An Israeli jet attacked the home of a Hamas politician because five Hamas militants were nearby. That the attack killed seven members of the politician’s family didn’t even rate an explanation or apology from Israel.

Israel also said all Hamas leaders should be killed , an outrageous statement which was received with thunderous silence by US media. Were Hamas to say Israeli leaders should die, you can be sure our media would be screaming for blood.

Killing civilians, either deliberately or through studied neglect, is a war crime and morally loathsome. Period. Regardless of who is doing it or why. Whether by jet or car bomb.

And in practical terms, it’s a self-defeating tactic because it’ll inflame the other side, cause you to lose some of your own supporters, and create a continuing spiral of violence.

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From the paper of record in the most Republican state.

Salt Lake Tribune editorial: “Just go: AG Gonzales too discredited to continue”

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The US tried to kill Al-Sadr by luring him to a house for peace talks then attacking him.

“I believe that particular incident made Muqtada lose any confidence or trust in the [US-led] coalition and made him really wild,” [said] the Iraqi National Security Adviser Dr Mowaffaq Rubai’e.

Dunno about you, but if someone tried to kill me, I wouldn’t trust them either.

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From the ANSWER Coalition, who called the Bush protest at the Coast Guard Academy in New London CT this Wednesday where Bush will be speaking.

Today (Monday), the ImpeachBush.org movement led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark ran an ad in the Hartford Courant announcing that the impeachment and anti-war movements have joined forces for the May 23 Protest Bush Rally. The Courant is read by more than 200,000 people throughout Connecticut and New England.

The half page ad is on page 4 of the today’s Courant.

As usual, the Secret Service is playing their last minute silly games, making a ludicrous claim of national security as a pretext to stop people from protesting in front of the Academy as well as street closures designed to block people from coming. The ANSWER Coalition has a permit to be in the area. Arrive by 9 am and you’ll get through.

The government would happily give people a permit to be anywhere other than right outside of the USCGA. We must not be diverted. We can defeat their attempt to banish visible dissent because we know their tactic well.

The best way to do that is to be at Tampa and Mohegan Ave. at 9:00 am with your friends, family, co-workers and fellow students. We have a permit for this area. This is where anti-war activists from throughout Connecticut, New England and the Mid-Atlantic will be. If you come directly to the main gate of the USCGA by 9:00 am you will be able to access it before roads are closed.

Full details, with maps and logistics, at AnswerCT.org

Distribute widely.

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Ranger Against War on the six Muslims arrested for plotting to attack Fort Dix.

Actual threats will not admit persons into their group without criminal/terrorist bona fides. If the FBI can infiltrate them and a video clerk can out them, rest assured they are are not a strategic threat.

That’s why homegrown gangs and criminal organizations are difficult to penetrate. They may have literally all grown up together on the same streets. Ditto for Al Qaida types who might have fought together as mooj against the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980’s and have ties and bonds outsiders know nothing about. If you can’t walk their walk and talk their talk, they won’t let you anywhere near anything important. Maybe they’ll just feed you disinformation instead. Or kill you.

Real terror cells are not infiltrated. These reports play well in Peoria, and justify $100’s of billions being expended for our safety. What a sick joke.

Hey, whatever happened to those ludicrous color terror alerts? Just another absurd waste of money, designed to scare citizens, while accomplishing precisely nothing, weren’t they? Feel safer?

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The Florida drought has gotten so severe that golf courses are now mandated to use 45% less water - so now they are forced, forced I tell you, to cut back to a mere two million gallons a month each.

Crops are dying but golf courses are allowed to be water pigs so an elite few can continue their blatantly anti-environmental, privileged lifestyle?

What better symbol can there be for the selfishness of a few and the rapacity of capitalism than golf courses being permitted to use huge amounts of water during a severe drought so a few can get wealthier while catering to the elite.

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