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Could we have gotten eight years of BuSh as US President without the help of Chit Collecting/Vacuum Selling Ben Barnes from Brownwood ?
see post #35 and #36 @ http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownwood-tx/...
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Could we have gotten eight years of BuSh as US President without the help of Chit Collecting/Vacuum Selling Ben Barnes from Brownwood ? see post #35 and #36 @ http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownwood-tx/... |
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1 http://mail.psychedelic-library.org/pipermail... |
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The Architects of Bush's War
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1 http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCris... American Plans to Convert Iraq into Christianity http://www.youtube.com/watch... Iraq: Worse for Christians Now Than under Saddam Hussein http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1... Christians in Iraq http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownwood-tx/... |
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1 http://www.slate.com/id/2154498/ |
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1 "There was enough desperate history in that little town in one summer to make a whole library of dime novels" Elizabeth Custer (Wife of General George A. Custer) Brownwood too ? |
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2 Steve, not only did Ben Barnes sell vacuum cleaners, but LBJ sold socks and Connaly waited tables. Since you're a sock puppeteer and wait tables and you "suck", you've got a lot in common with that old political machine! http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/1979-06-0... |
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1 SIlly Cat Juggler, sockpuppeting is for CONservatives ! Cornyn Sock Puppet Exposed! http://psst-progressivesavvyseniorstexas.blog... |
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1 How Bush has created a moral vacuum in Iraq Q: Is this ever discussed publicly in CONservative BuSh Country Brownwood, home to nearly 100 Churches ? |
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1 Did you cleverly leave out Brownwood Builder Bennett ? I'd wager you've got a lot in common with the current GOP political machine of Lee Atwater & Karl Rove ! The Lee Atwater Story: Meet the Man Responsible for Karl Rove and the GOP's Hate-Driven Politics http://www.alternet.org/election08/102994/the... 's_hate-driven_politics/ |
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1 Silence on torture troubling By Cynthia Tucker The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, May 10, 2009 At long last, a prominent Christian conservative has called waterboarding what it is: torture. Last week, Richard Land, an official with the Southern Baptist Convention, said the practice is unethical and “violates everything we stand for.” “There are some things you should never do to another human being, no matter how horrific the things they have done. If you do so, you demean yourself to their level,” said Land, president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. His comments, though belated, are welcome. He breaks a telling silence about torture among the most politically active leaders of the religious right, who had a tendency to endorse all decisions and embrace all practices of former President Bush. Indeed, Land had nothing to say about waterboarding when Bush was still in office, though many reports confirmed the administration’s use of the practice years ago. Land’s comments follow a poll showing that evangelical Protestants are less ambivalent about torture than their fellow citizens. The Pew Center for Research found that, among all Americans, about half believe torture can often or sometimes be justified. Pew says 62 percent of “white evangelical Protestants” believe so.(Pew’s sample was too small to identify groups other than “white evangelical Protestants,”“white non-Hispanic Catholics,” and “white mainline Protestants.”) It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Conservative Christians tend to be conspicuously pious, loudly proclaiming themselves moral, righteous, just. Yet, their support for torture —- even against an avowed enemy, even in times of peril —- seems oddly out of step with the radical gospel of a carpenter who preached peace, forgiveness and mercy:“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” http://www.ajc.com/services/content/opinion/s... |
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1 Father Says System 'Broke' Killer US Sergeant http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/F... BACK TO IRAQ WITH PTSD AND SUICIDAL http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmay09/nf0... |
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1 Soldiers' Don't Receive Proper Mental Health Care, Local Army Wife Says http://www.wtov9.com/news/19450151/detail.htm... |
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1 "Christian torture advocates should be ashamed of themselves for being so ignorant of New Testament ethics. This is FrontPage Magazine Christianity. This is National Review Christianity. This is imperial Christianity at its worse. I lay a great deal of the blame on pastors for being servants of the state instead of servants of Christ. It is pastors who ought to be teaching and warning their congregations about what is wrong with the U.S. empire, the U.S. military, the CIA, U.S. wars, and U.S. foreign policy. Instead, we have pastors that lead their congregations to pledge to the flag, sing praise to the state on every national holiday, and honor the U.S. war machine on special military appreciation days.' Christians for Torture http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance171.html |
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1 Few Iraqi Christians plan to return after mass exodus http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10313930.... |
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1 Iraqi marriages are a casualty of war The number of divorces has doubled since the conflict began. Sectarian tensions and joblessness are among the reasons. By Alex and Ra Zavis April 13, 2008 For years, most of the solemn young couples who sought out Sayid Rafid Husseini were looking for a marriage certificate. Now, the robed cleric says, many who make their way to his office near a revered Shiite Muslim shrine want a divorce. "I try to convince them not to do it," Husseini says. But times are hard. Waves of killing and displacement, not to mention sectarian pressures, have ripped families apart. And soaring unemployment is adding unbearable strain, turning what was once an almost unthinkable taboo into an increasingly common reality of Iraqi life. The number of divorces granted annually by Iraqi courts has doubled since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2003, from 20,649 that year to 41,536 in 2007, according to figures provided by the Supreme Judicial Council, which oversees the nation's courts. But the real number is probably higher. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/13/world... |
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1 Kidnapped Five-Year-Old Iraqi Christian Killed http://www.persecution.org/suffering/ICCnews/... |
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1 Holy War, Pentagon Style In the early days of the Iraq War, the cover of one of the Pentagon's "Worldwide Intelligence Updates" showed a tank at sunset with this quote from the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand." Another cover from the 2003 "Intelligence Updates," produced for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and senior Pentagon officials, showed a photo of Saddam Hussein with this quote from the First Epistle of St. Peter: "It is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people." GQ magazine has posted copies of a dozen of the Bible-based intelligence briefings on its web site. GQ says the idea for the cover sheets came from a general who worked on the Joint Staff, but it's not clear whether Rumsfeld approved the biblical messages, or whether President Bush ever saw them. The briefs give us another look at the biblical lens some in government have used to view -- and justify -- the Iraq War. Were Rumsfeld and the Pentagon merely trying to manipulate the religious beliefs of President Bush, an evangelical Christian who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that after giving the order to invade in March 2003, "I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will"? Or are these Bible-based intelligence briefings more evidence of the influence of evangelical Christians in the U.S. military, documented in the May issue of Harper's magazine by reporter Jeff Sharlet who says there is a "small but powerful movement of Christian soldiers concentrated in the officers corps" who see themselves not as subversives or radicals, but as "spiritual warriors" and "government paid missionaries." http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/un... |
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1 The deadly treatment of Sergeant John M Russell Just six weeks before the end of his third Iraq tour, the veteran of Bosnia and Serbia shot dead five of his comrades. Why? David Randall investigates Sunday, 17 May 2009 One day last week, the pressures of war in the US military brought six men together in a room in Baghdad. Five of them would not leave it alive. They were cut down by a sudden, scything spray of bullets fired by one of their comrades. Only one survived – the very man who pulled the trigger. What demons drove him to this, the most deadly soldier-on-soldier killing since Vietnam, makes this not only a story of waste and ill-fortune, but of how service in a war zone can turn even the most apparently loyal of soldiers against their own side. The time was just after 2pm last Monday; the place was the clinic operated by the 55th Medical Company at Camp Liberty, the sprawling US base near Baghdad airport. This is where soldiers and airmen who have trouble coping with duty in Iraq come to be assessed, and, possibly, helped. Differing circumstances had led these six men here. Some came willingly; others – all too aware of a military culture that scorned any sign of "wimpishness" – did not. There, too, were the specialists, doing their best to grapple with a psychological casualty rate that sees an estimated 15 per cent of American service people leave Iraq with emotional problems, many of them severe. Last year, a record 140 US military personnel committed suicide. Every one of the men who found himself at the clinic had a tale to tell. There was Cmdr Charles Springle, known as "Keith", a 52-year-old from Wilmington, North Carolina, who had made a career out of treating combat stress, and ran a counselling centre back in the US that trained volunteers to assist returning military. Married with two children, he was an ardent campaigner against the stigma that attached to any soldier showing mental vulnerability. With him at the clinic that day was Major Matthew Houseal, 54, a psychiatrist from Amarillo, Texas, married to a kidney specialist, and father of six. He volunteered alarmed at the rising army suicide rate, and was due to return home on 1 June. Pte Michael Edward Yates Jr, just 19, with a one-year-old son, was there, because he had trouble readjusting to military life after spending most of April at his Maryland home. Present, too, were Specialist Jacob D Barton, of Lenox, Missouri, a 20-year-old who had cared for his grandmother before leaving for Iraq, and was known at Rolla High School for standing up against bullies; and Sgt Christian E Bueno-Galdos, 25, of Paterson, New Jersey. A native of Peru, whose father worked 14 hours a day in a clothing factory to bring his family to the US, he signed on partly as a reaction to 9/11. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ameri... |
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1 " I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, I didn't fully grasp the extent of these failed foreign policies or our government's deception until I returned home from war. Realizing there never were weapons of mass destruction, and that we would have difficulty tracking terrorists even if we had committed all the troops in our military, I felt as though my patriotism had been exploited for political gain. A select few were profiting from these wars, while the majority of Americans shouldered the enormous tax burden. " http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-6 Published on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by The Nation What Was I Fighting For? by Rick Reyes |
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