Andrea LeBlanc, whose husband died aboard one of the 9/11 hijacked planes, speaks out about alternatives to war — the path taken by the United States after the 2001 attacks.
The United States went to war in Afghanistan, whose Taliban leaders had harbored the al Qaeda network responsible for 9/11, the month after the September 11 attacks and then invaded Iraq in 2003. U.S. troops are still engaged in both wars.
LeBlanc, 67, said she is certain of one thing — her husband would not have wanted retaliation after the September 11 attacks.
“It depends what kind of culture we want and if we want kids to be thinking, caring, human beings, then they need to be given tools to imagine other ways,” LeBlanc, a retired veterinarian, said from her home in Lee, New Hampshire.
“Wars do not bring peace,” added LeBlanc, whose husband Robert LeBlanc taught cultural geography at the University of New Hampshire for 35 years. “So much of what’s happened has been at the expense of our own humanity.”
Tags: 9/11 Day, Andrea LeBlanc, peace please
Glenn Greenwald recently curb-stomped the Never Forget Goons with this: “Everything about 9/11 Day — like all political rituals — was deeply politicized to its core. It was imbued with political meaning, political messaging, and controversial claims, both implicit and explicit. Almost every speech given that day made claims about the meaning and ‘legacy’ of 9/11, what caused it, and what the nature of the American response was … Everything about 9/11 — how it’s talked about, how it’s described, how it’s commemorated — is all designed to impart very specific political messages, and that’s been true since the day it happened.” The icing on the bullshit cake is that the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance (“a forward-looking tribute to honor the sacrifice of those who were lost and pay tribute to those who rose in service in response to the tragedy”) is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase — you know, the bank that collaborated with the Nazis, mismanaged (stole?) billions of dollars in Iraq, foreclosed on soldiers serving overseas, and currently operates gold mines in Afghanistan. JPMorgan Chase never forgets (all the money it made butt-raping the United States and the entire world after 9/11)! Continue reading
Tags: 9/11 Day, 9/11 day JPMorgan Chase, JPMorgan Chase afghanistan, JPMorgan Chase Iraq, JPMorgan Chase Nazis, norton massachusetts, wheaton, wheaton college, Wheaton College 9/11
This story is from last year, but it pretty much sums up America in 2011:
Army Sergeant Joshua Tabor was sentenced to 60 days in jail this morning after investigators say he “water boarded” his three-year-old daughter.
Police said 27-year-old Tabor punished his daughter last January in their Yelm home because she did not know her ABC’s and was having trouble learning to use the bathroom. Authorities said he pulled his daughter’s head backward into the kitchen sink.
Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil said Tabor knew she was afraid of water and thought it was an appropriate punishment.
At first Tabor entered a not guilty plea to the charge but then entered no contest please in August.
Tabor will not be allowed to see his daughter for the next five years.
Tabor’s attorney said his client suffers from post traumatic stress disorder after serving tours as a helicopter mechanic in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another JBLM soldier, Ruben Colon, is awaiting trial for allegedly waterboarding his foster son as punishment last year.
Oh well … Back to tagging silly fotos on Facebook!
Tags: militarized america, u.s. military abuse, u.s. military rape, u.s. war crimes, waterboarding children
Charles Davis reminds us about that time Bill Clinton starved Iraq and then killed thousands and thousands of children, for Freedom (NOTE – this is why Campus Progress has a huge hard-on for the Clintons):
Deaths from Sanctions Against Iraq
(Source: UNICEF/World Bank)
Infant Mortality Rate, prior to the U.S. embargo (1989): 56 per 1000 live birthsInfant Mortality Rate, after the U.S. embargo (1999): 131 per 1000 live births
Maternal Morality Rate, prior to the U.S. embargo (1990): 117 deaths for every hundred thousand births
Maternal Morality Rate in Iraq, after the U.S. embargo (1998): 294 deaths for every hundred thousand births (one-third of all female deaths)
Per capita income, prior to the U.S. embargo (1989): $3,510
Per capita income, after the U.S. embargo (1996): $450
Overall child deaths due to the embargo: ~500,000. “[As of 1999] [c]hildren under 5 years of age are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago.”U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright:
“We think the price is worth it.”
This is incredible:
Haha. The Democrats are awesome/let’s tag something on Facebook/masturbate to how cool we are!
Tags: america #1, bill clinton is an asshole, campus progress, center for american progress, democrats are the best, dnc, iraq, iraq sanctions, iraqi children mass murder, u.s. war crimes
This isn’t on the teevee news, so obviously Fauntroy is a big fat liar:
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader [said] he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
“‘What the hell’ I’m thinking to myself. I’m getting out of here. So I went in hiding,” Fauntroy said.
The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, “‘Look at what you did.’ In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
“The truth about all this will come out later,” Fauntroy said.
Related: Video Compilation of US/British/Qatari forces fighting in Libya
Remember, friends: We live in a world where “humanitarian intervention” = 30,000 bombs.
Tags: libya murder, NATO war crimes, Walter Fauntroy, Walter Fauntroy libya
The CIA inspector general is investigating whether the agency broke the law by helping the New York Police Department build intelligence-gathering programs that monitored life in Muslim communities, the agency said Tuesday following an investigation by The Associated Press. Separately, the U.S. government’s top intelligence official conceded that it looked bad for the CIA to be working with city police departments.
Tags: cia, cia nypd, muslims, police state
