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Maury & Connie: Thanks for the memories

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Maury & Connie: Thanks for the memories
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Katherine Harris at the Red Belly Day at Fanning Springs, FL.

So hot they had to surround her with firefighters.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

George W. Bush vs. John Lennon (Video)

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

MARINES CHEER SONG ABOUT KILLING IRAQI CIVILIANS

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/06) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate a music video posted on the Internet that seems to show U.S. Marines cheering a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians.

CAIR said the four-minute video, called 'hadji girl,' purports to be a 'marine in iraq singing a song about hadji.' (A 'Hajji' is a person who has made the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but the term has often been used as a pejorative by U.S. troops in Iraq.) The song, posted online in March, tells of a U.S. Marine's encounter with an Iraqi woman. It has been viewed by almost 50,000 people.

The song's lyrics include: 'I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little f**kers to eternity . . .They should have known they were f**king with the Marines.' Members of the audience, not shown in the video, laughed and cheered wildly for these lyrics.
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SEE: HADJI GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTh9ZYS6Flc

SEE: http://www.cair.com/video/marine-hadji-girl.wmv

Sunday, June 11, 2006

A death, and a flicker of hope in Iraq
By Ehsan Ahrari

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death is an important development in the history of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and it proves the old adage, "Those who live by the sword must die by the sword."

The immediate question is how the death of the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq at the hands of US security forces will affect the insurgency in the country. There is understandably and justifiably a considerable amount of euphoria in Iraq and in Washington over this news. But don't expect the development to have any lasting effect on the insurgency. If the past has any pattern, the insurgency is likely to pick up its pace after a short respite. In the final analysis, the real reason for the insurgency is the continued presence of US forces in Iraq.

Initial reports suggest that the US success in killing Zarqawi was the result of information that his cohorts provided to the Iraqi and US authorities. (There was, after all, a US$25 million reward on his head.) That is how the careers and lives of terrorists and dictators come to an end. It will be recalled that the capture of Saddam was also possible because of a tip-off by an insider.
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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Press Accounts Suggest Possible Military Cover-up in Ishagi Killings
By Greg Mitchell

Published: June 03, 2006 1:40 PM ET updated Sunday

NEW YORK The U.S military said Saturday it had found no wrongdoing in the March 15 raid on a home in Ishaqi that left nine Iraqi civilians dead. But, as with the apparent massacre in Haditha, will a military "coverup" in this case come undone?

The Iraqi police charge that American forces executed the civilians, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old baby. The BBC has been airing video of the dead civilians, mainly children, who appeared to be shot, possibly at close range. Photographs taken just after the raid for Agence France-Presse, and reports at the time by Reuters and Knight Ridder, also appear to largely back up the charge of an atrocity.
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Graphic photographs show bodies of civilians killed in Ishaqi, Iraq

Photographs taken by Agence France Presse but not distributed by major US media outlets show the bodies of Iraqi civilians killed in March in a home in Ishaqi, Iraq. Those photographs -- may of which are graphic and show the decaying bodies of children, some of them babies -- are displayed below. Please do not view if you do not wish to see these photos.
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Probing a Bloodbath
The Marines were well prepared for war, but not for insurgency. Did some of them snap—and slaughter innocent civilians in cold blood?
By Evan Thomas and Scott Johnson

...The restrictions, combined with the omnipresent danger, can cause enormous mental strain. In December, NEWSWEEK interviewed some Army soldiers going home as conscientious objectors. To fight boredom and disgust, said Clif Hicks, who had left a tank squadron at Camp Slayer in Baghdad, soldiers popped Benzhexol, five pills at time. Normally used to treat Parkinson's disease, the drug is a strong hallucinogenic when abused. "People were taking steroids, Valium, hooked on painkillers, drinking. They'd go on raids and patrols totally stoned." Hicks, who volunteered at the age of 17, said, "We're killing the wrong people all the time, and mostly by accident. One guy in my squadron ran over a family with his tank."...

...Though no one is talking openly at Camp Pendleton, Marines and their families are buzzing about what might have gone wrong inside Kilo Company. The wife of a staff sergeant in the 3/1 battalion, who declined to be identified because she doesn't want to get her husband in trouble, told NEWSWEEK that there was "a total breakdown" in discipline and morale after Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani took over as battalion commander when the unit returned from Fallujah at the start of 2005. (Chessani's friends in his Colorado hometown defended him as a dedicated, patriotic, religious Marine.) "There were problems in Kilo Company with drugs, alcohol, hazing, you name it," said the woman. "I think it's more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha."
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