MissionNotAccomplished focuses on the "AfterDowningStreet" opportunity

[understandinglife]

MNA Day 1 was May 2 2005.

We urged everyone to stop and remember and reflect on how each of us could begin to inform our government that Bush’s illegal war on Iraq must stop.

By saying ‘Day 1,’ we simply recognized that a persistent effort, not merely an event, would be required.

Since May 2 2005, we have observed MNA Day 2 and 3 and, now, 4. Each of those days represents our acknowledgement that 22 additional US soldiers have been killed in Bush’s war on Iraq – a total of 67 and we have not yet reached the end of the month of May, 2005.

We have two nonviolent options to force an end to Bush’s war on Iraq.

One is economic – a concerted effort to halt work and diminish the flow of capital. For the moment, we do not have the mechanisms to mobilize those types of sanctions.

The other is legal – a concerted effort to demand that those whom we have elected do their duty and investigate, indict and prosecute Bush and the members of his administration who lied to the American public, deceived the international community, launched a pre-emptive attack on another Nation and has persisted in occupying that Nation.

Congressman Conyers and AfterDowningStreet.org have begun to mobilize our fellow citizens to move along that path.

Accordingly, MissionNotAccomplished will now focus all of its messaging on building support for Congressman Conyers’ efforts to have Bush respond to the questions he and 88 other members have asked regarding the recently released “Downing Street memo.”

The mechanisms we intend to use include monitoring for each report of the death of another US soldier in Iraq, and posting a comment in this (and subsequent) threads with information, to the extent available, about that soldier.

We request that as many of you as possible spread the word to all you know that another fellow citizen has been killed and that they should call, write, email their Congressional representatives and demand that Bush respond to the Conyers inquiry. In other words, we will memorialize each death by a surge of email, phone calls, faxes, postcards, and letters demanding Bush be accountable.

We will be posting additional suggestions as to how to expand the effort to force Bush to respond to Conyers and we encourage all of you to be creative and share your thoughts with us.

If we are able to reach millions, if we are able to help Congressman Conyers achieve and exceed the 100,000 signatures he is seeking then, if still necessary, we may be better positioned to begin organizing concerted economic consequences.

We certainly encourage leaders and citizens from around the world to consider what they can do, economically, to inform Bush and his neoconster gang that their occupation of Iraq must stop.

The link to the letter Congressman Conyers requests we sign is:

http://www.johnconyers.campaignoffice.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={0F1B03E0-080B-4100-B143-36A5985EF1E3}

The link to “AfterDowningStreet.org” is:
www.afterdowningstreet.org

And, a related post here at DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3736375

Peace.


MissionNotAccomplished will continue to urge all our fellow citizens to realize that we will have no ‘moral authority,’ no credibility as a democracy, no pretense to being a civilization until “We The People …” stop the atrocities and rectify the misery and destruction perpetrated on the citizens of Iraq by a pack of liars who just happen to be members of the Executive and Legislative branches of OUR Federal Government.

Peace and Thank you for your brave commitment to America and humanity.


References:

The original post for MissionNotAccomplished Day at DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3476986

'Mission Accomplished' Two Years Later- A Photo Essay
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3581511




www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[BamaBecky]

1. kicked!

[understandinglife]

155. ALERT EVERYONE: 26 soldiers have been reported dead since Monday, ...

June 6 2005.

That is 26 in less than 6 days.

All of you understand the implications. The corporate news media continue to suppress the truth and the implications of the truth.

All the more reason to extend the signatures on Congressman Conyers letter into the millions.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

184. NOTICE: I will strive to expand this thread ...

.... until Bush and his fellow war criminal neoconsters stop killing Americans, Iraqis and others who happen to be located in the region they are attempting to convert into an oil source and logistical infrastructure for waging perpetual war in the Middle East and points North, South, and East. And the same applies to the associated MNA focused thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3885693

Peace.



www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[savannahana]

186. kick for the truthtelling people of integrity

who met in a basement broomcloset two days ago:

their courage, dignity, and determination compel our relentlessness.

thank you again, UL, for helping so much to keep us moving on this path :thumbsup: :toast:

:kick: :bounce: :kick: :patriot: :kick: :bounce: :kick:

[understandinglife]

189. Thank you! And, Frank Rich focuses on the reality of just how not ...

...accomplished Bush's illegal war on Iraq is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3892388&mesg_id=3892388


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

191. ALERT EVERYONE: 20 days of June; 56 dead due to Bush's lies

In the first 20 days of June, 56 American soldiers have perished in Iraq due to the premeditated, illegal and totally immoral actions of Bush, Blair and their fellow neoconster criminals.

The beginning of a diary of just how illegal, and just how many legal experts warned of the illegality of Bush, Blair and the neoconsters actions can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3885693


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT AND PROSECUTE BU$H AND ALL HIS FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS

[understandinglife]

204. "More Than A Number" blog. Excellent effort.

http://www.morethananumber.org/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - IT'S THE LAW, EVERYONE.

[understandinglife]

228. USA Today: Pace of troop deaths up in Iraq

Pace of troop deaths up in Iraq

More lost since hand-over than in the year before it

Page 1A

By Rick Jervis
USA TODAY

BAGHDAD — U.S. military deaths in Iraq increased by about one-third in the past year, even as Iraq established its own government and assumed more responsibility for battling the insurgency.

At least 882 U.S. troops died in the 12 months through Thursday, up from 657 in the preceding year, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Defense Department numbers. Iraqis assumed sovereignty a year ago this week, part of a U.S. strategy to lessen the visibility of U.S. troops and shift more responsibility for security to Iraq forces.

<clip>


“The insurgency is shifting all the time,” Maj. Gen. William Webster, commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad, said recently. “This is a learning enemy.”

More at link:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050701/1a_lede01.art.htm

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus
REMIND US

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

231. Since "Mission Accomplished": 1607 dead American soldiers

Since "Mission Accomplished" - 1607
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

That fact alone, that evidence of massive failure of leadership, should be enough to drive Bu$h from office. If he were the CEO of any corporation and failed that horribly, he'd have been fired months ago.



http://www.newsparkproductions.org

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[EFerrari]

2. I'll send the Conyers link to the L.A. & SF Greens and post

at the MoveOn Forum. Great work, Understandinglife.

:kick:

[DearAbby]

4. Kick....To Honor the fallen and end the occupation of Iraq

:kick:

[fooj]

3. kicked and recommended!

:patriot:

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Kicked and recommended! WE WILL NOT LET THIS BE SUPPRESSED

These deaths and all the other deaths and horror of the war don't matter at all to the criminals who have stolen our country and now greedily prepare to steal still more from the rest of the world.

But we will MAKE them matter.

We have to be MORE than squeaking wheels in the silence of the compliant media, we have to SHOUT loud enough for the country, the world to hear! "Let Freedom Ring" indeed!

OUR VOICES WILL TAKE UP THE VOICES OF THE FALLEN and fight to prevent more killings and maimings and torture.

[hiley]

6. Kick and recommend we can not let up

We must stop this illegal fucking war and impeach dictator bush.
Every step is vital now, we are making a difference many together in solidarity can stop the PNAC members from completely destroying everything .

[understandinglife]

7. No stopping us now.

Please consider this my small contribution to truly remembering all those who gave their precious and only life to save and strengthen the republic, our dear America.

We will not fail them and we will not fail to provide an even better America for those yet to be born, for all of humanity.

Peace and thank you.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

8. As long as the Dictator & PNAC are in power I will post this over &again

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed,inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004 http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/torture.htm
http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/slideshows/0...

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism
http://www.ericblumrich.com/14.html

Depleted Uranium Weapons use has to be stopped immediately, the use of these weapons is a War Crime.

Look at the pictures on this link I provide and know this is happening to American children as well, just not in such great numbers as those of Iraqi children.

These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."

http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

"You Must be the Change you Wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

http://www.gandhiproject.org/project/project.html


Thank you understandinglife for your outstanding patriotism and quest for the truth!
solidarity
hiley

In honor of all who have served for our Country including my deceased father
Sgt.Clinton R. Brake, M.P.
Uncle Charles E. Brake
Uncle Marvin Donald Brake,
r.i.p. all of you....
all served over 20 years a piece.

[bear425]

17. Thank you UL for all you're doing. You are a real patriot. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

9. kicked and nominated.

[understandinglife]

10. We begin with Ricardo Crocker, Mathew Lourey & Randy Collins

Source:
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Mathew Lourey, Chief Warrant Officer, US Army, 41.
Ricardo A Crocker, Major, US Marine Reserve, 39
Randy D Collins, Sgt First Class, US Army, 36

Additional information on Major Crocker:

Santa Monica Police Officer Dies In Iraq
10-Year Veteran Cop Killed In Grenade Attack

POSTED: 3:57 pm PDT May 27, 2005
UPDATED: 4:13 pm PDT May 27, 2005

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A 10-year veteran Santa Monica police officer was killed during his second tour of duty in Iraq, it was announced Friday.

Officer Ricardo A. Crocker, 39, was killed Thursday in the Al-Anbar province in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, Santa Monica police Chief James T. Butts announced.

Crocker was a captain (Major) in the Marine Corps Reserves when he was hired onto the Santa Monica police force in 1995. He had since been promoted to major.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4542398/detail.html

Will post details on Mathew Lourey & Randy Collins as they are available.

Our work begins.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[puebloknot]

50. British soldier killed, age 21

1838 05/29/05 Brackenbury, Alan Lance Corporal 21 British Army The Kings Royal Hussars Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack Al Amarah (25 mi S of) East Riding England UK

[understandinglife]

56. In memory....3 named, 5 unnamed.

Scott, Joshua Michael Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) 28 U.S. Army

Maida, Mark A. Sergeant 22 U.S. Army

Brackenbury, Alan Lance Corporal 21 British Army

The five "NAME NOT RELEASED YET" fellow citizens, will have their names recorded here, as soon as they are available.

Who were you Mark and Alan and Joshua.

Who are your friends, now crushed; your families, now wrenching with the agony that your voice, your smile, all of you, will never be with them again.

Who are you 'name not yet released'? At this moment, a sister, a grandmother, a son, a ...., crumbles with the news of your loss.

We crumble, too. We never knew you, but we will not forget.

We will rebuild the republic in your honor.

We will never be spectators, again and watch our Constitution be trashed by evil men and women only concerned with their wealth and their power.

Until each citizen in a democracy accepts their responsibility for what happens, we will never have that democracy.

We must stop being spectators. We must hold our government accountable and prosecute those who have lied; those who have used the lives of Joshua, Alan, Mark and so many others merely to leverage their personal wealth and control.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

93. We mourn the loss of 5 more dear American soldiers

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Langmack, Steven M. Sergeant 1st Class 33 U.S. Army
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002297387_langmack03m.html

Ramos, Miguel A. Sergeant 39 U.S. Army Reserve

Edmundson, Phillip C. Specialist 22 U.S. Army

Case, Virgil R. Staff Sergeant 37 U.S. Army National Guard

Niedermeier, Louis E. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

95. Additional information on PFC Louis Niedermeier

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/03/Tampabay/Largo_soldier_dies_in.shtml
And, a very special DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3781294

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

185. Total now at 1717 American soldiers killed by Bush's lies

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1717
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

77. We mourn these dear, dedicated soldiers - 9 more dead due to Bush's lies:

Barnhill, Michael S. 1st Sergeant 39 U.S. Marine Reserve

Sayles, Phillip N. Specialist 26 U.S. Army

Smart, Albert E. Lieutenant Colonel 41 U.S. Army Reserve

Cortes III, Victor M. Staff Sergeant 29 U.S. Army

Downs, William Major 40 U.S. Air Force

Fresques, Jeremy Captain 26 U.S. Air Force

Argel, Derek Captain 28 U.S. Air Force

Crate, Casey Staff Sergeant 26 U.S. Air Force

Starr, Jeffrey B. Corporal 22 U.S. Marine
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002294741_starr01m.html

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

78. The agony extends to four families in Italy; due to Bush's lies:

Lima, Giuseppe Tenente Colonnello 39 Italian Army

Briganti, Marco Capitano 33 Italian Army

Biondini, Massimiliano Maresciallo Capo 33 Italian Army

Cirillo, Marco Maresciallo 29 Italian Army

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

86. June 2nd 2005: Two additional US Army deaths - names not yet posted

Will post as soon as available.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

87. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1666

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1666
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

92. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1669

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1669
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

101. Mercifully, 24 hours has past and I've not had to report another fatality.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

107. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1670

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1670
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Details posted as soon as available.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

109. In memory of:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3788018&mesg_id=3788018

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

110. NAME NOT RELEASED YET Not reported yet U.S. Army Task Force Liberty

Will provide details as soon as they are available at:
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

116. Name released: We mourn Colonel Ted Westhusing.

Westhusing, Ted Colonel 45 U.S. Army Civilian Police Assistance Training Team


U.S. Army Col. Ted Westhusing, senior advisor for the Counter Terrorism Special Operations training program, April 14, 2005 (Photo:Sandra Jontz / S&S)
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=&article=27608&archive=true

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

113. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1672

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1672
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We have all the evidence of mendacity and illegal war-making we need to indict and prosecute Bush, Blair and every other neoconster scum-bag on the planet having any involvement in the Bush's illegal war on Iraq and all the torture and other atrocities that have been committed since August 2002.

[understandinglife]

117. The wonderful smile of Spec. Carrie L. French, 19, is now gone ...

.... except in photos:

http://vh10503.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=G0&Date=20050606&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=50606009&Ref=AR&Profile=1002&MaxW=500&title=1&Maxh=400&Q=80
Spec. Carrie French died Sunday in an explosion in Kirkuk, Iraq. She was serving with the 116th Brigade Combat Team.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/NEWS01/50606009

Bush and his neoconster buddies have killed another fine American with their greed, their lies and their illegal occupation of Iraq.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

119. We mourn the loss of four more of our fellow citizens & brave soldiers

Poelman, Eric, 21 U.S. Army

Ulbrich, Scott, 23 U.S. Army

And two US Marines, name and other details not yet reported

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Will post further details as soon as they are available.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

124. Today we mourn the loss of 8 of our brave soldiers

Vasquez, Justin L. Staff Sergeant 26 U.S. Army

Mininger, Robert Lance Corporal 21 U.S. Marine

Smith, Jonathan Lance Corporal 22 U.S. Marine

Romines, Brian 20 U.S. Army National Guard

NAME NOT RELEASED YET Not reported yet U.S. Army 42nd Infantry Division

NAME NOT RELEASED YET Not reported yet U.S. Army 42nd Infantry Division

NAME NOT RELEASED YET Not reported yet U.S. Army 1st Corps Support Command

NAME NOT RELEASED YET Not reported yet U.S. Army Task Force Liberty

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We support Apian's goal of 10,000,000 signatures on Congressman Conyers letter by June 21, 2005; make it happen! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/6/214643/6438

[understandinglife]

134. We add the names of two of our lost wonderful soldiers

Allen, Lou E. 1st Lieutenant U.S. Army National Guard

Crowe, Terrance Lieutenant Colonel 44 U.S. Army Reserve

Peace.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

145. We add one more name to this tragic list

Burri, Eric T. Specialist 21 U.S. Army

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

125. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1677

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1677
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We support Apian's goal of 10,000,000 signatures on Congressman Conyers letter by June 21, 2005; make it happen! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/6/214643/6438

[understandinglife]

133. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1685

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1685
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

151. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1692

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1692
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

These are lives.

Lives that will never be, again.

These are lives that Bush and the neconsters must be held accountable.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us/

[understandinglife]

153. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1698

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1698
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties

And the corporate news media continue to suppress the truth about Bush's war on Iraq.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

156. 12 Additional names of our fallen, brave fellow citizens.

Esposito, Phillip T. Captain 30 U.S. Army National Guard Headquarters & Headquarters Co., 42nd Infantry Division

Fasnacht, Michael J. 1st Lieutenant 25 U.S. Army 1st Bat., 15th Infantry Reg., 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Div.

Tucker, Marc Lucas Lance Corporal 24 U.S. Marine 9th Engineer Spt. Bat., 3rd Force Serv. Spt. Group, III MEF

Arizola Jr., Roberto Sergeant 31 U.S. Army 297th Military Intelligence Bat., 513th Military Intel. Brig.

Kashmer, Douglas E. Private 1st Class 27 U.S. Army 70th Transportation Co.

Edwards, Mark O. Staff Sergeant 40 U.S. Army National Guard 2nd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment

Birch, Dustin V. Lance Corporal 22 U.S. Marine Reserve 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division

Chavez, Daniel Lance Corporal 20 U.S. Marine 1st Tank Bat., 1st Marine Div., I Marine Exped. Force
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/228102_iraq11.html

Keeling, Thomas O. Lance Corporal 23 U.S. Marine Reserve 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Div.

Seymour, Devon Paul Lance Corporal 21 U.S. Marine Reserve 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Div.

Squires, Brad D. Corporal 26 U.S. Marine Reserve 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Div.

Murray, David Joseph Sergeant 23 U.S. Army National Guard 1088th Engineer Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team

As I add each name, I say their name, aloud. I do this task slowly because all I have to offer each of these now dead fellow citizens is the privilege to know the sound of their name since I will never have the privilege of meeting them.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

163. Am awaiting release of names for 5 US Army and 2 US Marine ...

... deaths in Bush's illegal war on Iraq.
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Will post as soon as the information is available.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

162. American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1702

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1702
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

164. We honor and mourn 2 US Marines

Kilpela, Andrew Lance Corporal 22 U.S. Marine Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Div., II MEF

Castillo, Mario Alberto Lance Corporal 20 U.S. Marine Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Div., II MEF

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

165. Names of 4 more who have died because of Bush's lies.

Lee Sr., Terrance D. Specialist 25 U.S. Army National Guard 150th Combat Engineer Bat., 155th Brigade Combat Team

Arnold Sr., Larry R. Sergeant 46 U.S. Army National Guard 150th Combat Engineer Bat., 155th Brigade Combat Team

Prince, Neal Sergeant 1st Class U.S. Army assigned to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Exped. Force

Mattek Jr., John J. Lance Corporal 24 U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. Armd Recon Bat., 2nd Mar. Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

[Ellipsis]

198. John Mattek Jr. Rest in Peace

Over 1000 people attended his funeral in Antigo WI.


There are 8560 people living in Antigo



39 dead from WI. How many fallen soldiers from your state?

[understandinglife]

207. Mourning the death of Sgt Arnold; one of the victims of Bush's deceit

Larry Arnold Jr. is overcome with emotion during the funeral for his father, National Guard Sgt. Larry Arnold Sr., at Mill Creek Cemetery in Carrier, Mississippi. Arnold was killed in Iraq.
(Photo: Matthew Bush / AP)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - IT'S THE LAW, MY FELLOW AMERICANS

[understandinglife]

166. The name of another soldier who lost their life because of Bush's lies

Byers, Casey Specialist 22 U.S. Army National Guard 224th Engineer Battalion

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

167. We sadly add another name to the list of those killed by Bush's lies

Mattek Jr., John J. Lance Corporal 24 U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. Armd Recon Bat., 2nd Mar. Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

168. Bush's treacherous lies = 1706 American soldier deaths

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1706
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us -- NEW MNA WEBSITE POSTED

[understandinglife]

171. 2 more American deaths due to Bush's heinous war on Iraq - Total: 1708

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1708
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

172. Names of American and Bulgarian lives lost because of Bush's lies

Kuhns Jr., Larry R. Sergeant 24 U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Reg., 2nd Infantry Div.

Kinslow, Anthony D. Specialist 21 U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Reg., 2nd Infantry Div.

Kamov, Tsvetan Stoyanov Junior Sergeant 25 Bulgarian Army

Georgiev, Paun Stoyanov Junior Sergeant 30 Bulgarian Army

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

174. Total of American death due to Bush's lies is now 1713

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1713
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

178. Names of 7 more of our brave soldiers who have died because of Bush's lies

Hayes, Michael Ray Private 1st Class 29 U.S. Army National Guard 617th Military Police Company

Klinger, Joshua P. Private 1st Class 21 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

Clemons, Nathan Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Marine Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Div., II MEF

Flores, Jonathan R. Lance Corporal 18 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

Jaime, Jesse Corporal 22 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

Trovillion, Tyler S. Corporal 23 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

Whitley, Dion M. Lance Corporal 21 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

181. 1715 lost lives due to Bush's lies

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1715
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

182. The names of 2 more brave fellow citizens who have died due to Bush's lies

Baez, Cesar O. Petty Officer 2nd Class 37 U.S. Navy - assigned to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Exped. Force

Cometa, Anthony Specialist 21 U.S. Army National Guard - 1864th Transportation Company

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

187. 1720 dear fellow citizen soldiers are dead because of Bush's lies

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1720
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

188. Names of 3 who would still be alive except for Bush's lies

Maynard, Chad B. Lance Corporal 19 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

Heldt, Erik R. Lance Corporal 26 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

Maloney, John W. Captain 36 U.S. Marine 1st Bat., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Div., I Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

190. Bush's criminal actions has now yielded 1722 dead American soldiers

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1722
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

192. Lt Noah Harris: dead due to Bush's premeditated illegal war on Iraq

Harris, Noah 2nd Lieutenant 23 U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division (Task Force Liberty)

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT AND PROSECUTE BU$H AND ALL THE OTHER WAR CRIMINALS

[understandinglife]

193. Lance Corporal Adam J Crumpler: dead because of Bush's lies.

Crumpler, Adam J. Lance Corporal 19 U.S. Marine 3rd Bat., 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

194. 1724 dead because of Bush's premeditated, illegal war of aggression

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1724
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES OF MURDER AGAINST BU$H AND HIS FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS

[understandinglife]

195. Corporal William A Long - killed because of Bush's lies

Long, William A. Corporal 26 U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

196. Master Sergeant Robert M Horrigan - dead because of Bush's lies

Horrigan, Robert M., Master Sergeant, 40, U.S. Army Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Operations Command

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE....MUST FILE CHARGES AGAINST THE WAR CRIMINALS; IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[understandinglife]

199. The names of 2 more who have died because of Bush's illegal war on Iraq

Kilpatrick, Christopher R., Private 1st Class, 18, U.S. Army, 603rd Transportation Co., 142nd Corps Support Bat.

Milev, Marin Milev, Corporal, 24, Bulgarian Army

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[understandinglife]

201. 1726 dead American soldiers. War criminal Bush still not in jail.

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1726
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Norman Mailer

God's Chosen Envoy for America

In the wake of all the fluvial funereal obsequies that the media attached to Ronald Reagan's earthly departure, I felt obliged to remark that he had been the most overrated president in American history and the second most ignorant. Then I added -- how could I not? -- guess who is the most ignorant? Half the audience applauded; the other half were outraged and groaned in true patriotic pain. Since George W. is not only a horse's ass, but vain and platitudinous to boot, it can hardly escape us that he is also serving (with all due inner incandescence) as God's chosen envoy for America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/norman-mailer/gods-chosen-envoy-for-am_2986.html

Peace.


WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[understandinglife]

202. Bush's deceit has now killed 1728 American soldiers

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1728
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[understandinglife]

203. Specialist Hoskins and Idalski: dead because of Bush's illegal war

Idalski, Nicholas R., Specialist, 23, U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Reg., 2nd Infantry Div.

Hoskins, Christopher, Specialist, 21, U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

205. Sgt Stewart & Spec Vaughn - now dead because of Bush's lies

Stewart, James D., Sergeant, 29, U.S. Army, 57th Transportation Company, 10th Mountain Division

Vaughn, Brian A., Specialist, 23, U.S. Army, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Reg., 2nd Infantry Div.

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush neoconster regime who participated in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq, should be a campaign promise of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

208. 1734 dead American soldiers; Bush still not in jail. Why?

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1734
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

http://www.bartcop.com/1569.htm


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, MY FELLOW AMERICANS.

[understandinglife]

209. Sgt Duplantier & Cpl Powell have died because of Bush's lies

Duplantier II, Arnold, Sergeant, 26, U.S. Army National Guard, 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment

Powell, Chad Corporal, 22, U.S. Marine, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Members of Congress, from left to right, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) head down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, June 16, to deliver petitions demanding President Bush tell the truth on Downing Street Memo evidence that he lied to sell the Iraq war to the American people. http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7266/1/275

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - One question, my fellow Americans, "Why is Bush not already in jail?"

[understandinglife]

210. 1735 American soldiers have now died in Bush's illegal war on Iraq

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1735
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - My fellow Americans, one simple question, "Why has Bush not yet been indicted?"

[understandinglife]

211. Names of 3 brave soldiers whose deaths were caused by Bush's lies

Charette, Holly A., Lance Corporal, 21, U.S. Marine Headquarters Bat., 2nd Marine Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

Tackett, Joseph M., Sergeant, 22, U.S. Army, 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery Reg., 3rd Infantry Div.

Pineda, Carlos, Corporal, 23, U.S. Marine, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Div., II Marine Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

229. Lance Corporal Holly Charette; became a US Marine after 9/11. Dead ....

....now, because of Bu$h's lies.


NBC 10 Image Lance Cpl. Holly Charette:
http://www.turnto10.com/news/4652009/detail.html

"Holly was a happy girl and loved by all of us and everyone she knew. Holly always looked at the positive side of everything. She wanted to become a Marine after 9-11. She wanted to do something for her country. And she was a very proud Marine. We are all missing a part of our hearts without her here," said Charlene Wheetman, Charette's aunt.

As are all of us, Ms Wheetman.

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

212. Petty Officer 1st Class Regina Clark -- Dead Because Of BU$H's LIES

Clark, Regina, Petty Officer 1st Class, U.S. Naval Reserve, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - One question, my fellow Americans, "Why is Bu$h NOT ALREADY IN JAIL?"

[understandinglife]

215. Hometown news about single mother and soldier, Regina Clark

Iraq war claims first woman from Washington state

By Hal Bernton

Seattle Times staff reporter

Naval Reservist Regina Clark already had done two tours of active duty since 9/11, and friends thought it unfair that this single mom from Centralia should have to leave behind an 18-year-old son and serve again.

More at link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002349229_iraqmom27m.html

Let's 'frame this' OK:

A single mom dies because of the lies of a rich guy who went AWOL and is now committing heinous war crimes, trashing international law, and destroying our Bill of Rights.

Are We The People going to permit such actions to continue?

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

213. 1738 dead American soldiers: Bu$h STILL NOT IN JAIL. We've got a problem.

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1738
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections should have filed charges against Bu$h and the neoconsters before March 19 2006.

[understandinglife]

216. Pfc Veashna Muy is dead because of Bush's lies.

Muy, Veashna, Private 1st Class, 20, U.S. Marine, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Div., II Marine Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections should have filed charges against Bu$h and the neoconsters before March 19 2006.

[understandinglife]

217. 1742 dead American soldiers. Bu$h still not in jail. Why?

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1742
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Members of Congress, from left to right, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) head down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, June 16, to deliver petitions demanding President Bush tell the truth on Downing Street Memo evidence that he lied to sell the Iraq war to the American people.

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7266/1/275

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections should have filed charges against Bu$h and the neoconsters before March 19 2006.

[understandinglife]

218. We honor Cpl Ramona Valdez - Dead Because of War Criminal Bu$h's lies.

Valdez, Ramona M., Corporal, 20, U.S. Marine, Headquarters Bat., 2nd Marine Div., II Mar. Exped. Force

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - A simple question, my fellow Americans, especially since you are so fanatically committed to displaying the 10 commandments -- "When did Jesus Christ authorize mass murder, torture, rape and destruction of homes, farms and places of worship?"

[understandinglife]

219. Bush's lies have now killed Specialist Kaufman and Sgt 1stClass Phelps

Phelps, Christopher W., Sergeant 1st Class, 39, U.S. Army, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment

Kaufman, Charles A., Specialist, 20, U.S. Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

221. Bu$h lies have now killed 1743 American soldiers

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1743
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

222. The names of 3 American soldiers who have died because of Bu$h lies

Coutu, Matthew S., 2nd Lieutenant, 23, U.S. Army, 64th Military Police Co., 720th M.P. Bat., 89th M.P. Brig.

Shephard, Steve, Warrant Officer, 30, U.S. Army, Task Force Baghdad

Mariotti, Keith, U.S. Army Task, Force Baghdad
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

223. 1744: Bu$h continues his illegal occupation; Americans continue to die

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1744
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Quick question, my fellow Americans, "Why is Bu$h not in prison?"

[understandinglife]

226. Specialist Robert Hall -- dead because of Bu$h's Lies

Hall Jr., Robert E., Specialist, 30, U.S. Army Reserve, 467th Engineer Battalion
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

http://www.newsparkproductions.org



Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

227. 3 more dead soldiers. Bu$h continues to lie; continues his illegal war.

Hornedo, Manny, Sergeant, 27, U.S. Army National Guard, 1569th Transportation Company

Mercer, Chad, Sergeant, 25, U.S. Army National Guard, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment

Carrillo, T. J., Specialist, 21, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Division
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

230. Signaller Paul W Didsbury. Dead because of Blair and Bush's lies.

Didsbury, Paul William Signaller 18 British Army 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support)
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

232. 1745 fine American patriots have been killed by Bu$h's lies

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1745
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

233. July 4 2005 we mourn the loss of a soldier from El Salvador - Bush's lies

...kill, far and wide. Though the name has not yet been released, we are informed today of the death of a member of the El Salvadoran Army serving in Iraq.

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

The evil of Bu$h and his neoconster imperialists know no bounds.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT AND PROSECUTE BU$H AND ALL THE OTHER WAR CRIMINALS

[understandinglife]

234. 1746 American soldiers dead because Bu$h keeps lying and occupying

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1746
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

235. Bu$h's criminal imperialism has now killed 1748 American soldiers

American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 1748
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

236. Spec Montgomery & Staff Sgt Brown: Dead Because Of BU$H's LIES

Montgomery, Ryan J., Specialist, 22, U.S. Army National Guard, 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment

Brown, Jeremy A., Staff Sergeant, 26, U.S. Army, 66th Military Intelligence Co., 3rd Armored Cavalry Reg.

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

11. Request.

I will be offline from early Saturday until sometime on Monday. If one or more of you can monitor the site, below, and post should the tragedy of yet more persons being added to the list (starting with ID # 1836), I would appreciate it.

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

Thank you.

Peace.

[puebloknot]

14. I'll watch the site

I will check that site and post names of additions, should there be others in the next few days.

Rest yourself, body, mind, spirit. You devote a lot of yourself to the cause of peace.

Yours very truly,

J. Knot :):thumbsup:

[understandinglife]

18. Thank you very much.

Peace.

:yourock:



Mr Lucas, it has happened.
We must now rebuild America and never again forget.

[puebloknot]

32. Another Soldier Lost in Iraq

1836 05/27/05 Maida, Mark A. Sergeant 22 U.S. Army 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry

Condolences to his friends and family, and to the country he might have enriched, had he lived past age 22.

[BigBearJohn]

12. First thing we need to get our Senators and Representatives onboard

and DEAN. MAJOR letter writing campaign. First and foremost we have to let our reps know we mean BUSINESS

[Mnemosyne]

13. kicked

[EFerrari]

15. Our opportunities to truly make a difference are limited

only by our imagination.

(((((((((DU))))))))))

[understandinglife]

19. In_deed! And, if our imaginations need motivating, we do not have...

.... to look far for compelling inspiration.



A flag is presented to Colin Lovell, 2, the son of Lance Cpl. Jourdan Grez. (Andrea Bruce Woodall/Post)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - beyond stopping the atrocities and prosecuting the criminals we must nurture a culture of constant participation in the affairs of the republic so that 2 year olds are not being handed a persistent reminder that their parent is dead. Our Constitution was not written for spectators.

[understandinglife]

20. Ironic, on the day 2 y/o Colin Lovell is handed a flag, we learn that....

.... two "analysts" who clearly failed, have been amply rewarded each of the past three years with 'performance awards.'

Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 28, 2005; Page A01

Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.

<snip>

The Army analysts concluded that it was highly unlikely that the tubes were for use in Iraq's rocket arsenal, a finding that bolstered a CIA contention that they were destined for nuclear centrifuges, which was in turn cited by the Bush administration as proof that Saddam Hussein was reconstituting Iraq's nuclear weapons program.

The problem, according to the commission, which cited the two analysts' work, is that they did not seek or obtain information available from the Energy Department and elsewhere showing that the tubes were indeed the type used for years as rocket-motor cases by Iraq's military. The panel said the finding represented a "serious lapse in analytic tradecraft" because the center's personnel "could and should have conducted a more exhaustive examination of the question."

<snip>

Washington lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste, who was a member of the Sept. 11 commission and whose government experience goes back to service as a Watergate prosecutor, said .... "It matters whether it was carelessness or tailoring , whether it was based on perceived wants of an administration or overt requests . . . It is time now to demonstrate the need for the integrity of the process," Ben-Veniste said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701618.html

I'd say it is time for all those responsible for young Colin's fathers senseless death, and the senseless deaths of thousands of others - American, Iraqi, British, Japanese, ..... - to be held accountable for the remainder of their lives.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - our mission has just begun

[Wilms]

16. kick n/t

[merh]

21. ...

............................. :cry: ..............................

mopaul
Fri May-27-05 08:53 AM

A Photo Greeting Card for our Glorious Commander in Chief



Emily Dieruf from Lexington, Kentucky reacts after finding her husband's dog tag at Camp Pendleton, California May 26, 2005. A memorial service was held in honor of the 420 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and British Soldiers who lost their lives while serving with the 1st Marine Division in Iraq. Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, at least 1,647 American military personnel have lost their lives in Iraq. REUTERS/Mike Blake

thanks to leftchick

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3739323

[hiley]

22. so sad merh...

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed,inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004 http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/torture.htm
http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/slideshows/0 ...

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism
http://www.ericblumrich.com/14.html

Depleted Uranium Weapons use has to be stopped immediately, the use of these weapons is a War Crime.

Look at the pictures on this link I provide and know this is happening to American children as well, just not in such great numbers as those of Iraqi children.

These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."

http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

"You Must be the Change you Wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

http://www.gandhiproject.org/project/project.html


Thank you understandinglife for your outstanding patriotism and quest for the truth!
solidarity
hiley

In honor of all who have served for our Country including my deceased father
Sgt.Clinton R. Brake, M.P.
Uncle Charles E. Brake
Uncle Marvin Donald Brake,
r.i.p. all of you....
all served over 20 years a piece.

[EFerrari]

23. Enough.

[EFerrari]

24. Kick

:kick:

[Time for change]

25. Thank you UL

I agree with the focus on support for Conyers. He has done so much for us, I think he is truly amazing.

[savannahana]

26. another knot in the rope - thank you, UL

Perspective


164 years ago:

"The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."

-William Henry Harrison (American 9th US president (1841). (1773-1841)


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141 years ago:

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."

-U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 - (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)


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55 years ago

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience…therefore <individual citizens> have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."

- Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950


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quotations from ICH newsletter of 27 May 2005

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

http://snipurl.com/ayzc

[savannahana]

27. kick for Conyers, plus 88 other members of congress

(((((((((((((((((((:patriot:solidarity:patriot:ripple:patriot: effect:patriot:))))))))))))))))))

[cthrumatrix]

127. kick for truth

[merh]

28. ...

:cry:

[rodeodance]

29. you betcha!!

[merh]

30. ...

[merh]

31. ...

.....................:cry:.............................

[merh]

33. ...

..................... :cry: ............................

[Wilms]

34. .

[hiley]

35. ....

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[hiley]

36. ...

DRAPING THE CASKET WITH THE
NATIONAL FLAG:
This custom began during the Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815). The dead carried from the field of battle on a caisson were covered with a flag. When the U.S. flag covers the casket, it is placed so the union blue field is at the head and over the left shoulder. It is not placed in the grave and is not allowed to touch the ground.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/customs.htm




Defense Department redactions obscure the faces and insignia of honor guard members in many of the war casualty images.

[hiley]

37. ...

FLAGS FOR MILITARY FUNERALS:

Flags are provided for burial services of service members and veterans. The flag for one who dies on active duty is provided by one's branch of service. Flags for other veterans are provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The flag is presented to the next of kin at the end of the funeral, usually by the military chaplain. If there is no next of kin present, the flag may be presented to the veteran's close friend or associate if requested. The flags that have draped the caskets of the Unknown Soldiers are on display in the Memorial Display Room of the Memorial Amphitheater.
snip--
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/customs.htm

[hiley]

45. If the Government had such caring rules

for our troops as they do for FLAGS ..........

[Wilms]

38. .

Flag folding for female soldier buried in Bridgeport, Connecticut after being killed in Iraq

Reuters / Photo by Chip East

[merh]

39. May 28, 2005

05/28/05
Another 155th Brigade Combat Team Soldier Killed In Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A Mississippi soldier has died from wounds he suffered when a homemade bomb exploded west of Baghdad. The military says the soldier, who died yesterday, was assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, Second Marine Expeditionary Force. His identity and hometown haven't been released.

http://www.wlox.com/


.............................. :cry: ................................

[EFerrari]

40. Yesterday in the mail, we got our copy of The Street Sheet

and the editor put the MNA addy at the foot of the column. It looked really good to me. :)

[savannahana]

41. Kick, for this good MNA news

and for all the posts above;

for tears and remembrance;

hope, and solidarity.

[Wilms]

42. .

[merh]

43. May 29, 2005 - #1657

http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx

[understandinglife]

58. Thank you.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[hiley]

44. ...

PRACTICE OF FIRING CANNON SALUTES:

The custom of firing cannon salutes originated in the British Navy. When a cannon was fired, it partially disarmed the ship. Therefore, firing a cannon in salute symbolizes respect and trust. Click here for information on the Order of Arms of Cannon Salutes

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/customs.htm





"Here Rests
In Honored Glory
An American Soldier
Known But To God"

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tombofun.htm


http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx
www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[hiley]

46. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq

Reuters - Sat May 28,11:23 AM ET
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq when their helicopter crashed after being shot at north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement on May 27, 2005. Two helicopters came under small arms fire near Baquba 60 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad on Thursday night, the U.S. military said. One crashed while the other sustained damage but landed safely at a U.S. base. 1st Sergeant Michael Miller of the 1st command engineer battalion looks though names on dog tags of some of his men killed in Iraq, during a memorial service for the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California May 26, 2005. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[merh]

47. ....

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities


........................................:cry:....................................

[puebloknot]

48. "...let my country awake." (Tagore)

What drum can we bang to awaken the country to action?

Where The Mind is Without Fear

WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

[Wilms]

49. .

Peace

[Ellipsis]

84. ..

[Ellipsis]

128. ...

[hiley]

51. ...

PRACTICE OF FIRING THREE RIFLE
VOLLEYS OVER THE GRAVE:

This practice originated in the old custom of halting the fighting to remove the dead from the battlefield. Once each army had cleared its dead, it would fire three volleys to indicate that the dead had been cared for and that they were ready to go back to the fight. The fact that the firing party consists of seven riflemen, firing three volleys does not constitute a 21-gun salute.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/customs.htm

[hiley]

52. ...

"TAPS":

"Taps" is an American call, composed by the Union Army's Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield while in camp at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, in 1862. Butterfield wrote the call to replace the earlier "Tattoo" (lights out), which he thought too formal. The call soon became known as "Taps" because it was often tapped out on a drum in the absence of a bugler. Before the year was out, sounding Taps became the practice in both Northern and Southern camps. The call was officially adopted by the U.S. Army in 1874.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/customs.htm

http://www.savannahnow.com/features/iraq/fallen.shtml

[Wilms]

53. .

[Ellipsis]

121. ..

[understandinglife]

54. Just returned from an opportunity to ponder all of those reasons ...

.... that have been motivating me to be unrelenting in urging a concerted effort to extract our troops, in as orderly a manner as possible, from Bush's illegal occupation of Iraq and to hold accountable all those in the Bush administration, along with any collaborators in the Congress, for all their illegal actions since Bush began his illegal war on Iraq.

The consequence of removing myself from any source of current information and simply observing many folk doing the day to day activities that contribute to the wonderful life one can have in "America" served to strengthen my resolve to stop Bush, stop the atrocities, rebuild America.

It also strengthened my commitment to encourage every citizen to realize that if you are a spectator to your government then you are likely going to awaken one day and not like what you are seeing and have little if any voice in making it different. Your government will have become your boss and, throughout history, when that transition occurs the boss has typically been a ruthless tyrant.

So, I opened my email as my initial act upon re-entry and among much work related items I found two encouraging actions being taken, both of which provide the opportunity for many to participate. Since they are both relevant to our MNA focus on doing whatever we can to assist Congressman Conyers and his colleagues, I am posting a summary of both of them here.

Firstly, we have this new endeavor by PDA, United for Peace and Justice and Code Pink:

Stand and Be Heard

By William Rivers Pitt
Progressive Democrats of America

Next week, Progressive Democrats of America, in partnership with United for Peace and Justice and Code Pink, will initiate a nationwide campaign to demand that Congress and George W. Bush immediately and without delay implement and execute a plan to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq. This campaign will involve calls, letters, faxes and direct lobbying of members of Congress. This National Call-In Week will begin on May 31st and continue through June 3rd.

More on the plan and access to the petition:

http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/iraq-exit-action.php

Secondly, Amnesty International, as many of you may already know, has called for the following actions and they have listed specific individuals:

"During a statement on the release of it's annual report, Amnesty International President William Schultz called for the investigation, arrest, detention and prosecution of senior U.S. Officials - either by an Special Prosecutor or by foreign government prosecutors - who authored and authorized policies which lead to inhumane treatment and torture of persons held at Guantanemo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base. "The Government investigation must climb all the way to the top...", stated Schultz. Quoting former Secretary of State Colin Powell he went on to point out that permitting Torture by U.S. personnel "undermines the moral authority" and can allow such techniques to "spread like a virus" thruout the world."

More details at this DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1816284

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Ellipsis]

214. ...

[understandinglife]

55. "we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood ...

... in an unnecessary war....But let us also ask their forgiveness for sending them to a war that should never have happened. In the 1960s it was Vietnam. Today it is Iraq. Let us resolve to never, ever make this mistake again. Our young people are simply too precious.


Now, that's the type of unambiguous writing we need to see in the corporate media. Find more here:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5427823.html

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[Ellipsis]

57. ...

38 dead soldiers from Wisconsin.

May they rest in peace.

[understandinglife]

59. Support PDA's efforts, please. And, please read the following:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3754846

Peace.

[Wilms]

60. .

[understandinglife]

62. "Declare Peace" -- I like that image, very much. Thank you.

Peace.

[understandinglife]

61. "...that was once the world's most brilliant beacon of freedom & justice"

America, a Symbol of . . .

By BOB HERBERT

This Memorial Day is not a good one for the country that was once the world's most brilliant beacon of freedom and justice.

State Department officials know better than anyone that the image of the United States has deteriorated around the world. The U.S. is now widely viewed as a brutal, bullying nation that countenances torture and operates hideous prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in other parts of the world - camps where inmates have been horribly abused, gruesomely humiliated and even killed.

<snip>

In much of the world, the image of the U.S. under Mr. Bush has morphed from an idealized champion of liberty to a heavily armed thug in camouflage fatigues. America is increasingly being seen as a dangerously arrogant military power that is due for a comeuppance. It will take a lot more than Karen Hughes to turn that around.

Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/opinion/30herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Peace.



www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

63. ".... as the meltdown of the failed US-led occupation continues."

May 30, 2005

“Things are getting worse by the day.”

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

The mayhem continues in Iraq, with today at least 40 people dead, including five US soldiers in Diyala province as the meltdown of the failed US-led occupation continues.

Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in Hilla, south of Baghdad. The policemen were demonstrating outside the mayor’s office to protest a government decision to disband their Special Forces unit.

In yet another horrible PR move (or attempt to raise sectarian tensions?) by the US military the head of Iraq’s largest Sunni political party, Mohsen Abdul Hamid was detained from his home early this morning in western Baghdad. Of course his head was promptly bagged and his hands tied before he was taken away to be interrogated. His three sons were also detained with him. Stun bombs and bullets were said to be used during the raid, according to his wife.

It just so happens that his party, the Islamic Party, opposes the new US-backed security operation now engulfing Baghdad because they believe the security forces will disregard the rights of innocent Iraqis. Later today he was released and the military admitted it made a mistake.

More at the link:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000250.php

The crimes against humanity continue unabated in Bush's neocon war on Iraq.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

64. Col. David. H. Hackworth, 1930-2005

"The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue."

http://www.sftt.us/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Unlisted%2edb&command=viewone&id=29

"Few things got Hackworth madder than seeing grunts get the short end of the stick. That is why he devoted his energies in the last two decades of his life to making sure soldiers got what they needed and the phonies who sent them off on dubious missions were called out and held accountable."

http://www.sftt.us/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Unlisted%2edb&command=viewone&id=33

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

65. "... provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war ..."

RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war

Michael Smith

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive.

<snip>

The Ministry of Defence figures, provided in response to a question from Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, show that despite the lack of an Iraqi reaction, the air war began anyway in September with a 100-plane raid.

The systematic targeting of Iraqi air defences appears to contradict Foreign Office legal guidance appended to the leaked briefing paper which said that the allied aircraft were only “entitled to use force in self-defence where such a use of force is a necessary and proportionate response to actual or imminent attack from Iraqi ground systems”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html

Every soldier, every civilian serving in Iraq, and every Iraqi killed since ~ August 2002, has died because Bush and Blair lied and deceived their Nations and the world.

Bring them and their neoconster, fellow criminals to justice, NOW.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Wilms]

66. .

[Ellipsis]

122. ..

[understandinglife]

67. A powerful summary image.

Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

68. Felt's message could not be more timely.

I think the message Felt and his family were compelled to deliver at this critical moment is just that, and it deserves to be repeated frequently - "standing up to an executive branch intent on obstructing his agency's pursuit of the truth."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053100655_2.html

We must do everything required to ensure that Bush and his neoconster mob are going to face indictment and prosecution; nothing less than bringing them to justice will begin to restore our "America."

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

69. Conyers writes Rumsfeld re: "the smoking bullet in the smoking gun"

And, now, Congressman Conyers has written to Rumsfeld about that 'smoking bullet':

May 31, 2005

Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
1000 Defense, Suite 3E-880
Washington, DC 20301-1000

Dear Secretary Rumsfeld:

I write with an urgent and important request that you respond to a report in the London Times on Sunday, May 29, indicating that British and U.S. aircraft increased their rates of bombing in 2002 in order to provoke an excuse for war in Iraq. Much of this information is provided by the British Ministry of Defense in response to questions posed by Liberal Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell.

As you may know, on May 6, I wrote to President Bush, along with 88 of my colleagues in the House of Representatives, asking him to respond to allegations first revealed in the London Times on May 1, that the U.S. and British government had a secret plan to invade Iraq by the summer of 2002, well before the Bush Administration requested authorization for military action, from the U.S. Congress. A response is still pending on that request.

The allegations and factual assertions made in the May 29 London Times are in many respects just as serious as those made in the earlier article. They include the following:


"The RAF and U.S. aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs in 2002 .... The attacks were intensified from May .... By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive." Then British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon reportedly told a British Cabinet Meeting in July, 2002, that by this time "the U.S. had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime." The newly released information also appears to show that "the allies dropped twice as many bombs on Iraq in the second half of 2002 as they did during the whole of 2001."

According to the article, this increase in the rate of bombing was "an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war." As I am sure you are aware, allied commander Tommy Franks has previously acknowledged the existence of increased military operations which he asserted were needed "to 'degrade' Iraqi air defenses in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf War."

The new information goes on to indicate that our military decided "on August 5, 2005, for a 'hybrid plan' in which a continuous air offensive and special forces would begin while the main ground force built up in Kuwait for a full-scale invasion." According to the article, "despite the lack of an Iraqi reaction, the air war began anyway in September with a 100-plane raid."


If true, these assertions indicate that not only had the Administration secretly and perhaps illegally agreed to go to war by the summer of 2002, but it also took specific and tangible military actions before asking Congress or the United Nations for authority, and absent an actual or imminent threat.

Thus, while there is considerable doubt as to whether the U.S. had authority to invade Iraq, given, among other things, the failure of the U.N. to issue a follow-up resolution to the November 8, 2002, Resolution 1441, it would seem that the act of engaging in military action via stepped up bombing raids that were not in response to an actual or imminent threat before our government asked for military authority would be even more problematic from a legal as well as a moral perspective.

As a result of these new disclosures, I would ask that you respond as promptly as possible to the following questions:


Did the RAF and the United States military increase the rate that they were dropping bombs in Iraq in 2002? If so, what was the extent and timing of the increase?

What was the justification for any such increase in the rate of bombing in Iraq at this time? Was this justification reviewed by legal authorities in the U.S.?

To the best of your knowledge, was there any agreement with any representative of the British government to engage in military action in Iraq before authority was sought from the Congress or the U.N.? If so, what was the nature of the agreement?


In connection with all of the above questions, please provide me with any memorandum, notes, minutes, documents, phone and other records, e-mails, computer files (including back-up records) or other material of any kind or nature concerning or relating thereto which are in the possession of or accessible by the Department of Defense.

I would encourage you to provide responses to these questions as promptly as possible, as they raise extremely grave and serious questions involving the credibility of our Administration and its constitutional responsibilities. In the interest of time, please feel free to forward me partial responses as they become available.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member

Please visit this link at Brad Blog to view additional background information:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001433.htm

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[EnfantTerrible]

80. Isn't there an error in the date here?

He can't mean August 5, 2005... unless I'm reading this wrong.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The new information goes on to indicate that our military decided "on August 5, 2005, for a 'hybrid plan' in which a continuous air offensive and special forces would begin while the main ground force built up in Kuwait for a full-scale invasion." According to the article, "despite the lack of an Iraqi reaction, the air war began anyway in September with a 100-plane raid."

[understandinglife]

70. More than 59,000 view Conyers' letter on Downing Street memo over weekend

RAW STORY

More than 59,000 view Conyers' letter on Downing Street memo over weekend

<snip>

The congressman's office said they were unprepared for the volume of signers and haven't been able to get firm numbers on signatures as yet, but that the signature page saw 59,000 unique visitors.

"The overwhelming response we received over the Memorial Day weekend from the Internet community to our Downing Street Letter to the President shows how many Americans want to get to the bottom of this huge and growing scandal," Conyers told RAW STORY. "I am hopeful that we can not only reach, but exceed our goal of 100,000 individuals asking the president to explain his conduct in this matter."

The 'memo,' official minutes of a 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of British intelligence MI-6 and various members of the Bush administration, noted that MI-6 director Richard Dearlove said, “Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

<snip>

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/59000_conyers_downing_street_letter_531

Keep at it everyone; we are being effective.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

71. A life now lived with the constant reminder of the costs of serving.

May 30, 2005 | US Army Sgt. Brian Doyne of Fayetteville, GA, left, wounded in Iraq, salutes with WWII Veteran Richard Udoff of Owings Mills, MD. (Photo: Rich Lipski / The Washington Post)

You will be held accountable, Bush.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

72. Depleted Uranium Bill Introduced into Congress

"I've been concerned about DU since veterans of the first Gulf War began to experience unexplained illnesses, commonly called 'Gulf War Syndrome' that remain mysterious," McDermott said.

McDermott added that there are reports from Iraqi doctors and others today of seemingly unexplained serious illnesses including higher rates of cancer and leukemia, and even birth defects.

"We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. I want to know scientifically if DU poses serious dangers to our soldiers and Iraqi civilians."

The Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act of 2005 has 21 original co-sponsors, all Democrats, including: Reps. Charles Rangel, Pete Stark, Sherrod Brown, Peter DeFazio, Maurice Hinchey, Raul Grijalva, Jan Schakowsky, Robert Wexler, Sam Farr, Tammy Baldwin, Robert Andrews, Bob Filner, Jay Inslee, Jose Serrano, Lynn Woolsey, Earl Blumenauer, Bart Stupak, Mike Honda, Tom Udall, Barney Frank and Ed Markey.

snip---
from Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/053005X.shtml

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3756214#
"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed,inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/torture.htm
Depleted Uranium Weapons use has to be stopped immediately, the use of these weapons is a War Crime.

Look at the pictures on this link I provide and know this is happening to American children as well, just not in such great numbers as those of Iraqi children.

((These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."))

http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

"You Must be the Change you Wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

http://www.gandhiproject.org/project/project.html

[understandinglife]

73. An expansion of the strategic disruption of the neoconster infrastructure

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3761399&mesg_id=3761399

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

74. My message to Senator Edwards:

Posted to TPM cafe
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/5/31/225214/356

Dear Senator Edwards,

MissionNOTAccomplished has issued a "Desperate Neoconster ALERT." I want to share the details of that alert with you as it is obvious to many of us that issues ranging from fiscal responsibility to education to healthcare are all compromised by the rapidly accelerating demise of the core, Constitutional Republic - "America."

Relevant links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3761399&mesg_id=3761399

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3742495

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3736375

We request you speak directly in support of Congressman Conyers and "AfterDowningStreet.org" and urge millions of Americans to sign Congressman Conyers letter and demand investigation and legal remedies as justly indicated by the outcome of comprehensive investigations of Bush's actions.

Thank you.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[EnfantTerrible]

75. Kick

W. H. Auden


Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

[understandinglife]

76. "Remind Us" A must see:

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Wilms]

79. kick n/t

[hiley]

81. "The recent release of the Downing Street Memo provides new

and compelling evidence that the President of the United States has been actively engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people about the basis for going to war against Iraq," attorney John C. Bonifaz recently wrote to Conyers. "If true, such conduct constitutes a High Crime under Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution: 'The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.'"
snip--

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to declare war -- and the argument can be made that White House deception in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq amounted to a criminal assault on that constitutional provision. But "high crimes and misdemeanors" is a very general term. And history tells us that in Washington's pivotal matrix of media and politics, crimes of war have rarely even registered on the impeachment scale.

In 1974, President Nixon avoided impeachment only by resigning soon after the Judiciary Committee, by a 27-11 vote, approved a recommendation that the full House impeach him for obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal. Only 12 members of the committee voted to include Nixon's illegal bombing of Cambodia -- and his lies about that bombing -- among the articles of impeachment.

snip---
Another war-related impeachment effort came in response to the Iran-Contra scandal. You wouldn't have known it from media coverage or congressional debate, but the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra maneuvers were part of a Washington-driven war that enabled the U.S.-backed Contra guerrillas to terrorize Nicaraguan civilians, killing thousands in the process. When Rep. Henry Gonzalez, a Democrat from Texas, pushed for impeachment of President Reagan (and, for good measure, Vice President George H. W. Bush) in 1987, he stood virtually alone on Capitol Hill.

Gonzalez was back on high moral ground the day before the first President Bush launched the Gulf War. On Jan. 16, 1991, the maverick Democrat stood on the House floor and announced he was introducing a resolution with five impeachment charges against Bush. The National Journal reported: "Among the constitutional violations Bush committed, according to Gonzalez, were commanding a volunteer military whose 'soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly poor white, black and Mexican-American or Hispanic-American,' in violation of the equal protection clause, and 'bribing, intimidating and threatening' members of the United Nations Security Council 'to support belligerent acts against Iraq,' in violation of the U.N. charter."

In the past, attempts to impeach presidents for war crimes have sunk like a stone in the Potomac.

*If this time is going to be different, we need to get to work -- organizing around the country -- making the case for a thorough public inquiry and creating a groundswell that emerges as a powerful force from the grassroots. Only a massive movement will be strong enough to push over the media obstacles and drag politicians into a real debate about presidential war crimes and the appropriate constitutional punishment.*

Norman Solomon's new book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," comes off the press in June. For information, go to: www.WarMadeEasy.com
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8998.htm

“Falluja-The day After” shows the total devastation of the Iraqi town, the corpses of the victims, the mass graves, the exhumation of many corpses by local rescue teams in order to try to recognize some of the victims. The last corpse shown in this video belongs to a 14 year old girl.

The video lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds.

http://www.diario.it/?page=wl05060100#english
Scroll down the page for English...


60,000 Iraqis
'Disappeared'
into US Camps
Dahr
Jamail
http://www.breakfornews.com/

[hiley]

82. 765 dead includes 66 U.S. military personnel

Casualties From Iraq Insurgency Up in May

By BUSHRA JUHI
Associated Press Writer

June 1, 2005, 1:27 PM EDT

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi civilian deaths in May from the insurgency increased nearly a third from the previous month, a Health Ministry official said Wednesday.

Separately, an Interior Ministry official said 151 police were killed in May, compared with 86 in April, up 75 percent. He added that at least 325 policemen were wounded in May, compared with 131 in April.

Dr. Sabah al-Araji of the Health Ministry said 434 civilians were killed in May, up from 299 killed in April.

Some 775 civilians also were wounded last month, compared with 598 in April, al-Araji said. The figures were based on people's identity cards and other documentation.

A Defense Ministry official said 85 Iraqi soldiers were killed in May, compared with 40 in April. Another 79 soldiers were wounded, compared with 63 in April, he said.

snip---
A separate count by The Associated Press since April 28 puts the number of slain Iraqi civilians and security personnel, as well as American troops, at 765, with 261 insurgents killed. The figure of 765 dead includes 66 U.S. military personnel, two British soldiers and two U.S. contractors killed in insurgent-related violence.

snip---
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-casualties,0,7762529,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[understandinglife]

83. Galloway urges vigilance - re: Bush, fake terror, attack Iran

Relevant DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3766748

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

85. Great thread: "Just walked my 80 year old dad through signing the Conyer's

... letter.

Let's be sure to thank "chalky" and his father!!:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3767923#

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

88. Herbert: "I can't think of a better time to resurrect the Watergate saga."

June 2, 2005

Truth and Deceit
By BOB HERBERT

When he accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1968, Richard Nixon said, "Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth - to see it as it is, and tell it like it is - to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth."

<snip>

Now, with George W. Bush in charge, the nation is mired in yet another tragic period marked by incompetence, duplicity, bad faith and outright lies coming once again from the very top of the government. Just last month we had the disclosure of a previously secret British government memorandum that offered further confirmation that the American public and the world were spoon-fed bogus information by the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

<snip>

Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, drunk with power and insufficiently restrained, took the nation on hair-raising journeys that were as unnecessary as they were destructive. Now, in the first years of the 21st century, George W. Bush is doing the same.

<snip>

Congress and an aggressive press ultimately played crucial roles in bringing the truth about Vietnam and Watergate to light.

A similar challenge exists today. We'll see how it plays out.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

89. MNA responds to Senator Kerry -- Here's how you 'break through'!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3770220&mesg_id=3770220

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

90. Significant update from Congressman Conyers - 94 Members have signed

For my part, I am recirculating the letter to the President from Congress to my Congressional colleagues on Monday to give them another opportunity to sign on. Many who missed the opportunity to sign on the first time around have contacted me about doing so.

I have already sent one additional letter to the President adding several names and requesting that they be considered as original signatories. I have attached an updated list below of members who have signed on thus far.

This is by far the most important issue we are faced with. The most serious matter for the Congress and the President is the decision to go to war. It is the sole constitutional responsibility of Congress to decide whether to declare war. The President has a constitutional responsibility to be straightforward and candid with the Congress in providing it with the information it needs to evaluate the case for war. If that decision is skewed or corrupted by false or misleading information, it raises the most serious Constitutional questions and substantial issues about abuse of power.

The tragic reality is that over 1600 of our men and women in uniform are dead in a war that was entered into under false premises. Tens of thousands have been severely injured. Many more innocent Iraqis have been killed or injured as well.

If, as the Downing Street Minutes appear to clearly indicate, the falsehoods that led us into war were deliberate manipulations of the public and Congress, we deserve to know and we deserve answers. More importantly, we need to hold this President accountable for a very grave abuse of power.

LIST OF CONGRESSIONAL COSIGNERS

Neil Abercrombie
Brian Baird
Tammy Baldwin
Xavier Becerra
Shelley Berkley
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Sanford Bishop
Earl Blumenauer
Corrine Brown
Sherrod Brown
G.K. Butterfield
Emanuel Cleaver
James Clyburn
John Conyers
Jim Cooper
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Susan Davis
Peter DeFazio
Diana DeGette
Bill Delahunt
Rosa DeLauro
Lloyd Doggett
Sam Farr
Bob Filner
Harold Ford, Jr.
Barney Frank
Al Green
Raul Grijalva
Louis Gutierrez
Alcee Hastings
Maurice Hinchey
Rush Holt
Jay Inslee
Sheila Jackson Lee
Jessie Jackson Jr.
William Jefferson
Marcy Kaptur
Patrick Kennedy
Dale Kildee
Carolyn Kilpatrick
Dennis Kucinich
William Lacy Clay
Barbara Lee
John Lewis
Zoe Lofgren
Donna M. Christensen
Carolyn Maloney
Ed Markey
Carolyn McCarthy
Jim McDermott
James McGovern
Cynthia McKinney
Martin Meehan
Kendrick Meek
Gregory Meeks
Michael Michaud
Juanita Millender-McDonald
George Miller
Gwen S. Moore
James Moran
Jerrold Nadler
Grace Napolitano
James Oberstar
John Olver
Major Owens
Frank Pallone
Donald Payne
Charles Rangel
Bobby Rush
Bernie Sanders
Linda Sanchez
Jan Schakowsky
Jose Serrano
Ike Skelton
Louise Slaughter
Hilda Solis
Pete Stark
Ellen Tauscher
Bennie Thompson
Mike Thompson
Edolphus Towns
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Tom Udall
Chris Van Hollen
Nydia Velazquez
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Maxine Waters
Diane Watson
Melvin Watt
Robert Wexler
Lynn Woolsey
David Wu
Albert R. Wynn

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/2/15274/55931

Peace.

http://www.edwardsdavid.com.nyud.net:8090/images/cnn_crossfire_uk_memo_intelligence_fixed_050513-01.jpg

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq, and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[hiley]

91. The lists of names Congressional Co-signees grows great news!

Love this part..
More importantly, we need to hold this President accountable for a very grave abuse of power.



Then we have this too not great..
:cry:
No serial numbers
American intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, with a twist:
"The crucial detail is the erasure of the serial numbers. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed. Instead, the guns seem to have come off the production line without any serial numbers, or they could have been erased with high-tech industrial technology. The lack of serial numbers suggests that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing
These guns are probably from the Mossad or the CIA, or both. What we're seeing in Iraq is a national resistance against the American occupation, a resistance which is directed at the American troops and
snip--
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/06/no-serial-numbers.html
and
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
snip---
In fact, the United States has become a major market in side arms, because regulations governing the sale of handguns allow wholesalers to purchase very large quantities of weapons. The only difference is the price. The U.S. Marines pay $263 for a Beretta 92, but in Falluja, the going rate is $850 dollars.

The crucial detail is the erasure of the serial numbers. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed. Instead, the guns seem to have come off the production line without any serial numbers, or they could have been erased with high-tech industrial technology. The lack of serial numbers suggests that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing.
snip--
http://www.watchingamerica.com/corrieredellasera000005.html

[understandinglife]

94. Indeed, and now the Congressman reports > 110,000 signatures on ...

.... on the letter to Bush; pushing for 250,000.

http://www.conyersblog.us/

Over 110,000 and Counting
Open Thread
Website Overwhelmed

We are well over 110,000 Signatures on the Downing Street Letter. I cannot begin to thank you enough. Let's press on until we hit 250,000. I have enlisted some new allies to help us and I am confident we will reach our goal in no time.

In the coming days, I will be moving ahead on this letter and other efforts surrounding this issue. Also, keep an eye on the Sunday London Times this weekend, I hear they will continue their string of breaking news about this.

In the meantime, my website has been overwhelmed. At times, I am receiving ten emails a minute. To reduce traffic to the site, I am taking down the email box for the time being and starting this open thread, where email traffic will be redirected.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Ellipsis]

96. Wonderful news! and thank you UL for YOUR relentless hard work!

Peace to you.

[understandinglife]

97. Thank you!

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

102. Congressman Conyers: 133,000 signatures and counting!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3786594

http://www.conyersblog.us

Keep at it, everyone!!

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

183. The fabulous "123":

Abercrombie;
Allen;
Baird;
Baldwin;
Becerra;
Berkley;
Bishop;
Blumenauer;
Brown, Corrine;
Brown, Sherrod;
Butterfield;
Capps;
Capuano;
Carson;
Christensen;
Clay;
Cleaver;
Clyburn;
Conyers;
Cooper;
Cummings;
Davis, Danny;
Davis, Susan;
DeFazio;
DeGette;
Delahunt;
DeLauro;
Dingell;
Doggett;
Doyle;
Eshoo;
Farr;
Fattah;
Filner;
Ford;
Frank;
Green;
Grijalva;
Gutierrez;
Hastings;
Hinchey;
Holt;
Honda;
Hooley;
Inslee;
Jackson;
Jackson-Lee;
Jefferson;
Johnson, Eddie Bernice;
Kaptur;
Kennedy;
Kildee;
Kilpatrick;
Kucinich;
Larsen, Rick;
Larson, John;
Lee, Barbara;
Levin;
Lewis;
Lofgren;
Maloney;
Markey;
Matsui;
McCarthy;
McDermott;
McGovern;
McKinney;
McNulty;
Meehan;
Meek;
Meeks;
Michaud;
Millender-McDonald;
Miller, Brad;
Miller, George;
Moore, Gwen;
Moran;
Nadler;
Napolitano;
Neal;
Oberstar;
Olver;
Owens;
Pallone;
Pascrell;
Pastor;
Payne;
Pelosi;
Price, David;
Rangel;
Rothman;
Rush;
Sanchez, Linda;
Sanders;
Schakowsky;
Scott, Bobby;
Serrano;
Sherman;
Skelton;
Slaughter;
Smith, Adam;
Solis;
Stark;
Strickland;
Tauscher;
Thompson, Bennie;
Tierney;
Towns;
Tubbs Jones;
Udall, Mark;
Udall, Tom;
Van Hollen;
Velazquez;
Wasserman Schultz;
Waters;
Watson;
Watt;
Waxman;
Weiner;
Wexler;
Woolsey;
Wu;
Wynn.


(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[understandinglife]

98. Yahoo: "It only takes one member of Congress to begin an impeachment ....

... process, and Conyers is said to be considering the option.

The process would certainly be revealing. Congress could subpoena Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers, Gen.Tommy Franks and all of the military commanders and pilots involved with the no-fly zone bombings going back into the late 1990s. What were their orders, both given and received? In those answers might lie a case for impeachment.

more at the link (vote it, everyone):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050601/cm_thenation/20050613scahill

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

99. "05.31.05 COUNTDOWN TO IMPEACHMENT 2005!" A good read.

http://www.recoveringliberal.com
(scroll to 5.31.05)

In perhaps one of the largest turnarounds in modern political history, only six months after winning reelection, Bush has apparently squandered his mandate and now finds himself a lame duck, his powerful political capitol spent. Yes, dear readers, America is finally on to the man and it is doubtful that his presidency will survive the next two years.

So unlikely is his political survival that we here at the RECOVERING LIBERAL feel completely comfortable in beginning what amounts to as a countdown to IMPEACHMENT (Drum Roll Please!).

And what a lovely impeachment it will be, televised and tivo'd, and commented on by AL and Randi at AIR AMERICA while being dutifully dissected by our brothers and sisters in the BLOGGING COMMUNITY Including: BLONDESENSE, AMERICAblog, CROOKS AND LIARS, DAILY KOS, and of course here in the red, white and blue pages of the LIB.

(more at the link, above)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

100. "C-Span to cover Downing Street Memo SATURDAY 6/04"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1827646#1827688

Peace.


Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan



www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

103. AI: "No amount of spin can erase the myriad human rights abuses ....

.... committed by United States officials in the "war on terror." The United States cannot simultaneously claim that it "promotes freedom around the world" while detaining tens of thousands at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and in Iraq and other locations without charge or trial and allowing those civilian and military officials responsible for orchestrating a systematic policy of torture to escape accountability.

Instead of attacking us, President Bush should insist upon a truly thorough, independent investigation of those who tried to circumvent global prohibitions on torture, and he should open all detention centers to scrutiny by independent human rights groups.

Only then will the world be able to judge whether it is Amnesty International or the president whose perspective deserves to be called "absurd."

William F. Schulz
Exec. Dir., Amnesty International
New York, June 1, 2005


And, the response is in the form of a letter to the editor of the New York Times and the NYT actually published it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/04/opinion/l04amnesty.html

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

104. "Culture of Life Bush Admin: SEND PREGNANT RECRUITS TO IRAQ"

A must-read DU post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3786030&mesg_id=3786030

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

105. "Guantánamo's hundreds do not compare with Stalin's millions, but the ...

... gulag is a fair analogy..."

Everyone, focus. Those words are in a report from CBSNews entitled "Torture in the US Gulag"!

Specifically, they continue:

Bush may find Amnesty's charges "absurd," but the debate has already moved from whether the United States is a purveyor of torture to what to do about it. Slowly, instruments of legality and due process, within and outside the United States, are encircling US policy.

Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/03/opinion/main699624.shtml

DU Link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x129791

Bush and his neoconster fellow criminals will not escape. "We The People" must be the ones to bring them, peacefully, to justice.

Peace.


Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq, and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

106. "It's dangerous when U.S. officials start to believe their own propaganda"

.... said David L. Phillips, a former State Department consultant who worked on Iraq planning but quit in frustration in 2003 and has written a book called "Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco." "I have no doubt that they genuinely think that Iraq is a smashing success and a milestone in their forward freedom strategy. But if you ask Iraqis, they have a different opinion."

Phillips added that U.S. officials keep pointing to landmarks such as the January elections as turning points but "at no point have any of these milestones proven to be breakthroughs."

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari last week lobbied Cheney and others for a more assertive U.S. military approach in Iraq, as well as for more help meeting the fall deadline for writing and approving a constitution. But even that carries risks. "Heavy-handed meddling by the Bush administration only undermines Iraq's new political leaders," Phillips said.

As reported in:

washingtonpost.com
Bush's Optimism On Iraq Debated
Rosy View in Time Of Rising Violence Revives Criticism

By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 5, 2005; A01

President Bush's portrayal of a wilting insurgency in Iraq at a time of escalating violence and insecurity throughout the country is reviving the debate over the administration's Iraq strategy and the accuracy of its upbeat claims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060401506_pf.html

Seems the corporate media is being forced to at least notice the facts.

Let's make sure they have nothing but facts in their reporting of events as we strive to save "America," and humanity from the Bush neoconster regime.

Peace.


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[understandinglife]

108. "But our goodness is masked when there are evil people in power."

Excellent post by DUer Maraya1969:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1829632&mesg_id=1829632&page=

Peace.


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[understandinglife]

111. Conyers: "That sounds like deliberate deception to me."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/john-conyers/mens-rea-and-wmd_2145.html



06.05.2005 Rep. John Conyers

Mens Rea and WMD

We have reached a point where all but the most delusional enthusiasts of the Iraq war have now acknowledged that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction at the time of the U.S. invasion and likely for over a decade preceding the war. Fox News and the President were slow to acknowledge this fact, but now have.

Unfortunately, it seems this rare consensus has lulled many into failing to ask the follow-up question: why were the President and other high-ranking administration officials so definitive in their statements that Iraq possessed WMD? This question is not of a merely historical significance: we deserve to know whether these statements were the result of a "massive intelligence failure" as some have contended or a deliberate deception of the Congress and the American people.

<snip>

Thus, absent any contradictory evidence, in the past two weeks alone (leaving out the reports of the last three years), we have a pretty clear pattern. This Administration had a cover story, namely that a clear and present danger to the United States was posed by Iraq's WMD, for something they knew they wanted to do: go to war with Iraq. Those who brought forward the weight of evidence disputing these claims were first ignored and later punished. Those who assisted in the cover story were rewarded.

Sounds like the intelligence and facts were being "fixed" around the policy, as the Downing Street Minutes claim. That sounds like deliberate deception to me.

(more at the link)

Post your comments at Congressman Conyers blog:
http://www.conyersblog.us/

Related DU link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1831599


http://www.intelligencesquad.com/id118.html

Peace.


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[understandinglife]

112. Kwiatkawski: "Reality is never a Constraint for the Neo-Cons"

Video link:
http://www.blip.tv/link/59

Related DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3793125

Peace.


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[cthrumatrix]

114. great video

[understandinglife]

115. More efforts to indoctrinate children revealed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3797148

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We have all the evidence of mendacity and illegal war-making we need to indict and prosecute Bush, Blair and every other neoconster scum-bag on the planet having any involvement in the Bush's illegal war on Iraq and all the torture and other atrocities that have been committed since August 2002.

[understandinglife]

118. Support Apian: 10,000,000 signatures

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/6/214643/6438

Peace.


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[understandinglife]

142. Congressman Conyers is now calling for 500,000 signatures.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3819463

Go go go go!!

Peace.


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[understandinglife]

120. Solomon: From Watergate to Downing Street -- Lying for War

From Watergate to Downing Street -- Lying for War

By Norman Solomon

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/060605L.shtml

You wouldn't know it from the media focus on Deep Throat last week, but the lies that Richard Nixon told about the Watergate break-in were part of his standard duplicity for the Vietnam War. It wasn't just that the Nixon administration engaged in secret illegal actions against a wide range of peace advocates -- including antiwar candidate George McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972. Deception was always central to Nixon's war policy. Thirty-three years after Watergate, echoes of his fervent lies for war can be heard from George W. Bush.

From the outset, President Nixon falsely claimed to be seeking an end to the war. "I know that peace does not come through wishing for it -- that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy," he declared in his first inaugural address. The great independent journalist I.F. Stone commented days later, "It's easier to make war when you talk peace."

<snip>

The memo (Downing street minutes) makes clear that President Bush was lying when he publicly kept claiming that he hadn't decided yet whether to order an invasion of Iraq. Bush's actual policy was to launch the war, no matter what. In addition, the memo said, at the top of the administration in Washington "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Like Richard Nixon, the current president insists that he wants peace. And, in a twisted sense, he does. As the Prussian general Karl von Clausewitz remarked two centuries ago: "A conqueror is always a lover of peace."

Conquerers are also quite willing to do the following to their own, as well as to those they destroy.


1,657 candles illuminate the Arlington West Memorial in Santa Barbara, California. The memorial was created to honor all the soldiers killed in the Iraq war. (Photo: Sepia Press)

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished. - We have all the evidence we need to indict and prosecute Bush and his fellow neoconster war criminals

[understandinglife]

123. Senator Kennedy speaks strongly to the "Downing Street Minutes"

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/6/7/101849/4431/0/post

http://tedkennedy.com/journal/98/senator-kennedy-on-the-downing-street-minutes

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - 10,000,000 signatures on Congressman Conyers letter by June 21, 2005; make it happen! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/6/214643/6438

[cthrumatrix]

126. as we wait for the Media to start asking the damn questions!

[Andy_Stephenson]

129. Kick to the top

:kick:

[troubleinwinter]

130. .............

[hiley]

131. False freedom is very expensive. By Cindy Sheehan

False freedom is very expensive.

By Cindy Sheehan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9069.htm
06/06/05 "ICH" - - For years, Saddam was one of our government’s propped up and militarily supported puppets. Many people have seen the famous footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam. I suppose the two are smiling so big for the cameras because they are kindred spirits. After all of the hand-shaking and weapon brokering, when did Saddam become such a bad guy to Bush, Cheney, Halliburton and Co.? (Insert your favorite reason here).

During the Clinton regime the US-UN led sanctions against Iraq and the weekly bombing raids killed tens of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. Many of them were children, but since one of her children didn’t have to be sacrificed to the homicidal war machine, Madeline Albright, thinks the slaughter during the “halcyon” Clinton years was “worth it.” More lies.

Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of current events understands that this invasion / occupation of Iraq was not about Saddam being a “bad guy.” If that logic is used, then how many innocent Iraqi people have to die before the citizens of America wake up and know that our government is a “bad guy?” We also know that Iraq was not about WMD’s. They weren’t there and they weren’t going to be there for at least a decade, by all reports. Another reason, so wispy and more difficult to disprove, is that America invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people. When one tries to dispute this particular deception, one is accused of being unpatriotic or hating freedom. Even though correct, the statement “Freedom isn’t Free” is very insulting to me. False freedom is very expensive. Fake freedom costs over one billion of our tax dollars a week; phony freedom has cost the Iraqi people tens of thousands of innocent lives; fanciful freedom has meant the destruction of a country and its infrastructure.. Tragically, this fabricated notion of freedom and democracy cost me far more than I was willing to pay: the life of my son, Casey. The Lie of Historic Proportions also cost me my peace of mind, I do not feel free and I do not feel like I live in a democracy.

One of the other great deceits that is being perpetuated on the American public and the world is that this occupation is to fight terrorism: If we don’t fight terrorism in Iraq then we will have to fight it “on our streets.” In fact, terrorist attacks have skyrocketed in Iraq and all over the world. So much so, that the State Department has stopped compiling the statistics and quit issuing the yearly terrorism report. I guess if one doesn’t write a report, then terrorism doesn’t exist? All of Casey’s commendations say that he was killed in the “GWOT” the Global War on Terrorism. I agree with most of GWOT, except that Casey was killed in the Global War Of Terrorism waged on the world and its own citizens by the biggest terrorist outfit in the world: George and his destructive Neo-con cabal.

The evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and alarming that George and his indecent bandits traitorously had intelligence fabricated to fit their goal of invading Iraq. The criminals foisted a Lie of Historic Proportions on the world. It was clear to many of us more aware people that George, Condi, Rummy, the two Dicks: Cheney and Perle, Wolfie, and most effectively and treacherously, Colin Powell, lied their brains out before the invasion. The world was even shown where the WMD’S were on the map.. We were told that the “smoking gun” could come at any time in the form of a “mushroom cloud” or a cloud of toxic biological or chemical weapons. Does anyone remember duct tape and plastic sheeting?

Finally, the side of peace, truth and justice has our own smoking gun and it is burning our hands. It is the so-called Downing Street Memo dated 23, July 2002, (almost 8 months before the invasion) that states that military action (against Iraq) is now seen as “inevitable.” The memo further states that: “Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action”, justified by the conjunction of “terrorism and WMD’s..” The most damning thing to George in the memo is where the British intelligence officer who wrote the memo claims that the intelligence to base Great Britain and the US staging a devastating invasion on Iraq was being “fixed around the policy.” Now, after over three years of relentless propaganda, it is difficult to distinguish the proven lies from the new “truth:” that this occupation is bringing freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq.

Casey took an oath to protect the US from all enemies “foreign and domestic.” He was sent to occupy and die in a foreign country that was no threat to the USA. However, the biggest threat to our safety, humanity, and our way of life in America are George and his cronies. Congress made a Mistake of Historic Proportions and waived its Constitutional responsibility to declare war. It is time for the House to make up for that mistake and introduce Articles of Impeachment against the murderous thugs who have caused so much mindless mayhem. It is time for Congress to re-validate itself by holding a hearing about the Downing Street Memo. The reader can help by going onto www.AfterDowningStreet.org and signing a petition to Rep. John Conyers so he will know that the American people are behind him to convene an investigation in the House Judiciary Committee. You can also write your Congressional Representative to help push the inquiry.

It is time to put partisan politics behind us to do what is correct for once and reclaim America’s humanity. It is time for Congress and the American people to work together in peace and justice to rid our country of the stench of greed, hypocrisy, and unnecessary suffering that permeates our White House and our halls of Congress. It is time to hold someone accountable for the carnage and devastation that has been caused. As a matter of fact, it is past time, but it is not too late.

Cindy Sheehan, Mother of needlessly slain soldier, Casey Sheehan. Cofounder of Gold Star Families for Peace www.gsfp.org
(Organizational Supporters of www.AfterDowningStreet.org ) [e-mail]

Copyright: Cindy Sheehan. All rights reserved. You may republish under the following conditions: An active link to the original publication must be provided. You must not alter, edit or remove any text within the article, including this copyright notice.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9069.htm

[hiley]

132. Bush's "Bring Them On" Picture Album from ICH

Page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15
Must see and absorb..
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm
:cry:

[savannahana]

135. John Locke: from "The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690"

"That the aggressor, who puts himself into the state of war with another, and unjustly invades another man's right, can, by such an unjust war, never come to have a right over the conquered, will be easily agreed by all men, who will not think that robbers and pirates have a right of empire over whomsoever they have force enough to master, or that men are bound by promises which unlawful force extorts from them.

Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his sword has an unjust conqueror who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown or some petty villain.

The title of the offender and the number of his followers make no difference in the offence, unless it be to aggravate it. The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession which should punish offenders."

John Locke - 1632-1704

http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtreat.htm

[understandinglife]

137. "by such an unjust war, never come to have a right over the conquered"

Thank you for posting these insights of Locke. Indeed, ..."great robbers punish little ones to keep them in their obedience...," but even 'great robbers' falter and either commit suicide, are lynched, or, preferably, are brought peacefully before a legitimate court and held to justice.

We must do all we can to ensure the latter is what Bush and the neoconsters experience - peaceful application of justice. We must stop them from further destruction of "America" and civilization.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

136. A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

Thursday June 9, 2005 12:46 AM
By The Associated Press

As of Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at least 1,682 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,289 died as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. The figures include four military civilians.

The AP count is two higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday.

The British military has reported 89 deaths; Italy, 25; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, 10; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,544 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,180 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

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The latest deaths reported by the military:

- One soldier was killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday near Adwar, Iraq, 10 miles south of Tikrit.

- Two soldiers died in an attack late Tuesday on their base in Tikrit, Iraq

- One soldier was killed Tuesday in a bomb attack north of Baghdad, Iraq.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

- Marine Lance Cpl. Robert T. Mininger, 21, Sellersville, Pa.; died Monday from wounds received in an explosion Sunday in Fallujah, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Regimental Combat Team-8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

- Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan L. Smith, 22, Eva, Ala.; killed Monday in an explosion in Fallujah, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Regimental Combat Team-8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.:

- Army Spc. Brian M. Romines, 20, Simpson, Ill.; died Monday in Baghdad, Iraq, when an explosive detonated near his vehicle; assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 123rd Field Artillery, Milan, Ill.

- Army Master Sgt. James C. Coons, 35, Conroe, Texas; died of an apparent suicide July 4, 2003, at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C.; assigned to the 385th Signal Company, 54th Signal Battalion, Camp Doha, Kuwait.

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On the Net:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5061552,00.html
How many children will have an image like this of their parents funeral seared in their memory ?

[understandinglife]

138. This is hard and painful, but we must continue to bring the facts ...

.... and encourage that these facts motivate and mobilize support for Congressman Conyers.

Thank you for posting the details.

We will continue this thread until the criminal acts of Bush and the neoconsters are halted and our dear, brave fellow citizens are no longer recklessly assigned to Bush's war on Iraq, Bush's war on civilization.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[EFerrari]

139. Meanwhile, back at the ranch

The City and Country of San Francisco is about to cut BY ONE HALF their funding for out patient substance abuse treatment. BY ONE HALF, a program that is incredibly effective, that saves lives.

This is happening ALL over the country while our tax monies are funneled to the Cabal's cronies.

The damage from cutting harm reduction services to people on meth alone will have a catastrophic effect both on our people and on our environment. In California, meth is among the top sources of pollution:

www.kci.org.

Don't let them get away with it.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

140. Get back up there, you're not finished yet

:kick:

[understandinglife]

141. Yes, MissionNotAccomplished will remain so until we have ...

..... have removed all US Nationals from Iraq, and indicted, and begun prosecuting Bush and all those who participated in the lies and deceit of the American people regarding his illegal war on Iraq.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[hiley]

143. 241,000 signitures !

Wow !
www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Ellipsis]

144. 386,722 n/t

[understandinglife]

146. Now at 425,703 signatures on Congressman Conyers letter!!

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Ellipsis]

147. 443,852

[hiley]

148. We may have a revolution

building, finally!

[Ellipsis]

149. 470642

5 more fallen

[understandinglife]

150. 477,687: keep pushing folk!

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

152. 482,415

http://www.moveonpac.org/tellthetruth/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

160. 495,974

http://www.moveonpac.org/tellthetruth

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Please, everyone, don't stop at 500,000 signatures; don't stop at 10,000,000 signatures; don't stop until Bush and the neoconsters are indicted and prosecuted for their heinous crimes against humanity and our Constitution.

[understandinglife]

161. 498,248

http://www.moveonpac.org/tellthetruth/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Please, everyone, don't stop at 500,000 signatures; don't stop at 10,000,000 signatures; don't stop until Bush and the neoconsters are indicted and prosecuted for their heinous crimes against humanity and our Constitution.

[understandinglife]

173. Over 540,000 per Congressman Conyers blog.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3866618

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Please, everyone, don't stop at 500,000 signatures; don't stop at 10,000,000 signatures; don't stop until Bush and the neoconsters are indicted and prosecuted for their heinous crimes against humanity and our Constitution.

[understandinglife]

176. Over 550,000 signatures: 122 Members of Congress

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Conyers_issues_statement_in_advance_of__0616.html



WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Please, everyone, don't stop at 500,000 signatures; don't stop at 10,000,000 signatures; don't stop until Bush and the neoconsters are indicted and prosecuted for their heinous crimes against humanity and our Constitution.

[flyarm]

154. thank you understanding life for all of your efforts...

i will follow all of your instructions on how to bring an inquiry about and to support conyers who is a brave patriot and an incredible human and a truely great american!!

[understandinglife]

158. Your support is deeply appreciated. Thank you (nt)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Please, everyone, don't stop at 500,000 signatures; don't stop at 10,000,000 signatures; don't stop until Bush and the neoconsters are indicted and prosecuted for their heinous crimes against humanity and our Constitution.

[understandinglife]

157. Frank Rich speaks truth to the arrogant, corrupt Bush neoconster regime.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3836428

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

159. Congressman Conyers uses his blog, once again, provocatively:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3837202&mesg_id=3837202

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Independent_Liberal]

169. Keeping this kicked!

[understandinglife]

170. Thank you!

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - new MNA website posted

[blm]

179. Nods again to you, ul.

patriot

[Tsiyu]

175. kick

because?

[savannahana]

177. sixteen paths of thought for the 16th of June 2005

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

- Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

- Thomas Jefferson


Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.
Source: in a letter to John Adams as quoted in John A. Stormer, None Dare Call it Treason (Florissant, MO: Liberty Bell Press, 1964) 93.

Confronted with such a tight regulation, can man pretend to be free because the tyranny he is subjected to derives from the law? Of course, the legal power is not called "tyranny" since it appears to be established by the general will in the common interest, and since, in any event, occurrences of arbitrary power are infrequent. But a master's equity does not mean that his subjects are not slaves. ... And when their servitude lasts and their thoughts follow their behavior, the state becomes totalitarian and subjection is complete. Since it is legal servitude, the regime is still said to be democratic. Such is the hypocrisy of political language.

- Georges Ripert
Source: Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine
(Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 69

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is this -- that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ... How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men?

- Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) English author
Source: "The Ethics of Dynamite", Contemporary Review, May 1894; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays, by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), pp. 202-203

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

- Ambrose Bierce

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only doing their duty, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

- George Orwell: London. UK. 1941.


They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.

- George Orwell


Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

- George Orwell


The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

- George Orwell


Read George Orwell's, 1984 online
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent and labour power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen.

<…> There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media – none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

- Howard Zinn, from A People’s History of the United States, first published 1981


There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable.

- U.S. historian Howard Zinn, 1993

No "terrorist" gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the(y), and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere.

- Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN: 10/03/2001



In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk, activist and writer

The War Prayer

by Mark Twain

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

(*After a pause.*) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2231.htm

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

- Haile Selassie

((((((((((( ~ courage ~ justice ~ peace ~ )))))))))))

[understandinglife]

180. "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent ...

.... people..." Howard Zinn.

Thank you for this exquisite post.

((((((((((( ~ courage ~ justice ~ peace ~ )))))))))))



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[savannahana]

197. in honor and remembrance of the 1724 human beings and their families

:cry:

[understandinglife]

200. “Dad To My Honorable Son” 15 June 2005

http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0605/GI-Special-3B6-1Dad-To-My-Honorable-Son.htm

From: Jack McLamb, Ret.

To: Jack McLamb, Major, US Army

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:12 AM

Subject: Dad to my honorable son

You probably already know this history son, but it is a most important history every soldier should know.

At 17 years of age the government told me that I should go to Vietnam and "kill little oriental people to save our nation and it's freedoms for all my countrymen." It was a lie then....as it is today in Afghanistan, Iraq, and it will be a lie when we are in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc., etc..

One of my favorite quotes is H.L. Mencken’s - "To die for an idea is unquestionably noble, be how much more noble it would be if men died for ideas that were true."

I pray that one day we soldiers will once again serve, and if need be die, for ideas that are true.

Son, I am proud of you for your earnest service and dedication to our nation and it's people.

Love and prayers,

Dad

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[BamaBecky]

206. kicked

[understandinglife]

220. War criminal Bu$h poll on CNN, 28 June 2005

http://www.cnn.com/

At 1922 PDT:

Do you approve of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war?

Yes 26% 64698 votes

No 74% 184631 votes

Total: 249329 votes


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - A simple question, my fellow Americans, "Why is Bu$h not yet in prison?"

[understandinglife]

224. "Some were little more than children when they signed up for the armed ...

... forces, like Ramona Valdez, who grew up in the Bronx and was just 17 when she joined the Marines. She was one of six service members, including four women, who were killed when a suicide bomber struck their convoy in Falluja last week.

Corporal Valdez wasn't even old enough to legally drink in New York. She died four days shy of her 21st birthday.

On July 2, 2003, with evidence mounting that U.S. troop strength in Iraq was inadequate, Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House, "There are some who feel that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, Bring 'em on."

It was an immature display of street-corner machismo that appalled people familiar with the agonizing ordeals of combat. Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, was quoted in The Washington Post as saying: "I am shaking my head in disbelief. When I served in the Army in Europe during World War II, I never heard any military commander - let alone the commander in chief - invite enemies to attack U.S. troops."

The American death toll in Iraq at that point was about 200, but it was clear that a vicious opposition was developing. Mr. Bush had no coherent strategy for defeating the insurgency then, and now - more than 1,500 additional deaths later - he still doesn't.

Read the full Op-Ed by Bob Herbert entitled "Dangerous Incompetence" at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/opinion/30herbert.html?hp

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[understandinglife]

225. June 30 2005: Veterans for Peace issue "Declaration of Impeachment"

VETERANS GROUP ISSUES “DECLARATION OF IMPEACHMENT”

AND ANNOUNCES PETITION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT BUSH

St. Louis – A national veterans’ organization today issued a “Declaration of Impeachment” and announced it is beginning an online petition to remove President Bush from office for crimes committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Using the same language as the original “Declaration of Independence,” Veterans For Peace cited many of the same reasons to remove George Bush that Thomas Jefferson cited to separate from King George of England. And in a modern version of the signing of the Declaration, VFP announced the posting of its online impeachment petition.

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Emphasizing the gravity with which Veterans for Peace takes the impeachment of George Bush, Cline concluded by quoting the final sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “And for the support of this Declaration…we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

To sign the online petition, or to read the “Declaration of Impeachment” and VFP’s documented case for removing George Bush, go to: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/impeachment/impeachment.htm

Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985, with 123 chapters across the country.

Full text of press release:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/impeachment/petition_release.pdf

http://www.newsparkproductions.org


Peace

www.missionnotaccomplished.us