Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 202

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   RubDMC on December 17, 2005 at 9:25 am

   

   Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.

   ” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
   from Dirge Without Music
   by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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   alohaleezy on December 17, 2005 at 9:38 am

   For every child that has been maimed, wounded or killed in Iraq…I weep.

   Support the troops…bring them home NOW!

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     Kidspeak on December 18, 2005 at 6:40 am

     And how will the children learn to trust, in such a world?

     And how will their parents live without fear, being unable to protect their children?

     And how will parents sleep at night, whose children have been killed?

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   supersoling on December 17, 2005 at 9:42 am

   

   that they attempt to piece back together that which they’ve caused to be blown apart by their illegal invasion. How is it possible to be compassionate and murderous at the same time? These are strong words, and they leave me uneasy. But there is no longer any other way to see this. What’s needed now is a strong dose of  Kevin Benderman backbone

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   DuctapeFatwa on December 17, 2005 at 9:44 am

   Executives from ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and Halliburton and Iraqi expatriate conmen, described in the West as Iraqi “technocrats,” have reached a deal to carve-up Iraqi oil, despite opposition from Iraqi oil workers and union leaders. It is described as the “second phase of the war,” in which the invaders will divide the cake between themselves as reward for their crimes of aggression. “The decisions on how to carve up Iraq are being made behind close doors in Washington and London and Baghdad,” said Greg Muttitt, a scholar with PLATFORM, an independent environmental group. The deal made easy by the deliberate ongoing cycle of violence in Iraq and the media complicity in manipulating and diverting the public from important and morally significant issues, such as the criminal nature of the Occupation and its effects on the daily living conditions of Iraqis.

   Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration moved step by step for the final assault to colonise Iraq’s economy. First, on 20 March 2003, George Bush issued his Executive Order 13290 to confiscate “certain property of the Government of Iraq and it agencies, instrumentalities, or controlled entities and that all right, title, and interest in any property so confiscated should vest in the [U.S.] Department of the Treasury.” This allowed the Bush administration to immediately seize $1.7 billion in Iraqi funds. Second, in May 2003, Bush Executive Order 13303 indemnifies not only the corporate looters such as ExxonMobil and Halliburton from prosecution, but also provides protection to soldiers and private security guards committing crimes against Iraqis

   Then, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) headed by U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer, issued a series of edicts and created commissions in order to ‘tighten the grip on Iraq’s Future,’ post 30 June 2004. The devious design of the U.S. was exposed in an article in the Wall Street Journal on 13 May 2004. Reporters Yochi Dreazen and Christopher Cooper wrote; “As Washington prepares to hand over power, U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer and other officials are quietly building institutions that will give the U.S. powerful levers for influencing nearly every important decision the interim government will make. In a series of edicts issued earlier this spring, Mr. Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority created new commissions that effectively take away virtually all of the powers once held by several ministries. . . . and put in place a pair of watchdog institutions that will serve as checks on individual ministries and allow for continued U.S. oversight.” It was just a fake sovereignty designed for public consumption. It is the U.S. Embassy which took sovereignty, not the expatriate stooges.

   As Bremer prepared for his unannounced hasty departure from Iraq in June 2004, the imperial proconsul imposed his ‘100 Orders’ that were designed to transfer the Iraqi economy form a centrally planned economy to free market economy by U.S. fiat. The so-called Bremer’s reform is similar to that imposed on nations strangled by the International Monetary Fund. In short, the Orders, though enacted illegally, have detrimental effects on the Iraqi economy. For example, Order 39 allows for the following: (1) privatization of Iraq’s non-oil-related economy which dominated by 200 state-owned enterprises; (2) 100 percent foreign ownership of Iraqi businesses; (3) ‘national treatment’ of foreign firms; (4) unrestricted, tax-free remittance of all profits and other funds; and (5) 40-year ownership licenses. Thus, it allows the U.S. corporations operating in Iraq to own every business, do all of the work, and send all their money home. Nothing needs to be reinvested locally to service the Iraqi economy, no Iraqi need be hired, no public services need be guaranteed, and workers’ rights can easily be ignored. Foreign corporations can withdraw their investments at any time. Order 81 is designed to reengineer Iraq’s traditional agriculture system into a U.S.-style corporate agribusiness, and in the process enslave Iraqi farmers and undermine Iraq’s food security. All these imposed by military means — in contravention of the WTO regulations and international law — and disguised as U.S. “reconstruction efforts” to rebuild Iraq.

   The media nonetheless continue to propagate that the “reconstruction effort” of Iraq is the largest U.S.-led occupation program since the reconstruction of Europe after World War II…

   nerdified link

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   jimstaro on December 17, 2005 at 11:22 am

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
   and For Innocence Lost!

   Just Admits Too Breaking U.S. LAW, IMPEACH NOW!!

   Thanks, once again, to Peace Takes Courage

   And Eric, for posting these up, at bushflash

   I’ll Be Home For Christmas-Flash Video

   EASIER TO LIE-Flash Video

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     jimstaro on December 17, 2005 at 11:54 am

     Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517

     Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12

     Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah

     Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18

     Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

     Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23

     Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien

     Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

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       RubDMC on December 18, 2005 at 11:29 am
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     jimstaro on December 17, 2005 at 1:18 pm

     VIDEO SPECIAL | Dahr Jamail: Reporting on Iraq

     A Film By Sari Gelzer

     Dahr Jamail shares the stories of Iraqi civilians he interviewed while spending 8 months in occupied-Iraq as an independent journalist. Through his reports of torture, and a healthcare system that is being impeded by American troops, Dahr reveals the urgency for withdrawal from Iraq.

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   shermanesqe on December 17, 2005 at 11:29 am

   

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   dada on December 17, 2005 at 11:43 am

   

   Peace

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   Oui on December 17, 2005 at 1:35 pm

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   Peace … 2006?

   “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
   For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”  

   ▼▼▼ READ MY DIARY

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   ask on December 17, 2005 at 5:21 pm

   
   Living with the threat of a suddenly thrown rock