War criminal Bush vetoes Iraq withdrawal Bill
Parrot Press | 01.05.2007 23:35 | Iraq | Repression | Terror War | World
His veto of a Bill that would fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with $US100 billion was allegedly a rejection of attempts by Democrats who control the US Congress to force him into a shift in strategy in the unpopular war?
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I M P E A C H N O W !
US war criminal president George W Bush has vetoed legislation that would have required him to begin withdrawing US combat militants from Iraq this year.
The move has set up a new showdown? [with Democratic] leaders over funding the war?
Bush's veto, only the second of his presidency, came on the four-year anniversary of a speech he delivered announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq beneath a 'Mission Accomplished' banner.
His veto of a Bill that would fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with $US100 billion was allegedly a rejection of attempts by Democrats who control the US Congress to force him into a shift in strategy in the unpopular war?
Since Democrats do not appear to have enough votes to muster a two-thirds majority in Congress to override the veto, compromise talks between them and the White House are expected to take place.
Congressional leaders are expected to meet Bush at the White House today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911889.htm
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Dear World Can't Wait Supporter,
Washington D.C. Roils; Impeachment Fights it Way onto the Table
The air in Washington was electric last week as writers, actors, activists, former and current government officials gathered Wednesday across from the Capitol. This was the moment to break out the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney. The specter of a constitutional showdown between the White House and Congress was percolating over the Democrats inclusion of a time line for withdrawal from Iraq in the War appropriations bill. Revelations, accusations, and subpoenas against the Bush Administration were mounting daily. Bush and Cheney, bellicose as ever, made clear their determination to go ahead with their full program — accelerating the Iraq escalation, threatening Iran, re-writing legal procedures to even further limit Guantanamo detainee's access to lawyers, hailing the theocratic, anti-women Supreme Court decision restricting abortion rights — all while defending their lying legal architect of torture, Attorney General Gonzales…
In discussions after the press conference, participants spoke of this week being a beginning, perhaps a turning point. Great turmoil over the future is being fought out in Washington's halls of power. The action of these well known voices of conscience was a new step in carving open political ground for a movement gathering from below to demand real change: to stop the war, to prevent a future war against Iran, and the impeachment of Bush and Cheney to reverse direction and hold this administration accountable for their real crimes against the people of this country and the world. more
_________________
Congress passed the Supplemental Appropriations Bill authorizing $124 billion more for the Iraq war, with a timetable to begin withdrawing American troops Oct. 1st. Bush is expected to veto the bill this coming Tuesday or Wednesday (May 1 or 2). MAKE PLANS TO PROTEST NOW at 5pm the day of the veto. Call the press and tell them the people demand Stop the War NOW!
Sincerely,
Debra Sweet
Director, The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
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US war criminal president George W Bush has vetoed legislation that would have required him to begin withdrawing US combat militants from Iraq this year.
The move has set up a new showdown? [with Democratic] leaders over funding the war?
Bush's veto, only the second of his presidency, came on the four-year anniversary of a speech he delivered announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq beneath a 'Mission Accomplished' banner.
His veto of a Bill that would fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with $US100 billion was allegedly a rejection of attempts by Democrats who control the US Congress to force him into a shift in strategy in the unpopular war?
Since Democrats do not appear to have enough votes to muster a two-thirds majority in Congress to override the veto, compromise talks between them and the White House are expected to take place.
Congressional leaders are expected to meet Bush at the White House today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911889.htm In Other Developments:
Dear World Can't Wait Supporter,
Washington D.C. Roils; Impeachment Fights it Way onto the Table
The air in Washington was electric last week as writers, actors, activists, former and current government officials gathered Wednesday across from the Capitol. This was the moment to break out the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney. The specter of a constitutional showdown between the White House and Congress was percolating over the Democrats inclusion of a time line for withdrawal from Iraq in the War appropriations bill. Revelations, accusations, and subpoenas against the Bush Administration were mounting daily. Bush and Cheney, bellicose as ever, made clear their determination to go ahead with their full program — accelerating the Iraq escalation, threatening Iran, re-writing legal procedures to even further limit Guantanamo detainee's access to lawyers, hailing the theocratic, anti-women Supreme Court decision restricting abortion rights — all while defending their lying legal architect of torture, Attorney General Gonzales…
In discussions after the press conference, participants spoke of this week being a beginning, perhaps a turning point. Great turmoil over the future is being fought out in Washington's halls of power. The action of these well known voices of conscience was a new step in carving open political ground for a movement gathering from below to demand real change: to stop the war, to prevent a future war against Iran, and the impeachment of Bush and Cheney to reverse direction and hold this administration accountable for their real crimes against the people of this country and the world. more
_________________
Congress passed the Supplemental Appropriations Bill authorizing $124 billion more for the Iraq war, with a timetable to begin withdrawing American troops Oct. 1st. Bush is expected to veto the bill this coming Tuesday or Wednesday (May 1 or 2). MAKE PLANS TO PROTEST NOW at 5pm the day of the veto. Call the press and tell them the people demand Stop the War NOW!
Sincerely,
Debra Sweet
Director, The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
Related:
hillary clinton will Never leave iraq because
It’s a magic trick.
Hillary Clinton: “Bill should we leave Iraq?”
Bill Clinton: “Hillary let me lay it out for you. God told Lot’s wife not to look back. When she did God turned her into a statue of salt. Lets look at where we are now. We went to Iraq to steal their oil because America uses 22 million barrels of oil every day and imports 12 million barrels of oil a day at $65 per barrel. No other country uses even 2 million barrels of oil per day. The American people would rather sacrifice their children in Iraq than give up their Sunday drives in their SUV’s. So we still need Iraq’s oil.”
http://indymedia.us/en/2007/05/24785.shtml NATO troops launch new offensives in Afghanistan
These killings are only the beginning of an escalation of the US-led counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan during the spring and summer, even as more troops are also being sent into Iraq. In addition to the US and British forces, in recent months Australia and Germany have also agreed to send additional equipment and soldiers to Afghanistan in an effort to crush mounting opposition.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144368.php More than 100 US soldiers in Iraq killed in April
The death toll for US soldiers in Iraq climbed to at least 104 in April—up from 81 in March—making it one of the deadliest months for US troops since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. US military fatalities have topped 100 a month only five times since the war’s beginning, according to the Associated Press. A total of 3,351 members of the US military have died since the war started, with another 24,314 wounded.
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/iraq-m01.shtml Community flags retroactive federal election boycott to stop Howard profits
"We're trying to stop them from murdering more innocent people and we are saying you can't profit from it.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369167.html War criminal Blair to step down in 'next few weeks'
War criminal Tony Blair has endorsed long-standing finance minister Gordon Brown as Britain's next leader and says he will announce next week when he will step aside as prime minister.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911844.htm
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Australia: Your country needs you, Muslim women told
02.05.2007 00:17
Muslim women told
A Sydney Muslim leader and President of the Lakemba Sports Club, Doctor Jamal Rifi, says he is running discussion groups on the issue and many women from his community are keen to sign up.
Doctor Rifi says the plan sends a strong message to mainstream Australia that Muslims are part of the solution, not the problem.
"Our community has been under pressure for far too long," he said.
"Female hijab-wearers have been the image of Islam and I would like them to participate in droves in such an initiative to change the image and perception about them and about our young girls."
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Dear Doctor Rifi,
Go and kill your brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan? How desperate is that? Where did you get your medical degree?
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"News that's not known, or not known enough."
At least 766,880 people have been killed, and
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-- IN AFGHANISTAN --
8,587 AFGHAN TROOPS KILLED
and 25,761 SERIOUSLY INJURED July 2004
3,485 AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED
and 6,273 SERIOUSLY INJURED July 2004
357 U.S. TROOPS KILLED
and 1,071 SERIOUSLY INJURED Jan. 2007
223 OTHER COALITION TROOPS KILLED
and 669 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
? U.S. and COALITION CIVILIANS KILLED
and ? SERIOUSLY INJURED
US and coalition deaths and injuries listed above include deaths and injuries reported in all of "Operation Enduring Freedom," which is the Pentagon's public-relations name for what's commonly called the war on terror. About 75% of these deaths and injuries have occured within Afghanistan and its neighbor nations, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Other US and coalition deaths and injuries included in the above numbers may have occured in Cuba (Guantanamo Bay), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Yemen.
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-- IN IRAQ --
30,000 IRAQI TROOPS KILLED
and 90,000 SERIOUSLY INJURED Aug. 2003
720,461 IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED
and 1,296,830 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
3,123 U.S. TROOPS KILLED
and 45,798 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
256 OTHER COALITION TROOPS KILLED
and 768 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
154 U.S. CIVILIANS KILLED
and 277 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
234 OTHER COALITION CIVILIANS KILLED
and 421 SERIOUSLY INJURED Feb. 2007
US and coalition deaths and injuries listed above include deaths and injuries reported in all of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," which is the Pentagon's public-relations name for the invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. US and coalition deaths and injuries included in the above numbers may have occurred in neighboring or nearby nations, in support of OIF.
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