GOP'S KILLING FLOOR

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JF will ROCKS MON! YEAH!

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The Astounding Costs of the Iraq Occupation: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans

By John Tirman, The Nation

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Robert Fisk on the Slaughter of Civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan

"Collateral Damage Not Much Different From Targeted Killing" -- When U.S. troops massacre Iraqi civilians in Haditha because their buddy has been murdered, what is the difference between their revenge and that of Saddam? The Iraqi dictator was hanged in Baghdad in 2006, cursed by his hooded Shia Al-Dawa executioners as he stood on the scaffold. For us, there will be no hangings.

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In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, "America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: Worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War." He was surely right then. Except that what once looked like a period now seems like an epoch. * Whoa and Woe : Living In Sarah Palin's America * By David Michael Green

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HERE WE GO AGAIN ! * Speaking before the Pentecostal church, VP wanabe Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

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McCAIN'S NEOCON WARMONGER * And none dare call it treason. By Patrick J. Buchanan 22/08/08 - Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.

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Lucky us.

As if we needed to prove to the world that, no, Bush isn't the most horrible president possible. Just look at who's following him into the White House.

The elitists would tell either winner exactly what to do when and why. But at least with Obama, we'd have a compassionate person trying to assuage us with what little aloe vera is left.

With McCain, it's FULL RAMMING SPEED AHEAD AND FORGET THE K-Y JELLY. THIS IS GONNA HURT AND THE SOONER YOU SCREAM THE BETTER OFF YOU'LL BE.

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obama,hillaroid,and mccain scare me

[JFWilliam]

And rightly so, for I'm afraid the system they protect(the US Empire) is but a child chewing monster in full military regalia bound to cause more death & misery at best & the end of civilisation as we know it at worst. Meanwhile... "We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

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REPUBLICANS & MILITARY PERSONNEL AGAINST McCAIN ON THE WAR * If Wes Clark questioning John McCain's ability to lead our country wasn't enough, check out Pat Buchanan saying McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi. As this chilling video from Aaron Hodgins Davis suggests, more and more Republicans and servicemembers who oppose the war in Iraq and the possibility of another in Iran are coming out against McCain for following in Bush's hawkish footsteps. Bravenewfilms(dot)org

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VETERANS AGAINST McCAIN * VoteVets(DOT)org is a pro-military organization committed to the destruction of terror networks around the world, with force when necessary. It represents the Voice of America's 21 Century Patriots - those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. VoteVets(DOT)org is unveiling a national cable ad calling on Senator John McCain to listen to the sovereign government of Iraq, by setting timetables for the redeployment of U.S. forces from the Iraq war.

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U.S. PERPETUATES MASS KILLINGS IN IRAQ / We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000. This report comes on the heels of two earlier studies conducted by Johns Hopkins University published in the Lancet medical journal that confirmed the continuing numbers of mass deaths in Iraq. The 2006 study confirms that US aerial bombing in civilian neighborhoods caused over a third of these deaths. By Peter Phillips

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"Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons." - Frank Zappa

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McCAIN : WAY UNDER PAR THEN AS HE IS NOW * Alec Sokolow: 'What do you call the person who graduates fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis? The Republican Party nominee for President. That's right. Senator John McCain actually graduated 894th out of 899 middies at the Naval Academy. Only five other crew cuts achieved less than John McCain did in his class at Annapolis.' 6/4

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WE THE PEOPLE ! * Did we really evolve for millions upon millions of years just to let an elitist group of small-minded, greedy, sociopathic apes dominate us and direct our lives with lies & terror, while they hoard all the wealth & privelege and leave us with barely enough scraps to live meaningful lives ? DON'T LET THEM TRICK US INTO WORLD WAR 3 !

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"BOMB SYRIA" Woolsey advises McCain * Former CIA head James Woolsey heads group of neo-con advisors to John McCain. The GOP's candidate has recruited several members of "The Committee on the Present Danger" as foreign policy advisors, including former CIA head James Woolsey. Do Woolsey's viewpoints represent McCain's vision for America and the world ? You betcha ! Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb us all back to the stone age !

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U.S. DEPLOYS MORE THAN 43,000 UNFIT FOR COMBAT * WASHINGTON — More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This reliance on troops found medically "non-deployable" is another sign of stress placed on a military that has sent 1.6 million servicemembers to the war zones, soldier advocacy groups say. By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

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THE McCAIN AGENDA : WAR & MORE WAR ! Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America's most ennobling enterprise. The Militarist By Matthew Yglesias

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JOHN McCAIN ADORES WAR BUT IGNORES THE WARRIORS * Everyone knows McCain is a former prisoner of war, but did you know he refuses to support a bipartisan effort to modernize the GI Bill and has voted against nearly every effort to increase funding for healthcare and disability benefits for wounded soldiers? Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) gave him a D+ when they scored his voting record. By Aaron Glantz

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I WILL BE HAMAS'S WORST NIGHTMARE ! * John McCain was on a conference call with right-wing bloggers yesterday and boasted: I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst nightmare. * John McCain's Serious Foreign Policy By Glen Greenwald *

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THE IRAK WAR MORPHS INTO THE IRANIAN WAR * It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel. By Paul Craig Roberts

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WHY WON'T McCAIN SUPPORT OUR VETS ? a Brave New Films by Robert Greenwald * Vote Vets, WesPAC, and Brave New Films feel passionately about giving our veterans the support they rightly deserve. Our government owes our troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan the opportunity to receive full educational benefits. These patriots have fought hard for our government; it's time our government started fighting hard for them.

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GAO BLAST WEAPONS BUDGET : Cost Overruns Hit $295 Billion * Government auditors issued a scathing review yesterday of dozens of the Pentagon's biggest weapons systems, saying ships, aircraft and satellites are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. In addition, none of the systems that the GAO looked at had met all of the standards for best management practices during their development stages. By Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post Staff Writer / Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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PLAYING POLITICS WITH LIFES * One begins to understand why Gen. Petraeus wants a "pause" in the pullout of U.S. forces, and why Bush agrees. This will leave more U.S. troops in Iraq on Inauguration Day 2009, than on Election Day 2006, when the country voted the Democrats into power to bring a swift end to the war.

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BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN ! It took a force of rebellious generals and senior intelligence officers to thwart the Bush regime's plans to attack Iran, just a few months ago. But the Bush/Cheney war criminals are intent on an armed assault on Iran before the clock runs out on their terms in office.

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Dick Cheney traveled to Iraq, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, making sure his nefarious plans went off without a hitch. John McCain claimed that Iran was the home of al Qaeda, the bogeyman that sends already trigger happy Americans on blood thirsty rampages. It is happening. The plans for the Bush administration to begin mass murder of the Iranian people have been put in motion.

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Day of Infamy: The March 20, 2008 US Declaration of War on Iran by John McGlynn * Global Research, March 24, 2008 * So who made it official ? A unit within the US Treasury Department, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)issued an advisory to the world's financial institutions under the title: "Guidance to Financial Institutions on the Continuing Money Laundering Threat Involving Illicit Iranian Activity."

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What it really means is that the US, again through FinCEN, has declared two acts of war: one against Iran's banks and one against any financial institution anywhere in the world that tries to do business with an Iranian bank. Iran, however, will become another Gaza or Iraq under the economic sanctions of the 1990s, with devastating impact on economy and society. That Iran's complete financial and economic destruction is the goal of US policy.

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HOTHEAD McCAIN by ROBERT DREYFUSS "The thought of his being President sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me," wrote Republican Senator Thad Cochran, shortly before endorsing McCain. "Hardheaded is another way to say it. Arrogant is another way to say it. Hubristic is another way to say it. Too proud for his own good is another way to say it." - Larry Wilkerson

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WE OWN THE WORLD / The whole debate about the Iranian "interference" in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that "we own the world." If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied. So if you look over the debate that took place and is still taking place about Iranian interference, no one points out this is insane. By Noam Chomsky

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Bill Kristol, who's very close to McCain for probably a decade and has been kind of an angel sitting on his shoulder and whispering in his ear all that time. McCain is much closer to the neocons. To this day, McCain thinks that the Vietnam War could have been won if we had just stayed another five or ten or fifteen years, and he seems exactly prepared to do that in Iraq.

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McCain's Spiritual Guide : "Destroy Islam" By David Corn / Televangelist Rod Parsley, a key McCain ally in Ohio, has called for eradicating the "false religion." Will the GOP presidential candidate renounce him ? "What God wants, God gets, God help us all ! " - Roger Waters

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The Passion of McCain : To the rest of the globe, he's as silly and as dim-witted as George Bush whose 'wanted dead or alive' absurdity secured for him the title of Idiot in Chief. But the reality of McCain's message is no laughing matter. The devastation we have inflicted and continue to wreak is barbaric. We should all feel revulsion that the passion of John McCain is war.

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GUATEMALA : GENOCIDE PLANS MAY BE DECLASSIFIED / The former dictator, who governed Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983, is facing legal action in Guatemala for human rights crimes committed during his time in office, considered the bloodiest period of the 1960-1996 armed conflict that left more than 200,000 -- mainly rural indigenous people -- dead, including 50,000 victims of forced disappearance

[politicalpumpkin]

Excellent! Im waiting for the Dirty Dems Killing Floor.

[JFWilliam]

Same difference ;)

[sanarkhos]

Why GOP killing floor? Have we already forgotten who got us in Vietnam?

War is what partisanship gets us.

[JFWilliam]

Nah... just still working on DEMs KILLING FLOOR ;)

[getplaning]

When Pat Buchanan starts making sense, you know things have really gotten bad.

Great video, five stars