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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:04 AM
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Three more soldiers die in Iraq. Where is the anger?
Why doesn't a newsnetwork go to all the funerals,visit the families? Where are all the wounded? Shouldn't someone talk to them? Is there a website that tracks KIAs and WIAs?
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livinontheedge Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:11 AM
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1. There is plenty of anger.
The wingnuts have cowed to media to report "good news".
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:11 AM
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2. Haven't you heard
Well all do the happy dance here when soldiers get killed. I read it at Free Republic </sarcasm>
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 07:01 PM
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8. What you wrote was not sarcasm. Those braindead pricks believe we
do that.
:grr:
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:20 AM
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3. come walk with us tomorrow (Oct.25, Sat) in DC/SF)...show

bush* how outraged you are....walk with Veterans, religious leaders of all faiths, families of soldiers, government employees, unions, teachers, EVERYBODY from 160 cities across America...in DC and SF, and cities all across America.....

all info here about the Marches

Meet at Washington Memorial, Sat. Oct 25
BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME NOW !!!!
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org

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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:43 PM
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10. Meet at Washington Memorial?
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 08:47 PM by Bertha Venation
I drive past the Washington Memorial twice a day. I suppose there are ways to get around the 8-ft tall whitewashed wooden wall that's been erected around it, but I don't know where the gates are, if there are any. I'd guess that the wall encompasses roughly 3-4 football fields of space around the obelisk. I have been wondering for weeks what form this protest is going to take, when it's set to begin there: at what is perhaps the country's most recognizable geographic rallying point, currently walled off from its citizens.

I admire anyone who has the energy and drive to march. I have the heart but not the other requisites for physical protest. I hope with all my heart that the protests tomorrow are wildly successful.

http://www.nps.gov/wamo/ "THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT REMAINS OPEN; HOWEVER, THE GROUNDS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR RE-LANDSCAPING AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS. PLEASE ENTER THE MONUMENT FROM OUR 15TH STREET ACCESS." (emphasis added)
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:25 AM
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4. There are several sites...here is one that's usually up to date
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Flying_Pig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:43 AM
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5. At times, my anger is overwhelmed by sadness ...
This feels soooooo much like the Vietnam War. Faceless (to everyone but their families) kids being killed and maimed every day, whilst the government lies, and lies, and lies. They hide the dirt, and threaten the survivors. And just like Vietnam, it looks as if the really guilty ones, will walk free. At the least, they'll get book deals, new jobs with the military-industrial complex, or big dollar lobbying outfits. Ain't life grand?

I don't know how tomorrow's marches will go, but I suppose we can count on the media to downplay them all, just like they did before. What we really need, is for the families of those killed an injured, to step forward and speak their minds. We need them to make it personal, to all Americans.

We also need the families of the 9/11 victims to step up their actions. Then, we need some outfits like 60 Minutes to run several more pieces on all of the deceptions and lies.

Somewhere, somehow, this stuff has to catch on sooner or later, becoming so powerful, it will overcome the media's attempts to bury it, and the Bush cabal's attempts to stop it. Critical mass, that's what's needed.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:46 AM
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6. "support the troops" freepers
Are fair-weather fuckheads.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 12:16 PM
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7. people are being numbed...
A few "here and there" is having less impact--that we can see. Over time, people will tire of this occupation and the whole "war." It's a question of attrition of the will.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 07:37 PM
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9. In the last ABC News/Washington Post poll,
38% of those polled said the casualties were acceptable and 59% said they were not. Additionally, 54% said the administration had no clear plan for dealing with Iraq.

People may not be angry, but that does not mean that they feel comfortable with these deaths and it does not mean that they don't hold the administration responsible.
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