Recent NWCitizen Articles

Postpone the election?
By John Servais · Mon Jul 12, 2004
Well, no surprise. And not even close to the extreme measures the weird people behind Bush will go to in order to avoid being thrown out of office. They went ballistic when Clinton was elected. They u
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Have you seen the movie yet?
By John Servais · Sun Jul 11, 2004
Seems most of my conservative friends are avoiding it. But they tell me what they think of Michael Moore and they are not nice comments. They should see the movie first.

Fahrenheit 9/11
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Saw Fahrenheit 9/11
By John Servais · Sat Jul 3, 2004
Very good documentary. The Democrats do not get off clean. The Democrats are well documented in the movie going along with Bush’s absurd war against Iraq. They are shown as mindless suits without a bi
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is breaking records
By John Servais · Thu Jul 1, 2004
This from the movie revenue watch website Box Office MoJo: “In terms of raw dollars, Fahrenheit is actually the biggest opening ever for a movie playing at less than 1,000 theaters, topping Roc
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Americans had to really want to see this movie
By John Servais · Wed Jun 30, 2004
No showing of Fahrenheit 9/11 in Bellingham this past week. Why not? Because Regal Cinema booked the rights to show it but waited to see if it was well attended. Regal controls all three movie
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Leave no proof behind
By John Servais · Thu Jun 17, 2004
From a friend who is an enlisted person in the military - in a combat unit. The officers - the lieutenants - of his unit lectured them this week about torture. The officers said the enlisted soldiers
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We are remembering Reagan for the wrong reasons
By John Servais · Thu Jun 10, 2004
and we will suffer for it. Reagan did not win the Cold War. Communism was systemically fatal - just as all the conservatives kept saying. Reagan did do the right things to end the Cold War - and he de
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Mercury in Lake Whatcom
By John Servais · Thu Jun 3, 2004
Today the Washington Department of Ecology released a report that says, basically, that mercury in the lake is less now than in the past. “Decreasing” is the operative word.

Local conservatives
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Re: Chamber of Commerce insert in today’s Bellingham Herald
By John Servais · Mon May 24, 2004
The initiative is ‘remove motor boats’, not ‘remove boats’ from Lake Whatcom. Our Chamber of Commerce just lies in print to achieve their goal of defeating the initiative.
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The Military Intelligence units are beginning to be exposed
By John Servais · Tue May 18, 2004
ABC News has an exclusive interview with a sergeant in the 302 MI Battalion, a unit of Col Pappas 205 MI Brigade. See NwCit report below of May 4 - two weeks ago. The sergeant says there was and is a
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How our US Government falsifies documents
By John Servais · Mon May 17, 2004
This statement was posted on the DOD website on Saturday - and I took a computer photo of it on Sunday - to catch them if they changed it. Well, they went back and doctored it - improved it - without
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Torture. What is it?
By John Servais · Wed May 12, 2004
It is to cause extreme physical or mental pain for punishment or to extract a confession or information. Our government officials are now saying we do not torture because we follow the Geneva rules. T
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This is a kangaroo court at its finest
By John Servais · Mon May 10, 2004
A short note. For days we have all listened to voices from the left demand resignations and voices from the right actually defend this behavior or at least excuse it. We have not seen any reporting on
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Why is the press not interviewing participants?
By John Servais · Thu May 6, 2004
Questions not being asked by the press about the abuses. At least I’ve not run across them in news reports. The reports have not gone into any more detail in three days. We see a few more photos but n
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The military police are not the culprits
By John Servais · Wed May 5, 2004
Colonel Thomas Pappas continues in command of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade - according to today’s Baltimore Sun. He is the bastard who has the most to answer for in this whole abuse mess. A
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Let the reporting be comprehensive
By John Servais · Tue May 4, 2004
Colonel Thomas Pappas. Why have the news media not told you about this guy? They have told us a lot about General Janis Karpinski, the commander of the military police who operated the Abu Ghraib pris
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The abuse of Iraqi prisoners
By John Servais · Mon May 3, 2004
is a sad development for our country. I don’t want to pile on and kick our military as we need a strong armed services to survive in this world. We can only hope that full investigations are carried o
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We are on a blind rampage
By John Servais · Tue Apr 27, 2004
C-130 gunships are massacring innocent people in Fallujah and Najaf. No question - we Americans have constructed horrible killing machines. The military likes to say they save “friendly” personnel. We
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These are our youngsters
By John Servais · Thu Apr 22, 2004
They wanted to help defend democracy and our country. Instead they were used as cannon fodder in a foreign war of conquest - ordered by men who avoided their own military service when they were youngs
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NwCitizen applauds Spanish pullout from Iraq
By John Servais · Sun Apr 18, 2004
They have chosen to stop being dupes of the US. The Spanish people overwhelmingly told their government to stop the invasion and occupation of a country that was no threat to any other country - and c
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