“I don’t walk about belief – whether or not we should have started this war. Rather, I walk because we shouldn’t live our lives as if all is normal. People are suffering every moment because of this war – U.S. Soldiers and their families, Iraqi soldiers and civilians and their families – and this question of what we can do to end this suffering should be with us every day.”
a Concord (MA) area resident – in a letter to the editor regarding her own participation in a public vigil each Friday morning at the town center – ‘We Walk for All Who Suffer Because of War.’
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
in loving gratitude today for ahna jin – sensitive artist and caring thinker born 20 years ago – who left seoul to join our family
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
An Iraqi resident runs away from the scene of a bomb attack at a shopping district in Baghdad, February 28, 2006.
REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen
Leaving Seoul: 1953
by Walter K. Lew
We have to bury the urns,
Mother and I. We tried to leave them in a back room,
Decoyed by a gas lamp, and run out
But they landed behind us here, at the front gate.
It is 6th hour, early winter, black cold:
Only, on the other side of the rice-paper doors
The yellow ondol stone-heated floors
Are still warm. I look out to the blue
Lanterns along the runway, the bright airplane.
Off the back step, Mother, disorganized
As usual, has devised a clumsy rope and shovel
To bury the urns. I wonder out loud
how she ever became a doctor.
Get out, she says Go to your father: he too
Does not realize what is happening. You see,
Father is waiting at the airfield in a discarded U. S. Army
Overcoat. He has lost his hat, lost
His father, and is smoking Lucky’s like crazy. . .
We grab through the tall weeds and wind
That begin to shoot under us like river ice.
It is snowing. We are crying, from the cold
Or what? It is only decades
Later that, tapping the cold, glowing jars,
I find they contain all that has made
The father have dominion over hers.
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remember the fallen
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witness every day
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” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
from Dirge Without Music
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Peace
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (ABC/AP) 20 min. ago — A series of suicide attacks, car bombs and mortar barrages rocked Baghdad today, killing at least 66 people and wounding scores as Iraq teetered on the brink of sectarian civil war.
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY :: WTF NOT FIT TO BE PUBLISHED? SHOWS REALITY OF PRE-EMPTIVE WAR!REUTERS/Helmiy al-AzawiIMPEACH BUSH NOW!
LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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May the Scared Yellow Crowd realize what they are supporting and justifying. May they never be able to enjoy another moment in their twisted lives.
‘1,300 dead’ in Iraq sectarian violence
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and For The Children – Innocence Lost!
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator – 1851
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From Superpower to Tinhorn Dictatorship
By Paul Craig Roberts
America is headed for a soft dictatorship by the end of Bush’s second term. Whether any American has civil rights will be decided by the discretionary power of federal officials. The public in general will tolerate the soft dictatorship as its discretionary powers will mainly be felt by those few who challenge it.
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“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”
William O. Douglas
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The Smoking Gun
By Mike Whitney
By now, we should realize that the Bush administration has no plan to govern Iraq nor do they care a whit about the suffering of the Iraqi people. The only thing the matters is the extraction of petroleum from Iraqi oil-fields and its unobstructed transfer to the market. The rest is rubbish. “We don’t do body counts”, boasted General Tommy Franks.
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“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.”
George Washington , Farewell Address
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Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict
CIVIC has some exciting news to share with you.
Sarah, our executive director, has landed safely in Amman, Jordan, and is headed into Iraq on Wednesday. For her safety, she will not be traveling to Baghdad, but will be meeting with representatives from USAID and the other non-governmental organizations working on the ground to help victims of war.
Sarah will be writing a daily blog during her travels, posting first hand information on what she hears and sees. Click HERE to see her first entry.
Thank you for your continued support of our work and don’t forget to check Civic World Wide daily for updates.
Sincerely,
The CIVIC Team
PS… Click HERE to tell a friend about CIVIC’s work.
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“No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.”
Tom Paine
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New Calls for End to U.S. Occupation of Iraq
An immediate end to the US occupation and the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping force was demanded yesterday by an international women’s human rights organisation.
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Halliburton to Get Paid Most of Disputed Funds
The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon’s own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive or unjustified.
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Keep Punishing The People, Create More Rage For That Surpression, Policies Of Destruction Lead To Destruction!!
Palestinians Face Financial Collapse
International envoy James Wolfensohn told Middle East mediators that the Palestinian Authority faces financial collapse within two weeks because of Israel’s decision to cut off tax transfers after Hamas’s election win. Even if the Palestinian Authority survives the coming month with emergency funding, Wolfensohn said that “violence and chaos” would break out unless a long-term funding plan is developed for when a government led by the Islamic militant group is in place.
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America’s Younger Workers Losing Ground on Income
America’s young workers are falling behind. A new survey shows that median incomes fell for householders under 45 between 2001 and 2004. Younger Americans are increasingly concerned that they will not achieve living standards that are better – or even equal to – those of their parents.
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As the state is a soulless machine,
it can never be weaned from violence
to which it owes its very existence.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi* (1869-1948)
“Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another.”
I have the New Link for Kathie Costos Video, though still abit hazy, but a Good View. You can use the controlls to read the text if you so wish.
Kathie’s Site Has It for Broadband Viewing HERE
I put it on Google for All viewing HERE
I really fucking HATE George Bush and Company!
I really fucking HATE him too.
The only thing I hate more is that there are so many more like him…that have concieved future objects of my hate.
Have I told you lately that I love you??
And I gotta just tell you. It just happened.
Danni is at the table doing her Math homework. She’s got her face planted in the book with her papers spread out. The dog started chuffing and huffing and trying to blow sneeze out. I asked, “What’s the matter doggie, don’t have fingers to pick your nose with??” and Danni “erupted”.
Got her good while she was eating a granola bar. She’s got granola “grunge” all over her work papers. She says she “hates me” but I can see the silent high-fiving going on in her appreciative mind. Mom got her guuuuuud. She will probably use the very line to get her brother when he comes home. Just make sure he’s got something he’s chewing on …
okag – back to the hate… 🙂
I love you too Janet! Big Hugs!
to all, the Peace that begins within, and the Peace we offer to the world.