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	<title>Comments on: Iraqi civilian casualties rose 36 percent in February.</title>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4286185</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;BTW, between 1200 and 1500 violent civilian
&gt; deaths (i.e. murders) occur each month in 
&gt;the United States.

Right, and yet you retarded reichwing fearmongers want to turn the world upside down, live in perpetual fear, and shred the constitution because some foreigners did less harm to americans than americans do to each other in a few months. The same logic you use to trivialize the iraqi deaths actually trivilializes 9-11 even moreso. But then again, you&#039;re the guy who thinks Islamic powerbrokers in Iraq like Al-Sadr actually want us to stay...so I suppose logic isnt your strong point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;BTW, between 1200 and 1500 violent civilian<br />
&gt; deaths (i.e. murders) occur each month in<br />
&gt;the United States.</p>
<p>Right, and yet you retarded reichwing fearmongers want to turn the world upside down, live in perpetual fear, and shred the constitution because some foreigners did less harm to americans than americans do to each other in a few months. The same logic you use to trivialize the iraqi deaths actually trivilializes 9-11 even moreso. But then again, you&#8217;re the guy who thinks Islamic powerbrokers in Iraq like Al-Sadr actually want us to stay&#8230;so I suppose logic isnt your strong point.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4286185', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PeterW</title>
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		<dc:creator>PeterW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#33, but that can&#039;t be true! We&#039;ve always been at war with Eurasia!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#33, but that can&#8217;t be true! We&#8217;ve always been at war with Eurasia!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285784', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285746</link>
		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just disgusted, bobwurst... just disgusted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just disgusted, bobwurst&#8230; just disgusted.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285746', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bobwurst</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
What an idiotic, disingenuous comment.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity 

And yet, no one is surprised.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm<br />
What an idiotic, disingenuous comment.<br />
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity </p>
<p>And yet, no one is surprised.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285744', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

What an idiotic, disingenuous comment.</description>
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<p>What an idiotic, disingenuous comment.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285741', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Xisithrus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When Conservatives Loved The Palestinians

Reading the conservative press now you would think that Arabs and Muslims have always and everywhere been the enemies of Western civilization. Weâ€™re invited to imagine that the current troubles in Afghanistan and Iraq are just the most recent manifestation of a clash of civilizations that goes back to Mohammed, the Crusades, and the conquest of Constantinople.

Yet within the lifetime of our parents, conservatives were surprisingly pro-Arab. This was particularly true of the most salient issue in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee problem. As surprising as this may sound, the mainstream consensus view of American conservatives from the late 1940s until well into the late 1960s was that the Palestinians had been deeply wronged by Israel and deserved restorative justice.
http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/when-conservatives-loved-the-palestinians/

How things have changed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Conservatives Loved The Palestinians</p>
<p>Reading the conservative press now you would think that Arabs and Muslims have always and everywhere been the enemies of Western civilization. Weâ€™re invited to imagine that the current troubles in Afghanistan and Iraq are just the most recent manifestation of a clash of civilizations that goes back to Mohammed, the Crusades, and the conquest of Constantinople.</p>
<p>Yet within the lifetime of our parents, conservatives were surprisingly pro-Arab. This was particularly true of the most salient issue in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee problem. As surprising as this may sound, the mainstream consensus view of American conservatives from the late 1940s until well into the late 1960s was that the Palestinians had been deeply wronged by Israel and deserved restorative justice.<br />
<a href="http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/when-conservatives-loved-the-palestinians/" rel="nofollow">http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/when-conservatives-loved-the-palestinians/</a></p>
<p>How things have changed.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285717', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lefty Patriot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Iraq was lost the day it was started. Illegal, immoral, needless, wasteful invasions can never be won. Now, the USA is getting its ass kicked on a daily basis, and innocent Iraqis die by the hundreds, just because idiots and traitors like Kristol and Bush refuse to own up to their bloodthirsty, thoughtless, cowardly ways. Imagine, after routing Germany, Japan and the USSR, we are brought to our knees by homegrown republiscum enemies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Iraq was lost the day it was started. Illegal, immoral, needless, wasteful invasions can never be won. Now, the USA is getting its ass kicked on a daily basis, and innocent Iraqis die by the hundreds, just because idiots and traitors like Kristol and Bush refuse to own up to their bloodthirsty, thoughtless, cowardly ways. Imagine, after routing Germany, Japan and the USSR, we are brought to our knees by homegrown republiscum enemies.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285691', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: McWars</title>
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		<dc:creator>McWars</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;2. Why do you cheer and hope for setbacks?

Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm&lt;/em&gt;

Sorry for the late response.

Nice try, but the only setbacks have been caused by ordering U.S. troops to invade a sovereign nation. Talk about a misuse of their bravery and skills. 

The question was asked, in part, to mock the Republican&#039;s usual way of mounting a defense -- slogans and banners.

We&#039;d be validating your intentions to remain stuck in Iraq by wanting to &quot;reduce U.S. deaths&quot;. Why would I say such a thing?

Because we want to END U.S. deaths altogether by BRINGING THEM HOME. They should rest with their families and receive treatment for any mental or physical ailments. Not to mention, forward deployments should be used for conflicts that PROTECT America. 

I&#039;m cheering at the prospect of bringing our troops home and hoping for a setback in the reign of the neocon establishment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>2. Why do you cheer and hope for setbacks?</p>
<p>Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm</em></p>
<p>Sorry for the late response.</p>
<p>Nice try, but the only setbacks have been caused by ordering U.S. troops to invade a sovereign nation. Talk about a misuse of their bravery and skills. </p>
<p>The question was asked, in part, to mock the Republican&#8217;s usual way of mounting a defense &#8212; slogans and banners.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d be validating your intentions to remain stuck in Iraq by wanting to &#8220;reduce U.S. deaths&#8221;. Why would I say such a thing?</p>
<p>Because we want to END U.S. deaths altogether by BRINGING THEM HOME. They should rest with their families and receive treatment for any mental or physical ailments. Not to mention, forward deployments should be used for conflicts that PROTECT America. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m cheering at the prospect of bringing our troops home and hoping for a setback in the reign of the neocon establishment.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285664', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: delafield</title>
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		<dc:creator>delafield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>98% of Israelis are voting for John McCain.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957081.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>98% of Israelis are voting for John McCain.</p>
<p><a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957081.html" rel="nofollow">http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957081.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285653', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: davemartin7777</title>
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		<dc:creator>davemartin7777</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sorry, that link to wiki is bad.

http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Friedman_Unit</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry, that link to wiki is bad.</p>
<p><a href="http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Friedman_Unit" rel="nofollow">http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Friedman_Unit</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285652', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: davemartin7777</title>
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		<dc:creator>davemartin7777</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Friedman units&quot;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Friedman units&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285650', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tombaker</title>
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		<dc:creator>tombaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>congratulations, righties. another 2-36 Friedman units from now, the last Iraqi will be dead, and you *ssholes can get busy turning it into a Hampton Inn &amp; Suites with a big &#039;ol golf course and a sh*tty corporate franchise restaurant. how did you guys know genocide would be so awesome?


sick, sick bastards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>congratulations, righties. another 2-36 Friedman units from now, the last Iraqi will be dead, and you *ssholes can get busy turning it into a Hampton Inn &amp; Suites with a big &#8216;ol golf course and a sh*tty corporate franchise restaurant. how did you guys know genocide would be so awesome?</p>
<p>sick, sick bastards.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285641', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bad Eye</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bad Eye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;2. Why do you cheer and hope for setbacks?

Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm&lt;/em&gt;

Why do you cheer and hope for more American troops to die by insisting that we stay God only knows how long in Iraq?

What freedoms are the terrorists taking, or attempting to take, away from us by killing our troops &quot;over there&quot;?  And just so you&#039;ll understand my question, I ask this because everyone who supports this &quot;war&quot; keeps telling us that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hated us for our freedoms...thus, they must be attacking our troops in Iraq for the same reason...correct???

Remember the alleged terrorist who wanted to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch?  What freedoms do you think he wanted to rob us of?  The freedom to have a shortcut across a river?

It seems to me that if the terrorists wanted to inflict maximum damage on America, and do everything in their power to destroy this country (other than financially, which bin Laden stated he wanted to do and which Bush is giving him on a silver platter), don&#039;t you think they&#039;d be focusing all their efforts on American soil and not some desert property half way around the world?

Finally, do you realize that we are more at risk of being attacked by one of our own fellow citizens as compared to a terrorist?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>2. Why do you cheer and hope for setbacks?</p>
<p>Comment by good_golly â€” March 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm</em></p>
<p>Why do you cheer and hope for more American troops to die by insisting that we stay God only knows how long in Iraq?</p>
<p>What freedoms are the terrorists taking, or attempting to take, away from us by killing our troops &#8220;over there&#8221;?  And just so you&#8217;ll understand my question, I ask this because everyone who supports this &#8220;war&#8221; keeps telling us that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hated us for our freedoms&#8230;thus, they must be attacking our troops in Iraq for the same reason&#8230;correct???</p>
<p>Remember the alleged terrorist who wanted to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch?  What freedoms do you think he wanted to rob us of?  The freedom to have a shortcut across a river?</p>
<p>It seems to me that if the terrorists wanted to inflict maximum damage on America, and do everything in their power to destroy this country (other than financially, which bin Laden stated he wanted to do and which Bush is giving him on a silver platter), don&#8217;t you think they&#8217;d be focusing all their efforts on American soil and not some desert property half way around the world?</p>
<p>Finally, do you realize that we are more at risk of being attacked by one of our own fellow citizens as compared to a terrorist?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285626', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Anjuna Laguna</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anjuna Laguna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For the President and Poison Gas
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Donald Rumsfeld And Poison Gas 

by Stephen Kerr; February 27, 2003 

Take a glimpse into the future being prepared for the people of Iraq. 

Farah is one of hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming out of American Occupied Iraq. She is enraged and humiliated and she is grieving. Her brother was buried when their apartment was bombed during the â€˜shock and aweâ€™. She canâ€™t find her mother. Her father died in the first Gulf War. Farah is alone with her bitterness, and half a million Iraqis walking down a highway into Jordan. 

Farah is 15 years old. 

As she rushes towards the temporary refugee camp, she cannot contain her anger or her tears. The hungry refugees riot when a shipment of food arrives as they have not eaten in two weeks. US forces cannot control the unexpected rage of the hungry Iraqis. Farah surges towards the US troops who don their gas masks. &lt;b&gt;From 150 feet overhead an American Predator UAV sprays the angry people with a fine mist of Fentanyl gas, and within 5 minutes those who had been raising their fists are struggling to keep their eyes open. Farah falls into a drugged stupor. Others fall on top of her in the panic. She vomits bile. And then Farah stops breathing.&lt;/b&gt; 

This horrific scenario is being planned by Donald Rumsfeld, the culmination of his long struggle to remove a â€˜straightjacketâ€™ from the Pentagon. That straightjacket is called the Chemical Weapons Convention, (CWC) the international treaty that outlaws chemical warfare and chemical weapons, as well as the act of planning to use them. 

According to Rumsfeld, â€œGeneral Franks has a plan that addresses a host of very unpleasant contingencies, and there are a lot of things that can go wrong, that can be unpleasantâ€¦â€ 


It may seem strange that the man who demands the complete disarmament of Saddam Husseinâ€™s chemical weapons would actively plan to use them himself. 

But itâ€™s not. 

Hold your breath, and grab your gas mask, because on Wednesday February 5th while testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Donald Rumsfeld revealed just how the Pentagon plans to deal with a hostile and armed Iraqi population, of â€œbetween one and seven million civilians with semi-automatic rifles, rocket launchers and other military weapons.â€ 

Congressman Meehan quizzed the Secretary of Defence, â€œâ€¦assuming for a moment that our troops do have to engage armed civilians in the streets of Baghdad, are there any plans currently to use â€˜non-lethal technologiesâ€™ to disarm and disperse?â€ 

For those who have never heard of a misnomer called the â€˜non-lethal weapon,â€™ a short primer. 

The United States military has been busy transforming powerful synthetic opiates such as Fentanyl into an aerosol chemical weapon that knocks troublesome civilians unconscious. They have also developed improved stink bombs that target specific ethnic groups with something called &#039;US Government Standard Bathroom Odour,â€™ and other noxious smells. 

No kidding. 


http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/For_the_President_and_Poison_Gas</description>
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Donald Rumsfeld And Poison Gas </p>
<p>by Stephen Kerr; February 27, 2003 </p>
<p>Take a glimpse into the future being prepared for the people of Iraq. </p>
<p>Farah is one of hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming out of American Occupied Iraq. She is enraged and humiliated and she is grieving. Her brother was buried when their apartment was bombed during the â€˜shock and aweâ€™. She canâ€™t find her mother. Her father died in the first Gulf War. Farah is alone with her bitterness, and half a million Iraqis walking down a highway into Jordan. </p>
<p>Farah is 15 years old. </p>
<p>As she rushes towards the temporary refugee camp, she cannot contain her anger or her tears. The hungry refugees riot when a shipment of food arrives as they have not eaten in two weeks. US forces cannot control the unexpected rage of the hungry Iraqis. Farah surges towards the US troops who don their gas masks. <b>From 150 feet overhead an American Predator UAV sprays the angry people with a fine mist of Fentanyl gas, and within 5 minutes those who had been raising their fists are struggling to keep their eyes open. Farah falls into a drugged stupor. Others fall on top of her in the panic. She vomits bile. And then Farah stops breathing.</b> </p>
<p>This horrific scenario is being planned by Donald Rumsfeld, the culmination of his long struggle to remove a â€˜straightjacketâ€™ from the Pentagon. That straightjacket is called the Chemical Weapons Convention, (CWC) the international treaty that outlaws chemical warfare and chemical weapons, as well as the act of planning to use them. </p>
<p>According to Rumsfeld, â€œGeneral Franks has a plan that addresses a host of very unpleasant contingencies, and there are a lot of things that can go wrong, that can be unpleasantâ€¦â€ </p>
<p>It may seem strange that the man who demands the complete disarmament of Saddam Husseinâ€™s chemical weapons would actively plan to use them himself. </p>
<p>But itâ€™s not. </p>
<p>Hold your breath, and grab your gas mask, because on Wednesday February 5th while testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Donald Rumsfeld revealed just how the Pentagon plans to deal with a hostile and armed Iraqi population, of â€œbetween one and seven million civilians with semi-automatic rifles, rocket launchers and other military weapons.â€ </p>
<p>Congressman Meehan quizzed the Secretary of Defence, â€œâ€¦assuming for a moment that our troops do have to engage armed civilians in the streets of Baghdad, are there any plans currently to use â€˜non-lethal technologiesâ€™ to disarm and disperse?â€ </p>
<p>For those who have never heard of a misnomer called the â€˜non-lethal weapon,â€™ a short primer. </p>
<p>The United States military has been busy transforming powerful synthetic opiates such as Fentanyl into an aerosol chemical weapon that knocks troublesome civilians unconscious. They have also developed improved stink bombs that target specific ethnic groups with something called &#8216;US Government Standard Bathroom Odour,â€™ and other noxious smells. </p>
<p>No kidding. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/For_the_President_and_Poison_Gas" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/For_the_President_and_Poison_Gas</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285617', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Anjuna Laguna</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285614</link>
		<dc:creator>Anjuna Laguna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Iraq_war</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Iraq_war" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Iraq_war</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285614', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: davemartin7777</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285608</link>
		<dc:creator>davemartin7777</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fox News:

Iraqi terrorist casualties rose 36 percent in February.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fox News:</p>
<p>Iraqi terrorist casualties rose 36 percent in February.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285608', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Above the Clouds</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285607</link>
		<dc:creator>Above the Clouds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>McCain is staking his Republican candidacy on Bush&#039;s Iraq mess? I wonder what rank-and-file America feels about the very Republican failure in Iraq and McCain&#039;s wish to continue that quagmire?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McCain is staking his Republican candidacy on Bush&#8217;s Iraq mess? I wonder what rank-and-file America feels about the very Republican failure in Iraq and McCain&#8217;s wish to continue that quagmire?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285607', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Xisithrus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285606</link>
		<dc:creator>Xisithrus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody is cheering for setbacks gg. Sitting around pretending the surge is working and ignoring the reality of the situation solves nothing. It seems to me your cheerleading for people to stick their head in the sand and their ass in the air.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody is cheering for setbacks gg. Sitting around pretending the surge is working and ignoring the reality of the situation solves nothing. It seems to me your cheerleading for people to stick their head in the sand and their ass in the air.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285606', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tombaker</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285603</link>
		<dc:creator>tombaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>funny - Mr. Golly calls reality a &quot;setback&quot;.

&quot;I&#039;ve been trying to jump to the moon, but I&#039;m not making it. My neighbors laugh at me for trying, and I can&#039;t understand why they don&#039;t see that I am going to make it, I just keep running into these setbacks.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>funny &#8211; Mr. Golly calls reality a &#8220;setback&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to jump to the moon, but I&#8217;m not making it. My neighbors laugh at me for trying, and I can&#8217;t understand why they don&#8217;t see that I am going to make it, I just keep running into these setbacks.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285603', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Anjuna Laguna</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/01/iraqi-civilian-casualties-rose-36-percent-in-february/comment-page-1/#comment-4285600</link>
		<dc:creator>Anjuna Laguna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Wiki leaks back on they won against swizz bank&lt;/b&gt;

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks

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Google search engine works for NSA

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ATI has a secret room that splits all internet traffic into dual cables storing an exact copy

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The top ten firewalls have build in backdoor used by NSA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Wiki leaks back on they won against swizz bank</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Google search engine works for NSA</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>ATI has a secret room that splits all internet traffic into dual cables storing an exact copy</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>The top ten firewalls have build in backdoor used by NSA<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4285600', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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