Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 223

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   RubDMC on January 18, 2006 at 5:47 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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   supersoling on January 18, 2006 at 6:33 am

   

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   ask on January 18, 2006 at 6:56 am

   
   Gunmen Kill 10 Security Guards in Iraq

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   shermanesqe on January 18, 2006 at 7:10 am

   

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   alohaleezy on January 18, 2006 at 7:16 am

   To waking up from this nightmarish descent into Hell!

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   Man Eegee on January 18, 2006 at 11:27 am

   

   …to continue the fight for Peace.

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   BrendaStewart on January 18, 2006 at 11:27 am

   

   peace,  if only we could achieve peace…

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   Damnit Janet on January 18, 2006 at 12:15 pm

   

   Rub, you might be interested in this photo essay I found on Mojo.

   http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/12/unembedded.html

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     RubDMC on January 19, 2006 at 8:25 pm
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   dada on January 18, 2006 at 12:38 pm

   

   Peace

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    Salunga on January 18, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    

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    DuctapeFatwa on January 18, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Halliburton charges millions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers for Mercedes trucks that sit idle and unused in the Iraqi desert, an internal Pentagon memo obtained by HalliburtonWatch reveals.

    The memo, written on Sept. 16, 2004, by the Baghdad branch manager of the Pentagon’s Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), reported that Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary “procures and retains excess vehicles” under its troop support contract with the Army Corps of Engineers. The memo concludes that the excess vehicles result in “increased costs to the government.”

    The total value of the vehicles under review was $300 million and included both purchased and leased vehicles.

    The findings comport with a digital photograph obtained by HalliburtonWatch showing a large number of Mercedes trucks parked permanantly at Camp Anaconda, Iraq. The photograph was obtained from a source in the federal government who reported that the trucks are, in the source’s words, “idle.”…

    nerdified link

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    jimstaro on January 18, 2006 at 5:15 pm

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

    
    FOCUS | Ron Kovic: The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq
    Ron Kovic writes: “Thirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country.”

    Hugh Thompson and the My Lai Massacre
    Hugh Thompson’s Gunner Describes Pointing His Weapon at Fellow U.S.
    Soldiers to Stop My Lai Massacre
    We look at the life of Hugh Thompson – the former Army helicopter pilot who
    helped stop the My Lai Massacre in 1968 when U.S. troops slaughtered
    hundreds of innocent Vietnamese villagers. He died earlier this month at the
    age of 62. We play an excerpt of a documentary about his life and we speak
    with former Army Specialist Lawrence Colburn who helped Thompson end the
    massacre.
    Listen/Watch/Read

    Hiding Behind The Troops
    by David Corn, TomPaine.com
         George W. Bush is back on defense on the war — accusing critics of giving “aid to the enemy.”

    Interim leaders see power fade in new Iraq parliament
    THE Shiite political bloc currently holding power in Iraq will fall short of retaining its parliamentary majority once final results are published from last month’s election.

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      jimstaro on January 18, 2006 at 6:06 pm

      Theatrical Release In Spring Chronicles Forgotten Movement

      Sir, No Sir! An Interview with David Zeiger
      The director’s Vietnam documentary Sir! No Sir! chronicles a forgotten movement and presents a history lesson for the present.

      Jonathan Stein
      September 01 , 2005
      The Oleo Strut was a coffeehouse in Killeen, Texas, from 1968 to 1972. Like its namesake, a shock absorber in helicopter landing gear, the Oleo Strut’s purpose was to help GIs land softly. Upon returning from Vietnam to Fort Hood, shell-shocked soldiers found solace amongst the Strut’s regulars, mostly fellow soldiers and a few civilian sympathizers. But it didn’t take long before shell shock turned into anger, and that anger into action. The GIs turned the Oleo Strut into one of Texas’s anti-war headquarters, publishing an underground anti-war newspaper, organizing boycotts, setting up a legal office, and leading peace marches.
      David Zeiger was one of the civilians who helped run the Oleo Strut. He went on to a career in political activism and today, at 55, he is a filmmaker and the director of Sir! No Sir!, a new documentary on the all-but-forgotten antiwar activities of GIs from Fort Hood to Saigon. The GI Movement, as it was then known, was composed of both vets recently returned from Vietnam and active-duty soldiers. They fought for peace in ways big and small, from organizing leading anti-war organizations to wearing peace signs instead of dog tags. By the early `70s, opposition to the Vietnam War within the military and amongst veterans had grown so widespread that no one could credibly claim that opposing the war meant opposing the troops. Veterans wanted an end to the war; their brothers in Vietnam agreed.
      Zeiger put off making this movie for years, convinced the public didn’t want to hear another story about the `60s. What finally spurred the project was the Iraq War and the role some Vietnam vets are playing in keeping America’s young men and women from seeing the same horrors they saw. When GIs from the current war started coming home and wondering what they’d been fighting for, Zeiger’s days at the Oleo Strut took on a new relevance. His film is a remarkable interweaving of vets’ stories about their intensifying resistance to the war, starting with the lone objectors of the late `60s and culminating with open disobedience throughout the ranks in the `70s. One vet even recalls an episode from 1972 in which Military Police joined enlisted men in burning an effigy of their commanding officer. The images that accompany such stories are just as powerful. As a young doctor is escorted into a military court for refusing to train GIs, hundreds of enlisted men lean out of nearby windows extending peace signs in support. It’s an image that the Army didn’t want the American people to see then, and probably wouldn’t want the American people to see today.
      Sir! No Sir! won the Documentary Audience Award at the L.A. Film Festival and is slated for broad release before the end of the year. David Zeiger spoke with MotherJones.com from the Los Angeles office of his production company, Displaced Films.

      READ INTERVIEW HERE