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 March 14th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Sorry for the light posting during my vacation. Been having way too much fun to pay a lot of attention to politics. Good thing that people sometimes send me links like this one!
New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush […]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Alex Habrock
According to a newly released study by two non-profit journalism groups, President George W. Bush and seven of his top aides made 935 false statements about the pre-war risk Iraq posed to the United States. Astoundingly, that is only the number of false statements documented after September 11, 2001. The study not only fingered […]
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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 17th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
If we (the United States) turned everything over to the Iraqi government and we’re so proud of how democratic things are becoming there, then why are we (Condi Rice) trying to overturn their rules? We have nearly run out of soldiers and marines to send to Iraq, but the private mercenaries are […]
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Posted on September 12th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
Recently, I was compiling facts for a piece I was going to send to my local paper in response to a letter written by a terribly misguided war supporter. What I came across, confirms that the real goal of the Iraq War is oil.
I decided to look up financial information on Halliburton, which everyone […]
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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 5th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
When I was in 8th grade, my language arts teacher focused a lot on our writing styles and wanted us to always have in mind who the audience was. She taught us that writing a letter to the editor called for different vocabulary and style than a letter to a friend. Even my […]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
James Madison on War
” Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. […]
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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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