Posted on 07/05/2006 3:33:11 PM PDT by pissant
Democracy Now... Amy Goodman... Pacifica Radio... the voice of Communism for at least the past 50 years.
And the L.A. Times on the same wavelength..
Much food for thought in the various reports, however.
Yep. Red diaper doper babies.
Good to see that family still believes in the guys:
Mom believes in her soldier son
CHAMBERSBURG -- It is obvious when entering Nancy Hess' small, neat home on Stanley Avenue that family is an important part of the slender, graying mother's life.
Photos of her children and grandchildren are placed prominently around the living room, and she talks lovingly of them.
She is especially proud of her youngest, Pfc. Jesse Spielman, a soldier serving in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division, a young man who went into the Army a year ago in an effort to better himself.
Tears well up as she talks about the turn of events this year she thinks has ruined her son's chances of ever realizing his dreams.
Spielman is one of five soldiers with the division's 2nd brigade combat team implicated in the rape of a young Iraqi woman and murder of the victim and her family. A former soldier, Steven Green, has been charged in the case. Green was discharged from the Army prior to the charges being filed June 30.
Spielman, 21, joined the Army just over a year ago to support the family he wanted to have. When he enlisted, he was planning to get married and wanted to have a child.
"He wanted to be a dad," his older sister Paige said. "He wanted a normal life."
Family members fear that dream of a normal life might now be out of the question, no matter the outcome of the Army's case against Spielman.
Regardless, family members swung into action to support him and protect Hess from anyone who might try to judge him or harass his mother.
Hess says no matter how bad things seem, she believes in her son and supports him.
"I love him very much," she said as she looked at a laminated poem by Marilyn McGee titled "A Mother's Pride" that Spielman bought for her at a gift shop in Fort Benning, Ga., when she and his future wife, Megan Ashbaugh, went to the military installation for his graduation from basic training.
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_4044271
Who is Sgt. Paul E. Cortez?
BARSTOW -- In a town like Barstow where everyone knows everyone else, finding anything about Sgt. Paul E. Cortez is a challenge.
Ar med with an old high school photograph and his name, most people could only vaguely remember the 23-year-old Barstow resident who has recently been charged with raping and murdering an Iraqi girl and killing her family while deployed to Mahmudiyah, Iraq, south of Baghdad, on March 12.
Calls to Cortez's old friends turned up fruitless. Each said they'd seen him in the past couple of years but could remember little of their time spent together and knew almost nothing about his family.
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Ex-girlfriend and Central High School classmate Alicia Fox had the most to say about the man that she described as "skinny" and incapable of a crime of that capacity.
"He would never do something like that," she said. "He would never hurt a female. He would never hit one or even raise his hand to one. Fighting for his country is one thing but not when it comes to raping and murdering. That's not him."
Fox, who recalls graduating in 2000 with Cortez, said he had a lot of friends when he did live here. She also said he was a member of New Life Fellowship on Main Street and that he had been really involved in the church's activities.
http://www.desertdispatch.com/2006/115280358752599.html
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy [it] for the old hatred; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ezekiel 25:15-25:17
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