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Days of shame: stomping on the right of black Americans to vote
Overseas, our troops are being mauled in the long dark night of Iraq—a war with no end in sight that has already claimed the lives of more than 1,100 American troops and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of innocent Iraqis.
At home, the party of the sitting president is systematically stomping on the right of black Americans to vote, a vile and racist practice that makes a mockery of the President’s claim to favor real democracy anywhere.
This will never be seen as a shining moment in US history.
At home, the party of the sitting president is systematically stomping on the right of black Americans to vote, a vile and racist practice that makes a mockery of the President’s claim to favor real democracy anywhere.
This will never be seen as a shining moment in US history.
There is a hallucinatory quality to the news as Americans prepare to vote [on November 2] in what is probably the most critical election the country has faced since 1932. Osama bin Laden made his bizarre cameo appearance on Friday, taunting the president who once promised to get him dead or alive. Commentators have been compulsively reading the tea leaves ever since, trying to determine who was helped by the video, George W. Bush or John Kerry.
On Saturday, as if to take our minds off the sideshow, nine more American marines were killed in the Iraq slaughterhouse. It was the deadliest day for US forces in six months. The death toll for Iraqis, which the US government has tried mightily to keep from the American people, is flat-out horrifying. Unofficial estimates of the number of Iraqis killed in the war have ranged from 10,000 to 30,000.
But a survey conducted by scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad compared the death rates of Iraqis before and after the American invasion. They estimated that 100,000 more Iraqis have died in the 18 months since the invasion than would have been expected based on Iraqi death rates before the war.
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On Saturday, as if to take our minds off the sideshow, nine more American marines were killed in the Iraq slaughterhouse. It was the deadliest day for US forces in six months. The death toll for Iraqis, which the US government has tried mightily to keep from the American people, is flat-out horrifying. Unofficial estimates of the number of Iraqis killed in the war have ranged from 10,000 to 30,000.
But a survey conducted by scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad compared the death rates of Iraqis before and after the American invasion. They estimated that 100,000 more Iraqis have died in the 18 months since the invasion than would have been expected based on Iraqi death rates before the war.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Opinion&OID=62657
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Their shame is doubled, considering the Republicans *were* the party that champoined Black voting rights in America.
It's really a moment for people of conscience in that party-- assuming there are any left-- to pause and wonder just how it went so wrong. Helpful hints: Pat Robertson, fundamentalist christianity, pact with the devil...
crimes like suppressing the Black vote. very old story. a shameful stain on the republcian legacy. a complete abrogation of its past.
i don't know how they live with themselves. really.