 

Al-Alusi, who heads the Iraqi interim government's "de-Baathification" campaign, voiced a desire to normalise relations with Israel, says Israeli press sources. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/229D9384-A8E8-4E95-B566-5551324E4B28.htm

http://tinyurl.com/5knem

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Portrait of a neo-con: 

When poor intelligence started making life difficult for United States troops early in the Iraq war, a top commander had nasty things to say about Douglas Feith, the No 3 civilian in the Pentagon. But to write off Feith as an idiot would be a serious mistake. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FI14Aa02.html

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In case you missed it: 

Carter's Crusade: 

Jimmy Carter explains how the Christian right isn't Christian at all. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6897.htm

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Marine convicted of abusing inmate gets clemency: 

A Marine from northwest Ohio has been granted clemency four months after pleading guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner he was guarding. http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/oh/news2.shtml

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Bush team 'knew of abuse' at Guantánamo : 

Evidence of prisoner abuse and possible war crimes at Guantánamo Bay reached the highest levels of the Bush administration as early as autumn 2002, but Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, chose to do nothing about it http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1303105,00.html

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Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror : 

In an explosive extract from his new book, Seymour Hersh reveals how, in a fateful decision that led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the US defence secretary gave the green light to a secret unit authorised to torture terrorist suspects http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6898.htm

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Israel warns on weapons: 

ISRAEL warned yesterday that Iran could be in a position to develop nuclear weapons without outside help within six months. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10756987%255E663,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/5pyc9

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The scenes at Beslan weren't so unfamiliar: 

I do not claim to understand the mentality of a terrorist willing to sacrifice children. However, as a Chechen and a doctor with firsthand experience of the war, I can offer some context into what turns ordinary people into extremists willing to commit such atrocities. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=538399.html

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Speeches ignore impending U.S. debt disaster : 

No mention of fiscal gap estimated as high as $72 trillion http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/12/MNG2S8NOI21.DTL

http://tinyurl.com/46n9a

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1,000 Iraqi rebels, civilians dead in urban warfare, Najaf leader says: 

Three weeks of urban warfare killed at least 1,000 Iraqi rebels and civilians, the governor of this battle-weary city said Saturday in his first estimate of the death toll since the standoff ended two weeks ago. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9639996.htm

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Video: 

U.S. Gunship Kills Iraqi Civilians And Journalist http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articlee6896.htm

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U.S. Gunship Fires on Crowd; 

The Health Ministry said the worst casualties were in Baghdad, where 37 were killed, and in Tal Afar near the Syrian border where 51 people died. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6212636

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Iraqi civilians caught in raging battles: 

At least 42 people, including women and children, have died in a day of fierce clashes. In Ramadi, US tanks and helicopters killed 10 Iraqi civilians when they opened fire on a residential district, a doctor said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CAE23009-521E-4C11-AAA9-1945D4187D14.htm

http://tinyurl.com/4uyop

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Three Polish soldiers killed in Iraq : 

At least three more Poles were injured in the attack http://www.boston.com/dailynews/256/world/Three_Polish_soldiers_killed_i:.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/4g37m

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Turkey reacts with fury to massive US assault on northern Iraqi city: 

The US military assault on Tal Afar, an ethnically Turkmen city in northern Iraq, has provoked a furious reaction from the Turkish government which is demanding the US call off the attack. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=560815

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One man's resistance: 'Why I turned against America' : 

'There is no greater shame than to see your country occupied' http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1302718,00.html

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Frustrated U.S. disbands the Fallujah Brigade : 

The controversial Iraqi military force formed by U.S. Marines in a last-ditch effort to pacify the restive city of Fallujah has been officially disbanded http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002032751_iraqdig11.html

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Fallujah: an Iraqi Beslan: Fallujah is an Iraqi Beslan. 

The only difference is that the cameras aren't rolling. http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09112004.html

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Al Qaida 'Duped Allies into Waging War' : 

Sir Jeremy Greenstock's comments appeared to give some credence to the argument of critics of the Iraq War that the US and UK played into al Qaida's hands by launching last year's invasion. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3482358

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War vote a mistake : 'I really feel like I was misled' :

 U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas, told a Northern Kentucky audience that his vote to authorize that war was the one he most regretted during his three terms in Congress. http://www.cincypost.com/2004/09/11/lucas09-11-2004.html

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Colin Powell in four-letter neo-con 'crazies' row : 

A furious row has broken out over claims in a new book by BBC broadcaster James Naughtie that US Secretary of State Colin Powell described neo-conservatives in the Bush administration as '*ucking crazies' during the build-up to war in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1302834,00.html

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This is a must watch video

Video: Hijacking Catastrophe : 

Documentary featuring Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali, and many more experts speaking about the Neo-Con agenda and the cloud of fear which the Neo-Cons have settled over America. 

This is a must watch video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

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Seven dead in Herat protests: 

At least seven supporters of a deposed Afghan governor have been killed in pitched battles with police in the streets of Herat. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/63DC4F6D-83B9-43E6-9C23-72F545FADC3B.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3q9we

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U.S. signals it may not rule out attack on Iran: 

Undersecretary of State John Bolton, was asked during a brief visit to Israel if the United States could consider such an attack. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12505553.htm

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Iran expects EU to keep his words : 

In a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Rowhani said that Iran abides by the Tehran declaration and expects the European partners to honor their undertakings. http://diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dm.nsf/dn/dn4A36FC14B88E7BB185256F08003C8386

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In case you missed it: 

AIPAC, The fly in the ointment of Iran-US relations: 

June 18, 1996: When House Ways and Means staffers began hard bargaining recently over a bill aimed at penalizing foreign firms doing business with Iran, one outside group sat at the table --Aipac, the pro-Israel lobby. http://tinyurl.com/6b68l

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Israel: New party urges non-Jews' expulsion: 

Dozens of right-wing Israeli leaders have announced the creation of a new political party which founders say will be dedicated to the expulsion of millions of Muslims and Christians from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3DBAEF08-AB3D-484B-AE66-740BC803DE57.htm

http://tinyurl.com/48hf8

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Our Beachhead in the Middle East: 

Barely larger than New Jersey, Israel is nonetheless the fourth-largest recipient of weapons from the U.S. -- since 1993, it has received close to $10 billion in weapons alone. It's quite a deal, considering that the U.S. has indirectly contributed to Israel's 1993-1995 ranking as the world's seventh-largest arms supplier. http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/arms/israel.html

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Unmasked: The George W Bush the President Doesn't Want the World To See: 

Is President George W Bush, who weaves a narrative about himself as a man of God, actually a charlatan? Is he really a wolf in sheep's clothing? Is his faith a sham? Is he more bad boy than born again? More playboy than penitent? http://www.sundayherald.com/44773

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Cartoon: Dubya's Commandments http://www.light-to-dark.com/dubyas_commandments.html

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Americans in danger are vulnerable to dictatorship: 

A thousand dead in Iraq. For what? History's highest budget deficit. For what? George W. Bush has been so reckless with America's lives, wealth and reputation and so stupendously incompetent and untrustworthy overall as to defy belief that anyone but Halliburton and the House of Saud would want him to be elected. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/12/Columns/Americans_in_danger_a.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/5jthe

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Why Bush's Surrender - and Kerry's - Matter: 

Last week President Bush surrendered the war on terror to al Qaeda. In response, John Kerry went windsurfing, sending out John Edwards and other surrogates to attack Bush before showing up 48 hours later to solemnly assert that he thinks the war can still be won. http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=204

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America and human rights; Is the United States's love affair with human rights over?: 

The Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi writes a heartfelt letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, pioneer of American humanitarianism and commitment to the United Nations. http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-115-2076.jsp

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