"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq

...but the bill they will bring back home with them, engraved on their waking and dreaming moments, is drawn on and payable on their soul and peace of mind and sense of well-being and personal safety.

and that bill gets inevitably bigger for every single hour they hold back; every new sortie they go out on; every new patrol they mount; every new sweep they conduct; every DU round they fire; every artillery fire mission they summon; every house they bulldoze.

not to mention: every borrowed Chinese dollar they use on the chow line, drink down in bottled water; etc. etc.; which their children and grandchildren will be sentenced to repay -- with compound interest and a devalued dollar.

helluva bill -- and we're all gonna be paying it.

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"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq

in my sincere and considered opinion, the **only** honorable course available to any members of the US armed forces -- uniformed or not; regular or irregular; mercenary or volunteer -- is to claim Conscientious Objector status; now, today; and declare they can no longer in good conscience keep following illegal orders; and willingly accept the jail time that will necessarily follow.

continued voluntary participation in the conduct of a massive war-crime makes you a war criminal, period.

"I vos chust followink orders, mein Herr!"

is NOT SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION.
and hasn't ever been;

especially not since sodding Nuremburg, mate.

I do have respect for the training of the professional soldiers, particularly the junior officers.
they presumably are required to do the reading.
they need to look closely at the **real** requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

all bar a couple of the above calibration realities are truths that have been brutally clear -- to the world -- for many months.

anyone who has been "in-country" for more than the few days or weeks necessary to see first-hand what the hell US troops are doing to cause "collateral" damage and casualties, and who has had the briefest opportunity to dig into How Did We Get Here, has only got their conscience to answer to; for the time being.

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"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq

why? in order to satisfy the waste-spewing corruption-soaked bank accounts of the senior executive suites at Halliburton, KBR, Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and all the rest of the corporate parasites guzzling down our national resources.

those Cheney Chums **love** them some war, oh boy howdy, yes indeedy; and they really really love people like you.

people whose sense of "honor" is

Totally।

Fscking।

Blind.

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"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq

...all bar a couple of the above calibration realities are truths that have been brutally clear -- to the world -- for many months.

anyone who has been "in-country" for more than the few days or weeks necessary to see first-hand what the hell US troops are doing to cause "collateral" damage and casualties, and who has had the briefest opportunity to dig into How Did We Get Here, has only got their **conscience** to answer to; for the time being.

but the bill they will bring back home with them, engraved on their waking and dreaming moments, is drawn on and payable on their soul and peace of mind and sense of well-being and personal safety.

and that bill gets inevitably bigger for every single hour they hold back; every new sortie they go out on; every new patrol they mount; every new sweep they conduct; every DU round they fire; every artillery fire mission they summon; every house they bulldoze.

not to mention: every borrowed Chinese dollar they use on the chow line, drink down in bottled water; etc. etc.; which their children and grandchildren will be sentenced to repay -- with compound interest and a devalued dollar.

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"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq

calibration:

even though:

our occupation has caused -- by credible epidemiological assessment, via survey protocols internationally acknowledged in comparable environments -- the deaths of, by now, over 1,200,000 Iraqis;

even though:

our efforts have exiled over 2,000,000 Iraqis, and displaced another 2,000,000 Iraqis within their borders;

even though:

our highly-paid mercenaries now outnumber these "honorable" regulars, operating with violent impunity from prosecution;

even though:

the world knows we still jail thousands more; in shameful conditions; on trivial pretexts and slender evidence;

even though:

the world knows we casually murdered by torturing to death, over a hundred people, in the course of our invasion and occupation of Iraq so far;

even though:

we invaded on grounds the world now knows we lied blatantly about -- to ourselves, and the world;

even though:

a delegation of Iraqi parliamentarians toured the US, weeks ago, telling Americans directly and honestly that "All Sides in Iraq Agree: Please, USA; At Long Last, Fsck Off -- OK?";

even though:

our puppet Maliki (drawing breath at the whim of heavily-armed US agents surrounding him) openly slapped our faces this week -- after Administration efforts to ram its SOFA down the throats of every Iraqi citizen, **raping** their mineral resources for the benefit of a few US-centric corporations -- declaring that the only remaining debate is:

"will you occupying forces leave:

a) NOW;

b) on a TIMETABLE we find acceptable to Go, Very Soon?"


-- *YOU* keep pretending there's anything honorable about any soldier continuing to participate इन...
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"Lob Bombs": US's New Biggest Worry In Baghdad

About Iraq
> I make this declaration as clearly as possible- All of you making derogatory remarks about US troops fighting, in harms way, are not worth one of their boot laces.

well, batguano, let me make this as painfully clear to you as I possibly can:

those troops you value so much more than any other citizen are presently engaged in the 5th year of the illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.

those US troops are doing exactly the same job, exactly as honorably, as any member of the Wehrmacht, when Hitler invaded Poland.

every Iraqi resistor they kill earns **exactly** the same amount of honor for them and their units as when Wehrmacht troops shot/executed/tortured/maimed partisans, Resistance fighters, and uninvolved civilians alike -- in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Holland, France...
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US Govt corruption as exposed by GAO

just testing the integration with Box service

04_09_07_gao_report.pdf

first significant new music encounter for decades

omiwotsits - Gogol Bordello!

"Immigrant Punk" was on repeat, all the way to the office. raspy ukrainian gypsy punk, plus...

testing from Dashboard

this is a hasty post from my laptop, using the Blogger widget.

and boy, does that make it easy and fast.

zero latency and effort from blurt to blog: blunders published in nothing flat.

last night, Alex did a great job on her mountain of homework. I was so proud of her.

Showing Alex how to blog quickly

She's tired, but amazed by how cool Mac OS X Tiger is... or would be if she wasn't too tired to think straight.

Mac OS X Tiger rox

straightforward install, cool as everything I've read.

Scotsman.com News - Ministers Accused over 'Creationist Nonsense' in Schools

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Ministers Accused over 'Creationist Nonsense' in Schools

More about "The" Bible

The Brights' Movement Forums -> The Saint James Bible: "The people that wrote the original texts believed completely that the Earth was only thousands of years old, the Sun and stars revolved around the Earth, and that plants, animals, and humans had nothing in common. They had no idea that there were 4 more continents on the Earth, the brain was the part of the body that was involved with thinking, or that they lived inside a gigantic universe.
No wonder people today use the word faith a lot when talking about the Bible."

About The Saint James Bible

The Brights' Movement Forums -> The Saint James Bible: "is a mass produced copy of a modern English translation of an old English translation of a Latin translation of fragments of dozens of ancient Hebrew texts written on papyrus from an oral history given by unknown people that lived in strange and foreign lands several thousand years ago."

CNN.com

CNN.com: "Poll: Dems would be happy with Dean or Clark"

I read this and it makes me laugh...

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Two Rivers Intranet :: Joy in Learning, Excellence in Education: "Staff PCs upgraded, office network rewired"

BlogThis extension in action

Two Rivers Intranet :: Joy in Learning, Excellence in Education

so, this is another test with the awesomely good MozillaFirebird.

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