What if the U.S. was invaded?

i only just heard of this movie, altho' it looks like it's not brand new on the scene... 'course, i don't suppose we could expect a golden award winner from the 2007 al jazeera international documentary film festival to break big in u.s. media, now could we...?



check out the trailer...

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"The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands"

digby has the entire nine yards on this one... i'm not even going to excerpt... you simply HAVE to read it for yourself... when you have, and have picked your jaw up off the floor, come back here and let me know what you think...

Exclusive: Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy
Philip Atkinson

Author: Philip Atkinson
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: August 3, 2007

(thanks to markos...)

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A glimpse into the daily life of Baghdad

US Army soldiers from D Company of the 2-12 Cavalry from Fort Bliss, Texas, conduct house to house reconnaissance in the most dangerous city in the world.

put yourself in the place of that woman and her children... this is the kind of perspective most of us never get and, now that riverbend and her family are leaving the country (most likely have already left), those of us who try to get more are left with the tremendous vacuum our bought and paid for media maintain on descriptions of REAL iraqis living their lives...

spiegel offers up a series of narrative snapshots compiled by four iraqis and describes a day in the world's most dangerous city through their eyes... here's one of them...

It's Sunday, May 13 -- 1,496 days after the US military invaded the country. Another day begins for the 5 million residents of a city that was once the most advanced in the Arab world. Those days are long gone. Today Baghdad is a nightmare -- the world's most horrible city.

According to press reports, at least 35 people died in Baghdad on May 13, 2007, and dozens were injured. But no one will ever know exactly how many people have died since March 2003, when the war began. Baghdad is a city in which life lost its value long ago, a place where no one really knows how many murders, kidnappings and rapes the war has in fact brought to the city.

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6:00 a.m., ISKAN

Imad, the body collector, is awakened by the sun. He unrolls his small rug and says his morning prayers, then he reads from the Koran. It is important to him to know that God is at his side because his work could cost him his life at any time. Imad, a former taxi driver, now makes a living driving bodies. He finds them and recovers them when their families are unable to. It's a good business. He is 39, a thin, nervous-looking man with a black beard and coarse hands. He lives in Iskan, a poor, crowded neighborhood near downtown Baghdad. Since Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi militia assumed control, only Shiites live in the district. Imad's house is tiny: four rooms on two floors. He sleeps in one of the upper rooms and his mother and two sisters sleep in the other one. Imad is single and says he is too busy to look for a wife.

it's worth reading the whole thing...

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Betting on Dick Cheny's bets

[Cheney] said he was “willing to bet” that the Democrats would eventually cave in to President Bush’s demands for legislation [on Iraq] with no strings attached.

i'm willing to bet that cheney is one of the most vicious, machiavellian, lying vice presidents in the country's history by a magnitude of 20... tragically, insofar as the dems are concerned and given what we've seen so far, he may very well be right...

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Christians for peace - what a concept!

'bout time we saw some major affirmation of what jesus REALLY taught...

Christian Peace Witness for Iraq has organized a worship for Friday night at Washington's National Cathedral to be attended by 4,000 people who will then hold a candlelight procession to the White House, the anti-war group said.

A vigil will take place in front of US President George W. Bush's official residence and 700 people have indicated their readiness to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience, the group said.

The group has billed the event as the biggest Christian peace demonstration since the March 20, 2003, US-led invasion of Iraq, but rain and possible snow forecast for Washington could dampen attendance.

the far right, extreme christian fringe, over the past years, has given christianity a black eye... i'm one that believes that christ, buddha, mohammed, and all the major spiritual figures throughout history were all about love, refraining from judgment, and affirming the dignity and worth of every living thing... with the intolerance and hate that's been the hallmark of false christians like dobson, tony perkins, pat robertson, jerry falwell, and the like, it's been as easy to lump all christians into the same pile as it has been to do the same with muslims - and doing EITHER is simply wrong... it's nice to see REAL christian principles being put into practice...

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