Category Archives: iraq
Never Coming Home
Someone ought to tie Bush to a chair and run this for him in an endless loop:
Iraq War: Love and Personal Loss
A slide show of photographs. You won’t come away with dry eyes.
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Cross posted at: Alternate Brain
Today’s Quote – 2007.09.26
“There are more than 160,000 troops currently serving in Iraq. We should honor their service by providing them with the best possible medical care when they return. We should honor their sacrifice by refusing to allow this president to keep them there in the middle of a civil war. And we should honor them by taking seriously the difficult debate about the best way, or at least the least bad way, to end our engagement in Iraq.”
—Al Franken
R.
Hat-tip to: Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast
Today’s Quote – 2007.09.25
“That’s why everyday, in everything we do, we should keep in our minds that 130,000 sons and daughters of America remain in the crossfire, with no prospects for coming home. That our military continues to be stretched thin to the point that it can’t adequately respond to other threats that may arise. That our national guard remains overused and overburdened to the point that it can’t properly respond to disasters here in the homeland.
That the terror training ground in Iraq remains fertile, and one day those trainees could be on our soil. That Osama bin Laden is back in business and continues to roam free in a safe zone along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
That thousands upon thousands of Americans fighting in Iraq won’t be sitting at the table this Thanksgiving… or the next one. And that some won’t see another Thanksgiving, period.”
—Sen. Robert Menendez writing at Huffington Post
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Today’s Quote – 2007.09.13
“Our troops are stuck between a president without a plan to succeed and a Congress without the courage to bring them home.
But Congress must answer to the American people. Tell Congress you know the truth – they have the power to end this war and you expect them to use it. When the president asks for more money and more time, Congress needs to tell him he only gets one choice: a firm timeline for withdrawal.
No timeline, no funding. No excuses.
It is time to end this war.”
—John Edwards
R.
Today’s Quote – 2007.09.10
“A bazillion words will be spilled this week about war and terror. But none of them will matter as much as the real blood being spilled in pursuit of a delusional policy which has criminally diverted our urgent attention from a world-wide war with violent Islamic extremists that no outcome in Iraq is going to end.”
—Marty Kaplan at Huffington Post
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Today’s Quote – 2007.08.06
“Mr. President, stop hiding behind Dave Petraeus and come out here and defend your strategy! This is your war. You defend it.”
—Gen. Wesley Clark
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Today’s Quote – 2007.07.31
“The terrible violence in Iraq has masked the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition amongst children has dramatically increased and basic services, ruined by years of war and sanctions, cannot meet the needs of the Iraqi people. Millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee the violence, either to another part of Iraq or abroad. Many of those are living in dire poverty.”
—Jeremy Hobbs, director of Oxfam International
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Today’s Quote – 2007.07.15
“We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at any time they want”
—Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki
