In a long and faraway war, the dead too easily lose their names and become like numbers on a scoreboard.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/9515511.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6aql5


From Information Clearing House

The people that birthed Western civilization refuses to go quietly into colonial subjugation.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-01forum01sep02,0,5498234.story?coll=sfla-news-opinion
http://tinyurl.com/67599


From Information Clearing House

A father writes to MFSO and includes a letter he recently sent to his son in Iraq

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3114


Informant: maraki724

Juan Cole: Republican Convention "We did not seek this War":

No American president has more desperately sought out a war with any country than George W. Bush sought out this war with Iraq. Only Polk's war on Mexico, also based on false pretexts, even comes close to the degree of crafty manipulation employed by Bush and Cheney to get up the Iraq war...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6827.htm

President Bush's "Bring Them On" Picture Album
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm

More than 500 people assembled in New York’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium concluded the War Crimes Tribunal with a resounding unanimous vote of guilty, declaring the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.

http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/


From Information Clearing House

Was eine deutsche Geheimdienstinformation über die Bereitung des Angriffskrieges gegen den Irak offenbart...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/irak/18224/1.html

The unseen cost of war: American minds
Soldiers can sustain psychological wounds for a lifetime

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/188143_ptsd27.html


From Information Clearing House

"I don't think it's fair that so many mothers, fathers, siblings have to go through what I'm going through," she said. "Is it about oil? I don't know what this war is for. We don't want anyone else to die in this useless, stupid war."...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6802.htm

Guardian [UK]

08/27/04

Cherie Booth's chambers, Matrix, are to draw up the document to impeach her husband, Tony Blair, for 'high crimes and misdemeanours' in the run up to the war against Iraq, it was disclosed yesterday.

The 12 MPs planning to revive the ancient parliamentary procedure -- last used 156 years ago against Lord Palmerston -- have engaged his wife's chambers to frame the motion because of their record in taking up human rights issues." [Note for American readers: British law offices are referred to as "chambers" - TLK]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/iraq/story/0,12956,1292084,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


Commons motion to impeach Blair gets go-ahead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1354571,00.html


Informant: Diana Davies