Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Laura sent me a link to this blog, and I think it’s amazing.
Days of My Life
Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine.
The author is my age, but lives in Mosul in Iraq. She talks about school and friends […]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
If you have been paying attention the last few weeks, China and US military relations have taken a nose dive. China, angered by Bush’s meeting with the Dali Lama, has closed Hong Kong’s port to all US Military ships.
The decision was first noticed when two minesweepers request permission to […]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
photo from ABC News
General Peter Pace is the chairman of the joint chiefs, making him the most elevated military office in the United States. He is not our priest-in-chief or our parent-in-chief, but he seems to think he is, and that his “upbringing” and his beliefs make him qualified to tell the rest […]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
My brother was 6 when he decided to join the military and 18 when he did. He was not drafted. It was his choice. I do not want to get drafted when I turn 18 in 2 yrs (and a few months). Do you? If Bush […]
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Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next […]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
So …. If half the republican people want us to withdraw troops from Iraq, we can assume that even more of the democratic people want to withdraw troops. So when will the politicians in Washington know what the people know? When will they listen? When will they start a withdrawal?
This is from ThinkProgress:
51 percent:
Number […]
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Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Think Progress has a post up called If It’s Sunday, It’s Karl Rove and in it they have a list of questions that they want the talk show hosts to ask Rove tomorrow morning. Here’s their list:
Promoting the war as a member of the White House Iraq Group
Leaking Valerie Plame’s identity
Compiling the list of […]
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Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I have a friend who always wants to sell stuff on eBay. I don’t know if he has ever sold anything but he knows how. His plan is to offer something really, really cheap so people will bid on it, and then have a $50 shipping charge. Well, I hope he never becomes a defense […]
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Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Am I the only one that is not surprised by this headline? Or the details? People a lot older than I am seem very surprised that the government is behaving like this, but kids are used to having no privacy and no personal freedom. So, if they can take this from Americans now and patriotic […]
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Posted on August 12th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Compare these two headlines about Iraq, both from today. Who do you believe? Who has a reason to lie to us and who is telling the truth?
Iraqi PM calls for crisis summit
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, has called for a summit of the nation’s main political factions in an attempt to break Iraq’s […]
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