Towleroad Guide to the Tube #261
5 YEARS IN IRAQ: Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) has a message on the anniversary.
LOCKSTEP: Bush and McCain on Iraq.
UNION STATION FREEZE-IN: Code Pink protestors borrowed the Improv Everywhere Grand Central Station 'freeze' concept and staged a protest in Washington DC's Union Station - five minutes for five years.
SHANTYTOWN: BBC covers the tent cities which have sprung up outside of L.A. in the wake of the mortgage crisis.
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Posted Mar. 19,2008 at 12:00 PM EST by Andy Towle in George W. Bush, Iraq, John McCain, News, Republican Party, Towleroad Guide to the Tube | Permalink
yea, okay. let's just go right ahead and ignore the most watched, top rated, and top favorited video on youtube
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Posted by: Dude | Mar 19, 2008 12:21:19 PM
It's Chris Crocker, right??
Posted by: crispy | Mar 19, 2008 12:31:15 PM
If you're talking about the Barack Obama video asshat, he posted it yesterday.
http://www.towleroad.com/2008/03/barack-obama-gi.html
Posted by: dave | Mar 19, 2008 12:49:33 PM
Wexler voted YES to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq.
Boo hoo now about what an F up it has been, but he suported it from the begining.
Now he wants to distance himself from such a screw up but he voted YES
- wrong war , not 1 iraqi attacked america on 9/11
- dead US soldiers when their was ample proof and Inteligence reports that Sadam had no WMDs
- dead iraqis when even an intense Pentagon report shows NO connetion between Sadam and Osama
Wexler's mock outrage is convenient when the majority of americans are against Iraq, but wasn't enough to do the right thing when he should have.
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 19, 2008 1:27:32 PM
The only way to end the war is to call for the immediate and total withdrawal of all US military and security forces from the region, combined with a program to suppress the jihadists by arming Iraqi oil workers and other trade union members, and for an end to all forms of support for anti-democratic governments in the region, especially the zionist apartheid state.
Obama and Clinton both say they’ll keep troops there for at least the next four years and McCain, more honestly, says they’ll be there for decades. Obama, a witless wonder, wants to extend the war to Pakistan, a nation with its own nuclear arsenal, and Billery supports nuclear strikes on Iran.
The war, which began on March 18th 2003, has resulted in the murder of over a million Iraqi’s by US and English military activity supported by assorted ‘allied’ and US armed jihadist groups. In the process 3990 GI’s have died fighting for Texaco, etc., and 29,314 have been wounded, 13,138 of them seriously.
Bush, with almost total and continued support from Democrats began the war to capture control of the regions oil assets. Rightwing Democrats (is there any other kind) have supported him at every turn, including his demands that the Iraqis surrender control of their oil assets to US oil firms. The Congress also demanded that the Iraqis divide their nation into three separate nations to ease US control. The US has constructed enormous state of the art military bases, like Balad AFB, in Iraq and in the region. They’ve spent almost $750,000,000.00 on a 21 building embassy complex on 104 acres in the heart of the Green Zone fortress.
The US plans on staying and the election year promises of Obama and Clinton are just lies to fool voters. The war in Iraq, like the one in Vietnam, will be ended when the invasion is beaten by a combination of determined and unending Iraqi resistance and the reemergence of a powerful antiwar movement here, including the GI antiwar movement.
Posted by: Bill Perdue, RainbowRED | Mar 19, 2008 2:27:43 PM
TENT CITIES? Welcome to the Great Depression....
Posted by: oakling | Mar 19, 2008 3:44:53 PM
Yes, my city is host to one of Southern California's first tent encampments. I think we should have compassion towards the people not as fortunate.
And yes, the leader of my city is a Republican, and he is a pastor and he walks the walk about what he believes in.
You never know if we could end up like those people in that video.
Posted by: Matt from California | Mar 20, 2008 1:39:08 AM