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Imprison Bush article

Harvey,

Thanks for your article.

The only thing I can think of to add is how Bush expressed his outrage at such demeaning sexually abusive acts were committed outside the confines of a Skull & Bones initiation ritual.

Regards, and best wishes for a Constitutional tomorrow.

Jail the Shrub

I agree completely with Mr. Wasserman's arguments. Shrub's tenure as governor of Texas was remarkable for killing more people in the death chamber than any other governor. If we wonder what the conditions in the Texas prison system were, it is very likely that looking to iraq will give us some indication. These sorts of practices are marks of the "leaders" during whose term they are practiced.

Put George W. Bush in prison!!!

Those American soldiers torturing and sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners have made criminals of us all.

And there are only two possible responses to this horrible outrage: get out of Iraq. Now!

And imprison the man responsible, George W. Bush.

Any fantasy that the United States could "bring democracy" or inject stability or somehow do something praiseworthy for the Iraqi people irrevocably died with the publication of those photographs.

With Bush, the flow of abominations only seems to deepen and get worse with every passing day. Any whining or carping that he is not personally responsible is pure hypocrisy. This man belongs in prison!

Every serious Iraqi, Arab or Islamic leader, commentator or "person in the street" has said the same thing: "Game Over". The Americans must leave.

All further blood spilled in Iraq is senseless, useless, gratuitous slaughter.

All killing is only further insult to the people of that tortured nation and to the Americans sent there to kill and be killed. The only question now is: "who will be the last person to die for this mistake?"

Torture: as American as apple pie

Torture's back in the news, courtesy of those lurid pictures of exultant Americans laughing as they torture their Iraqi captives in a prison run by the U.S. military outside Baghdad. Apparently it takes electrodes and naked bodies piled in a simulated orgy to tickle America's moral nerve ends. Kids maimed by cluster bombs just don't do it anymore. But torture's nothing new.

            One of the darkest threads in postwar U.S. imperial history has been the CIA's involvement with torture as instructor, practitioner or contractor. Since its inception the CIA has taken a keen interest in torture, avidly studying Nazi techniques and protecting their exponents, such as Klaus Barbie. The CIA's official line is that torture is wrong and ineffective. It is indeed wrong. On countless occasions it has been appallingly effective.

Torture

A glass half empty

AUSTIN, Texas -- For all I know, we may have just done something smart in Fallujah by hiring ex-Iraqi troops to take it over, but it's sure not what we said we were going to do when we started to go in. Then, the photos from the Abu Ghraib prison horror hit. Let's hear it for privatization again. We just cannot get a break over there.

            I think we're at a point when it's useless to continue the argument over whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. Things are going very badly in Iraq. I'm sure some of our professional patriotic bullies will denounce this as unpatriotic pessimism, harmful to the morale of the troops, etc. I think it's more important to recognize reality.

Help conserve our oceans

Two weeks ago, I asked you to help conserve our oceans by asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect essential fish habitat in the ocean, and you responded - almost 8,000 people nationwide sent in their comments.

Now, a just-released comprehensive report on the state of our oceans from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy confirms that our oceans are in trouble. The message of the report is clear - we need immediate action to protect and restore our fragile marine ecosystems.

The next step is for governors to submit their comments on the report to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The Commissioners will then review these comments before finalizing the report and sending it to the President and Congress. This is a landmark opportunity to influence the future of our nation's ocean policy.

Please ask your governor to take advantage of this opportunity to conserve our oceans by supporting aggressive recommendations to protect and restore fragile ocean ecosystems. Then ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.

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Protect women's access to contraception

It's Not Too Late! Tell the FDA That Women Need Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception with NO Restrictions Urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve Plan B, a brand of the morning-after pill, for non-prescription sales.

For more information and to take action, visit: www.plannedparenthood.org/library/BIRTHCONTROL/EC.html

Support Kathy Kelly

Support Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness and three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, began a four-month prison sentence April 7th for her actions of civil disobedience at the School of the Americas/WHISC and an ELF tower in Wisconsin.

Kathy and other prisoners at Pekin Federal Correctional Institute are strongly encouraging legislative action in support of House Resolution 4036 introduced by Rep. Danny Davis, (D, IL) on March 25, 2004. The resolution would revive the system of parole for federal inmates. Calls and letters to elected officials seeking their support for this bill are crucially needed. The number of the Capitol switchboard is 202-225-3121.

Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney; Aides Refuse to Identify People Who Helped Governor Draft Calif. Energy Plan

A few days before Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California last year he stood on the steps of the capital building in Sacramento waving a broom over his head, an obvious symbolic gesture in which Schwarzenegger promised to clean up the political mess left by his predecessor, Gray Davis.  

"I enter this office beholden to no one except you, my fellow citizens," the Republican governor said when he was sworn in on Nov. 18, 2003. "I pledge my governorship to your interests, not to special interests.to those who have no power...to those who've dropped out - too weary or disappointed with politics as usual - I took this oath to serve you.I did not seek this office to do things the way they've always been done. What I care about is restoring your trust in your government."  

That was then. This is now.  

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