Iraq’s embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them “phoney pacifists” and “dupes” after the antiwar group responded to the rescue of three of its kidnapped activists by condemning the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq.
The Iraqi embassy called CPT “willfully ignorant” and “outrageous,” and accused the Chicago-based group of being on the side of anti-democratic forces in Iraq.
Hostages were ‘dupes,’ Iraq says
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“We have to climb over walls and go through windows,” said Sgt. Justin Shank of Greencastle, Pa. “I understand the more armor, the safer you are. But it makes you slower. People don’t understand that this is combat and people are going to die.“
Some Marines Declining Extra Body Armor
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…That’s bad news to Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, “they’re loud, they’re obnoxious, they’re disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco.”
Evangelical teens rally in S.F.
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March 28th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Good on the Iraqi Ambassador. I wish the State Department had people who had that kind of moral clarity.
I guess General of the Army Hillary Clinton was wrong about wanting to load down every single servicemember with the eqivalent of a medieval knight’s full plate mail.