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Today while blocked from the Independent newspaper of London came across Free Press and read all the articles for this month.

  Your article 'IS THERE A THIRD OPTION ?' immediately caught my attention as I have advocated the following on  the Independent 'have your say ' column  for months past :-

1.  America should involve more Moslem countries in the 'Peace' keeping forcesi       Pakistan being part of the British Commonwealth with it's officers trained at       Sandhurst has a good rapport with the British army. That country could send a contingent       of troops, I suggest Sikhs to patrol alongside the British who over a period of time are       withdrawn to be replaced by other non-aligned UN troops.

      Other Moslem countries could do the same, perhaps Malaysia, indonesia or Egypt could send       soldiers to patrol with the Americans until they are slowly withdrawn and replaced by       Norwegians, Irish or other UN contingents. India could contribute a Brigade of Gurkhas.

2.  The government of Iraq should be placed in the hands of the UN as a Trust territory for a period

Tehran Times article

Bob,

    I read your article published in the Tehran Times.  I just wanted to let you know how idiotic and illogical your article was.  I guess the "Tehran Times" was the only one that would publish such garbage, whatever the "Tehran Times" is.  I guess that is also why you are a professor at a community college, not a university.  I hope that all of the GED students are getting there money's worth of $100 per unit by sitting through your class.

Yours truly,
George

The biggest prick in America

yes, that's you bob.

Country Joe Band, 2004: 'Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again'

Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed themselves to be returning as a vibrant creative force centered very much in the present.

     Not that the music of Country Joe and the Fish ever really disappeared. Since the release of the band’s first two albums in 1967 -- “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” along with “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die” -- many of its songs have meandered through the memories and semi-consciousness of millions of Americans who came of age a third of a century ago.

     Now reconstituted with four of the legendary group’s original five members, the new Country Joe Band has just begun to tour. When I saw them perform, midway through April, the music was as tightly effusive as ever, with poetic lyrics mostly brought to bear on two perennials: love and death.

     Their new song “Cakewalk to Baghdad” is in sync with Country Joe McDonald’s compositions that stretch back to the escalating years of the Vietnam War. With the post-“victory” occupation of Iraq in its

Geez

I hope your running for the Columbus, Iran schoolboard!

Bush and Tribunals

I do not argue with the Bob Fitrakis premise, but the question is why have so many waited so long?

Bob Woodward  is being praised by the talking heads (a naval term) as "likely the greatest reporter of this century", "the man who can really get the news stories no one else can" and other similar accolades. Is the purpose of a Bob Woodward to be the insiders ultimate hatchet man? Is it his job to destroy one of their own who has stepped out of line or has been used about as much as he/she can be used and  therefore needs to be replaced with the next step towards a "New" World "Order".? ("New" - There is nothing new about this, it is as old as Babylon.  "Order" since when is chaos order)

Look at the alternative they have set up for us.  The ultimate prairie fairy John Kerry.  If that thing had a cogent thought, the resulting friction in his head would create a steam explosion in that vacuous extremity of his.

Analysis and review: <i>The Fitrakis Files: Free Byrd and other cries for justice</i>

Bob Fitrakis, The Fitrakis Files: Free Byrd and other cries for justice. Columbus: Columbus Alive Publishing, 2003. 252 pp.

"When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the work-house, and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government. . . . Civil government does not consist in executions. . . . Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?"

These are the words of Thomas Paine, the greatest pamphleteer in the history of the English language.

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Nurturing Our Future: One Mother's Reflections

Lately, I have been thinking about the ways in which being a mother informs my view of the world. The question that haunts me is why the casualties of modern warfare are primarily women and children.

I am trying with little success to imagine what it is like for the mothers in Afghanistan and Iraq whose children have died in the bombing, or by stepping on landmines or from brightly colored unexploded cluster bombs that looked like toys. The children who have died because of the lack of medicine and hospitals. The children who have been raped. The children who have been detained in Guantanamo. The children who have died or will die because of exposure to depleted uranium. We have no way to know how many children have been killed or injured in these countries because our own government dismisses them as unimportant collateral damage. What we do know is that 80% of the casualties in modern warfare are civilians and that the vast majority of these are women and children.

Clouds loom over Kerry challenge

For the millions of progressives who abandoned Al Gore in 2000 and either stayed at home or voted for Ralph Nader, what has the prospective Democratic nominee, John Kerry, got to offer?

            By now the answers are on the record. Kerry wants more troops in Iraq, and he wants austerity at home. By announcing April 9 that as president he would make deficit-reduction his prime task in managing the economy, Kerry as good as stated that he has no plans to combat America's greatest domestic problem: the lack of jobs, currently advertised in the notorious "jobless recovery." So what's left for the progressives to vote for?

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