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Peace Unpatriotic?

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From the Care2 newsletter:

"War has begun, but should we just accept it? While most Americans support the troops, many Americans feel that the war is unjust and an inappropriate use of U.S. power. Does disagreeing with the war mean you aren’t patriotic or that you don’t love your country? Absolutely not, according to one of the greatest presidents in American history, Theodore Roosevelt. "

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong,is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

"Roosevelt in 1918, challenged Woodrow Wilson’s sweeping crackdown against dissent after the American entry into World War I. While Roosevelt was a major supporter of WWI, he firmly believed the public should be allowed to express dissent."

"Clearly, the ability to stand up in opposition to our leaders has made America strong and unique. It’s not only American; it’s one of our founding principles."

Butt Is It Protest?

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A while back I called attention to some silly protesting going in in the form of nude women. Well it seems the guys got their turn. I still don’t understand what nudity has to do with peace. Maybe they hoped enough ugly people showed that Bush and his cronies would see them and say, "For Pete’s sake, please put some clothes on! I promise to not got to war if you’ll just cover those hideous bodies!"

"EDS NOTE NUDITY: A group of bicycle enthusiasts stage a naked protest against war by making a peace symbol with their bikes and their bodies at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, Sunday Feb. 23, 2003."

Iraq Makes Weblines

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Internet brings together Americans against war
By Duncan Campbell

This Saturday hundreds of thousands of Americans will be protesting in the streets against the possibility of war in Iraq and bombarding politicians with their views. One of the key organisations coordinating the protests is the brainchild of two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who saw the internet as a way of channeling political protest.

MoveOn was started in 1998 by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two software entrepreneurs who, along with friends and family, felt that what they saw as the “continuing obsession” with the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal was damaging the political process, and that it was time to “move on” and away from impeachment. They started the website and used it as a way of reaching people with similar views who would coordinate protests and send their views to politicians and the media. During the impeachment row, they generated more than 250,000 phone calls and 1m emails to Congress.

Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: The Questions

“OK folks, the first phase of our Cross-Blog Iraq Debate is over, and now it’s time to get busy with the real fun!”

Listed below are the five questions developed here on TTLB to be answered by the anti-war crowd, as well as the five questions that Stand Down has put together for pro-war bloggers to address.

If you’d like to join the debate, it’s easy: just go ahead and answer the appropriate set of questions on your weblog, and then let either myself or Stand Down know with a TrackBack ping or comment. On February 17th, a roundup of responses will be posted here and at Stand Down.

Let The Misinformation Begin

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This is comforting.

Feds pull suspicious .gov site
By Declan McCullagh

“WASHINGTON–In a move that raises questions about the security of governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it.”

Powerful New U.S. Intelligence Service (AONN DSI)

I happened to notice your AONN post when researching programs related to highly secret government intelligence operations/ programs and trained government assassins. I did some digging, made some phone calls, conducted some research and discovered some very fascinating facts. AONN under a secret Department of Defense/ Pentagon charter in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency Law Enforcement Group (yes, believe it or not, the CIA has a law enforcement arm/ aspect/ network (even though it is not part of the CIA charter, per se).

cache of AONN.gov