Monday, May 14, 2007

THIS JUST IN! THE MITT ROMNEY EXCEPTIONS!

 
ONE TERM GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY, NOW RUNNING FOR THE REPUBLICAN 2008 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, TOLD MIKE WALLACE, IN AN INTERVIEW BROADCAST ON CBS' 60 MINUTES YESTERDAY, "WHAT'S AT THE HEART OF MY FAITH IS A BELIEF THAT THERE'S A CREATOR, THAT WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE SAME GOD AND THAT FUNDAMENTALLY THE RELATIONSHIP YOU HAVE WITH YOUR SPOUSE IS IMPORTANT AND ETERNAL."
 
WE'RE ALL CHILDREN OF THE SAME GOD?
 
REACHED FOR COMMENT TODAY BY THESE REPORTERS WITH A FOLLOW UP, ROMNEY EXPLAINED, "I DO BELIEVE THAT, YES.   WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN.  EXCEPT OF COURSE FOR THE GAYS.  AND THE LESBIANS.  AND THE BI-SEXUALS.  AND ANYONE WHO FRENCH KISSES.  NOW THAT'S JUST DISGUSTING!  I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FIRMLY OPPOSED TO COOTIES."
 
 
 
 
 
On Democracy Now! today, Amy Goodman spoke with Yanar Mohammed (Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq) about the realities of life for women in Bully Boy's 'liberated' Iraq,
"Honor killing is becoming something to celebrate in Iraq now, and this did not happen before the last years that we expereienced in the post-war Iraq. . . .  So what happened in this new Iraq, the so-called liberation of Iraq has turned women into refugees inside their country.  Millions of us are vulnerable to be killed, and all our lives are threatened, and there is nobody to secure our lives for us. . . .  So by constitution, we have lost our rights.  Honor killings are on the rise.  Kidnappings of women are getting more now.  Our organization's work proves that human trafficking is still risking, and not much is being done about it. And when you look at the situation, it's as if the country was occupied and later on handed down to the extremists who were responsible of the 9/11.  Why are all the TV outlets given to Islamists?  Where are the democrats?  Why aren't they being supported?  Where are the seculars?  Why are the women's groups not being supported?"  Yanar Mohammed stated US troops needed to leave Iraaq "right away." 
 
Amy Goodman: So paint a picture for us, if you will.  What would happen in Iraq then, if the US troops were to leave today?
 
Yanar Mohammed: Well, I'm not saying it's going to be paradise right away, but the idea is that we are having all these Jihadis coming to Iraq, because there is this magnet, which is the US troops in there.  For them, this is the biggest evil that they are coming to fight.  And if these troops leave the country and all of them leave the country, there isn't much reason to come to Iraq anymore."
 
As Amy Goodman noted, Yanar Mohammed is featured in Bay Fang's "The Talibanization of Iraq" (Ms. magazine, spring 2007 issue, on sale now). 
 
In today's violence . . .
 
Bombings?
 
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports a Baghdad bombing that killed one person and left 13 injured, 2 Baghdad car bombings that killed 2 and left 7 wounded, another Baghdad car bmobing that killed 2 Iraqi soldiers and left 4 more wounded,
 
Shootings?
 
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports: "Iraqi police said that a child was killed by American soldiers when they opened fire on a house in Al sajla neighborhood close to Dujail town north of Baghdad yesterday evening.  The source added that the shooting caused the death of some cows and sheep."  In addition Hammoudi report a man shot dead in Balad, 2 people shot dead "on Tikrit-Kirkuk motorway" (2 more wounded), 3 shot dead in Khirnabat, 3 police officers shot dead in Baquba, and, in Baghdad, an Iraqi police officer was shot dead.
 
Corpses?
 
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 18 corpses were discovered in Baghdad.  Reuters notes 5 corpses were discovered in Mosul.
 
In addition, today the US military announced: "Two Soldiers were killed and four wounded when their dismounted patrol came under small arms fire southeast of Baghdad today."  Reuters reports two more US deaths: "A U.S. airman was killed and three others were wounded by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. . . A U.S. soldier was killed and four others were wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said."  Reuters puts the total count of US service members killed in Iraq since the start of the illegal war at 3,398.
 
AFP reports that a Danish soldier died today in Basra and that he was the seventh Danish soldier to die in the illegal war.
 
In other news from 'free' and 'liberated' and 'democratic' Iraq, CNN reports that the country's Interior Ministry has "banned the media from showing the aftermath of bombings" in the latest war on the press.  Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) noted today: "Iraqi officials say the measure is meant to protect evidence, hide victims and deny attackers information they achieved their goals. The Iraqi government has already come under wide criticism for a series of limits on news coverage inside Iraq."
 
Though there's no known ban on reporting about the topic of war resistance, many act as if there is.  One who does not is Amanda Schoenberg (Register-Pajaronian) who reports on Pablo Paredes decision to resist the illegal war by refusing "to board the USS Bonhomme Richard" in Mayy of 2005.  Paredes tells Schoenberg, "I drew the line in the sand figuratively, but I hadn't faced deployment.  There it stared me in the face -- it forced me to reflect much deeper than I had before. . . . I am convinced that the current war in Iraq is illegal.  I am also convinced that the true causality for it lacked any high ground in the topography of morality.  I believe as a member of the Armed Forces, beyond having a duty to my chain of command and my president, I have a higher duty to my conscience and to the supreme law of the land."
 
Paredes has teamed up with Camilo Mejia, whose Road from Ar Ramaid: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia covers his own resistance, Agustin Aguayo and Robert Zabala for the speaking out tour:
 

Monday May 14 - Watsonville
7pm at the United Presbyterian Church, 112 E. Beach, Watsonville. Featuring Agustin Aguayo, Camilo Mejia, Pablo Paredes and Robert Zabala. Sponsored by the GI Rights Hotline & Draft Alternatives program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV), Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, Watsonville Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), Watsonville Brown Berets, Courage to Resist and Santa Cruz Veterans for Peace Chp. 11. More info: Bob Fitch 831-722-3311

Tuesday May 15 - Palo Alto
7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church (Fellowship Hall), 1140 Cowper, Palo Alto. Featuring Camilo Mejia. Sponsored by Pennisula Peace and Justice Center. More info: Paul George 650-326-8837

Wednesday May 16 - Eureka
7pm at the Eureka Labor Temple, 840 E St. (@9th), Eureka. Featuring Camilo Mejia. More info: Becky Luening 707-826-9197

Thursday May 17 - Oakland
4pm youth event and 7pm program at the Humanist Hall, 411 28th St, Oakland. Featuring Camilo Mejia, Pablo Paredes and the Alternatives to War through Education (A.W.E.) Youth Action Team. Sponsored by Veteran's for Peace Chp. 69, Courage to Resist, Central Committee for Conscientious Objector's (CCCO) and AWE Youth Action Team.

Friday May 18 - Berkeley
7pm at St. Joseph the Worker featuring Camilo Mejia.

US war resisters are part of a growing movement of war resistance within the military: Camilo Mejia, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Joshua Key, Augstin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder , Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Joshua Key, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Jeremy Hinzman, Stephen Funk, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake and Kevin Benderman. In total, forty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters.
 

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