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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I will ask all of you who voted for Barack Obama the same question Cindy
Sheehan asks at the end of her article:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>WHERE’S THE CHANGE??!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Read the article below and read it again for good measure and LEARN,
PEOPLE. STOP making the same mistakes over and over and over again by
continuing to believe there is one iota of difference between the Republicans
and the Democrats. THERE ISN’T! </span></font></b><b><font size=2
color=red face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:red;font-weight:bold'>Stop</span></font></b><b><font size=2 color=black
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:black;font-weight:bold'> voting until we get a government that is
operated by the workers, for the workers and of the workers and one that isn’t
run on behalf of a foreign government: </span></font></b><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><font size=2 color=red face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red;font-weight:
bold'>ISRAEL</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b><font
size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:bold'>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>You don’t have any representation in government and you never will
under this system. Barack Obama is a fascist who supports the terrorist state
of Israel and who loves war and more war and death and destruction and he doesn’t
give a shit about anything else except perhaps lining his own filthy pockets
and wielding power over everybody else. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=red face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red;font-weight:bold'>Stop
ignoring the truth as it stares you squarely in the face</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:bold'>. To those of you who
voted for Barack Obama, I hope you are ashamed of yourself because you should
be. You had a choice. You could’ve stayed at home and not voted or you
could’ve voted for Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader or one of the
Socialist Equality Party candidates. You chose not to and that will forever be
your shame. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Kris<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22711.htm">http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22711.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>By Cindy Sheehan</span></b><br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>May 26, 2009 "</span></b><a
href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42995"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>AfterDowningSt</span></b></a><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>" -- L</span></b>ast week, after being
bombarded with pseudo-patriotic images of graveyards, gravestones and
flags, I decided to begin posting images of maimed and killed Iraqis, but
especially children and transform the mega-pseudo-patriotic Memorial Day to
Remembrance of Victims of US Empire Day.<br>
<br>
I got a great response to this and my friend and videographer, Clifford
Roddy put together a short film called: finaledit, with the images I posted
and with images that he took at a national cemetery in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Santa Fe</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NM</st1:State></st1:place>
where we were together for my Myth America book tour. I have a Cindy
Sheehan You Tube page so we posted it there.<br>
<br>
The video was just yanked off of You Tube because it “violates the
terms of service” but even before it was yanked, it had a warning:
“This video is unsuitable for children.”<br>
<br>
The pictures of the dead and maimed Iraqi children were gruesome. War is
gruesome. War is never pretty but the Iraqi war has been “Sanitized
for your protection.” It’s not enough that adult males have
been tortured but thousands of women and children have also been imprisoned
and cruelly treated.<br>
<br>
I think it’s pretty gruesome that the US Military has held up to 6000
juveniles in its torture prisons in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>
and there has been rape and torture reported to individuals as young as 10
years old! How can any human being torture another human being, much less a
child? These kinds of stories remind me of the most horrendous slasher
movies that I can think of, but they are not the pretend product of twisted
fantasy, but factual and mind-blowingly real.<br>
<br>
Former US Soldier, Steven Green, was recently given life in prison without
the possibility of parole for the 2007 rape, mutilation and murder of a
14-year-old girl in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Mahmoudiya</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Not
only was Green the ringleader in the rape and murder; the squad also killed
her family.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, even though Green was a “bad apple,” the
situation we find ourselves in is an entire salad of rotten fruit and
incidences like this one are not uncommon, but rarely reported.<br>
<br>
Once when I was in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amman</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
speaking with prominent Iraqis, a Sheikh told me that US soldiers burst
into his home, severely beating him and raping his wife, all in the
presence of his 14-year-old son. The Sheikh told me that it was his
son’s fondest dream to kill US Soldiers. Can you imagine this
happening to your family? What if something like this happened in your
home? You’re sitting around watching American Idol, or some crap like
that, and Iraqis break into your home and terrorize and brutalize your
family? I am sure you would all just chalk it up to “freedom and
democracy” and be happy to go about your miserable lives comforted by
the fact that your country was being occupied and destroyed for your own
good.<br>
<br>
During the US-UN-Clinton led sanctions against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the UN estimates that
over 500,000 children died from starvation, disease, or violence. 500,000
Iraqi children would be like 5,000,000 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> children dying. Former UN
Ambassador under <st1:City w:st="on">Clinton</st1:City> called that
sacrifice for US Empire by the children of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> “worth it.”
Over one million people have died in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> since Bush's invasion in
2003 and most of that figure counts women and children.<br>
<br>
I have spoken to men who were still in their teens who were sodomized with
broom handles in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guantanamo</st1:place></st1:City>.
I have seen the horrific photos of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s inhumanity to man
and cannot forgive my country for the terror it has unleashed on the world.
I can’t stand the fact that our government operates with such craven
cowardice and has harmed so many people while Americans revel in blissful
ignorance.<br>
<br>
Young people who never get a chance to live their lives have their lives
snuffed out so corporations can profit and politicians can earn their John
Wayne, muy macho credentials and I wish that we could get a movement going
that would be as large and as angry about weddings parties being blown up
in Iraq-Af-Pak as they are about inequality in marriage rights here in the
US. Please don’t email me with hostility because I wrote about
marriage equality: I am 100% for marriage equality, but I am also 100% for
people living to be able to be married whether they are gay or straight.
Lives are in the balance and our inaction is tipping the scale in the wrong
direction.<br>
<br>
I am sorry (sarcasm) that our video “violated” You Tube’s
terms of service, but the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan not only
violate my terms of service, but international law.<br>
<br>
--<br>
"Where's the Change?"<o:p></o:p></p>
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