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we the people .....

we the people .....

’Attacking Iraq was a war crime, and to sit back now and debate how much control we are entitled to is disgusting. With typical U.S arrogance, our Congress, and the White House, now debate if, how, and when, to leave Iraq, and also about how many troops we should leave for a "training force," if we are to leave troops there.

What they are blind and deaf to is the cold and bloody fact that the people of Iraq have already spoken, and they have told us to get all of our troops out in a very loud voice.

Nowhere in the discussion is heard a word about how the citizens of Iraq feel about our genocidal presence. You'd think that the USA wasn't guilty of an illegal war. A small band of egomaniacs plotted to destroy Iraq, and now the choice of whether to stay there or not isn't ours to make.

We have dishonored ourselves, and our allies, through the actions of Bush and Cheney, and the only true justice will be when Bush and Cheney are forced to become the respective mayors of Fallujah and Baghdad. Let them enjoy the "freedom and democracy" that they have brought to Iraq, and let them experience what they have forced more than one million U.S. troops to endure.

It is time to leave Iraq, lock, stock, and (gun) barrel. Their people will never allow any U.S. occupation troops to live side by side with them in a country that will forever reflect the U.S. shame that Bush and Cheney have brought us to.

This war is lost. It was lost the day we invaded an innocent nation. Some of my friends say we are never leaving Iraq. I say tell it to the Vietnamese people.’

An Occupation Of Iraq Is Not Ours To Choose

the coalition of hypocrites .....

‘We invaded your country. We occupied your country. We wrote your constitution, in which the arbitrary decrees of our colonial viceroy were imposed as fundamental law. We looted your money. We armed your sectarians. And we are going to keep a large number of troops in your country, come what may. But we aren't going to baby-sit you anymore. No, if you don't get your act together - and sign the goddamned Oil Law already - we are just going to withdraw to our permanent bases and watch you kill each other. - That is the sum total of the leading Democratic candidate's position on Iraq.’

The Bipartisan Guarantee Of More War In Iraq

Rummy Ducky...

Rumsfeld Resignation Letter Omits 'Iraq'
Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:38 PM EDT
letter, politics, rumsfeld, resignation-letter, donald-rumsfeld
Lolita C. Baldor, AP Writer

WASHINGTON — The word "Iraq" doesn't appear in former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter. Neither does the word "war." In fact, the deadly and much-criticized conflict that eventually drummed him out of office, comes up only in vague references, such as "a critical time in our history" and "challenging time for our country," in the four-paragraph, 148-word letter he wrote to President Bush a day before the Nov. 7, 2006 election.

According to a stamp on the letter, Bush's office acknowledged receipt the next day, as voters were going to the polls. Bush announced Rumsfeld's departure a day later, after the massive anti-war vote that swept Democrats into control of the House and Senate.

The elusive letter — which the Pentagon denied existed as recently as April — surfaced this week in response to multiple Freedom of Information Act requests by The Associated Press.

But it sheds no light on why Rumsfeld believed he should leave his post after directing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for nearly five years.

Instead Rumsfeld, in his last paragraph, says only, "It is time to conclude my service."

The former secretary — who took on the job at Bush's request in early 2001 — talks more about the honor Rumsfeld felt in serving.

"It has been the highest honor of my long life to have been able to serve our country at such a critical time on our history and to have had the privilege of working so closely with the truly amazing young men and women in uniform," Rumsfeld wrote.

A request for the resignation letter, submitted last Nov. 13, was finally answered in April. At that time, Will Kammer, chief of the Pentagon's Office of Information, said that a thorough search of the records "revealed no records responsive to your request." A second request was submitted.

The Pentagon had no answer for why the letter suddenly surfaced this week.

Asked why Bush decided to wait until after the election to announce the resignation, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday that Bush wanted to avoid "the appearance of trying to make this a political decision."

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Gus: It has long been an open secret that in many high employment, such as CEO or War Czar or high placed underlings, a resignation letter is signed on the day of employment but not dated... A board vote, a president can call that letter at any time...

Thus the letter by Rummy could have been written ages before the final bum-fight thus not making any reference to anything except "It is time to conclude my service." whatever dis-service it was...

The executioners

Bush's lethal legacy: more executions The US already kills more of its prisoners than almost any other country. Now the White House plans to cut the right of appeal of death row inmates... By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 15 August 2007

The Bush administration is preparing to speed up the executions of criminals who are on death row across the United States, in effect, cutting out several layers of appeals in the federal courts so that prisoners can be "fast-tracked" to their deaths.

With less than 18 months to go to secure a presidential legacy, President Bush has turned to an issue he has specialised in since approving a record number of executions while Governor of Texas.

The US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales - Mr Bush's top legal adviser during the spree of executions in Texas in the 1990s - is putting finishing touches to regulations, inspired by recent anti-terrorism legislation, that would allow states to turn to the Justice Department, instead of the federal courts, as a key arbiter in deciding whether prisoners live or die.