Thomas,
How can I thank you? That is the most uplifting article I have read in a long time.. How nonviolence will in the end triumph over violence..
<<<Charmaine Means certainly mattered to her superiors in the U.S. Army. She must be a good officer. She was promoted to major and assigned the tricky task of public relations in the sensitive city of Mosul, in northern Iraq. When she was given an order that she could not in conscience obey, she did what all good officers do. She chose to follow in Gandhi's footsteps. She refused to obey.
The order was to close down the television station in Mosul, because it sometimes broadcasts Al-Jazeera. That's the Arab-language TV network that U.S. officials love to hate, because it is truly independent. Mosul has no newspapers and no radio station, according to the Wall Street Journal. The TV station was the only means of public communication for a very large city. Major Means said she could not in good conscience close it down, just to suppress free speech. Her superiors could not ignore that. She made a difference to them. They relieved her of duty and flew her out of Mosul, right away>>>
As it is another leak in the dike that tries to withhold the flood of truth.. That will eventually get out.. All the R n Bs, P & Ws... Roves, Rumsfelds, Bushitas, Perle, Wolfman (in sheeps clothing) et al, have not enough fingers left to plug all the holes..
Because after each and everyone of those above, have given at least one finger, the middle one, to the REAL American people and their values...
Charmaine Means is a REAL American Hero..
Here's to Charmaine..
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