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Activist Times Inc. Issue 351
"Ain' no viet cong, eva call' me nigga..."
-- Cassius Clay
S E Q U E L I N T H E G U L F
SPECIAL PRE-WAR RETURNS COVERAGE.
Welcome to another ATI, live from Normal, ILL.
We might as well just call it the new "war-again" issue.
How many has it been? Yikes. (was thinking about dubbing
it "Midnight Oil." but nah...)
Before our masthead, we give you this:
Steven Funk, "LCCW's Student of the Year."
Steven Funk, a Life West junior intern, was selected by
the Alumni Association as LCCW's "1996 Student of the
Year," based on his solid academic standings and the
numerous contributions he has made to the community,
chiropractic profession, and the college.
Steven has previously been given awards for "Chiropractic
Excellence," and a "Certificate of Merit" from Life West's
Student Council.
Steven is an active member and organizer of several campus
organizations, including the Christian Chiropractic Club,
which he founded and served as president for four quarters.
He is also a non-commissioned officer in the California Air
National Guard, which involves serving 100 days a year. He
has been a reservist for almost nine years and is stationed
with the 129th Search and Rescue Squadron at Moffett Air Field.
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ANALYSIS - THIS WAR IS
NOTHING BUT AN OLD FASHIONED COST OVERRUN
Publisher's Column by marco
Iraq War Will Last Longer = Cost OverRun
Washington - War in Iraq will last longer and
cost more than they had initially expected.
Are the American people this stupid? We are
being Sikorski'd. Enron'd, General Dy'd.
Weren't we told it would be over in a day or
two? two weeks max?? Didn't they say 10 or 20
billion dollars or so? Weren't they only going
to make a regime change and force the people
behind Hussein to comply with everything that
a democratically elected Hussein wouldn't, and
then get out immediately?
Here we go again.
It happens every couple decades, and we fall for
it every single time. Now that they're in, they're
asking for a 75 Billion dollar downpayment. And to
top it off they're saying it's going to take a
considerable amount of time before there's any
kind of end in sight.
And now that they're fully inserted, the draft-dodging
warhawks are gambling there isn't a damned thing you
can do about it, by way of complaining or blocking.
This sounds like a cost overrun to me. And the people
doing it smack reekingly of a mafia or a klan. Pirates
or racketeers.
Maybe we're in this mess because we didn't fully
prosecute the Enron thugs. Or perhaps because we
didn't oust Renquist for appointing Bush. But I
have a feeling it goes back farther than this.
It's probably because we allowed Ford to pardon
Nixon, rather than insisting on going through with
articles of impeachment.
And lastly, it's because we didn't listen to
Smedley Butler and Dwight Eisenhower when we
had the chance.
SHOULD HAVE.
Well, I have a horrible warning to give here, speaking
as someone who served in the army signal corps for three
years, and worked for people from Kuwait, Saudia Arabia
AND Iraq when GTE agreed to let THOSE soldiers train us
on phones and radios.
It took 12 years to weaken the Iraqi people to the point
where our state department thought for sure one little
war would kill them off. But they underestimate not only
the military, but the people around them. It will take
only one or two battles to fully empower every soldier
who isn't killed in the next week or two.
We're going to have years of war in that region now,
and we're going to lose an awful lot of men and women
between the ages 17 and 23 before we find some way of
saving face pulling out of there with our tails up our
asses.
We've already lost the peace, now we're engaged in losing
the war. Isn't that a little backwards? Well no one said
George W Bush was a straight up kind of human. And he's
certainly not a straight up kind of leader OR puppet.
In fact, isn't he the most misunderestimated, more gooder,
subliminible, nuke-u-lar cowboy we've ever had rammed down
our throats?
I don't mean this as aid and comfort to the enemy. And
I'm sorry it's going to be taken that way. It's a scolding
of the american people. We suck.
We didn't have to, you know.
PT Barnum was right.
There are liberals and conservatives born every minute.
marco
And now, the numbers:
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.marshall.html
http://www.greenbaynewschronicle.com/page.html?article=118818
http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10882/index.php
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/textfiles/magazines/ATI
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030320-75800736.htm
http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21522
http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21424
http://www.gulufuture.com/news/scott_ritter030325.htm
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Michael_Borkson
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcnet/images/irakkaart.jpg
http://www.neo-comintern.com/archives/ncom232.txt
http://www.hiddeninplainsight.org/main/home.html
http://www.stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=6577
http://www.adoremus.org/7-8-97Hermeneutics.html
http://www.diymedia.net/collage/truth-gwb.htm
http://ithaca.indymedia.org/about/radio.html
http://members.tripod.com/rrrty/infoor.html
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=6667
http://www.protest.net/view.cgi?view=2199
http://pirateradioannarbor.kicks-ass.org
http://www.subatomicpieces.com/main.html
http://www.rense.com/general35/stop.htm
http://es.geocities.com/poesianoguerra
http://www.hayehwatha.org/01frame.html
http://www.shines.org.uk/newspaper.htm
http://www.anotherposterforpeace.com
http://www.madpeace.org/stopthewar
ftp://jonas.freealias.de/musik/mp3
http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
http://www.unionwatch.com/031603
http://www.clearchannelsucks.org
http://www.zmag.org/wspjart.htm
http://www.protest-records.com
http://liveradio.indymedia.org
http://www.sustaincampaign.org
http://www.bretzelforbush.com
http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://jeff.paterson.net/ad
http://www.saddamsays.com
http://protestwarrior.com
http://jeff.paterson.net
http://www.papadish.com
http://www.vaiw.org/vet
http://livejournal.org
http://coreproject.net
http://www.lexrex.com
http://www.thetip.org
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES
Uh oh,
We all know what happened after Madeline Albright
found out SHE was part jewish.
Let's all FEAR one of the Senators Kerry now!
"Despite his Irish surname, the Massachusetts Democrat
recently discovered he is descended from Austrian Jews
after a newspaper charted his family history."
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA5VPMDEDD.html
OPEN LETTER
To: Dept. of Homeland Security
Dear Sirs:
I am writing to you for further instructions to what
the next step is for me to take in protecting my family
from possible attacks by terrorists.
I have my duck taped....now what?
MARCO
Dear Marco Capelli,
Would you be able to use this piece in Activist Times,
Intentional? You have the author's permission to reprint,
as long as you include the credit line at the bottom of
the article with a working link to his web site.
Sincerely,
Sam Hine
shine@bruderhof.com
724-329-1100
THE WORLD IS AT WAR
What Are You Doing about It?
Johann Christoph Arnold
As Baghdad becomes the focus of a fierce war that is gathering
momentum every day, many around the world are fearing the worst.
Just in the last few days, American and British troops have
experienced serious setbacks, and unexpected casualties and
deaths. Even President Bush looked unusually grave as he warned
the nation (on March 23) that "this is just the beginning of a
tough fight."
But fear is the worst emotion we can give into at this time,
for it is the greatest divider. Fear divides people from one
another, and from God. It paralyzes people and drives them over
the edge. But fear doesn't have to do all these things. It can
also drive us to each other in the certainty that we can do
something about this war. And I am not talking about peace marches...
I have great respect for every person who has recently attended
a vigil, protest march, or peace rally. I myself have participated
in dozens over the last four decades. But I am also concerned about
the tensions, the divisiveness, and even open violence that is
sometimes a part of these gatherings.
Yes, war is wrong; yes, killing is wrong. I will never waver from
that. At the crucifixion of Jesus, after one of his disciples struck
off the ear of a soldier, Jesus told him to put away his weapon,
saying, "He that takes the sword shall perish by the sword." Jesus
was clearly no advocate of armed force. But neither did he condemn
those who used it-even against him. On the contrary, he prayed for
them, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
How timely Christ's words are for us who claim to follow him! He spoke
them as a sinless man. What about us, who contribute to war in so many
ways, every day of our lives-with our greed and materialism, our
backbiting and gossip, our unfaithfulness and family feuds, our
arrogance, our general selfishness and our disregard for others?
How do we stand before God, we who stand on the sidelines and
condemn those who have planned this war, and those who are now
fighting it?
The war in Iraq calls each of us who oppose it to make a choice. We can
criticize the White House and the Pentagon. We can antagonize those we
disagree with. We can rub salt into the wounds of families who have lost
loved ones (or who fear losing them). We can look on soldiers and sailors
and airmen as evil-doers.
Or we can show them love, as we have never shown love before. We can listen
to those who are angry with us. We can encourage those who are hurt or
bitter. We can take time for the children around us. Many of them will
go to bed tonight with the images of a war that is thousands of miles
away, but still scares and confuses them. And we can support the troops
on both sides of the battle by praying for their safe return, and for
a speedy end to hostilities.
By "supporting the troops" I am not talking about waving flags, or calling
them home and hoping they'll get over their nightmares. (As someone who
has counseled veterans of every major war in the last century, including
both World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Gulf War I, I have
learned that no soldier ever "gets over" a war.) I am talking about
recognizing them for what they really are: the beloved parents, spouses,
children, brothers, and sisters of families no different from yours and
mine. Regardless of the choices they once made, which have since landed
them in the Iraqi desert, they are now cogs in a huge machine. They are
leaves in a massive whirlpool of violence that began turning with Cain
and Abel, and has never stopped since.
Who will support these men and women once the last shot has been fired,
and they start showing up in AA meetings and emergency rooms, psych
wards and funeral homes? At the moment, there's plenty of talk about
heroism and sacrifice, God and country. But what's going to happen
once the war is over, and everyone has moved on to the next big
thing on the screen? Who's going to be there for "our boys in the
Gulf" when they start turning their weapons on themselves?
The time is past when one can simply be "for" or "against" war.
And as this particular one rages on, each of us has surely felt
drawn into it somehow. Only a heart of stone could stand aside.
In my church community (the Bruderhof), we have been drawn into
it through prayer. Senseless as all this violence is, we believe
that God must have some reason for allowing it to happen. And so,
just as we pray for peace, we pray for his will to be done as
well-even as it remains a mystery to us.
God is a God of judgment, but he is also a God of endless love.
He is a father, and he sent his only son "not to condemn the
world, but to save it." He has a plan for each person who dies
in this terrible conflict, from the American paratrooper to
the Iraqi sniper and the British marine-and all the civilians
caught in between. And we believe that every one of them will
one day end up in his arms. Who knows how powerfully he is
already at work amid all the horror? Surely he is there right
now, waiting and watching; leading (or holding back); chastising,
but also comforting and giving courage.
I have never experienced combat, but as a New Yorker who experienced
9/11 (I lost a friend in the collapse of the Twin Towers) I know
what war looks like. Now, as then, I believe that in the final
moments of loneliness and anguish, the dying are not alone.
Jesus is there with his angels, ready to receive them. He
knows what it means to be in the "shadow of the valley of
death." (What else is the Euphrates these days, if not that?)
And he will see to it that no one walks through it alone.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the sons of God." He also said that
though his harvest is great, the workers are few. As the war
in Iraq continues, let us remember his words-and let us be
worthy peacemakers worthy of his blessing. As we continue to
work for end to the violence, let us (to quote Gandhi), be
the change that we wish to see in the world. Let us not
condemn any man or woman, or say or do anything that spreads
division or fear. Let us rather do what we can to sow seeds
of peace. And let us never give up hoping in the One who said,
"Lo, I am with you to the end of the age." He promises a new
heaven and new earth for all people, one where every tear shall
be dried.
[Johann Christoph Arnold is an author and a senior minister
with the Bruderhof Communities (http:// www.bruderhof.com).
Read more of his articles and books at http://ChristophArnold.com.
Copyright 2003 Bruderhof Communities. Used with permission.]
A CHANT FROM TURIN
U.S.A. Please explain
Why did you install Hussein.
A QUICK POEM
When your dad is a protestant
And you're not
You can be a catholic worker
When your dad is a republican politician
And you're not
You can drink and smoke crack
And that's about it.
GANA'S POEM
Puppet puppet
What you do
Puppet puppet puppet
The Moment
a poem
by marco
Maybe SOMEDAY we'll stop the next WAR??
Maybe TODAY we'll stop
The next war
Maybe YESTERDAY WE stopped
The next war
A BELIEF
another marcopoem
Many arab peoples
Feel conflicted
Because they love jews
They love palestinians
And they love americans.
But they fear
The leadership of
All of these nations
Including their own
But especially that of
The US.
GATT - Guitar Anarchy Tricks of the Trade
WHAT DONE
Another Broadside songpublishing
by marco
(ch) Your deeds will follow you down
Your deeds will follow you down
Everybody knows except for you and your troops
Your deeds will follow you down
You can live by the sword
And you die just the same
But when you put it all down you get back your life
Not to mention all of that fame
(ch)
You can lead a troop to water
But sometimes you can't make him war
Oftentimes you just get bit in the ass
Like 30, 40 years before.
It is written a youth shall lead you
But not into battle this night
She'll bring you right out of this living hell
As if you never knew what's right.
You can bomb yourself to pieces
But you can't bomb your way to peace
And freedom's not about bombs at all
Or an economic increase.
Warbler Bros. eliminates image from 'What a Girl Does' ads
LOS ANGELES (PAWN) - Print advertisements for the teen comedy
"What a Girl Does" originally featured a photograph of star
Amanda Brines wearing a Guernica reprint on her T-shirt and
flashing the peace sign with her fingers as she stands between
two Nazi members of parliament.
With the war in planet earth sparking anti-war protests in
the Untied States and abroad, however, Warbler Bros. quickly
changed the ad. The studio said Monday it feared the peace
sign would be viewed as a political message.
New versions of the image feature Brines with her right hand
at her side, although many of the original posters had already
been placed on billboards and buses before the change was made.
In the film, Brines plays an American girl who discovers her
estranged father is Adolf Hitler.
"What a Girl Does" is set for release on Friday.
PROVERBIAL PROVERB
Pride Goeth Before The Drink
"COCA-COLA AND THE CONTOUR BOTTLE DEVICE ARE
REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY."
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