Cindy.Sheehan.Soapbox.2009.10.18

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This Sunday (October 18th), Cindy's guests are Karen Quinn-Tostado, who offers a most intriguing vision of a tax holiday as a boycott of our society's war addiction, plus Michael Anthony, the Iraq veteran medic who told the world his own story, in his own words about A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq. Michael is neither pro-war nor anti-war, but principally concerned with letting people become aware of what's really happening there. (Why do I sense that our reality-based community is drifting away from a classical left vs. right focus and groping towards a balanced, objective and factual picture?) Is this just a symptom of my growing mental derangement? Well: WAKE UP & tune in, folks!

By the way, President Peace-nik: Where's that change? I'm still hoping. (But that's no change.) I began wondering about civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I saw there's no easily located public informatioon. I found good data on Afghani casualties and very interesting information on Pakistani casualties. So I ask whether ratcheting these casualties up is really what a good litle Nobel laureate peace-nik President should be doing? (Oh well - same as it always was.) Guess I'll just go away. What the *bleep* do I know anyway?