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AUSTIN -- Texas, Our Texas, all hail the mighty state! Gov. Goodhair Perry has promised to use $10 million of state money to help map the bovine genome, the genetic code of a cow, a project to be carried out at Baylor and Texas A&M. Through a bureaucratic fubar, the Texas Department of Health failed to spend $12.5 million of the money it had budgeted to take care of the most desperately ill poor children in this state. Children with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida and heart problems were put on a waiting list -- 1,400 of them -- because the department thought the program was about to go broke.

As Clay Robison of the Houston Chronicle pointed out in a fine column, this should have been a no-brainer. Great, we've got 12.5 more than we thought we had for desperately ill children. Hurray!

Why American people do not avoid this war?

Dear  Pacifist  Friend,

I am not American , and I thank God for this , because Americans are been hated by the World due to Bush`s plans to invade Iraq . We know that more than fifty per cent of American people do not want this war , however Bush continue to send troops to Middle East . So my question is :  Why USA has a Congress , if they can not stop this crazy man ? In my Country is different ( Thanks God again ! ) , because my President can not declare a war without Congress approval . This is Democracy ! I think they forgot what this word means !

  Yours Faithfully ,  

Alex Oliveira
Copacabana , Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRAZIL .

Bush and America's willing executioners would be guilty at Nuremberg

If he launches an attack on Iraq without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, George W. Bush will be guilty of crimes on par with those committed by the infamous Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg in 1946, after World War II.

The law is clear. At Nuremberg, American, British, French and Soviet jurists used international conventions, legal precedent and a global moral consensus to establish a code of conduct deemed the standard for all nations.

Key was the "crimes against humanity" prohibition stemming from the conscious slaughter of six million Jews, leftists, gypsies and others by the Nazi fanatics.

But also crucial was the ban on unprovoked attack by one nation against another. The explosive fuse that set off World War II was the September 1,1939 Nazi attack on Poland, which was unprovoked by any stretch of the military imagination. By all accounts it was an act of aggression and conquest, which led ultimately to as many as 50 million deaths over the next six years.

Be it resolved: Blessed are the peacemakers

Only in Columbus. A thoughtful peace resolution is put forth by Columbus City Councilperson Charleta Tavares -- and if she hadn't withdrawn it for lack of support on Monday, February 24 -- Columbus would have joined 109 other U.S. cities advocating a peaceful diplomatic solution to the Bush administration's planned slaughter of up to 700,000 Iraqis.

Chicago passed the resolution 54-1, Cleveland had no problem, but in Columbus, WTVN radio, offering all-the-Bush-propaganda-all-the-time, instigated a letter writing campaign to City Council against the resolution. Tavares called it the most ìuncivil" letters ever to flood into Council chambers. The opposition took their cue from the so-called ìpreppie rioters" who aided the Bush family in stealing the 2000 presidential election using threats, intimidation and outright violence to halt the vote count in Florida.

Spying on the UN and other US antics

AUSTIN, Texas -- As we wend our weary way toward war, dragging the Turks -- whose price will be our betrayal of the Kurds (fourth time we've double-crossed Kurds, counting Henry Kissinger's triple-cross only once) -- it reminds me of the end of a bad election. Don't believe anything until it's over.

Now is the time we get Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti babies from incubators and other mind-boggling myths presented as reality. The Guardian is reporting this morning that the United States is wiretapping foreign delegations to the U.N. Security Council, and the worst thing about it is that no one is surprised.

Emergency Petition to the Security Council

Sign the petition (text and link below) and please ask your friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances -- anyone you know who shares this concern -- to sign on today. As the New York Times put it, "there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion." The Bush Administration's been flexing its muscles. Now let's flex ours.

www.moveon.org/emergency/

Dear Member of the U.N. Security Council,

We are citizens from countries all over the world. We are speaking together because we will all be affected by a decision in which your country has a major part -- the decision of how to disarm Iraq.

The first reason for its existence listed in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations is "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind." If your country supports a Security Council resolution that would authorize a war on Iraq, you will directly contradict that charter. You will be supporting an unnecessary war -- a

Anti-American 'ragsheet'

To whom it may concern,

In my entire lifetime of 35 years have I ever read such a "ragsheet" full of mindless,uninformed and ANTI AMERICAN dribble. Some day you idiots will wake up and realize what the real world is about.If this country is so evil and so unfair,why don't you move the hell out,say to Iraq,since they deserve so much of yoursupport, instead of our troops and President Bush trying to preserve the rights of assholes like you!

Jon Cain, Columbus,OH

$400 -- the price of free speech

My friends:

The "Peace is the only ANSWER" rally on Feb. 15 was in my eyes a great sucess. Even in the snow and 28 degree weather, people made the choice to be present to speak their minds. If you are one of those people, you honor yourself by being an active participant in what happens in this country. You my friends, are true Americans. I am so proud of all of you. Regardless of whether you are for or against this impending conflict in the Middle East, speaking your mind is giant step in the search for Peace.

Capital University has charged our committee $398.25 for the "security" of this event. If you were there, you already know that the Bexley Police stood 150 yards from the event underneath the Library Lobby so they wouldn't get snowed on. They spoke to no one except me, and they mocked me personally and our event. Personally, I don't usually pay $400 to get mocked by public defenders. In fact, I am personally outraged at that fact.

WOW! RIVERDANCE IS FABULOUS.

There you have it. Go see it.

There's more to say below. But first:

AFL-CIO criticizes Bush's approach in Iraq

After a four day meeting, the AFL-CIO's executive council released a statement on Thursday which calls the United States to work multilaterally to resove the Iraq crisis. The AFL-CIO aruges that war should only be utilized as a last resort that is decided upon by the global community.

To see the full statement: www.afl-cio.org/aboutaflcio/ecouncil/ec02272003h.cfm

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