About 150 meg of files are now on their way to the server, thank you bird in the sky. There's probably another image update tomorrow to chew through the dregs of it (that's about 80% of the backlog), so Dima's getting another day on the cover still, although with a newer pic.
A warning that any of you with family in the military should pass on: If this war is illegal, US troops face being charged with war crimes. Seriously. Like Bush said, “I was just following orders” doesn't cut it.
While I'm warning people, let me warn political protestors in America: Political protestors that cross the line via trespassing and things like this will be murdered on the spot. Seriously. Civil disobedience is now punishable by execution without trial in the land of the free.
As the US prepares for more terror attacks I want to remind people about “Operation Northwoods“. In 1962, when America wanted to invade Cuba, the US military drew up plans to launch terrorist attacks against US cities (pretending to be the communists), in order to rally Americans behind the flag… Sound familiar? Ask yourself, in the light of history, who is your enemy, and who puts you at real risk?
The UN inspectors who've been forced out are pissed. They are accusing the US of sabotaging the inspections through force and falsified intelligence. Remember, the few times people proposed resolutions that would allow “check-list” verification of Iraq's potentially non-existent weapons programs, the US vetoed it. The US has sabotaged the inspections process, thrown out the journalists, and in every verifyable case lied and cooked intelligence in order to guarantee war.
"[The war on Iraq] a shameful moment actually in American history; the idea that we are going to attack a nation that is not attacking us, that is not attacking anybody else.""If Iraq was a real danger to the world, then why is it that all the countries around Iraq and why is it that the countries of the rest of the world do not want to go to war? Why is it that the most powerful military country in the world with oceans on both sides is going to war against Iraq? The reasons are not the ones given by President Bush."
- Howard Zinn
PS. Remember how Bush said that Iraq could avoid invasion if Saddam stepped down? Just kidding! They're invading either way! Why does Bush want to convert America internationally from “the land of the free” to “the land of liars”? That is the legacy he leaves the American people.
As of a few days from now there are going to be a lot of people crying “tears of blood” thanks to America's imperialist dreams.
