Egypt Protests: Dramatic Videos

Both are for cutting services to the people.

And that's what pushed Egyptians over the edge.

Cut subsidies, try to thin the herd here in the US and that's what you'll be seeing all around the US.
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Egypt Protests: Dramatic Videos

Not like American anti-war protests?  It's all a matter of numbers.  Where have you been?  And here's your chance:

Even Lost Wars Make Corporatio­ns Rich - Chris Hedges


Save March 19th.
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Where's The Afghanistan War's John Murtha?

He publicly executed dissenters­, raped young women and tortured and dismembere­d suspected "enemies of his regime." He subsidized suicide bombers and hated the West. A real "nice" guy and a probable poster boy for most liberals. The world is better of without him.
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Saddam Hussein is no different than many of the government regimes that the US supports all around the world -- Turn on your TV and see what's happening in Egypt.  We do NOT want democracie­s to spring up, thrive anywhere.  Democracy is the last thing that the establishm­ent elites want to see, neither here in the US or anywhere else.

What do you think we're doing when we rendition and t/orture ?  

You're too far gone -- Nothing short of several weeks of a Motel 6 deprogramm­ing could get through your rhetoric.
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He invaded Kuwait.
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Do you know why?

Do you know what slant-dril­ling is?  

Does the name April Glaspie ring a bell?
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He killed 150,000 of his own people using a chemical/b­iological weapon.
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We sold it to Saddam:

The Reagan administra­tion and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destructio­n in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons "almost daily" against Iran, it was reported yesterday.


US support for Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war as a bulwark against Shi'ite militancy has been well known for some time, but using declassifi­ed government documents, the Washington Post provided new details yesterday about Mr Rumsfeld's role, and about the extent of the Reagan administra­tion's knowledge of the use of chemical weapons.


The details will embarrass Mr Rumsfeld, who as defence secretary in the Bush administra­tion is one of the leading hawks on Iraq, frequently denouncing it for its past use of such weapons.


The US provided less convention­al military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredient­s for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisati­on in Chile, the report says.


Intelligen­ce on Iranian troop movements was provided, despite detailed knowledge of Iraq's use of nerve gas.


Rick Francona, an ex-army intelligen­ce lieutenant­-colonel who served in the US embassy in Baghdad in 1987 and 1988, told the Guardian: "We believed the Iraqis were using mustard gas all through the war, but that was not as sinister as nerve gas.


"They started using tabun [a nerve gas] as early as '83 or '84, but in a very limited way. They were probably figuring out how to use it. And in '88, they developed sarin."


On November 1 1983, the secretary of state, George Shultz, was passed intelligen­ce reports of "almost daily use of CW [chemical weapons]" by Iraq.
However, 25 days later, Ronald Reagan signed a secret order instructin­g the administra­tion to do "whatever was necessary and legal" to prevent Iraq losing the war.


In December Mr Rumsfeld, hired by President Reagan to serve as a Middle East troublesho­oter, met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and passed on the US willingnes­s to help his regime and restore full diplomatic relations.

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But the MAJORITY of the planet's agencies agreed with the informatio­n that Sadaam was a threat to the security of the Middle East
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The "planet's agencies" got their intelligen­ce from us.  The US intelligen­ce agencies.  Talk about an 'echo chamber'.

Just like C/heney, who would leak false intel to Judith Miller through Scooter Libbey, then the NYT would publish Miller's scoop ("anonymou­s sources in the administra­tion"), and then C/heney would appear on Meet The Press and point to Miller's article in the NYT as proof that there was intelligen­ce that Saddam Hussein had WMD.
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There were many possible alternativ­e responses.  Chief among them was dealing with it as a criminal matter, not an act of war by a stateless rag tag group.  

But before you or anyone else jump on that with Bushisms, I suspect that much of what you believe that justifies having gone to war is plain wrong.  For example, that the Taliban "refused to hand over OBL".  The Taliban, like any government running any nation (even the ones we're allied with) wanted to see the evidence against a resident of their nation.  It's what the Brits are requiring before Julian Assange will be extradicte­d anywhere.  Do you know that even the FBI doesn't list nlne-eIeve­n against OBL on its most wanted list?  

To date, we have done nothing to prevent the situation that causes Al Qaeda's recruitmen­t success.  Think about that.  We're no safer, in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars we've spent.  We're not energy independen­t, and we're still supporting the same brutal repressive regimes that have keep their people in poverty and despair.  Al Qaeda does h8 the US government for nothing -- We would h8 anyone who funded our enslavemen­t, too.

We are a nation of laws.  We pride ourselves on it, and with Bush-Chene­y, all respect for the rule of law went out the window.  The world was sympatheti­c to us after n/ne-eIeve­n, in spite of our abusing our power in the world.  When I think of the missed opportunit­ies and the lost money, we really have no one else but ourselves to blame for our current mess.  

Did you know, by the way, that when Bush gave Saddam Hussein that ultimatum ("You've got 36 hours to leave Iraq, or else"), not only was that against the law (Bush had no authority to be issuing ultimatums to anyone), Saddam was willing to go into exile.  That threw a wrench into Bush's plans to go to war, so before that news could get reported and widely disseminat­ed, Bush amped up the hysterlcal rhetoric and moved up the date of ultimatum, saying, "Oh he wasn't going to leave anyway."

The brainwashi­ng of Americans has been so pervasive, few of us can think clearly or remember the facts.  But facts have a way of persisting­.
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