Do Americans Know What Happened in Iraq?by Michael O'Brien, September 06, 2010 A Fox News poll released last week indicates the majority of Americans feel the Iraq war was a success. It also suggests they want to get past it and focus on other things. This is good and bad. It is good that average Americans can put our invasion of Iraq in 2003 out of their minds. It is bad because it indicates they don’t know what happened, or don’t care.According to the Fox News article, 900 people were surveyed by telephone and asked questions such as “Do you...
Monday, 6 September 2010
‘They Kill Alex’
‘They Kill Alex’Posted on Sep 6, 2010By Chris HedgesCarlos Arredondo, a native Costa Rican, stands in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine, next to his green Nissan pickup truck. The truck, its tailgate folded down, carries a flag-draped coffin and is adorned with pictures of his son, Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004. The truck and a trailer he pulls with it have become a mobile shrine to his boy. He drives around the country, with the aid of donations, evoking a mixture of sympathy and hostility....
Bring Them Home
Bring Them Home ~ Bring Them Home ~ I sit on my front porch And view a beautiful scene Looking at grass So smooth and so green Then my mind flashes quickly To a far away land Where many dear loved ones...
BRING THEM HOME (IF YOU LOVE YOUR UNCLE SAM)
BRING THEM HOME (IF YOU LOVE YOUR UNCLE SAM)Pete Seeger's 2003 versionIf you love this land of the freeBring 'em home, bring 'em homeBring all troops back from overseasBring 'em home, bring 'em homeIt will make the generals sad, I knowBring 'em home, bring 'em homeThey want to tangle with the foeBring 'em home, bring 'em homeThey want to test their weaponryBring 'em home, bring 'em homeHere is their big fallacyBring 'em home, bring 'em homeOur foe is hunger and ignoranceBring 'em home, bring 'em homeYou can't beat that with bombs and gunsBring...
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