2007/05/31

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Iraq is more than just an election issue!


clipped by: ouyangwulong
clippers remarks: At this point we really should be asking ourselves: what is the real objective of the Bush administration? Is he actually trying to win the war? Or simply trying to keep it going until he is out of office?

Isnt the troop surge perfect evidence of this? The new strategy amounts to nothing more than simply committing more men and material to the problem without a significant re-evaluation of our overall strategy, or its shortcomings.

Unfortunately, the impractical Democrat bill on spending, and their quick retreat from that position also seems to suggest that many Democrats think that an ongoing war in Iraq might be a convenient election issue next year.

I will vote for no candidate who plays politics while peoples lives are on the line.
Clip Source: iht.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON: For me, the saddest spot in Washington is the inverted V of the black granite Vietnam wall, jutting up with the names of young men dying in a war that their leaders already knew could not be won. So many died because of ego and deceit - because LBJ and Robert McNamara wanted to save face or because Henry Kissinger wanted to protect Nixons re-election chances.

Now the Bush administration finds itself at that same hour of shame. It knows the surge is not working. Iraq is in a civil war, with a gruesome bonus of terrorists mixed in. April was the worst month this year for the American military, with 104 soldiers killed, and there have been about 90 killed thus far in May. The democracy is not jelling, as Iraqi lawmakers get ready to slouch off for a two-month vacation, leaving our kids to be blown up.



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2007/05/30

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Scientists find bird flu antibody


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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans have been isolated by an international team of scientists.
The discovery could lead to treatments that complement flu vaccines in the event of a human epidemic of the virus.
But scientists working in Switzerland, Vietnam and the United States say they have isolated antibodies that they hope could offer protection against several different strains of the virus simultaneously.
Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Switzerland, says the antibodies have already proven effective in the lab and in mice and he is confident that they could be used in humans.
"We in a way exploit the immune response of an individual who has been infected and has survived the infection and of course has made antibodies that neutralise these viruses," he said.
A chicken farm north of Cairo, Egypt 28/04/07
Its hoped human trials of the bird flu antibody could begin soon


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2007/05/29

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An on-the-ground endictment of our Iraq strategey...


clipped by: ouyangwulong
clippers remarks: I dont want to abandon the Iraqi people. But I am a realist, not some day-dreaming jingoist who thinks this is all just one more rosy Rambo movie. The truth is that we have had a critical failure of leadership, and no one is stepping forward to fill that void.

Right now we dont know who were fighting, and we dont know why they are fighting us. Until we can understand these two questions, there is no way we can begin to answer the question of how to eventually end this war. Unfortunately, no presidential candidate is even asking these questions, which to me signifies that they do not have an Iraq strategy and are not interested in developing one. Thats a shame.

The Democrats who compare this war to Vietnam should remember another part of that analogy: Nixon took and held his office on promises to get us out of Vietnam, but with no new ideas about the conflict, he only got us in deeper. This could happen to the Democrats as well if they arent careful.
Clip Source: www.iht.com

BAGHDAD: Staff Sergeant David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents.

"In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place," he said. "There was no sectarian violence, Saddam was gone, we were tracking down the bad guys. It felt awesome."

But now on his third deployment in Iraq, he is no longer a believer in the mission. The pivotal moment came, he says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bombers body, they found identification showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army.

"I thought, What are we doing here? Why are we still here? " said Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "Were helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us."



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2007/05/25

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Vietnam Pullout


clipped by: mushmaster25
clippers remarks: When you make the choice to go into war, make sure you understand what some of the fallout could include. Terrible mistakes have been made in the past, and we should not just continue to make them. Vietnam has been over for a long time and yet I still see the vets that "broke" over there.

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2007/05/20

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Why the Democrats cant stop the Iraq war


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clippers remarks: To finish the point: "If they are able to meet these benchmarks, the Democrats (and Bush, for that matter) could declare victory. If they dont meet these benchmarks, then the Democrats could claim that we helped the Iraqis enough that they should have been able to meet these guidelines. This would warrant the claim that the Iraqis lack the will to engage in useful nation building and thus the failure is theirs not ours.Bush cannot accept this proposal because Bush knows that the Democrats will claim forever that he and the party that supported him got us into an unwinnable war."

Interesting points made re: US not being accustomed to defeat; too long to clip, go to the source
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Sen. Aikman once famously said of the war in Vietnam that we should just declare that we have won and leave. Why the hell not?
The lesson of Vietnam was that we shouldnt get into foreign wars in which you can not tell the enemy from the good guys and where the enemy can melt into sanctuaries in the jungle or desert sands or wherever, sanctuaries which they can use for R & R and resupply.
The problem is that Iraq turned out to be not only just like Vietnam in that enemy and friend look alike and that the bad guys were able to melt into the cities and desert just as the Vietnamese melted into the jungles, but was even worse in that there was an unseen potential for serious sectarian violence. This has turned into an unwinnable war. Too bad Bush didnt order our troops to leave after he proclaimed "Mission Accomplished." That way the US could have had a victory.
Democrats are trying to stop the war
the proposal that we set firm benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet on certain dates.


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2007/05/15

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Fuzzy Baghdad Math


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2007/05/05

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Tape reveals order to shoot Vietnam protestors


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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk
� 37-year-old recording of Kent State killings found
� National Guard always denied order to fire

Listen to the order to shoot given by the Ohio National Guard
� National Guard always denied order to fire
The command, as Alan Canfora heard it on a 37-year-old audio recording recently discovered in a government archive, appeared to leave no room for doubt. "Right here. Get set. Point. Fire." Then came 13 seconds of gunfire. When it ended, four students were dead and nine injured, and the shootings at Kent State University became engraved in Americas collective memory as one of the most painful days of the Vietnam era.
Yesterday, Mr Canfora, who was among the nine students wounded on that day, demanded a new investigation into the shootings at Kent State in Ohio, saying it was time to settle conclusively what led the contingent of National Guard troops to open fire on unarmed student protesters.
Kent State University
Four students were killed and nine injured at Kent State University on May 4 1970.


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Vietnam Memorial: Out Of The Past


clipped by: photowriter
clippers remarks: To me it looks like the long haired guy is materializing out of the wall. Sort of strolling back through a bad time.


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