The 3,000th U.S. soldier has died in Iraq.
“Spc. Dustin R. Donica, 22, of Spring, Texas, was killed Thursday by small arms fire in Baghdad, the Defense Department said.”
UPDATE: Flashback to Tony Snow at the 2,500th U.S. fatality: “It’s a number, and every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.”
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December 31st, 2006 at 3:03 pmWonder how the asshole in chief will emote for this one. probably wont even utter a word today about it. I wish you a long life Mr. bush, just like reagans.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:03 pmYes, but Bush does not care, so that is the saddest thing > shame on Bush and Cheney, and they must resign or be impeached ASAP!
December 31st, 2006 at 3:04 pm“It’s a number, and every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.â€
Yeah, all I want is for the killing to stop.
I’m such an asshole.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:05 pmi want even more than that… i want to see bush and cheney either resign or be removed from office… (hey…! it’s the new year… i can wish for whatever i want, right…?)
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/
December 31st, 2006 at 3:07 pmA Young Marine Speaks Out
by Philip Martin
I’m sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify ’sacrificing’ your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man’s power, and his ego.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:13 pm[…]
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/martin-p1.html
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Words are not going to effect change in this country…
December 31st, 2006 at 3:18 pmWords are not going to effect change in this country…
Comment by Vance — December 31, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
but that’s where it starts… and it starts in earnest jan 4…
December 31st, 2006 at 3:24 pmFlashback to Tony Snow at the 2,500th U.S. fatality: “It’s a number, and every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.â€
No shit?
The killing needs to stop, and BushCo needs to be imprisoned. That’s what I want. So yeah, Snowflake, I want something.
3000 Americans Wrongly Dead.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:24 pmWords are not going to effect change in this country…
Comment by Vance
Mass protests in the streets — so many that the MSM can’t ignore it.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:25 pmPrisonplanet.com has just posted a link to the “Saddam Execution Video” and Alex Jones has a short article posted about it as well.
Go watch it from that link or go to “No Quarter” blog site to see it. President George W. Bush has pissed on the entire Islamic world.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:26 pmI posted this a few days ago, my response to one of those “numbers.”
THE EYES OF GRIEF
Perhaps we should insist our elected representatives attend these funerals and see first-hand the grief caused by their votes.
worth listening to:
December 31st, 2006 at 3:28 pmhttp://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/blowing.htm
Zooey, how do we motivate people to protest? Just when I think people will rise up and march, we all including me,just type our frustrations.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:28 pmNothing is going to change,except more deaths..because it has been like this for years. More deaths and more promises. Until promises come closer to reality on the ground..there will be no soltuion at hand.The closer we come to reality on the ground..the faster we will be able create a solution. Iraq Study Group (ISG) report spoke about a political approach beside the military one which we exhausted already…but it is apparent that the thinking of this administration is less talking and more fighting. The talk now is about ’surging’ instead.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:31 pmComment by Vance — December 31, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
Start with motivating yourself. Pick an event. Get out of your house and go.
http://www.gsfp.org/
December 31st, 2006 at 3:34 pm#6 Katy,
December 31st, 2006 at 3:35 pmIt was worthwhile reading that articulate essay — it’s hard to believe he is only 21 - I think we all agree with him.
Just watched the saddam hanging at “No Quarter”. Not only do I not feel better about this war,I believe we may have invited hell to this country.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:39 pmIf our Dem House and Senate don’t bring their adult supervision and intervene, then we should have THEIR asses thrown out too!
This is a CLUSTERF#CK of the worst kind and sanity needs to prevail here!
December 31st, 2006 at 3:41 pm#18 I fully agree
December 31st, 2006 at 3:44 pmIt’s a celebration bitches!!!!!
December 31st, 2006 at 3:47 pmi’d like to see all those responsible for this war be given the same justice as saddam hussein got.
santa, where r u?
December 31st, 2006 at 3:49 pmmarie - yea… only 21…
i’m listening to a best-of randi rhodes and she read it… i was reminded and thought a perfect time to post that link…
and vance - know that when/if it gets to that stage, i’m there…
December 31st, 2006 at 3:51 pmjust, as a pacifist i hope for talk and rule of law first…
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So Bush wants us to embrace the fact that 3,000 of our soldiers killed is worth the sacrifice of taking out Saddam Hussein? Does this mean America can stop pretending it was Saddam Hussein and not Osama bin Laden who killed Americans on US soil?
December 31st, 2006 at 3:54 pmAm I think only one seeing zero media coverage of this? Or are they just waiting till new years festivities are over to depress us with this story?
December 31st, 2006 at 3:57 pmMSM = Main Stream Media
December 31st, 2006 at 4:00 pmnot?
MSM is main stream media……your annoying
December 31st, 2006 at 4:00 pmRen, Try getting a clue before you post simpleton. thanks
December 31st, 2006 at 4:10 pmIt ain’t any of them kids dying,hence why it’s just a number.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:19 pmRen, are you a log cabin republican? It’s cool man, we dont judge here.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:21 pmSnarf all the wrinkled weiners ya want, just drop the gay rage thing….its tired. thanx again
“The 3,000 American dead are just commas”- George W. Bush
December 31st, 2006 at 4:24 pm#36 ren
Is,â€The McLaughlin Group†in the “MSMâ€? How’s about “Democracy Now!â€? or even “The Leon Charney Reportâ€? Who is in the “MSMâ€?
It’s actually a pretty common term out there on the internets. Think NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NY Times, Wash. Post, Newsweek, Time, Wall Street Journal, etc. Get the idea?
December 31st, 2006 at 4:29 pmren - MSM = that “librul media” you always hear about…
who is NOT in the MSM? this blog, for one… get it?
but an uprising of the people will need the MSM to “cover” it in order to get the “message” out and attract MORE people to the cause…
you know, the people who watch MSM teevee and are therefore mostly clueless…
just heard randi rhodes explain it simply… hope i can do it justice…
ever wonder why you see those tv commercials about kerr mcgee oil platforms? ’cause not many of us are in the market for oil platforms…
but the 100k+ that KM paid for that spot is an assurance that only the message they want you to know about gets out… they tell the network, you don’t want to run that story about polution or we’ll have to pull those ad $$$ from your budget…
we need the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE back, in a baaaaaad way…
December 31st, 2006 at 4:30 pm…
ahhhh katy, class act as usual.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:35 pmOk Vance & ren, how about SCLM?
So-Called Liberal Media.
How about let’s play nice?
It’s Vance’s birthday! How old are you, Vance? Fess up, I did on my birthday!
December 31st, 2006 at 4:49 pmJust watched the saddam hanging at “No Quarterâ€. Not only do I not feel better about this war,I believe we may have invited hell to this country.
Comment by Vance
I won’t watch the execution, but I think you’re right about our invitation to hell.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:51 pmTony Snow at the 2,500th U.S. fatality: “It’s a number, and every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.â€
Like an answer to the question, Why?
December 31st, 2006 at 4:53 pm#42 ren
I’m more a blue dog democrat than anything….. so I kind of see it down the middle as far as the news goes, msn, nbc, go back and forth from right to left…then you have cbs abc and fox that you cant even watch they are so right winged…. whatever….
Go find a copy of Eric Alterman’s “What Liberal Media?”. Just go to Borders or Barnes & Noble or whatever bookstore you happen to like, grab a copy off the shelf, and just start skimming through it. If you have the money, I suggest you buy it and read it. It will clear up an awful lot for you. If you’d prefer to watch a video, get a hold of “Outfoxed”. Seriously, you need to understand what is happening to the news. The MSM, as we’ve described it to you, is not working for ‘the left’. If you had any idea of just exactly what you’re not getting from them, and what you’re getting instead, you’d understand that it’s not a wash. The right has been hammering the MSM with charges of “liberal media” for years and has them so spooked that they don’t dare incur their wrath.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:55 pmWhen the Right makes the claim “liberal media” it’s doublespeak. Read 1984 and you’ll see the blueprint for what has happened to our government.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:57 pmthank you for that, vance…
and ren - they give you/us just enough (interviews, etc) to keep it from looking too obvious…
the MSM is now owned by, what? 5 or 6 huge corporations…
December 31st, 2006 at 5:01 pmNBC = GE = defense contractor, medical machines
ABC = Disney = religous right (?)
CBS = …?
i hit a wall… brain fart… anyone?
I thought I apologized already, but I’ll do it again if it is so important, IIII’MMMM SSSOOORRRRY…. “Vanceâ€â€¦.ok already….
Comment by ren
Thanks ren, you’re suuuch a sweeeeeetheart. :-D
Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2006 at 5:04 pmNow that I’ve stirred up the natives, I’m outta here for a while!
:P
December 31st, 2006 at 5:05 pmren - waaaaay before 9/11…
reagan repealed the fairness doctrine in 1987
The Fairness Doctrine
How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0212-03.htm
and even bill clinton f’d up by deregulating the media even more
(i think he has admitted this mistake)
here is a story one about the big media owners
December 31st, 2006 at 5:16 pmhttp://www.commondreams.org/views04/1122-31.htm
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ren
Lets put it this way: Big corporations own the big media outlets, such as CNN, MSNBC, ABC etc… Not only that, but it is pretty much the same big corporations which, if you dig into it, own all of them, and they understandably support rightwing aims.
The reason? They are run by the most useless people on earth, corporate CEOs. CEOs run a business in order to expand the share price, which means they are more interested in perception then reality. This means they want to keep reporters who have lots of friends inside the Whitehouse, rather then keeping guys who actually know their business and know that being an outsider, means being independent.
Further, as they are big business, and big government being allied with big business means they get lower taxes, of course they support the Republican Party. ABC for example is owned by the highly conservative Disney corporation, and thus the general conservative bent in its editing is ever-present.
CNN is the nearest thing to balanced a big American news service gets, with CNN international actually being considered by most as a credible source. This is because CNN international has to compete with the likes of Sky News, rather then the likes of Fox, which any idiot with a camera could actually out-report, yet still there are conservative pundits on there and precious few liberals.
Now, a lot of people don’t realise just how much power, upper management has on a paper. A reviewer for example, will phone upper management to okay putting in a negative review of a product. Reporters who report the truth on a matter concerning a paper’s advertisors, can get fired for that.
Now a favourite trick on the MSM is to have two people debating, one who represents the right. This guy is a hard-liner with definite opinions. The other guy who is kind of rightwing but not a nutcase, representing the left. He is there to show that the left doesn’t really have much of an argument or a spine.
Hannity and Colmes is a good example of this.
Another favourite trick is to try and paint equal opposites when they are nothing even nearing equal opposites.
Think about this for a second: The most Michael Moore ever actually said was that 9/11 raised questions which the media was too afraid to ask. That is as far as he really went in Farenheit 9/11, if you watch the movie it is not exactly a stirring indictment of GW Bush and every scene, every sentence in the movie is documented and really does trace back - and says what Michael Moore says it says.
He is seen as the leftwing’s Ann Coulter. The same Ann Coulter who claims the left is 100% Atheist, that the leftwing hates everybody except for the Muslims, and that the women who lost their husbands in 9/11 were actually happy about it. Her countless endnotes, if you actually bother to do the research, actually lead to direct contradictions of her claims, yet she is still considered equal and opposite to Michael Moore.
Yet another trick is to claim that the left offers no solutions - and then refuse to cover the solutions the left offers.
A good example of this was the 2004 elections, when the Democrats actually had a plan for the Iraq war, which included a lot of the stuff that is being forced on America now anyway, but all the media said was that the Democrats had no plan.
Look at how much coverage Kerry’s frankly stupid statement on the soldiers got, and how Lieberman got into office. Lieberman, when he entered office in Conn. the average person living there saw 88 cents to the dollar back in taxes, right now its 66 cents. You didn’t hear that on the so-called liberal media, you heard about how Lieberman led on experience.
December 31st, 2006 at 5:31 pm#6 -
December 31st, 2006 at 5:34 pmMarine Philip Martin seems a bit braver than marine robert. One can easely determine which of the two is more devoted to defending our country.
Before sending more troops one question MUST BE ASKED
What are the Plans for Victory so we can leave ?
This way The Iraqis Know
And the Americans Know
And The Coalition
And the rest of the world
Without the question answered honestly there will be just more obstacles
December 31st, 2006 at 5:35 pmread those links, ren… deregulation of the media is why there are only a few owners who regulate everything out there… beholden to the corporations who are calling the shots…
December 31st, 2006 at 5:43 pmyes, a big sh!t sandwich, though… do some googling!
WaltTheMan,
Zooey posted Cpl. Martin’s article for me several weeks ago.
Gee, Walt, the kid wrote an op-ed piece (well written, I might add), he is against what is happening in Iraq. Yet, like th eMarine he is (a man of honor) he does not refuse to serve or deploy to an action he thinks is wrong.
What makes bravery, his words? Personally, I think it is his actions.
Have I said that I support what is happening in Iraq right now? No, I didn’t. I have not voiced my opinion. Some that have bothered to have conversations with me know what my position is as they are smart enough to read between the lines.
So, Walt, what have you done with your life other than sit behind a computer and bitch?
December 31st, 2006 at 5:46 pmYet another trick is to claim that the left offers no solutions - and then refuse to cover the solutions the left offers.
Comment by Bruce Gorton — December 31, 2006 @ 5:31 pm
ding ding ding ding ding!!!!
December 31st, 2006 at 5:48 pmTo all, I wish you a great and peaceful New Year. Today is my 17th Anniversary and I have much to celebrate with the beautiful girl I married!!!
December 31st, 2006 at 5:48 pmwalt - i’m thinking robert will get there in his own due time…
December 31st, 2006 at 5:50 pmComment by ren — December 31, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
oooo-kay… time to chill, i’d say…
December 31st, 2006 at 5:54 pmwell, ren, you sounded kinda p-o’d to me…
i was just trying to explain something i thought you were confused about… evidently not…
and, really, if you didn’t care, would you be here?
but i do need a break… there is a freak thunderstorm brewing outside… must be near 60, central illinois, new years eve… weird…
later…
December 31st, 2006 at 6:04 pmThe most accurate term for the mainstream media is the Corporate Media. They don’t want to be identified as corporate because then they’d have no credibility.
The War in Iraq is over (except the civil war which is between Iraqis). We are now carrying out an Occupation. They don’t want it called an occupation because an occupation is easy to end. And they don’t want this to end for a long long time.
I hate when Progressives & Independents use incorrect terms.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:06 pm#70,
Well said!!
December 31st, 2006 at 6:22 pmIf the current rate of killing holds, and I see no reason it shouldn’t in fact with more targets available once the boy king escalates we could see 4000 dead by November 08.
Happy efffing New Year.
Larry @ 70: Word!
December 31st, 2006 at 6:31 pmThe milestone 3,000 number I once thought unobtainable this year once again proves Bush has a private agenda, regardless of what his public voice and face may seem to have agreed too. This number will spur him to once again go out give a typical, homespun speech that will say something about sacrifice and more bad days too come. Rest assured, things are exactly where he wants them - to further himself from our ways and means are on target. He’s on time to be anointed ‘world cop’.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:46 pmWhy 3K?
December 31st, 2006 at 6:58 pm#43 well zooey today im 37…..how is possible for there to be a thunderstorm here in Michigan on new Years eve? odd indeed
December 31st, 2006 at 7:05 pmMy chilis are frozen down here in the Rio Grande valley, I’ve shoveled snow now for three days straight, which is what I left Michigan to avoid!
December 31st, 2006 at 7:18 pmOh, well, we are greatful for the moisture.
Going to be a regular rain forest here in a few years………
A sad marker to reach this last day of the year.
Are you still sitting in your armoured Escalade down there on the farm, George?
I’m guessing you are feeling some serious trepidation along about now……….
Vance, where about in Michigan you located? I’m here in Port Huron.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:22 pmVance, I forgot, happy birthday. I’m 54, and my B-day was 08 Dec.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:24 pm#43 well zooey today im 37…..how is possible for there to be a thunderstorm here in Michigan on new Years eve? odd indeed
Comment by Vance
37 — A very good year — and the whole world is having a party just for you!
December 31st, 2006 at 7:29 pmTo all, I wish you a great and peaceful New Year. Today is my 17th Anniversary and I have much to celebrate with the beautiful girl I married!!!
Comment by robert
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, ROBERT & MRS ROBERT!!
Today I’m that cheerful Auntie who sneaks the sherry and smells of cats.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:35 pmnow that was cute #82…….
Comment by ren
Yeah, I’m working on my “adorable.” How’s it going for me? Too much?
You make sure to let me know when it’s your birthday, ren, and I’ll do the same for you! Fair warning….
December 31st, 2006 at 7:37 pmHas our great decider in chief attended any of the 3000 funerals he is responsible for? Hell no…he won’t even try to comfort a mother of a fallen soldier.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:45 pmOn the Eve of 2007 this will be my last post for today.
I grieve today and every day for our lost service men and women, my hope is we will be able to bring to justice those responsible like bush, cheney, wolfawits, rice, rove, and rummy…Like Zooey, I hope the cries of the famalies for their lost loved one’s ring in all the aboves ear’s forever, rather american’s, iraqi or lebanon….We are all one in the world……
I send Blessing’s out to every one today and hope and work for Peace….Impeach, jail and seize all their asset’s.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:47 pm#40 katy
December 31st, 2006 at 7:48 pmLeave it to Randi to put things directly to the point. Years ago, my father told me “money talks” but as a child I had no idea what he meant — the older I get the more I realize how much is stated in those two words.
I send Blessing’s out to every one today and hope and work for Peace….Impeach, jail and seize all their asset’s.
Comment by Sharon Cox
Peace & Blessings to you, and here’s to looking forward to a Happy New Year — one containing impeachments and troops deployed home.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:57 pmNo, Bush won’t attend any military funerals, and he won’t allow films of the caskets arriving in cargo either. Mr. compassion has ice in his veins, and shit for brains.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:03 pmHe went to bed before Saddam was hanged, with a “tell me about it in the morning,” and I am quite sure this marker of 3,000 has an equal effect on him.
I don’t know if there is a hell, but if there is, I want him to burn forever, AFTER he pays a price here on earth so dear that hell is an improvement.
Peace, Sharon.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:05 pmlet’s see if i can get this all into one post… pay attention, now!
I hate when Progressives & Independents use incorrect terms.
Comment by Larry from C — December 31, 2006 @ 6:06 pm
me too! that was a good comment also! CORPORATE MEDIA says it…
ren, i understand… no need to apologize… and that storm blew over…
hey, vance - how ’bout that! a thunderstorm in winter! i have a weather radar map bookmarked and watched this thing move through… the worst is in michigan - looks like the whole state is solid rain, except the sw corner… weird
and happy birthday to you!
and a happy anniversary to mr.&mrs.robert…
marie - so right about randi… i felt so enlightened when she explained it that way… and then realized, well duh! …
“money talks” for sure, and “the rich are different”…
i also have a wish for a special hell for these neoCON criminals…
thank you, sharon, for your special blessing this evening…
to ALL - i want to send my wish for a happy and peaceful new year!
and i want to thank you all for sharing the wealth of knowledge and insight and opinions that have added to MY political and social and civic education! … it’s good to know there is truth and sanity out there!
whew! :-)
December 31st, 2006 at 8:33 pmJust one of the 3000 — the son of a former employer:
Captain Luke C. Wullenwaber, age 24
December 31st, 2006 at 8:59 pmLewiston, Idaho
Killed in action: November 16, 2004
Khaladiyah, Iraq
Something to reflect upon:
http://www.dean.edu/businessbytes/hobbs.htm
We are seeing Hobbs views played out today in the anarchy in Iraq, and in the relinquishing of civil liberties in America.
The students of The Enlightenment chose to follow Locke’s philosophies in forming the United States:
As 2006 comes to a close, I am forced to admit Hobb’s view is accurate. Locke expresses the ideal. Yet my journeys into metaphysics tells me that Locke’s ideal will become the reality, as surely as science fiction presages science.
Our species is evolving. To break free of the bounds of physical reality will not be easy. Materialism and heaping boundless wealth upon a pitiful few still drives nearly all of man-unkind. Yet we possess within us the power to reject the premise that some must be better off than others and accept the premise that all are equal.
We possess within us the power to see each individual as someone worth loving, as a mother sees her baby suckling at her breast. When you can see a Saddam, or a Bush, or a Mother Teresa in the same way, you too will understand. It is easy to love your friends and hate your enemies. But as surely as hate begets hate, so too love begets love.
Peace and Blessings in the coming year.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:06 pm#96 katy and everyone here at TP.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:13 pmI wish everyone a better new year. I feel like we’re all friends, swapping ideas, complaining and complimenting, learning and educating - despite the dire conditions that exist today, let’s hope the world has a better year in 2007.
Peace everyone.
It is easy to love your friends and hate your enemies. But as surely as hate begets hate, so too love begets love.
Peace and Blessings in the coming year.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Well said, dear friend.
Happy New Year.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:13 pmHappy New Year, Marie!
December 31st, 2006 at 9:17 pmHappy new Year to you all! Thanks you for making my odyssey into politics so human.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:20 pmPeace and love.
Happy New Year, SKdeA!
December 31st, 2006 at 9:26 pmHere’s a real quote, ren — sadly enough:
The sacrifice has been worth it. I haven’t questioned whether or not it was right to take Saddam Hussein out. I mean, I’ve questioned it — I’ve come to the conclusion that it was the right decision.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:30 pm- George W. Bush
ren,
I think your made-up quotes are hilarious!
I just wanted to add one that is truly said from the mouth of the Boy King himself.
Have a great New Year, ren!
December 31st, 2006 at 9:38 pmOh my god, ren. Too funny.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:23 pmren, its hard to tell the difference from actual quotes to made-up quotes. Dark times, indeed.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:39 pmRen, you crack me up!
December 31st, 2006 at 11:03 pmThank you all for the birthday wishes….happy new year to all!!!
December 31st, 2006 at 11:18 pm‘The 3,000th U.S. soldier has died in Iraq’ Is so mis leading. Just another bunch of bs dished out by the Bush administration.
Truth is: Those who have died IN Iraq, or on Iraq soil are counted. Those who die en route to the hospital or after arrival are not. It is estimated that for every 1 that dies on Iraqi soil another 4 also die.
This has been one 1/2 decade of nothing but LIES - so sick of it.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:42 pmTHE EYES OF GRIEF
I WANT TO FRIKKIN’ SCREAM!!!
I just spent all day piping at the funeral service for Cpl. Joshua Daniel Pickard, 20 years old, Killed in Iraq on December 19, 2006.
I WANT EVERY G*D PERSON THAT SUPPORTS BUSH’S WAR TO GO TO THE FUNERAL OF A FALLEN SOLDIER AND LOOK INTO THE EYES OF HIS OR HER MOTHER AS THEY HAND HER THE FLAG FROM HER SON’S OR DAUGHTER’S COLD COFFIN.
now, if you’ll excuse me…I need some quiet time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5cs5pXOVgQ
Perhaps we should insist our elected representatives attend these funerals and see first-hand the grief caused by their votes.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
First of all, Happy New Year!
January 1st, 2007 at 2:46 amNext, I suggest that you and everyone else with such videos send copies to the White House and your members of Congress. There should be a nationwide movement to do this. While I realize Dumbya will be unlikely to look at the videos, I could imagine some nicer people in the mailing room getting upset and some of them quitting in succession. In any case, sending such videos couldn’t hurt the anti-war cause and might possibly help it.
Ren
Its my stock answer to anyone claiming Liberal Media.
As to patronising, it wasn’t my intent. My intent was to answer this post:
And put forward the case for it being a very conservative media.
Happy new year though.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:42 amNo man is an island,
January 1st, 2007 at 10:26 amEntire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
It’s now 3002.
January 1st, 2007 at 12:24 pmAs Bush and Cheney want to continue to steal oil and control Iraq maybe Americans should be asking how many of our troops have to die before we’re finished in Iraq. Soldiers deaths mean nothing to non military people like Bush/Cheney. If Bush had to fight for his country he would skip the country first. Cheney used the loop hole as hardship and then used Lynn having a baby as his way out of serving the United States. If the draft is set up I just might start a company that uses what Cheney used the loop hole system. Talk about military examples for our youth to follow two weak cowards giving the orders not wonder the lost of our troops mean nothing.
January 1st, 2007 at 4:11 pmyou know up to about 3 years ago i really believed the government
served the people and i thought corruption was an exception.
well…. a nice trusted public servant relating it’s just a number,
SICKENING and i am just a number. i have just spent over 3
years from attemtping to get service from our trusty government
after paying $500,000 in taxes and thanks to rumsfeld fiasco
related to aspartame.
ABSOLUTELY… oh yah honest abe and all the BULL propaganda
enough to make me PUKE
now i learned, oh this corruption started getting bad in the 1970’s up
to now… oh no no no… NOW i understand what the grownups attempted to communicate when i was a kid
ABSOLUTELY… this SICKENING corruption has gone on well over 100 years
oh yah just a number…. blow away like a flake along with the rest
of the bandits you hang out with
ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU **** :(
January 1st, 2007 at 8:38 pmoh and related to all the parent’s children that become “a number”
to fullfill bush & co goals.. in reality bush & co oh no no no they are
not serving the people at all.. bush & co are serving some of the
most influential rich and powerful who don’t give a god *** about
anything else them their goals. oh the people in this country they
serve, diposable, a vehicle, just a number… meat, money, whatever
you call it.
oh yeh just a number and impeachment should have occured a long
long time ago if the people were being served. but it’s off the people
as she attempted to get a totally corrupted crook murtha to serve the
people
ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU….. I KNOW
January 1st, 2007 at 8:43 pmI’ve got a bench that could make a nice mark on Phony Snow’s face.
January 1st, 2007 at 8:53 pmthrow the biggest criminal of them all in the slammer
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:48 amwhy that’s george w. bush
It’s all worth it.
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:20 pmOUR NATION SPENT A WEEK MOURNING THE DEATH OF A 93 YEAR OLD PART-TIME FORMER PRESIDENT.
THE BODY OF NUMBER 3,000 WAS WHISKED AWAY IN THE NIGHT WITHOUT A WHIMPER.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:24 pm