zardari speech
(wonderful)
"The PPP has a vision to build a Pakistani nation that is one of the
great capital markets of the world; a revitalized nation that will
generate international investment. We look forward to the complete
electrification of all of our villages, the purification of our
nation's drinking water, the privatization of the public sector, the
expansion of the energy sector, the development of our export
industries, the modernization of our ports and the rebuilding of our
national infrastructure. All of these elements are essential to a new
Pakistan where a democratically elected government, with the mandate
of the people, confronts and marginalizes the forces of dictatorship,
extremism and terrorism wherever they may exist in our nation. In
other words, I see the progressive Pakistan for which my wife lived
and died."
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/26/7898/
cost of war, zia mian
"Five years into the war, 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed and over 30,000 wounded. Now 160,000 U.S. soldiers are fighting in Iraq on extended tours of duty. The U.S. army has started to crack under the strain. Faced with home-made bombs and suicide bombers, the United States has turned to increased aerial bombing. The Washington Post reported there were five times more U.S. air strikes in Iraq in 2007 than in 2006, involving an increase from an average of four a week in 2006 to about four bombs a day in 2007, with bombs ranging between 500 to 2000 pounds of explosive each. In what it called “one of the largest strikes since the 2003 invasion,” the Post reported that in January 2008 U.S. planes dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives in 10 minutes on one area. Such attacks are a sure recipe for higher civilian casualties."
cost of war, zia mian
"Five years into the war, 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed and over 30,000 wounded. Now 160,000 U.S. soldiers are fighting in Iraq on extended tours of duty. The U.S. army has started to crack under the strain. Faced with home-made bombs and suicide bombers, the United States has turned to increased aerial bombing. The Washington Post reported there were five times more U.S. air strikes in Iraq in 2007 than in 2006, involving an increase from an average of four a week in 2006 to about four bombs a day in 2007, with bombs ranging between 500 to 2000 pounds of explosive each. In what it called “one of the largest strikes since the 2003 invasion,” the Post reported that in January 2008 U.S. planes dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives in 10 minutes on one area. Such attacks are a sure recipe for higher civilian casualties."
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522363
classic war on terror shit: invoking fundamentalism displaces responsibility (obscures 'blowback')
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=94866
how do you win?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/03/19/iraq_five/
juan cole at his best...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/19/mccain/index.html
mccain, and imperial blinders at their worst
classic war on terror shit: invoking fundamentalism displaces responsibility (obscures 'blowback')
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=94866
how do you win?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/03/19/iraq_five/
juan cole at his best...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/19/mccain/index.html
mccain, and imperial blinders at their worst
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