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| Tsunami in a Teapot |
“The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world,” Colin Powell affirmed this morning. He said the United States had responded to an appeal by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent by providing $4 million of the $7… |
Andrew Wimmer |
12/28/04 |
549 |
07/24/06 |
| And they were all amazed! |
At a photo op today, George W. Bush spoke about the upcoming election in Iraq: And it’s time for those people to vote and I am looking forward to it. It’s one of those moments in history where a lot of people will be amazed that a society has been transformed… |
Andrew Wimmer |
12/02/04 |
264 |
07/24/06 |
| SOA Protest Photographs |
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Andrew Wimmer |
11/24/04 |
130 |
07/24/06 |
| Our Torture Advocates |
“I like him,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today after a closed meeting with Alberto Gonzales, whom he has known as White House counsel. “I said jokingly that the president, with the majority he has in the Senate, could have sent… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/19/04 |
81 |
07/23/06 |
| What Would Ellacuria Say? |
What Would Ellacuria Say? Mark Chmiel & Andrew Wimmer November 17, 2004 A few years before his death at the hands of Salvadoran death squads, Ignacio Ellacuria, one of the six slain Jesuits we commemorate on campus this week, delivered the commencement address at Santa Clara University. He told his listeners… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/17/04 |
162 |
07/22/06 |
| Qu'ils mangent de la brioche! |
Rasoul Ibrahim, a father of three, fled Falluja on Thursday morning and arrived with his wife and children in Habbaniya, about 12 miles to the west of Falluja, on Thursday night. He said families left in the city were in desperate need. “There’s no water. People are drinking dirty water. Children… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/15/04 |
1129 |
07/24/06 |
| No Aid Needed |
Iraq’s Red Crescent group sent seven truckloads of food and medicine to the city, but U.S. forces blocked the aid convoy at Falluja’s main hospital and said it could not enter. The convoy turned back on Monday after three days of frustration. “It’s our third day here at the hospital and… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/15/04 |
212 |
07/23/06 |
| All Safe |
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said he does not believe any civilians were killed in the offensive, which has left 38 U.S. soldiers, 6 Iraqi troops and more than 1,200 insurgents dead. But witness accounts appeared to contradict him. Washington Post Story |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/15/04 |
738 |
07/24/06 |
| 300,000 Vanish, Goats Patrol Falluja |
“Destruction was everywhere. I saw people lying dead in the streets, wounded were bleeding and there was no one to come and help them. Even the civilians who stayed in Fallujah were too afraid to go out,” he said. “There was no medicine, water, no electricity nor food for days. U.S.… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/15/04 |
1035 |
07/24/06 |
| Falluja Liberated |
Falluja, Sunday: “The city has been seized,” General John Abizaid, of US central command, said. “We have liberated the city of Falluja.” Lieutenant General John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said: “The perception of Falluja being a safe haven for terrorists, that perception and the reality of it… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/14/04 |
634 |
07/24/06 |
| We Doomed! |
Elegy Written in a Prison Courtyard {to Allen Ginsberg: a voice in perilous times} Whom torture? We torture them! Whom torture? We torture them! Whom torture? We torture them! Whom torture? We torture them! Whom torture? You torture you! Whom torture? You torture you! Whom torture? You torture you! Whom torture?… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/14/04 |
1776 |
07/24/06 |
| Will we be forgiven for this crime? |
Reuters, Falluja, Sunday: Some locals say the stench of decomposing bodies fills the air. Others tell of children dying because it was too dangerous to get them to help. One family buried their 9-year-old boy in the garden after he bled to death over several hours from a stomach wound. Thousands… |
Andrew Wimmer |
11/14/04 |
414 |
07/24/06 |