tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22150893330274508522024-03-14T03:54:40.411-07:00March 19 Iraq War BlogswarmStop the killing. Stop the maiming. Stop the economic and environmental devastation. Bring the troops home.libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-5854741372398996052008-03-25T18:53:00.000-07:002008-03-25T19:25:07.785-07:00March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm Posts<a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting.html">a</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_5587.html">b</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_748.html">c</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_4305.html">d</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_23.html">e</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_1848.html">f</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_7053.html">g</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_5432.html">h</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_7088.html">i</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_6597.html">j</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_21.html">k</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_1893.html">l</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_6309.html">m</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_4345.html">n</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_5481.html">o</a> · <br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-posts-starting.html">p</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_6638.html">q</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_22.html">r</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_6634.html">s</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_5865.html">t</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_4390.html">u</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_3881.html">v</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_8467.html">w</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_5442.html">y</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_20.html">z</a> · <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/319-iraq-war-blogswarm-blogs-starting_7412.html">numbers</a> <br /><br />Note: Aside from any human error, these pages include all of the blog postings that we were notified about in the comments for <a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/swarm.html">Bring the Noise! Bring the Swarm!</a> post. Many other posts are listed too, and work continues on getting a full set.<br /><br />Now that you have participated or read postings from people who have participated, here are some of many things you get involved in to continue the effort to stop the war on Iraq.<br /><br /><a href="http://ooibc.blogspot.com/">Out of Iraq Blogger's Caucus.</a><br />Link up with other blogs that oppose the senseless carnage in Iraq.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:15px">US</span><br /><a href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org/">United for Peace and Justice</a><br />Visit their website regularly for national actions and to find the latest local actions in their online calendar.<br /><br /><a href="http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage">A.N.S.W.E.R.(Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)</a><br />Go to their website regularly to get details on their anti-war and pro-justice demonstrations.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ivaw.org">Iraq Veterans Against the War</a><br />Support their efforts to stop the war and get justice for Iraq vets and military families.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:15px">UK</span><br /><a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk/">Stop the War Coaltion</a><br />Get involved in an umbrella group of war opponents.libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-47079099576517468372008-03-24T02:00:00.000-07:002008-03-26T15:46:29.741-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with NumbersHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the Numbers along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">100 Voices:</span><br /><a href="http://100voices.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/winter-soldier-iraq-afghanistan-2/">Winter Soldier Iraq & Afghanistan</a><br /><blockquote>Matthew Palevsky, Journalist<br />反戦するイラク帰還兵 / Iraq Veterans Against The War(IVAW)主催のWinter Soldierコンファレンス会場からお伝えします。イラクとアフガニスタン兵士が自ら目撃した、戦場における軍の誤管理、イラク市民に対する暴力を証言します。</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10,000 Monkeys and a Camera:</span><br /><a href="http://blog.thorg.com/archives/066702.html">Five Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>Other anniversary posts:<br /><br /> * NYTimes: Iraq 5 Years In<br /> * Attaturk: Crappy Anniversary<br /> * BarbinMD: Five Years<br /> * Juan Cole: 5 Years, 5 Lies<br /> * Quiddity: Five-year anniversary...<br /> * Rep. Jim McDermott: What Might Have Been<br /> * Winter Soldier: Soldiers Speak<br /> * William Saletan: The Lessons of Iraq</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">42:</span><br /><a href="http://tunguskan.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19.html">March 19</a><br /><blockquote>I almost forgot about the March 19th Blogswarm amongst all the recent economic wreckage: five years ago today George Bush launched his doomed war of aggression against Iraq, or more specifically, Saddam Hussein. Well, he’s been dead for quite awhile now, but the war grinds on with daily death, mayhem, and horror. Bush today commemorated the anniversary with probably the most egregious bullshit he’s ever spouted, but you won’t see it in the US media. For that, we have to cross the pond to the UK: President Bush: Iraq war was a success and will end in victory.</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"># イラク戦争まる5年 (320 Aikotoba)</span><br /><a href="http://320aikotoba.blog46.fc2.com/blog-entry-68.html">現地治安悪化で報告会中止。国境なき医師団</a><br /><blockquote>3月26日(水)に東京で開催される予定だった『国境なき医師団 イラク活動報告会』が中止になったと本日発表された。<br /><br />この催しは全国アクションリストでも紹介しています。足を運ぶつもりでいた方は、今一度、国境なき医師団(MSF)の公式サイトでご確認ください。</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-iraq-war-blogswarm-posts.html">Return to the Alpha Index of Posts</a><br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-81342488950250872592008-03-24T01:59:00.000-07:002008-04-18T13:00:59.169-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with AHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "A," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aaru Tuesday:</span><br /><a href="http://aaru-tuesday.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years.html">5 Years</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the Blogswarm Against The War, because we have been doing this for five freaking years now. I am caught up in silence, sadly, but there is one thing connected to the war I wanted to jot down, because it has been bugging me in blogland lately; Ferraro, blah, Steinem, blah, Feldt - especially Feldt. I mean, just look at Feldt:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ablogination:</span><br /><a href="http://ablogination.tn420.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/p228">The War On Iraq: The Forgotten Ones</a><br /><blockquote>Most reasonably intelligent people know that around one million people have died as a result of The Big Lie. Most people who don’t have their heads up their asses know that nearly 4000 Americans have lost their lives and tens of thousands more maimed or otherwise injured.<br /><br />But how about those who are forgotten? Anyone familiar with the term “Refugee"?</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Above and Beyond:</span><a href="http://qassami.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-later.html"><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font></a><br /><a href="http://qassami.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-later.html">Five Years Later</a><br /><blockquote><strong>A successful endeavor?</strong>- Suicides, family breakups, depression and social stigma are just some of the hidden legacies of the Iraq war among the more than one million US troops who have served in the campaign.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Acts of Hope:</span><br /><a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-against-war-hope-in-rain.html">Blogswarm against the war: hope in the rain</a><br /><blockquote>There were perhaps thirty of us, in the rain and wind, standing at a corner. Some held signs, others made peace signs with their fingers, others simply stood.<br /><br />Several were from my congregation; its oldest members, in fact. A few were students. One was a little girl in a pink slicker, standing under the protective arm of her mother. She was the only child out on this night. Two photographers snapped pictures. At least four, maybe five of those in attendance were clergy; not young ones, but the young ones were tending to Holy Week duties and perhaps families; the retired ones were there in the rain, in clerical collars and raincoats and wrinkles.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adam Kokesh - Revolutionary Patriot:</span><br /><a href="http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2008/03/dennis-kucinich-at-ws-with-cameo-by.html">5 Years</a><br /><blockquote>Dennis Kucinich at WS, with a cameo by Adam Kokesh</blockquote>YouTube video with Kucinich at Winter Soldier.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adaptivereuse.net:</span><br /><a href="http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/19/fight-climate-change-not-war/" title="Permalink to Fight climate change, not war" rel="bookmark"><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font>Fight climate change, not war</a><br /><blockquote>From the beginning it was nothing more than an unjustified war of aggression by a group of countries, the US, UK and Australia, whose historical pretensions of moral superiority can now clearly be seen as false, disguises for greed and criminality. It has put the final nail in the coffin of the US economy and completely corrupted the already fragile US political system, probably beyond repair. Not only has it ruined countless lives, the money it has wasted would have gone a long way to solving <a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//007888.html" target="_blank">the real crisis</a> facing the world and that is climate change.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">After Downing Street:</span><br /><a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31957">Photos from March 18-19 in DC by Mike Hearington</a><br />Link to protest photos included.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">al Qaeda in Albuquerque:</span><br /><a href="http://alqaedanabq.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-might-have-been.html">A deal for Saddam: What might have been</a><br /><blockquote>Suppose that 5 years ago today, 19 March 2003, the Congress had voted to strike a deal with Saddam: We'll buy all Iraq's oil for $90/bbl, starting immediately - 20 March 2003.<br /><br />The going price was ~$30/bbl.<br />This proposal would have represented about a 200% mark-up over then-current market price.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Albatross!:</span><br /><a href="http://dgently.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-iraq-war-blogswarm_19.html">The Tribe</a><br /><blockquote>The Tribe was strong and proud. Its members lived in peace and prosperity in a time when other savage tribes scrabbled and fought and warred just to maintain meager survival. The Tribe had survived and grown because its people offered all they had - the best of their abilities, a fair share of their possessions, their very lives to the benefit of the tribe. And in return, they were rewarded, each to the measure of their efforts, so that the richer and stronger the Tribe became, the wealthier and more powerful each member and each family became along with it.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alien Trucker:</span><br /><a href="http://alientrucker.com/2008/03/18/my-hero-our-tree-house-his-flag/">My Hero - Our Tree House - His Flag</a><br /><blockquote>There are moments in time that will always be a major part of your memories, Some can be that very moment when something wonderful happens that changes your life. Some are the moments spent with friends and family over many years. Some come from a traumatic moment that you or someone close experiences. This story has all three. Try to bear with me as this post may get long with memories hitting me from all sides and pouring out.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">All Things Democrat:</span><br /><a href="http://www.allthingsdemocrat.com/2008/03/19/iraq-war-2003-2008-so-far/">Iraq War - 2003-2008 - So Far</a><br /><blockquote>I’m sad to announce that, according to today’s count on the Iraq Coalition Casualties website, that we’re - on the 5 year anniversary of this illegal war - just 8 dead Americans short of 4000.<br /><br />That last statement was foul.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Leftist:</span><br /><a href="http://amleft.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_amleft_archive.html#397540169326181809">Iraq War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>"Why is it so difficult to organize opposition to the war?"- During the lunch hour, I, along with my young son, attended a protest to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war on the north side of the capital here in Sacramento. The crowd numbered 75 to 100 people, and I recognized a number of them from past instances of activism related to peace issues, immigration, Chiapas and the environment. </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">And, Yes I DO Take It Personally:</font><br /><a href="http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-uhhh-good-god-yall.html">Iraq War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Today, March 19, marks the 5 year anniversary of the biggest Military/Foreign Policy blunder since the Viet Nam Fiasco: King George's Holy Oedipal Crusade On Iraq.</blockquote><br />(Crossposted at Blog of Revelation.)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Angryindian:</span><br /><a href="http://angryindian.atspace.com/pdf/Remembering-The-Downing-Street-Memorandum.pdf">Remembering The Downing Street Memorandum </a><br /><blockquote>I expected most people and the mainstream media to focus on American military expenditures and the U.S. body count inching its way up to 4000 with a few enterprising souls reminding us that Iraqi’s and Afghans are dying too and in that order. What I am concerned with did not get much mention at all, even when it originally transpired there was scant reportage and what notice that did exist failed to acknowledge the gravity of the matter. This of course is exactly what the Bush administration needed and wanted. And the American press allowed them to get away with it. If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m referring to the Downing Street Memorandum, the leaked document detailing the minutes of a classified July 2002 meeting between then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his senior intelligence advisers namely England’s real life “C”, Sir Richard Dearlove.</blockquote> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Appletree:</span><br /><a href="http://www.appletreeblog.com/?p=4215">Iraq: What You Can Do</a><br /><blockquote>The war has created 5 million refugees<br /><br />If you really want to help the people of Iraq, there are three things you can do:</blockquote>(Crossposted at Liberal Avenger)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">arduous blog:</span><br /><a href="http://arduousblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-prayer.html">My Prayer</a><br /><blockquote>Wednesday, March 19th marks the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War. Tonight I came home and took a shower by candle light. It was all I could think to do right now to commemorate the troops who have passed away and those that fight on.<br /><br />I'd like to talk about how demand for oil is destroying the fabric of our country. I'd like to wax eloquent on the plight of the Iraqi people. But not now.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">article of faith:</span><br /><a href="http://articleofaith.blogspot.com/2008/03/doofus-no-regrets.html">Doofus: "No Regrets"</a><br /><blockquote>Bush Defends Iraq War on Fifth Anniversary:<br /><br />“Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision—no regrets, and this is a fight America can and must win. Defeating this enemy in Iraq will make it less likely we will face this enemy here at home.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Aristocrats:</span><br /><a href="http://ristocrats.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-it-all-back-home.html">Bringing It All Back Home</a><br /><blockquote>I was in Amman, Jordan this morning, strolling through King Abdullah's lovely rose garden, thinking about this very thing, this 'freedom thing' that so many members of the opposition party like to say I'm obsessed with. The sun was shining brightly, the caged birds were singing, and well, it was hard not to be thinking about freedom.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Atheist Revolution:</font><br /><a href="http://atheistrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/03/stop-iraq-war.html">Stop the Iraq War</a><br /><blockquote>My country is at war. That seems like a strange statement, especially when this is the fifth year it has been true. In examining my daily life, nobody would guess I was a citizen in a nation at war, and I am hardly unique in this respect. With the exception of those who have close friends or family serving in Iraq, the daily lives of my fellow Americans remain largely unaffected by this war. Is this why we are not out in the streets demanding immediate withdrawal? Or perhaps our inaction reflects the sort of learned helplessness that sets in after years of observing the utter lack of accountability which pervades our government. Our president and his minions do what they want without regard for the law, and our Congress refuses to reign them in at all.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">atomicpop:</font><br /><a href="http://atomicpop.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/4000/">4000</a><br /><blockquote>i’ve not posted about the war for a long time. frankly, it depresses me too much. but this, this i just couldn’t pass up.<br /><br />as i’m sure you know the united states passed a landmark this week - 4,000 dead american service men and women from the war in iraq.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attending the World:</span><br /><a href="http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/ovens-of-abu-ghraib-troops-have-gone-insane/">“Ovens” of Abu Ghraib? Troops HAVE gone Insane!</a><br /><blockquote>What has become of America? Have we become the Nazis of the 21st Century? It’s bad enough we have done the following (see Video), but this story is very disturbing indeed. Our troops in Iraq HAVE gone insane!<br /><br />NEW REPORT: ABU GHRAIB PRISONERS PACKED IN ICE WATER-FILLED GARBAGE CANS AND SENT INTO SHOCK, MILITARY POLICE SAY</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Aunt Dahlia:</font><br /><a href="http://auntdahlia.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-5-years-later.html">Iraq 5 Years Later</a><br /><blockquote>None of this is apropos of anything, except that I wonder now, 5 years after the invasion, how the war will affect those who are fighting it 20 or 40 years from now. Will they talk about it? Will they feel that they were fighting for a just cause, or will they be angry at the loss of years of their life toward a war they opposed? I’m sure there will be some of both.</blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer</span><br /><a href="http://blog.austindefense.com/2008/03/articles/war-on-drugs/war-on-drugs-war-in-iraq/">War on Drugs <=> War in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Both Wars<br /><ul><li>Are costing the American taxpayer billions and billions of dollars. Trillions if the full economic costs are calculated.</li><li>Have huge ‘cottage’ industries supporting them, and someone is getting rich off of them.</li><li>Cost American lives. And foreign lives, of course – for those who care.</li><li>Are premised on lies.</li><li>Depend on ignorance. The more people educate themselves about the truth, and find out what’s really going on, the less they support both wars.</li></ul></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Automatic Preference:</span><br /><a href="http://automaticpreference.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/march-19-iraq-war-blogswarm-2/#comment-2057">March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Coverage of Winter Soldier, just held in Silver Spring, Maryland. (H/T b. medusa), organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War.</blockquote> (The blog has embedded video from Winter Soldier coverage.)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An Average Patriot:</span><br /><a href="http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/03/besides-inhuman-living-standards-and-2.html"> Besides inhuman living standards and 2 million immigrants look at Bush's Iraq success from a morticians eyes!</a><br /><blockquote> What Bush doesn't want you to hear about his created Hell for Iraqi civilians! First "Despite claims that the security situation has improved in recent months, the human rights situation is disastrous," Amnesty International says in its report, titled "Carnage and Despair: Iraq Five Years On." In a summary of the report, Amnesty writes that "a climate of impunity has prevailed, the economy is in tatters and the refugee crisis" keeps escalating.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-3571799698711111702008-03-24T01:58:00.000-07:002008-03-28T19:26:22.894-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with BHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "B," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Bang the Drum:</font><br /><a href="http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/letters-home/">Letters Home</a><br /><blockquote>Too many lives have been lost. Too many lies have been told. It’s time for the Bush administration to figure out that there is a time for us to end a Three Trillion Dollar War that has cost lives, jobs, families, mental health, and the moral authority of our nation.<br /><br />In an hour or so, I will be at a vigil for those we’ve lost, and those we long to see again. Please join me by writing about an end to this war, or lighting your own candle and finding a like-minded group to tell Washington “no more war.”</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Basket of Puppies:</font><br /><a href="http://fluffer-union.blogspot.com/2008/03/greed-and-oil-another-war-for-our-souls_19.html">Greed and Oil. Another war for our souls</a><br /><blockquote>If there is one story that describes this war it’s the tragedy of Col. Westhusing. Robert Bryce of the Texas Observer brought the suffering of the war to me with this one story. Colonel Ted Westhusing was true blue. A devout Catholic, he had a wife and three kids. When the war started, he truly believed in America. He believed what his superiors told him. He believed in the cause of this war. On June 5, 2005 he gave up believing. - it’s worth a read. Westhusing’s story is about how war broke his spirit, and how it’s depth of evil destroyed his soul.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Beau Bo D'Or:</font><br /><a href="http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/794">Tony Blair Planning The Occupation</a><br /><blockquote> It wasn’t just Halliburton that did well from the war in Iraq.<br />While bodies were being flown home, The Blairs were working out how to make and spend their profits.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Beeston Quakers</font><br /><a href="http://beestonquakers.blogspot.com/2008/03/rallying-for-peace.html">Rallying for peace</a><br /><blockquote>Police said there were 10,000 people there. The organisers said there were 40,000. I don't know if I was included in their figures. All I know is that Trafalgar Square was full and that some groups were assempling in the adjoining streets. There was room to move on the edges of the square, but not much. I couldn't get a good photo showing everyone there. {with pictures}</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Beginning to Wonder</font><br /><a href="http://beginningtowonder.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-19T12%3A59%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7">A Responsible Plan</a><br /><blockquote>On this day which is being commemorated as the fifth anniversary of the day we blundered into Iraq, I have never been more proud to be a Democrat. Not only do our two fine candidates for President both far outshine anything that the broken Republican brand has put forth, but representatives of our Party have put together a plan that is sweeping and intelligent, and a stark contrast to the mendacious tomfoolery that the Republicans and the Bush administration have been peddling these last 5 years.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bench:</span><br /><a href="http://everton.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-drags-on.html">The War Drags On............</a><br />Cartoons!<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"> Between the Hammer and the Anvil:</font><br /><a href="http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com/2008/03/monopoly-iraq-edition-object-object-of.html">MONOPOLY - IRAQ EDITION</a><br /><blockquote> It wasn’t just Halliburton that did well from the war in Iraq.<br />While bodies were being flown home, The Blairs were working out how to make and spend their profits.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">BFD Blog</font><br /><a href="http://indefatigable-indolence.org/blog1/2008/03/19/lynndie-england-clueless-loser/">Clueless Losers File: Lynndie England</a><br /><blockquote>Truth really can be stranger than fiction. Less than two weeks after her release from military prison, the German magazine Stern has just run an interview with Lynndie England, who is arguably one of the most clueless losers of the century.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Bicycle Built for Two:</font><br /><a href="http://bicyclebuilt4two.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-personal-memoir.html">Five Years - A Personal Memoir</a><br /><blockquote>Five years ago today I was eight months pregnant with my son and staying with my mom in her home day and night as she tried desperately to recover from surgery to remove a tumor and battled painfully against the cancer which had spread throughout her body. My daughter, still a toddler lie sleeping in an extra room my mom had made just for her. My mom lay in her own bed while I waited for her to call for me, for ice chips, for meds, for anything at all she needed. I sat staring at the TV without recognizing sound or images, a book in my lap, not knowing what to do next, just waiting.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">big microscope:</font><br /><a href="http://bigmicroscope.com/2008/03/19/war-is-peace/">war is peace</a><br /><blockquote>reedom is slavery.<br /><br />ignorance is strength.<br /><br />most of us know, instinctively, that these three statements are absurd. yet these are all things republicans believe. how else can one explain the past five years of war in iraq? the bush administration would like you to believe that through war, we can achieve peace and ‘democracy’ in the middle east. they’d like you to think that freedom in this country will be protected by making us all slaves to the watchful eyes and ears of data-devouring, privacy-eviscerating government ‘security’ programs. and they want you to put those goddamn stubborn facts aside and just trust them to ensure america stays strong in the face of grave threats ‘out there’. truth be damned; dogma be praised.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Blazing Indiscretions</font><br /><a href="http://blazingindiscretions.blogspot.com/2008/03/for-blogswarm-winter-soldier-testimony.html">FOR THE BLOGSWARM: WINTER SOLDIER TESTIMONY BY IRAQ VET MIKE PRYSNER</a><br /><blockquote>As the lack of coverage of the Winter Soldier hearings has proved, the corporate media is not open to the full extent of anti-war feeling, so this blogswarm is one aspect of new media filling the gaps left by institutions who (despite some mea culpas over their cheerleading of the rush to war 5 years ago) still feel most comfortable reflecting elite opinion. I am put in mind of two oft quoted phrases: "Be the change you want to see in the world"-(Mahatma Gandhi) & Be The Media! Combined we are doing that, we are being the media but a different media, we are enacting a change, not beholden to corporate interests or imperial objectives. A grassroots, human movement of global reach and consciousness.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Blog of Revelation:</font><br /><a href="http://ofrevelation.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-uhhh-good-god-yall.html">Iraq War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Today, March 19, marks the 5 year anniversary of the biggest Military/Foreign Policy blunder since the Viet Nam Fiasco: King George's Holy Oedipal Crusade On Iraq.</blockquote><br />(Crossposted at And, Yes I DO Take It Personally.)<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Bloggerheads:</font><br /><a href="http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2008/03/iraq_war_page_3.asp">The Iraq War (according to Page 3)</a><br /><blockquote>The Sun newspaper, in case you're not aware, is the British Murdoch-owned tabloid that helped Blair's government push the 45-minute WMD lie (even suggesting at one stage that they could have been deployed in 30 minutes), dedicated more column inches to a Labrador puppy thrown off an overpass than they did to the Abu Ghraib scandal (see bottom of this page), and endorsed Tony Blair on the eve of the post-Iraq general election by declaring that he had quite an enormous penis.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Girl, Red State:</font><br /><a href="http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-ago-today.html">Five years ago today</a><br /><blockquote>I was a lone voice. We had not been here very long and I didn't know people then like I do now, but that didn't stop me from voicing my opinion about the path we were about to pursue as a nation. I was working all the time back then in the run-up to cashing on my chips, and one of my coworkers was an Army wife - sorta. He was a full-time reservist and a recruiter, and she had never lived on base or been a part of the military culture like I had, and I had a hard time with her "Hoo-Ah" support. That was a full service public health clinic, and it was me and one of the nurse practitioners who were the sole dissenters. Everyone else thought we would just reprise the 1991 Gulf War and be done with it in short order.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/2008/03/3990.html"><strike>3990</strike> 3991</a><br /><blockquote>They are not just commas, Mr. Bush</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/2008/03/fifth-anniversary-observations.html">Fifth Anniversary Observations</a><br /><blockquote>Me, personally? This is really the fifth anniversary of the war? Never would have believed it. Never would have guessed that what seemed like a lean and mean smash and grab that wouldn't last very long would have ensnared us in a quagmire of this magnitude. Our allies have abandoned us and fallen by the wayside. Our Veteran's Administration is understaffed, underfunded and overwhelmed. You would have been laughed out of the room if you had said we would have this many troops in Iraq right now. I was in uniform five years ago today. I was, thankfully, in a unit that wasn't in danger of deploying and I was, more thankfully, able to get the hell out of the military without being stop-lossed.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Herald:</font><br /><a href="http://blueherald.com/2008/03/5-years-of-war/">5 Years of War, 4,000 Dead and Hundreds of Lies</a><br /><blockquote> Five years and hundreds of lies later, here we are. Approaching 4,000 American lives lost. Up to 100,000 estimated wounded Americans. 1,189, 173 Iraqi deaths. Millions of Iraqis displaced. A civil war. Al Qaeda IS in Iraq now. A demolished infrastructure. A broken U.S. military. No sign of reconciliation in sight. A majority of Americans want our troops out of Iraq. A majority of Iraqis want our troops out of Iraq. In my mind, the greatest cost of this occupation has been the dead and wounded. You can’t put a price on life. You can’t put a price on body parts or mental health.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Borges Blogue:</font><br /><a href="http://allpeopleunite.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-solution-is-apparent.html">Iraq War Blogswarm: The solution is apparent, it is not capitalism</a><br /><blockquote>The end of the Baathist regime in Iraq was meant to liberate the country from a repressive regime, as well as neutralising a perceived threat by that regime to the world. Years on, people are more oppressed than ever, as living standards have deteriorated and many still fear for their lives upon leaving their door, and the dangers posed by the terrorism which has found a home in Iraq are more real than ever.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Boxothoughts:</font><br /><a href="http://boxothoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/global-view-of-iraq-war.html">A Global View of the Iraq War</a><br /><blockquote>Occasionally some of the most insightful and solid advice can come from beyond a nation's shores.<br /><br />Here is some analysis by two American allies who are looking at America and the Iraq bedlam on this fifth anniversary of the immensely unpopular Iraq invasion.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Brilliant at Breakfast:</font><br /><a href="http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/03/john-mccains-slip-is-more-than-just.html">John McCain's "Slip" is More than Just That...Its Part of a Talking Points Campaign to Talk Iraq Into Iran. Stop the Insanity! End the War!</a><br /><blockquote>We have to nip this kind of propaganda in the bud. This talking points campaign is aimed at the news byte conscious. The retraction is usually on page 20, unless its caught in such an embarrassing light, as in this case.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Bring It On:</font><br /><a href="http://military.teambio.org/2008/03/19/becase-we-acted/">"Because We Acted..."</a><br /><blockquote>No doubt, we are all tired of listening to the sound bites carefully selected from today’s Presidential Propaganda Catapult launch from the Pentagon. I just want to unpack one paragraph. Have a gander and see what you think:<br /><br /> "Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men, women and children."<br /><br />Saddam’s dead, sure. But we have been responsible for putting a lot of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children in the ground too.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Buckdog:</font><br /><a href="http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/george-bush-says-5-years-of-war-in-iraq.html">George Bush Says 5 Years Of War In Iraq Has Been 'Worth It'</a><br /><blockquote>After 5 years of war, the death of tens of thousands of Iraqi's as well as 3,990 American troops, President Bush claims that the War in Iraq has been 'worth it'. History will not be kind to this man. Today, over 300 progressive bloggers are swarming the blogosphere with their thoughts and opinions on this fifth anniversary of Bush's War in Iraq.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">The Buddha Diaries:</font><br /><a href="http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-alert.html">Blogswarm Alert</a><br /><blockquote> Oh, and if you haven't already done so, please give a thought to joining this BLOGSWARM against this immoral, arrogant, never-ending war in Iraq. Thank you.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Byzigenous Buddhapalian:</font><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-1.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 1</a><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-2.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 2</a><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-3.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 3</a><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-4.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 4</a><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-5.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 5</a><br /><a href="http://buddhapalian.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-031908-part-6.html">BLOGSWARM 031908 - Part 6</a><br /><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-42243074264782982632008-03-24T01:57:00.000-07:002008-03-29T09:19:04.665-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with CHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "C," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Caminante, No Hay Camino:</span><br /><a href="http://caminantesi.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-out.html">5 Years Out</a> <br /><blockquote>The reasons behind the war were a lie in the beginning.<br /><br />The self-justification in the 'decider's' speech today is delusional.<br /><br />The war is criminal.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://caminantesi.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-against-war.html">Blogswarm Against the War</a> <br /><blockquote>Today marks five years since the US started bombing Iraq.<br /><br />While others out there will offer reflections on what it has meant, I am simply going to post the service, readings and meditation we had the day after the bombs started to fall. Context is everything: I serve a congregation that is half a mile from the nation's oldest private military college and needed to be aware of people's thoughts even as I was and always have been totally against this so-called war.</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">can we all just agree?:</span><br /><a href="http://canwealljustagree.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-too-many.html">five years too many.</a> <br /><blockquote>but then i realized that i don't have the heart or the stomach to write a <br />carefully researched analytical piece on the implications of the war (although i am grateful to the people who can.)<br /><br />i just want you to think of the people you love best: your kids, your nephews and nieces, your parents, your girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/husband/wife, your best friends, your grandparents, and then i want you to imagine them dead. killed by a bomb that fell on their bed while they were sleeping, blown up by a suicide bomber while they were shopping for food, shot in the head by a soldier because they didn't understand the command to stop, ripped apart by an improvised explosive devise that their tank ran over, burned to death in an explosion after a rocket hit their vehicle, tortured to death by militia members or american soldiers, wasted away completely by diarrhea from some water-borne illness, caught in the crossfire between someone and someone else...</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cathleen's Place:</span><br /><a href="http://cathleensplace.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-2008-end-war-in-iraq-blogswarm.html">March 19, 2008 End the War in Iraq Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Many years ago, when I was working at University City High School, a war called Desert Storm started. The students were electrified and could talk of nothing else. UC High is in very conservative country, for the most part, but there were quite a few kids who understood that going to war for oil was insane. The students who thought it was great came to school wearing red, white and blue top hats, little pins with pro-war slogans and waving baby American flags. They'd ask, "Aren't you so proud to be an American?" They were baffled by my negative response. I always added, "I may not be proud to be an American, but I am always grateful to have been born in America."</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cause for Concern:</span><br /><a href="http://utteroutrage.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-3-19-08-3992.html">Iraq War Blogswarm - 3-19-08 - 3992</a><br /><blockquote>I'm sad to announce that, according to today's count on the Iraq Coalition Casualties website, that we're - on the 5 year anniversary of this illegal war - just 8 dead Americans short of 4000.<br /><br />That last statement was foul.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Celestial Dreams:</span><br /><a href="http://celestialdreams.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/march-19th-5-years-too-many-end-the-war/">March 19th, 5 years too many. End the war.</a><br /><blockquote>Today thousands will gather in cities all across America to express their opposition to the war in Iraq.<br /><br />Please visit http://events.unitedforpeace.org/5yearstoomany to find an event near you.<br /><br />Visit http://www.5yearstoomany.org/ to keep up to date with today’s highlights or check out the numerous blogs that will covering the anniversary today:</blockquote><br /><a href="http://celestialdreams.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/my-angry-poem-votary-of-destruction/">my angry poem, “Votary of destruction”</a><br /><blockquote>I wrote this a few months ago when i was sort of ‘ticked off’ about the disintegration of our constitutional rights, the Iraq war, and the multitude of other ongoing outrageous scandals.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Chawed Rosin:</span><br /><a href="http://chawedrosin.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/long-past-time-to-end-the-war/">Long Past Time to End the War</a><br /><blockquote>Although those responsible for the war made the dubious claim that the invasion was necessary to protect the security of the United States, even their most credulous supporters eventually saw the unlikelihood of any true threat from a nation so much smaller and more vulnerable than our own.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cheezy's Blog - Scratch & Sniff:</span><br /><a href="http://ezycheezy.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-on.html">5 Years On</a> <br /><blockquote>Five years on from the launch of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, it's a good time to take stock of the results.<br /><br />Doubtless you'll have your own sources, but at the moment I'm finding Juan Cole's website a very good one for reporting the events on the ground - at the very least it gives the lie to the old 'surge is working' narrative that the MSM has been promoting over the past few months.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chicken Yoghurt:</span><br /><a href="http://www.chickyog.net/2008/03/19/march-19-iraq-war-blogswarm-a-child-called-it/#more-2259">March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm: A child called ‘It’</a><br /><blockquote>Little Warren Iraq is five today. He’s been something of a problem child. Never out of trouble, always in the papers, some people have said he’s symptomatic of what’s wrong with the world today. He’s something of a talisman to those who want to see a better and fairer society.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Coffee Messiah:</span><br /><a href="http://coffeemessiah.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-march-19th-2008.html">Blogswarm - March 19, 2008</a> <br /><blockquote> A warless world will come<br />as men develop warless hearts.<br />Charles Wesley Burns<br /><br />==========================<br /><br />Choose:<br />The single clenched fist lifted and ready,<br />Or the open hand held out and waiting.<br />Choose:<br />For we meet by one or the other.<br /><br />Carl Sandburg</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">cognitive dissent:</span><br /><a href="http://www.cognitivedissident.org/2008/03/iraq_war_ii_five_years.html">Iraq War II: five years</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the fifth anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq, which should prompt some reflection upon where we are and how we got here. Accordingly, here are some of my (many, far too many...) posts on the mess in Mesopotamia:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Complex System of Pipes:</span><br /><a href="http://complexsystemofpipes.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/world-against-war/">world against war</a><br /><blockquote>World against War protest yesterday. See reports with pics from Jamie and Lenin. Turnout was a few tens of thousands - a pretty impressive mobilisation, all things considered - of which 6 buses from Greater Manchester.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Concerned TN Citizens:</span><br /><a href="http://peacetn.blogspot.com/2008/03/regional-peace-vigils-make-channel-5.html">Regional Peace Vigils Make Channel 5 News!</a><br /><blockquote>The segment on the vigils at King College and in Johnson City start at about 3:34 in the telecast..</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Consequences of Republicanism:</span><br /><a href="http://effectsofgop.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-of-iraq-activism-needed.html">5 Years of Iraq: Activism Needed</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the 5 year anniversary of Bush's unprovoked war against Iraq. After the American media abandoned their crucial role of informing the people and decided to instead sell this war, it took years for the full scope of Bush's lies to emerge. Now that we know how he deliberately misled us into this war, it is mind-blowing to see the utter lack of accountability which has followed. Impeachment proceedings should begin immediately, but we must not lose sight of an even greater responsibility - ending this war. Today should be a day of reflection for what we as individual Americans can do to make this happen.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Contextual Criticism:</span><br /><a href="http://mythandhope.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-21T09%3A41%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=7">When Is a War Not a War? In Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>The so-called war in Iraq is not a war. It never was a war. Our Iraq adventure has been circumscribed by two events: an invasion and an occupation.<br /><br />Patrick Cockburn of CounterPunch explains the invasion, which began on March 19, 2003: While there was some conflict and some resistance, he says, by and large the reason the allied forces marching to Baghdad "had an easy passage ...[was] because the Iraqi army did not fight. Even the so-called elite Special Republican Guard units, well paid, well equipped and tribally linked to Saddam, went home."<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Courting Destiny:</span><br /><a href="http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/03/19/bone-little-nibbler-three-word-wednesday-pia-savage-fiction-five-years-in-iraq-blogsworm-319-out-of-iraq-now/">3WW: money, tangled, understood: Small Wars; fiction though the war isn’t</a><br /><blockquote>Here’s a Bush marking the five year anniversary slide show. I’ll save you the trouble, because who actually wants to look at him?. He said we’ll stay with the course while he acknowledged the cost has been much more than anticipated. Of course all the costs are much more. As I remember the war supposedly ended about six weeks after it began. Courting Destiny began as our way of protesting the RNC in New York in 2004. Our original url, freenynyfrombush.blogspot.com is one of our proudest partial lines. We didn’t know that some crazy radical rightists thought they ran the blogosphere, and yes we can admit it now, made us kind of cry. We wouldn’t back down then and we’re certainly not going to back down now.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Cranky Webmaster:</span><br /><a href="http://crankywebmaster.com/?p=50">Waterloo 2</a><br /><blockquote>The President of the United States awoke today as if it were any other day. He showered, shaved and dressed himself in a suit. He doubtless ate breakfast and joked with friends about this or that. Eventually he made his way to a podium where, as Commander in Chief, he presented his analysis of the past five years of war in Iraq. He was upbeat, arrogant and unrepentant. It was George W. Bush at his finest, full of confidence, basking in the glory of his military successes.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cupcake Punk:</span><br /><a href="http://cupcakepunk.blogspot.com/2008/03/21-5_18.html">21&5</a><br /><blockquote>It's hard to claim chocolate as anti-war; thousands gallons of oil are used to produce and ship it around the world and it's such a bourgeois item. BUT food is community. Food brings people together. Food defines relationships. Food brings peace. Imagine Iraqis and Americans and Africans and Europeans sitting down to a meal together. Somewhere, in between the shared culture of nourishment, positive conversation occurs, opinions are challenged, expanded.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Curmudgeon:</span><br /><a href="http://thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2008/03/2003-and-all-that.html">2003 And All That</a><br /><blockquote>The Iraq War was a war fought in Iraq but not against Iraq by the Coalition of the Willing against the forces of Soddomite reprision.<br /><br />Causes of the Iraq War<br />1. The Soddom Hussein. The Soddom was the evil ruler of Iraq. It was a pro-Western ally and thus widely hated by the Arab Multitudes, and also an anti-Western fanatic and thus widely hated by the Civilised World.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cut to the Chase:</span><br /><a href="http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-three-trillion-lies.html">Iraq War Blogswarm: Three Trillion Lies And Still Going Strong</a><br /><blockquote>Today, as we mark that dark mid-March day in 2003 when President Bush, complete with a raised fist pumping air like he was about to go into the final playoffs to give "'em one more for the Gipper..." gesture and dispatched the first soldiers off to war, the cold, harsh light of day makes it a heluva lot easier to see all the lies.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-7040156667220708822008-03-24T01:56:00.000-07:002008-03-29T12:36:41.294-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with DHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "D" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Daisy's Dead Air:</span><br /><a href="http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/03/bring-them-home-now.html">Bring Them Home Now!</a><br /><blockquote>As I wrote on Monday, the Greenville Antiwar Society candle lighting took place on Sunday night, downtown at Bergamo Square. Below are some photographs of the event, which I am sharing here as my contribution to the Blogswarm Against the War.<br /><br />In the center, there is a beaded structure, representing the Iraqi people--hundreds of beads symbolize the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead. It would be impossible to light a million candles, so this is the best we could do.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">dancewater:</span><br /><a href="http://dancewater.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm.html">BLOGSWARM</a><br /><blockquote>Local events today and the rest of this week:</blockquote><a href="http://dancewater.blogspot.com/2008/03/stop-this-war.html">STOP THIS WAR!</a><br />The post includes the poem, "Peace to Baghdad."<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dandelion Salad:</span><br /><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/its-march-19-and-blogswarm-day-posts-on-iraq-war-by-lo/">It’s March 19 and Blogswarm Day! Posts on Iraq War by Lo</a><br /><blockquote>It’s March 19 and Blogswarm Day! Here is a list of my posts on Iraq in the last few days. I’ll add more throughout the day today since I post on Iraq almost every day. Hopefully some good video coverage of the mass protest in Washington, DC today will be posted. ~ Lo</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dane of War:</span><br /><a href="http://daneofwar.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-into-war-and-what-hell-for.html">Blogswarm - March 19th, 2008: 5 years into the war, and what the hell for?</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The invasion began at 9:34PM EST on March 19, 2003. The U.K. codenamed it Operation Telic, and in Australia it was known by the name Operation Falconer.<br /><br />So, how's it going? How do we "measure that success?", as the Bush regime so often says?</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Daughters of Vietnam Veterans:</span><br /><a href="http://dovv.blogspot.com/2008/03/leaving-home-to-iraqivaw-ft-hooda-casey.html">Leaving Home to Iraq/IVAW Ft. Hood/A Casey Porter Film</a><br />This posting has a YouTube video with the title above.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Dubya's Freedom Rants:</span><br /><a href="http://davedubya.com/2008/03/mass-media-mass-madness_19.html">Mass Media, Mass Madness</a><br /><blockquote>Here we are again. We arrive at yet another anniversary of Bush’s glorious war. Why are millions of innocent people suffering for so long? His reasons for the calamitous blunder and debacle were far from the stated purposes. He cared nothing for the Iraqi people and had no proof for his WMD and al-Qaeda claims. He wanted war for power, profit, oil, and last, but not least, his insurance as “war president” to win his 2004 re-election.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">De Koboldorum Rebus:</span><br /><a href="http://koboldorum.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-tomorrow.html">Five Years Tomorrow</a><br /><blockquote>Well, that went horribly badly, didn't it? Yes, it was March 20, 2003, that we (and by "we" I mean the West in general, even those of us who aren't officially directly involved) embarked upon the living, breathing, definition of an illegal war. It was billed, of course, as the necessary removal of a brutal dictator who was conspiring with Osama Bin Laden while constructing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. We would be greeted as liberators, and everybody would be back home in six months.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Dean's Office:</span><br /><a href="http://deansoffice.blogspot.com/2008/03/whats-fubar.html">What's "FUBAR?"</a><br /><blockquote>For those of us who were against this war since well before it began this has been a pretty frustrating five years. We marched, we wrote letters and we voted. None of that seemed to help. In fact: it seems like things have just gotten worse.<br /><br />If you're like me the last five years have made you feel a bit powerless. But we don't have to feel that way. Here's a couple of modest suggestions to things we can do today to make things a little bit better all by our lonesome.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Demeur:</span><br /><a href="http://demeur.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-blogstorm.html">Iraq Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>I've been thinking about what I could add to the disent of the current occupation of the White House by one George W. Bush. A president (in name only) who has taken this nation in a direction that goes against every principle that every day Americans hold dear. Where to even start. From his stealing of the elections in 2000 and 2004 to his current approval of waterboarding never has there been such an assult and disreguard on the constitution of this country. And not only has this administration preverted the electorial process it has gone one step further by eating it's own if you recall Katherine Harris.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dinge, die mich bewegen.....:</span><br /><a href="http://karinfreimann.blogspot.com/2008/03/der-krieg-im-irak-ein-schandfleck-fr.html">Der Krieg im Irak – ein Schandfleck für die Menschheit</a><br /><blockquote>Der 11. September, Massenvernichtungswaffen, Saddam Hussein und zahlreiche weitere Gründe wurden uns aufgetischt, um den Irakkrieg anzuzetteln. Alles Lug und Betrug an der Menschheit!<br /><br />Im heutigen Blogswarm möchte ich meine Gedanken wiedergeben und hoffe damit auch andere Menschen zum Denken zu animieren.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">distributocap NY:</span><br /><a href="http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/2008/03/doomed-to-repeat.html">Doomed to Repeat</a><br /><blockquote>As of tomorrow we are entering year 6 of a war that has no end in sight. Monday (or in this case Thursday) morning quarterbacking shows the world that George W. Bush’s 5-year invasion of Iraq was set in motion without even a cursory look back at the 5 thousand year history of the region. Any person can easily open a junior high school textbook and see the long-term history of Iraq is teeming with ethnic conflict, religious hatred, deep-rooted enmity, and endless occupations. And it doesn’t take a whole lot of in-depth investigation to learn that the short-term history of Iraq since World War I is even more revealing.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Divine Democrat:</span><br /><a href="http://divinedem.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-of-peril-five-years-without.html">FIVE YEARS OF PERIL-FIVE YEARS WITHOUT PEACE</a><br /><blockquote>If you listen to the hollow words of George Bush in that video, he said "I know that the families of our military are praying that all those who serve will return safely and soon. Millions of Americans are praying with you for the safety of your loved ones and for the protection of the innocent. For your sacrifice, you have the gratitude and respect of the American people. And you can know that our forces will be coming home as soon as their work is done.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dohiyi Mir:</span><br /><a href="http://www.dohiyimir.org/2008/03/five-years-to-b.html">Five Years (To Be Continued)</a><br /><blockquote>In which NTodd marks five years of war in Iraq. (25:04) <br /><br />Features: Pink Floyd, Country Joe and the Fish, Neil Young, Moody Blues, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Donkey Punch:</span><br /><a href="http://t4toby.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/happy-anniversary/">Happy Anniversary! (Updated)</a><br />This post starts with a picture of a soldier with a tear in his eye.<br /><blockquote>5 years. We’ve been occupying Iraq for five years.<br /><br />5 years of Mission Accomplished.<br /><br />5 years of raining terror down on the populace.<br /><br />5 years of further alienating the Arab world.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">a dragon dancing with the buddha:</span><br /><a href="http://varkentine.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-hillary.html">No, Hillary...</a><br /><blockquote>Hillary Rodham Clinton told a group of young veterans Tuesday that one lesson of the Iraq War is not to commit troops "unless you are prepared to go all the way and are prepared to be successful."<br /><br />Oh, God. Oh, my God. The lesson of the Iraq war is that we should have been prepared to go all the way?</blockquote><br /><a href="http://varkentine.blogspot.com/2008/03/mismanaged-like-war-was-inn-or-savings.html">"Mismanaged." Like the war was an Inn or a Savings & Loan.</a><br /><blockquote>President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that the United States was on track for victory<br /> <br />Treasure? Dear god. He thinks he's Nicholas Cage.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Drinking Liberally in New Milford:</span><br /><a href="http://drinkliberal.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years.html">5 Years</a><br /><blockquote>It has been five years since the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. And so the day of protesting began as per usual in the no free speech zone known as America:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Today, police arrested more than 30 people “who blocked entrances at the Internal Revenue Service building” as “part of a day of protests to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.” Demonstrators also converged in Miami and San Francisco, and other cities across the country.</span></blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-88236799082665557732008-03-24T01:55:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:46:55.933-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with EHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "E" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Eagle Eye's Omnipotent View</font><br /><a href="http://theeaglepupil.blogspot.com/2008/03/atrocities-in-iraq.html">Atrocities in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Reasons to end the imperialist dynasty as stated by the IVAW:<br />*Corporate profiteering is driving the war in Iraq<br />*The occupation is a primary motivation for the insurgency and global religious extremism<br />*Our national “moral authority” is being undermined</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Editor Mom</font><br /><a href="http://editor-mom.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-costly-years-in-iraq.html">Five Costly Years in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>For 5 long years, the United States has been engaged in an illegal war against Iraq. That is 5 years too many, 5 years too costly, in so many ways.<br />Five years after our military first put on an explosive show of its firepower, nearly 1 in 5 Iraqis is now a displaced citizen or a refugee in another nation, according to the International Organization for Migration. That's nearly 5.1 million human beings—2.7 million displaced and 2.1 million refugees—who have been forced to flee their homes.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Electronic Cerebrectomy</font><br /><a href="http://samuraifrog.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-is-this-winning.html">How Is This Winning?</a><br /><blockquote>Our economy is failing, and it will continue to fail as long as this war goes on. Watch this video, please. It's only about 90 seconds long, but it's from the BBC. And you do really have to get unfiltered news about America from the BBC or the Guardian or another unbiased source, because the American media will not tell you the truth. They're trying to scare you into keeping the economy moving, even as it's grinding to a halt.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">The Eleventh</font><br /><a href="http://marymurtz.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-forward-thousand-years-back.html">Five Years Forward, a Thousand Years Back</a><br /><blockquote>Gabe was there for two tours, his discharge date extended. He lost men in his unit, close friends, to sniper fire and IED’s. He came home with hundreds of photos, some heart-wrenching, some so horrifying I still see them in my sleep. And even though he’s home, he is still in the war, because it is still in him. Almost two years after his return stateside, he checked himself into the state psychiatric hospital for a week to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Episcopollyanna</font><br /><a href="http://episcopollyanna.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-countless-lives-unmitigated.html">Five years, countless lives & an unmitigated disaster</a><br /><blockquote>I know a guy who's served at least two tours in Iraq. I've fallen out of touch with C because he no longer dates my friend. After his first tour he came back and things seemed okay for a while and then things fell apart between the two of them. The final straw came when C had an opportunity to retire from the Army but decided to re-up because he was getting a huge bonus. He's a weapons specialist with the Stryker Brigade based at Fort Lewis and the Army was anxious to have him back. My friend couldn't handle his PTSD, the hair-trigger anger. She couldn't handle her own gut-wrenching anxiety either.<br />C was in Mosul on December 21, 2004, when a suicide attack killed 22 and wounded at least 72 in a dining hall. It took two days for my friend to hear if he was alive. Six of his fellow soldiers from Fort Lewis were killed in the attack. He told horror stories about being terrified of small children because they could be hiding weapons and could kill you. When I first met him he was a quiet, smart young man.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">ex-lion tamer</font><br /><a href="http://exliontamer.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/the-definition-of-insanity/">the definition of insanity</a><br /><blockquote>the definition of insanity has been posited by alcoholics anonymous as “repeating the same action over and over again, hoping to achieve different results”.</blockquote><br /><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-40258933791048391942008-03-24T01:54:00.000-07:002008-03-29T16:17:04.681-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with FHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "F," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Faces of Grief:</span><br /><a href="http://facesofgrief.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html">March Photos</a><br />This blog features pictures and descriptions of the grief Iraqis are facing due to the war.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Fanciful Muse:</span><br /><a href="http://fancifulmuse.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-iraq-winning-move-and-human.html">Blogswarm: Iraq The Winning Move and the Human Factor</a><br /><blockquote>Because this is about peace, and not war, I thought this quote highly appropriate. For those who may not remember the movie "War Games" (really you should watch this great classic,) it goes off the premise that all of our missile defenses and offenses are ready to be given into the control of a computer programmed with basic A.I. The conclusion is that nuclear war is a lot like a game of Tic-Tac-To. When you have two players of equal skill the game always ends in a stalemate. No one wins, everyone loses.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://fancifulmuse.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-iraq-power-of-one-voice.html">Blogswarm: Iraq The Power of One Voice</a><br /><blockquote>I often hear from my friends, who are very much activists in their own right, that they feel their efforts at times are not enough. I have to admit, just speaking out, just talking about the injustices of the world does not seem like enough effort at times. I often say that we as citizens seem content to sit back while civil liberties are stripped from us, so long as we still have the right to complain about it. Soon enough the right to complain will be the only right that we have left... and then they will take that away too. The Prophet Mohammed (P.B.U.H.) said, "If a man sees evil, let him change it with his hands, if he cannot, let him change it with his voice, if he cannot, let him hate it in his heart..." and on the last part of the quote I've heard two different interpretations, one says, "... beyond that there is no faith," while the other says, "but this is the lowest form of faith," in reference to simply hating it, or feeling bad about it in your heart.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fed Up American:</span><br /><a href="http://fedupamerican07.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-later-bushs-war-rages-on.html">Five Years Later - bush's War Rages On</a><br /><blockquote>From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge -- for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finding Bonggamom:</span><br /><a href="http://bonggamom.blogspot.com/2008/03/enough.html">ENOUGH</a><br /><blockquote>Today I join hundreds of people at Blogswarm, thousands throughout the blogosphere, and millions around the world, in mourning the day that George Bush used the US Army to invade Iraq and throw the world into turmoil.<br /><br />Five years. Five. Fucking. Years. I never ever swear on my blog but today I am angry.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fitness For The Occasion:</span><br /><a href="http://fitnessfortheoccasion.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/iraq-seeing-the-violence/">Iraq: Seeing the Violence</a><br /><blockquote>"An Iraqi mother in a van fired on by US soldiers says she saw her two young daughters decapitated in the incident that also killed her son and eight other members of her family.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The children’s father, who was also in the van, said US soldiers fired on them as they fled towards a checkpoint because they thought a leaflet dropped by US helicopters told them to “be safe”, and they believed that meant getting out of their village to Karbala."</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://fitnessfortheoccasion.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/anti-war-protests-and-working-in-dc/">Anti-War Protests and Working in DC</a><br /><blockquote>In my mind, a protest serves several purposes. It is a PR action, it can bolster morale within a movement (and be quite empowering), and it can effect direct action. With the media being the way it is, massive numbers and effective cleverness are necessary for a protest to make waves. It needs to be something new!</blockquote><br /><a href="http://fitnessfortheoccasion.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/we-killed-people-we-dont-care/">We Killed People, We Don't Care</a><br /><blockquote>They lied us into a war. They are actively working against the will of the people. And they are risking this country’s security by misfiring our military resources and they won’t even lift the self-imposed blind-fold long enough to take a real peek at how they’re doing.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Flying Hamster(s) of Doom:</font><br /><a href="http://hamsterdoom.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-after-mission-accomplished.html">5 Years after "Mission Accomplished": Blogswarm Against the War</a><br /><blockquote>While listening to Democracy Now! on KPFK 90.7 out here in L.A. yesterday I heard Rahul Mahajan from the blog Empire Notes talking about what has happened in the 5 years that have passed since the start of the US invasion of Iraq on March 19th, 2003:<br />"Children who were in 7th or 8th grade during the invasion of Iraq are now deciding whether or not to enlist and be sent to Iraq to kill or die. Iraq itself has been changed beyond recognition, irrevocably altered. Depending on which study you believe, 400,000 to 1.3 million have died of violence, perhaps 25% of them at the hands of American soldiers. Over 4 million have lost their homes, half of them now refugees in foreign lands..."</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fourdogmom:</span><br /><a href="http://fourdogmom.blogspot.com/2008/03/bushs-war-turns-5.html">Bush's War Turns 5</a><br /><blockquote>The Iraqi war will be 5 years old on March 19th. Here are a few of the costs in money and in lives lost:<br />The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the war in Iraq costs up to 9 billion per month. That's on top of the $13 billion spent on the initial deployment.<br />Here is a summary of the costs:<br />Initial deployment of troops: $9 billion to $13 billion</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">FranIAm:</font><br /><a href="http://festinalente-franiam.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-march-19-ugly-anniversary.html">5 years later, what has been the cost of war in Iraq?</a><br /><blockquote>Today marks the anniversary of evil. A nation was co-opted by its leaders and remains compromised. While I started many different themes for today, I ended up trashing them all as I addressed the way that the war, perhaps from afar, touched my life.<br /><br />I remember that time 5 years ago - it was a time of hope in my life for other reasons and the specter of war worked to change that.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://festinalente-franiam.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-iraq-war-blogswarm-dick-cheney.html">March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Dick Cheney Says - "So?"</a><br /><blockquote>I am not in Albany today! I am in my secret, secure and most undisclosed location and I am coincidentally about to blog about Darth Vader I mean Dick Cheney.<br /><br />Martha Raddatz was interviewing Dick Cheney about the Iraq war on ABC news. Being as I am in this undisclosed location I can't figure out how to embed this video, so I link to it right here.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Freethought Weekly:</span><br /><a href="http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-we-own-world-by-noam.html">Iraq War Blogswarm: 'We Own the World' by Noam Chomsky</a><br /><blockquote>I thought about what would be most appropriate to write here. Simple criticism of the Iraq War, while certainly valid, lacked the historical context that I wanted to provide linking this war to the way our government always operates. The Iraq War was not just a 'botched job', a 'miscalculation in the fight for freedom', or a 'misguided attempt to attack the evil-doers', it was instead a simple application of the way our government works. Power and profit for the few, squalor and death for the others.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Freeway Blogger:</font><br /><a href="http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-of-victory.html">Five Years of Victory!</a><br /><blockquote>There were protests all around the Bay Area yesterday, though none too well attended compared to before the war. One reporter seemed impressed however by how media-savvy the protesters were, with handy press packets and convenient up-to-the-minute text-messaging capabilities.<br />I prefer freewayblogging to organized protests for a couple of reasons. One, you don't need thousands of people, which is a real time-saver in terms of organizing and logistics. Two, you don't have to rely on the media to reach a significant number of people, or have to depend on them to transmit your message faithfully: you can say whatever you want, unedited. <font style="font-weight: bold;">{with pictures of big signs! On freeways!}</font></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Freida Bee:</span><br /><a href="http://freidabee.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-may-scrap-dollar.html">U.S. May Scrap Dollar</a><br /><blockquote>In light of President George W. Bush, Jr.'s announcement to stay the course in Iraq today and recent stock market instabilities, the Federal Reserve has made an announcement of its own, a proposal to eliminate the printing of the U.S. dollar. "It's just barely worth the cost of printing it anymore," announced Federal Reserve spokesperson Janet Hamilton this morning in the wake of Bush's plans to continue sinking money into the U.S. led destruction of Iraq. "This essentailly guarantees that the value of the U.S. dollar will continue to decline," Hamilton stated today on the fifth anniversary of the invasion.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">From Smiler, With Love:</span><br /><a href="http://fromsmilerwithlove.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-cause-for-celebration.html">No Cause for Celebration</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><blockquote>It’s a very sad anniversary today. The war in Iraq is already five years old. Five years too many. I chose to join the Blogswarm today because I’m opposed to crimes against humanity and all living beings, and what could be more criminal than a war launched under false pretense and which never had any other aim than to assert dominance? Some will argue that wars have been waged for as long as humans have existed and that it can’t be avoided, a necessary evil, they might say. I say that war is a demented game played by morally deficient politicians, their advisers and their special buddies, who are so caught up in continually asserting their authority, gaining power and riches that they lose sight of the value of human life. I can imagine that to them, war must seem like nothing more than a video game, played live and in supra high definition.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-16232235083804932812008-03-24T01:53:00.000-07:002008-03-30T07:23:11.290-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with GHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letters "G" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">gaia_2000:</font><br /><a href="http://gaia-2000.livejournal.com/39888.html">Time to End It</a><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Gatwick City of Ideas:</font><br /><a href="http://gatwickcity.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=518&sid=151e51a3a1344bcc12606ecb18c3a012">Multiple postings</a><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Get Your Own:</font><br /><a href="http://getit4yourself.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-too-many.html"> 5 Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>I almost forgot about this but it is too important. This war is wrong. Anyone who hasn't figured that out by now I don't believe can have their mind changed by anything I say. War is NOT the answer. I'm not sure it every is. Imagine how many lives this war has ruined. That should give you something to think about for the at least the entire day.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Godless Liberal Homo:</font><br /><a href="http://godlessliberalhomo.blogspot.com/2008/03/action-alert-why-are-winter-soldiers.html">Action Alert: "Why Are Winter Soldiers Not News?"</a><br /><blockquote>When I started the March 19 Blogswarm Against the Iraq War with the blogger who does Ten Percent, it was done in part to counter pro-war bias and censorship in the corporate media. So, it is fitting that my contribution to the Blogswarm be to publicize and add to an action alert from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on Winter Soldier.<br /><br />3/19/08 FAIR Action Alert:<br /><font style="font-style: italic;">Dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland last weekend for the Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan hearings (3/13/08-3/16/08), where they offered harrowing testimony about atrocities they had witnessed or participated in directly. The BBC predicted that the event, organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, "could be dominating the headlines around the world this week" (3/7/08). The hearings were covered as far afield as the U.K. (Guardian, 3/17/08), Australia (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 3/14/08), Croatia (Javno, 3/16/08), and Iran (Press TV, 3/14/08). Yet there has been an almost complete media blackout on this historic news event in the U.S. corporate media.</font></blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Going Green:</font><br /><a href="http://burbanmom.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-in-iraq.html"> 5 Years in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the five year anniversary of the US Invasion in Iraq. Whether you support this war or not, please take a moment out of your day to give thanks to the brave men and women who have sacrificed for our country.<br /><br />And then bring them the fuck home.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gold Star Mom Speaks Out:</span><br /><a href="http://gsmso.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-damned-long-years-in-iraq.html"> 5 Damned Long years in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Here we are again- 5 years of war in Iraq! 5 long years! 3990 dead American soldiers, 60,000 plus wounded American soldiers, millions of Iraqis displaced, and we will never know how many Iraqis have died in this war turned occupation of their country. We are spending $12 Billion dollars a month, $17 million dollars every hour and $275 million dollars a day. We know that 935 lies were told by various members of the administration that instills fear so that the citizens of this country would support this Global War on Terror in Iraq. That’s quite a lot of numbers to keep track of; but the best number of all is 307 and that is the number of days left until January 19, 2009, which means, we will be free of the dangerous, fear mongering Bush administration.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Gordian Hense:</font><br /><a href="http://www.hense.com/2008/03/18/seit-funf-jahren-tobt-der-krieg-im-irak/"> Seit fünf Jahren tobt der Krieg im Irak</a><br /><blockquote>Wir möchten mit diesem Beitrag darauf aufmerksam machen, dass seit fünf Jahren ein Krieg im Irak tobt und bis jetzt ca. 1,3 Mio. Menschen dort gestorben sind. Das täglich tausende verletzt werden und schreckliches erleben müssen. Unter den Toten und Verletzten befinden sich unschuldige Frauen, Kinder und Männer. Es gibt und gab keinen Grund der einen Krieg gegen unschuldige Menschen rechtfertigt. Er muss so schnell wie möglich beendet werden.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Granny Geek:</font><br /><a href="http://grannygeek.us/?p=2306">Shock and Awe, Five Years Later</a><br /><blockquote>Who knew that we Americans would be the ones feeling the shock and awe of the invasion of Iraq?<br /><br />We’re shocked at the number of deaths of American military and Iraqi civilians. At last count, we’ve lost 4,000 soldiers. Who knows how many Iraqis are dead: some estimates run as high as a million casualties..</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grind Chop Blend:</span><br /><a href="http://backinasecond.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/happy-birthday-illegal-occupation/">Happy Birthday Illegal Occupation!!!!</a><br /><blockquote>You’re 5 years old today. You’ve done some pretty cool stuff for such a young thing. And your daddy W and granddaddy Dick have done an amazing job of feeding you with the blood of thousands of innocent Iraqis, young American, British and other nameless countries’ soldiers, not to mention the trillions of dollars they’ve spent on you to make sure you can continue to trounce, stumble and cavort around over there, drunk from all the success. And you’re not done yet are you? Uncle McCain is gonna keep you in the money for maybe another hundred years.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Gunfighter: A Modern Warrior's Life:</font><br /><a href="http://gunfighter1.typepad.com/warrior/2008/03/in-the-latter-p.html">Lies, and More Lies</a><br /><blockquote>In the latter part of 2002, and through the first part of March of 2003, President George W. Bush and his claque of war-mongering neo-cons and fellow travelers, aided by craven, weak, lick-spittle members of the House of Representatives and Senate, conspired to send our soldiers to war. I say conspired because that is accurate. </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">the guy by the door:</font><br /><a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/fensterm/2008/03/20/harvard-iraq-invasion-5/">Harvard @ Iraq Invasion + 5</a><br />This post also has pictures from the Harvard protest against the war.<br /><blockquote>We on the left should frame our opposition to the war as opposition to empire.<br />- Adaner Usmani<br /><br />Some folks at Harvard Law School are doing just that with their event series, Confronting Empire: 5 Years of War in Iraq. The series is over, but the website has a link for each and every speaker, many of whom have freely downloadable articles. I’m told that proceedings from it, will, in time, appear. [And I’ll point you to my faves.] The series was sponsored by, Justice for Palestine at Harvard Law and:</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-83510189505433227642008-03-24T01:52:00.000-07:002008-03-30T14:37:05.985-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with HHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "H," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Happening Here:</span><br /><a href="http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2008/03/democrats-are-war-weasels-too.html"> Democrats are war weasels too</a><br /><blockquote>This singing and dancing trio greeted antiwar protestors in downtown San Francisco on the first day of the sixth year of the Iraq war.<br /><br />Wouldn't it be great if we could be confident that our Democratic Presidential aspirants would end Cheney-McCain-Bush's occupation of Iraq? If we knew they would not bomb Iran? Too bad such any such confidence would be misplaced. Our Democrats are war weasels.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes:</span><br /><a href="http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2008/03/well-worth-cost.html">"Well Worth the Effort"</a><br /><blockquote>Two days ago, the worst person ever, Dick Cheney, made a statement of unfathomable arrogance, ignorance and callousness during his latest victory tour of Baghdad. And by "victory tour," I mean the type of visit that is unannounced because the security situation there is rubbish. He said, in defiance of the laws of reason, decency and definition:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hard Boiled Dreams of the World:</span><br /><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/03/19/how-to-recover-from-war-addiction/">How To Recover From War Addiction</a><br /><blockquote>Addiction to war doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to face the fact that your country is out of control.<br /><br />If you’re not sure, and you’re wondering if your country has an addiction to war or not, ask yourself these questions:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">hawgblawg:</span><br /><a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2008/03/colonialism-in-iraq.html">Colonialism in Iraq?</a><br /><blockquote>An interview with Army Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, US commander in the north of Iraq, was broadcast today on NPR's Morning Edition, as part of NPR's coverage on the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq (Operation Desert Fox). Several of the things Hertling said struck me as reminiscent of classical colonialist discourse. Entirely unselfconscious, commonsensical, self-evident, and as as with all ruling ideology, it all just goes without saying. I consider Hertling's statements, the way he frames the discussion, symptomatic of what the Iraq adventure is all about.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">headspa:</span><br /><a href="http://headspa.blogspot.com/2008/03/19308-out-of-iraq.html">19.3.08 Out of Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Today I'm participating in the blogswarm protesting the war in Iraq. It's well past time to get out. It should never have started. Peace and self-determination will sustain humanity on this planet long after the oil has dried up. All I am saying - to myself, to the warmongers and the seriously greedy, to the generation to follow: is give peace a chance.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Here Still Running:</span><br /><a href="http://herestillrunning.blogspot.com/2008/03/invasion-and-occupation.html">Invasion and Occupation</a><br /><blockquote>For those of you who don't yet know, I am a Vietnam Veteran and an Anti-war Protester: then and now. I was diagnosed with PTSD by the Veterans' Administration in 1985 (the first year it occurred to me to ask "Whhhaaaaat?"); I received a disability rating in 1996, which was upgraded to 100% service-connected in 2004.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hillblogger:</span><br /><a href="http://hillblogger3.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-one-of-most-disastrous-wars-fought.html">Iraq: One of the most disastrous wars fought by Britain</a><br /><blockquote>A gross failure that ended with a humiliating retreat writes Partick Cockburn for the Independent.<br /><br /> The war in Iraq has been one of the most disastrous wars ever fought by Britain. It has been small but we achieved nothing. It will stand with Crimea and the Boer War as conflicts which could have been avoided and were demonstrations of incompetence from start to finish. Full story here.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Home of the Brave:</span><br /><a href="http://revolutionredux.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/daily-constitutional-five-years-in-iraq/">Daily Constitutional: Five Years In Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>I am at a loss for words to add which will shed new light, which will persuade the likes of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic party leadership and influential Republicans to bring articles of impeachment forward in order to bring George W. Bush, Richard B, Cheney, and their teams of loyalists to account for the horrors they have wrought and continue to wreak against the Constitution, against the US and against Iraq.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How This Old Brit Sees It ...:</span><br /><a href="http://rickwrites.blogspot.com/2008/03/for-what-its-worth-our-own-online.html"> For What It's Worth : Our Own Online "BLOGSWARM" Anti-War Contribution</a><br /><blockquote>Anyway, seeing as it's already toward the end of another long day here in great British GMT-land, here's hoping we're allowed to cheat a little by being short on the words (again), but a bit 'bigger' on the pictures. After all, you know what they (and us), always say about every picture telling a story and how each one is worth a thousand words.<br /><br />However, where real, raw, war photos are concerned [like those collected by Canadian, Roedy Green], each image is worth - at least -10,000 words - or more.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-44868179019097780522008-03-24T01:51:00.000-07:002008-04-20T10:56:45.177-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with IHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "I," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">I, Splotchy:</span><br /><a href="http://isplotchy.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-feeble-contribution-to-blogswarm.html">My Feeble Contribution To A Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Though I don't really post that much about politics, I decided at the last minute I'd make a contribution to this blogswarm.<br /><br />I am basically just including a few videos to highlight some of the people that should be held personally responsible for the horrible carnival ride so many people have been thrown onto these past five years.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">I Wanna Love You Better Whatever It Takes:</span><br /><a href="http://laterain.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/five-years-too-many/">five years too many</a><br />YouTube video with excerpts from Martin Luther King speeches against the Vietnam War that are relevent to the Iraq War today.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Identity Check:</span><br /><a href="http://identitycheck-anok.blogspot.com/2008/03/profitability-of-war.html">The Profitability of War</a><br /><blockquote>As the propaganda machine chugs along, our government has seemingly set itself up quite lovely for future years to come. Mind you, that it is our government, and it's few powerful benefactors and not the American public, that will reap the rewards of our current policy of perpetual warfare.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">IDiosyntocracy:</span><br /><a href="http://idiosyntocracy.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-5-years-later-mission-derailed.html">Iraq 5 Years Later: Mission Derailed</a><br /><blockquote>There were so many directions I could take—and then I saw this photo in the 3/16 "New York Times" that stuck with me.<br /><br />The photo showed a funeral procession in Baghdad for Monthir Khalaf, a local soccer coach and a former member of the Iraqi national soccer team. That's his son, in tears holding a photo of his father. Monthir was killed the previous Thursday by gunmen, but I could find few other details. I can only assume he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught in the crossfire between Sunnis, Shiites and others taking advantage of the chaos in Iraq.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Ifs of Og:</span><br /><a href="http://ifsofog.blogspot.com/2008/03/happy-fifth-anniversary.html">"Happy" Fifth Anniversary</a><br /><blockquote>If that is correct, there is an incredibly telling way to gain the enthusiastic support of Americans for any future war that becomes absolutely necessary. If that statement has an impossible ring, please reflect on the following proposal and be very honest with yourself in assessing its potential effectiveness.<br /><br />My Proposed Federal War-O-Meter Act:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Immoral Minority:</span><br /><a href="http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-later-what-has-been-cost-of-war.html">5 years later, what has been the cost of war in Iraq?</a><br /><blockquote>The numbers tell the tale.<br /><br />The horrible, horrible tale.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Impeachment and Other Dreams:</span><br /><a href="http://impeachmentandotherdreams.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-enemy-of-true-liberty.html">War: the Enemy of Liberty</a><br /><blockquote>With these words ringing in my ears for the last few weeks, I decided to participate in the Blogswarm against the War. However, because I read Madison’s words in another book, Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, I’m combining my Blogswarm efforts with my book-reviewing duties for the Spring Reading Challenge. I hope you don’t mind my squishing two mosquitoes with one slap. (I’m a birder, so I don’t kill birds with stones or any other objects!)</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Impractical Proposals:</span><br /><a href="http://impracticalproposals.blogspot.com/2008/03/vigils-today-commemorate-5th.html"> Vigils today commemorate the 5th anniversary of the tragic invasion of Iraq.</a><br /><blockquote>Today is March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm. And so we will, each of us, do what we can to bring this particular Bush administration criminal enterprise to an end. Unfortunately, I'm on the road today, so my participation will be as spotty as it is heartfelt. More as the day progresses, I hope. In the meantime, a reminder:<br /><br />MoveOn.Org is sponsoring candlelight vigils tonight to mark the fifth anniversary of the war's beginning on March 19, 2003. In my neighborhood, one is at 7 p.m. at the intersection of Lincoln Blvd.and Rose Ave in Venice.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Indict Dick Cheney:</span><br /><a href="http://indictdickcheney.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-denounce-war-five.html">March 19 Blogswarm -- Denounce the War -- Five Years On: A Million Dead</a><br /><blockquote>this post -- as part of this blogswarm, will focus on the forced economic trade- offs we made, by choosing to fund this war, rather than address our own domestic problems more adequately. all data is courtesy of the national priorities project.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Information Paradox:</span><br /><a href="http://www.theinformationparadox.com/2008/03/entering-year-six-war-disgust.html">Entering Year Six: The War & The Disgust</a><br /><blockquote>I swore I wasn't going to post on this again. I told myself that I have done enough ranting about the war. I bitched here, Five Years Of Illegal War Has Wrought So Much, here, McCain's Big Bad Threat; Scare Tactics & GOP, here, Bush Credits Faith In Killing All Them Damn Foreigners, and here A Picture That Needs To Be Seen [Pic]. Not to mention, commenting in numerous other posts.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">It's My Right to Be Left of Center:</span><br /><a href="http://leftwingnutjob.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-does-war-in-iraq-cost-americans.html">What does the war in Iraq cost Americans?</a><br /><blockquote>In dollars and cents the United States has spent roughly $522 Billion, with at least $70 Billion allocated for the beginning of this year alone.<br /><br />As an aside, what could all that money buy us as taxpayers? What else could we of spent that money on here in America that we desperately need?</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-69364494996014484152008-03-24T01:50:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:50:50.289-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with JHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letters "J" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Jakester Exposed:</font><br /><a href="http://jakester-express.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-iraq-just-another-toy-in-time_17.html">5 Years Iraq, .. just another 'Toy' in Time</a><br /><blockquote>I was in Germany, .. 2 weeks before the Attack on Iraq. That was 'them Day's' and Weeks, when the 'whole World' participated in a massive 'For Freedom/Anti-War Protest 'for Iraq. All these People in Germany and 'Elsewhere had been more than convinced, that Bush&CO. has to bend under this 'global Pressure.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">JAR2.com:</span><br /><a href="http://www.jar2.com/1/Archive/2008/January2008.htm"> The Pogrom Continues in Iraq/144/5 YEARS<br />Give GEORGE BUSH a big FUCK YOU</a><br /><blockquote> The monster responsible for 9-11 and the war in Iraq spoke today.<br /><br />Five years. An estimated one Million Iraqi lives. Almost four thousand American lives. Countless crippled and injured. A trillion dollars. A country destroyed. Thousands of war crimes. Americas position in the world. The US economy in tatters. Four dollar a gallon gas. Two or three captured terrorists. And a megalomaniac who has single-handedly set the United on its own path of destruction and been allowed to do so. And then there is 9-11 and the man, George Herbert Bush’s agent Tom Ossman, aka Osama Bin Laden, who has never been caught, but who is probably already dead, or laughing it up somewhere nice and cozy.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jenny's Pennies:</span><br /><a href="http://www.jennyspennies.com/2008/03/20/iraq-war-blogswarm-2008/">Iraq war blogswarm 2008</a><br /><blockquote>I really want to write something smart, something new, something that sums it all up. But what can I offer? I have never seen war. I type in the comfort of my warm apartment, with snow glistening in the sunshine outside, my breakfast beside me and my loved ones only a simple phone call away. </blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonestown:</span><br /><a href="http://fairlane.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/iraq-war-blogswarm-march-19-2008/">Iraq War Blogswarm- March 19, 2008</a><br /><blockquote>I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not much for Patriotism. Love of a Nation/Government has always seemed far too Abstract.<br /><br />I often find myself lost in the “logic” when someone attempts to explain why I should “Love” an Ethereal Entity that, more times than not, seems to be operating against My Interests, as well as the Interests of those I Love.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a><br /><br /><br /><hr noshade="noshade"><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Postslibhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-86108409489159796482008-03-24T01:49:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:51:27.340-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with KHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "K," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Kelly's So Called Life:</span><br /><a href="http://kellyssocalledlife.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-year-of-war-begins-today.html">Another Year of War Begins Today</a><br /><blockquote>Five years ago today (has it really been that long ago?) The Chimp in Chief began his Desert Conquest. The Pentagon, with all of their shiny new toys and bunker busting bombs, promised us "Shock and Awe", an opening salvo so overwhelming and so destructive, that Saddam would instantly show us where those Weapons of Mass Destruction were. As it turned out, the only "shock and awe" about the whole thing was shockingly Bush and Company fucked things up. They awed us okay, awed us with their incompetence and total disregard for public opinion, facts and on the ground reality.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Kittywampus:</span><br /><a href="http://kittywampus.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-ago-today-we-made-historic.html">Five Years Ago Today, We Made a Historic Mistake</a><br /><blockquote>If you've been reading this blog even semi-regularly, you know that I teach women's studies. But my actual degree is in German history with a minor field in women's studies. So today I'm donning my historian's cap to say a few words about the Iraq war as I think it might be viewed in history books 50 or 100 years from now.<br /><br />It's not the case that every last historian opposed the war from the get-go. But it's also not an accident that most of them did. Some of the leading luminaries of the profession are involved in Historians against the War, as are lots of us humbler practitioners. Thousands more who haven't signed the HAW petition still ardently opposed Bush's war of aggression.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">konagod:</span><br /><a href="http://konagod.blogspot.com/2008/03/whats-missing-on-this-blog.html">What's Missing On This Blog?</a><br /><blockquote>My ranting contribution to the March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm?<br /><br />I'm not sure I have it in me. I've been angry about this war for 5 years already. I've blogged about my anger for about 22 months off and on. The American people have spoken -- once by electing that fucking asshole in the White House to a second term when he never deserved a first, and once by giving the Democrats a narrow control over Congress which by my estimation has accomplished not one damn thing. Sure, the people have been polled and they overwhelmingly are against the war but who gives a shit about poll numbers? Not the president. And not Dick.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Kurt Winikka:</span><br /><a href="http://kurt.winikka.com/home/?p=48">Lamentation (March 19)</a><br /><blockquote>I offer this song for the victims of this terrible war. For the families of the dead and wounded in this country, and in Iraq. For those fighting on all sides of this tragedy. We can best support our troops (and their families, and the Iraqis) by bringing them home.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-52529441618485272612008-03-24T01:48:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:44:34.625-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with LHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "L," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Lady That's My Skull:</font><br /><a href="http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years.html">5 Years</a><br /><blockquote>5 years in Iraq.<br /><br />Is the view for their future any clearer than the one through this bullet-riddled windshield?</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Lee's River:</font><br /><a href="http://leesriver.blogspot.com/2008/03/end-war-bring-troops-home-rebuild.html">END THE WAR - BRING THE TROOPS HOME - REBUILD</a><br /><blockquote>Today is the fifth anniversary of the launching by the United States of the war against Iraq and its people.<br /><br />Clearly, the media advisors and the speechwriters at the White House will be on message today to say things like: To Retreat is to Signal Weakness. We Must Forge On or the Forces of Destruction Will Prevail!</blockquote><br />It should be noted that this blog's author did a tremendous job with a <a href="http://leesriver.blogspot.com/search/label/Iraq%20Blogswarm">variety of posts on the Iraq War leading up to the blogswarm</a>.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Left in Alabama:</font><br /><a href="http://www.leftinalabama.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1396">No More War!</a><br /><blockquote>Today marks the anniversary of the devastating and tragic arrogance of George W. Bush. This country and most others will never be the same. We often hear of the monetary losses involved in this crime but it is the immeasurable state of America's status in the world that very well may never be recovered. And even more critical and irreplaceable is the obscene number of dead, wounded and displaced Iraqis. Too many of us sat idly by while our rights were chipped away at and our country was stolen. Complacency is the primary enemy and we all must work actively to defeat it and bring an end to the criminal activities the U.S. is involved in, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but throughout the world.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Left of Centrist:</font><br /><a href="http://loc.rousefamily.com/leftofcentrist/?p=209">Numbers You Can't Count On: Five Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>Five years. 60 months. 260 weeks. 1,826 days. 2,629,440 minutes. 157,766,400 seconds. Half a decade. Nearly one-tenth of my life. But these are all superficial numbers. The numbers that matter, are the ones that affect us as a nation - the toll on our nation’s treasure, the casualties we have suffered in spilled blood, the respect of our country and our stature in the world community - and the impact on each of us as individuals.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberal Avenger:</span><br /><a href="http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/03/19/iraq-what-you-can-do/">Iraq: What You Can Do</a><br /><blockquote>The war has created 5 million refugees<br /><br />If you really want to help the people of Iraq, there are three things you can do:</blockquote>(Crossposted at appletree)<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Life's Journey:</font><br /><a href="http://betblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-of-war.html">5 Years War</a><br /><blockquote>"The song is about an innocent young guy, who, after the events of 9/11, wants to do his part for his country. He doesn't know he's going to end up in Iraq, watching the horror that's going on there and he ends up losing his life. It's a subject that needs to be spoken about and is in some ways, a continuation of one of the songs we did on the last album." RC</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Little Country Lost:</font><br /><a href="http://littlecountrylost.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-5-year-anniversary-whatever.html">Iraq War 5 Year Anniversary... Whatever</a><br /><blockquote>About a month ago I promised to write a post about the Iraq War on March 19th because it is the 5 year anniversary of that tragic day when we all sat in front of our televisions, watching the greenish night-vision images of the streets of Baghdad, waiting for the military we all finance to start dropping bombs on people who never did a thing to hurt us. I signed up for this blogswarm out of a sense of obligation, because my country started a war 5 long years ago. I have to say something.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">A little R&R:</font><br /><a href="http://responsibilitiesandrights.blogspot.com/2008/03/are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were.html"><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font>Are you better off now than you were five years ago?</a><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><blockquote>Happy anniversary, everyone.<br />When ever the world witnesses something historic, we have a tendency to remember exactly where we were when the feces hit the rotating blades. Such was the case five years ago today. I was watching the initial invasion of Iraq on television with the publisher of our newspaper. <st1:city><st1:place>Wayne</st1:place></st1:city> is probably the best supervisor I have ever had. It never affected our working relationship when we disagreed about something.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Living w/MS</font><br /><a href="http://msshad.typepad.com/ordinaryms/2008/03/good-job-george.html">March 19 War Anniversary</a><br /><blockquote>Good job, George.<br />Tonite, on the news, ABC said that the war has cost us 400 billion dollars so far. 400 BILLION. Unfathomable.<br />I wonder if that money could have been better spent on the hungry kids in our nation. Or maybe it could have fixed the foster care system. Or for low income housing. Or maybe even the health care problem. Hell, I'll bet 400 BILLION dollars could have solved several of our major crisis's in the U.S. How about the whole Katrina debacle? The prison system? </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Long Buried Sin</font><br /><a href="http://longburiedsin.blogspot.com/2008/03/baghdad-by-nightvision.html">Baghdad By Nightvision</a><br /><blockquote>The Iraq war began like a primetime television event, and indeed that was what it was. </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time<br /></font><a href="http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-part-one.html">March 19 Blogswarm, Part One</a>, <a href="http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-part-two.html">Two</a>, <a href="http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-part-three.html">Three</a>, <a href="http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-part-four.html">Four</a><br /><blockquote>Yet there is still another kind of cost, one not measured in dollars, another kind of wound, one that draws no blood and leaves no visible scar. A cost, a wound, that those who have experienced war, even those who appear healthy, can carry inside themselves.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-61159040287391643962008-03-24T01:47:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:52:47.419-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with MHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "M," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Mad Dog Media Liberation Arf Force:</span><br /><a href="http://www.maddogmedia.com/">War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength</a><br />(Scroll down to post dated 3/19/08)<br /><blockquote>This morning, Gen. George Armstrong Bush (Lone Star Air Farce, ret.) sang us that same, sour song he loves so much — the war was a swell idea, Little Big Surge is working, and Iraq is a fabulous success story, not nearly as expensive as some would have us believe five years after he picked the bloody fight that left 4,000 of our countrymen dead and another 40,000 wounded. His aide-de-camp, Dickless Cheney, he of the multiple Vietnam deferments and the bottomless contempt for the citizens he is supposed to serve, has once again linked the neocons' spendid little adventure to the September 11 attacks and called it "a difficult, challenging, but nonetheless successful endeavor."<br /><br />They are both liars</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mahatma X Files:</span><br /><a href="http://ajbenjaminjrbeta.blogspot.com/2008/03/fifth-anniversary-fragments-of-writing.html"> Fifth anniversary: Fragments of writing from March 2003 (with commentary)</a><br /><blockquote>As we're coming up on the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War - largely an escalation of what had already begun under Poppy Bush and Bill Clinton - I'm taking a trip down memory lane. In March 2003 I did not as of yet have a blog, but did post to message boards and usenet groups of one sort or another. I didn't really go out of my way to archive much of what I might have written at the time, as it was largely in the form of off-the-cuff remarks. That said, here are a few fragments that capture where I was at in late March of that year. I'll try to provide some context for these fragmentary comments wherever possible.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maritzia’s Thoughts:</span><br /><a href="http://maritzia.consecrated-life.org/2008/03/19/end-the-war-wage-peace/">End the War: Wage Peace</a><br /><blockquote>Let us remember the victims of this war, and let us remind our government that we demand an end. Call your Representatives and your Senators. Call the White House. Flood every phone with calls demanding an end to this war. Make clear that Bush’s so-called mandate is *not* from the people he serves.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mask of Anarchy:</span><br /><a href="http://maskofanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-war-on-women-in-iraq.html">Iraq War Blogswarm - The War on Women in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>On March 12th 2004, George and Laura Bush gave a press conference regarding "Efforts to Globally Promote Women's Human Rights" at the White House. President Bush used this opportunity to comment upon the rights of women across the globe and, particularly, in the Middle East. During the press conference, President Bush said the following about the position of women in post-Saddam Iraq:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons:</span><br /><a href="http://www-hack.blogspot.com/2008/03/channel-4-news-animated-political_19.html">Animated political cartoon - Five years in Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>animation on five years since the invasion of Iraq </blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MeckieMesserMuzak:</span><br /><a href="http://meckiemessermuzak.blogsport.de/2008/03/19/19-maerz-blogswarm-gegen-den-irakkrieg-muzak-informations-against-the-war/">19. März, Blogswarm gegen den Irakkrieg: MUZAK & INFORMATIONS against the War</a><br /><blockquote>More Information about the last actions of the<br />Iraq Veterans against the War:<br />Wintersoldier 2008(1): neues-auf.anderslautern.de<br />Wintersoldier 2008(2): neues-auf.anderslautern.de<br />(in german)<br />Wintersoldier 2008(3): ivaw.org/wintersoldier<br /><br />more information: www.anderslautern.de (in german)</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ms_teacher:</span><br /><a href="http://middle-school-teacher.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-later.html"> Five Years Later</a><br /><blockquote>Do you feel safe?<br /><br />My dad spent over twenty years serving this country honorably. His first ten years of service were during the conflict with Vietnam. He spent a year and a half in the Mediterranean during the Iran hostage crisis. I was raised with a deep understanding of what it meant to serve this country, of what it means to be a patriot, and what it means to be thankful for our freedoms.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Music Nerd:</span><br /><a href="http://missmusicnerd.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/when-can-we-write-the-requiem-for-this-war/">When Can We Write the Requiem for This War?</a><br /><blockquote>Miss Music Nerd is not an overtly political blog, and it is, for the most part, a lighthearted affair.<br /><br />But there are times when I am moved to take a stand.<br /><br />This video is from a performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. In the piece, Britten intersperses the Latin text of the traditional Requiem Mass with poems by Wifred Owen, who fought and died in World War I. The War Requiem was performed at the 1962 reconsecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral, which had been bombed in World War II. It’s an amazingly powerful and moving work, and I encourage everyone to listen to it in its entirety. I also recommend Derek Jarman’s film version. I could go on at length about the piece, discussing the text and analyzing the music — and at some point, I will. But my purpose today is different.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mo Betta Meta:</span><br />(entry crossposted from the Mahatma X Files)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ModernMusings.com:</span><br /><a href="http://modernmusings.com/winter-soldier/">Winter Soldier</a><br /><blockquote>The inspiration and motivation of the American Revolution came out of Common Sense. Thomas Paine also wrote in a series entitled “The American Crisis” in December 1776. George Washington proudly had this series read aloud to the soldiers.<br /><br />These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mouse medicine:</span><br /><a href="http://mousemedicine.blogspot.com/2008/03/give-peace-chance.html">give peace a chance</a><br /><blockquote>peace ~ we want it now<br />no more war for oil<br />no more vietnams<br /><br />herstory:<br />women have played pivotal roles in peacemaking throughout history. women been leaders in peace movements of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century. go here to learn more about peace activism by women and women's organizations.<br /><br />the nobel peace prize has been awarded since 1901. twelve women have won the peace prize:<br />baroness von suttner ~ 1905<br />jane addams ~ 1931<br />emily greene balch ~ 1946<br />betty williams & mairead corrigan ~ 1976<br />mother teresa ~ 1979<br />alva myrdal ~ 1982<br />aung san suu kyi ~ 1991<br />rigoberta menchú tum ~ 1992<br />jody williams ~ 1997<br />shirin ebadi ~ 2003<br />wangari muta maathai ~ 2004</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Free Thoughts:</span><br /><a href="http://www.myfreethoughts.com/blog.aspx?id=108">Still at War</a><br /><blockquote>It's been five years since a bunch of kids were ordered to Iraq to kill. Yes, I know, they were not literally ordered to kill, but to "liberate." Hundreds of thousands have been "liberated" since. And we are counting. And counting. And counting. And there doesn't seem to be an end to this count. And this count goes on everywhere. We are counting in Afghanistan, in Tibet, in Chechnya, in Palestine, in Burma, in Congo, and in Darfur. Before that we were counting in Kosovo and the Balkans, and Nicaragua, and Panama, and Vietnam, and Korea and all over the world a couple of times. Millions upon millions of people vanished just in the last century. Untold numbers of people were wounded, maimed, tortured, raped, left homeless and broken. Why?<br /><br />There seems to be a pattern to this madness.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Politics '08:</span><br /><a href="http://www.mypolitics08.com/?p=37">Killing Iraqi Children a Necessary Cost?</a><br /><blockquote>Here is an excerpt from Pres. Bush speech on wednesday<br />“No one would argue that this war has not come at a high cost in lives and treasure, but those costs are necessary when we consider the cost of a strategic victory for our enemies in Iraq,” Bush said.<br />This sounds similar to what Madeline Albright said when asked about the cost of war.<br />Stahl: “We have heard that a half a million children have died [because of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And–you know, is the price worth it?”<br />Albright: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.”</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-73678388565286900092008-03-24T01:46:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:53:21.863-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with NHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "N," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">News Corpse:</span><br /><a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=835">Iraq 5 Years On: An Anniversary Of Shame, Lies, and Death</a><br /><blockquote>Five years ago today, America, under the mis-leadership of George W. Bush, invaded Iraq. The purpose, as proclaimed by the President, and dutifully regurgitated by the media, was to dismantle the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. There was just one little problem…</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">No More Mister Nice Guy:</span><br /><a href="http://www.nmmng.co.uk/47e1d766">End this bullshit war!</a><br /><blockquote>It's been five years since the shock-and-awe bombardment of Baghdad heralded the beginning of the war against Iraq, and almost that long since Captain Codpiece strutted around on the deck of a battleship and declared, "Mission Accomplished" and "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."<br /><br />Four thousand dead troops, three trillion dollars and countless hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians later, Junior's pet war grinds on. Oil is $110 a barrel, Iraq is destroyed beyond repair, the US economy is on its deathbed, and the Middle East has never been so unstable.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">No Regrets, Coyote:</span><br /><a href="http://noregretscoyote.typepad.com/noregretscoyote/2008/03/be-peace-practi.html">Be Peace. Practice Kindness.</a><br /><blockquote>Today marks 5 years of war in Iraq. I won't call it an anniversary, because that word connotes the 'celebration' of a recurring date, and what I feel today is not celebration but a deep mourning.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Not Another Mom Blog:</span><br /><a href="http://notanothermomblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-too-many.html">Five Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>I am participating in March 19th Blogswarm today.<br /><br />In Memory of All Who Have Lost Their Lives in This War<br /><br />Nearly 4,000 US dead, and 30,000 Wounded.<br /><br />Between 100,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqis dead and 4,000,000 displaced.<br /><br />Almost $1,000,000,000,000 Spent.</blockquote><br /><br /> <br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-24927755108787997892008-03-24T01:45:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:53:58.348-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with OHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "O" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">O BiToque:</span><br /><a href="http://obitoque.blogspot.com/2008/03/all-together-now.html">All together now</a><br /><blockquote>Como é comum nos aniversários, a entrada no sexto ano da Guerra no Iraque foi marcada por <a href="http://uruknet.info/?p=m42222&hd=&size=1&l=e">discursos</a><br />Apesar de todos os estudos concluírem aquilo que já sabíamos – que não havia ligação entre o governo de Saddam e os “terroristas islâmicos” – Bush não se retraiu em usar a palavra “terrorista” 20 vezes e fazer 15 referências à Al Qaeda no seu discurso de 25 minutos de ontem. Ainda se atreveu a falar na “libertação do povo iraquiano”, da “democracia no coração do Médio Oriente” que “servirá de exemplo a outros”. solenes.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">OB Rag:</span><br /><a href="http://obrag.org/?p=494">Media black-out of antiwar protests continues as demonstrators continue to protest 5th anniversary of Iraq war</a><br /><blockquote>So, on one hand, in Maryland you had Iraqi veterans pouring their hearts & guts out at the Winter Soldier conference, trying to explain to America what they went through and what they put the Iraqi people through. But their stories weren’t being told by the American mainstream press. And you had up to 50,000 people marching and rallying in London against the war, up to 10,000 in Los Angeles, 12,000 marching in rain in Portland, hundreds trying to block the Chevron refinery in Richmond. But on the other hand, the American media continue their black-out of antiwar protests.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Obsolete:</span><br /><a href="http://www.septicisle.info/2008/03/iraq-week-how-one-picture-defines-war.html">Iraq week - how one picture defines a war.</a><br /><blockquote>The man in the photograph was<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manadel_al-Jamadi">Manadel al-Jamadi</a>, and he died while being subjected to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_hanging">"Palestinian hanging"</a>. He was arrested in connection with a bomb attack on the Red Cross offices in Baghdad which killed 12 people. Like those in the CIA rendition programme, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/11/14/051114fa_fact">he was a "ghost detainee", who technically didn't exist</a>. If the photographs had never been published, he would never have existed. Just as if he had been dumped in Orwell's memory hole, he would have forever been a non-person.<br /><br />Ordinary Iraqi citizens, who for whatever reason had entered the prison system, treated like the worst of the worst "terrorist suspects", not because of "a few bad apples", <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse#Executive_Order">but because of executive orders</a> handed down to the soldiers on the ground, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Harman">Sabrina Harman</a>, pictured with al-Jamadi. She was sentenced to six months in prison. Those ultimately responsible will undoubtedly never have to answer for their actions.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Odd Time Signatures:</span><br /><a href="http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/19/as-we-descend-shall-we-rise/">As We Descend, Shall We Rise?</a><br /><blockquote>Our constitution has been subverted. Our phones, email, internet access, all watched. We take off our shoes at airports to check for bombs even as we deny the poor the right to earn their own shoes. Our jobs are outsourced, our economy leveraged, and we have rows of headstones added to Arlington as yet another reminder that parents have lost children, partners have lost partners, spouses have lost spouses, and there is more to come. My son received his draft card in the mail yesterday. Ironic, that. Yet I can’t help but remember that if it weren’t for the kids his age that volunteered to go there, he would be standing in line waiting his turn. For that, I’m grateful, but we have asked too much.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On The Homefront:</span><br /><a href="http://martyonthehomefront.blogspot.com/2008/03/only-3-percent-after-5-years.html">Only 3 percent after 5 years</a><br /><blockquote>This week marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, but you might not have seen much about it on TV recently. <font size="3"><strong style="font-style: italic;">Just 3% of the news in February was dedicated to the war and fewer than one in three Americans know how many American troops have died in Iraq.</strong> Believe it or not, a study just released by the Pew Research Center shows that press coverage of the war is at the lowest point since the war began.</font></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On the Road to 2008:</span><br /><a href="http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ontheroadto2008/2008/03/plan-end-to-endless-occupation.shtml"> The Plan: An End to Endless Occupation</a><br /><blockquote>Five years have passed since George Bush order our military to invade Iraq. 1827 days, 3990 dead U.S. soldiers and billions of dollars later we're still there with 160,000 troops stuck in a never ending occupation.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">One Plus Two:</span><br /><a href="http://droolstreet.blogspot.com/2008/03/unhappy-anniversary.html">Unhappy Anniversary</a><br /><blockquote>Dante says <em>the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality</em>, and if that's true we'll all be sitting there in our armchairs looking dazed and confused. But I have to think that those who perpetuate the crises roast too, so George, perhaps I'll meet you there. All I really know is this: Five years ago the President of the USA used his power to carry out an illegal war to mask an agenda of oil and greed. Instead of bringing forward criminal charges we've allowed this man to remain in office and he continued to run our economy into the ground, allowed thousands of people to be needlessly injured and killed, and has damaged the United States both internally and externally seemingly beyond repair.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Opablog:</span><br /><a href="http://opablog.twoday.net/stories/4793003/">Blogswarm gegen den Irakkrieg am 19. März</a><br /><blockquote>An alle Blogger und Leser:<br />In den USA wurde anlässlich des baldigen 5. Jahrestages des Angriffs auf den Irak, eine Antikriegsaktion der Blogger gestartet, mit Namen „19. March Irak War Blogswarm“. Ich möchte hiermit die deutschsprachige Version bringen.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Order of Santa Ignora:</span><br /><a href="http://orderofsantaignora.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/blogswarm-19-march-08/" rel="bookmark">Blogswarm 19 March 08</a><br /><blockquote>The next stop, though, something changes. People are muttering, shifting about, craning to look through the windows, past our own reflections, at something new.<br /><br />The park has sprouted little white flags in the night.<br />”What’s going on? What are they? Is this some sort of college prank?”<br />Someone who just got on explains to us all. “The sign said every white flag is for 5 civilians killed, and every red flag is for 5 Americans killed in Iraq.”<br />We start craning our necks, looking for red flags. They should be easy to find in this sea of white. Someone thinks they spotted one, turns out it was a discarded food wrapper that got blown into the exhibit.<br /><br />The man in the “God Bless the USA” hat quietly says, “That’s a lot of people.”<br />As the streetcar passes between buildings, my last view is of the little white flags, waving in the breeze. They stretch for four blocks.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Otherwhirled:</span><br /><a href="http://otherwhirled.com/2008/03/19/five-years-later/">Five years later</a><br /><blockquote><strong>Five years later</strong>, and a portion of our population would vote to support what would essentially be a third Cheney term; in fact, there is talk amongst the wingnuts that Cheney should be selected as McCain’s running mate.<br /><strong>Five years later</strong>, and I continue to have dreams—nightmares—in which I didn’t leave the Army after Desert Storm, and my job now is to lead brave young men and women into the shit-storm that is the Bush Family Agenda.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Outta the Cornfield:</span><br /><a href="http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post_18.html">BLOGSWARM</a><br /><blockquote>I have stated for a long time that the chances are very good our Democracy is lost and we don't even know it. When you have the courts and the media on your side along with the other numerous tools at your disposal that is more than just a formidable opponent.<br /><br />I also believe that those in power have used these as weapons at many levels to pressure the ones that have the power to make the change people want not to do so and that is why these killers do what ever they want when ever they want because they can.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Owl's Wings:</span><br /><a href="http://owlsdaughter.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-to-protest-war.html">Blogswarm to Protest the War</a><br /><blockquote>We can have peace, it is <font style="font-style: italic;">not</font> just a dream. It is the natural order of things, when people are in balance, and willing to share with one another. It is time, way, way, <font style="font-style: italic;">way</font> <font>past</font> time to end this war. It has been a lie upon lies and more lies all along. My heart bleeds for those families who have told their "leaders" that they don't want their soldier beloveds to have died in vain. But folks, sending <font style="font-style: italic;">more</font> young lives into that stinking cesspool of lies will not bring one single soldier back, nor make true what was <font style="font-style: italic;">never</font> true.</blockquote><br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Oxymoronredundancyparadoxtrap:</span><br /><a href="http://oxymoronredundancyparadoxtrap.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-later.html">Five years later</a><br /><blockquote> Costs of the War include<br /><ul><li><font size="3">At least 4000 U.S. soldiers' lives lost</font></li><li><font size="3">Over a million Iraqi lives lost (how's that for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War">proportionality</a>)<br /></font></li><li><font size="3">A final dollar cost to the U.S. of 3 Trillion dollars</font></li><li><font size="3">Oil has hit $111/barrel</font></li><li><font size="3"><a href="http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier/testimony/video">U.S. soldiers have participated in, even led, war crimes and atrocities</a></font></li><li><font size="3">Not to mention Abu Ghraib, an event which has mostly been forgotten by the U.S. populace, but which continues to receive regular media attention in the Muslim world<br /></font></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthpolitics.org%2Fmedia%2Fprog_60%2Fslides_prog_60.ppt&ei=9L3gR4q4OJXEgwPliJzzCA&usg=AFQjCNGSmfO1f87efQyZPd8ijiamDLDvgg&sig2=ONAzDAY-sja2Yaam2P61QQ">16% of U.S. soldiers who have served in Iraq are returning from the devastating psychological illness called Combat Related PTSD, </a>more than the 15% rate from the Vietnam War. Although it's hard to get a handle on how many total soldiers have served in Iraq, the number is probably over a million, which means at least 160,000 soldiers suffering from PTSD</li><li><font size="3">Here's a devastating statistic: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/68713/">120 Iraq and Vietnam War vets are committing suicide *every week*!</a><br /></font></li><li><a href="http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=252">World opinion of the U.S. has gone down and down</a></li></ul></blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-49642413252389068272008-03-24T01:44:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:54:42.863-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Posts Starting with PHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "P," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Padre Mickey's Dance Party:</span><br /><a href="http://padremickey.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-against-war.html">Blogswarm Against The War</a><br /><blockquote>Now it’s five years later, and the U.S. is still in Iraq. Rather than being greeted with candy and flowers and as liberators, some 3988 members of the U.S. military are dead, and (according to antiwar.com) some 1,189,173 Iraqis are dead. Water and electricity is still below pre-invasion levels.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paragraph:</span> <br /><a href="http://theparagraph.com/2008/03/cheney-mccain-give-happy-talk-in-sad-country/">Cheney, McCain Give Happy Talk in Sad Country</a><br /><blockquote>Sen. John McCain, to whom President Bush wants to pass the war baton, also visited Baghdad this week, and also spoke happily: “We find a continued success of the strategy …”, and “The surge is working.” But the time for the “surge” is up, and it has failed. Its benchmarks have not been met and there is no exit in sight for U.S. troops.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pine Belt Progressive:</span><br /><a href="http://geneo.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/5-years-reflections-from-the-deep-red/">5 Years — Reflections from the Deep Red</a><br /><blockquote>So much has been written about the war in Iraq this week, I have been forced to think pretty hard about what I can say about it that others aren’t saying already. A few thoughts on my personal experiences the past five years are the best that I can do.<br /><br />2002 and 2003 were not exactly a season of hope for me. I remember thinking pretty early on that there wasn’t much chance of stopping the war, but that people who thought it was a bad idea were obligated to try. I wrote letters to my congressional delegation and to the President on the moral, economic, and political consequences of an aggressive war. Perhaps my most bizarre personal political experience of the last eight years was receiving, during the 2004 presidential campaign, an autographed photo of George W. Bush addressed to me.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pink Ladybug:</span><br /><a href="http://pinkladybugs.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/crap-when-i-changed-my-url-i-forgot-all-about-todays-blogswarm/">Crap, when I changed my URL I forgot all about today’s blogswarm!!!</a><br /><blockquote>Well, I will just have to post here at my new blog and hope that there aren’t too many people pissed off b/c the link to my old blog is dead. So… what can I say about the war? Well, I’m opposed to it, obviously. The entire basis for it was a lie. There are some great songs about it on the various Rock Against Bush collections out there. My doctor was away for about 18 months serving active duty, which really disturbed me; he’s been my doctor since I was an egg. Several of my friends have loved ones in Iraq right now. I’ve chatted with a few guys who are over there too. I just sincerely hope that whoever we elect this year will actually find a way to end this war and bring our troops home safely without leaving the innocent people of Iraq in complete devastation.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poetic Justice:</span><br /><a href="http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/2008/03/civil-war-i-have-traveled-to-edge-of.html">3,2,1, 0... WAR ANIMALS (1 million dead Blogswarm)</a><br /><blockquote>'3' Civil War (March 19th, 2006)<br /><br /> I have traveled to the edge of Iraq<br /> And peered over.<br /><br /> She panted treacherously.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poligots:</span><br /><a href="http://poligot.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/an-auspicious-anniversary-2/">An auspicious anniversary</a><br /><blockquote>The war in Iraq is now five years old. My oldest son, Joshua, just turned six. Like all other mothers, I dream of what the world will be like as he grows. Because of this war, I know of a few things that he, and his younger brother, will now have to face.<br /><br />First, they will encounter a world scarred by a foreign policy based upon hatred of the “other,” based upon the notion that the United States has the right to dictate to others around the globe how they should be and how they should act.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Politfactor:</span><br /><a href="http://politfactor.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/5-jahre-irak-krieg-sind-5-jahre-zuviel/">5 Jahre Irak - Krieg sind 5 Jahre zuviel</a><br /><blockquote>Heute, vor 5 Jahren, begann der völkerrechtswidrige Krieg der willigen Koalition gegen den Irak. Was für Gründe auch immer vorgehalten haben mögen, dieser Krieg ist wie viele Kriege nicht nur völlig sinnlos sondern auch illegal.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Politics Plus:</span><br /><a href="http://politicsplus.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19-blogswarm-cost-of-war.html">March 19 Blogswarm: The Cost of War</a><br /><blockquote> A while back, before I knew I would be feeling worse than anything buried in my cat box, I committed to write this article as a participant in March 19 Blogswarm. That commitment is too important to sweep aside.<br /><br />On March 19, 2003, George Bush and the GOP attacked the sovereign nation of Iraq:</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Politvine:</span><br /><a href="http://www.politivine.com/2008/03/19/iraq-5-years-later-still-5-years-behind/">raq: 5 years later, still 5 years behind</a><br /><blockquote>As I sit here and write this post, I am having a hard time figuring out what to say, because what else is there to say? It troubles me that as much as I oppose the war, I can’t sit here and give you fresh insight as to why I oppose the war. What I can do is give you my personal opinion on how I feel about the war, our continued efforts in Iraq, and what I see it doing to America.<br /><br />First, this war is ridiculous</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">poons</span><br /><a href="http://howlingspoons.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-blog-swarm-no-words-just-pictures.html">Iraq Blog Swarm - No words just pictures</a><br />This posting features 3 anti-war videos.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Public Intellectual:</span><br /><a href="http://publicintellectual.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/is-the-surge-really-working/">Is the Surge Really Working?</a><br /><blockquote>“The surge is working” John McCain keeps saying.<br /><br />Clearly McCain is invested deeply in his own lunge for power. In 2007 he abandoned many of his long-held beliefs in order to align with the Republican Party. As Barack Obama quipped, “Somewhere along the way, the ’straight talk express’ lost some wheels.”</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-4060733408254516142008-03-24T01:43:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:55:19.294-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with QHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "Q" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Question That</span><br /><a href="http://questionthat.me.uk/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-defenders-of-war.html">Iraq War Blogswarm: Defenders of the War</a><font style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></font><blockquote>Some of them, including <a href="http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/in_defence_of_t.html">Oliver Kamm</a> and <a href="http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2006/10/failure_in_iraq.html">Norman Geras</a>, have claimed that the chaotic disaster that the War so clearly had become by 2006 was not foreseen as a likely outcome of the invasion of a large, multi-ethnic nation led by the Bush-administered United States. With <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-prowar-lefts-disastrous-misjudgment-458361.html">one</a> <a href="http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=831">significant</a> <a href="http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1157">exception</a>, this is as much of an admission of having been wrong about the war as we have seen from the so-called Decents.<br />Many of the blogging Decents are signatories of the <a href="http://eustonmanifesto.org/?page_id=132">Euston Manifesto</a>, a document drawn up in a pub on Euston Road (hence the name) which purports to be a re-affirmation of the values of the democratic left. In practice, it incorporates an implicit support for neo-conservative foreign policy that has either went un-noticed or (<a href="http://davespartblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-i-wont-be-signing-euston-manifesto.html">with</a> <a href="http://bsscworld.blogspot.com/2006/04/curious-manifesto.html">some</a> <a href="http://existingactually.blogspot.com/2006/04/do-you-think-youve-made-right-decision.html">exceptions</a>) wasn't considered worth objecting to.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Queen of Spain</span><br /><a href="http://queenofspainblog.com/2008/03/18/5-years-too-many/">5 Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>My son was born March 24th, 2003.<br />5 days before the life changing birth of my first child, the war in Iraq began.<br />Every phone call of congratulations mixed with worry and sadness. Every moment of joy, marred by CNN in the background. Every visitor with gifts and head shaking as they talked of the news.<br />Every single moment of my son’s life we have been at war.<br />His uncle is on his second tour in Iraq. Not first, second.<br />His cousins are stationed in Germany with their Mother and a new sister who has yet to meet her Dad.<br />I’ve spent five years grabbing the remote to change the channel quickly before little eyes see burned out convoys and dead bodies on the news.<br />I’ve spent five years biting my tongue as family marches off to serve.<br />I’ve spent five years looking at photos, always seeing the background before the bouncing baby.<br />Five. Years. Too. Many.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-80442753261472765572008-03-24T01:42:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:55:55.466-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with RHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "R" along with brief quotes from the posts (and a podcast!)-<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rabid Political Views of a Teenage Girl:</font><br /><a href="http://rabidteen.blogspot.com/2008/03/hope-despair-peace-war.html">Hope. Despair. Peace. War.</a><br /><blockquote>Hope. Despair. Peace. War. We say they mean something to us, but do they? We become outraged as we watch a helpless puppy being thrown off of a cliff in Iraq. We scream injustice and demand punishment. Yet, how many thousands of Iraqi children do we brush off as collateral damage? What do we do? NOTHING!</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Radical Cross Stitch:</font><br /><a href="http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/03/20/iraq-i-roll/">Iraq I Roll</a><br /><blockquote>I thought about discussing how disgusting it is that there isn’t even a record of how many Iraqi people have died during their alleged liberation. It’s a bit hard to call it a liberation when the liberators have taken out more people than the original dictator.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Radio Utopie:</font><br /><a href="http://www.radio-utopie.de/2008/03/19/5-jahre-krieg-im-irak-1-million-tote/">5 Jahre Krieg im Irak: 1 Million Tote</a><br /><blockquote>Der Westen kann stolz, stolz, stolz sein.<br />Stolz, stolz, stolz.<br />Nichts ihm etwas wert.<br />Er ist nichts wert.<br />Er ist es nicht wert, etwas wert zu sein.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Radula:</font><br /><a href="http://theradula.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-too-long.html">Five years too long...</a><br /><blockquote>...while along the streets of Albuquerque are the men and women dressed in black, mourning the dead in a war that we never needed to fight, the loss of brothers and fathers in 5 years of fighting. It was an erie feeling driving between those silent watchers. They seemed to me not only to be mourning the dead of the last 5 years, but also the dead of the years to come.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rambles thru the Brambles:</font><br /><a href="http://thistle333.livejournal.com/14282.html?mode=reply">Ain't Gonna Study War No More</a><br /><blockquote>And... I'm tired. Tired of standing on the corner in the cold and the heat. Tired of having my house and garage taken over by large signs. Tired of the death and the destruction and the barrage of ads urging me to Shop til I drop. Tired of hearing "Impeachment is off the table" and of knowing that these guys are going to get away with it, no matter what I and many others like me want.<br /><br />Still, what I do is little enough. I can barely live with myself now. How could I do less?<br /><br />Bah.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rants from the Left:</font><br /><a href="http://suziriot.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-of-war-march-19th-blogswarm.html">Five Years of War: March 19th Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>The war in Iraq has had terrible consequences for the women of Iraq. They face increased oppression under the reactionary Islamic elements that are battling for control. They are losing their homes, their families, and their livelihoods. They <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/15/iraq.prostitution/index.html">prostitute themselves</a> to feed their children. Among the general population, violence and intimidation toward women have significantly risen. Almost none of the jobs created by American reconstruction efforts <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.codepinkalert.org/downloads/IraqiWomenReport.pdf">have gone to women</a>. And even if these jobs had been given to them, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/08/iraq.peterbeaumont">abduction, rape and murder</a> are the punishments for some women who dare to hold a professional job. Iraqi women have been tortured, beaten, mutilated and murdered by Islamic extremists for appearing in public unveiled.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rants from the Rookery:</font><br /><a href="http://rantsfromtherookery.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war.html">The Iraq war</a><br /><blockquote>This will be George Bush's legacy: The Iraq quagmire, the Bush blunder, the unnecessary war, the war of choice, the attack on a sovereign nation that had not attacked us on 9/11/01. None of the multitudinous reasons .... excuses.... given for our being there have ever been found to be true.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Real Liberal Christian Church:</font><br /><a href="http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=1499">Antichrist, Get Out of Iraq and Leave Iran, Venezuela, and the rest of the World Alone: War-Maker versus Blessed Peacemaker, Negative versus Positive</a><br /><blockquote>5 years from the beginning of U.S. military strikes against Iraq. It’s the fifth anniversary of that despicable action sold to the American people and the world based upon blatant and transparent lies by people with huge greed, violence, and depravity in their hearts. It was a major historical sin that has dragged on and on due to the evil in the hearts of those who could have prevented it, who could have put a stop to it anytime during the last five years, and who could stop it now.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rebellious Jezebel Blogging:</font><br /><a href="http://fantasyecho.livejournal.com/137103.html">Five Years of War - Had Enough Yet?</a><br /><blockquote>And now, exactly what's been accomplished? All the promises of a "free and democratic" Iraq, down the tubes. In Riverbend's blog, you can read how life changed so drastically - from equal access to education and employment, women's rights went down the shitter. Religious factions busted out in full bigotry, even between Shiite and Sunni. The poor became poorer and lived more dangerous lives. The rich left. Or got bought out. For all the atrocities Saddam was accused of, he ran a tight ship, and frankly, more people have died in the war since 2003 than in all the years of Saddam's regime.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Remain Calm:</font><br /><a href="http://satp.blogspot.com/2008/03/kyra-phillips-of-cnn-goverment-tool.html">Kyra Phillips of CNN, Government Tool</a><br /><blockquote>From start to finish, it was nothing more than what the Bush administration wanted you to hear, even when directly asked about the hardship of Iraqis, she performed as a dutiful Bush stooge.<br /><br />This morning she appeared dressed in something like Viet Nam era Army battle fatigues. She was wearing an army green baseball cap with the letters CNN on the front.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://satp.blogspot.com/2008/03/kyra-phillips-again-still-wearing-here.html">Kyra Phillips Gets Suprise Interview With Petraeus After This Mornings Kissassery</a><br /><blockquote>Still wearing here fatigues (see below) and perhaps because she was wearing her fatigues (and more likely was spewing the Bush party line) Kyra Phillips got an exclusive interview with General David Petreaus. Not only was it exclusive, it was a surprise. CNN had, as late as 9:30AM this morning, scheduled other material for that same time slot.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Republican for Freedom<br /></span></font><font><a href="http://freedomrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/03/not-so-happy-anniversary.html">A Not So Happy Anniversary</a><br /><blockquote>How much longer will this killing go on? We aren't safer and we forgot about Bin Laden. Support the troops, stop letting them die for Bush/Cheney's war and bring them home to there families before we lose more!</blockquote></font><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">RIP Hussein Coco:</span><br /><a href="http://www.ripcoco.com/2008/03/john-mccains-slip-is-more-than-just.html">John McCain's "Slip" is More than Just That...Its Part of a Talking Points Campaign to Talk Iraq Into Iran. Stop the Insanity! End the War!</a><br /><blockquote>This tragic week marks our 5th year in Iraq, and the occasion has been used as a propaganda tool for everyone in this administration, from the top on down, to get us ready for the NEXT war! Just as you're thinking that it couldn't be possible, and how could they think that America has the will or strength to enlarge our presence in the middle east, think again. These people don't care what you or I think. They care only for their bottom line and for their own best interest.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Revellian.com:</font><br /><a href="http://revellian.com/2008/03/19/iraq-blogswarm/">Iraq Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>I talked to several American soldiers I know and asked them to let me interview them for this blog. They of course declined in fear of repercussions. When I asked why they thought we were in Iraq, three said,”Because Osama blew up them buildings, that’s what really started it.” (their answers made no sense whatsoever).</blockquote><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rhode Island Community E-Source:</font><br /><a href="http://rice.soapblox.net/showDiary.do;jsessionid=B8D69B110866B598E27F33C83133222A?diaryId=14">Iraq: In Fighting This Battle, Mr. Bush Lost the War</a><br /><blockquote>Of course, the falling dollar, the outrageous deficit, the rising cost of oil, the willing abandonment of civil liberties, the adoption of the means of torture of our enemies, and - worst of all - the constant fear that terrorists hope to create by their actions... all speak to the fact that these terrorists have defeated this President, as his actions have fed into their stated goals at every step.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Road2DC</font><br /><a href="http://road2dc.com/home/node/607">FIVE YEARS TOO MANY:</a><br /><blockquote>UFPJ has sent out an alert regarding events in DC during the week of March 19. Unlike the September Rally and March, UFPJ is coordinating a series of civil disobedience events on 3/19, all of which are intended to interrupt business as usual for those promoting and profiting from war and empire building.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rotus:</font><br /><a href="http://rotus.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/march-19th-iraq-war-5th-anniversary-blogswarm/">March 19th Iraq War 5th Anniversary Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>Five years ago I joined a group of a hundred or so people in the park, next to the fountain, where we lit candles and held silent vigil, as part of a national effort to bring attention to the imminent invasion of Iraq by the United States. We hoped to shed some light on the debate over Iraq and bring an end to the wholesale rush to war. Unfortunately the orders had been given and the machinery of war was already in motion. No mere protest by a scattering of citizens, in parks and squares around the country was going to stop it.</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Ruins of Empire:</font><br /><a href="http://ruinsofempire.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19th-blogswarm-us-presence-in.html">March 19th Blogswarm: U.S. Presence in Iraq-Irrelevant!</a><br /><blockquote>And so it began five years ago....<br />5 years, nearly over a million dead and counting, and for what?</blockquote><br />Click on button below to listen to my podcast in support of the March 19th Iraq War blogswarm.<br /><br /><a href="http://ruinsofempire.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-19th-blogswarm-us-presence-in.html">PODCAST</a><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-20964123035331119122008-03-24T01:41:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:56:36.383-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with SHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "S," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">St. Anne, Pray for Us:</font><br /><a href="http://stanneprayforus.blogspot.com/2008/03/v-thou-shall-not-kill_19.html">V. Thou Shall Not Kill</a><br /><blockquote>There are so many ways to observe this commandment in today's world. Or perhaps I should say there are so many ways not to observe it.<br />Waging war is humankinds most horrific act of violence.</blockquote><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Shape of a Drum:</font><br /><a href="http://shapeofadrum.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years.html">5 Years</a><br /><blockquote>Today marks the fifth anniversary of the historic fuck-up that is the US invasion of Iraq. I've wanted to contribute to the March 19 blogswarm against the war, without quite having any idea what I'd find to say that isn't just "stop the madness," because really, that's what I want to say, over and over.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Shuck and Jive:</font><br /><a href="http://shuckandjive.blogspot.com/2008/03/not-ready-to-make-nice.html">Not Ready to Make Nice</a><br /><blockquote>On Blogswarm you will find links to bloggers who are taking this day, the 5th anniversary of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, to write about our past, present, and future. Five years ago when I served in the Yellowstone Presbytery, I introduced a resolution about the upcoming invasion. A couple of my UCC colleagues and I drafted this as an ecumenical statement for Montana clergy against the war. I adapted it for our presbytery.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Silicon Valley Moms Blog:</font><br /><a href="http://www.svmoms.com/2008/03/rtp---pic-sent.html">Sacrificing Our Babies</a><br /><blockquote>I listen to public radio at night and frequently - almost nightly - I hear a report about deaths in Iraq. It is usually just a quick note on an attack or shooting, and the news saddens me, but I always catch my breath when I hear the age of the deceased. Young soldiers barely out of high school, dying in this war and for this war, depresses me, especially when I think about their parents or even worse, their children and spouses and how they have to go on without this person. I'm also sad for the Iraqi parents and their children, who are surrounded by uncertainty and violence. Every innocent person who dies in Iraq was someone's baby.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"> Sim-O's Random Thoughts:</font><br /><a href="http://sim-o.me.uk/2008/03/iraq-five-years.html">Iraq: Five Years</a><br /><blockquote>What has been the result of this war so far?<br /><br />Iraq has a different leader, this one sits in the White House, and fuck more people are dying and being killed everyday than happened whilst Saddam was in power.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Sinister:</font><br /><a href="http://lefthandedblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-too-many.html">5 Years Too Many</a><br /><blockquote>It's midnight, so here's a preliminary anti-war post to commemorate the 5th anniversary, in keeping with the March 19th Iraq War Blogstorm.<br /><br />I will be attending a peace & impeachment vigil at Jim Inhofe's office.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sirens Chronicles:</span><br /><a href="http://sirenschronicles.com/category/iraq-war-blogswarm-march-19th/">Multiple Postings Under the Iraq War Blogswarm Label</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Notes on Living:</span><br /><a href="http://somenotesonliving.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/i-aint-a-marching-anymore-phil-oches-rip/">I ain’t a marching anymore - Phil Oches (rip) </a><br /><blockquote>This is my post for the blog swarm , to raise my voice , and tap my keyboard in the hopes that adding to the ground swell of grief , outrage, frustration, and did i say outrage angst, despair, anger, SORROW, shame, heartbreak and soul sickness, so many of us, (75%) still feel about the illegal occupation by our country in Iraq. A raw act of unprovoked aggression. (dispite the global protests at least 10 million strong ) They did not listen, but broke all precident of the rules of engagement (war) since our constitution. In short captain bunny pants and Darth Vader , (Impeach Bush, Torture Cheney) and John Yoo, head of the of UC Berkeley School of Law (this guy sooo needs to GO, what a disgrace to Berkeley and the LAW)And Bibi the torture twister memo “lawyer”</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Sometimes I feel like Jurgis Rudkus:</font><br /><a href="http://libdemks.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/effects-of-war-on-the-home-front/">Effects of War on the Home Front</a><br /><blockquote>Here we are at the 5 year anniversary of the War in Iraq. The truth is that “War in Iraq” is being used in the media because it has a nice beat and you can dance to it. What this debacle has turned into is the Occupation of Iraq.<br /><br />That’s right, occupation! </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0:</font><br /><a href="http://stephensonstrategies.com/2008/03/19/todays-sorry-anniversary-operation-rolling-blunder/">Today’s sorry anniversary: Operation Rolling Blunder</a><br /><blockquote>OK, the subprime lender debacle can’t be tied to it (other than the general problem of CEO hubris, whether the organization in question is the US Government or Countrywide Financial). However, I’m hard-pressed to think of any other major problem in the US right now, from lousy healthcare for returning vets to underfunding of infrastructure repairs (hmm: we can spend billions to rebuild and rebuild roads over there, but can’t do it over here) that can’t be traced to the military, budgetary, humanitarian (insert adjective of your choice here) debacle that is Iraq.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Swiftspeech</font><br /><a href="http://swiftspeech.blogspot.com/2008/03/because-we-acted.html">Because we acted...</a><br /><blockquote>Because we acted, more than one million Iraqis have died.<br /><br />Because we acted, almost three million Iraqis have been displaced.<br /><br />Because we acted, Baghdad has been ghettoized and turned into the world's most dangerous city.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-75451550332465605822008-03-24T01:40:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:57:05.774-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with THere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "T" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Tampon Teabag:</font><br /><a href="http://tamponteabag.blogspot.com/2008/03/nothing-to-add.html"><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font>Nothing to add</a><br /><blockquote>It's 5 years since the invasion of Iraq. At the time, Robin Cook said it best.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Tangled Up in Blue Guy</font><br /><a href="http://www.tuibguy.com/?p=641">Sacrificing for the War</a><br /><blockquote>Once thriving neighborhoods in the cities of Iraq are now rubble. Jobs for rebuilding go to imported labor while Iraqis are rejected by profiteering subcontractors. Billions of dollars for rebuilding just disappear, and the Senate holds no hearings on accountability (except to try to find a menacing corruption in the Oil for Food program of years back.)</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Tea With Dee:</font><br /><a href="http://teawithdee.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-years-ago-today.html">Five years ago today...</a><br /><blockquote>It's time to bring our soldiers home.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Ten Percent:</font> (Oh yes!)<br /><a href="http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/iraq-war-blogswarm-withdrawal-reparations-prosecutions/">Iraq War Blogswarm- Withdrawal, Reparations, Prosecutions</a><br /><blockquote>But here’s the rub, does it really take a genius to ask themselves- why does a country that within its own borders perpetuates all manner of cruelty, inequality and injustice and in fact exports those same values in various colonial and imperial adventures. Why do people think that it will bring the milk of human kindness to another nation by means of a large force of people trained and equipped to kill? Because it’s not just the intent one has to question it is also the means to achieve the stated goals.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;"> Theatrical Milestones:</font><br /><a href="http://theatricalmilestones.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-years-and-getting-tired.html">5 Years ... And Getting Tired</a><br /><blockquote>In 2005, The Ex (to whom I was then still married) told me that he had received orders to deploy to Iraq for 6 months, right in the midst of our divorce, when we were starting to heal the wounds with which our marriage had left us and become friends again. This would be his second trip to "the sandbox," and, truth be told, it scared the hell out of me. I started crying on the phone and threatened to stalk his commander in my lacy undies, if only to convince him to send The Ex somewhere else, or to let him stay at home. I also threatened to pray for a reassignment. I did. A week later, The Ex's orders were changed. Instead of Iraq, he was deployed to Afghanistan, to work the passenger terminal and distribute supplies in the "area." And to ship the coffins home. Coffins filled with people whom, only a few weeks before, he had seen coming off the plane.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">TheBlog.org.uk:</font><br /><a href="http://www.theblog.org.uk/2008/03/five-years-of-war.html">Five Years of War</a><br /><blockquote>In 2004, the city of Fallujah was overrun by occupying forces, after being taken by insurgents. Reporters have not, on the whole, been able to visit Fallujah to see what happened. However, information that has filtered out suggests that the city was almost completely destroyed. One of the surveys of civilian deaths in Iraq visited Fallujah and found a very high figure. This suggests that civilian Fallujah was hit indiscriminately, as American forces attempted to flush out insurgents. The Geneva Conventions define this as a war crime.</blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">This Journey:</font><br /><a href="http://notfainthearted.com/2008/03/19/blogswarm-blog-against-the-war/">Blogswarm - blog against the war</a><br /><blockquote>There are more than 1 million reasons to oppose this war. And just because I’m proud to be called a bleeding heart liberal I’m participating in this blog swarm. Yes. Why not? More than 1 million dead seems to be a good enough reason to oppose it.<br /><br />But there are other really good reasons. For instance, a ruling party that says “support the troops” by underfunding veterans hospitals and cheating widows and orphans out of their pensions so that the rich can get richer. But I’m getting ahead of myself.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tippytoes and Tantrums:</span><br /><a href="http://tippytoesandtantrums.typepad.com/diatribes/2008/03/no-more-war.html">No More War</a><br /><blockquote>When I told Kevin about the blogswarm and that I was participating, well, let's say he joked about how this was maybe not the best way to change public policy. I am a suburban mom with two kids; I'm tired of only being relevant at election time when the soccer mom vote needs courting.<br /><br />For almost five years I've had a bumper sticker on my car that says "Join the MOB, Moms Opposing Bush." I've gotten tons of positive comments - and many from Republicans eager to share their disappointment with the current administration - and two negative ones. </blockquote><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Transparent Things</font><br /><a href="http://voxmatris.blogspot.com/2008/03/end-occupation-of-iraq.html">End Occupation of Iraq</a><br /><blockquote>Well, here it is. The 5 year anniversary. If you all have a chance today visit this website and listen to a few first person accounts. <a href="http://warcomeshome.org/">http://warcomeshome.org/</a></blockquote><a href="http://warcomeshome.org/"></a><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold;">Truth, Justice, & Peace:</font><br /><a href="http://judiphilly.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-no-more.html">War No More</a><br /><blockquote>To some extent, I live a life that is very far removed from the Iraq War. I don't know anyone who has served and it has not directly affected me or my family personally. But the reality is that is not correct, because this War Without End has impacted us all. We are fast approaching the 4,000th death (with the current count at 3982 deaths) of US Service members serving in Iraq, and 30,000 injuries, with untold (and uncounted) deaths and injuries of Iraq citizens.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-8603354586310419022008-03-24T01:39:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:57:56.658-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with UHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "U," along with brief intros quoted from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">UnCapitalist:</span><br /><a href="http://uncapitalist.com/blog/?itemid=1672">What does the war in Iraq cost Americans?</a><br /><blockquote>In dollars and cents the United States has spent roughly $522 Billion, with at least $70 Billion allocated for the beginning of this year alone.<br /><br />As an aside, what could all that money buy us as taxpayers? What else could we of spent that money on here in America that we desperately need?</blockquote><br />(Crossposted at "It's My Right to Be Left of Center.")<br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-54609800664320310592008-03-24T01:38:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:58:53.075-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with VHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "V" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vagabond Scholar</span><br /><a href="http://vagabondscholar.blogspot.com/2008/03/poetry-of-war.html">The Poetry of War</a><br /><blockquote>Romantic? Bush's comments are all the more despicable because he could have served in Vietnam, but thanks to family connections instead spent his time in a cushy "champagne unit" in the air national guard and didn't even complete his service. It's also not the first time he's said something like this. It's one thing to receive preferential treatment, but when Bush is also sending others to die, without an exit strategy and while undermining long-term prospects for peace, Dante's Inferno seems more appropriate than even the harsher words.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215089333027450852.post-89266865992491462592008-03-24T01:37:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:59:30.500-07:003/19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Blogs Starting with WHere are links to the posts from blogs starting with the letter "W" along with brief quotes from the posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Watching Those We Chose:</span><br /><a href="http://proctoringcongress.blogspot.com/2008/03/62-of-our-best-youth-4-billion.html">62 of Our Best Youth, $4 Billion</a><br /><blockquote>Taxpayers in Kentucky have paid $4 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:<br />1,105,865 People with Health Care OR<br />3,228,992 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR<br />106,274 Public Safety Officers OR<br />68,725 Music and Arts Teachers OR<br />616,259 Scholarships for University Students OR<br />309 New Elementary Schools OR</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Watergate Summer:</span><br /><a href="http://watergatesummer.blogspot.com/2008/03/shock-and-shame-time-to-end-war-crimes.html">SHOCK AND SHAME, TIME TO END THE WAR CRIMES AND ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF IRAQ</a><br /><blockquote>An Illegal Ruler heard UnGodly Evil Voices in his head telling him to go to War, and so the Nation, Our Country launched an Illegal War based on Lies of This Regime. Millions have been killed and been Wounded and had their lives Altered Forever. The Damage is Immeasurable. Our Government and Leadership assisted,enabled and enacted this Evil Plan, and it is Time to End 5 years of Hell.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome To Pottersville:</span><br /><a href="http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2008/03/william-rivers-pitt-why.html">William Rivers Pitt: Why?</a><br /><blockquote>Five years in Iraq.<br />That's 1,825 days since "Shock and Awe" lit up the skies above Baghdad, all of which was captured live and in living color by unblinking CNN cameras with unobstructed views of the carnage.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Do I Know?:</span><br /><a href="http://whatdoiknow.typepad.com/what_do_i_know/2008/03/a-very-peaceful.html">A Very Peaceful Protest</a><br /><blockquote>Though I hadn't read the NIE—the National Intelligence Estimate, I knew two things: Saddam Hussein had had nothing to do with 9/11, and there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Hans Blix, remember, had been searching in vain for months, and despite the best of clues from U.S. intelligence, had found nothing.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Whazgoinon:</span><br /><a href="http://whazgoinon.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/iraq-war-end-the-war-demonstrations-occurring-today-attend-in-ventura-county/">Iraq War - End the War Demonstrations Occurring Today - Attend in Thousand Oaks</a><br /><blockquote>With the blind following of the Bush administration’s path into crisis for this nation, it’s time Gallegly is replaced.<br />Attend this peaceful demonstration today to show your support for ending the Iraq war, and meet Mary Pallant.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When Will I Use This?:</span><br /><a href="http://mathman6293.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-war-blogswarm-i-have-losts-of.html">I have Losts Of Questions</a><br /><blockquote>I don't have answers or explanations for the Iraq war. I am not a soldier and have never fired a weapon. I don't understand how violence and killing can solve humanity's problems.<br />I only have questions, many, many questions:<br />Can you believe that five years have past since the start of the Iraqi war?<br />Do you remember what you were doing?<br />Do you have the same job?<br />Has your life improved due to this war?<br />How many scandals has the Bush Administration weathered since the start of the war?<br />How many limbs have been lost?</blockquote><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ohdearohdearishallbelate.blogspot.com/">White Rabbit:</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who Hijacked Our Country:</span><br /><a href="http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/2008/03/cakewalk-year-six.html">The Cakewalk: Year Six</a><br /><blockquote>And just think, if John McCain gets elected we might continue this crazy funfest for ninety-five more years (or was that 995?).</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who's the Boss?</span><br /><a href="http://www.whosthebossblog.com/my_weblog/2008/03/march-19-agains.html">March 19: Against the Irag War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>I was a naïve teenager when my mother left the VA for work in public health. I certainly didn’t understand the war, the aftermath, the loss, the grief, the pain. I remember once my mother talking in hushed tones with my stepfather about how glad she was my brother was practically blind without his glasses. It meant that he’d never have to serve on the front lines. I didn’t get what she meant then. </blockquote><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whyweneedtoimpeachbush.blogspot.com/">Why We Need to Impeach Bush</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wolves in the City:</span><br /><a href="http://neoclassics.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-ghastly-birthday.html">Iraq - A Ghastly Birthday</a><br /><blockquote>Bush’s Iraq War is now five years old.He and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell dragged us into it on a leash of lies. One of those duplicitous links was acknowledged by the Pentagon last week when it came out with a report showing no connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. The other whopper was about those elusive weapons of mass destruction.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Workday Liberal:</span><br /><a href="http://clublefty.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraq-credulity-test.html">The Iraq Credulity Test</a><br /><blockquote>There is an awful lot of heat being generated around the intertubes regarding the Iraq war. I would encourage anyone browsing through the news to apply a very simple test when considering who should or should not be taken seriously while pontificating on the situation we face in Iraq today.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">World Against War:</span><br /><a href="http://www.worldagainstwar.org/">GLOBAL ANTIWAR PROTEST (END THE WAR NOW!)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">World of Doorman-Priest:</span><br /><a href="http://theworldofdoorman-priest.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-comments-required.html">O Lord: How Long? (No comments required)</a><br /><blockquote>Eternal Spirit<br />Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,<br />source of all that is and that shall be,</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wounded Bird:</span><br /><a href="http://thewoundedbird.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-against-iraq-war.html">Iraq War Blogswarm</a><br /><blockquote>The numbers of refugees inside and outside Iraq total between 2 million and 4 million, many of them living desperate and dreadful lives in refugee camps. The countries which admitted them do not have endless resources to care for them. We should be helping those countries more than we are now. </blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writer Reading:</span><br /><a href="http://ritereading.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogswarm-war-based-on-lives-needs.html">A War Based on Lies Will Only End With a President Who Values Truth</a><br /><blockquote>We writers would all be incredibly lucky to ever write anything with a fraction of the chilling beauty, complexity of thought and truthfulness of this speech that Obama wrote himself, from the heart, which he, unlike some other politicians, apparently actually has.</blockquote><br /><br />Return to the Alpha Index of Posts<br /><br /><hr noshade><br /><br /><a href="http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-listing-of-blogs-in-march-19.html">View the Full Listing of Blogs</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17111132651663342181noreply@blogger.com0