they ate our freedom

* arsenal are faves for the sunday game. who's confident?

* will berlusconi go to hell? will 34?

* "So, as a U.S. citizen, I welcome the U.S. defeat (in iraq) for a simple reason: It isn't the defeat of the United States -- its people or their ideals -- but of that empire. And it's essential that the American empire be defeated and dismantled. " http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7460.htm

* "John Pike, a defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, said the rate of spending in Iraq, already at more than $1 billion a week, could grow to $1.5 billion or more. "It's going to be a pretty big number," he said." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7046320

* "The west uses the pejorative tag "terrorist" to close off critical thought. Terrorists are like a cancer, the argument goes: you don't over-analyse your disease, you just kill it. This "terrorist" label is key to the mindset that projects the mistaken view that "they hate our values". The threat, we are told, is existential - "they want to destroy us". Therefore our only response can be to destroy them. Anyone who disagrees is either naive, an enemy, or guilty of legitimising the use of violence. " http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1370708,00.html

* "Experts are divided over how stretched America’s military really is. But they agree that another conflict would put the military in overdrive. Another war would require a shift to a “no-kidding wartime posture in which everybody who could shoot was given a rifle and sent to the front,” according to John Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org. " http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1397131,00.html

* "There is no comprehensive way to quantify how rebel activity has been affected nationwide by the Fallujah assault. American officials no longer make available to reporters a daily tally of the number of incidents reported around the country." which is kinda odd - cos ive read elsewhere recently that the number of attacks is down 30+% or something. i wonder where those numbers come from. prolly wonderland. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10370385.htm?1c

* in case u missed it: "Retina scans to get into your own home. Work details under armed guard. No cars. Military armor on every corner. All men to be shot on sight after curfew. No freedom of movement. These are just some of the details of the new order in Fallujah (and one assumes any other Iraqi city that the US destroys in the future). Somewhere between a concentration camp and what US troops called a strategic hamlet in Vietnam, this is the latest version of Washington's freedom and democracy installation in Iraq." goolag. can we give em yellowstar badges? the retina scan thing is cool. can we do that in amairports too? oh, btw, doesnt fucker woolesley have a retinascan company or some such? i love the end-2-end solutions these guys come up with. "Another, less-publicized aspect of the police state mechanisms that the US hopes to put in place in Fallujah is the creation of so-called work brigades that would essentially force male residents of Fallujah into forced labor battalions." http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs12082004.html


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