BREAKING: RAMADI "LIBERATION" ABOUT TO BEGIN, HUMANATARIAN CRISIS LOOMING

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Baghdad, Iraq -- Frightened by warnings of an imminent offensive by the U.S. troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, residents are pouring out of that tense city to escape what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis.

U.S. and Iraqi forces had cordoned off the city Saturday and were asking civilians to evacuate, residents and Iraqi officials said. Airstrikes on several residential areas picked up, and troops took to the streets with loudspeakers to warn civilians of a fierce impending attack, Ramadi police Capt. Tahseen Aldulaimi said. U.S. military officials refused to confirm or deny reports that a Ramadi offensive was under way.

The image pieced together from interviews with tribal sheiks and fleeing families is one of a desperate population of 400,000 people trapped in the crossfire between anti-American insurgents and U.S. forces. Food and medical supplies are running low, prices for gas have soared because of shortages, and municipal services have ground to a stop.

Thousands of families remain trapped in the city, those who have fled say. Many can't afford to leave, or they lack transportation, and other families decided to wait for their children to finish final examinations at school before escaping.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-ramadi11jun11,0,69321.story?coll=la-home-headlines

lord help us

may Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, O'Connor, and Rehnquist BURN in hell forever

for the rest, it's just a matter of time. Nevertheless, if we Democrats don't learn to fight back, instead of just meekly rolling over and playing dead, matters will just get worse and worse.

I couldn't think of Rehnquist's name

took me awhile...wish I'd left it

he's just about medium rare by now, dya think?

Gave us over to their cronies, as the convicted phone-jammer Allen Raymond kept repeating, it's about the "Moneytization of government".

"Republicans have treated campaigns and politics as a business, and now are treating public policy as a business, looking for the types of returns that you get in business, passing legislation that has huge ramifications for business," he said. ``It is very much being monetized, and the federal government is being monetized under Republican majorities."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/10/fallen_star_blames_self_gop_tactics/

edit originally had wrong convicted republican dirty trickster, oops!

These subanimals need to pay while still on this earth, however. After a trial by jury, take 100% that they posses and everything they shunted to relatives, garnish all future income above poverty wages, then put them on trial for the rest of their crimes.

"Thousands of families remain trapped in the city, those who have fled say. Many can't afford to leave, or they lack transportation"

Eerie!

(Hey, if I don't joke, I'll scream.)

Imagine that.

any worse than this?

That is a demonstrable FACT.

fight. This will never end.

Are we going to be content to be a nation so brutal that we rival other dictatorships? We are not doing anything remotely like bringing democracy to Iraq, we are bringing death, pain, and destruction. I simply have a hard time coming to grips with the brutality we are inflicting on a weaker nation. I can't accept this new version of American that Bush and the neocons have brought about.

I was already upset about the democrats who have failed to stand up to Bush, but now I consider them accomplices in his war crimes. They should have known even before we did what was going on. They should have stopped testing which way the wind blows, trying to secure their own positions. Instead, they have turned over Congressional oversight to a man who is one of the least qualified ever to be in power.

I know that the Republicans have the lion's share of blame, since they are the party in power, but did we have to lose all of our moral values selling out to the current regime? With a few exceptions, we have rolled over every time Bush raised his voice. Yes, some have kept the faith, and tried to fight this darkness that infects America's soul, but their numbers are too few to do it alone.

Hey, it's not genocide if we can make it look like an insurgency!

(I don't know where the dripping sarcasm icon is)

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