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Jul 4, 2009 at 8:46 AM
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Information Clearing House Newsletter

News You Won't Find On CNN
July 03, 2009
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. : George Bernard Shaw

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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! : Stephen Decatur

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"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: in a letter to William S. Smith, 13 November 1787

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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it: Alexis de Tocqueville

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,331,578"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 4,321
icasualties.org/oif/

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The War in Iraq Costs
$683,772,597,309
See the cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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Patriotism seems related to religion and just like religion the proponents often have no experience of those they presume to be better than.

Beats thinking I guess.