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By Cindy Sheehan

Instead of working overtime to see which party can exploit US troops better and harder than the other, (their pretend opposition and political playacting is exactly like watching pretend wrestling on TV where two "foes" spit epithets at each other and then fake-wrestle for a faker prize) Pelosi, et al, should be burning the midnight oil to craft a humane solution to what has become the Democrats' as much as the Republicans' problem.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19947.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/polner/polner23.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/17/9026/



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz

CNN says that "A soldier used the Quran - Islam's holy book - for target practice, forcing the chief US commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051808E.shtml

Congress votes down war funding bill; Veterans Against the War testify.
http://tinyurl.com/3no6rl



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

"I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told AFP. "I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old, he added.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080516/ts_alt_afp/usiraqmilitaryprotest


From Information Clearing House

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US soldier refuses to serve in “illegal Iraq war”

Breitbart

05/16/08

Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love. ‘I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,’ the now 24-year-old told AFP. ‘I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,’ or around 16 years old, he added. Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant. He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq. On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war...

http://tinyurl.com/5u3xp9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Special Comment By Keith Olbermann - Video and Transcript

The war in Iraq, your war, Mr. Bush, is about how you accomplished the derangement of two nations, and how you helped funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to lascivious and perennially thirsty corporations like Halliburton and Blackwater, and how you sent 4,000 Americans to their deaths for nothing.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19936.htm



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Jeremy Scahill writes a review for Truthout of John Cusack's new film, "War, Inc.": "Back in 1989, in his smash hit, 'Say Anything,' John Cusack famously stood with a boom box above his head outside the home of the woman he loved blasting Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes.' With his latest films on the Iraq war, Cusack is standing outside Hollywood with a TV above his head broadcasting his political movies calling on the public to wake up and 'Do Something.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608R.shtml



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Gene Johnson, of The Associated Press: "A Justice Department team has traveled to Iraq to investigate the fatal shooting of an Iraqi guard by a security contractor, hastening the resolution of questions about whether US attorneys can prosecute him, an official said Thursday. The contractor, Andrew Moonen of Seattle, was fired by Blackwater USA but never prosecuted and eventually given an overseas job by another contractor. The shooting outraged Iraqis, who questioned how an American could go free under such circumstances."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608K.shtml



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