2008/08/22

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The McCain Worldview

clipped by: masbury
clippers remarks: an irrational mélange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters
Clip Source: www.alternet.org

McCains Warped Worldview


The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the 10 French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and the U.S. governments imminent nationalization of much of the American mortgage-lending industry, would seem to deny such a rosy scenario, then that only shows skeptics lack the courage that sustained McCain as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.


There you have it encapsulated, the McCain campaign for president, an irrational mélange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters

Vote for McCain and forget about funding to solve the Social Security, Medicare and subprime mortgage disasters or for anything else that truly would make America stronger.

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McCain turns Bush on Iraq war surge

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clippers remarks: Here is a man of conviction and depth who has proven over decades of service that he puts honor duty and country ahead of his own ambitions and safety.

Sen. John McCain, who watched from a prison camp as America failed to deploy the overwhelming force necessary to win the Vietnam War, seized the moment after Republicans lost Congress in 2006 to push President Bush not to make the same mistake.




Mr. McCain sent a private letter to Mr. Bush on Dec. 12, 2006, that challenged the president to show the "will" to win the Iraq war by deploying 20,000 troops into Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle to beat back a growing insurgency.


The letter was the climax of a 3 1/2-year effort to persuade the president to send more troops to Iraq. The former Navy pilot, who had his arms repeatedly broken during nearly six years of captivity, couched his argument in the terms born of the Vietnam War.


Mr. Bush, who had resisted Mr. McCains call for a troop surge for years, now praises him for persisting in his argument that expanding the war in Iraq was the way to win it.


And now that the surge has worked, it proves that Johns judgment was correct.


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Another fellow POW remembers McCains cross story

clipped by: n2sooners

Yesterday, I talked to Bud Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who was in a POW cell with John McCain in Vietnam. At the end of our conversation, I asked him about the cross-in-the-dirt controversy. He said he hadnt heard of any controversy. So I asked: When was the first time you heard McCain tell this story? His response: "I heard that story in 1970, 1971?back in that time frame. Anybody who says its not true is full of..." Here he used some salty language.



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2008/08/21

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The Young Turks: "Did John McCain Lie About His P.O.W Record?"

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey
clippers remarks: I firmly believe that the generation of politicians that came to power before the age of YouTube and the like are going to find themselves bitten in the ass over and over again.

Theyve gotten used to changing their stories over and over, and up until now no one was paying attention.
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Did John McCain Lie About His P.O.W Record?

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

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clippers remarks: What a bunch of ass-fucks BushCo is, John McSame included.
In all the discussion of John McCains recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

Agabuse

According to the Bush administrations definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush

These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely "enhanced interrogation."

No war crimes were committed against McCain.

so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects.

When they are used against future John McCains, the victims will know,

that their own government has no moral standing to complain.


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Glitter returns to UK next week part 2

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clippers remarks: Glitter returns to UK next week
Clip Source: newsvote.bbc.co.uk

Police interview

The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.

A spokeswoman said: "When it is known that a sex offender convicted in another country is to be deported to the UK, he is met at the port of entry by police who interview him and pass any relevant information to the police in the area in which the offender is proposing to live.

"Offenders convicted of sexual offences whether in the UK or overseas may be monitored under multi-agency public protection arrangements."

She said there was no automatic requirement for offenders returning to the UK to be added to the sex offenders register.

Glitter was convicted of possessing child pornography in the UK in 1999 and served half of a four-month jail sentence.

He later went to Cambodia, which permanently expelled him in 2002.

In a recent interview with Vietnams Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper, Glitter said he intended to resume his singing career and might move to Singapore or Hong Kong.



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Glitter returns to UK next week part 1

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clippers remarks: Glitter returns to UK next week
Clip Source: newsvote.bbc.co.uk
Glitter returns to UK next week

Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain on Tuesday after serving 27 months in prison in Vietnam for child molestation, his lawyer has said.

Le Thanh Kinh told news agencies that the disgraced rock star, real name Paul Gadd, would be free to go wherever he wanted after returning to the UK.

Glitter, 63, was convicted in 2006 for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12.

The Home Office said anyone convicted of sex offences overseas would be met by police on arrival and interviewed.

Former glam rocker Glitter has been held since November 2005. His three-year sentence was cut last year under a national amnesty.

His lawyer told Reuters news agency: "My client will have to board a flight to London, his ticket has been bought by the authorities here.

"After he lands in London, hes free to go wherever he wants."



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Zogby has McCain up by 5

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.


McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obamas solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.


McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election.


That margin reversed Obamas 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain, an Arizona senator and former Vietnam prisoner of war who has admitted a lack of economic expertise and shows far greater interest in foreign and military policy.



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Why I Wont Vote For John McCain by a fellow POW

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As some of you might know, John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways. But there are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President of the United States.


I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate.


I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button.



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2008/08/20

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vietnam bread

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Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain

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clippers remarks: "I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button."

"It is also disappointing to see him take on and support Bushs war in Iraq, even stating we might be there for another 100 years. For me John represents the entrenched and bankrupt policies of Washington-as-usual. The past 7 years have proven to be disastrous for our country. And I believe Johns views on war, foreign policy, economics, environment, health care, education, national infrastructure and other important areas are much the same as those of the Bush administration."

"Im disappointed to see John represent himself politically in ways that are not accurate. He is not a moderate Republican. On some issues he is a maverick. But his voting record is far to the right. I fear for his nominations to our Supreme Court, and the consequent continuing loss o
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John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine

But there are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President of the United States.

John allows the media to make him out to be THE hero POW, which he knows is absolutely not true, to further his political goals.

John was awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart for heroism and wounds in combat.

there were approximately 600 military POWs in Vietnam

Silver Stars - 590

Purple Hearts - 1,249

he was one hero among many

Succeeding as a POW is a group sport, not an individual one.

I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate.

I believe Johns age (73) and survival expectation are not good for being elected to serve as our President for 4 or more years.

I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head


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2008/08/19

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War Made Easy

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clippers remarks: War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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NYT: McCain Cheated at Saddleback

clipped by: Wisco
clippers remarks: Team McCain responds:

"The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," [Nicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for McCain] said.
And thats pretty much it -- McCain was a POW and that makes it somehow impossible for him to cheat. Im not sure thats so logical. Still, its one more example of McCain using his Vietnam experience as a political crutch. It should also be not that the NYT and the Obama campaign arent the same thing -- its also an accusation, not an "insinuation."

Expect a lot more of these non-responses in the future.
Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
Senator John McCain was not in a ?cone of silence? on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at the Saddleback Church in California.



Members of the McCain campaign staff, who flew here Sunday from California, said Mr. McCain was in his motorcade on the way to the church as Mr. Obama was being interviewed by the Rev. Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book ?The Purpose Driven Life.?

The matter is of interest because Mr. McCain, who followed Mr. Obama?s hourlong appearance in the forum, was asked virtually the same questions as Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain?s performance was well received, raising speculation among some viewers, especially supporters of Mr. Obama, that he was not as isolated during the Obama interview as Mr. Warren implied.


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2008/08/17

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The Extreme-Right Way To Make A Buck

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clippers remarks: "Actually, its a little darker than that. Corsi doesnt just belong to the rights conspiratorial wing, he belongs to its racist, white-supremacist fringe. Over the last couple of years, hes written disparagingly about Muslims, Catholics and Jews, not to mention gays and lesbians. Muslims are "ragheads," the pope is "senile" and tolerates "boy bumping," and Jews ... well, you can imagine.

The fact of the matter is, though, that Corsi doesnt so much aspire to participate as he does to profit.

n former years, Americans ideology was influenced by their participation in the economy. To put it crudely, businesspeople tended to find a home in the Republican Party, working men and women in the Democratic Party. Today, we have a new class, one to which Corsi and his ilk belong, whose business is their ideology."
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"The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," occupies a class of its own. Corsi, you may recall, was the coauthor of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," the campaign diatribe that slimed the decorated Vietnam War veteran and then-Democratic presidential candidates war record.

Corsi is frank about his motives for writing "The Obama Nation." As he told the New York Times this week: "The goal is to defeat Obama. I dont want Obama to be in office."

Thats clear enough from the text. You can pretty well sum the whole thing up this way: The Democratic candidate is a deceitful jihadist drug addict who, if elected, plans to impose a black supremacist, socialist regime.

Whats far more interesting is how somebody like Corsi suddenly becomes a player in a presidential campaign.

If the music you seem to hear playing in the background sounds familiar, its because ... yes, youve crossed over into the Twilight Zone.


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2008/08/16

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"Tropic Thunder" Comedy Mocks Hollywood And Movie-Makers

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clippers remarks: To save the movie, director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) decides to shoot it documentary-style, with his actors improvising in the jungle. But that idea also goes awry, and the gun-toting actors find themselves up against a drug lord and his minions real guns.

The premise is amusing, though the actual plotting doesnt always make sense, especially when the actors have to face the real-life villains.

And as it goes along, the pleasure is not so much from character development as a series of set pieces, such as African-American Chinos view of Lazarus vision of an African-American, or Grossmans attempts at crisis management.

Indeed, Cruise may be the funniest thing in the movie, although he gets competition, notably from Downey and from Jay Baruchel as Kevin Sandusky, the non-star in the acting ensemble. And movie buffs will have fun picking up on the allusions to other films, especially Apocalypse Now.
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Ben Stiller (left) and Robert Downey Jr. portray actors starring in a Vietnam movie in ``Tropic Thunder.



Tropic Thunder is loud, tasteless and crude. It is also funny for the most part, and very knowing about the way Hollywood views the world.


Indeed, the movies skewering of Hollywood is crucial to any assessment of its use of stereotypes.


But Tropic Thunder is in its way sympathetic to the very people criticizing it. The whole point of Simple Jack is that an actor ? in this case Tugg Speedman, the character played by Tropic Thunder director Ben Stiller ? will use the most extreme stereotypes in playing a disabled person, just to win awards.


But its interesting to hear such an extended discussion of how part of Tropic Thunder is perceived when so much of the movie is about perception ? including how filmmakers perceive their audiences, how actors perceive themselves and even how audiences perceive what they see on screen.



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2008/08/15

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Miss World Final Moved From Ukraine Over Georgia Conflict

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This years Miss World final in Kiev has been cancelled amid fears that Russia may turn its military might on the Ukraine.

The 120 contestants were due to compete at the Ukraina National Palace on October 4.

But the event has been called off and a new host country is being sought, the Daily Telegraph has learned.

In a statement, the organisers said: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, it was with deep regret that the decision was taken to postpone the Miss World 2008 Final. This decision was taken in the interest of contestants and the Miss World Organisation."

A new venue and date will be announced next week, the statement added. Nha Trang in Vietnam is being considered as a last-minute alternative.


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Long Tan awards right for vets: PM

clipped by: tabsey
clippers remarks: I didnt agree with the Vietnam War, but have been saddened by the response to the Vets. Even shunned by Returned and Services League. They have had to fight for recognition and acceptance. This will help.
Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it is right to finally recognise the heroism of Australian troops against overwhelming odds in the Battle of Long Tan.


The officer who commanded the troops in the bloody Vietnam War conflict, Harry Smith, and two of his fellow officers of D Company 6 RAR are to receive gallantry awards for their actions 42 years ago.


Surviving veterans of the battle will be able to wear a unit citation recognising their bravery, the federal government has announced.


Mr Smith, a major at the time of the battle, has been offered the Star of Gallantry, the nations second-highest military honour behind the Victoria Cross.


Former lieutenants Dave Sabben and Geoff Kendall will be offered the Medal for Gallantry, equivalent to the Military Cross.


Mr Rudd said today he believed it was right to finally recognise their service.


"These are veterans who are getting on," Mr Rudd said.



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Aug 15: Obon (Japan) / Chung Yuan (Taiwan) / Vu Lan (Vietnam) Festival

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clippers remarks: In Christian cultures, All Saints Day, celebrated on November 1st, the day after Halloween, is the equivalent day.

In Mexico, they mark Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos in Spanish) -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Eric "Calendarwallah" Snyder
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Bon Festival

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It is celebrated in honour of their deceased ancestors. Japanese light lanterns and hold circular folk dances. Vietnamese call it Vu Lan. Chinese name it Chung Yuan or Feast of Lonesome Souls where food is laid out and money is burnt for the souls.
Obon
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Obon (??, Obon?) or just Bon (?, Bon?) is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of ones ancestors. This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars. Also called the Feast of Lanterns, it has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon-Odori.

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Calif. lawsuit challenges McCain candidacy

clipped by: tabsey
clippers remarks: After some of his statements abut Obamas heritage, McCain would have to follow his own suggestions.
Personally, the law wrong, but it is there.
Maybe it is part of the move to get Arnie into the White House.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A John McCain presidency would be illegal because the Arizona senator was not born in the United States, says a lawsuit filed this week by the American Independent Party.


The minor party says it wants McCains name removed from ballots in California because federal law would bar the former Vietnam War POW from taking office were he to be elected in November, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.


Article II of the U.S. Constitution disqualifies McCain from assuming office because he was born in the Commonwealth of Panama in 1936, while his father was stationed at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, the lawsuit contends.


The American Independent Party claims it will be "irreparably harmed by Senator McCains illegal and illegitimate presence on the ballot." The plaintiffs in the case want McCain enjoined from running for president.



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East vs West

clipped by: pascual
clippers remarks: globalist

Between 1598 and 1894, there were only three brief wars that involved China ? the 1659-60 and the 1767-71 wars with Burma, and the 1788-89 war with Vietnam, as well as two wars that did not involve China ? the Siamese-Burmese wars of 1607-18 and of 1660-62.

Indeed, insofar as China is concerned, we should speak of a 500 years? peace since, in the 200 years preceding the 1592 Japanese invasion of Korea, China was at war with other East Asian states only during the invasion of Vietnam in 1406-28 to restore the Tran dynasty.


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2008/06/16

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Cluster Bombs- Israel-US-China-Russia

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clippers remarks: There is enough un-exploded ordinance in the world to blow us all to bits
Photo Essay: Legacy of a War

During the Vietnam War, tiny Laos became the most bombed country on Earth. Three decades later, its people are still living with the bombs left behind.

The toll of war: A woman in the village of Na Phat rings a U.S. bombshell used as a bell outside a small primary school. During the war in Vietnam, U.S. airstrikes turned neighboring Laos into the world?s most heavily bombed country per capita.

Photo: HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images



Bomb garden: Vegetables grow from a half empty U.S. bombshell at the home of a family in the village of Na Phat. In 1964, the United States launched what became a nine-year series of airstrikes in Laos. The operation was aimed at stopping the Viet Cong, but by the end, a total of 1.9 million tons of bombs were dropped on the country of less than 4 million people.



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2008/06/15

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DUBIOUS QUALIFICATIONS

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clippers remarks: Reporters found her brother, but he refused to comment. Miller then
explained the brother she was referring to was "not my blood brother,"
and refused to provide his name. Voters werent impressed with her
denials and explanations: Miller was defeated in her reelection bid.
(Dallas Morning News) ...Wait! It sounds like she has mastered the
primary attribute of the career politician!
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DUBIOUS QUALIFICATIONS: Carrollton, Texas, Mayor Becky Millers
 interesting list of claimed accomplishments was investigated when she
 ran for reelection. Her campaign materials say she went to Western
 Kentucky University, but the university has no record of her. She said
 she was a backup singer for Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, and was
 engaged to Eagles singer Don Henley. When all said they didnt know
 Miller, she claimed they were mistaken. "Maybe I was going by a
 different name," she said. "Did you think about that?" Miller has said
 she had a brother who was killed in the Vietnam war. After her father
 said that his son is still alive, and never fought in Vietnam, Miller
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Drop Weapons

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clippers remarks: Video would not clip. It will take some time to load. But is well worth looking at.


http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1463341016/bctid1584805268
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Ernie1812

Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 14:54:33 PM



Drop Weapons
By  David Murdock on Jun 02, 2008

Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using "drop weapons" to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. We feature five veterans and current members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, plus retired Lieutenant Colonel Gary Solis, a Vietnam War veteran and legal scholar who taught "Law of War" at West Point.

Wondering what you all think of this. I mean it happens, perhaps more in some units then others, but we know it happens.  



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DUBIOUS QUALIFICATIONS

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clippers remarks: Reporters found her brother, but he refused to comment. Miller then
explained the brother she was referring to was "not my blood brother,"
and refused to provide his name. Voters werent impressed with her
denials and explanations: Miller was defeated in her reelection bid.
(Dallas Morning News) ...Wait! It sounds like she has mastered the
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DUBIOUS QUALIFICATIONS: Carrollton, Texas, Mayor Becky Millers interesting list of claimed accomplishments was investigated when she ran for reelection. Her campaign materials say she went to Western Kentucky University, but the university has no record of her. She said she was a backup singer for Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, and was engaged to Eagles singer Don Henley. When all said they didnt know Miller, she claimed they were mistaken. "Maybe I was going by a different name," she said. "Did you think about that?" Miller has said she had a brother who was killed in the Vietnam war. After her father said that his son is still alive, and never fought in Vietnam, Miller claimed her father has Alzheimers and "He cant remember tomorrow."


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