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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips My Lai marks massacres 40th anniversary clipped by: wiccantexan Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com Lawrence Colburn returned to My Lai on Saturday and found hope at the site of one of the most notorious chapters of the Vietnam War. On the 40th anniversary of the massacre of up to 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers, the former helicopter gunner was reunited with a young man he rescued from rampaging U.S. soldiers. On March 16, 1968, Colburn found 8-year-old Do Ba clinging to his mothers corpse in a ditch full of blood and the bodies of more than 100 people who had been mowed down. Nearly all the victims were unarmed women, children and elderly. Seymour Hersh, the journalist who exposed the massacre, said he sees parallels between My Lai and a more recent story that he has he reported on, the 2005 images of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But he says the public furor unleashed by My Lai was far greater. The companys soldiers began shooting in My Lai that day even though they hadnt come under attack. It quickly escalated into an orgy of killing. Tags: war, vietnam, civilian-killings zum Artikel... Anzeige St.Patricks Day FOUR, lest you forget. clipped by: righthand clippers remarks: ?As a mother who knows the preciousness of children, not just mine - but all children - I want the court to understand that before we walked into the recruiting station a million people had already died in Iraq from U.S. imposed sanctions, half of them children,? her sister Clare said earlier that day at her sentencing in Binghamton federal court. I wanted to show my support for the actions of the St. Patrick?s Four (SP4). But nearing the end of a short but concentrated tour of presentations in New York?s capital area, I?d nearly decided not to venture to Binghamton for the sentencing of the group. After arriving there I quickly realized it would have been a big mistake not to have come. ?War is bloody. The blood we brought to the recruiting station was a sign of the blood inherent in the business of the recruiting station,? read the statement the group issued the day of their action, ?The young men and women who join the military, via that recruiting station, are people whose li Clip Source: www.countercurrents.org Saint Patrick?s Four By Dahr Jamail 30 January, 2006 The date is March 17, 2003. St. Patrick?s Day and just two days before U.S. bombs began raining down on Baghdad, 40 year-old Teresa Grady, her older sister Clare, Daniel Burns and Vietnam veteran Peter De Mott decided to take action against the impending illegal Anglo-American invasion of Iraq The group of Catholic Workers from Ithaca, New York, known as the ?St. Patrick?s Four,? entered an Army-Marine Recruiting Center and poured their blood on the walls, recruiting posters and an American flag in an act of non-violent civil resistance to what they knew already was to be the first of countless violations of international law the Bush Administration would commit during their invasion and occupation of sovereign Iraq ?We are about caring for the poor, needy and disenfranchised,? Teresa told me to sum up what the Catholic Worker movement was about, ?We do this while confronting the political and economic structures that cause poverty.? Tags: irish, war, iraq, invasion, usa, history zum Artikel... Soft Shoe In Hard Times clipped by: debbyski Clip Source: www.nytimes.com Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. ?You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,? he said. ?If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it?s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.? Dude, you?re already in the ditch. Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems. The former oilman reacted with cocky ignorance a couple of weeks ago when a reporter informed him that gas was barreling toward $4 a gallon. If only they could see things as the president does. Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is ?a little envious? of their adventure there, saying it was ?in some ways romantic.? Tags: he, laughs, all, on, the way, to, the, bank zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de