Breakout of Pro-Israel PAC Campaign
Contributions
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407027.html
Your Tax Dollars At Work
http://www.halturnershow.com/IsraeliAtrocities.html
Israel wants its hands on the Litani river.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/02/10/15/65675.html
Excellent protest against John Bolton at Fox News HQ. Mad Props out to
the organizers for this early A.M. Sunday protest.
Dennis Hastert has lively protest
ground into his Chickenhawk face on way to Fox News
We slammed Newt Gingrich too, LMAO!
UFPJ’s letter to The Walrus:
Dear Ambassador Bolton,
On behalf of United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the largest antiwar
coalition in the United States, we want to express our concern over the
escalating crisis between Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine and urge you to
support a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate and
unconditional ceasefire.
We are gravely concerned about the loss of life on all sides. We condemn
all attacks on civilians, and call for the release of political prisoners
and POWs held on all sides in this conflict.
Hezbollah’s crossing of the Israeli border to capture two soldiers may have violated the 1949 Armistice between Israel and Lebanon. But it is important to note that Hezbollah attacked soldiers, not civilians. In addition, as the New York Times recognized on July 19, Hezbollah did not fire rockets into Israeli cities until after the Israeli army began bombing civilian areas of Lebanon.
The Israeli government could have chosen to engage in serious negotiations for a prisoner exchange, as they have so many times before. As recently as 2004, in a German-orchestrated swap, Hezbollah exchanged a kidnapped Israeli civilian and the remains of several Israeli soldiers killed in combat in Lebanon, for over 400 Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab prisoners.
Instead, the Israeli government chose to escalate what would have remained one of many common border skirmishes into a war. They have been deliberately shelling civilian areas and civilian infrastructure in both Lebanon and Gaza, creating a massive humanitarian crisis in both areas. Israel’s attacks were and are clearly disproportionate in their use of force. They constitute acts of collective punishment against the Lebanese and Palestinian populations – extremely serious violations of international law.
While the world is crying out for global intervention to stop the bloodshed, we are outraged by the response of the Bush administration. Instead of using its influence on Israel to stop the devastating attacks on the Lebanese and Palestinian populations, it has supported and enabled such attacks through supplying jet fuel, financing and political support. This, in violation of both international and domestic law – specifically, the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. And instead of rallying the international community to stop further bloodshed, it has blocked UN efforts to call for an immediate ceasefire.
We urgently call on the Bush administration to work with international partners to broker an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and commence negotiations to peacefully resolve all aspects of the crisis, with the goal being a comprehensive just and lasting peace in the region based on the implementation of international law.
We look forward to hearing your response.
Sincerely,
FORT STEWART, Ga. – During a rally for more than 8,000 Georgia troops, Vice President Dick Cheney administered the re-enlistment oath Friday to a 24-year-old Army gunner determined to remain in the ranks after losing his left leg last year to a bomb blast in Iraq.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/15094538.htm
Five of the world’s largest energy companies are expected to report combined second-quarter profits next week of more than $30 billion, a bounty fueled by worldwide economic growth and political instability that helped keep oil above $70 a barrel.
The oil industry is braced for a backlash in Washington, where elected officials are concerned about constituents in many parts of the country paying more than $3 a gallon at the pump. But some analysts say companies could face less criticism than usual given the attention focused on Middle East violence.
It’s all been planned out.
Just as Tom DeLay’s time as House Leader came to an end, ARMPAC has also come to an end.
On Wednesday, based on a complaint we filed against ARMPAC in August of 2005, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined ARMPAC $115,000—one of the top 50 fines in FECÂ’s history—and ARMPAC agreed to shut down.
Tom DeLay’s days as a powerbroker in Washington are over. From his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal, the violations of Texas campaign finance laws to his misuse of charitable organizations, Tom DeLay has violated the public trust for too long.
CREW, which played a significant role in DeLayÂ’s downfall, will continue to root out corrupt politicians like DeLay and hold them accountable for their actions.
Please help us keep corrupt politicians accountable: Support CREW with a $35 donation (or more) today. Click here to donate.
We could not have achieved this victory without your support and we pledge to continue exposing officials who violate the public trust. Thank you for working with us to create a more ethical and accountable government.
Sincerely,
Melanie Sloan
Executive Director
http://www.citizensforethics.org
TINY ISRAEL = 5TH LARGEST ARMY IN WORLD
ISRAEL = $10 BILLION YR MILITARY.
LEBANON = $500 MILLION YR MILITARY.
PALESTINE = $0 MILITARY. USA & ISRAEL HELD BACK $1 BILLION IN INTERNATIONAL AID TO PALESTINE - BECAUSE HAMAS WAS ELECTED. PALESTINIANS HAD TO GIVE BACK $50 MILLION IN FOREIGN AID BECAUSE HAMAS WAS ELECTED. * ISRAEL OWES PALESTINIANS AT LEAST $50 MILLION IN PALESTINIAN PAID TAXES.
2004 MILITARY SPENDING
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm
1. USA = $466 BILLION YR MILITARY.
2. CHINA = $65 BILLION YR MILITARY.
The three injured soldiers who took the oath and became citizens were Spc. Noe Santos-Dilone of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Spc. Sergio Lopez of Bolingbrook, Ill.; and Pfc. Eduardo Leal-Cardenas of Los Angeles. Santos-Dilone was a citizen of the Dominican Republic and the other two were citizens of Mexico.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_immigration
A bump on the Road to Totalitarianism
Bush’s Tactic of Refusing Laws Is
Probed
Bar Association Panel Criticizes President’s Many Challenges to Legislation
By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 24, 2006; Page A05
A panel of legal scholars and lawyers assembled by the American Bar Association is sharply criticizing the use of “signing statements” by President Bush that assert his right to ignore or not enforce laws passed by Congress.
In a report to be issued today, the ABA task force said that Bush has lodged more challenges to provisions of laws than all previous presidents combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/23/AR2006072300511.html
...and israel’s subsequent occupation/colonization/privatization
of Lebanam….just like Iraq…and just like Nicaragua when
ollie north and bush Sr. sold weapons to IRAN
and used that blood money to fund the Contras to slaughter 300,000
innocent Nicaraguans.
.But this time the fight is truly over fresh water (Israel wants full
access to Lebanon’s Litani River http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/litani.htm)..instead
of for oil (israel gets oil from iraq now via a restored pipeline there).
Had bushCo not assasinated Harriri, Syria would still be protecting
Lebanam, and could reign in Hezbollah.
Almost all of the weapons used by Israel are from the United States. There might be a couple French fighter planes that they’re using, but its F-16s made in Fort Worth, Texas; its Apache helicopters; its Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles; it’s all from the United States. So you have this real disconnect between an overemphasis on the supply by Iran and Syria of Hezbollah’s weapons and no discussion of the fact that all of the Israeli arsenal is from the United States, and that that is in contravention to U.S. law. to the Arms Export Control Act, which says that U.S.-origin weapons are only to be used for self-defense and for internal security.
Military aid stands at about $3 billion a year.
That’s about $500 for every Israeli citizen that the
United States provides on an annual basis. And then, weapons sales, most
recently, since the Bush administration came into power,
we’re looking at $6.3 billion worth of weaponry sold
to Israel.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/1432202
Also, those bullets used by u.s. soldiers against the raped and
murdered 14 yr old girl and her murdered family in Haditha,
Iraq…remember that war crime? Those bullets were made by israel.
The u.s. is so short of ammunition that it is buying its bullets from
israel now….Imagine that…..
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1544
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=16122
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0925-02.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060722/ap_on_re_us/bush_protesters
http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_more/163_0_15_0_M/
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_STF.htm
http://www.giwersworld.org/911/is-spies.phtml
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/92910.php
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a1535.htm
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/315848.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/315296.shtml
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=29321530 0
http://www.nogw.com/articles/911mother.html
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=1092638
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=17528
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595296823/sr=8-1/qid=1152993681/ref=sr_1_1/103 -9332885-3123013?ie=UTF8
NEW YORK - Wall Street rallied sharply Monday as the multibillion-dollar buyout of HCA Inc.
In the late-1990s, after a merger with Columbia Hospital Corporation, the company was investigated by the government for Medicare and Medicaid fraud and paid a settlement of $1.7 billion, the largest fraud settlement in US history. The CEO resigned but no criminal prosecutions resulted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corporation_of_America
NEW YORK - The group Human Rights Watch said in a report
released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive
interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the
Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060723/ap_on_re_us/detainee_abuse
“You can support the troops but not the president.”
—Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
“Well, I just think it’s a bad idea. What’s going to
happen is they’re going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20
years.”
—Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that
may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up
their life?”
—Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
“[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military
might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit
strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will
cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how
long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound
foreign policy.”
—Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
“American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply
put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good
foreign policy.”
—Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain
they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit
strategy.”
—Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
“I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . .
I didn’t think we had done enough in the diplomatic
area.”
—Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
“I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us
that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is
just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission
with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month
later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules
of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition
of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no
clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended
military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests
are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President
started this thing, and there still is no plan today”
—Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the
President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
—Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465003508
Review on Ali Ansari’s book:
Publishers Weekly, 19 June 2006
‘A scholarly but lucid account by a prominent British
historian.’
Synopsis
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s ongoing nuclear programme has provoked a major and menacing crisis in its relations with the US and other Western powers.
Ali Ansari, a Briton of Iranian origin, argues that the crisis is a symptom of broader, long-term fissures in US-Iranian relations, and in Confronting Iran he seeks to disentangle the myths that are at the bottom of this gulf in understanding which is compounded by the nature of the two states, their foreign policy establishments and the fraught history of their relations since the 1979 revolution. Ansari reviews the historical antecedents of the crisis, in particular US-Iranian relations since 9/11 and attempts by the EU to broker a settlement acceptable to all parties. He argues that the European position has been dictated as much by its relations with the US in the wake of the invasion of Iraq as by domestic politics in Iran, and he concludes by assessing the election of Mahmud Ahmadinejad as President and its likely impact on the view from Tehran and Washington. This account of a potential flashpoint in relations between the Muslim world and the West could not be more timely.
We heard Dr. Ansari speak at the Middle East Institute
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420103X
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks’s Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants.
The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.
As many in the military publicly acknowledge here for the first time, the guerrilla insurgency that exploded several months after Saddam’s fall was not foreordained. In fact, to a shocking degree, it was created by the folly of the war’s architects. But the officers who did raise their voices against the miscalculations, shortsightedness, and general failure of the war effort were generally crushed, their careers often ended. A willful blindness gripped political and military leaders, and dissent was not tolerated.
There are a number of heroes in Fiasco-inspiring leaders from the highest levels of the Army and Marine hierarchies to the men and women whose skill and bravery led to battlefield success in towns from Fallujah to Tall Afar-but again and again, strategic incoherence rendered tactical success meaningless. There was never any question that the U.S. military would topple Saddam Hussein, but as Fiasco shows there was also never any real thought about what would come next. This blindness has ensured the Iraq war a place in history as nothing less than a fiasco. Fair, vivid, and devastating, Fiasco is a book whose tragic verdict feels definitive.
About the Author
Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier’s Duty.
WASHINGTON - Backed into an uncomfortable corner, Rep. Robert Wexler (news, bio, voting record) stared straight into the camera and proclaimed that he enjoys cocaine and prostitutes “because it’s a fun thing to do.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_el_ho/wexler_comedy_central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wexler
1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?
2. Is the Iraq War is going well?
3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to “stand up” so that America can “stand down”?
4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?
5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?
6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America’s energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?
7. Do you believe in the President’s call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?
8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?
9. Why do you think they haven’t been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?
10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter’s wedding?
“We must use terror, assasinations, intimidation, land confiscation and especially cut-off of all social services to rid ourselves of the Arab (Palestinian) populations”
- Ben Gurion , May 1948
Ben-Gurion was born as David Grün in
Płońsk, Poland which was then part of the
Russian Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQSQXgdkmeo
1) What has been the level of Hezbollah military engagement with Israel during the past 5 years?
2) What are the implications of Michel Aoun’s Christian opposition party and Hezbollah forming an alliance in February?
3)What would either Iran or Syria CONCEIVABLY have to gain by initiating hostilities at this time? In addition, what evidence is there that either nation IS promoting this confrontation?
4) What evidence is there that Hezbollah ITSELF envisioned a confrontation with Israel, rather than an exchange of prisoners?
5) What does ISRAEL have to gain by this confrontation?
6)Why do American Christians support Israel when Israel itself has rejected God in favour of guns and bombs? Please be advised
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