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Alas!,when and if Bush is forced to give up the ghost and abandon it’s empirical Neocon goals in Iraq...when the weary troops head South to Kuwait having "won" (saving face), what horrors will befall this sad country?
The Bush adminisration predicts, sadly,that there will be sectarian violence and civil war. Oil pipelines will be bombed, so will police stations and mosques!
As if that wasn’t enough, bodies will begin showing up in the Tigris, tortured and beheaded!, government officials (…)

By Peter Fredson
March 3, 2007
This is the time when Christian churches give out palm fronts, while people put ashes on their foreheads, eat Christ’s body, drink the blood of Jesus and make signs of crosses in the air. For me, the hero on the cross was Spartacus, but I know that other people disagree and do not celebrate his crucifixion.
Some people dye little chicks pink and blue, while others have fuzzy chick replicas made of pink and blue marshmallow. Other people buy rabbits made (…)

WE GONNA HIT THE JACKPOT REAL SOON Why You Should Worry More About DU than Allergies This morning I flipped on The Tube to the weather channel to see what we’re having today. In the minute before the local weather, they had a commercial—natch! It was about a [locomotive] air conditioner that would get rid of practically all of the allergens in your house.
"Most households," they said, "Have five times more allergens than the air outside."
Yipes! We live in the good ol’ misty, (…)

*Please FW to soldiers you may know on your lists*
This is something all communities can do to support the troops on Memorial Day weekend.
Memorial Day Weekend-March for Soldiers
Mark your calender for May 27, 2007 - Meet at the Ohio Statehouse Veterans memorial in downtown Columbus at 12:30 pm
Support our active duty military in their "Appeal for Redress" march of support- for brothers and sisters in arms, on Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday May 27, 2007 (…)

“It is the common people, who must, under God, save us.” - Sam Adams, patriot and rebel against British rule in America. (1)
Baltimore, MD - The goldfish in our pond had a pretty rough time this winter. The great blue heron, a majestic bird, which is usually found on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, was eating them for dessert. I would chase the herons away, whenever I could, but they kept coming back, and back, until they got them all, except a few too small to bother with. If you’re the (…)

State of emergency in Solomon Islands 11:40AM Tuesday April 03, 2007 By James Ihaka and Maggie McNaughton and David Eames The Solomon Islands declared a state of emergency after an earthquake and a tsunami struck, flattening villages causing widespread panic and killing at least 20 people with the toll expected to rise.
A powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake and tsunami hit the Solomons yesterday, and people from Honiara to Australia fled for the safety of higher ground.
Kevin McCue, (…)

In funding of the Iraq War, supporters have thrown our soldiers under the bus By Mary MacElveen April 3, 2007
As one reads where Senator Harry Reid may move to cut funds to this war in Iraq, it is time for Americans that voted for a change to come forth in support of this measure. It is time to rise and shine America. You can no longer hide in some fox hole oblivious to this war’s failure. As of today, 3,252 soldiers have lost their lives. Some see Reid’s call as being an uphill battle (…)

ONE: One day, perhaps YEARS from now, after the US occupation forces, tails between their legs and faces shadowed with humiliation, head down the long and dangerous road to Kuwait and then come home to waiting families, Iraq is going to somehow manage a viable government (just as did the Vietnamese). They WILL create a functional country, alive with commerce and with some plan which recognizes the various sectarian difficulties and gets a handle on them. Perhaps...nay, almost CERTAINLY, at (…)

Flashback article, ask them now. I can assure you, Bush has lost the troops...
Released: February 28, 2006
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006
* Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed” * While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy * Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown * Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame (…)

The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti (…)