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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 2:48 pm

  Cline, You have not commented on the use of white phosphorous use on the city of Fallujah. I take your silence as tolerant of these methods as necessary in the war to terrorize. If you justify or defend these methods, I will have no choice but to address you as as a criminal. So far out of your posts I have gathered your glorification of state propaganda, defense of war crimes, a sadistic tone reminiscent of the guards at Auschwitz, and "just following orders" covers all crimes…even magnificent ones. War crimes caught on tape are nothing more than pure joyful entertainment …

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 2:49 pm

  Rabbit lies? Revisionist? You never addressed one of my previous posts listing facts concerning the day of 911, the downing street minutes, secret gulags, and now crushing children’s testicles is considered OK. And again, you cower behind the skirt of big brother. Remaining a bootlicker will not save you. Study the night of the brown shirts when even the elite turned against their useful idiots after they have served their interests. Again, our service members did not agree to fight in an illegal war and participate in an illegal occupation. But to bootlickers, this morsel of truth is an affront on …

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 5:11 pm

  Once the war was exposed as a fraud and the lies exposed as such, the war becomes unconstitutional and in my opinion negates all contracts. I left the service understanding that I participated in a genocidal act that serves to line the pockets of the rich. I believe all service members have the right to walk away right now. This war was based on lies and worse, the longer we stay there the more likely this war will expand into a much broader conflict. The war drums are now beating for Iran and Syria with Russia now publicly arming both AND …

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• • 04 Nov 05
  • 3:01 pm

  Reuters: Saddam accepted UAE exile plan to avert Iraq war http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=282657+28-Oct-2005+RTRS&srch=saddam+accepted+UAE+exile+plan From Israel's Newspaper in an interview with the neocons: In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in the town: the belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals (a partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer), people who are mutual friends and cultivate one another and are convinced that political ideas are a major driving force of …

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• • 04 Nov 05
  • 3:04 pm

  A subsequent PNAC plan entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” reveals that the current members of Bush’s cabinet had already planned, before the 2000 presidential election, to take military control of the Gulf region whether Saddam Hussein is in power or not. The 90-page PNAC document from September 2000 says: “The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of …

  Posted to Democrats: It's the War