A 'Help Wanted' ad found on the web
A 'Help Wanted' ad found on the web:http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html Deployment Engineer (with security clearance) Spooks on board at Google Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since January 2000, used to work for the National Security Agency and has a top-secret clearance. Google would like to hire more like him. Can you trust Google with a database of all the search terms you've ever used?
Welcome to -1984- Cameras and Microphones in Cell Phones to watch you.....
Microphones and cameras monitoring you now? George Orwell would be pleased. http://www.nypost..com/news/worldnews/70646.htm I love how they lull the americans into thinking this is something "GOOD" for them..They don't see the implications in all this technology. K.C.__ LATEST PHONES GIVE NEW MEANING TO 'BUSY' SIGNAL March 13, 2003 -- "Smart" telephones may one day be able to sense when you are too busy to be interrupted and ask the caller to leave a message. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania are working on the technology, which could be used in instant-messaging systems and office and mobile phones. Tiny microphones, cameras and sensors reveal body language, and computer software analyzes the signals to determine whether someone is too occupied to take a call. Pounding a computer keyboard, closed office doors, speaking to another person and the time of day are possible signals of being busy. Four people at work rated how busy they were as sensors monitored the signals. The ratings were correlated with the behaviors, and the computer program picked out the most important signs. Reuters Ain't Karma A Bitch!
Russia will fight US In Iraq ? here comes WWIII
It seems that the US is hell-bent on it's own destruction. I wonder how many of the Americans Realize if we go to war in Iraq, we are going to war with the WORLD? I think we should all go up to the first person we see and slap him in the face, shake him, hit 'em with ice water, and wake him from his slummber. I watch people coming and going about their biz. and listen to them drone out the pro - bush, pro- war reterique (sp) looking like zombies, and fear the panic that will hit the streets when they do awaken and realize exactly what just happened. __ "PRAVDA"Thousands of Russians Volunteer to Fight U.S.Wed Mar 12 10:56:07 200365.218.73.132Around ten thousand Russian citizens have applied for entry visas into Iraq to defend this country against the planned aggression by the warmongering USA and UK, according to the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow. Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Abbas Khalaf, declared last week that the Embassy had received around 3,500 requests, a number which has multiplied in the last few days, according to sources in the same Embassy. The requests come from young males, some with combat experience, who describe themselves as volunteers who are willing to defend Iraq against the illegal armed aggression of the USA and the United Kingdom, two countries which continue to follow a belligerent stance on crisis management, wholly outside the generally accepted concepts of a New World Order based upon multilateralist approaches to problem solving, based upon the United Nations Organisation, a position championed by president Putins Russian Federation. For those who present an adequate reason for travelling to Iraq, the Embassy provides a visa and transportation, free of charge. Timofei BYELO PRAVDA.Ru Ain't Karma A Bitch!
Buget Unveiled Today Contains Large Cuts In Medicare And Veterans Programs
House Republican Buget Unveiled Today Contains Large Cuts In Medicare, Medicaid, And Other Domestic Programs The budget that House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle unveiled today contains deep and widespread cuts in basic domestic programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, veterans programs, student loans, school lunches, child care, food stamps, cash assistance for the elderly and disabled poor, and many other programs. If enacted, these would represent the deepest cuts in such programs in U.S. history. If the committees cut all programs within their jurisdictions the cuts would include: · $214 billion in Medicare reductions over ten years (the budget also provides $400 billion for a Medicare prescription drug benefit); · $93 billion in Medicaid, the basic health insurance program for low-income families, children, and elderly and disabled people; · $15 billion in veterans programs; · $12 billion in food stamps; and · $7 billion in farm programs. http://www.cbpp.org/3-12-03bud2-pr.htm Blue-Ribbon Business Group Issues Stern Warning on Deficits And Advises Against Further Tax Cuts The report from CED a highly respected research and policy organization that consists of 250 corporate CEOs, university presidents, and similar officials strongly opposes the Administrations proposals to institute further tax cuts and to make the 2001 tax cut permanent, because of the effects that such actions would have on long-term deficits. CED warns that if no action is taken, projected long-term deficits will reach dangerous levels and reduce national income and standards of living for future generations. CED calls for a combination of spending restraint, Social Security and Medicare reforms, and tax increases to meet the very serious long-term fiscal challenges the nation faces. http://www.cbpp.org/3-12-03bud.htm
Cooking Intelligence for War
Cooking Intelligence for WarRay McGovern Panorama Posted 3/12/2003 8:20:14 AM Two members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) appeared on German TVs equivalent of 60 Minutes on March 6 to discuss the use/abuse of intelligence to support the US administrations case for attacking Iraq. Ray McGovern and David MacMichael were among the former CIA officers interviewed by Channel Ones Panorama, whose interviewers were asking questions seldom heard in American media. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity March 12, 2003MEMORANDUM FOR CONFUSED AMERICANSSUBJECT: Cooking Intelligence for War Two members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) appeared on German TVs equivalent of 60 Minutes on March 6 to discuss the use/abuse of intelligence to support the US administrations case for attacking Iraq. Ray McGovern and David MacMichael were among the former CIA officers interviewed by Channel Ones Panorama, whose interviewers were asking questions seldom heard in American media. As a service to confused Americans, we have translated the G! erman portions of the program and append the complete transcript.We would note that the interviews were taped before the latest indignities regarding US intelligence came to lightthe forged letters earlier adduced as proof that Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium from Africa for its nuclear program, for example. Our embarrassment is actually too painful to dwell at any length on other recent indignitiesUN inspector ElBaradeis preliminary finding that Iraq has no nuclear weapons program, the gaffes made by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his debut as imagery analyst before the UN Security Council, and his praising as exquisite a graduate school paper masquerading as top secret intelligence from the UKto name just a few. Embarrassments of this kind receive little play among those American TV commentators who are helping the administration beat the drums for war. Such stories usually hit the cutting room floor. S! imilarly, no airtime in this country is provided to veterans of the US Intelligence Community, unless some can be ferreted out who march to the same drumbeat. Some of us have had the extraordinary experience of been erased at the last minute from the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal and invited-then-disinvited to/from TV programs like Jim Lehrer and Fox News.Ordinarily, we would not mind being marginalized; we are used to it. But our country seems to be just days away from a fateful decision to go to war. And many of our former colleagues and successors are facing a dilemma all too familiar to intelligence veteransthe difficult choices that must be faced when the demands of good conscience butt up against deeply ingrained attitudes concerning secrecy, misguided notions of what is true patriotism, and understandable reluctance to put careersand mortgageson the line.In the face of impending catastrophe we feel a responsibility t! o speak outif only to remind the present generation of intelligence officers that they do have choices and that in the longer run their consciences will rest easier if they face squarely into those choices. As the transcript below indicates, the situation in the media is quite different in Europe, where TV is open and hospitable to various viewpoints, pointed questions, and rigorous analysis. We have no illusions that American TV would host a no-holds-barred discussion of US intelligence performance regarding Iraqor regarding September 11, for that matter. We do sense, however, that there are millions who crave more than the mantras sung by the administration and, sadly, now echoed by the Director of Central Intelligence. It is primarily for them that we make available below the Panorama transcript. We appeal to those still working inside the Intelligence Community to consider turning state! s evidence. Daniel Ellsberg, one who knows, recently noted that truth telling, in time, can stop a misguided march to war. Ellsberg and our former CIA colleague, Sam Adams, spoke out courageously to expose the lies of the Johnson administration and to put the brakes on the war in Vietnambut, sadly, not in time. Sam is now deceased, but Ellsberg recently appealed to insiders at intelligence agencies to tell the truth and save many, many lives. We Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity join in that urgent appeal.We are encouraged to learn that just yesterday a long-time Australian intelligence officer resigned in protest against the handling of US intelligence and his governments support of US policy on Iraq. So it is indeed possible for intelligence officers to join Foreign Service counterparts like John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown who already put principle and conscience before obedience and personal advan! cement in choosing to resign from the Department of State. Richard Beske, San Diego Kathleen McGrath Christison, Santa Fe William Christison,
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By Phillip DayThe Campaign for Truth in Medicine/Europewww.campaignfortruth.comIn Europe, we're told all the time about 'bad, wicked' America. But howmany eyes are turned on what the new superpower of the 21st century is upto - the European Union?Some FACTS now follow which will affect ALL Europeans:Did you know that the European Union, soon to dwarf the USA with apopulation of 450 million after May 2004, has a constitution planned forthis summer that, once signed, will end its member states' ability ever toleave, short of war?Did you know that the European Union has criminalised the sale of hundredsof perfectly safe vitamin, mineral, food supplement and herbal productswith effect from July 2005?Were you aware that all members of the EU's governing structure, togetherwith the tens of thousands of bureaucrats and civil servants who run theunion, have been granted A LIFETIME IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION and are, bytheir own admission, above the law?Did anyone tell you this also goes for the sinister new European policeforce? Under the new EU Arrest Warrant, Europol has now been granted powersto arrest and detain any citizen speaking out against the EU for up to 9months without having to provide any evidence.Have you been told that if your country is talked into adopting the euro,all your nation's gold reserves, all silver stocks and dollar assets willbe handed over to the EU's central bank, leaving your nation independentlyincapacitated and unable to re-launch its independence?Did you know that the European Union, which now imperiously runs theeconomies of 15 countries (soon to expand to 25), has been unable even tohave its own accounts signed off EIGHT YEARS IN SUCCESSION? This is becauseof the corruption and criminal fraud carried out by its officers, who arepredictably protected by the above blanket immunity from prosecution.As members of a corrupt and unaccountable European Union, shortly to becoerced into joining the euro, is Britain to get the future she deserveswhile everyone studiously looks the other way?If you were unaware of even ONE of the above facts, and you care about yourfuture and the future of Europe, why not come along to one of my UKnational tour meetings close to where you live to see what can be done.This has nothing really to do with politics. It's to do with finding thecause of the problems, and then laying the axe to the root of the tree.Thanks for reading.Phillip Day's UK 'Let's Fix Britain' tourDates, details and tickets available at www.campaignfortruth.comor by calling (01622) 832386The new book is 'Ten Minutes to Midnight'Available at www.credence.orgENDS chainlink.gif
FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17888-2003Mar12.html FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans By Dana Priest and Susan SchmidtWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, March 13, 2003; Page A17 The FBI is looking into the forgery of a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program, including the possibility that a foreign government is using a deception campaign to foster support for military action against Iraq. "It's something we're just beginning to look at," a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. Officials are trying to determine whether the documents were forged to try to influence U.S. policy, or whether they may have been created as part of a disinformation campaign directed by a foreign intelligence service. "We're looking at it from a preliminary stage as to what it's all about," he said. The FBI has not yet opened a formal investigation because it is unclear whether the bureau has jurisdiction over the matter. The phony documents -- a series of letters between Iraqi and Niger officials showing Iraq's interest in equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons -- came to British and U.S. intelligence officials from a third country. The identity of the third country could not be learned yesterday. The forgery came to light last week during a highly publicized and contentious United Nations meeting. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the Security Council on March 7 that U.N. and independent experts had decided that the documents were "not authentic." ElBaradei's disclosure, and his rejection of three other key claims that U.S. intelligence officials have cited to support allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions, struck a powerful blow to the Bush administration's argument on the matter. To the contrary, ElBaradei told the council, "we have to date found no evidence or plausible indications of the revival of a nuclear program in Iraq." The CIA, which had also obtained the documents, had questions about "whether they were accurate," said one intelligence official, and it decided not to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass destruction. The FBI has jurisdiction over counterintelligence operations by foreign governments against the United States. Because the documents were delivered to the United States, the bureau would most likely try to determine whether the foreign government knew the documents were forged or whether it, too, was deceived. Iraq pursued an aggressive nuclear weapons program during the 1970s and 1980s. It launched a crash program to build a nuclear bomb in 1990 after it invaded Kuwait. Allied bombing during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 damaged Iraq's nuclear infrastructure. The country's known stocks of nuclear fuel and equipment were removed or destroyed during the U.N. inspections after the war. But Iraq never surrendered the blueprints for its nuclear program, and it kept teams of scientists employed after U.N. inspectors were forced to leave in 1998. © 2003 The Washington Post Company
Sources: Egyptian gets $27 million for Mohammed's arrest tip
"We will starve terrorists of funding. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime". (Bush speech of September 20, 2001). What is wrong with this picture? Tell me why the hellis Bush paying an Egyption al Qaeda foot soldier terrorist $27 million? He is aiding and abetting a known Al-Qaeda foot soldier/terrorist andBush should be arrested and put in jail for being a hostile regime. This is nothing short of treason. Unfreaking unbelievable. How does that work? Bush can fund known terrorists but no one else can and get away with it. What a wack job. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/12/shaikh.reward/index.html Sources: Egyptian gets $27 million for Mohammed's arrest tip From Kelli ArenaCNN Justice Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) --An Egyptian radical will get $27 million as a reward for giving the United States information that led authorities to alleged September 11, 2001, mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, government sources said Wednesday. The sources, confirming a story previously reported in a British paper and in Newsweek, said the unnamed Egyptian was captured during a raid in Quetta, Pakistan, last month. The Egyptian was described as an al Qaeda foot soldier. Officials said he not only claimed the $25 million award that was being offered by the U.S. government for information that led to Mohammed's arrest, but also demanded $2 million more to help cover the costs of his family moving to Great Britain. He is being paid the money, the sources said. Mohammed, who has been linked to several al Qaeda attacks in the past five years, was arrested in a raid led by Pakistanis on March 1 in a house outside Islamabad. He was one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists. FBI agents are continuing to run down leads from information retrieved in the arrest of Mohammed. Sources said about a dozen investigations resulted from the information, in various U.S. cities including Washington, New York and Los Angeles. Agents are trying to find any evidence of sleeper cells operating in the United States as they run down names and other leads found in Mohammed's computer and papers. Some of the other leads being looked into concern the money trail; agents are checking bank accounts. Government sources said Tuesday that evidence was found after Mohammed's arrest that money was transferred into the United States after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack. Sources were more specific Wednesday, saying the transfers happened in November 2001.
Re: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq
You guys don't get it, do you? Ijust read one of your Ten Ways to Stop the War with E-mail. You want us to "Send an email to every member of the UN Security Council at the same time, urging them to vote against war:" My first question is why are you endorsing and acquiescing the UN Security Council? Don't you realize that by asking the S.C. to vote against the war, you are acquiescing to their authority? When are you going to wake up? Why are you having people recognize the Security Council?The united States of America is a sovereign nation. We Don't need no stinking UN Security Council. You deal directly with President Bush and your Congress as well as other We The People's through your e-mails. Don't succumb to psyops actions. Joe - Original Message - From: Astro To: The Power Hour Cc: Power Hour Flash Stats Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq Compiled and written by Guy Dauncey, Victoria, BC, Canadawww.earthfuture.com WE ARE MILLIONS One Way to Stop the War for All of Us 101. Give up the belief that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Put fear to one side, and replace it with the confidence that we can solve our many problems, if we work together. We are incredibly creative, inventive people. We have to do this. What other option do we have? There is a Native American story about a grandfather, talking to his young grandson. He tells the boy that he has two wolves inside him that are struggling with each other. The one is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other is the wolf of fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply. We may only have days to make a difference. So please, do everything you can. Ten Ways to Stop the War with Your EmailTen Ways to Stop the War with Your PenTen Ways to Stop the War with Your SignsTen Ways to Stop the War with Your BodyTen Ways to Stop the War with Your MindTen Ways to Stop the War with Your SpiritTen Ways to Stop the War with Your FriendsTen Ways to Stop the War with Your HeartTen Ways to Stop the War with Your OrganizationTen Ways for the Whole World to Stop the WarOne Way to Stop the War for All of Us Full 17 Page Printable PDF File (48kb) http://www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar
Re: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq
There are 101 different suggestions on how to stop the war.If you don't like one of the suggestions given, there are 100 more to choose from. Astro
A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought there."I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County. "It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over there."More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than 13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost so many lives fighting for France.Brown-Waite said she didn't know if many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear message."A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatriation of American soldiers would take this dispute to a far different level than renaming french fries on Capitol Hill."The french fries, it's a joke," said Agnes von der Muhll, the embassy spokeswoman. "If the other thing would happen, it would be very, very sad. We didn't forget. We will never forget what contribution America made to our peace and security."Asked whether she is angry with France, Brown-Waite said, "I am certainly not going out and buying any French designer clothes, I'll tell you that right now, nor drinking French wine."Frank Fogner, a Vietnam veteran from Little River, S.C., was patrolling the halls of Congress on Wednesday to observe budget hearings. He said the United States should cut or reduce financial assistance to any country that opposes the war and denounced France in particular. Asked whether American soldiers should be exhumed over this, he shifted his weight uncomfortably."There is such a thing as too extreme," he said.It's not clear if the government would relocate bodies if asked without the legislation. Messages left with the American Battle Monuments
Re: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq
I'm sure you're a nice person Astro, but let the record show that Astro supports the UN Security Council's authority over the united States of America. I don't agree with you. Joe - Original Message - From: Astro To: Joseph A. Shearey ; The Power Hour Cc: Power Hour Flash Stats Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:01 PM Subject: Re: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq There are 101 different suggestions on how to stop the war.If you don't like one of the suggestions given, there are 100 more to choose from. Astro
Re: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
AAAHHHAAHAHAHAHA.RE-ANIMATE? GOOD ONE.The idea of turning french fries into freedom fries has about the effect of when americans boycotted chinese restuarants here when the chinese captured our spy plane several years back. So what about all the Americans who think the french are doing the right thing? Will she want to ship them to france or belgium? I am going to pack my bagsWhen does the next concorde leave? - Original Message - From: jeani To: The Power Hour List Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought there."I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County. "It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over there."More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than 13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost so many lives fighting for France.Brown-Waite said she didn't know if many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear message."A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatriation of American soldiers would take this dispute to a far different level than renaming french fries on Capitol Hill."The french fries, it's a joke," said Agnes von der Muhll, the embassy spokeswoman. "If the other thing would happen, it would be very, very sad. We didn't forget. We will never forget what contribution America made to our peace and
Re: 101 Ways To Stop A War On Iraq
"I'm sure you're a nice person Astro, but let the record show that Astro supports the UN Security Council's authority over the united States of America. I don't agree with you." LetWHATRECORD show that I support theUnited NationsSecurity Council? I merely said there are 101 suggestions for you to choose from,and ifyou don't like one suggestion then choose another. If Ioffered to buyyou some ice cream and we wentinto a icecream parlor that sold101 different flavors, and you said "but they have pistachio - Ican'tstand pistachio!" and I said to you: "yes, but there are 100 otherdifferent flavors for you to chose from" does that mean that I love pistashcio ice cream? If the truth be known, I have extremely mixed and ambivalent feelings about the United Nations. For the record: I have not written any letters, sent any emailsor made any phone calls to the United Nations. Ever. I thinkmy record unequivocally proves - if youchose to examine it- that I have never made any personal statements suggesting support for, or endorsement of, the United Nations. Pleaserefrain frommaking suchpretentous assumptionsand false accusations. What I have been doing is making phone calls and sending emails to my Congressional representatives,attending weekly non-political religous candlelight peace vigils, speaking out as a disabled veteran and member of Veterans For Peace, passing along important information on the Internet about the lies being perpetrated to the American publicby those who arepromoting this war and doing whatever else Ican do to support those who are trying to make a difference with the ultimate goal of arriving at a peaceful solution. From my perspectivethis is not a leftwing-rightwing-conservative-liberal-democrat-republican issue. My opposition to this war is strictly on moral and ethical grounds. None ofthe activitiesI've been involved in over the course of the past year has anythingto dowith supporting the United Nations, which in my opinion, is essentially irrelevant in light of the fact our chickenhawk brigade in Washington DC is going to have their bloody war regardless of what the United Nations chooses to do, one way or another. The only the reason the White House warhawksare interacting with the United Nations in the first place isbecause they havea misguided belief that in doing so it will give their warplans some sort of perceived legitimacy. They havecarefully orchestrated theirUnited Nations horse and pony media show.They could really care less about the what the UN thinks asit's all intentional smoke and mirrors designed to distract attention from their real agaenda and ultimate goals. From allappearances, they have failed to convince anyone or present a credible compelling case for war. The only thing that will save us now is praying to ourAlmighty Lord up in Heaven, and for all concerned citizens who oppose the war to really pour on the heatto Congress this coming week. Now is the timeto speak out and make our feelings known to everyone in Washington DC. The hour isbecomingextremely late andour freedoms and lives are at stake. Hoping for a peaceful solution, Astro
Canadians Refute Bush, Point by Point
Canadians Refute Bush, Point by PointHaroon Siddiqui Toronto Star Posted 3/13/2003 9:45:57 PM March 13, 2003 Canada Should Sit Out This War "U.S. credibility on Iraq has eroded to an extent that it is becoming hard to believe anything from the Bush administration." It was said the war on Iraq was coming after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. That was three months ago. Then it was supposed to be coming right after the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Haj. That was a month ago. The delay is instructive. People power can propel governments to gum up the works of the world's biggest war machine, even if briefly. Now that the threat of a veto has forced the United States to postpone a United Nations vote, if only temporarily, the Canadian compromise, or a version thereof, is back in play. But as reasonable as Jean Chrétien's, and now Tony Blair's, proposal to give Iraq a new deadline may sound, it is deeply flawed. It only postpones war. In fact, it guarantees it by pre-authorizing war in case Iraq does not disarm. We know now what the U.S. will say then: that Iraq has not complied. More than a new deadline which only the inspectors should set, anyway we need clearer rules to end Iraqi dodging on the one hand and American rush to war on the other. Chrétien has been courageous in stating categorically that Canada is not in the business of "regime change." Also, that Canada will not join the war without U.N. authorization. He needs to clarify three more points, to light our own path ahead. It is the U.N., not the U.S., that should set the "benchmarks" for Iraq and also make the final call on whether Iraq is in breach. The U.N. authority to go to war must be clear, not implicit. Should the Canadian/British proposal go nowhere, the Americans and the British will likely revert to their current position, which is to not ask the Security Council to vote on the use of force but rather on whether Saddam Hussein is in breach of U.N. resolutions. That would not constitute a full U.N. mandate for war, the way most Canadians would understand. Canada should refuse to join the war under such a circumstance. In case the Anglo-American resolution is vetoed but does win a majority of nine votes, Canada should not accept the predictable American spin that the outcome somehow legitimizes unilateral American action. A veto is a veto, whatever one thinks of this outdated mechanism. In having to swallow it, America will taste its own medicine. It has cast more vetoes than any democracy. Only the Soviet Union and its successor state, Russia, have cast more, 117 to 73. Chrétien needs to hold firm to his commitment to the international rule of law. He should not be offering to hold the back door open for George W. Bush to rush out to a war which lacks both legal and moral legitimacy. The Bush administration's staggering dishonesty can best be seen in the number of times the U.N. inspectors have had to shoot down its unsubstantiated assertions. Both Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei are seasoned international civil servants who understand the value of non-partisanship. But they felt compelled to set the record straight. First, Blix: No, his inspectors were not spied on. No, the Iraqis could not have had advance knowledge of the sites to be inspected. No, he did not think Iraqi agents were posing as scientists, or that real scientists were being whisked out of the country to avoid interrogations. No, he found no evidence of Iraqis hiding or moving banned materials in or out of the country. No, he did not believe that Iraq had cleaned up some sites before inspections, as Colin Powell alleged, using before and after satellite pictures that Blix exposed as having been taken "several weeks apart." No, the trucks that Powell identified as mobile labs producing biological weapons were not in the germ warfare business; they were carrying food-tasting and seed-processing equipment. No, Iraq had not hidden the long-range missiles that the inspectors ordered destroyed: "These weapons were declared; they were not clandestine." No, he found no evidence that Iraq was producing and storing chemical or biological weapons in underground bunkers. No, he saw no persuasive evidence of Iraqi links to Al Qaeda. "There are other states where there appear to be stronger links." Now, ElBaradei: No, there was no uranium bought from Niger. Documents purporting to show that were forged. No, the International Atomic Energy Agency found no evidence that high-strength aluminium tubes were imported for uranium enrichment. Even if they were, it was unlikely that Iraq had the capacity to redesign them for such usage. No, there is no evidence of Iraq using imported high-strength magnets in its nuclear program. No, there is no evidence of a resumption of "prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities." Despite being contradicted on so many fronts, Powell is now saying with a straight face that he has "new information" that Iraq is
