Hey, wow. Sounds like the World Bank mission statement, doesn’t it?

Firedoglake = credulous.

And as for the “either/or,” which I did not suggest, I see neither here, but rather a feelgood tone here might be harder to support if people for example looked at this:

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/…..g-herself/

or this:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i…..rist072307

or this:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..the-surge/

Or this synopsis of your Dr. Maryam post:

http://www.pastpeak.com/archiv…..handle.htm

and followed all the links.

Or this, and especially the photo of two of the lucky ones, alive and getting medical attention:

http://www.pastpeak.com/archiv…..tastro.htm

Or these:
Hometown Baghdad – http://hometownbaghdad.com/index.php?page=videos
Especially: http://hometownbaghdad.com/ind…..s&v=37

Or this, “Iraq, the Women’s War.”

http://sabbah.biz/mt/wp-mobile…..amp;more=1

Most poignant and illuminating might be to go back and read all of Riverbend, from the beginning.

So I propose this – a lobbying campaign to require that of the 3 billion we spend each week in Iraq sufficient money be put aside to insure that Iraqi children aren’t starving, have adequate clean water, and the hospitals have basic supplies.

Doesn’t seem like a lot.

Oh dear. I just looked at “the memo.”

Obscene doesn’t begin to describe it.

God help us.

yeah but if that was true wouldn’t you see things like teh democrats voting for increased police state spying powers and stuff?

see, I knew you were wrong.

Siun, Is that the same ONE that gave out the t-shirts from Chicago? Aunt Betsy brought me one.

We are the exact same ONE! ;)

I hope you liked them. It’s our mission to get the word out- and we find the shirts help.

Ginny

Quick ONE Blog post with full memo link.
http://www.onevote08.org/blog/?p=132#

direct link just to memo:
http://www.one.org/documents/NHpoll080907.pdf

Hey gang!

There’ll be more info later today when the full report is released but it’s wonderful to get a preview – and to see that we’re not so far apart on these issues.

hi siun … thanks for a link to the full report, when available. i look forward to reading through it in depth. do you know if it will be a summary, or will is also include the survey questions?

I thought I was clear. Bush’s policies are not a “craptastic failure.”

They are war crimes.

The war crimes have been going on for 16 years.

The democrats are as responsible as the republicans.

See for example Scott Ritter here:

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/48729/

We are obligated to end the nightmare that we created, and not maintain our psychological comfort by busying ouselves talking about planning to do some good somewhere else sometime in the future.

Iraq is now. The democrats have done nothing. Electing more is will not change anything. Listen to what they say. Study what they have done.

The catastrophe in Iraq – for the Iraqis – is bipartisan, and was intended.

You have an important site here. In the face of the unmitigated horror we have wreaked upon the Middle East you should perhaps do more than encourage people to waste their time on ‘candidate tracking.’

By Greg Sargent | bio
Bush soars up to 36% in a new CNN poll released today. And it looks like he really is getting a Broder Bounce — but only among Republicans. His approval has jumped a surprising 16 points among GOPers, CNN says — perhaps they’re swooning over his success at securing new powers to wiretap the phone calls of Americans?

36%, stick a fork in it, it’s done. The repubs will be out with pitchforks for Bush. At today’s press conference he basically told them (the elitists investors of hedge funds), “it sucks to be you.” as the hedge funds are tanking due to the sub prime lending disaster. And he refuses a taxpayer bailout of lenders threatened by the subprime home-loan crisis with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae taxpayer dollars(yeah no taxpayer bailout!!).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
And China shying from shaky US mortgage market
China is unlikely to take a chance on buying additional US mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as they are now considered too risky…
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/C…..6Cb02.html

Bear Sterns two hedge funds filed for bankruptcy protection, and Bear Stearns said it moved late Tuesday to prevent investors from pulling money out of a third hedge fund, which had $850 million invested in highly rated mortgage-backed securities….The two bankrupt funds — the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund Ltd. and the Bear Stearns High-Grad Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Master Fund Ltd. — bet heavily on subprime loans.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20075984/

Big Bank Failure Could Turn Credit Crunch Into Global Crash
….The seizing up of the world credit markets—triggered by the collapse of the household debt bubble in the United States—may turn from a slow-motion collapse into a thorough crash, if one or more major investment banks fails in the near future…..As veteran bond trader William Gross, head of Pacific Investments Management Corp., stated July 25, “the credit market is shaking like an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude.” Gross said that a “shock liquidity crisis” could hit those markets in the near future.
http://www.larouchepub.com/oth…..crash.html

This is BIG news and just the beginning of the oncoming Tsunami of bank investment failures and hyper-inflation on the horizon.