OpEdNews - Diary: SADDAM STILL DEAD; ADD ANOTHER "MILESTONE" TO THE LIST

'... Bush said: "Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself"'

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Excerpted from: http://www.alternet.org SADDAM STILL DEAD; ADD ANOTHER "MILESTONE" TO THE LIST Joshua Holland I, along with Jonathan Weiler and a few others have been keeping track of the many turning points proclaimed by the preznit since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. ... Bush said: "Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself" That was, by my reckoning, the sixteenth "turning point" or "milestone" (along with one chance to "turn the tide" and a "watershed event") in the last three and a half years. [snip] http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#46097 _________________________________ Here again - unvarnished truth from Riverbend, in case you missed it: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ _________________________________ [NEWSDISSECTOR] Out With the Old, In With the New http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/01/01/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/ _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org House Democrats Object to Florida Election Outcome http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107G.shtml Democrats said Friday that they would open the new Congress by formally objecting to the election result in Florida's 13th District, in the hope that the Democrat who is contesting the narrow outcome there will ultimately take the place of the Republican whom the state has certified as the winner. --- FOCUS | Marc Ash: Puppet Kills Puppet http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107Y.shtml Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash examines the hypocrisy that led the US to prop up Saddam Hussein in the early 1980s, writing that "as long as Saddam obediently protected and facilitated the economic and territorial interests of the American (and European) colonialists who backed him, his ruthlessness was their profit, and clearly tolerable." --- FOCUS | Time to Reflect as Iraq Toll Hits 3,000 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107Z.shtml Perhaps no place illustrates the toll of the Iraq War more vividly than Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. In this "garden of stone," in ruler-straight rows, rest one-tenth of the Iraq War's American dead, whose number has reached 3,000. --- Cindy Sheehan | 3,000 Dead: So Who's Counting? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107A.shtml Peace activist Cindy Sheehan writes on the hours leading up to the death of the 3,000th US soldier in Iraq: "As I was lying on a freezing-cold floor, dressed in black and white prison stripes in Waco, Texas, the other night, feeling sorry for myself for a minute, I thought of our brave young people in Iraq whom corporate greed has sentenced to a prison of a war that is turning more nightmarish by the minute, and I didn't feel so bad. As Bloody BushCo are contemplating escalating the mayhem, I know that many groups and communities are already planning candlelight vigils. However, candlelight vigils will not stop 3,001 or 3,002 - and saints forbid that we will be mourning number 4,000 sometime too soon in the too-near future." --- US Peace Groups Rally After 3,000th Soldier Killed http://snipurl.com/16be2 --- GOP Lawmakers Divided About "Surge" in Troops http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107C.shtml Republican lawmakers appear uneasy about - and in some cases outright dismissive of - the idea of sending many more troops to Iraq, as President Bush contemplates such a "surge" as part of his new strategy for stabilizing the country. --- Due Process for Detainees Lacking Under New Gitmo Panel http://snipurl.com/16be8 --- 1,373 Miles Into the Heart of Afghanistan http://snipurl.com/16beb _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ Anti-Aging Molecule Discovered The team, headed by Prof. Kim Tae-kook at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, argued the newly-synthesized molecule, named CGK733, can even make cells younger. Posted Jan 1, 2007 10:15 AM PST | Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH It is my theory that is a true anti-aging drug or process were discovered it would immediately be classified by whatever government was in charge and reserved to the use of the super-elites, simply because mass use of such a drug or process would accelerate the already serious over-population problem. http://snipurl.com/16bju ----- In US, rallies against Saddam's execution "The execution of Saddam Hussein is a clear sign that the Bush administration is looking not to negotiate a way for the US to leave Iraq, but is instead sending a signal that it will continue the war and escalate it despite the impending disaster," the International Action Center said in a written statement. Posted Jan 1, 2007 08:05 AM PST Category: IRAQ If in fact there is a "surge" to troop strength in Iraq, watch for it to become permanent, not temporary. http://snipurl.com/16bk5 _________________________________ http://jablankfort@earthlink.net Sadism Dept: Israel announces new restrictions on foreigners in West Bank If this new regulation remains in effect, the Israelis will have succeeded in keeping foreign nationals from visiting the West Bank and expressing their solidarity with the Palestinians on providing material assistance and reporting on what they see there. The criminals want no witnesses to their crimes. JB >> Israel announces new restrictions on foreigners in West Bank Rashid Hilal, PNN + IMEMC editor - Saturday, 30 December 2006, 06:32 http://snipurl.com/16atl ----- GAO: America's Red Ink The largest employer in the world announced on Dec. 15 that it lost about $450 billion in fiscal 2006. Its auditor found that its financial statements were unreliable and that its controls were inadequate for the 10th straight year. On top of that, the entity's total liabilities and unfunded commitments rose to about $50 trillion, up from $20 trillion in just six years. If this announcement related to a private company, the news would have been on the front page of major newspapers. Unfortunately, such was not the case -- even though the entity is the U.S. government. To put the figures in perspective, $50 trillion is $440,000 per American household and is more than nine times as much as the median household income. [snip] Continued >> http://snipurl.com/16ato ----- YNET: Israel must count on Hillary and Democrats to attack Iran. This article implies that Tira is well aware of the American Jewish Lobby's power over the Democrats. - JB What to do with Iran? We must coordinate independent strike with US, prepare for Iranian response Oded Tira EXCERPT - "...President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure. We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran..." http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net Send 500,000 Impeachment letters to Nancy Pelosi by her first day as speaker of the House http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/351407.shtml Pass this on please. We need to make it clear we want Bush and Cheny Impeached! ..................snip.................... We already have more support than that. When John Conyers took Bush his petition demanding he answer questions about the DSM, it had 540,000 singnatures, over ten times as many as wrote about Nixon. I would bet most of those people would write to demand impeachment of Bush, probably more. The great thing is, now we have someone to focus this demand on who can and possibly will act in spite of her protests to the contrary. She should have a half million signatures waiting for her her first day as Speaker of the House. I think she and the many of the Democrats want to do this, but to overcome the reluctance of the DC etablishment and big money interests who are afraid their ox will be gored along with Bush & Cheney, she needs constant overwhelming evidence of public DEMAND not just support for impeachment. Fax or snail mail the letter below or your own variation to: FAX: 202-225-8259 | Nancy Pelosi, 2371 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515 District Office: 450 Golden Gate Ave., 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 Emails are nice, but letters and faxes make a physical pile that form a powerful visual, and that should be Pelosi opening her door and being buried by letters. CC a copy to your congressman too. You can find their address here: http://www.house.gov / ..................snip................ Most of my list is paraphrased from the one found at ImpeachBush http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/351407.shtml ----- From: MSantom629@aol.com To: corvuswire@verizon.net AOL shut me down at RePorterNoteBook.... Hello, AOL shut me down at RePorterNoteBook....After 7 years of bulk mailing privileges they decided not to renew my bulk mailing privilege. Instead of just doing that they shut down my whole account! Which I think is extreme! 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Iraq The punishment of Saddam Hussein for the deaths of 148 persons, albeit in a manner that civil society ought to find repugnant, raises compelling questions: - Who will be held accountable for sending 3,000 US troops to their deaths in Iraq, for a war based on lies? - Who will be held accountable for the deaths of over 655,000 innocent Iraqi civilians during the course of this illegal war? - Where is the two trillion dollars that this war is going to cost coming from? - When will Congress be held accountable for having voted to go to war? - When will Congress be held accountable for continuing to fund a war, and for abandoning our troops to a conflict that cannot be won militarily? http://www.kucinich.us _________________________________ Walk for Change: January 3rd and 4th in Washington DC Sean Penn Demands Impeachment Sean Penn received the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from The Creative Coalition on December 18, 2006, in New York City, and called for impeachment. 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