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Monday, June 28, 2004

Four more years of this?

Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, is shown in this 2001 high school yearbook photo from West Clermont Local School District. Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday, June 29, 2004, that Iraqi militants have killed Maupin, who has been held hostage since early April 2004, because the U.S. government did not change its policy in Iraq. Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, was captured in April during an ambush on a convoy west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/West Clermont Local School District, File)

Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, is shown with his parents in this 2001 high school yearbook photo from West Clermont Local School District. Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday, June 29, 2004, that Iraqi militants have killed Maupin, who they have held hostage since early April 2004, because the U.S. government did not change its policy in Iraq. Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, was captured in April during an ambush on a convoy west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/West Clermont Local School District,File)

U.S. soldier Keith Matthew Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, shown in photos from his 2001 high school yearbook above (his parents are shown with him in the black-and-white photo), is believed to have been shot to death by his captors in Iraq. As of this writing his death has not been confirmed but he remains missing. Maupin was captured in Iraq in early April during an ambush on his convoy west of Baghdad. Below are two stills from a video made by his captors shortly after his capture. The last still, which is eerily reminiscent of "The Blair Witch Project," is a still from a video believed, but not confirmed, to show Maupin being shot in the back of the head.

A video grab image taken from Al Jazeera television on April 16, 2004 shows a U.S. soldier who identified himself as Keith Matthew Maupin, being held captive by insurgents in Iraq. Al Jazeera television aired a video tape June 28, 2004 showing what militants said was the execution of a U.S. soldier captured in Iraq in April. The U.S. Army has told the family of a soldier taken hostage in Iraq in April about the existence of a videotape that may show an execution, but has not confirmed that he has been killed, defense officials said on Monday. A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Army notified the family of Pfc. Keith Matthew Maupin, 20, 'that there's a rumor Al Jazeera or an Arab network may have a tape of an execution, but we do not know if it's their son or not.' GERMANY OUT REUTERS/Al Jazeera Television

Kidnapped American soldier Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio is seen in this undated file image made from video broadcast by Arab television station Al-Jazeera on April 16, 2004. Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday, June 29, 2004, that Iraqi militants have killed Maupin, an American soldier they have held hostage since early April, because the U.S. government did not change its policy in Iraq. Maupin was captured in April 2004 during an ambush on a convoy west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera via APTN, File)

A video grab image taken from a tape obtained by Al Jazeera television shows an unidentified man, believed to be a U.S. soldier. Al Jazeera television aired the video tape June 28, 2004 showing what militants said was the execution of a U.S. soldier captured in Iraq in April. The U.S. Army has told the family of a soldier taken hostage in Iraq in April about the existence of a videotape that may show an execution, but has not confirmed that he has been killed, defense officials said on Monday. A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Army notified the family of Pfc. Keith Matthew Maupin, 20, 'that there's a rumor Al Jazeera or an Arab network may have a tape of an execution, but we do not know if it's their son or not.' GERMANY OUT REUTERS/Al Jazeera Television

The Associated Press reports today:

As of [today], 850 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 629 died as a result of hostile action and 221 died of non-hostile causes. The department did not provide an update over the weekend.

The British military has reported 59 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 712 U.S. soldiers have died -- 520 as a result of hostile action and 192 of non-hostile causes, according to the military as of [today].

Iraqbodycount.net reports that at least 9,400 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the Bush regime's unprovoked invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Thousands more Iraqi soldiers also have been killed over nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. 


9:24:40 PM    Comments []

This looks like just one stupid white male protester, but every one of the trillions of cells that comprise his neo-Nazi body oppose that fucking Commie pig Michael Moore and his satanic, anti-American, terrorist-lovin', freedom-hatin' pack of lies that was the highest-grossing movie of the weekend!

And this protest of obvious geniuses is twice as large! (Photos of stupid white men terrified of dwindling white male power "courtesy" of pabaah.com. "PABAAH!" stands for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood!" [Yes, that's a real association of right-wing nutjobs; I couldn't make up something that stupid.])  

MASSIVE protests against 'F9/11'!

I've been surfing a few of the anti-Michael Moore/anti-"Fahrenheit 9/11" Web sites. I almost feel sorry for the terrified stupid white men who comprise the majority of the anti-Moore/anti-"F9/11" crowd. ("Almost" because they are neo-Nazi asswipes who came from hell to try to eliminate everyone who doesn't look like they look and believe what they believe, and it's hard to feel sorry for neo-Nazi asswipes who came from hell to try to eliminate everyone who doesn't look like they look and believe what they believe.) 

Free Republic high-mindedly lets you know that that "We note Mr. Moore's constitutional right to free speech" -- but join us in our effort to silence him anyway! Lovely peeps, the freeps.

Move America Forward -- whose name can be confusing, since its goal is to Drag America Backasswards -- "argues":

Last week we asked Americans who found in Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” an attempt to undermine the war on terror, to let movie theater operators know about their objections. Think about it… If you walked into a Wal Mart store and saw they were selling merchandise that attacked the military, our troops and America’s battle against Islamic terrorism, wouldn’t you complain to the store manager or write a letter and ask that they not sell that product because it was undermining our national effort?  

Gee, I'd have a comeback, but you just can't argue with airtight logic like that! They're right: Michael Moore is an enemy combatant who should be shipped off to Guantanamo yesterday. John Kerry, too!

Move America Forward, the right-wing nutjob group you hear about the most where attacks on Moore and "F9/11" are concerned, is based here in my hometown of Sacramento, where they're having absolutely no discernible affect on the film's wild success. Funny. (Rush Limbaugh also got his start here in Sacramento, which, believe it or not, is actually moderate to liberal, with an apparent smattering of right-wing nutjobs here and there.)

You can read Move America Forward's sick and twisted manifesto here. The group's central lie is that the left wing is against the U.S. troops and the effort to eradicate terrorism.

For the record: The left wing opposes the way our troops are dying for no good reason whatsoever, but are dying for the profit and greed of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their cabal of plutocratic campaign contributors who are making billions of dollars off the unprovoked invasion of, the unnecessary destruction of, and the U.S. taxpayer-funded reconstruction of Iraq. The only people who are benefitting from the Bush regime's venture in Iraq are people who are already filthy rich. Thousands of Iraqis are dead, hundreds of American troops are dead, the U.S. taxpayers have been fucked up the ass, and future generations of Americans have been fucked because not only has the Bush regime created a record-smashing federal budget deficit with its appallingly irresponsible tax cuts for the rich and its multi-billion-dollar fake war in Iraq, but Iraq is now a fucking terrorist factory. Meanwhile, who's laughing all the way to the bank? Bush and his cronies, who couldn't just outright steal from us Americans at gunpoint, so they decided to steal billions of our tax dollars through their phony war. (And note who does and who does not pay taxes.)

Finally, the left wing also believes in combatting terrorism, but believes in doing it in an intelligent way, in a way so as to not make the problem even worse. Fucking duh.

Newsmax urges us to "STOP MICHAEL MOORE FROM PROFITTING [sic] IN HIS ATTACKS ON AMERICA & OUR MILITARY." (As Ted Rall noted, the future belongs to those who can spell.) "The goal of the film is abundantly clear: to undermine the war on terrorism," proclaims Newsmax.

No, the goal of "Fahrenheit 9/11" is to stop dictator, sociopath and war criminal George W. Bush from getting us into World War III by making more unprovoked attacks on sovereign nations, especially sovereign Muslim nations. Motherfucker Bush has no God-damned right to involve the entire world in his sick fundamentalist "Christian" fantasies of Armageddon. Motherfucker Bush wasn't even elected.  

Despite all of this, the right-wing nutjobs hold that it's Michael Moore and his new movie that pose the greatest danger to America and to our troops!

These are incredibly stupid, insane people. They embrace Bush, the man who would get them all killed without a second thought if it meant more billions for him and his cronies, and they persecute Moore, who'd like to see a stop put to our young soldiers being put in harm's way without a very good reason.

And as "Fahrenheit 9/11's" opening weekend take of almost $24 million demonstrates, these right-wing nutjobs are pathetically weak. I've yet to see any media coverage of any significant protest or demonstration of theirs, and indeed, as Moore himself has noted, their attempted boycott of "F9/11" seems to have been better advertising than the film's distributors could have bought. 

Reading the neo-Nazis' online rhetoric is a bit chilling, but it's important that we keep an eye on these psychopaths. We outnumber them, but they are ignorant, fearful and they loves their guns, as Moore amply demonstrated in his last film, "Bowling for Columbine," an Oscar-winning documentary about gun nuts and violence.


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