"Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper." -- Everett Dean Martin - (1880-1941) Source: Liberty, 1930
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"Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1799
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"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." -- Somerset Maugham
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"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means." --Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,139,602
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3,900
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$480,606,120,919
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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And The "Show" Goes On...
By Layla Anwar
When the state disintegrates or is willfully destroyed, people fall back on religion and their sect, their neighborhood, their tribes. In other words, they hang on to the points of reference, the anchors they know best and they can trust.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18958.htm
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Fallujah, the Information War, and U.S. Propaganda:
The U.S. Army's Intelligence Analysis of the April 2004 Fallujah Attack
By Stephen Soldz
"During the first week of April, insurgents invited a reporter from Al Jazeera, Ahmed Mansour, and his film crew into Fallujah where they filmed scenes of dead babies from the hospital, presumably killed by Coalition air strikes. Comparisons were made to the Palestinian Intifada. Children were shown bespattered with blood; mothers were shown screaming and mourning."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18955.htm
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And So This Was Christmas
By Eileen Fleming
We are living George Orwell's nightmare in the 21st century; for war is claimed to be the way to peace and nuclear weapons are promised as the way to provide security.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18957.htm
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Get Real, Americans!
You have been ripped off!
By Mary Pitt
Our nation, which spends more for health care than any other only rankS 45th in the quality of care. Those who can afford it have access to the most modern technology and life-saving procedures where those who cannot are left with medical care that is reminiscent of the nineteenth century.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18959.htm
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