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Picnic for Peace July 30 at Duck Pond in S Orange
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Lance Armstrong Compares
Funds for War vs Funds for Cancer
USA Today quotes Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong on the discrepancy between funding on Iraq vs Cancer Cures:
"Funding is tough to come by these days," he says. "The biggest downside to a war in Iraq is what you could do with that money. What does a war in Iraq cost a week? A billion? Maybe a billion a day? The budget for the National Cancer Institute is four billion. That has to change. It needs to become a priority again.
"Polls say people are much more afraid of cancer than of a plane flying into their house or a bomb or any other form of terrorism. It is a priority for the American public."
AFL-CIO Resolution on Iraq / 07-26-05
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AFL-CIO calls for Rapid Return of US Troops in Iraq
The AFL-CIO passed a on July 26, 2005, which calls for a rapid return home of US troops in Iraq. Click for the text of the resolution.
Seymour Hersh: Iraq election had 30,000 polling places, but only 8,000 poll watchers
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports in this week's issue of The New Yorker that President Bush authorized covert plans last year to support the election campaigns of Iraqi candidates and political parties with close ties to the White House.
Hersh's article cites unidentified former military and intelligence officials who said the administration had gone ahead with covert election activities in Iraq that "were conducted by retired CIA officers and other nongovernment personnel, and used funds that were not necessarily appropriated by Congress." Hersh was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the line now by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Seymour Hersh, author of the piece. Welcome to Democracy Now!
SEYMOUR HERSH: Hi.
AMY GOODMAN: It's great to have you with us. Well, can you explain exactly what you found?
SEYMOUR HERSH: Yeah. What I found was about a year's worth -- the election took place as you know this January. It was scheduled initially to take place in December, and from my -- I would say from February of last year, 2004, on until the election, we're talking eleven-and-a-half months or so, there was an enormous concern inside the White House and the Pentagon among the [inaudible] the neoconservatives in the Pentagon about what's going to happen, because in February of 2004, we agreed -- the Bush administration agreed with Ayatollah Sistani, the leader of the -- the religious leader of the Shiites, many Shiite factions, in one man, one vote.
Iraq Shiites Petition for US Withdrawal
Iraq Shiites say 400,000 of 1 million signatures have been gathered.
Mon Jul 11, 3:29 PM ET
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (summary) Radicals within Iraq's Shiite majority community launched a petition for the withdrawal of US-led troops, which they said was drawing support from across the sectarian divide.
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Washington Post / ABC Poll on Iraq / 06-25-05 -- Part 1
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Washington Post / ABC Poll on Iraq / 06-25-05 -- Part 2
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Washington Post / ABC Poll on Iraq / 06-25-05 -- Part 3
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WP / ABC Poll on Iraq Details US Views
A majority of the US public thinks the war in Iraq was a mistake (53-46) a larger majority thinks the number of US casualties is unacceptable (69-29), but an even larger majority thinks the Iraqi people will be better off in the long run as a result of the war (74-20).
Portions of the poll can be viewed in the Documents section of this website (in three parts): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.
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Letter in NYT from American Task Force on Palestine pres
In the July 15, 2005 edition of the NY Times the following letter by the president of the American Task Force on Palestine appears:
Thomas L. Friedman writes that in supporting Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza, the "New Israeli Center" is confronting extremism within Israeli society, especially the settler movement, and that "the struggle in Israel today is a microcosm of what needs to happen in this whole region." A similar struggle has been taking place among Palestinians.
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Tom Hayden's Iraq Exit Plan
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NJPA Dir Madelyn Hoffman interview on trip to Afghanistan
NorthJersey.com features an interview with NJ Peace Action director Madelyn Hoffman, recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Afghanistan.
H Con Res 467 Declaring Genocide in Darfur / 07-22-04
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