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THE OCCUPATION CANDIDATES

Hi everyone,



If you think they want us to stay in Iraq in order to rebuild it and permit the Iraqis to choose their own form of government then I have some weapons of mass destruction to sell you along with a bridge in Brooklyn. Only Dittoheads and Deaniacs-in-denial believe that kind of crap.



You know it. I know it. Soon the vast majority of American people will know it. They will learn about the lies the Bush government told to take us into Iraq. They will learn about our huge budget deficit of $400 billion. They will learn about our huge national debt of $7 trillion. They will learn about the 3 million unemployed since Bush took over. They will learn about the failed educational policy, the failed economic policy, the failed environmental policy and that's just for starts. The election is 10 months away. Then, any Democrat can beat Bush . Only one Democratic candidate, however, has significantly differentiated himself from Dictator George W. Bush. You know it. I know it. Soon the vast majority of American people will know it. www.Kucinich.US





A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense: than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom: -Martin Luther King Jr., "The Trumpet of Conscience", 1967


Audio: Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words: "Beyond Vietnam" and I Have Been to the Mountaintop": By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

CIA sounds alarm on Iraq civil war

WASHINGTON -- CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war.

Yesterday's warning starkly contradicts the upbeat assessment given by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address earlier this week.

The CIA officers' bleak assessment was delivered verbally to Washington, said officials.

The warning echoed growing fears that Iraq's Shiite majority, which has until now grudgingly accepted the US occupation, could turn to violence if its demands for direct elections are spurned. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8464510%255E663,00.html



The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar


The New Inquisition: According to the old saying, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The problem is that in much of the world, and particularly in the United States, the designated watchmen of the public interest are asleep at their posts.



Of course the White House fears free elections in Iraq : For the Americans of Only an appointocracy can be trusted to accept US troops and corporations



Afghan probe into children killed by US attack : Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that his government had launched an inquiry into allegations that US troops killed 11 civilians, including women and children, during a recent operation.



From Bush throws new lies after old by Don Williams
The worst thing about the state of our union is that we can't trust our president to tell us the truth and work for the public interest. Lots of presidents lie, even about big things like war, but few have misled us so repetitively, brazenly and cynically about a range of things as the administration headed by George W. Bush.


From Big Lie Technique Will Catch Up With Bush by James Klurfeld
There are times when government officials lie so baldly to the public that the essential untruth of what they are asserting is lost. It's called the Big Lie technique. George W. Bush's State of the Union/campaign kickoff speech Tuesday night had at least two major examples.







From Code Pink says “Give Bush a Pink Slip!” by Medea Benjamin
Bush’s [State Of the Union] speech to the nation was a combination of platitudes, exaggerations, half-truths and downright lies. Afghans would be curious to hear that their country is now free and prosperous, not a dangerous, fractured nation governed by warlords and fueled by opium. Iraqis would be surprised to know that they are assuming more and more responsibility for their own future, while the Bush administration is dishing out their oil money to its cronies in Halliburton and Bechtel, and passing privatization laws favoring foreign corporations that will distort the Iraqi economy for decades to come.




HOW MUCH CHANGE DO YOU WANT?

Bush, Dean, Kerry, Edwards and Clark: Will keep us in Iraq like Nixon kept us in Vietnam. Americans have no right to a free education and to free Healthcare like the rest of the world. Here, in America, the corporations tell us what our rights are, certainly not the people. Americans only have the right to buy insurance and if you can't afford college, well, there's always the Army! And dream on if you ever think they will cut the Pentagon budget.



Dennis Kucinich: Americans have a right to free Healthcare and free tuition from day care through University just like the people in every other civilized nation in the world. We must not repeat the mistake we made in Vietnam. We must stop the atrocities in Iraq now. This does not mean "cut and run" as Bush and Dean have expressed it. It means we must accept the responsibility for the destruction we have caused, we must pay dearly for it in terms of reparations and turn the authority for rebuilding Iraq and establishing a representative government over to the Iraqi people under the protection of the United Nations Peacekeepers.


COMPARE AND SAVE...AMERICA

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WE KNOW WHO PAID FOR THE WAR; WHO WILL PAY FOR THE OCCUPATION?


PLEASE, YOU HAVE DONE QUITE ENOUGH FOR US; NOW GO HOME.


UN IN, US OUT.
THIS IS THE MOMENT; NOW IS THE TIME WWW.KUCINICH.US 

Which Path to a Safer World?

TOOLS FOR PEACE TOOLS FOR WAR
11 Blankets for refugees $100 11 hand grenades
3-day training for 160 youth in peace building $4,000 1 rocket launcher
Enroll 2 children in Head Start $14,000 1 cluster bomb
2 home health aides for disabled elderly $40,000 1 Hellfire missile
Associate Degree training for 29 RNs $145,600 1 Bunker-buster guided bomb
Rent subsidies for 1,000 families $586,000 1,000 M-16 Rifles
Annual salary/benefits for 15 RNs $763,000 1 minute war on Iraq
Improve, repair, modernize 20 schools $46 million 1 hour war on Iraq
WIC program nutrition for 200,000 families $130 million 7 unmanned Predator drones
Eradicate polio worldwide $275 million 3 tests of missile defense system
Best vaccinations for 10 million children worldwide $350 million 6 Trident II missiles
Childcare for 68,000 needy children $413 million Amphibious Warfare Landing Ship Program
7,000 units of affordable housing $494 million 1 year military aid to Colombia
Prevent cuts to education programs (FY2003) $1.1 billion 1 day of war on Iraq
Minimum support to save Amtrak train service $1.2 billion 2 months U.S. war force in Afghanistan
Annual salary/benefits for 38,000 elementary teachers $2.1 billion 1 Stealth bomber
Double federal funding for mass transit $12 billion 1 year cost of war in Afghanistan (2001/2002)
Healthcare coverage for 7 million children $16 billion 1 year nuclear weapons program
Save 11 million lives worldwide fighting infectious diseases $38 billion 1 month U.S. current military spending


In his 2003 budget Bush demanded and received a world shattering (literally) record budget for the Pentagon of $399 billion (I guess $400 billion just sounded too high). If you note in the budget chart above, the Pentagon component dwarves all other components individually and almost combined! The "X" denotes discretionary budget, the budget that Bush and the Congress can spend on non mandatory programs (i.e. things that "come up"). Oh yeah, Bush has not accounted for his Iraq war in the enormous Pentagon budget, so what do you think the old discretionary budget will get sucked in by this year? It's a good thing that we have that 15% if we are going to travel around the world pre-emptively striking countries that we don't like (and that have lots of oil).

OR, OR, OR – WE COULD TAKE THAT 15% ($600 MILLION) AND PROVIDE DAY CARE AND A COLLEGE EDUCATION FOR EVERY AMERICAN CHILD!!

Salam Malakim,

JOHN A. MURPHY: EVILDOER
"If you assume that there's no hope,
you guarantee that there will be no hope.
If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom,
there are opportunities to change things,
there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world.
That's your choice." - Noam Chomsky

Rush Limbaugh:
KUCINICH IS UNELECTABLE, KUCINICH IS UNELECTABLE, KUCINICH IS UNELECTABLE, KUCINICH IS UNELECTABLE. IT'S DEAN WE’RE REALLY AFRAID OF, IT'S DEAN WE’RE REALLY AFRAID OF -- YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET, -- IT'S DEAN WE'RE REALLY AFRAID OF, IT'S DEAN WE'RE REALLY AFRAID OF.

 

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