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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (444115)	8/16/2003 2:18:19 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Heh heh. So, you mean when Ashcroft declares that free speech is dead, and I'm rotting in a cell without the benefit of counsel or charges, you won't come and visit me? Gee, Kenny, I'm crushed.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (444115)	8/16/2003 2:53:54 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bring Them Home Now This statement is from the Bring Them Home Now website: Galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless "Bring 'em on" challenge to armed Iraqis resisting occupation, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace and other organizations based in the military community will launch Bring Them Home Now, a campaign aimed at ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq and returning troops to their home bases, at press conferences on August 13 in Washington, D.C (10 a.m., details later); and on August 14 in Fayetteville, N.C. U.S. military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media (See Iraq Casualty County-- Ed.) . The other underreported cost of the war for US soldiers is the number of Americans wounded- 827, officially, since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. (Unofficial figures are in the thousands.) About half have been injured since Bush's triumphant claim on board the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln at the beginning of May that major combat was over. The mission of the Bring Them Home Now campaign is to unite the voices of military families, veterans, and GIs themselves to demanding: an end to the occupation of Iraq and other misguided military adventures and an immediate return of all US troops to their home duty stations. In Washington, D.C., and Fayetteville, N.C., Veterans and Military Families will raise concerns about current conditions in Iraq that their loved ones and other troops are facing such as the lack of planning and support troops are receiving, as well as questions about the justifications used to send troops to Iraq in the first place.