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[John Murtha] praised [George W. Bush] I, the current president's father, for listening to the opposition during the 1991 invasion of Kuwait that drove out Saddam Hussein's army. He noted Bush I did not launch an invasion of Iraq at the time -- the Iraqis were on the run -- because, "He told me he didn't want to occupy it and he didn't want to rebuild it."
"Our military has done everything that has been asked of them," said America's newest and loudest patriotic voice from Pennsylvania. "The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It's time to bring the troops home!"This was not [Robin Lloyd]'s first protest arrest. She was a member of the infamous "Winooski 44" who occupied U.S. Sen. Robert Stafford's office in 1982 to protest U.S. policy in Central America. In El Salvador, Jesuit priests had been murdered by Ft. Benning grads and American nuns kidnapped, raped and murdered. Lloyd and her codefendants successfully employed the "necessity defense" and were found not guilty of trespassing.See the full content of this document
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Inside Track; Thanks for What?
Until just a few days ago it looked like the Turkey Day list of things to be thankful for was not going to be very inspiring:
We're thankful for having such an incompetent, dishonest president.We're thankful for being tricked by the White House into an endless, bloody war against a nation that posed no threat to our security in the first place.We're thankful the U.S. occupation of Iraq has increased terrorist strikes worldwide and made us less safe.We're thankful President George W. Bush's Republican Party controls both houses of Congress, so the president can continue to dodge accountability.We're thankful that Sen. John Kerry didn't talk as plainly about Ira...See the full content of this document
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