Robin Cook – Founding Member of The Awkward Squad

“The Most Awkward Thing One Can Do Is To Stand Up In The Face Of A Corrupt Regime – To Tell The Truth And Be Willing To Face The Consequences”

In memoriam to Robin Cook I have started this Diary Project called “The Awkward Squad.”  Originally I went looking for all those resignation speeches and letters of those in public office who resigned in protest of the war on Iraq.  But as you will see, the project became too big for me.  So I need the help of Booman Tribune & European Tribune.  You will see who is missing, (Sibel Edmonds, “Gagged But Not Dead” and find what links don’t work….  Clearly I need all the help I can get… thanks in advance, Suskind. And a special thanks to Oui, who is a Member of The Awkward Squad.

They Resigned In Protest of Iraq War

“The more aggressively we use our power to intimidate our foes, the more foes we create and the more we validate terrorism as the only effective weapon of the powerless against the powerful.” – John Brady Kiesling

DEMOTED

DIED IN OFFICE

THE JOURNALISTS

Steven Vincent: Steven Vincent, freelance, August 3, 2005, BasraVincent, who had written for a number of U.S. publications and was working on a book, was abducted along with his translator, Noor al-Khal, on August 2. They were taken by armed men driving what initial press reports described variously as a pickup truck or possibly a police car.

Vincent’s bullet-riddled body was found with hands tied with plastic wire and a red piece of cloth wrapped around the neck, The New York Times reported. Al-Khal was seriously wounded and was hospitalized.In an op-ed article published in The Times on July 31, Vincent said police in Basra had fallen under the sway of Shiite religious groups, and he strongly criticized British authorities in charge of police training for tolerating such influence. Vincent’s work also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and the National Review. A resident of New York City, he had been in Basra for several months working on a book about the Iraqi port city.Vincent was the first U.S. journalist to be murdered in Iraq.
Source: COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS

THE MOST AWKWARD WOMAN IN AMERICA

* BUSH REFUSES TO MEET WITH CINDY SHEEHAN


(And there’s more: THEY BROUGHT SUIT: DOE V. BUSH; Ramadi v. Rumsfeld: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS…. THEY PUBLISHED… those people who took out full page ads in opposition to war on Iraq, i.e. Sean Penn, MoveOn, etc..etc.. THEY TESTIFIED…. Sen. Robert Byrd, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, John Bonifaz, Ambassador Joe Wilson… THEY WROTE, THEY PETITIONED, THEY MADE THEIR MOVE… Congressman John Conyers, Rep. Barbara Lee, Markey, Waxman, …. etc. etc. Then there’s Booman Tribune/European Tribune members of the Awkward Squad… your nominations please)

Awkward squad tries to sharpen view

They call themselves the “awkward squad” and their questions to the generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical press from their more loyal American colleagues.

By Guardian Newspapers, 3/25/2003

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