this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war

we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgment

we have no sympathy for the devil.

we acknowledge the power to act that is in us

three images and poem below the fold

This image taken from Al-Iraqiya television Sunday Dec. 31, 2006 shows two unidentified men standing next to the coffin containing the body of executed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein late Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006 in Baghdad before being brought to his burial place in a religious compound in Ouja, Iraq. Hussein was buried shortly before sunrise Sunday in a family plot next to the graves of his two sons in the town of his birth, north of Baghdad, witnesses said.
(AP Photo/Al-Iraqiya via APTN)


Coffins of U.S. military personnel are offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated file photo. The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 3,000 on December 31, 2006, an unwelcome milestone for President George W. Bush who is searching for a way to turn around the unpopular war even if it means sending more troops. The Pentagon tightly restricts publication of photographs of coffins with the remains of U.S. troops and has forbidden journalists from taking pictures at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the first stop for the bodies of troops being sent home.
REUTERS/U.S. Air Force


In this Arpil 24, 2003 file photo, the remains of an Iraqi person is seen in the process of being unearthed at the bottom of a makeshift grave, at a formerly off-limits government cemetery for those who were ‘disappeared’ by Saddam Hussein’s regime and which opened to Iraqi citizens after Hussein was overthrown by the U.S., in the Abu Ghraib suburb of Baghdad. Saddam was executed by the new Iraqi government Saturday Dec. 30, 2006, after a court convicted and sentenced him to death for his role in the murders of 148 Shiite Muslims from Dujail.
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Know Your Rights
The Clash

This is a public service announcement
with guitar

Know your rights
all three of them

Number 1
you have the right
not to be killed
murder is a CRIME!
unless it was done
by a policeman
or aristocrats
know your rights

And number 2
you have the right
to food money
providing of course
you don’t mind a little
investigation
humiliation
and if you cross your fingers
rehabilitation

Know your rights
these are your rights

Know these rights

Number 3
you have the right
to free speech
as long as
you’re not dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
these are your rights
Know your rights
these are your rights
all three of ’em

It has been suggested in some quarters
that this is not enough!

Weeeeeeeeeellllllllll…………………………

Get off the streets
get off the streets