Thursday, January 11, 2007

THIS JUST IN! IT'S CALLED PROJECTION!

 
BULLY BOY SPOKE AT FORT BENNING TODAY AND REPEATED HIS USUAL LIES INCLUDING TROTTING OUT SEPTEMBER 11TH AGAIN BECAUSE, AS ONE WHITE HOUSE WAG PUT IT, "IT'S THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL MARKETING TOOL HE'S EVER STUMBLED UPON."
 
SPEAKING, SUPPOSEDLY ABOUT 'THE ENEMY,' BULLY BOY DECLARED:
 
 
 
TO ANYONE LIVING IN AMERICA SINCE JANUARY 2001, THAT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THE BULLY BOY AND HE PROVED IT WITH HIS 'SOLUTION:'
 
 
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE PEACEFUL, EASY BULLY BOY.
 
 
 
 
United for Peace & Justice's Leslie Cagan echoed Professor Goldring's thoughts on Democracy Now! today where she stated, "This war has to end.  It never should have started.  It was a war totally based on lies.  It has to end.  It has to end now."  Cagan noted actions taking place around the country today and also noted that "in just a few weeks, on Saturday January 27th, people from every corner of the country are gathering here in Washington, where I am right now, to march around the Capitol, to deliver our message: it is time to end the war.  The people spoke.  The voters of this country had their opportunity in November to make their voices heard.  Now we're saying to Congress, 'You need to act on the will of the people of this country.'  So on Saturday January 27th, people will be getting on buses and trains and carpools and every other manner of transportation and gathering here in Washington on the Mall between 3rd Street and 7th Street at 11:00 am in the morning and delivering this message.  And on top of that, we're asking people to stay here in Washington for a few more days to do a massive lobby day on Monday the 29th".  Information on the actions this month on the 27th and 29th as well as today can be found by clicking here.
 
Thulasi Srikanthan (Toronto Star) reports the only real 'surge' and it's in Canada as War Resisters Support Campaign's Lee Zaslofsky notes the "surge in the number of calls from American troops during the past week" which has resulted in the War Resisters Support Campaign requesting "help in housing soldiers fleeing the U.S."  The War Resisters Support Campaign helps American troops who are seeking asylum in Canada.  In other news of war resistance, Paul Boring (Whidbey News Times) reports US war resister Ehren Watada will be speaking this Saturday (January 13th) at 1:00 pm at the Coupeville Recreation Hall (901 NW Alexander ST., Whidbey Island in Coupeville, Washington). 
 
In June of last year, Ehren Watada became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq.  He faces a court-martial on Feburary 5th.  Camp Resistance is set up outside Fort Lewis where Watada is serving and it's a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War (each day they gather at off I-5, exit 119 in Dupont, Washington).  Damon Murphy notes that today: "We were approached by a Sgt. of the Dupont Police Department. He brought news that the property owner wanted us off of his land; the reason given was due to a misunderstanding about the amount of time we'd be there. The impression was that we'd be there for the two or three days surrounding Lt. Ehren Watada's Court Martial Pre-Trial; the reality, is that IVAW is deployed. When you're deployed you’re stuck. When you’re deployed, all you have is what is next to you: people, tools for your survival, and the mission at hand. Our mission at hand, regardless of where it takes place, is standing in solidarity with Lt. Ehren Watada as he awaits his pending Court Martial, twenty-seven days from now."
 
Watada is part of a movement of resistance within the military that also includes Kyle Snyder, Ivan Brobeck, Darrell Anderson, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight 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.
 
In "Oh, Condi" news -- the Senate testimony today . . .  Rice noted that Sadr's bloc "pulled out and the government didn't collapse"; however, she fails to note how little got accomplished or the attempts to woo the bloc back.  She boasted that, "We know why sectarian violence didn't come down" -- apparently now that Negroponte's under her, he's spilled all the beans on the death squads.  She declared, "We're not going to stay married to a plan that isn't working."  But failed to ask the important question: Should This Marriage Be Saved?  She refused to be pinned down on 'specifics' but did note, "The oil law is important."  (Well, they did name a tanker after her.)  (Here's an AP article -- my remarks are based on watching it on TV.)
 
 


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