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Ithaca couple headed back to Baghdad (Ithaca is the City of Evil alert)
Ithaca Journal ^ | Originally published Wednesday, June 11, 2003 | By DAN HIGGINS

Posted on 06/11/2003 5:22:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Edited on 05/07/2004 8:01:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

ITHACA -- When she returns to Baghdad, Maura Stephens will be looking up friends.

They're people she met just weeks before the start of the war in Iraq. Stephens, of Spencer, is afraid for them and their families.

"I hope they're alive and I hope to see them," she said.


(Excerpt) Read more at theithacajournal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: academialist; cityofevil; demonicpossession; iraq; ithaca; medianews; presstitutes; traitorlist; vergamini; zewolfman
Their previous trip was to be funded in part by Ithaca College, until it was publicized that such a trip was illegal.

However, it looks like Ithaca College's administration is still supporting this:

For more information on Stephens's and Sapio's trip, visit http://epic-usa.org, or contact Stephens at 274-3829.

This telephone number (which was provided by the Ithaca Journal, but SHOULD NOT be used to harass Stephens--we don't want FR accused of some sort of criminal conspiracy) is Stephens's work number at Ithaca College.

I wonder what would happen to a Republican staff member (assuming their were any--Ithaca College is plagued by liberal bias) if he or she had his office phone publicized as a contact point for pro-Bush activities (I asks rhetorically).

Stephens works for the marketing communications department at Ithaca College; Sapio is an advertisement designer for The Ithaca Journal. *** Like Stephens, Cornell University's Matthew Evangelista has been keeping watch over civilian casualties

Ithaca is the City of Evil.


1 posted on 06/11/2003 5:22:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; LibKill; gaspar; bentfeather; NativeNewYorker; drjimmy; Atticus; ...
City of Evil/Academic bias/Media bias bump
2 posted on 06/11/2003 5:23:45 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hope this useful idiot checks out the mass graves and torture chambers this time. The people she's worried about had more to fear from Saddamn.
3 posted on 06/11/2003 5:25:11 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Uhm, Muara and George?  You may have missed something since you were likely watching CNN...

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

4 posted on 06/11/2003 5:31:58 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
With just the money these self-serving twits will spend on their airline tickets, some Iraqi teacher could assemble a library for an elementary school there.
5 posted on 06/11/2003 5:42:24 AM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I don't believe they ate in that restaurant. I believe that even if she finds the shoe-shone boy, she will say he was killed.

And, although she details the huge number of deaths during the years of the sanctions (now ended) which were no doubt caused mostly by Hussein's actions, she is still wondering if the war was worth it.

Bah. I hope the people of Baghdad pelt her with shoes.

6 posted on 06/11/2003 5:48:34 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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Of the Associated Press' survey, Stephens said she was somewhat heartened that casualties weren't in the tens of thousands, as some had predicted. "But you have to keep in mind that 1.7 million people died because of the (10 years of U.N.-imposed) sanctions," she said.

Yes, there wasn't food and medicine for the poor people, but there was enough money to build SaddamWorld, etc.

Those people died because of Saddam, and until Stephens realizes that, she'll just be another useful idiot for the far left.

7 posted on 06/11/2003 6:00:03 AM PDT by Amelia (Because I'm the mom and I said so!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
This telephone number (which was provided by the Ithaca Journal, but SHOULD NOT be used to harass Stephens--we don't want FR accused of some sort of criminal conspiracy) is Stephens's work number at Ithaca College.

The story includes this sidebar:

For more information on Stephens's and Sapio's trip, visit http://epic-usa.org, or contact Stephens at...

Clearly the story is a conscious part of an anti-freedom PR campaign, and they WANT people to call. They are publicizing the story source's phone number, which in my long years of newspaper reading is unprecedented.

BLL is being properly careful in wanting to avoid even the appearance of FR wrongdoing.

But if anyone bears responsibility for publicizing this fool's phone number, it is the socialist party hacks at the Ithaca Journal.

8 posted on 06/11/2003 6:06:44 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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Any pictures of these twits?

I always laugh when the bleeding hearts are fat and out of shape.

Yeah, they know a LOT about suffering and going hungry! lol
9 posted on 06/11/2003 6:12:07 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"But you have to keep in mind that 1.7 million people died because of the (10 years of U.N.-imposed) sanctions," she said.

Even if this number is true (I highly doubt it), our 3000 dead on 9/11 were worth a hell of a lot more than any number if Iraqis.

10 posted on 06/11/2003 6:46:18 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Plus de fromage, s'il vous plait...)
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To: Black Agnes; rmlew; cardinal4; LiteKeeper; Lizard_King; Sir_Ed; TLBSHOW; BigRedQuark; yendu bwam; ..
Leftism on Campus ping!

If you would like to be added to the Leftism on Campus ping list, please
notify me via FReep-mail.

Regards...
11 posted on 06/11/2003 7:58:27 AM PDT by Hobsonphile (Hollywood: "Arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." / Londo)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
bump
12 posted on 06/11/2003 8:11:17 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
Any pictures of these twits? I always laugh when the bleeding hearts are fat and out of shape.

Here's a picture of Stephens, from an earlier article:

SENIORS JEN CHANDLER (center) and Jillian Bendig (right) help Maura Stephens (left) sort through student donations for her trip to Iraq.

13 posted on 06/11/2003 9:09:27 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Owl_Eagle
Too funny! But, but, but... they're only trying to make themselves, oops, I mean the poor Iraqis, feel better!!
14 posted on 06/11/2003 9:12:19 AM PDT by RoughDobermann
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To: buccaneer81
...1.7 million people died because of the (10 years of U.N.-imposed) sanctions...

I'm sure that, over 10 years, 1.7 million people total died in Iraq and leftie here is blaming every one of those deaths on sanctions.

Of further interest is watching the left speak out of both sides of the collective mouth.

On one hand, the UN is a font of wisdom and we were WRONG not to listen to them about not going to war.
On the other, the UN is killing millions of Iraqis with wrong-headed sanctions.

Typical hypocritical, illogical liberal-think.

15 posted on 06/11/2003 1:13:09 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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