Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 294

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   RubDMC on April 19, 2006 at 12:39 pm

   

   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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     dada on April 19, 2006 at 12:56 pm

     

     Peace

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     Maryscott OConnor on April 19, 2006 at 2:09 pm

     

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   supersoling on April 19, 2006 at 12:58 pm

   

   I wish I could be there to tell them how sorry and ashamed I am for the actions of my government. I also wish I could just sit with them in their home and share a meal, and share laughter with them. We’re all the same you know. We all want the best for our children and our families. We all fear losing them.

   I curse the name of George W. Bush and the Bitch who bore him.

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   ask on April 19, 2006 at 1:00 pm

   
   Mystery Hangs Over Baghdad Battle

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   James 438 on April 19, 2006 at 1:13 pm

   
   and for poetry month:

   The Problem of Describing Color

   If I said–remembering, in summer,
   The cardinal’s sudden smudge of red
   In the bare gray winter woods–

   If I said, red ribbon on the cocked straw hat
   Of the girl with pooched-out lips
   Dangling the wiry, black-nosed lapdog
   In the painting by Renoir–

   If I said fire, if I said blood welling from a cut–

   Or flecks of poppy in the tar-grass-scented summer air
   On a wind-struck hillside outside Fano–

   If I said, her one red earring dangles from her silky lobe,

   If she tells fortunes with a deck of fallen leaves
   Until it comes out right–

   Rouged nipple, mouth–

   (how could you not love a woman
   who cheats at Tarot?)

   Red, I said. Sudden, red.

   –Robert Hass

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   cotterperson on April 19, 2006 at 1:47 pm

       A world of made
       is not a world of born — pity poor flesh

       and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
       fine specimen of hypermagical

       ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

       a hopeless case if — listen: there’s a hell
       of a good universe next door; let’s go

               — ee cummings
               from “pity this busy monster, manunkind”

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   vieravisionary on April 19, 2006 at 1:54 pm

   

   Maintain a spirit of compassion and forgiveness during times of grief, look within and search the depths of your soul to recognize your true feelings and desire.

   Rekindle the light of hope during times of darkness to guide others, focus on that which will provide warmth when surrounded by the coldness of death.

   Listen only only with your ears, but your entire being to the pain of others in distress, work to provide healing to those in pain.

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   Man Eegee on April 19, 2006 at 2:04 pm

   

   …only hugs of compassion will bring about Peace.

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   shermanesqe on April 19, 2006 at 2:05 pm

   

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   Man Eegee on April 19, 2006 at 2:25 pm

   BAGHDAD, April 19 (Reuters) – Separate groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad on Wednesday and beheaded two teachers in front of their students, the Ministry of State for National Security said.

   “Two terrorist groups beheaded two teachers in front of their students in the Amna and Shaheed Hamdi primary schools in Shaab district in Baghdad,” a ministry statement said.

   A ministry official said he believed the attacks were aimed at: “intimidating pupils and disrupting learning.”

   linkage

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    DuctapeFatwa on April 19, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    With pump prices rising fast, a gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge took a quantum leap into outrageousness – charging a jaw-dropping $4.50 a gallon!
    That’s what the Gulf Station on Old Fulton St. in Brooklyn Heights was charging credit card customers for a gallon of premium yesterday.

    A gallon of regular gas was no bargain, either, at $4.14 for cash or $4.26 on plastic…

    nerdified link

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    jimstaro on April 19, 2006 at 4:55 pm

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

    “[T]he Administration has seized the power of Congress to make the laws, they have seized the power of the judiciary to interpret the laws, and they execute them as well. They have consolidated within themselves all of the powers of the government.”
    — Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory, March 25, 2006

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    China Sole Manufacturer of Material for U.S. Missiles

    It was in his 2003 State of the Union Address that President George W. Bush expressed his administration’s objective to “strengthen global treaties banning the production and shipment of missile technologies.” It was thereafter, between 2003 and 2004, in which the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) allowed the last manufacturer in the U.S. that provided a key element instrumental in cruise missile guidance, to be relocated to the Peoples’ Republic of China.

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    The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar Bradley

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    Tuesday, 18 April 2006
    Stand Your Ground Against Right Wing Veteran Extremist Views of PTSD – Only Valor Stolen is from Vets with PTSD.

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    War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. – Thomas Carlyle

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    Tuesday, 18 April 2006
    First Shots Fired In The PTSD Claims War Report by Tom Berger, Chair of Vietnam Veterans of American, PTSD Committee

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    War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed. – John Cory

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    Afghanistan’s new militant alliances {Abit Of How ALL This Started}

    “It was just very, very exciting to be in that room with those men with their huge white teeth.”
    Afghan warlords have often formed unusual alliances in times of conflict, but even by their standards holding a war council in the presence of a clearly giddy beauty queen dressed in a pink jump suit and answering to the name of Snowflake was hardly standard fare.

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    Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein (attributed)

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    Afghan poppy growers want protection from Cdn forces
    {Hmmm, ‘Peace and Democracy’ or ‘Make Sure ‘Suits’ Get Their Booty’, Tough Call!! [Bettin On The Suits]}

    Richard Foot, CanWest News Service
    Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A large group of Afghan poppy farmers has handed Canadian soldiers an unusual offer, pledging not to grow the illicit flowers next year if they’re allowed to harvest their poppy crop this year with no interference from Afghan officials intent on smashing the country’s opium trade.

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    We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    Injured women put new face on war
    BY DONNA ST. GEORGE
    WASHINGTON POST
    Posted on Wed, Apr. 19, 2006

    WASHINGTON – Her body was maimed by war. Dawn Halfaker lay unconscious at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her parents at her bedside and her future suddenly uncertain. A rocket-propelled grenade had exploded in her Humvee, ravaging her right arm and shoulder.

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    War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. – Erasmus
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    Veterans for Peace, Chapters 25, 27, and 99, have joined with After Downing Street to form Impeach for Peace and Justice (IFPJ), a nonpartisan informal cooperative whose goal is the impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney as the quickest and surest method of bringing our troops home from Iraq.
    PLANK MEMBERS:
    Veterans for Peace, Ch. 25
    Veterans for Peace, Ch. 27
    Veterans for Peace, Ch. 99
    After Downing Street
    And VFP National Call: ‘Declaration Of Impeachment’

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      jimstaro on April 19, 2006 at 4:58 pm

      GI Special 4D19 Sir No Sir Free DVD For Troops.pdf

      Sir! No Sir!! – Site

      

      Click To Watch Trailer

      Cable, DSL or Other Broadband connection

      56 or 28k modem connection

      National Theatrical Screenings of Sir! No Sir!

      ‘Sir! No Sir!’ Salutes Vietnam’s Dissenters in Uniform – NYT Movie Review

      War and peace, then and now – Newsday Movie Review

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      jimstaro on April 19, 2006 at 5:05 pm

      NOLA Healthcare
      Story aired: Wednesday, April 19, 2006

      LISTEN

      New Orleans is struggling to meet the health care needs of its poorest residents several months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

      A study released this week by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Children’s Health Fund says families displaced by the storm are suffering higher rates of medical problems than the rest of the population.

      The study backs up the experiences of two doctors who have been helping to rebuild the healthcare infrastructure in New Orleans.

      In the April 13th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors describe an environment where patients are treated in tents and department stores — and at one point even the zoo.

      Guests:

       Dr. Ruth Berggren, who worked at the HIV unit at Charity Hospital in New Orleans which is still closed. She’s also associate professor of infectious diseases at Tulane University Medical School  

       Dr. Tyler Curiel, professor of hematology and medical oncology at Tulane University Medical School