Bob Morris @ Mar 11th 2005 08:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
Anti-war Rally & Forum In Oxnard
Sat. March 12, 3 pm
La Placita War Memorial
Plaza Park, 5th and C Streets, Oxnard
Anti-war demonstration in Riverside
Friday, March 18, 2005
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
University & Iowa in Riverside
And the big one in Los Angeles
Sat. March 19, 2005, 12 noon,
Assemble at Hollywood & Vine
Hollywood
More info on ANSWER LA homepage.
Bob Morris @ Mar 11th 2005 07:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
Italian Was killed by special security detail
American troops who fatally shot an Italian intelligence agent last week on the road to Baghdad’s airport were part of extra security provided by the Army to protect U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Sgrena have disputed the Army’s version of events, including a claim that the car was speeding and ignored signals to stop.
The Army has acknowledged that the checkpoint was temporary but has given no details about why it was set up. The day after the shooting, Lt. Col. Clifford Kenta, a spokesman for the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, said the checkpoint was not permanent.
So, a ”special security detail” killed a left wing journalist who had openly criticized US actions in Iraq? And we are just learning now that this was not a routine checkpoint. Um, what else haven’t we been told?
Bob Morris @ Mar 11th 2005 07:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
The war in Iraq is forcing top Pentagon planners to rethink several key assumptions about the use of military power and has called into question the vision set out nearly four years ago that the armed forces can win wars and keep the peace with small numbers of fast-moving, lightly armed troops.
As the Pentagon begins a comprehensive review that will map the future of America’s armed forces, many Defense Department officials are acknowledging that an intractable Iraqi insurgency they didn’t foresee has undermined the military strategy.
If you need to “rethink several key assumptions” then that means most everything you thought was true was actually false. And from that one might assume you are incompetent and don’t know what you are doing, AKA clueless, correct?
Bob Morris @ Mar 11th 2005 07:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
Evangelical leaders find biblical imperatives to combat global warming
Church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship of God’s creation.
(I found this article through the powerful new, “Add a customized section” feature in Google News. I now have a custom page in Google News for “global warming”, and you can create such pages on any topic.)
Bob Morris @ Mar 11th 2005 07:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Northern Ireland: How the McCartney sisters took on the IRA.
With their campaign for justice for their murdered brother, the McCartney sisters have provoked a deep crisis in Irish republicanism. As they prepare to take their story to the White House, Angelique Chrisafis talks to the Belfast family who are forcing the IRA to change its ways.
The five McCartney sisters take their campaign for justice over their brother’s death to anyone who will listen. Raised in the Short Strand, a tiny Catholic enclave in east Belfast - a republican heartland where tribal loyalty and the old rubric of “whatever you say, say nothing” holds - they are finally squaring up to their one-time “protectors”, demanding answers. Killing Catholics is not what the IRA is supposed to do; killing a totally innocent one and then covering up the murder is beyond the pale.
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