Iraq Year Six and You
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By Seth Rosen, srosen@dailyprogress.com
Charlottesville VA Daily Progress
Last week David Swanson tried to “stop-loss” Congress.
Swanson, a Charlottesville resident who has become a nationally prominent antiwar activist, delivered “orders” to senators and representatives to remain at their posts and not return to their home districts for Easter recess until American troops are removed from Iraq.
Later in the week when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the
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Please join me, and call in with your questions Monday evening, March 17, 2008, 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET. My guest will be retired General and former Director of the National Security Agency William Odom. We’ll be discussing the occupation of Iraq, now entering its sixth year, and other abuses of power including warantless wiretapping. Listen in at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net
Phone in with your questions toll-free from the U.S. and Canada at 888-228-4494, and from the rest of the
John Perry reading words of David Swanson.
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New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
By David Swanson
A pair of new polls may suggest the power of falsehoods repeated ad infinitum on our televisions and in our newspapers. The first poll asked 2,000 American 12 year olds whether Congress has the power to end the occupation of Iraq. Minorities believed Congress did not, or believed it could do so if the Democrats had larger majorities. But a 61 percent majority of those
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College Students, Veterans, Old Folks Shut Down Capitol Hill (VIDEOS)
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By David Swanson
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By David Swanson
Imagine yourself sitting down transfixed and watching video footage of U.S. bombs hitting Iran. You see children ripped limb from limb, mothers screaming and wailing, people panicked, tortured, traumatized, and killed. Imagine asking yourself at that point: What was I doing these past many months that I thought was more important than preventing this?
Now ask yourself today: What am I doing that is more important than ending the ongoing hell of the U.S. occupation of Iraq?
Are
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By David Swanson
What if Senator John McCain were forced to choose an extremely and increasingly unpopular position and stand by it for months as it became less and less popular?
No, I don’t mean his support for a permanent occupation of Iraq. Nobody forced him to take that position, and Senator Barack Obama is not exactly taking optimal advantage of it. Were Obama opposing the occupation, committing to filibuster further funding, promising to prosecute the architects of the war, devoting
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