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Love the troops – Hate the war. This vigil has been controversial because it is sometimes misunderstood. The purpose of this vigil is to raise awareness within our community and among the media that the most injured soldiers are brought to Walter Reed to be treated and should not be forgotten. They are our responsibility. Many of these soldiers, wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their families face long-term disabilities, difficult bureaucracy and shortfalls in funding. This is one of the sad and hidden costs of war. Our presence is a visible reminder that our wounded and disabled soldiers and veterans need and deserve our support. Please join us, you can sing, or hold a candle, or talk with others who believe as most of the country now does, it is time to bring the troops home and to take care of them when they get here – whatever the cost!

Building Communities is a collaboration involving policyAmerica, the New America Foundation, Washington University’s Center for Social Development, the Institute for Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University, Bank of America, and Capitol Advantage, LLC. This event is a sequel to the Bootstrap Capitalism conference of 2004 which attracted 180 representatives of think tanks, Congressional staff, advocacy organizations, the academy and the media. Where: Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill When: March 28, 2006 RSVP: David Stoesz at [email protected] 8:30-9:00 -- Registration 9:15 Welcome: Ray Boshara, Director Asset Building Program, New America Foundation 9:30 Serving the UnbankedHoward Karger, Professor and author of Shortchanged: Life and Debt in Fringe Economy,Reid Cramer, Research Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation 10:30 Building Social CapitalRobert Woodson, President, National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise,Kathryn Edin, Professor and author of Promises I Can Keep and Making Ends Meet,Margaret Sherraden, author of Kitchen Capitalism, 12:00 Luncheon Host: Katharine Kravetz, American UniversityKeynote addresses: The Honorable Danny K. Davis, (D-7th) Illinois;Andrea Levere, President, Corporation for Enterprise Development 1:30 Capitalizing CommunitiesEric Stein, Chief Operating Officer, Self-HelpPaul Hinds, Senior Vice-President, Bank of AmericaMark Pinsky, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network. 3:00 Concluding Comments: David Stoesz, policyAmerica

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Try not to shoot anybody in the face.

Bush said Tuesday the decision about when to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq will fall to future presidents and Iraqi leaders, suggesting U.S. involvement will continue at least through 2008.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

U.S. military criminal investigators are trying to determine whether marines deliberately targeted civilians and covered it up after they shot dead 23 Iraqis shortly after one of their own was killed by a roadside bomb near Haditha in western Iraq.

If proven true, the incident -- first reported in the current edition of Time magazine -- would rank as the worst case of deliberate killing of Iraqi civilians since the war began. It would also be reminiscent of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, in which the slaughter of Vietnamese civilians at the hands of U.S. soldiers was covered up.

By Council for a Livable World

President George W. Bush – March 21, 2006: “We're making progress because we've got a strategy for victory.”

President’s press conference, LINK

President Lyndon Johnson - November 17, 1967: "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking... We are making progress."

Every claim the Bush administration has used to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq has turned out to be flat wrong.

Every claim the Bush administration has used to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq has turned out to be flat wrong.

In October of last year, Dick Cheney's chief of staff was indicted on five counts of perjury, obstruction, and lying to the FBI about how he discovered covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, and leaked it to the media. His trial is upcoming, and looks as though it will expose more than the Bush administration would like.

Papers filed on Friday raise the possibility that the trial will focus on the debate about whether or not the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. Lawyers have also signaled that, at Libby's criminal trial, they will "delve deeply" into infighting that occurred among the White House, CIA and State Department over intelligence failures that occurred before the war. They have also suggested that the State Department, rather than Libby himself, may be to blame for leading Plame's identity.

Libby's defense lawyers are playing along quite well, pointing out that Plame's CIA status was merely a "peripheral issue" to Libby, as he was much too wrapped up in "the finger-pointing that went on within the executive branch about who was to blame" for the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"If the jury learns this background information [about finger-pointing] and also understands Mr. Libby's additional focus on urgent national security matters," the defense lawyers said, "[they] will more easily appreciate how Mr. Libby may have forgotten or misremembered snippets of conversation [about Plame's CIA status.]"

Libby's lawyers also concluded that "the facts show" that someone from the State Department, rather than Libby, leaked Plame's identity to conservative columnist Robert Novak.

And should the State Department undergo investigation, who knows what else could be uncovered...

—Meredith Adams