Rally at Veteran's Memorial Park, Ann Arbor, MI - March 29, 2003
VVA Motto: Never again shall a Vet coming home from battle be made to feel alone and unappreciated.

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We are a peaceful people - yet we're not a fragile people,
and we will not be intimidated by thugs and killers.

George W. Bush

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Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings.

Ronald Reagan

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The UN Special Rapporteur's September 2001, report criticized the regime for "the sheer number of executions," the number of "extrajudicial executions on political grounds," and "the absence of a due process of the law."  Executions: Saddam Hussein's regime has carried out frequent summary executions, including:
* 4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984 
* 3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998 
* 2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a "prison cleansing campaign"
* 122 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000 
* 23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001 
* At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001
(In regard to 9/11)

They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?

Prime Minister Tony Blair
Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal. The people of Iraq deserve it; the security of all nations requires it.

George W. Bush
Documented chemical attacks by Saddam's regime, from 1983 to 1988, resulted in some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.

Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurds.

The Iraqi regime used chemical agents to include mustard gas and nerve agents in attacks against at least 40 Kurdish villages between 1987-1988. The largest was the attack on Halabja which resulted in approximately 5,000 deaths.

2,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror.

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Some people spend their whole lives wondering if they made a difference.
The Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
We have no choice.

Living without liberty is not living.
There is no compromise possible with such people,
no meeting of minds,
no point of understanding with such terror.

Just a choice: defeat it
or be defeated by it.

And defeat it we must!
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan
Victory at all costs,
victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long
and hard the road may be;
for without victory,
there is no survival.

Winston Churchill
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives to every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover
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