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by Cornelius Cardew
Saturday, Mar. 26, 2005 at 8:16 PM
Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee’s widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War joined Arlington West last Sunday.
Each and every Sunday since February 15th 2004, this memorial is set up on the sand just north of the pier at Santa Monica Beach. We've been putting up this memorial as a way to acknowledge the costs and consequences of the addiction to war as an instrument of international policy. Similar to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C., we've a weekly updated placard listing all the fallen American military personnel since the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq to the present day. People read the names, ages, rank, hometown and circumstance of death, write their name on a piece of paper along with any thoughts or sentiments and attach this to any cross along with a flower. In addition, we've also a sign to acknowledge the fact that if we were to put up a cross for each Iraqi person killed the numbers of crosses would fill the entire beach. As we have no way of knowing the various faiths or philosophies of the many who have sacrificed their lives fighting for their illusions, the simplicity of a cross is used as a marker. Arlington West is a place to mourn, reflect, contemplate, grieve, and meditate, and to honor and acknowledge those who've lost their lives and to reflect upon the true cost of war.
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by King Darkie
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 4:58 AM
The intentions of these particular leftists are a pile of warm dogshit. Only the lowest common leftist denominator would dare exploit the deaths of noble warriors who died for a worthy cause.
Morons who refuse to accept that evil exists in the world, and furthermore that it requires warriors to fight such evil, are the lowest of the low. and unworthy of the gifts of a First Amendment.
Please crawl back into the clueless hole from whence you came, leftistt exploiters. And remember to fuck off.
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by Sheepdog
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 5:11 AM
It is always too sad.
Instead of life and the possibilities of future...
King, we are not making fun of anything. Please don't cheapen the sorrow with your distain for the ones who want to stop this nightmare of the CIA.
The troops over there are throw away in this sick madness.
Again like in Vietnam.
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by Sheepdog
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 5:21 AM
Cornelius, what's with the red crosses?
Powerful photos. Thank you.
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by King Darkie
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 5:22 AM
It is always too sad.
Instead of life and the possibilities of future...
>>> It is the left that is the enemy of life and the possibilities of the future. The left is against the free market, though it is the sole way the poor are aided, by the creation of wealth. The left also refuses to accept reality, as stated before, about evil's existence. They believe armies CAUSE war, whereas the reality is self-defense is a fundamental human right, be it of country or home. War is a necessary evil and for the most part has been made obsolete. But when savages come a-calling, they deserve all that they get.
King, we are not making fun of anything. Please don't cheapen the sorrow with your distain for the ones who want to stop this nightmare of the CIA.
>>> The accusation is not that the deaths are being made fun of, it it is that they are being used for wrong political purposes. Those dead soldiers obviously can't object to their images being exploited, but their actions demonstrate they believed in a cause higher than themselves. Nothing of the kind can be said for leftist know-nothings.
>>> As for the CIA, that kookiness can be safely laid to rest. Public opinion is stronger than any army.
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by Sheepdog
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 5:30 AM
obviously your opinions are immutable. Share them with yourself as most americans believe this war was wrong no matter your raised hackles.
And if they knew the involvement our intelligence agencies and other areas of forbidden discussion, they would come to DC and hang all of the sick bastards who use the public treasury to play 'King' .
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by Sheepdog
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 5:45 AM
and then they would used archived and seized records to hunt down and try all the collaborators on the federal payroll.
Treason against the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution.
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by BA
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 2:19 PM
Hello King Darkie - Pay no mind to Sheepdog King. I've seen about a thousand of his posts and not one of them ever made a valid point. He believes the CIA planned and executed the 9/11 attacks (no kiddding! ).
You, however, have made some valid points in your posts above. However, your words are falling on deaf ears as many of the regulars here are truth averse (Sheepdog, Meyer, One-Eyed Socialist, etc.). These folks have no interest in hearing the truth. They're like the Hale-Bopp Comet spaceship guys who sat around and convinced one another they were right and everyone else was wrong. They're like the holocaust deniers who claim it never happened. In other words, they're self deluded and they like being self deluded.
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by English inspector
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 3:58 PM
" Pay no mind to Sheepdog King."
is this yet another intruder into the fires of the wrath of Bush Admirer?
or
Did you mean ' Pay no mind to Sheepdog[,] King.'
Curious minds want to know.
All of us wait with glee, for more of your profound yet, insane and moronic opinions.
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by King Darkie
Sunday, Mar. 27, 2005 at 10:27 PM
Sheep wrote:
"obviously your opinions are immutable. Share them with yourself as most americans believe this war was wrong no matter your raised hackles."
>>> I am proud my opinions are "immutable," as you confirm your own are immutable to you. However, you have a much longer path to tread to provide evidence of your many conspiracy theories.
>>> Your observation about the American people is incorrect in the case of the Iraq war. The majority of Americans, to varying degrees, supported the war.
>>> Wishy-washy liberal middle-of-the-road thinking (not yours, for at least you are firm in your opinions and beliefs, however misguided) that is "morally relative" has been one of the great evils inflicted on America the past 100 years. I dare say the left has little to complain about. Despite the seeming present conservative aura over everything, the truth is the liberal virus is inside, and all that horseshit (political correctness, "diversity", thinly-veiled communism by socialist "teachers") has not been cleansed from the system.
The only hope left is this under-the-radar communism is now opening eyes every day to eliminate government schools once and for all.
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by 'Sheepdog
Monday, Mar. 28, 2005 at 12:57 AM
They were lied to just as you are lying about it.
Check any good stats recently?
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by Cornelius Cardew
Monday, Mar. 28, 2005 at 1:25 AM
They quit making more crosses at 1000. The red ones represent 10.
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by so what's the point?
Monday, Mar. 28, 2005 at 2:50 AM
So the point is what?...That people die in war?
Oh, imagine that.
Of course missing in all this nonsense is the fact that almost all the Americans AND all the Iraqis were killed by other Iraqis or likeminded arab muslims.
The VAST majority of Iraqi casualties is purely the responsibility of islamic barbarism and it's requisite suicide bombings.
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