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Sunday, January 22, 2006 |
GlobalResearch: "Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of 'Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!
Terry Jamison, Department of Veterans Affairs, recently reported that 'Gulf Era Veterans' now on medical disability, since 1991, number 518,739 Veterans."
The fallout for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be even greater. And all this for the profits of a wealthy class of chicken hawks.
12:15:56 PM 
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Perdana Global Peace Forum: "If we cannot trust the democratically elected to secure peace than whom can we trust? Democracy has failed to ensure that good people are elected as leaders of the world. Instead blatant liars and war mongers and the oppressors of the weak readily get re-elected. The choice of leaders are of course the right of their own people. But what these elected leaders do affect us all, the people of the world. They literarily have the power of life and death over us.
The reality of this is made clear when the leaders of these powerful countries arrogate to themselves the right to change the governments of independent nations. They talk openly of effecting Regime Change. And they want to do this even if they have to subvert Governments, apply sanctions, invade countries, kill its people, destroy towns and cities and precipitate civil wars. They talk of pre-emptive wars and they openly legislate to legitimise their aggression.
In any society killing is a crime, a very serious crime deserving of the most severe punishment. It is called murder. Long ago we had prohibited duelling, i.e. the killing of your opponent as a way to settle disputes. It was not a fair way because it is not the righteous who would win but the skilful. And rogues can be more skilful than the righteous and the just.
But today we still train people to fight and kill in what amounts to duels between nations. The winner would be the best trained killers with the best weapons, not the forces of right, the forces of justice. If duels are allowed to settle disputes in society, then the best duellists, the best killers will eventually fill up society and lead it.
Killing is habit-forming. That is why there are serial killers. War, the killing of people is just as habit-forming. Having killed a few thousands, killing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands would come naturally, especially for those giving the orders.
It is necessary for us to describe the horrors of war, the killings and the destruction so that peace will become more meaningful and desirable, so that we would want to struggle for peace. The route that we must take, seeing that most of the warmongers are elected to office in the great democratic countries is to make as many members of the electorate as pro-peace and anti-war as possible. Peace must be made by the majority of the electorate the main issue in every election."
12:09:22 PM
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LATimes: "Taking direct aim at Roe vs. Wade, lawmakers from several states are proposing broad restrictions on abortion, with the goal of forcing the U.S. Supreme Court - once it has a second new justice - to revisit the landmark ruling issued 33 years ago today."
If Alito is appointed in the Supreme Court you can be sure there will be no place for pro-choice. The minority extreme right will impose its own dictates on the majority of Americans.
11:54:34 AM
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