"Don't Look For These Names Among The Dead and Wounded"

[understandinglife]

VelvetRevolution today launched a long-term advertisement and awareness campaign to galvanize American citizens into taking their country back from those who believe that they are untouchable and unaccountable. This campaign will graphically show that those in power have lost touch with real people through a pattern of lies, corruption, fear mongering, incompetence, indifference and arrogance.

The first ad will appear today as a full two-page spread in the Crawford, Texas Iconoclast newspaper and will be delivered to the President's ranch during his long five-week vacation. Cindy Sheehan and hundreds of others opposed to Iraq war are protesting nearby and they will all be given free copies of the paper. VR supports Cindy and her cause, and she was interviewed on June 18th by VR founder Brad Friedman on the BradShow. Cindy's son Casey was killed five days after arriving in Iraq in what the President calls a "noble cause." Now, however, in light of the Downing Street Memos, the world knows that the war was based on lies and deception.

Link:

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Content/AdCampaign/AdCampaign.php


Today's ad says: DON'T LOOK FOR THESE NAMES AMONG THE DEAD AND WOUNDED, and lists on Dog Tags the names of Jenna Bush, David Wolfowitz, Elizabeth Cheney, Valerie Rumsfeld, along with their religious affiliation. Below it says, "Our children have to die so Chicken Hawk children can stay home and get richer? Take back the White House for Americans who know the value of human life.

It is time, in_deed, to "TAKE BACK AMERICA."


Peace.

[Jensen]

1. Great ad.....

In there FACE!

[sakabatou]

3. "In my face! In my face!"

[emdee]

2. Perfect. And, so true. The backlash smear will be....

"They want Jenna dead!"
No, we want Jenna to fight for the "noble cause" that her dad so believes in.

emdee

[understandinglife]

4. As you note, our response is -- 'if you think it's so noble, then ...

... you are ignoble for not fighting it and even more ignoble for wanting others to do it for you.'

And, we should always ask "when did torture and mass murder become noble?"


Peace.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. IOW, ". . .next time you want to fight, risk your own sorry ass. . .

and your kids'..."

:evilfrown:

[emdee]

9. It looks like "next time" is just around the corner. n/t

n/t

[understandinglife]

6. Raw Story covers the ad campaign:

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Coalition_group_demands_dogtags_for_either_al_0815.html


Peace.

[understandinglife]

7. Richard Bradley: "Are the Bush Twins AWOL?"

Thanks in large part to Cindy Sheehan, people are starting to raise the issue of why Jenna and Barbara Bush aren't serving in the military. It's a tough question, but I think it's a fair one. The President of the United States is calling on American young people to volunteer to go to war, but his own daughters, who are certainly of the appropriate age, are better known for their drunken nightclub escapades than for any acts of patriotism.

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So here's a question I think a White House reporter should ask the president: "President Bush, if your own two daughters won't enlist, how can you expect anyone else's children to join the military?"

From Are the Bush Twins AWOL? by Richard Bradley on August 15, 2005

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/richard-bradley/are-the-bush-twins-awol_5674.html

Peace.

[understandinglife]

14. Yahoo has picked up the "Are the Bush Twins AWOL?" -- here's ...

... the link:

http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050815/cm_huffpost/005674

You know what to do ... it's already got almost 500 votes!!


Peace.

[annabanana]

16. done. . . . . . .n/t

[il_lilac]

17. rated a 5 n/t

[understandinglife]

8. I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.

Cindy Sheehan's Message Repudiates George Bush - And Howard Dean

By Norman Solomon

August 15, 2005

In 1972, after many years of US involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: "In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime."

That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought to bear on US involvement in Iraq.

The moral clarity and political impacts of Cindy Sheehan's vigil in Crawford are greatly enhanced by a position that she is taking: US troops should not be in Iraq.

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While Bush sees the war as a problem and Dean bemoans it as a stalemate, Sheehan refuses to evade the truth that it is a crime. And the analysis that came from Daniel Ellsberg in 1972, while the Vietnam War continued, offers vital clarity today: "Each of these perspectives called for a different mode of personal commitment: a problem, to help solve it; a stalemate, to help extricate ourselves with grace; a crime, to expose and resist it, to try to stop it immediately, to seek moral and political change."

Link:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505J.shtml

Finally.

Bush and the neoconsters have committed numerous crimes.

Some of the crimes are on-going including every single moment America continues to occupy Iraq.

Out, NOW.

Logistics happen to be an area of expertise that America is second to none. Thus, when I state "NOW" I mean, begin extracting and do it in a logistically sound manner.

But, we all know what "out" means. It means we aren't occupying Talill and other strategic air bases and we are not controlling the economy. "Out" means "OUT."


Peace.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Touche!

[understandinglife]

11. Lyn Davis Lear reveals more neoconster hypocrisy

These are quotes offered up by Republican leaders back when President Clinton was committing U.S. troops to Bosnia. Reading them, you can almost feel like you’ve fallen through the looking glass...

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." -- Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

"You can support the troops but not the president." -- Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years." -- Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?" -- Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

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From War and Peace: Falling Through the Partisan Looking Glass by Lyn Davis Lear on August 15,2005

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/lyn-lear/war-and-peace-falling-th_5568.html

:puke:


Peace.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. It is unf**kin'believable how these hypocrites can get away with the crap

that they get away with. There is not one thing that they would not lie about. There is nothing too low for them to consider acceptable behavior if it means winning. I cannot believe that they have gotten away with so much, for so long, in front of so many.
:puke: hardly even begins to express my disgust with these questionable life forms.

[understandinglife]

12. VR's "Take Back America" additonal ads planned:

Topics:

- the Iraq war based on lies,

- the Downing Street Memos,

- the rigged election of 2004,

- the failure to heed pre-911 warnings,

- corrupt vote machine companies,

- war profiteering,

- torture as a policy,

- illegal outing of intelligence officials

- the corrupt Iraq election

Peace.

[niallmac]

19. Oh yeah! I'm lovin those quotes!

[understandinglife]

13. Interesting comments from posters at dKos:

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/8/15/124615/808

Peace.

[hiley]

15. very good thread..

:bounce: