<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Why Black Bloggers Don&#8217;t Have Much to Say about the Iraq All-Nighter</title> <atom:link href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/</link> <description>A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:32:00 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator> <item><title>By: African American Political Pundit</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/comment-page-1/#comment-960</link> <dc:creator>African American Political Pundit</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=413#comment-960</guid> <description>I post on the Iraq war regularly. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yet this Senate action was a no brainer. The Senate is a multi-million dollars boys (and a few girls) club. It&#039;s a club of people that really could give a rat&#039;s a** about the death and killing in Iraq of for that matter the killing in the streets of urban America. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I salute those who follow, support, and/or report on the &quot;ins and out&#039;s&quot; of the United States Senate, but to tell the truth (my truth), :-) I&#039;m feeling Bush is in many ways right. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ouch! that hurt to say.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We may now have to stay in Iraq, because he as the &quot;decider&quot; (the Commander with a beef) against Saddam, decided to &quot;Shock and Awe&quot; Iraq into the stone age and Civil War. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The consequence of his actions are that the millions of Iraqi&#039;s and others are now prepared and eager to chase America for the next thousand years for its senseless incursion to Iraq, killing of Iraqi babies, children,  fathers, grand fathers, daughters, cousins and mothers. If this happened to millions of your country men and women, what would you do?  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yes, they will follow Americans to the end of the earth. They will not forget the support of the United States Senate and House of Representatives gave to the president at the time. Shock and Awe, the rape of Iraq women. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Senate Democrats with a few Republican supporters cannot clean their hands of the blood they created in Iraq by one action on the senate floor. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The chase has begun, It&#039;s up to the American people to stop this cycle of death against the Iraqi people.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Bush, Cheney and others need to be charged with war crimes.The American people need to elect a whole new crop of political leaders , including new leadership in the United States Senate.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I post on the Iraq war regularly.</p><p>Yet this Senate action was a no brainer. The Senate is a multi-million dollars boys (and a few girls) club. It&#8217;s a club of people that really could give a rat&#8217;s a** about the death and killing in Iraq of for that matter the killing in the streets of urban America.</p><p>I salute those who follow, support, and/or report on the &#8220;ins and out&#8217;s&#8221; of the United States Senate, but to tell the truth (my truth), :-) I&#8217;m feeling Bush is in many ways right.</p><p>Ouch! that hurt to say.</p><p>We may now have to stay in Iraq, because he as the &#8220;decider&#8221; (the Commander with a beef) against Saddam, decided to &#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221; Iraq into the stone age and Civil War.</p><p>The consequence of his actions are that the millions of Iraqi&#8217;s and others are now prepared and eager to chase America for the next thousand years for its senseless incursion to Iraq, killing of Iraqi babies, children,  fathers, grand fathers, daughters, cousins and mothers. If this happened to millions of your country men and women, what would you do?</p><p>Yes, they will follow Americans to the end of the earth. They will not forget the support of the United States Senate and House of Representatives gave to the president at the time. Shock and Awe, the rape of Iraq women.</p><p>The Senate Democrats with a few Republican supporters cannot clean their hands of the blood they created in Iraq by one action on the senate floor.</p><p>The chase has begun, It&#8217;s up to the American people to stop this cycle of death against the Iraqi people.</p><p>Bush, Cheney and others need to be charged with war crimes.The American people need to elect a whole new crop of political leaders , including new leadership in the United States Senate.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Lola Gets</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/comment-page-1/#comment-953</link> <dc:creator>Lola Gets</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=413#comment-953</guid> <description>I wrote about the filibuster - but not extensively.  Come check it out!&lt;br/&gt;L</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote about the filibuster &#8211; but not extensively.  Come check it out!<br />L</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt Stoller</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/comment-page-1/#comment-951</link> <dc:creator>Matt Stoller</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=413#comment-951</guid> <description>&lt;i&gt;No one ever points that out though on TV.  It&#039;s as if the interests of a major and decisive demographic that also happen to comprise about 25% of the military (and their families) are just totally irrelevant in this debate. Hmmm.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Very little worthwhile stuff comes over TV.  Are you sure this is where you want to look for validation?  Does that really excuse your admitted lack of involvement on this maneuver to end the war?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I saw John Lewis and Maxine Waters speak out aggressively last night, but I looked at the audience, and it was nearly all white people.  Why is that?  Is there a great mass of antiwar activism in the black community I don&#039;t know about?  I know reenlistment rates are plummeting, but is that organized around a message to end the war?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If there is a great mass of activism in the black community to end the war, that&#039;s an interesting topic for a blog post that I would eagerly read and link to.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>No one ever points that out though on TV.  It&#8217;s as if the interests of a major and decisive demographic that also happen to comprise about 25% of the military (and their families) are just totally irrelevant in this debate. Hmmm.</i></p><p>Very little worthwhile stuff comes over TV.  Are you sure this is where you want to look for validation?  Does that really excuse your admitted lack of involvement on this maneuver to end the war?</p><p>I saw John Lewis and Maxine Waters speak out aggressively last night, but I looked at the audience, and it was nearly all white people.  Why is that?  Is there a great mass of antiwar activism in the black community I don&#8217;t know about?  I know reenlistment rates are plummeting, but is that organized around a message to end the war?</p><p>If there is a great mass of activism in the black community to end the war, that&#8217;s an interesting topic for a blog post that I would eagerly read and link to.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: dnA</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/why-black-bloggers-dont-have-much-to-say-about-the-iraq-all-nighter/comment-page-1/#comment-947</link> <dc:creator>dnA</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:33:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://s45368.gridserver.com/?p=413#comment-947</guid> <description>I haven&#039;t been blogging about Iraq because between Genarlow Wilson, Troy Davis, and the Jena Six I&#039;m too preoccupied with the sectarian violence here in the United States.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging about Iraq because between Genarlow Wilson, Troy Davis, and the Jena Six I&#8217;m too preoccupied with the sectarian violence here in the United States.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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