CodePink is working hard to bring more youth, students, and people of color out to the One Nation Working Together march as part of a contingent for peace. This action is part of our larger Bring Our War $$ Home Campaign. On average each soldier costs $1,000,000 per year while $10,000 is spent on the average high school student. The billions spent on waging wars abroad would be better served re-building America's aging infrastructure and shifting our nation towards an economy based on quality education and sustainability, i.e. green industries and technology.
Warmonger Tony Blair Launches New Book By Nancy Mancias Removing Saddam will be a blessing to the Iraqi people. Four million Iraqis are in exile; 60% of the population dependent on food aid. Thousands of children die every year through malnutrition and disease. Hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes or murdered. -Prime [...]
President Obama mentioned a soldier from the Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, who stated that he wished those who are no longer here could have seen the withdrawal.
In last week's LA Times, Ned Parker reported comments from the same Army 4th Brigade. One soldier, as they passed an Iraqi field said, "Saddam really hid those WMD well." Everyone laughed. Another said, "I have no faith in people whatsoever. Put two people in a room with a hammer and one of them will wind up dead." Parker's article is a cautionary tale that President Obama does not have the stomach to tell. He loves the troops, but like a father who can't admit that his son is in deep trouble and it may be from his parenting, neither Obama, Bush, nor the Pentagon will ever admit the deepest wound we have inflicted on our best and brightest. It is one thing to say a war is difficult and cost billions - it is not going well - it may not be won. It is quite another to admit to over 1.5 million volunteer soldiers as over 400,000 have already filed medical claims, that there was no mission, except to come home.
Secretary Hillary Clinton allows cameras to document peace talks: Photos via Yahoo!/AP: Full Transcript (Script): PEACE CHARADE – A “Peace Talks” Parody Location: In Front of White House Setting Side-by-side: To the far right, standing around or sitting at a desk: Netanyahu Clinton in the middle Abbas To the far left, behind bars, in a [...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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