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Many Americans are wondering, "Why are millions of people marching in protest against the United States' pre-emptive military actions in countries around the world? We're only trying to help! A little collateral damage is bound to happen. It's the cost of freedom and democracy for those suffering under despotic leaders, right? After all, we've got to keep Americans safe, no matter what!"
The mainstream media is brilliant at hiding from us what war is all about. We hear no body counts, we see no body bags, we take part in no ceremonies for the dead who are returned to the U.S. in Dover. God forbid we should know about the thousands of American troops suffering "on hold," awaiting treatment for their injuries at Ft. Knox and elsewhere, doomed to poor healing of wounds and broken bones due to lengthy waits for proprer treatment, as if we were a third world country. And that's just the Americans killed and injured! Even less breath is wasted on the worthless "others" we kill by the tens of thousands with culster boms dropped carelessly on residential areas, schools, markets, mosques, hospitals, museums, etc. They're merely collateral damage.
Here, at last, is a brilliant pictorial presentation depicting what people are suffering and what people elsewhere in the world are seeing in their media. Ask yourself the questions posed here and, please, forward this widely and freely with the caveat that the pictures are not for the young or the sensitive. Wait! Yes, they ARE! They're for everyone who needs to know the truth of what the United States is doing around the world.
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A country on the brink
As the one-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war passes,
the 7.30 Report's Kerry O'Brien asks the ABC's foreign affairs editor,
Peter Cave, what the future holds for a nation on the brink.
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Kerry O'Brien: Peter, I guess heightened tension would be an understatement as the anniversary approaches?
Peter Cave: It probably is Kerry. There's no doubt at all that this country is on the brink of a civil war and that there are people trying to push it over that brink.
The bombing last night that killed 29 [since revised down to 17] at a hotel not far from where I'm standing was one example. While that was happening there was also a rocket attack on American soldiers out at the airport. Two soldiers were killed there, another four or five were very badly wounded.
In Baquba, to the north, a couple of rockets slammed into a police station, narrowly missing the policeman there, narrowly missing a couple of American troops and very badly wounding two civilians who were standing outside the police station.
So certainly, as the anniversary approaches, as the handover to local control approaches, there are those here who are attempting to push it over that brink.
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Many Americans are wondering, "Why are millions of people marching in protest against the United States' pre-emptive military actions in countries around the world? We're only trying to help! A little collateral damage is bound to happen. It's the cost of freedom and democracy for those suffering under despotic leaders, right? After all, we've got to keep Americans safe, no matter what!"
The mainstream media is brilliant at hiding from us what war is all about. We hear no body counts, we see no body bags, we take part in no ceremonies for the dead who are returned to the U.S. in Dover. God forbid we should know about the thousands of American troops suffering "on hold," awaiting treatment for their injuries at Ft. Knox and elsewhere, doomed to poor healing of wounds and broken bones due to lengthy waits for proprer treatment, as if we were a third world country. And that's just the Americans killed and injured! Even less breath is wasted on the worthless "others" we kill by the tens of thousands with culster boms dropped carelessly on residential areas, schools, markets, mosques, hospitals, museums, etc. They're merely collateral damage.
Here, at last, is a brilliant pictorial presentation depicting what people are suffering and what people elsewhere in the world are seeing in their media. Ask yourself the questions posed here and, please, forward this widely and freely with the caveat that the pictures are not for the young or the sensitive. Wait! Yes, they ARE! They're for everyone who needs to know the truth of what the United States is doing around the world.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
(Keep refreshing the page -- there are 1,300 posters.)
Read on at the Book of Days
A country on the brink
As the one-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war passes,
the 7.30 Report's Kerry O'Brien asks the ABC's foreign affairs editor,
Peter Cave, what the future holds for a nation on the brink.
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Kerry O'Brien: Peter, I guess heightened tension would be an understatement as the anniversary approaches?
Peter Cave: It probably is Kerry. There's no doubt at all that this country is on the brink of a civil war and that there are people trying to push it over that brink.
The bombing last night that killed 29 [since revised down to 17] at a hotel not far from where I'm standing was one example. While that was happening there was also a rocket attack on American soldiers out at the airport. Two soldiers were killed there, another four or five were very badly wounded.
In Baquba, to the north, a couple of rockets slammed into a police station, narrowly missing the policeman there, narrowly missing a couple of American troops and very badly wounding two civilians who were standing outside the police station.
So certainly, as the anniversary approaches, as the handover to local control approaches, there are those here who are attempting to push it over that brink.
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