"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.'"

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the real meaning of haditha, tom engelhardt

Collateral Damage

The "Incident" at Haditha

By Tom Engelhardt

First news stories about the My Lai massacre (picked up from an army publicity release), March 1968: The New York Times labeled the operation a significant success: "American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement on ( Read more... )

"Unfortunately, there were some really bad things that happened [involving the Middle East], and I think if we don't cut out the cancer while it's still young, then it's gonna grow to be this entity that we may not be able to defend ourselves against," Godsmack frontman Sully Erna said, pulling a page from the quote book of National Security ( Read more... )

TJP Human Shield Action Iraq

i don't know how i feel about it, honestly. part of me feels i should be signing up to go right now. the other parts of me refuse to even consider it. they refuse to explain why, too. i really hope they have a good reason.

upon reading geechee's post a few days ago, i have to qualify the rangel quote i put up two posts ago. while it is true that african americans enlist at a higher proportion compared to whites, they are in fact under-represented in frontline positions, instead filling non-combat roles. the idea that is coming to the fore right now among pundits is that ( Read more... )

...The stages of history are replete with the chants and choruses of the conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace. Alexander, Ghenghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon were akin in their seeking a peaceful world order, a world fashioned after their selfish conceptions of an ideal existence. Each sought a world at peace ( Read more... )

i really wish i had participated. i suck. but i'm going to go ahead and take undeserved pride in those tens of thousands who did. i think it especially says something that the nytimes article reported it that way too. for those of you who did participate my admiration cannot be properly expressed in these words. hello, america :)

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1.17.03 white house press briefing

Q Is he worried about going to war with a sizeable percentage of the population not supporting him?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure that it's fair to say that it's sizeable. I think it is anybody's guess. But there are equal numbers of people who -- larger numbers of people who, of course, are very much in support ( Read more... )

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i'm reminded of pearl jam's music video for "do the evolution"

you know, the part where the little single celled organisms evolve into cruel animals and destroy their world?

Guardian: UN inspectors fear Bush will ignore them

UN weapons inspectors in Iraq fear their work - which has failed to turn up any evidence thus far of weapons of mass ( Read more... )