September 13, 2008 06:00 PM
This Week: In Memoriam
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passing of basketball coach Don Haskins, actress Anita Page and novelist David Foster Wallace as well as 7 soldiers and Marines who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, I also have to note the passing of Green Party founder (and former Nader running mate) Peter Camajo.
According to icasualties, the number of allied deaths attributed to Operation Iraqi Freedom is now 4,471. During this same week, Iraq Body Count lists 129 Iraqi civilian deaths.
Sadly the truth also died this week. RIP facts. We're sorry we let John McCain get to you.
Nicole sure glad you brought this up. Because if it were not for "In Memorium" and a few places in the blogosphere. We would not be hearing about the deaths of American soldiers. The last two years it has been 24 hour campaign campaign campaign. Forger ever hearing about the over a million Iraqi people who are dead or the 5 million Iraqi people. Americans are too busy driving to the mall to think about what their country has done to the country of Iraq. Got to get to my next meeting or find out what Britney is doing.
the Clintons are coming the Clintons are coming..
http://www.truthout.org/articl.....e-tightens
http://www.truthout.org/
Gov. Ted Strickland is still excited that the woman he backed for president earlier this year is coming back to Ohio.
Let’s hope the Clintons can harness some of the “bubba vote”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/p.....rmey_N.htm
Because if the McCain campaign has its way there will be No Bubba’s Left Behind (NBLB)(have not heard this anywhere else yet, may get to take credit for this one) This is a new program started by the McCain/Palin/Rove Team.
where are ALL moral Americans
with our troops STILL dying in iraq
why is there NO OUTRAGE?
we should have brought these brave
but abused men and women home months ago.
why is there NO OUTRAGE?
There is.
And it really boils down to nothing more than who is going to get the tax cuts.
truthsrunreal @ 4:
there are some very sick people in our nation.
truthsrunreal @ 4:
While we do have some sick folk in our nation. We had millions march nationwide against the invasion. And 90% of the crowd was middle America. It was the MSM who showed the 2o folks with black hoods over their heads at those anti invasion marches over and over again to the public who was sitting at home wondering about the wisdom, the need and whether the intelligence was valid about Iraq. Millions marched against this bloody illegal invasion of Iraq.
now we have the pre-emptive break up of protesters in Minnesota by the police. They made sure the MSM did not cover the protest at the RNC.
Just a question:
Will things be much different a year from now?
VietVet8666 @ 7:
with mccain, you need look no farther than
your toilette bowl.
Frankly, what makes me sad is that people morn the deaths of volunteers who get paid to go to a foreign country and kill. During this one week alone more than 10 times the number of Iraqi's died than the total number of volunteer soldiers and all of our celebrities combined; yet, this 129/11 ratio is a mere footnote for most American's who seem content to condemn the war on hand, yet mourn the loss of people who sign up to fight it. It's a grand paradox, and one that too often gets ignored in the face some mythical patriotic duty to support those who would fight in our names.
dadams @ 8:
Don't disagree.
But will Obama get us out of Iraq, deal with the environment, move to fix Medicare, etc.?
I am part of a nation that elected a president who willfully and willingly put its young in harms way. If we can't do better this time we need to hang it up. We don't deserve to call ourselves a democracy or a nation of freedom.
Jeanne @ 11:
Jeanne, in 2004:
28% of registered voters voted for shrub
27% of registered voters voted for Kerry
45% of registered voters didn't vote
One might say the problem is the 45% who didn't vote. But maybe they had figured things out. Maybe they figured that, from their standpoint, it didn't matter who won. Maybe they were right.
VietVet8666 @ 10:
i personally believe him will do all that he can to
reverse as much of the disaster and destruction
bush/cheney have done to this country and the
constitution over the last 8 yrs. you must remember
that this will not happen over night, because we
are not in a movie, but in the real shit of abuse
from bush/cheney. it more than likely will be
decades before everything is weighted back to
sanity. i give obama two thumbs up and suggest
that as a nation, we all take the responsibility
to help and not just criticize.
"On board Mrs Palin's campaign plane, journalists were told by stewards that she was watching in the VIP section of the charter's satellite TV system. As reporters howled with laughter during the five-minute skit, there was reportedly silence from the front of the plane. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2958696/Tina-Fey-lands-the-first-punch-a...
It's camEjo - not camAjo!!! A good green man deserves to have his name spelled right, por favor!
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