LONDON TODAY? What about Iraq for 2-1/2 Years?
Clayton Hallmark | 07.07.2005 15:16 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | London
(FROM THE USA)
Horrifying pictures are coming out of Iraq today and every day -- have been for almost two and a half years. And all the media wants to show us and talk about is three subway blasts and a bus blast in London. These are white people! They share our history! They share our religion!
If you want to see the face of horror, look for images of Iraq on www.antiwar.com or www.jihadunspun or Google.
What has been happening in Iraq -- that is what is BARBARIC.
What happened in London is a consequential TRAGEDY. I hate that it happened. It is terrorism, and I hate terrorism.
What the UK and USA have been doing in Iraq is even worse -- it is state-sanctioned (Not in Our Name?) and thus is on a scale orders of magnitude greater.
TED KOPPEL: The next time you feel like reading names on the air, read off the names of civilians killed in Iraq. Whether it is 5000 or 12,000 or 100,000 (as the British medical journal Lancet and the US Johns Hopkins University research shows) -- I guarantee that you will be opposing the war after reading for a few days.
It is time to leave Iraq. Cut and run? Hardly. Defend the US, yes, but that is not what Iraq is about, and you know it. It will be much easier for the Army to defend the US if we use it for its intended purpose rather than as an economic instrument.
Horrifying pictures are coming out of Iraq today and every day -- have been for almost two and a half years. And all the media wants to show us and talk about is three subway blasts and a bus blast in London. These are white people! They share our history! They share our religion!
If you want to see the face of horror, look for images of Iraq on www.antiwar.com or www.jihadunspun or Google.
What has been happening in Iraq -- that is what is BARBARIC.
What happened in London is a consequential TRAGEDY. I hate that it happened. It is terrorism, and I hate terrorism.
What the UK and USA have been doing in Iraq is even worse -- it is state-sanctioned (Not in Our Name?) and thus is on a scale orders of magnitude greater.
TED KOPPEL: The next time you feel like reading names on the air, read off the names of civilians killed in Iraq. Whether it is 5000 or 12,000 or 100,000 (as the British medical journal Lancet and the US Johns Hopkins University research shows) -- I guarantee that you will be opposing the war after reading for a few days.
It is time to leave Iraq. Cut and run? Hardly. Defend the US, yes, but that is not what Iraq is about, and you know it. It will be much easier for the Army to defend the US if we use it for its intended purpose rather than as an economic instrument.
FROM THE USA
Continue the G8 2005 protests. Globalization is the same enemy today it was yesterday. George Bush is the same enemy today he was yesterday.
Nothing has changed to stop the protests. Indeed the reason for the protests becomes clearer through the smoke of the tubes and the smoke and mirrors of Gleneagles.
Enjoy the Olympics in 2012, yes, but let others around the world live in peace, not under constant threat of attack by fanatics in the Pentagon and White House and their lap dogs in London.
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Horrifying pictures are coming out of Iraq today and every day -- have been for almost two and a half years. And all the media wants to show us and talk about is three subway blasts and a bus blast in London. These are white people! They share our history! They share our religion!
If you want to see the face of horror, look for images of Iraq on www.antiwar.com or www.jihadunspun or Google.
What has been happening in Iraq -- that is what is BARBARIC.
What happened in London is a consequential TRAGEDY. I hate that it happened. It is terrorism, and I hate terrorism.
What the UK and USA have been doing in Iraq is even worse -- it is state-sanctioned (Not in Our Name?) and thus is on a scale orders of magnitude greater.
TED KOPPEL: The next time you feel like reading names on the air, read off the names of civilians killed in Iraq. Whether it is 5000 or 12,000 or 100,000 (as the British medical journal Lancet and the US Johns Hopkins University research shows) -- I guarantee that you will be opposing the war after reading for a few days.
It is time to leave Iraq. Cut and run? Hardly. Defend the US, yes, but that is not what Iraq is about, and you know it. It will be much easier for the Army to defend the US if we use it for its intended purpose rather than as an economic instrument.
Continue the G8 2005 protests. Globalization is the same enemy today it was yesterday. George Bush is the same enemy today he was yesterday.
Nothing has changed to stop the protests. Indeed the reason for the protests becomes clearer through the smoke of the tubes and the smoke and mirrors of Gleneagles.
Enjoy the Olympics in 2012, yes, but let others around the world live in peace, not under constant threat of attack by fanatics in the Pentagon and White House and their lap dogs in London.
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Horrifying pictures are coming out of Iraq today and every day -- have been for almost two and a half years. And all the media wants to show us and talk about is three subway blasts and a bus blast in London. These are white people! They share our history! They share our religion!
If you want to see the face of horror, look for images of Iraq on www.antiwar.com or www.jihadunspun or Google.
What has been happening in Iraq -- that is what is BARBARIC.
What happened in London is a consequential TRAGEDY. I hate that it happened. It is terrorism, and I hate terrorism.
What the UK and USA have been doing in Iraq is even worse -- it is state-sanctioned (Not in Our Name?) and thus is on a scale orders of magnitude greater.
TED KOPPEL: The next time you feel like reading names on the air, read off the names of civilians killed in Iraq. Whether it is 5000 or 12,000 or 100,000 (as the British medical journal Lancet and the US Johns Hopkins University research shows) -- I guarantee that you will be opposing the war after reading for a few days.
It is time to leave Iraq. Cut and run? Hardly. Defend the US, yes, but that is not what Iraq is about, and you know it. It will be much easier for the Army to defend the US if we use it for its intended purpose rather than as an economic instrument.
Clayton Hallmark
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Lay it on heavy!
07.07.2005 17:37
We now have proof, thanks to you folks in the UK with the Downing St memos, that Bush planned war on Iraq prior to 9/11. In addition, the trade and debt policies of the G8 kill so many people by starvation and didsease it is like 9/11 THREE TIMES A DAY for the Global South.
Occupying Iraq and kicking in doors is terrorism. Starving millions to death is terrorsim. Yes, bombing transit systems that offer an alternative to cars is also terrorism and bad for Earth as well, but the worst attacks come from "MY" country, the USA, that kills this many people every day in Iraq alone. Neither transit systems in London nor day care centers in Fallujah can by any stretch of the imagination be called legitimate military targets.
Mourn the dead-and then fight like hell for the living! Know also that solidarity protests are takingnplace all over the world. Today in Washington we are having a 24 hour bike ride in protest of global warmin-ends at 6PM EDT. Tomorrow in Richmond, Virginia a massive G8 prottest will connect local to global by laying seige the the corporate headquarters on Massey Coal, responsible for levelling entire mountain ranges in Appalacia for coal-and for arson of mine opponent's homes in West Virginia.
Like you folks in the UK, we have been bombed in the US by war criminals stirred up by our so-called leaders. We have not beeed deterred in any way from opposing these warmongers by this fact, as it is our best home of not being hit again!
Luke from Washington, DC