tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003774634112476093.post967207210927425984..comments2023-10-26T07:11:32.875-04:00Comments on Left in Bay Ridge: AND BURIED IN THE NEWS...Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981829992508227831noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003774634112476093.post-48281416529822926742008-03-12T09:35:00.000-04:002008-03-12T09:35:00.000-04:00My God, what a crime. So many soldiers, so many in...My God, what a crime. So many soldiers, so many innocent Iraqi people have died in this fiasco. <BR/><BR/>If Elliot Spurtzer has to go, then Chimpy has to go with him.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741955202727936194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003774634112476093.post-74655172303041096312008-03-11T18:12:00.000-04:002008-03-11T18:12:00.000-04:00Amen. And for those who want to do more than post,...Amen. And for those who want to do more than post, there are several local protest events going on next week, around the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. <BR/><BR/>One is right in Bay Ridge: a protest at Rep. Fossella's office, at noon on March 19. Fossella has supported Bush's Iraq policy down the line. Do people know that? They should, before they decide to vote for him in the fall.<BR/><BR/>Another is that same evening: a march co sponsored by MoveOn and Brooklyn for Peace, from Grand Army Plaze down Flatbush to the military recruiting station at Livingston St. <BR/><BR/>For more info, www.brooklynpeace.org/events/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003774634112476093.post-22727896805666964642008-03-10T23:44:00.000-04:002008-03-10T23:44:00.000-04:00The phrase "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is so classic 1984 N...The phrase "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is so classic 1984 Newspeak it is scary.<BR/><BR/>The airwaves are now so saturated with this phrase that many people believe that "Al Qaeda in Iraq" was always in Iraq and somehow was behind 9/11. <BR/><BR/>The reality, of course, is that our removal of a militantly secular anti-Wahhabi Ba'atish regime in Iraq opened the door for Al Qaeda to move in. <BR/><BR/>Al Qaeda is in Iraq because Saddam is not. <BR/><BR/>Last time I checked, secular Ba'athists didn't kill my neighbors on 9/11. <BR/><BR/>The sworn enemies of Ba'athism, the fundamentalist Saudi-based Wahhabis in Al Qaeda, killed my neighbors.<BR/><BR/>Yet for some odd reason the US supports the Wahhabi Saudi regime till this day. <BR/><BR/>(I wonder what Harrison, Recchia, and Fossella have to say about that).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, leave it to the neo-cons to toss around the Newspeak "Al Qaeda in Iraq" whenever they need to, like in response to this report that shows that there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the war.Right in Bay Ridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12759944139743271524noreply@blogger.com