Danger Of Staged Terror Attack at Red Alert Level
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/210805stagedterror.htm
At no greater time since 9/11 than during the next few months have we faced such an imminent danger of a staged terror attack being carried out to reign in the seeds of dissent and again rally the sleeping masses behind the elite.
They Are Stardust, And in Texas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/21/AR2005082101113.html
At the Crawford Protest Camp, Growing Echoes of Woodstock
Counter-Recruitment demonstrators shot with Tasers, bitten by dogs
Today in Oakland in front of the Army Recruiting Center on Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh Police and University of Pittsburgh Police fought with protestors on the sidewalk. At least six people were arrested; police fired tasers and other weapons at the crowd, including restrained arrestees and bystanders.
George WMD Bush will launch a new round of speeches to rally support for the war in Iraq, as protesters camped outside Bush's Texas home and polls showed weaker support for the two-year conflict.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/21/bush.iraq/
Senior aides say Bush will attempt to portray the Iraq conflict in the context of long wars like World War II, which U.S. forces fought from 1941 to 1945.They said the president also will invoke the September 11, 2001, attacks, arguing once again that the insurgents battling American troops in Iraq share the same ideology as the al Qaeda operatives who crashed hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring
-- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Open Letter to GWB from a Gold Star Mom
So, Mr. President, exactly what is the "noble cause" that my son and the other sons and daughters are dying for? It's not the liberation of Iraq and it's not for Democracy, because most of the people of the Middle East don't want democracy. It's not to fight terrorism because we are only fanning the flames of terrorists every day that American troops are in Iraq. It is not to make America safer because you have done nothing to make America safer. Your "noble cause" couldn't possibly have anything to do with giving the Iraqi people a better life, because their lives are worse now, not better. Our boarders are wide open for terrorists to come across, but you insist on keeping them open to make your pal, Vincente Fox, happy. Your "noble cause" changes from week to week.
How can you be PRO WAR?
PRO WAR supporters create opposing camp!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/20/crawford.counterprotest.ap/
"If I have to sacrifice my whole family for the sake of our country and world, other countries that want freedom, I'll do that," said the soldier's father, Gary Qualls, a friend of the local business owner who started the pro-Bush camp. He said his 16-year-old son now wants to enlist, and he supports that decision.
Downtown, more Bush supporters arrived at a pro-Bush camp that had been set up as a reaction to Sheehan's. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 150 people had visited the large tent with "God Bless Our President!" and "God Bless Our Troops" banners and a life-size cardboard cutout of Bush.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082200149_pf.html
The pro-Bush camp is called "Fort Qualls," for Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, 20, killed in Fallujah last fall. His father, Gary Qualls of Temple, said the anti-war demonstrators are being disrespectful to soldiers. Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, also died last year in Iraq. He is among more than 1,800 U.S. soldiers killed since the March 2003 invasion.
Qualls' frustration with the anti-war demonstrators erupted last week when he removed a cross bearing his son's name that was among hundreds the group had put up along the road to Bush's ranch.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050821/ap_on_re_us/peace_mom_8
Qualls called the protesters' views disrespectful to soldiers, and said he had to yank out two more crosses after protesters kept replacing them.
The backlash comes as the Bush administration struggles to maintain support for its policies in Iraq. A majority of Americans now think the invasion was a mistake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1553853,00.html
Yesterday, an influential Republican senator added his voice to the growing chorus of critics, saying the longer the US stayed bogged down in Iraq, the more the conflict looked like another Vietnam war.
Bomb kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, deadliest assault in 2 months
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050821/w082126.html
Some 187 U.S. military personnel have been killed in and around Afghanistan since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in late 2001 - including 64 during a rash of insurgent attacks in the last six months, which have left about 1,000 other people dead as well.
"It's been a long, hard road, and people are going to question whether it's worth it," he said. "But I think Sept. 11 is still fresh enough in people's minds that the American public will support (the government)."
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050822/1046919.asp
If the public were to swing sharply against the war, that could "cheapen the sacrifices these guys have made?"
It's been 1,434 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050820/us_nm/bush_dc
The Bush administration justified going to war in Iraq in 2003 by saying it posed a threat because of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. None have been found.
The banner decorating the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, when President Bush announced an end to "major combat operations" in Iraq, turns out to have been accurate after all. If only the president himself had taken to heart the banner's proclamation of "Mission Accomplished." For by that date, having deposed Saddam Hussein, the United States had achieved in Iraq just about all that it has the capacity to achieve. The time has come for Bush to dig the banner out of the closet, drape it across the front of the White House and make it the basis for policy instead of continuing under the inglorious banner of "Mission Impossible."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/20/AR2005082000114.html
What will pulling out of Iraq mean for the United States? It will certainly not mean losing access to Iraqi oil, which will inevitably find its way to the market. To be sure, bringing the troops home will preclude the Pentagon from establishing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq -- but the Bush administration has said all along that we don't covet such bases anyway. In addition, withdrawal will put an end to extravagant expectations of using Iraq as a springboard for democratizing the Islamic world -- but that notion never qualified as more than a pipe dream anyway. For Bush personally, the consequences of leaving Iraq might be the most painful. The prospect of looking antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan in the eye to explain exactly what her son died for will become even more daunting. But as it is, the president can't dodge that question indefinitely. Postponing the issue simply swells the ranks of those with similar questions to ask.
Refusal to See Sheehan Is Second-Guessed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/20/AR2005082001046.html
A Decision Characteristic of Bush Has the Potential to Be a Consequential Act
CINDY SHEEHAN couldn't have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" by going fishing. On this Aug. 6 the president was no less determined to shrug off bad news. Though 14 marine reservists had been killed days earlier by a roadside bomb in Haditha, his national radio address that morning made no mention of Iraq. Once again Mr. Bush was in his bubble, ensuring that he wouldn't see Ms. Sheehan coming. So it goes with a president who hasn't foreseen any of the setbacks in the war he fabricated against an enemy who did not attack inside the United States in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/opinion/21rich.html
THIS summer in Crawford, the White House went to this playbook once too often. When Mr. Bush's motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift Boating the war's critics has reached its Waterloo before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury in Washington. The 24/7 cable and Web attack dogs can keep on sliming Cindy Sheehan. The president can keep trying to ration the photos of flag-draped caskets. But this White House no longer has any more control over the insurgency at home than it does over the one in Iraq.
Army Planning for 4 More Years in Iraq
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/20/D8C3QATG0.html
Why?
There were no WMDs.
Iraq was not aiding Al Qaeda.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11.
Saddam is in jail.
The Iraqi people do not want want the US there.
So, why stay another four days, let alone four years?
