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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (31899)	5/17/2005 10:17:50 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

US soldier killed in roadside bomb attack 17/05/2005 - 11:04:43 A roadside bomb blast today killed one US soldier and wounded another near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, the military said. The soldiers, members of Task Force Liberty, were on patrol when they were attacked at about 7am local time (4am Irish time) about 18 miles south of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. The dead soldier’s name was being withheld pending next-of-kin notification, while the injured soldier returned to duty. At least 1,621 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

To: bentway who wrote (31899)	5/18/2005 12:20:04 PM
From: AuBug	Respond to of 93284

The US certainly gives the weaker countries of the world plenty of reason to hate and fear us. Do you see any similarity between bush's Iraq invasion based on no reasons and McKinley's invasion of the Philippines for no reason? I do. Facing enormous disparity in weapons the Filipinos used the only option open to them, guerilla warfare. After guerillas attacked US troops at Balangiga on Samar Island they disappeared. Unable to find them General Jacob Smith ordered the murder of everyone over ten years old on the whole island. What happened to the children and infants left to fend for themselves? General Smith told his troops, "I want no prisoners. I wish you to burn and kill; the more you burn and kill, the better it will please me." (Almanac of America's Wars by John S. Bowman, 1990.) Afterwards President William McKinley contemplated if he should conquer the other islands and decided he would. McKinley explained that, "we could not leave them to themselves, they were unfit for self-government...so...there was nothing left for us to do but take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died. And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly, and the next morning I sent for the chief engineer of the War Department, and told him to put the Philippines on the map of the United States." (The nationalizing of American life, 1877-1900, edited by Ray Ginger.) US Presidents have a long history of murder in the name of Manifest Destiny even if they know so little history they don't even know what Manifest Destiny means, e.g. george WARMONGER bush.