Dan Martin (c) copyright 2011
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Did you know that war is against the law? All should become familiar with the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928:
“(A) Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. Signed at Paris, August 27, 1928; ratification advised by the Senate, January 16, 1929; ratified by the President, January 17, 1929; instruments of ratification deposited at Washington by the United States of America, Australia,
Dominion of Canada, Czechoslovkia, Germany, Great Britain, India, Irish Free State, Italy, New Zealand, and Union of South Africa, March 2, 1929: By Poland, March 26, 1929; by Belgium, March 27 1929; by France, April 22, 1929; by Japan, July 24, 1929; proclaimed, July 24, 1929.”
Following is from a story by the CBC:
“There was no “Mission Accomplished” banner. No victory parade down the center of this capital scarred and rearranged by nearly nine years of war. No crowds of cheering Iraqis grateful for liberation from Saddam Hussein.
“Instead, the U.S. military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday with a businesslike closing ceremony behind blast walls in a fortified compound at Baghdad airport. The flag used by U.S. forces in Iraq was lowered and boxed up in a 45-minute ceremony. No senior Iraqi political figures attended.
“With that, and brief words from top American officials who flew in under tight security still necessary because of the ongoing violence in Iraq, the U.S. drew the curtain on a war that left 4,500 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqis dead.
“The conflict also left another 32,000 Americans and far more Iraqis wounded, drained more than $800 billion US from America’s treasury and soured a majority of Americans on a war many initially supported as a just extension of the fight against terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.”
(citation) (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/15/iraq-war-last-day.html)
Oh, go ahead, celebrate – at least a little bit! It IS a step in the right direction.
The PPJ Gazette 
La guerre hors la loi ?
Dec 20, 2011 @ 16:03:59
Dec 19, 2011 @ 17:25:42
I found this video on another blog. This could explain a lot. Can anyone remember when there has been a generation that was NOT FORCED to go to war by its government? What could cause greater stress to Mothers? HOW WONDERFUL it would be to bring Children into a Peaceful world.
For nearly half a century, Joseph Chilton Pearce has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, and Evolution’s End, one of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the “unfolding” of intelligence in children. He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to speak out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails to nurture the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs and yearnings of our young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant teacher, Pearce keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women in each field. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language. This segment introduces Joseph’s ideas about the brain and how computer and tv education hurts our children.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 13:51:54
Amen, bro – – – sister!
Know that I do not display my politics or my spirituality on the bumper of my car. If ever I was tempted, it would have been during the 2004 presidential campaign, when the most apropos sticker I’d ever seen began to appear: “HOW DUMB IS TOO DUMB?”
We certainly seem to have stirred the pot with this topic. While the response is welcome, gratifying, and encouraging – one is hard pressed to ascertain from whence it flows.
Is our collective guilt over the Iraq adventure so great that we feel we must speak out whenever the subject is raised? Have the push polls and the general mainstream media obfuscation been so great that we feel a never-ending need to correct the record?
Are there no Beatles fans out there?
“Give peace a chance.”
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 13:44:17
Thanks for posting this PPJ. Dan Martin is making a valid point.
And so is Wray Edwards:
“Your casualty figures are incredibly inaccurate. The policy on declaration of death in battle was restricted to those soldiers who died ON the field of battle. All others who passed in a medivac helo or in hospital or after return to the U.S., were not counted.”
And in the end is isn’t about the figures, but all the families that have been hurt -directly and indirectly – by this insanity. My heart goes out to each and every one of these people.
And to my children who still go to a public school and are expected to “pledge allegiance” to a flag that stands for corporate greed and fear mongering. At home we have a different pledge: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333793/posts
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 12:38:51
And we are all appalled that that dolt of a man was illegally planted in the White House as the so-called president and was allowed to start an illegal war with a nation who did nothing to us except refuse to let his oil cartel buddies in there to plunder the oil fields. We have killed more than 2 million Iraqi’s, poisoned them with depleted unranium, sold off their infrastructure to foreign interests, paid all of Bush’s best corporate buddies billions to rebuild what we destroyed only to find out they took the moeny and ran and most jobs are left uncompleted or so poorly done they are already falling apart.
I say attacking a country that Bush knew had no wmd, had no real way of defending itself and which had to be admitted after we began blowing the hell out of them….had no part in 9/11….I call that as about chickenshit as you can get.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 04:27:44
I agree with Brian, a matriarchal society would be extremely different. The few women that were mentioned above aren’t necessarily representatives of the collective woman either, so to compare their actions with the rest of the women in the world is narrow minded. And it’s interesting enough that a man would challenge even the thought of it because its testosterone and ego that has gotten us into the predicament that we’re in today. Lets get in touch with our hearts. Like Doc said, if ALL women were leaders in this world, we would see a world without war.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 03:51:32
Dubya must be appalled at these cut-and-run chickenshits.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 02:41:48
I heard the cost of the Iraq war was not $8ooBillion, but more like $1.2Trillion, and, thanks to Mister Jimmy’s correction, the figure for Iraqi deaths is not 100,000, but well over one million, with over 4million displaced and a wrecked and radioactive country into the bargain.
Meanwhile it is now being revealed that so far, thanks to the financial 9/11 we are having, the Fed has dished out $3Trillion – and rising – of TAARP funds to the chosen few of its friends who, not only pulled the stunt that caused it, but if they weren’t billionaires before it, are certainly multi-billionaires now.
It’s enough to induce a bad attack of cognitive dissonance…
Zionist gangsterism is certainly taking a dreadful toll on America.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 01:29:29
Your casualty figures are incredibly inaccurate. The policy on declaration of death in battle was restricted to those soldiers who died ON the field of battle. All others who passed in a medivac helo or in hospital or after return to the U.S., were not counted.
The figures are also actually thousands more as a result of exposure to depleated and enriched uranium used for bullets and other projectiles which they handled. The same is happening in Afghanastan and Libya and was also the case in Bosnia.
The use of American troops to prosecute another nation’s imperial designs in the area will eventually destroy the U.S. financially, socially and also on a karmic level…witness the radiation from the Gulf of Mexico and Fukushima which rain down on American soil every day.
You better store up at least six months worth of food for your family as the Federal Reserve’s fiat funny money is no joke…”Say goodnight Gracie.”
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 00:32:15
Women should lead the world, and then there would be less war, at least. The buddhist believe you come back to this planet over and over again. If this is true, you can see why war is stupid. You continually make and continually face your enemies, unless you can break the endless cycle. Step aside and stop creating enemies. 1.3 million dead, and how many new enemies? No wonder Congress voted to get rid of the 6th amendment. Our enemies are everywhere. Break the cycle.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 00:23:55
Doc O Zee, you are DELUSIONAL if you think women will “outlaw” war. Did you notice the GLEE with which Hillary celebrated the butchery in Libya? Remember Madeline Albright blowing off all the collateral damage of sanctions in Iraq that left millions starving and dying? It was “worth it.” Remember how Janet Reno authorized her jackboot thugs to murder hundreds at Waco and the Ruby Ridge massacre? Margaret Thatcher had no problem with vaporizing a bunch of people in the Falkland Islands. You idealist morons really like to stroke yourselves. Don’t think Janet Nap. isn’t capable of putting tens of thousands of dissenters into her FEMA concentration camps and torturing and killing them? Look at Michelle Bachmann, that ditzy airhead is practically chomping at the bit to kill every Muslim she can. Einstein was right, only two things are infinite – 1) the universe and 2) human stupidity. He was unsure about #1.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 23:08:05
IF war was ever really outlawed, it would be just like our immigration laws. It would not be enforced, we in the USA appear to pick and choose which laws we wish to obey.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 22:13:02
I understand that rape is against the law as well. Robbery, Murder too. Hey even smoking dope is against the law…
We can all see how all that worked out.
“Law” is bullshisten squirted by oomphas in black moo moos.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 20:14:58
LOL! Outlawing war is like outlawing breathing! Once those Kellop-Briand papers were signed in ’28, all the leaders jumped up on the backs of their unicorns and galloped over the Rainbow Causeway off to Fantasy Land. Because that’s the only place where war is not necessary.
As long as there are evil men, we’ll need war. It’s just a fact of life. If you can’t accept that, you just don’t have intellectual honesty.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 17:31:31
Don’t Let Bast**** Get You Down – Kris Kristofferson
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 16:33:47
A “real” end to war was proposed about a year ago. See: http://howtorescueamerica.org/PeeCE.html
The essay’s headline reads: “A New Tactic Ends War By Using Naturally Occurring Societal Forces To “Force” Adversarial Nations Into Peace Mode”
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 16:32:34
Nothing has changed. There are still thousands of ‘contractors’ in Iraq and the US military still controls the coast and the air space. We are still paying the Sunnis billions not to attack Americans and paying for the puppet government. And by the way, 1.3 million civilians were killed, not 100,000.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 15:58:48
i heard it was 1.3 trillion dollars from America’s treasury, but, War will never be Outlawed, we as a spieces are too aggressive , if not land then water, if not water then fuel, if not etc, we will fight to our last days, since the days of life on this planet aggression is the way of life , and we are part of that aggression
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 15:49:06
While outlawing war is a noble idea, it is completely unworkable. It’s like trying to outlaw sex. Neither will work because you can’t legislate morality.
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Dec 18, 2011 @ 13:19:03
Over 1 million Iraquis killed. More than 2 million orphans and 1.5 million refugees…not to mention Afghanistan etc etc
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Dec 16, 2011 @ 03:25:22
Perhaps I didn’t make it clear: The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 outlawed war.
Unfortunately, several generations of power-crazed one-worlders have not yet gotten the memo.
“Give Peace a Chance” (a song written by John Lennon)
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Dec 16, 2011 @ 01:30:13
Outlawing war is a good thing, but will never happen as long as there are evil men. Scripture has it right when it says “A strong man Armed keeps his house.”
Every nation that has tried to strip the means for people to defend themselves, leads to destruction of those people by the wicked evil men who would rather take what you have than work for themselves.
Careful, this is a dangerous path.
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Dec 16, 2011 @ 00:26:25
Everyone should know about this.
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Dec 16, 2011 @ 00:23:53
As the gestation protectors of the human life cycle, as the nurturers to the world’s children, unencumbered and by rampant phallic-cies, I truly believe war WILL be outlawed, once ALL world leaders are women.
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