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03/24/07

The Democrats’ plan to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq next year responds to voters’ demand for change, New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes said Saturday. Hodes and other House Democrats on Friday pushed through a rebuke of President Bush and the war in Iraq. Bush promised a veto of the spending bill, which demands combat operations end before September 2008 — and perhaps earlier...

https://tinyurl.com/366hpb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,468740,00.html


Informant: Corey



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress

By Sean Penn

You say we've kept the war on terror off our shores by responding to a criminal act of terror through state sponsored unilateral aggression in a country that took no part in that initial crime. That this war would be fought in Iraq or fought here. They are not our toilet. They are a country of human beings whose lives, while once oppressed by Saddam, are now lived in Dante's inferno.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17408.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sean+Penn

Betrayed!

By Cindy Sheehan
Gold Star Families for Peace

The Democratic Congress betrayed American voters, the troops in Iraq and extended the occupation for at least another 18 months.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17406.htm

Click:

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/25/82/

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SEAN PENN SPEAKS OUT!!! THIS is an AMERICAN PATRIOT with COURAGE!!!! HEAR HIM DELIVER HIS LETTER TO BUSH at al. !!!!!

PLEASE, SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE!!!

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Listen: Hear an excerpt of Penn's speech https://kcbs.com/pages/320047.php?contentType=4&contentId=386690 or https://podcast.medianext.com/stations/kcbs/media/mpeg/Sean_Penn_s_Letter_to_President_Bush-1174766920.mp3

ALSO...

Sean Penn endorses Dennis Kucinich for President

(towards the bottom of the article) ..."There are presidential candidates who understand this. We do have candidates of conscience. As things stand today, I will be voting for Dennis Kucinich, who has fought this war from the beginning. You might say Kucinich can't win. Well, we have an opportunity to re-establish the credibility of democracy as viewed by the world at large...."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/an-open-letter-to-the-pre_b_44172.html


Informant: Jack Topel



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sean+Penn
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Lee

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/25/83/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

U.S. female soldiers in Iraq were assaulted or raped by male soldiers in the women's latrines, and an alarming number committed suicide, Col. Janis Karpinski reportedly testified before an international human rights commission of inquiry last month.

https://www.vermontguardian.com/dailies/022006/020806.shtml#top



From Information Clearing House

The US reconstruction programme in Iraq has been described as chaotic and badly managed, in an official report by the US special inspector general for Iraq.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6482887.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Report Questions Usefulness of Iraq Reconstruction Projects

Poor construction, improper design, substandard materials and lack of maintenance have brought into question the usefulness of seven of eight US-funded Iraq reconstruction projects. "If these projects are typical of the quality and effectiveness of operations and maintenance performance on transitioned projects, the value of the US investment in Iraq reconstruction will be at risk," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general, in his report to Congress and the Bush administration.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043007R.shtml