Category Archives: War

Grandmothers Against the War

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Daily Bread

Grandmothers Against the War vigil on the occasion of the 4000th U.S. soldier’s death in combat. Outside of Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Granny Peace Brigade Blog

Grandmothers Against the War

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Bloody Hands

Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

Cheney: ‘The All-Volunteer Force’ : “The president carries the biggest burden, obviously,” Cheney said. “He’s the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans, but we are fortunate to have a group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm’s way for the rest of us.”

Joan Wile
“GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST THE WAR: GETTING OFF OUR FANNIES AND STANDING UP FOR PEACE,” by Joan Wile with a foreword by best-selling author, Malachy McCourt, will be realeased on April 29 by Citadel Press.
Signing at Barnes & Noble, Broadway and 82nd Street, on Monday, May 5, at 7 PM.
Joan Says: Malachy will introduce me, and our defense attorney, noted civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel, will also make some remarks. Many of the grannies discussed in the book will be there, too, and I hope to introduce them to you.

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Vigils for the 4000 Dead US Soldiers in the NYC Area

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Monday, March 24 EL BARRIO starting 5:00 PM, 103rd & Lexington Ave.: Army Recruiting Station facing Ortiz Funeral Parlor; questions Gloria E. Quinones <geq339 At earthlink.net>

Monday, March 24, MIDTOWN 6:00 PM on west side of Fifth Ave. btw. 49th & 50th Streets;
<joan.wile AT grandmothersagainstthewar.org> (possibly with Vets For Peace)

Monday, March 24 in STATEN ISLAND 7:00 until 8:30 PM at St. George Recruiting Center & Post Office, 45 Bay Street near the ferry. www.icasualties.org Mourn 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 1.5 million Iraqis. Various groups: 718.309.7458, 347.524.5631 <statenisland @ mds-nyc.org>

Monday, March 24 WHITE PLAINS nowarwestchester.org Chuck Bell — 914 830 0639

Tuesday March 25 UNION SQUARE NYC at 6:30 PM (south plaza & steps) — The long-planned American Friends Service Committee “day after” vigil. Bring candles & pictures if possible. Questions 212.598.0958 <IBieri at afsc.org>. http://www.afsc.org/4000

Wednesday, March 26, Teaneck 4:30-7:00 pm with 5:00 pm press conference & reading of the names of the troops from New Jersey and Iraqi people killed Mark the death of over 4000 US troops and 1 million Iraqis — National Guard Armory Teaneck Road and Liberty Road. Frequent buses right to armory from Port Authority or GWB bus station.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked what effect the grim milestone of at least 4,000 U.S. deaths in the five-year Iraq war might have on the nation.

Noting the burden placed on military families, the vice president said the biggest burden is carried by President George W. Bush, who made the decision to commit US troops to war, and reminded the public that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty.

According to iraqbodycount.org there are 82,349 – 89,867 documented civilian deaths from violence.

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Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Sibel Edmonds
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her. She’s Prepared to Name Names, Including Those of Two ‘Well-Known’ Congress Members Involved in Criminal Corruption.The ‘Most Gagged Person in U.S. History’ Tells The BRAD BLOG She’s Now Exhausted All Other Channels…

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Tony Snow & Helen Thomas

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Top Ten Tony Snow Exchanges With Helen Thomas

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Bush just playing us with ‘troop withdrawal’

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Your goal is not to bring some troops home, maybe, if we let you have your way now. Your goal is not to set the stage for eventual withdrawal. You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, playing at getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this bottomless pit with you, and take us with him, as we stay in Iraq for another year, and another, and another, and anon.
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Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

In a town hall meeting in Bloomsburg, Pa. this week, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, a 12-term congressman, said that shortly before Congress was scheduled to vote on authorizing military force against Iraq, top officials of the CIA showed select members of Congress three photographs it alleged were Iraqi Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones. Kanjorski said he was told that the drones were capable of carrying nuclear, biological, or chemical agents, and could strike 1,000 miles inland of east coast or west coast cities.

Kanjorski said he and four or five other congressmen in the room were told UAVs could be on freighters headed to the U.S. Both secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and President Bush wandered into and out of the briefing room…
…Until he saw the pictures, Kanjorski said, “I hadn’t thought that Iraq was a threat.” That second meeting changed everything. After he left that meeting, said Kanjorski, he was willing to give the President the authorization he wanted since the drones “represented an imminent danger.”
Several years later, Kanjorski said he learned that the pictures were “a god-damned lie,” apparently taken by CIA photographers in the desert in the southwest of the U.S.

Read the rest of the story: Counterpunch

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