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Woodward Also Reveals That Political Fears Kept War Strategy Review 'Under the Radar'

By Steve Luxenberg

During the interviews with Woodward, the president spoke of the war as part of a recentering of American power in the Middle East. "And it should be," Bush said. "And the reason it should be: It is the place from which a deadly attack emanated. And it is the place where further deadly attacks could emanate."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20691.htm

Yahoo! News

09/04/08

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a ‘task that is from God.’ … In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it ‘God’s will.’ … Palin told graduating students of the church’s School of Ministry, ‘What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys.’ As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she’d work to implement God’s will from the governor’s office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.” [editor’s note: This is a dangerous woman - MLS]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_iraq_war



What’s the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists?

Lipstick
Salon
by Juan Cole

09/09/08

Palin has a right to her religious beliefs, as do fundamentalist Muslims who agree with her on so many issues of social policy. None of them has a right, however, to impose their beliefs on others by capturing and deploying the executive power of the state. The most noxious belief that Palin shares with Muslim fundamentalists is her conviction that faith is not a private affair of individuals but rather a moral imperative that believers should import into statecraft wherever they have the opportunity to do so. That is the point of her pledge to shape the judiciary. Such a theocratic impulse is incompatible with the Founding Fathers’ commitment to tolerance and democracy, which is why they forbade the government to ‘establish’ or officially support any particular religion or denomination...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message

Gloria Steinem, The Los Angeles Times: "Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing - the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party - are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women - and to many men too - who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes."

http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-wrong-woman-wrong-message

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Kill a Polar Bear for Heaven
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis122.html

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Tell The Media to Call Sarah Palin a Serial Liar
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/cd475e754ebe0497?hl=en

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Stop, In the Name of God

By Mamoon Alabbasi

Earlier this month, the Iraq war, arguably the biggest mass murder expedition of the twenty-first centaury, was branded by Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin as a "task that is from God."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20769.htm



Is Sarah Palin's God a Liar and a War Criminal?

By Ed Ciaccio

I doubt any Christian, or any believer in God, for that matter, would claim that the supreme international war crime of waging aggressive war, especially one based on lies, was "a task that is from God." So is Sarah Palin deluded, ignorant, or just pandering to the worst, most extreme elements in our country?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20772.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Founding+Fathers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crim
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ed+Ciaccio

Friday on Bill Moyers Journal, "Bill Moyers Journal gives viewers an intimate look at how deployments of National Guard troops to Iraq affect the state governors' ability to respond swiftly to domestic disaster at home and impact families left behind. Traveling to New Jersey, the Journal follows families preparing for the deployment of nearly half of New Jersey's National Guard to Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/article/deploying-iraq



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deploying+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/02-2

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US-Iraqi Agreement: Leaked

By Raed Jarrar

This leaked draft is a treasure of information. It's the first time any document related to this topic is made public. It shows how weak the Iraqi negotiations team is (it is really pathetic to read their "suggestions" on how to fix the disaster of an agreement).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20671.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+long-term+presence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raed+Jarrar

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods95.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/woods

By Jacob G. Hornberger

If Iraq really is a sovereign and independent country, then why does it have to negotiate anything with the United States, including an exit date for U.S. troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20633.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

Paul Von Zielbauer, The New York Times: "In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two of the soldiers said in sworn statements."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-soldiers-executed-iraqis-statements-say



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Von+Zielbauer

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/22-1

Sadrists Denounce Emerging US-Iraq Deal
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/22-10

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Iraqis voice opposition to security deal

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and a slew of other lawmakers Friday condemned the long-term security deal reached with the United States. "I renounce the humiliating agreement between Iraq and the United States," Jaafari said in a statement.

http://tinyurl.com/6bl2t9



Sadr denounces U.S. withdrawal plan

Iraq's government spokesman, Ali Dabbagh, reiterated Friday that any departure of U.S. troops was "subject to Iraqi national security" and that the dates are hypothetical. The final departure date "will be jointly set" by Iraq and the United States, he said, downplaying suggestions that the draft was the final deal.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_10283802?nclick_check=1


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadrists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Sadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+deal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+deal

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger150.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/hornberger

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/21-25



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+war+funding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Gallagher