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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

WHILE SPEAKING TO OTHERS IN THE D.C. PRESS POOL -- EVERY NOW AND THEN WE LIKE TO CHECK IF ANYONE'S GROWN A SPINE, WE'RE ALWAYS DISAPPOINTED, BILL THEOBALD, OF TENNESSEE'S THE TENNESSEAN TOLD US, " EVERYONE WANTS TO TELL TENNESSEANS HOW TO VOTE IN THE U.S. SENATE RACE BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC REP. HAROLD FORD JR. AND REPUBLICAN BOB CORKER."

WELL PUT US DOWN ON THE LIST, BILLY.

IN THAT RACE, WE ENDORSE CHRIS LUGO.

WHO?

THE CANDIDATE BIG BILLY 'FORGOT' TO MENTION.

CHRIS LUGO HAS DONE STRONG WORK AT TENNESSEE INDYMEDIA AND HE KNOWS WHERE HE STANDS ON THE WAR.

UNLIKE HARRY FORD JR., LUGO DOESN'T STAND UNDER BULLY BOY'S BUTT WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN, EAGER TO SWALLOW.

CHRIS LUGO'S A REAL CANDIDATE. HE'S FOR ENDING THE WAR. HE DOESN'T SHUCK & JIVE ABOUT HOW HE CAN'T HELP LOVING THAT BULLY BOY -- HAROLD FORD WOULD DO WELL TO FIND A NEW SHOW TUNE. POSSIBLY HE COULD PICK 1 UP WHEN NEXT POST-SUPERBOWL PARTYING?

OUR ADVISE TO BILLY IS TO LEARN THE CANDIDATES IN THE RACE AND ALSO TO STOP PULLING THAT "I'VE GOT TO RUN TO THE BATHROOM! BE RIGHT BACK!" WHENEVER IT'S TIME TO CLOSE OUT THE BAR TAB.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with war resistance. Kyle Snyder self-checked out of the US military in April 2005 and moved to Canada. Saturday, Snyder returned to the United States with the intent of turning himself in at Fort Knox under the deal the military had worked out with Snyder's attorney, James Fennerty. The military elected to burn Snyder yet again and did not move to the agreed upon dishonorable discharge but towards deploying Snyder back to Iraq.


Kyle Snyder didn't sit around passively. He's checked out again. Brett Barrouquere (AP) reports that Snyder checked out "Tuesday after being dropped of at the Greyhound Bus station in downtown Louisville," Kentucky and Synder explained to Barrouquere, "I realized this deal was going to go bad." A longer AP version notes Synder explaining, "I came back in good faith. I put my trust in them one more time. Why should I put my trust in them again when I can just go back to Canada?" Also noted is that Snyder is traveling with activist and Vietnam war resister Gerry Condon who is hopeful that this was a misscommunication. Condon wrote on the subject of war resisters to today's illegal war in the July issue of The Objector [PDF format].


James Fennerty also acted as war resister Darrell Anderson's attorney. (Anderson turned himself in October 3rd. He was released October 6th.) Claudia Bayliss (South Bend Tribune) examines the roll of faith and service in Anderson's stand and speaks with Anita Anderson (Darrell's mother), Margaret Pfeil ("professor of moral theology" at Notre Dame), Lt. Col. Kelly Jordan and Mike Schorsch (Catholic Peace Fellowship in South Bend). Schorsch states: "Kids like Darrell go through military training, they go to war, they change, they grow up -- but they never lose their humanity. And sometimes their humanity boils up inside of them and causes them to say 'No,' even if it means personal risks." More information on Kyle Snyder, Darrell Anderson and other war resistors who have gone public can be found at Courage to Resist.

War resistance among the general public in the United States continues (as it will continue to do, the opinion hardened against the war some time ago, there will not be a softening). Adam Nagourney and Megan Thee (New York Times) report on the latest NYT/CBS News poll which found only "29 percent of Americans approve of the way President Bush is managing the war, matching the lowest mark of his presidency. Nearly 70 percent said Mr. Bush did not have a plan to end the war, and 80 percent said Mr. Bush's latest effort to rally public support for the conflict amounted to a change in language but not policy." Those polled cited the illegal war "as the most important issue" -- if only the media, big and small, felt the same. AFP notes the Wall St. Journal/NBC poll released Wednesday which found: "54 per cent of [US] voters saying it had not been worth the human and economic price to remove former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power."

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