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I'm looking forward for my December exhibition in a city called Beauvais in France, about 70 kilometers from Paris. It is held in coordination with the Chilean Embassy in France and the Theatre du Beauvais who invited me. No doubt its a great honor for me to be showing 15 paintings inspired in a place located in Chile called Alto Bio Bio, within the Andes Mountains.

Those of you living nearby can go and see....the opening's scheduled for Dec.2nd, at 18 hours!!! I will also be there...

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I'm showing a latest series of paintings, ink drawings and poems at a gallery located downtown Concepcion, belonging to the Universidad Catolica.

This gallery is quite huge and a wonderful place to exhibit visual art: lots of natural light, silence and a so close to everything.

I'll be posting some images of the exhibition, for those of you that cannot come to Concepcion for the weekend (!¡

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I'm spending some time in the south of Chile, in a place called Pucon, a small turistic town located near 2 huge lakes, one called Villarrica and the other Caburga.

There's an active volcano, really big, covered with snow all year round, with white smoke coming from the top....it's shape is so beautifull!!

Many people come here for summer vacations and in winter for winter sports near the volcano....

Air is thin, nature is wild and the sun has been shining for 7 days now...well, it's summer and weather is just like it should be! Thow local people say that on New year's it rained a lot....

I'll be staying here some more days and I'm already in love with these sorroundings!!

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Pinochet is at last knocking the doors of hell.

Will the Devil let him in???

This is what many Chilean students shouted last week, due to the fact that he lived so long and apparently so ill.

People is gathering downtown so I´ll head right now to jump for a while, dance and showt my relief!!

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And little by little days are getting longer......spring seems to be closer now.

Trees are starting to show their first tiny leaves and cute flowers.

I'm loving this time of the year, as much as I love autumn and winter.

I'm reading a well known Portuguese poet called Fernando Pessoa.

The book's called "Livro do desassossego" (The Book of Disquiet) and I keep on being fascinated with this guy's personality and particular way of seeing life.

An excerpt:

"I see life like a roadside inn where I have to stay until
the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing—for myself alone—wispy songs I compose while waiting."

Another one:

"The dreamer is not superior to the active man just because dreaming is superior to reality; The dreamer´s superiority lies in the fact that dreameing is much more practical than living and that the dreamer extracts from life a greater and more varied pleasure. In better and more direct terms, the dreamer is the true active man".


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Found these words on internet today ....they reflect what I think about that terrible war happening in the Middle East....you can even sign in favor of the people suffering in Lebanon. I know civilians are suffering too in Israel, but the death toll there is way lower and it is way too clear who the oppresor is....

"Killing innocent civilians is NOT an act of self-defense. Destroying a sovereign nation is NOT a measured response."

Lebanese civilians have been under the constant attack of the state of Israel for several days. The State of Israel, in disregard to international law and the Geneva Convention, is launching a maritime and air siege targeting the entire population of the country. Innocent civilians are being collectively punished in Lebanon by the state of Israel in deliberate acts of terrorism as described in Article 33 of the Geneva Convention.

The Lebanese people feel left out by the world that is turning a blind eye on the savagery of the Israeli state. Israel does not seem to be capable of approaching any problem outside the realm of the military power bestowed on it by the government of the United States of America and other western governments.

We are writing you this letter in the hope that this massacre is immediately stopped. It is the universal duty of each individual to defend the innocents and expose the truth. The numerous civilian victims of the Israeli operations are increasing by the hour. The viciousness of the attacks has attained terrifying levels where a child has been cut in three while another was half burned.

The Israeli war machine, in its blind savagery, is destroying not only our lives but the foundations that could help the civilians survive beyond their massacre. The Israeli Defense Forces are destroying in few hours what Lebanon has spent years and billions of dollars to rebuild.

Up until now more than 500 Lebanese civilians have been killed and thousands missing under the rubbles , thousands wounded, bridges and infrastructure destroyed, refugees are leaving Beirut in droves and worst of all the enforced siege might lead to a human catastrophe in the next few days. There must be an end to this cycle of violence and continuous violation of international laws and basic ethical behavior.

Between the blindness of the international community and the deafness of the Arab one, the besieged Lebanese population has no way out.

Sign here: [link] ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/7953927/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/7953927/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:48:13 PST
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I am taking part in a group exhibition at a gallery in New York called Eighth Elephant Contemporary Art Gallery.

It is located in a Brooklyn neighborhood known as the DUMBO.

This gallery shows art from many parts of the world, specially India, Rusia, Africa and Latin America.

Take a look at the page at this [link]

There are other galleries at this huge building (it used to be a factory) so take a look because it may be interesting to see that some of them are receiving artists portfolios for reviewing.

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New Year's almost here....I really think 2006 will not be very different to this year, worldwide speaking, but I still hope some good things can happen.

Here are some hopes for the coming year (will be here in about 6 hours), for the planet, for me, for my country...

- Hope suffering diminishes in Iraq and finally US troops retreat from that raped country.

- Hope the US government becomes aware of the need to reduce Co2 outflow, in favor of earth health as a whole.

- Hope my broken ankle gets to heal enough as to being what it used to be.

- Hope I can go to the U2 live concert that will take place in Santiago, on February, 26th.

- Hope to be twice as productive as I was on 2005.

- Hope Michelle Bachelet turns to be the first woman President of Chile on January, 15th.

- Hope Michelle Bachelet turns to be the first woman President of Chile on January, 15th.

- Hope Michelle Bachelet turns to be the first woman President of Chile on January, 15th.


HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!!


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The good news is I have plenty of time for me, which I spend reading, resting, looking through my window on the 2nd floor, seeing how the summer leaves of the trees on the courtyard dance with the wind, feeling as time goes by, so slowly. I cannot paint yet, but I surely will be able to do it maybe on 2 days or more.....so it is not so bad, after all.

The bad new is I'll have to keep my left foot casted for 6 weeks and only 4 days have passed.....

How it happened? I have gone up and down my stair case about 10.000 times this year, but on thursday night ......I guess I thought it was shorter than it really is...and....down to the floor, with a 'click' on the ankle, as if a stick had broken...and pain, too much pain...etc, etc..

What I have learned from this? That I'm not inmortal, as I thought I was, I'm vulnerable. That I have to develop something called 'patience' and I tell you: to the limit. I've learned to look at things from another perspective (Always from the bottom now, since I have to croll most of the time). That things at home CAN go on without me, after all. And most of all, I 've learned the inmense value of my pair of legs, which never complained nor let me feel their presence, but there they were, transporting me everywhere....

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I'm participating in a group exhibition at Eighth Elephant Contemporary Art Gallery in NY...ends tomorrow.

From the distance I try to imagine how the place must look like. The owners describe it as a large old building now conditioned as to an art gallery...

[link] ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/6954562/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/6954562/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:46:40 PST [link] ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/6648543/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/6648543/ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 06:21:04 PDT
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I have been working a lot lately, both in my paintings and poems. Hopefully I'll be submitting some of this soon.

I'd like you to visit a really talented artist. He lives in the same city I do, called Concepcion, located in Chile, and here's the link

[link]

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'On the evening of September 2, Cuban President Fidel Castro reiterated Cuba's offer (first made on August 30) to send doctors and medical equipment to provide desperately-needed assistance to those who have become the victims of both Hurricane Katrina and of the Bush administration's meager and dilatory response.

Specifically, Cuba is offering to send 1,100 medical doctors with 26.4 tons of medications and diagnosis kits at no expense to the U.S. (they will even bring their own food and water). There is now a dire need for medical attention in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and in other Southern states. The Cuban doctors, nurses and professional healthcare staff are world renowned for their medical expertise and their ability to provide assistance even in the most difficult conditions, and have traveled throughout the Americas and the world providing care to those in need. The people of Cuba, even with far less resources than the United States, have survived extreme hurricanes and flooding because the government mobilizes to put people first, evacuating hundreds of thousands and providing necessary food, water and medical care immediately.

These doctors and the medicine and equipment stand ready to fly to Houston and can arrive within hours as soon as they get permission - permission that thus far has not been given by the U.S. government. In their public statements about countries that have offered assistance, the Bush administration has not even acknowledged this offer from Cuba.'

Today they officially rejected this offer.

Source: Votenowar ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/5195246/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/5195246/ Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:04:36 PDT
The gallery is located exactly in the middle of the city, around the main square, close to the local cathedral

Could not have a proper opening because this gallery is owned by an important catholic university in mourning all through April due to...you know...the dead pope. So, of course, I respect all religions, even though I am not quite sure if Catholics respect others thoughts.

Anyway, plenty of people is assisting and amazing comments have been done (including a very combative one against elitist galleries, claiming real art was the one made on the streets!!).

The show will last till May the 8th.....and everybody is invited to see, comment, think and dream.... ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4570825/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4570825/ Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:06:50 PST o
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At last

Everyones invited!! ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4419820/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4419820/ Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:25:08 PST How to dismantle an ....U2 Rattle and Hum U2


Theres no better drug but music. Makes my imagination fly, hence, work creatively. I rarely work without it, do you?

No narcotic has the power to do what music does in me.... ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4275858/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4275858/ Sun, 09 Jan 2005 07:41:41 PST

BLINDED HEART

You see how the substance awakes,
Flying at the beginning,
Singing later, repeating, consuming itself,
and finally hallucinating us,
With that fascinating come and go,
Of sea water on the beach.

Every dancing blade of grass in the wind,
Attempts to touch dissonant chords,
Furious melodies of the ego,
Sweet love songs,
or,
Tedious verses of boredom and routine.

Sealed by each passing second,
We go on chewing infinite hours,
As if waiting for something to happen,
Growing lazy in this eternal flight,
Sure of our songs,
Fulfilled on liquors and cigarettes
Without ever noticing the colossal symphony,
That claims to be heard around us.

We are as blind as sand,
Only taking care of the dead,
Having every single meter of street or house,
Inevitably calculated,
While pain and laugh,
Are perceived,
Through
the
thick mist
of a
heart
with
Blinded eyes.



CORAZON CIEGO

Tu ves como despierta la sustancia,
Volando al principio,
Cantando luego, repitiendose, consumiendose,
Para finalmente alucinarnos,
En ese fascinante ir y venir,
Del agua del mar en la playa.

Cada espiga danzante en el viento,
Intenta tocar los acordes disonantes,
Melodias furiosas del ego,
Dulces cantos del amor,
O,
Cancinas estrofas del aburrimiento y la rutina.

Marcados por cada segundo que pasa,
Vamos masticando horas infinitas,
Como esperando algun desenlace,
Apoltronados en el viaje eterno,
Seguros de nuestros cantos,
Colmados de licores y cigarrillos,
Sin percatarnos de la descomunal sinfonia,
Que clama por ser oída a nuestro alrededor.

Somos ciegos como la arena,
Encargandonos solo de los muertos,
Con cada metro de calle y de casa,
Inevitablemente calculada,
Mientras que el dolor y la risa,
son percibidos
A traves
De la
Espesa
Neblina
De un
corazon
de ojos ciegos. ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4228501/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4228501/ Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:15:36 PST

....too bad its so hot at my workshop I haven´t been able to paint much, as I should on vacation

Anyway, I'm having a wonderful time




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It's 5:27 pm here in Concepción and some hours left to midnight .... Celebration of a new year has always been very impressive for me, because I tend to think in the world, in friends I can't see at the moment, in my relatives and altogether...in humanity.

And these final days have shown us human fragility at the most, so i'm pretty sensible for people, for life...and for death too.

So at midnight I'll be drinking champagne for all of you.

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R 2 0 0 5

(no matter what this means, guess pure hope!) ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4008493/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/4008493/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:58:52 PST ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3881439/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3881439/ Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:56:24 PST
Véro was born in Paris in the sixties. His father was from Chile, her mother was French.

I first met her when I was 16 years old in Caracas, Venezuela, where I lived for many years. We had the same age and from the beginning my parents received her with loving care because of her kindness, her strong personality and because she was all by herself in Venezuela, being so young.

My parents, my brothers, my sister and I learned to love her as a member of our family, admiring her strong will and determination.

She quickly learned to survive in a foreign country, in a wild city like Caracas and stayed there for about 8 years, working as a photographer. She loved cameras and treated them with special care.

She moved back to France where, after some years, she got married to Laurent Brisson. I met Laurent in 2001, when I travelled to Paris looking for a gallery where I could exhibit my paintings. As I did not know him physically, I had to look for a man in a yellow water suit at Charles de Gaulle Airport, where he went to pick me up. From the beginning I knew he was a kind man, a sensible person. I met Luc, Rémi and little Sebastien, their three children.

This tender family instantly fascinated me. They all lived in a small town 70 km away from Paris called Gisors. They owned an old house in the middle of the town. Their home smelled love, hard work and pleasure of living. I recall their dedication to their children. Luc received piano lessons each afternoon, Rémi liked to play the drumms very loudly and Sebastien just played all day long, all of them looking like really happy children.

In 2002 I went from Chile back to Paris to exhibit the series of paintings called Alto Bio Bio, au bout du Monde and I could relate more closely to Véro, Laurent and their wonderful children. I observed carefully their way of raising their children, Véros love for books, her respect for each of the kids personality. I observed this because I wanted to replicate this in my own children.

Véronique had her time complete and really worked a lot. She would write articles to a newspaper in Gisors called Limpartial, and she spent hours in front of the computer writing, after doing interviews and preparing all aspects of her articles. She would leave the three children at school in the morning, work at the newspaper, pick the children up; she took care of the house and even had time to help me with my exhibition. I could see her life was extremely intense.

On Friday November 12th , 2004 for some reasons I yet have not clear, Véronique killed herself. All I know is she was going through a deep depression and saw no light at the end of the tunnel.

Now she is resting. Goodbye my dear friend......

My heart is with Laurent, with Luc, with Rémi and with my little Sebastien......

......................... ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3782092/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3782092/ Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:58:55 PST ooo::::::

"Take Action: Stand against a bloodbath in Fallujah:

The U.S. has surrounded the sealed off City of Fallujah and is preparing to launch the complete destruction of the city. They have told the people that any traffic on the street is now subject to attack and any males between the ages of 15 and 55 who go outside will automatically be killed by the U.S. soldiers. The U.S. is terrorizing and bombing the citizens of Fallujah every night, recently targeting and fully destroying its emergency hospital, collapsing homes around families, dismembering children. Many of the 300,000 population have fled for their lives, everything they have ever had left behind or destroyed.

Now the top enlisted Marine in Iraq has called on his troops to commit war crimes against the tens of thousands of remaining residents and what stands of that proud and historic city. Referring to the assault on the ancient citadel city of Hue, destroyed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent told an assembled group of 2,500 Marines in a "pep-talk": "You're all in the process of making history. This is another Hue city in the making. I have no doubt, if we do get the word, that each and every one of you is going to do what you have always done - kick some butt." (AP, November 7 2004)

The U.S. moved to reoccupy Hue after Vietnamese forces has liberated it in the Tet Offensive of 1968. The Under Secretary of the Air Force, Townsend Hoopes, described the results of the U.S. assault on Hue in a March 1968 memo as leaving "a devastated and prostrate city. Eighty per cent of the buildings had been reduced to rubble, and in the smashed ruins lay 2,000 dead civilians... Three quarters of the city& #8217;s people were rendered homeless and looting was widespread, members of the ARVN [U.S. backed South Vietnamese troops] being the worst offenders." (Noam Chomsky's forward to the papers of the 1967 International War Crimes in Vietnam Tribunal)

The resistance in Iraq is carrying out coordinated efforts across the country to dislodge U.S. occupation forces with attacks on police stations and other targeted representatives of U.S. puppet installations. In recent days many U.S. soldiers have been badly wounded and there is more to come as the U.S. military leadership predicts the most bloody urban fighting since Vietnam. The U.S. is using all of its firepower, night vision, high-tech weaponry, and bombing capacity against defenseless civilians as well as resistance fighters primarily armed with Kalishnakov rifles and improvised explosive devises. With all this military might, the U.S. is unable to stop the Iraqi people from fighting for their national sovereignty. The U.S. installed "prime minister" of Iraq has today declared martial law in Iraq for the next two months aggregating even greater unilateral authority.

This is no time for anti-war and progressive people in the U.S. to "mourn," dwell and lament on the failure of the Democratic Party candidate to defeat the Republican Party candidate, at least not those who are really committed to ending this criminal war and securing justice at home. If nothing else, we all know that if Kerry was President-elect, nothing would be different for the people of Iraq right now. Kerry has not condemned the bombings of Falluljah at any point, nor the attacks on the Iraqi people, nor the use of U.S. soldiers as cannon fodder in this war of aggression and conquest.

Now the people of Fallujah wait for the next attack, and the U.S. soldiers wait for their orders to carry out actions that they will have to reconcile for the rest of their lives, if they survive.

VoteNoWar members across the U.S. are planning emergency demonstrations the DAY AFTER a reinvasion of Fallujah. We call on other committed organizations and activists to also initiate such actions, at local federal buildings, recruiting stations, or traditional public assembly locations."

Source: VoteNoWar org. ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3741995/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3741995/ Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:01:16 PST -o-

Who won: Arrogance, war, fear, false sense of patriotism, the power of money.

Who was defeated: Hope


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While the eyes of the world have been trained on Bushs criminal conduct abroad, in Iraq and Haiti and Palestine, the Bush team has quietly put into place a system to steal the upcoming election at home by organizing a massive intimidation campaign against voters in predominantly African American communities in urban areas in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other swing states.

Anti-war and social justice activists know well that the election system in the United States has already set up a false choice between two standard bearers for corporate power and the wealthy elite, both of whom advocate continuing the occupation and war in Iraq. We also all recognize that we cannot let the ultra-right and racist proponents of this administration steal the hard won right to vote from those who have struggled for the right to be counted and participate in the electoral process.

In the name of democracy the Bush Administration invaded and occupied Iraq and selected a U.S. CIA operative to be the new Prime Minister. In Haiti, the Bush administration - again in the name of democracy - carried out a coup against the democratically elected government of Aristide and then flew in a Haitian-born U.S. businessman after selecting him as the Prime Minister.

Borrowing a Page from Bull Connor:

While cloaking himself in the robe of patriotism, and preaching endlessly about his global pursuit of democratic values Bush has again prepared to systematically deprive Black voters in swing states of their hard-fought right to fully participate in the national elections. While this was widespread in the stolen election of 2000 it has gone much, much further in 2004.

Borrowing a page from Birmingham arch-segregationist Sheriff Bull Connor in the early 190 Bush is organizing a campaign to intimidate Black voters at the polls. By creating confusion and mayhem at polling places in Black neighborhoods, the Republicans expect to not only challenge and turn away potential voters, but to create massive disruptions and long lines so that those who have to return to their jobs will be forced to leave rather wait for hours to simply cast a ballot.

How the Disenfranchisement Game Works:

Republican Party officials in Ohio took formal steps yesterday to place thousands of recruits inside polling places on Election Day to challenge the qualifications of voters they suspect are not eligible to cast ballots, reports the New York Times of October 23.

Election officials in other swing states, from Arizona to Wisconsin and Florida, say they are bracing for similar efforts by Republicans to challenge new voters at polling places, reflecting months of disputes over voting procedures and the anticipation of an election as close as the one in 2000. ... Some officials said they worried that the challenges could discourage or even frighten others waiting to vote.

The lead editorial for the New York Times titled Election Day Misdeeds (October 26, 2004) states: Aggressive challengers have been known to bully poll workers, many of whom are elderly and have only limited knowledge of election law. ... There is a long history of challengers targeting minority precincts and minority voters. It is troubling that in Ohio this year, the Republicans appear to be focusing much of their effort on Cleveland, Dayton and other cities with large African American and Latino populations.

One of the gravest dangers is that partisan teams ... will challenge many, if not all voters in selected precincts with the goal of slowing voting to a standstill. In Ohio, every challenge will require a deliberation over whether the person in question should be allowed to vote. In presidential elections, lines in urban polling places are often hours long under normal conditions. If the challengers can add ten minutes per voter, waiting times may become so long that thousands of voters will simply give up.

The movement that developed in the last three years is a movement against war and racism. This is the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King who courageously united the call for civil rights and social justice at home with a principled stance against the U.S. war in Vietnam. We cannot rely on the politicians to wage this fight. Both candidates endlessly compete with each other only to sound more war like. The real optimism today, just as it was in Dr. Kings generation, is by building a massive grassroots movement.

Join the hundreds of thousands of people who will continue to do that in the weeks and months ahead. We must fight for democracy here at home and we must fight for global democracy abroad by bringing an end to U.S. intervention and aggression."

Source... ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3680196/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3680196/ Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:34:00 PDT !!!...............thanks to all of you people who wrote something, i'll try to answer once I have some peace!!

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............................&&&&&&&&&&&&& ............................... ]]> ~Anitamariah http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3436198/ http://Anitamariah.deviantart.com/journal/3436198/ Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:25:58 PDT As the White House and Pentagon brass order new deadly assaults to break the back of those resisting the occupation, the heavy-handed military tactics only result in the opposite outcome. The U.S. is bombing homes, killing families, laying siege to neighborhoods, and shooting Iraqis day in and day out on their own streets, in their own land. The intensity and breadth of the insurgency is dramatically increasing and it is gathering ever-new support, energy and recruits from the Iraqi population who are repelled by the tactics ordered by Rumsfeld and company. Rumsfeld boasts that as many 2,500 Iraqis have been killed in the last month. Rumsfeld arrogantly believes that his "Iraqi body count" braggadocio can conceal that the administration’s strategy in Iraq is badly failing. Attacks on U.S. forces "rose to 2,700 in August, from 700 in March" (NY Times September 8.) The parallels with Vietnam become more haunting every day.
As more than 1,000 US soldiers have now been killed in Iraq, the number of wounded, many maimed with horrible and permanent injuries, spirals every day. The official Pentagon count is over 7,000. Who knows the real number? "About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and marines were wounded in Iraq during August, by far the highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began and an indication of the intensity of battles flaring in urban areas," reports the Washington Post on September 5. The Post also reports a huge increase in the number of life-altering brain injuries to U.S. troops.
The people of this country are angry and they should be. The were lied to by the President. In spite of mass antiwar sentiment, the Democrats and Congress (including John Kerry) gave Bush a blank check to go to war when they voted overwhelmingly on October 12, 2002 to illegally hand over their constitutionally mandated authority to Bush so that he could pursue the war against Iraq.
When thousands of people are being killed in Iraq and elsewhere the people must act, as they did during the Vietnam era, making it clear that they cannot be silent in the face of U.S. government atrocities."

Source: VoteNoWar

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