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VIDEO: Winter Soldier Mike Prysner testimony, Pt1 Watch at YouTube.
VIDEO: Winter Soldier Mike Prysner testimony Pt2. Watch at YouTube.
From Winter Soldier.
On the subject of racism and torture, you might also read this review of Taxi to the Dark Side.
Read this: Players not Cheerleaders
Look past the rhetoric and it becomes clear that neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has a real plan to end the occupation. They could, however, be forced to change their positions–thanks to the unique dynamics of the prolonged primary battle.
Despite the calls for Clinton to withdraw in the name of “unity,” it is the very fact that Clinton and Obama are still fighting it out, fiercely vying for votes, that presents the anti-war movement with its best pressure point. And our pressure is badly needed.
For the first time in 14 years, weapons manufacturers are donating more to Democrats than to Republicans. The Dems have received 52 percent of the defense industry’s political donations in this election cycle–up from a low of 32 per cent in 1996. That money is about shaping foreign policy, and so far, it appears to be well spent.
While Clinton and Obama denounce the war with great passion, they both have detailed plans to continue it.
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Crucially, the candidates have already shown that they are vulnerable to pressure from the peace camp: When The Nation revealed that neither candidate was supporting legislation that would ban the use of Blackwater and other private security companies in Iraq, Clinton abruptly changed course. She became the most important U. S. political leader to endorse the ban, scoring a point on Obama, who opposed the invasion from the start.
This is exactly where we want the candidates: outdoing each other to prove how serious they are about ending the war. That kind of issue-based battle has the power to energize voters and break the cynicism that is threatening both campaigns.
Let’s remember: unlike the outgoing Bush administration, these candidates need the support of the two-thirds of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq. If opinion transforms into action, they won’t be able to afford to say, “So?”
Also, you might want to sign on the A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq.
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Circumstances alter cases, so
the daffodils may grow
in a garden border
or in a wood
wild as poke, disordered.
Rank in ranks, stood
the nodding yellow heads
like children needing beds.
Years ago the state road department asked permission to “daylight” the uphill curve of the road that runs by our place. In doing so, they uprooted several large old trees and, for reasons known only to them and God, set them in an old pond bed beside our tobacco barn. There they still stand, while many of their living brothers have been laid low by wind and ice.
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