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Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq [photos]
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm

The Horror And Reality Of Operation Iraqi Freedom [photos]
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2604.htm

Red Cross horrified by number of dead civilians
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1049413227648_10/?h…

Red Cross: Iraq Wounded Too High to Count
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030406_446.html
http://truthout.org/docs_03/040803C.shtml

Hospitals buckle as casualties escalate
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/06/1049567564883.html

Baghdad Hospitals Stretched to their Limits

Tickertape parades streaming with anger and sorrow
The gross and global injustice and always the lies, damn lies…

To write a poem is to indulge myself --
My pain my sorrow? -- it's just not right.

A man in Iraq becomes hysterical,
His three babies lie in tattered rags,
Their small bodies fit into one crude coffin.

A beatiful teenage girl lies battered, shocked and aching with pain.
One eye gouged with shrapnel, her entire family dead

In Palestine, a preganant woman is crushed when bulldozers
knock down the walls
Her husband hears her calling for help, but he can't pull her out
There's no phone, no ambulance
Her little daughter curls up next to her and cries
Then husband and daughter watch her die….

A sensitive and loving girl vows to help
To stop the bulldozing of houses.
Her friends are watching Britney videos while she flies
around the world
To stop the bulldozing of houses

She calls out to the driver. "I'm standing here as an observer
I beg you, for the love of God, to stop. No one here is hurting you,

These are very frightening times for our children, our country, the world, our future as a people. President Bush is a leader who is driven by a world view of black and white, evil Vs good. He has no appreciation of the diversity of culture. In fact he sees, as a threat, any culture or belief that opposes his own self righteous ideology. He dehumanizes those who oppose him. Americans who protest against the war are anti-American according to the Bush doctrine.

Thousands of entities accross America have used the 911 tragedy. Unless you are blind, deaf, stupid, or Republican, it is clear Washington has used the 911 tragedy to promote fear, terror, incite the passions of the people and cover up homefront failures. Washington has used the 911 tragedy as a robe of righteousness to justify and cover every act and deed, as a cloak of patriotism to make war, annul constitutional and civil rights and condemn every American who disagrees as unpatriotic even subversive. We are reliving the Sen. Joe McCarthy era when thousands of decent, honest Americans were destroyed for political gain. I gave two years of my life to this country in Korea '51 to '53. My immediate family only, cared if I lived or died, and 50,000 didn't. I can tell you as a Surgical Tech. In a field hospital, thousands died later of their wounds and some wished they had. I came home to jeers and ridicule. President Eisenhower objected to the war. Republicans said vote for Ike and we will bring you home. Unfortunately duct tape Bush is by no means an Ike. I don't believe Ike ever used drugs or alcohol, and certainly never dodged a war.

Columbus, Ohio – March 7, 2003 – The Mid-Ohio Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will host an evening of fun and elegance for a worthy cause at its Fifth Annual Fund a Cure Gala. Presenting sponsor, Schottenstein’s/Value City Department Stores, in conjunction with JDRF, will honor Ralph Littlefield, Vice President and General Manager, Big Bear Stores for his outstanding commitment toward funding a cure for juvenile diabetes.

Last year’s gala raised $260,000. This year’s is expected to top that by raising over $350,000. The gala will be held at on May 3rd at the Hyatt Regency, downtown Columbus.

Ellen Berty, islet cell recipient and recently cured of diabetes, will be a featured speaker the night of the event. “I lived with diabetes for over 40 years, and understand the struggles these young children that are diagnosed with Type I diabetes face everyday and for whom, islet cell transplantation is not currently an option. Insulin is only life support for these young people. We need to find a cure for everyone.”

Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, "embedded" CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live report. Another employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark -- on the job in a TV studio back home -- asked his colleague a question. When Rodgers responded, he addressed Clark as "general" and "sir." The only thing missing was a salute.

That deferential tone pretty much sums up the overall relationship between American journalists and the U.S. military on major TV networks. Correspondents in the field have bonded with troops to the point that their language and enunciated outlooks are often indistinguishable.

Meanwhile, no matter what tensions exist, reporters remain basically comfortable with Pentagon sources. And what passes for debate is rarely anything more than the second-guessing of military decisions. It's OK to question how -- but not why -- the war is being fought.

Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards observed the other day that the price of gasoline has gone so high in Texas that women who want to run over their husbands have to carpool.

Thought we needed a laugh before plunging back into the war. Here's a lovely item. Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports U.S. soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W. Bush. Thousands of Marines have been given a pamphlet, put out by In Touch Ministries, called "A Christian's Duty." It is a mini prayer book that includes a tear-out card to be mailed to the White House pledging that the soldier who sends it has been praying for Bush.

"I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our troops during this time of uncertainty and tumult," says the card. "May God's peace be your guide."

That's special.