texan nationalguarders 4 truth

* "More than half of Americans, 54 percent, continue to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or a program to develop them before the United States invaded last year, according to a poll released Friday.
Half believe Iraq was either closely linked with al-Qaida before the war (35 percent) or was directly involved in Sept. 11, 2001 (15 percent)." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=7&u=/ap/iraq_polls

* must read "Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems. The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year." and "In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects." what on earth does the damage to iraqi families look like? and for every foreseeable generation... http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

* "An expert report warning that the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population would be endangered by British and US depleted uranium (DU) weapons has been *kept secret by WHO*." http://www.sundayherald.com/40096 (this is from feb04 but i hadnt seen it)

* wotever happened to that ohio not-a-sniper?

* woteva happened to the scalia/cheney hunting trip? quack quack.

* of course 43 wants to ban 527s. he has fauxnews. and cnn. and the nyt. and wapo. and of course the networks are being fair by reducing convention coverage to near-nothing - except that 40% of the population doesnt know jfk.

* david brooks shows a modicum of restraint! - this time lamenting the decline of summercamp - and u just know that he's dying for the answer to be the draft - he falls tantalisingly short in the last sentence tho. damn. "There needs to be at least one place where teenagers can go, at least one month out of the year, that is totally different, where kids can build themselves." so close! so much discretion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/opinion/21brooks.html

* bobdole said on cnn that jfk got 2 purple medals on the same day - however "( Mr. Kerry did not receive two Purple Hearts for events of the same day. He received them for the events of Dec. 2, 1968; Feb. 20, 1969; and March 13, 1969.)" http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/politics/campaign/24watch.html

* jeb needs charlie. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/national/24jeb.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* "9/11 rescue dogs dying of cancer" http://www.unknownnews.net/040824rescuedogs.html

* the soon to be jobless ted rall: "Necropublican National Convention" very funny! "Creatively altered maps of streets and subways will be handed out to button-clad stupid white men. Other saboteurs wearing fake RNC T-shirts will direct them to parts of town where Bush's policies have hit hardest. Rumor has it that prostitutes suffering from sexually transmitted diseases will discourage the use of condoms with Republican customers."
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/08/18/5779843



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