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Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause,
God's new Messiah,
Off'ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.
* James Russell Lowell - quoted by Martin Luther King in his famous anti-war
speech in 1967 (see below)
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US
heavy-handedness,
iraqwar.ru, April 5, 2003
"US heavy-handedness baffles British British commanders are appalled
at how the Americans pulverise anything from afar before daring to set
foot out of their armoured vehicles. British troops who have witnessed
the Americans at close quarters in this war are baffled at their approach
to Iraqi civilians. One captain in the Royal Marines, watching a US unit
monitor a checkpoint, said: "The Americans are still behaving like invaders,
not liberators. They behave as if they hate these people."
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Iraqi
troops massacred from the air as US advances to Baghdad,
World Socialist Web Site, April 4, 2003
"Amid the shameless celebration by the US media of the American assault,
it is necessary to call things by their right name. What is unfolding
in Iraq is a slaughter. It is one of history's most unequal military conflicts.
The US and British invasion forces are utilising their unchallenged control
of the air and overwhelming technical supremacy to rain down death on
Iraqi troops."
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Baghdad
- Street Fighting Or Siege?
By Joel Skousen, rense.com, April 4, 2003
"How soon will the US make its move against the next target? If the
US has its way, it won't be soon, but it won't be a long time from now
either. The US will have used up over half of its high tech weapons inventory
by the time Iraq is subdued. Those stocks will take time to replenish.
Factories are in full production right now, and will probably never slow
down. Politically, US globalists would like to have at least six months
of pacification in Iraq, to be able to declare that operation a "success"
before moving on to Syria or Iran."
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The
War for Truth,
by John Pilger, Daily Mirror (UK), April
5, 2003
"Unlike in Vietnam, this propaganda, lying that is both crude and
subtle, is now dispensed globally and marketed and controlled like a new
niche product. Trained in media manipulation ("public relations"), British
military spokesmen lie as frequently as the Americans; if anything, their
nonsense about "uprisings" is too specious by half. The truth they don't
tell is that the British siege of Basra is strangling the civilian population,
causing great suffering to innocent, men, women and children in their
homeland."
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A
Crooked Mirror; Presstitiution,
by Uri Avnery, Information Clearinghouse,
Uri Avnery, April 2, 2003
"The old books said that the men and women of the French resistance
in World War II were heroes. These civilians went out in the night to
bomb German trains, kill German soldiers and execute collaborators. The
instructions came from London. They knew that if they were caught, they
would undergo gruesome tortures and be put to death. American and British
movies sang their praise. The Russian partisans, whose slogan was "Death
to the Invader!" made the life of the German soldiers hell. The partisans
were hanged in droves. The original guerillas - for whom this Spanish
word meaning "little war" was coined - attacked Napoleon's soldiers. Goya
immortalized them in his magnificent painting. A whole generation of Israeli
children was taught to admire the Irgun and Stern Group fighters, all
civilians, of course, who blew up the installations of the British army
and killed its soldiers. It appears now that they were all vile terrorists."
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Anonymous
caller threatens to shoot protesters,
Bellingham Herald,
"Bellingham police issued a public alert this morning because a man
telephoned police and The Bellingham Herald threatening to shoot people
at an anti-war rally and march planned for noon today at Western Washington
University."
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Time to Break Silence,
By Rev. Martin Luther King, Information Clearinghouse
"35 Years ago today Rev King Said, 'I knew that I could never again
raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without
having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the
world today -- my own government.' Rev. Martin Luther King. 4 April 1967
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