Blue Herald

 From SeattlePI:
One former soldier recounted an interrogation of an Iraqi by his fellow combatants so brutal he likened it to “a frat house gang rape.”
Another was still troubled not by his close brushes with death, but by the times he nearly shot innocent Iraqi civilians.
And a third was exasperated and puzzled by being asked to [...]

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From an email I received from Democrats.com :
On Tuesday, Gen. Petraeus told Congress, “We haven’t turned any corners, we haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.”
So our top General in Iraq has no plans to end our endless occupation. But of course, we all knew that.
That means Congress has to end the [...]

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Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan
This video is from the Iraq Veterans Against the War website.
From March 13-16th, U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will testify to what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground in these occupations. To provide a preview, we’ve created this short film. The film [...]

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Gee, you think it will be broadcast? I think…..NOT.
From Xinhua:
U.S. anti-war activists said Sunday they plan to protest on the sidelines of the Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Year’s day, calling for an end to the Iraq war and the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. [...]

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I feel another swiftboating coming on!
US war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they’re planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.
“The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it,” [...]

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Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the [...]

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This put a smile on my face…….
A 1967 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by a recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm, sparked a bloody clash between police and protesting students and galvanized anti-war sentiment on campus.
A new generation of student activists are summoning memories of the 40-year-old demonstration with their vows [...]

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Several thousand protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war, and at least 160 people were arrested when they jumped a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
Many of the protesters were arrested without a struggle after they jumped over the waist-high barricade. [...]

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Amid a huge security clampdown, the US leader’s plane Air Force One touched down around 10.20 PM. On arrival he was met by Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, NSW Premier Morris Iemma and the US Ambassador Robert McCallum.
Earlier tonight, Anti-APEC demonstrators staged their first protest during the Sydney summit, with 200 demonstrators attending a peaceful [...]

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God love him……..
Evan Knappenberger is like many young post-Sept. 11 Army enlistees who went from high school into the military for patriotic reasons. He wanted to spread democracy, to topple Saddam Hussein, “to do something to affect the world in a good way,” the freckled 22-year-old says.
Today, Knappenberger is a disillusioned Iraq War veteran, [...]

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