All gave some. Some gave all. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. People wander amongst the crosses at the Arlington West Iraq war memorial display on beach next to the Santa Monica Pier. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
if you knew anything about the morning after pill, you would know that
it doesn't cause an already implanted embryo to be aborted, rather it
prevents implantation at all if there even is an fertilized egg to
begin with. ergo, no abortion & no "murder", by your standards.
Rep. Jack Murtha speaking on the massacre in Haditha, including footage
from Iraq with an interview of a 9 year old child who was the lone
survivor of one of the murdered Iraqi families. The video then ends
with Murtha's appearance on Hardball.
Rep. Murtha touches
on many of the problems with the war, and for the troops. I think it's
also worth noting that before this war, the Marines were never used for
long-term fighting the frontlines of battle.
The chilling aspect of this story is that it happened over a period
of several hours, so some of the killing wasn't in the heat of the
moment.
It is an example ( I hope! I assume!) of aberrant behavior, but the
aberrant behavior is what people notice, not the routine stuff.
Murtha linked it to stress over extended tours and inadequate
troops. I don't know if this particular incident is related to those
factors or not. There is another pattern which, while less publicized ,
is probably worse in terms of the success of our involvement in Iraq:
the lack of routine positive contact between Americans and Iraqis. In
Assassin's Gate the writer describes the extraordinary, noble efforts
of American service people to rebuild basic services in neighborhoods
and the way that kind of interaction with Iraqis forged the kind of
links which could have contributed to the successful development of a
pro-American government in that country.
Unfortunately he also
describes how those efforts where underfunded and unsupported by the
Bush administration and how lack of troops, money, and support
eventually undercut those sorts of efforts. As time when on and the
troops got more stressed and more isolated, the routine, ordinary
interactions between troops and Iraqis became more fear based and
hostile. The policy now is to pull troops back to bases, leaving the
Iraqis to literally fight things out themselves. This policy, it seems
to me, will guarantee that further encounters between Americans and
Iraqis will be hostile and fearful and quite likely more trgedies will
occur.. It is a de facto admission of failure. We can't help in a
situation where our peple and theirs can't interact cooperatively.
I wanted to share this video with you. It was made by a woman Lisa and she posted it on the C&L's Late Night Music Club, which has a great video up by Peter Gabriel. The music in this video is also by Peter Gabriel and the title is "Here Comes the Flood."
Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life...
I wonder about the death toll in New Orleans. Will we ever know the
accurate death toll? After the great fires and earthquake of San
Francisco in 1906 the government and big business intentionally lied
about the death toll because they wanted investors and people to stay
in the city.
The
Norwegian Special forces are actually one of the absolute elite top
special forces in the world. They have a very good reputation on their
skills, knowledge and experience.
However, these on this video are not special forces. These are soliders
from the Telemark Bataljon. But they are skilled soliders. By far.
