GI SPECIAL 3D25:
THIS IS HOW BUSH BRINGS THE TROOPS HOME:
BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
[Thanks to John
Gingerich, Veterans For Peace] (mindprod.com)
"My Husband Will Not Be Silenced For He Speaks The
Truth, And It Is Coming For You"
"What is it that you and
the commanders who imprisoned him are so afraid of? Because they have known
from the beginning that he speaks the truth and my husband's voice is a
powerful voice. They should be afraid you should be afraid - very, very
afraid." Monica Benderman
November 21, 2005 Kevin and Monica Benderman,
OrbStandard.com
Open Letter to George Bush from Kevin Benderman November
20, 2004 followed by Open Letter to George Bush One Year Later By Monica
Benderman
Monica Benderman is the wife of Sgt. Kevin Benderman,
Prisoner of Conscience, serving a 15 month sentence at Ft. Lewis Correctional
Facility, for speaking out against war, and for daring to tell the Truth.
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THE ENEMY DOMESTIC
November 20, 2004
To: George W. Bush
From: SGT Kevin M. Benderman
When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States?
Why don't you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad?
I was there for six months and I did not see the first
weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to
shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out
that the entire thing was way over the line.
Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can have a couple billion more dollars, that should make you feel very good about
yourself.
The soldiers that have
died for this sham that you have put over on the American people are so much
more deserving than that. You are not worth the dust off of their boots.
If you truly had respect for the military and the people
that serve then you would not continue to kill them in your war.
I joined the Army to protect my country and not to be a
mercenary for a political despot.
If you wish to put me in prison because of my views then
you should make room for about 75% of the military.
And while you are at make some room for yourself and
about half of your administration. You are responsible for what happened
at Abu Gharaib and you are shirking your responsibility.
The commander in chief is not above the UCMJ, as you
would like to believe.
I want to fulfill my contract
that says I joined the Army to protect my country against all enemies foreign
and domestic, and as far as I am concerned you are a domestic enemy of the United States.
You care nothing for this country; you just care about the
profits that are to be made from the oil in Iraq. That much is evident to me
from the way the contracts were passed out to Halliburton and KBR. It must be
nice to have the deck stacked in your favor by the president of the USA.
Since your are raising the debt ceiling of America so
that we can pay the bills that you have run up, why don't you forgive the debts
of every one in the armed forces since they are the ones that are making it
possible for you to make billions from the oil from Iraq.
Sincerely,
SGT Kevin M. Benderman
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"My Husband Will Not Be Silenced For He Speaks The
Truth, And It Is Coming For You"
[By Monica Benderman.]
Dear Mr. Bush:
Over one year ago, my husband showed the integrity of a
true leader by facing everything he had committed to for you, in the name of
well, first there was national security, then it was freedom from tyranny for
the Iraqis, then it was terrorism, then it was freedom for the American people,
and what is it now????
Don't worry we know. It hasn't changed. First it was
oil, then it was saving face for a president who has never faced responsibility
for his actions EVER.
But now, you are a president who has nowhere left to hide
you've seen for yourself, the doors are locked you cannot escape us.
You and your army of commanders could not allow my
husband to have his voice you actually thought you could control him and
the TRUTH he had to speak. You put him in prison, and thought you could take
him away from me. You dared to believe we would go away quietly and leave you
to your war.
Your army cannot control him, because the Truth will not
hide. And the commitment my husband made to defend the constitution, to keep
his soldiers safe and to defend his home and his family has a depth of
integrity you will never understand.
Your doors are locking around you, Sir. And the jail
cell that you put my husband in the prison that confines all of our soldiers
this war and the horrific actions you have asked them to commit in our
country's name their doors are opening. I hope you feel every moment of this
and, Sir, I hope you know it comes from Kevin and me.
For over a year, my husband, Sgt . Kevin Benderman took
everything the military could pound him with, and walked tall, held his head
high knowing the day would come when the "Truth would set him
free."
I walk every step with him, Sir not to hold him up when
his drugged stupor wears off, no, Sir I walk proudly by my husband's side,
because I know the leader that he is, and I know the strength that he has.
It is an honor, Sir to stand by his side and help him
build his case against you, and all of those who have dared to disrespect him.
What is it that you and the commanders who imprisoned him
are so afraid of?
Why was it that they were so willing to commit crimes, to
tell lies and to manipulate evidence in my husband's case?
Because they have known from the beginning that he speaks
the truth and my husband's voice is a powerful voice. They should be afraid
you should be afraid - very, very afraid.
You dared to use this country to give yourself a place in
history. You dared to use my husband's integrity, his honor and his commitment
to duty, and thought that his dignity could somehow serve to make you great.
You were wrong, Sir.
One year ago, my husband told the world what he knew to be
true. Attorneys -advisors told him it would be difficult to prove. Kevin and I
knew better and I stood beside him knowing we would face what you and your
commanders would try to do, together, and in time, YOU would prove what he
already knew. That is what happens with the Truth. He knew this because he
lives this a powerful man.
You, Sir wouldn't know the truth if it looked you in
the eye. AHHH... I'm wrong you know the truth and it terrifies you.
Those locked doors in Korea they are the end of your
road there is no one to help you, and what you thought you had locked away is
your worst nightmare now.
My husband will not be silenced for he speaks the
Truth, and it is coming for you.
[Please visit the websites at www.BendermanTimeline.com
and www.BendermanDefense.org Monica
and Kevin Benderman may be reached at mdawnb@coastalnow.net]
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friend, too often cut off from access to encouraging news of growing resistance
to the war, at home and inside the armed services. Send requests to address up
top.
IRAQ WAR REPORTS
THREE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD SOLDIERS KILLED BY GUNFIRE
November 24, 2005 HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
NEWS RELEASE Number: 05-11-41C & Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq- Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers died of
gunshot wounds in Nov. 23 southwest of Baghdad. A third was killed in central
Baghdad.
TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED BY IED SOUTHWEST OF BAGHDAD
November 24, 2005 HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
NEWS RELEASE Number: 05-11-42C
BAGHDAD, Iraq Two U.S. Soldiers were killed when their
patrol struck an improvised explosive device on a road southwest of Baghdad
Nov. 24.
U.S. Soldier Killed By Roadside Bomb In Hit
November 24, 2005 Reuters
A U.S. soldier died of wounds sustained Wednesday from a
roadside bomb in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a
statement.
Three Polish Soldiers Wounded In Diwaniyah
November 24, 2005 Associated Press & Novinite Ltd
A roadside bomb Thursday slightly injured three Polish
soldiers, said Col. Zdzislaw Gnatowski, a military spokesman in Warsaw. He
said the blast occurred near Camp Echo, the headquarters for Poland's military
mission in Diwaniyah 80 miles south of Baghdad.
The explosion took place at about 11 am local time at a road
3 km away from the base, that is headquarters of the Polish commandment in
Iraq.
Soldier From Green River Injured In Combat
November 24, 2005 Green River Star
Army Staff Sgt. Mike Barrera suffered five gunshot wounds
Nov. 19 in Mosul, Iraq, after a gun battle with insurgents.
Barrera's mother, Lori, said her son underwent successful
surgery in Ramstein, Germany, last Saturday and he may return to the United
States as early as this weekend.
Barrera, 24, was hit 5 times: twice in the right hand, once
in the right tricep, once in the left hand and once in the chest. His flack
jacket saved his life.
A 1999 Green River High School graduate, Barrera entered the
Army in the fall of 1999 and has been in Iraq since August. He was previously
stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Mahmoudiya Car Bomb Wounds 2 U.S. Troops
November 24, 2005 Associated Press
A car bomber targeting U.S. troops in Mahmoudiya wounded
two U.S. soldiers and one Humvee was damaged.
REALLY BAD PLACE TO BE:
BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
10.24.05 US soldiers
in Tal Afar. (AFP/US Army-HO/Pfc. James Wilt)
AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS
Three Occupation Cops Killed
23 November 2005 Aljazeera
Suspected Taliban rebels have killed three policemen in
Afghanistan's volatile south central Uruzgan province.
The three policemen were unarmed and walking home after work
in Charchino district when suspected Taliban opened fire on them, provincial
governor Jan Mohammad told AFP on Wednesday.
TROOP NEWS
"People Who Join The Military Want To Do Something
Honorable"
"That Honor Is Betrayed And Exploited By The
Corruption Of Our Own Government"
21 November 2005 BY CHUCK WILLIAMS AND ANGELIQUE SOENARIE,
Staff Writers, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
"We ain't going away."
The lyrics from the folk band were more than just catchy.
To the tempo of protest and the beat of a strumming banjo,
the chorus sent a message.
Can't you see we're still here
Can't you see we're still here
Singing loud; Singing clear
We shall not go under
We're still here.
There was no doubt Sunday they were still there, more
than 15,000 SOA Watch protesters gathered outside the main gate of Fort
Benning. For the 16th consecutive year, the protesters demanded the closing of
the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as
the School of the Americas.
Columbus Police Chief Ricky Boren estimated the crowd at
15,000. SOA Watch organizers estimated the crowd at 19,000.
Chad Hatman, a former
Army officer from Philadelphia, was wearing his Army uniform top, complete with
captain's bars and an Airborne patch. He is now a member of Iraq Veterans
Against the War.
"People who join the
military want to do something honorable," Hartman said. "That honor
is betrayed and exploited by the corruption of our own government. Being here
is something that is more honorable than being a pawn for a corrupt agenda."
www.ivaw.net
Rumsfeld Still Doesn't Get It
November 21, 2005 Washington Times
Secretary Rumsfeld dismissed Rep. John Murtha's call to
begin pulling troops from Iraq, saying such talk encourages the terrorists and
sends the wrong message to the Iraqis. [Wrong. Murtha's call won't
encourage Bush or Cheney, and will send the right message to Iraqis: Americans
hate Bush and his evil war as much as you do, and together we can stomp him and
his Empire into the ground.]
MORE STUPIDITY:
Pentagon Idiots Fears War Critics Will Hurt Morale
November 21, 2005 Washington Times
Pentagon officials are concerned that Washington's
political fight over the Iraq war will dampen what has been high morale among
troops fighting a tenacious and deadly enemy.
[So, Pentagon officials think that keeping the troops
dying in a lost war against people fighting for their freedom is good for
morale, but hearing that most Americans think the war is for shit and are
building up the pressure to bring them home now is bad for morale? Simply
proves again the Pentagon has no contact whatever with reality.]
Pentagon Skimps On IED Defense:
"Only A Slim Minority Of American Troops Will Get The Jammers"
[Thanks to Don Bacon, The Smedley Butler Society, who sent
this in.]
November 21, 2005 Defense Tech [Excerpts]
It certainly sounds big league: tens of millions of
dollars and the promise of a modern-day "Manhattan Project" to figure
out how to stop improvised bombs. And the need couldn't be greater, of course;
just on Saturday, another six soldiers and marines were killed in Iraq by
jury-rigged explosives.
But is the Pentagon really doing all it can to stop the
weapons responsible for more than half of the war's 17,000 American
casualties? It sure doesn't seem that way. Consider this story, from Defense
Technology International.
The 1940s Manhattan Project is estimated to have cost $20
billion.
In Fiscal 2006, the Navy plans to spend just $15 million
within ONR (Office of Naval Research) on its new drive, with another $15
million to be spread among the Navy's five affiliated research centers:
Pennsylvania State University, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, and
the universities of Texas, Washington and Hawaii. (The Navy recently became the
quarterback for counter-bomb research -- ed.) Another $15 million may be
allocated to other universities outside the affiliate network.
Keep in mind, the Pentagon's fringe-science arm is
planning to spend $38 million next year on giant blimp research, and $200 million
on "cognitive" computers. So $45 million isn't all that much, in
Pentagon terms.
"When admirals start talking about 'Manhattan
Projects,' do you know how much money was spent on that?" John Anderson, a
chemical engineer and provost of Ohio's Case Western Reserve University, asks.
"You can't have a Manhattan-Project result with a
tin-cup donation... If you're going to influence the academic research
environment, you have to provide some resources and a compelling reason for
doing it."
[I]t's hard not to get the feeling that bomb-stopping
isn't anywhere close to the top of the Pentagon priority list.
Yes, an extra $250 million was sent over to the Joint IED
Defeat Task Force in October, to buy more jammers. I assume that's on top of
the agency's $1.2 billion per year budget.
But even with all that extra cash, only a slim minority
of American troops on the ground -- less than 15%, I'd estimate -- will get the
jammers, which are one of the few proven methods for actually keeping the bombs
from going off.
And remember: getting these jammers to frontline troops
helps in the war after Iraq, too. If IEDs continue to be this effective, you
can bet, for the next decade or two, guerilla groups will start jury-rigging
some bombs as soon as U.S. land.
"Military Officers Began To Wonder Whether They Should
Be Risking Their Lives For A Waning Cause'
November 21, 2005 (AFP)
The American public's souring mood over the war in Iraq
is something US military leaders have seen before and learned to dread. In
Vietnam, it foreshadowed a humiliating defeat.
Steadily mounting casualties, anti-war protests,
crumbling public support and the open political warfare that erupted this week
in Washington over Iraq have only heightened the sense of deja vu.
"This is following a political trajectory very
similar to Vietnam," said Loren Thompson, a military analyst with the
Lexington Institute, a Washington think tank.
"What happened in Vietnam was that as key
legislators began to fall away from the president's agenda, military officers
began to wonder whether they should be risking their lives for a waning
cause," he said.
US military leaders, influenced by the Vietnam experience,
have long recognized that the US public support is its "center of
gravity," which if tipped could spell disaster in a long war.
"What you see here
is that members of both parties are basically running out of patience, and in
effect saying they don't care what the consequence of leaving will be,"
Thompson said.
Anthony James Joes, an expert on counter-insurgency warfare
at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, vehemently objects to most
comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam but sees a similarity in the way Congress
began cutting back aid.
"If I had to give my best estimate I would say the
Bush administration is going to end in a very bad way, and we will eventually
abandon Iraq," he said.
Lecherous AF Brig. General Offered
Art. 15 For Foot Fondling
November 22, 2005 By Nicole Gaudiano, Army Times staff
writer [Excerpts]
Another Air Force general officer has been offered
non-judicial punishment for alleged misconduct with women.
Brig. Gen. Richard S. Hassan was removed June 27 from his
position as director of the Air Force Senior Leadership Management office in
Washington amid allegations he carried out a foot and leg fetish with female
subordinates. Sources inside the Air Force said he was offered Article 15
punishment.
One source said Hassan accepted the punishment in lieu of a
court-martial, and that he is in the process of retiring. He received a letter
of reprimand and an order to forfeit an undetermined amount of money, the
source said.
No Air Force general officer has ever been taken to
court-martial for any offense.
Hassan was reassigned six months after the investigation
began on Feb. 1 with a formal complaint from an Air Force member, who said
people felt subtle pressures to comply with the general's wishes, the source
said.
"Three or four had similar stories about him wanting
to rub their feet," the source said.
IRAQ RESISTANCE ROUNDUP
Assorted Resistance Action
November 24, 2005 Associated Press & Aljazeera &
Reuters & Xinhua & (KUNA)
In the southern Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, armed
fighters ambushed a police patrol, killing four officers, police Capt.
Qassim Hussein said.
BAGHDAD - One policeman was killed and two others were
wounded when armed fighters attacked them in western Baghdad, medical sources
said.
A bodyguard for the head of the Iraqi Islamic Party
branch in Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, was wounded in a drive-by shooting
Thursday. Hussein Abid al-Zubeidi, who is also a member of the Diyala
provincial council, said he escaped unharmed from the attack near Baqouba, 35
miles northeast of Baghdad.
Insurgents ambushed a convoy of a high ranking official from
the Iraqi Industry Ministry in the southwest of Baghdad on Thursday, killing
three of his bodyguards and an Iraqi civilian, a police source said.
"The official survived the attack unhurt," the
source told Xinhua, adding that the identity of the senior official was not
immediately known.
A roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad
on Thursday, killing two soldiers, a local source told Xinhua.
"The explosion occurred in Baiji, around 200 km
north of Baghdad. Another seven Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the
blast," the source from the US-Iraqi Joint Coordination Center in
Tikrit said.
KHALIDIYA - One Iraqi soldier was killed and two were
wounded on Wednesday when a bomb placed on the side of the road went off near
their patrol in Khalidiya near Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad,
police said.
An Iraqi Police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
that Lieutenant Colonel Khalid Hashim and two of his sons were assassinated by
gunmen in the area of Doura, southern Baghdad.
The source added that Major Muwafaq Hussein Abbas was
assassinated in a separate incident in the neighborhood of Risalah in western
Baghdad.
Also, Lieutenant Colonel Mu'ayad Hussein died from wounds
he sustained when a bomb exploded nearby his patrol in the area of Jarf
Al-Sakhr in Babil Province, south of Baghdad.
The source also said that gunmen opened fire on Member of
the Iraqi National Accord Qahtan Adnan, killing him instantly in the area of
Beya' in southern Baghdad.
Insurgent Sheep Halt U.S. Patrol
Sheep halt a U.S. army patrol near Baquba October 14,
2005. A strict overnight curfew took effect on Thursday and private vehicles
are banned from the roads entirely from Friday night to Sunday morning. REUTERS/Jorge
Silva
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RESISTANCE
END THE OCCUPATION
FORWARD OBSERVATIONS
Brainless Bullshit
Comment: T
[This quote below is the kind of brainless bullshit being
peddled since Murtha made headlines. Murtha didn't "turn" U.S. opinion about
the war. It turned long before Murtha decided it was time to open his mouth.
He and politicians generally don't create change. They react one way or
another to pressure building up from below their exalted social levels, whether
though measures of concession or measures of repression, often both at once.
[Elitist intellectuals, like the ones who wrote this
amazing idiocy, hate and fear working class Americans, who have little patience
for their endless pretentious babbling, so they credit those on top with
everything, and credit us with nothing.
[And don't forget the Iraqi resistance that has fought
the occupation to a standstill. That fact also has a little something to do
with Murtha suddenly discovering Iraq is not a winnable war. If the Imperial
politicians had succeeded in Iraq, he'd be dancing his way through Congress in
happy celebration, throwing flowers at Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.]
November 23, 2005 Rebecca Dana, Lizzy Ratner, The New York
Observer.
"If the public mood about the war is turning, it is
turning less on the work of the press and more on the outrage of Mr. Murtha,
the Pennsylvania Democrat and combat veteran who called for the troops to be
withdrawn as soon as practicable."
What do you think? Comments from service men and women, and veterans,
are especially welcome. Send to contact@militaryproject.org. Name, I.D.,
withheld on request. Replies confidential.
Happy Thanksgiving From Frying Pan Park
19 January, 2004 By Arundhati Roy, countercurrents.org
[Excerpts]
The tradition of `turkey pardoning' in the U.S. is a
wonderful allegory for New Racism.
Every year since 1947, the National Turkey Federation
presents the U.S. President with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Every year, in a
show of ceremonial magnanimity, the President spares that particular bird (and eats
another one).
After receiving the presidential pardon, the Chosen One
is sent to Frying Pan Park in Virginia to live out its natural life. The rest
of the 50 million turkeys raised for Thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten on
Thanksgiving Day. ConAgra Foods, the company that has won the Presidential
Turkey contract, says it trains the lucky birds to be sociable, to interact
with dignitaries, school children and the press. (Soon they'll even speak
English!)
That's how New Racism in the corporate era works.
A few carefully bred turkeys - the local elites of
various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, investment bankers, the
occasional Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice, some singers, some writers (like
myself) - are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park.
The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from
their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of AIDS.
Basically they're for the pot.
But the Fortunate Fowls in Frying Pan Park are doing fine.
Some of them even work for the IMF and the WTO - so who can accuse those
organisations of being anti-turkey?
Some serve as board members on the Turkey Choosing
Committee - so who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They
participate in it!
Who can say the poor are anti-corporate globalisation?
There's a stampede to get into Frying Pan Park. So what if most perish on the
way?
"How Many Countries Are There Where The Ruler Has The
Power To Send The Nation Into War Without Legislative Approval?"
November 24, 2005 by Jacob G. Hornbergery Lew Rockwell.com
[Excerpts]
President Bush and other U.S. officials say that another
reason they invaded Iraq was so that Iraq would serve as a "magnet"
for "the terrorists," meaning that the terrorists would attack U.S.
troops in Iraq rather than Americans here at home in terrorist attacks.
President Bush even taunted them to "bring it on."
But where is the morality or legality of using Iraq
for such a purpose?
Remember: Neither the Iraqi people nor their government
ever attacked the United States. What did they do to deserve to be targeted as
a "magnet" country for a "war on terrorism"?
What did they do to deserve suicide bombers killing them
and their families as they eat dinner in some cafi? What did they do to
deserve the violent insurgency, the deaths, destruction, and chaos that came
with making their country a "magnet" in the "war on
terrorism"?
President Bush said just a few days ago that Saddam
Hussein was a brutal dictator who needed to be ousted from power.
He should know, given that his father undoubtedly told
him about how brutal Saddam Hussein was when the Reagan-Bush administration was
supporting Saddam in his war of aggression against Iran. In fact, his father
might even have told President Bush that the United States was one of the
places from which Saddam got his WMD.
And speaking of dictatorial powers, how many countries in
the world are there where the ruler has the power to send the entire nation
into war without legislative approval?
That's the situation we have now here in the United States.
Sure, the Constitution which is the supreme law of land the law that we the
people impose on our federal officials requires a congressional declaration
of war, which makes the president's war on Iraq illegal under our form of
government. But who's paying attention to the Constitution?
How It Is
11.14.05 By Keith Gessen, New York Magazine [Excerpts]
In The Assassins' Gate, the most complete, sweeping,
and powerful account of the Iraq War yet written, George Packer tries to see,
to really see, how this all happened and what has happened since.
Seymour Hersh and many others have been describing the
dysfunctionality of this administration for years, but never have the implications
of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's bullying, and Bush's ignorance, been so clear.
Packer is furious at the failure of anyone in government to
think beyond the fall of Baghdad. He is furious at Rumsfeld's criminally low
troop levels, at 135,000 soldiers barely larger than the Greek expedition to
Troy, and approximately one-quarter of the number provided for the first Gulf
War.
"In Washington there had been no plan for a guerrilla
war," Packer writes about the reaction to the insurgency. "A guerrilla war would
change all the calculations about the military presence in Iraq; and so there
was no guerrilla war."
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The new weapon of this American occupation is the Stryker in
which Colby Buzzell sits and reads his Orwell, listens to his iPod, and
occasionally peeks out to man, sometimes a little blindly, his M240 Bravo
machine gun.
The much more porous Humvee is anathema to Buzzell, and
really the Stryker's only competition is the laptop, with its DVD player, on
which Buzzell finally gets to see the men who mortar their compound every
dayone of the Iraqi translators working at the base picks up a training video
from the insurgency in town.
Instead of the frantic, fearful mortarmen he'd imagined,
the video "showed three Iraqi men, all wearing black ski masks, laying out the
mortars all nice and neat and all in a row in broad daylight.
It showed these masked mortarmen taking their time
prepping the mortar tube and getting the mortars ready with no feeling of being
rushed or any fear whatsoever of being caught or blown to bits by nearby U.S.
forces.
Then the camera pans onto our forward operating base,
where you can see the water tower, chow hall, and guard towers.... They
patiently fired seven or eight mortars, and then they stopped and slowly packed
up their equipment, and then they all drove away in an old beat car."
OCCUPATION REPORT
Torture House:
"Is This A Joke?"
November 19, 2005 Khalid Jarrar, Tell Me a Secret [Excerpt]
So..
Did you read about the Torture house?
ya, I am sure you did.
Just wanted to remind you of some of the reasons why
people attack Police and national guards. This torture house story just gives
you a glimpse of what the Iraqi government is like, and why people hate it and
attack it.
And now Jaafari is all over the news telling us that he
is going to punish people behind this! hahaha!!! Is this a joke?
hellooo!!
Not like he didn't know, I mean the things that happen in
the building of the ministry of interior affairs itself aren't any better you
know, and it's not a hidden jail inside the ministry, it's THE one jail, that
people in the street know it and talk about it, and besides two rooms in the
seventh floor where I was during the time I was arrested, so we all in Iraq
know about these things that happen in the ministry of interior and Jaafari
never heard about them till Italianos told him?
hmmm...
in Arabic we have a saying: "if you did know it's a
disaster, if you didn't know then it's a bigger disaster." !!!
Sovereignty Is
November 20, 2005 Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
The below sign states: 'Please, A Very Serious Warning - We
are authorized to fire on any vehicle that approaches the convoy less than 50
meters'
.
Sovereignty is : There is a 50 meters distance between
you and death every time you leave your home in your own country.
.
The sign has been apparently updated now to a 100 meters,
instead of the 50 meters death distance (Can you read a sign that far away?)
Duh!
21 November 2005 By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Perspective
[Excerpt]
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington says there is a civil war raging in Iraq, but not a conflict between
Sunni and Shi'a. It is a clash between those who support the occupation and
those who oppose it.
OCCUPATION PALESTINE
Brave Zionist Troops Defending Freedom
A Palestinian child is taken prisoner by Zionist soldiers
during a protest at a checkpoint in the centre of the occupied Palestinian city
of Hebron Nov. 23, 2005. Later, Palestinian school teachers taught pupils in
the road outside the checkpoint to protest intrusive searches of the children
on their way to school. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
[To check out what life is like under a murderous
military occupation by a foreign power, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The foreign army is
Israeli; the occupied nation is Palestine.]
DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK
Warning:
Virulent New Sexually Transmitted Disease.
[Thanks to Mary R, who sent this in.]
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about
a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease.
The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk
behavior.
The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and pronounced
"gonna re-elect him." Many victims contracted it in 2004, after
having been screwed for the previous four years.
Cognitive characteristics of individuals infected include:
anti-social personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic
overtones, extreme cognitive dissonance, inability to incorporate new
information, pronounced xenophobia and paranoia, inability to accept
responsibility for your own actions, cowardice masked by misplaced bravado,
uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of geography and history, tendencies
towards evangelical theocracy, categorical all-or-nothing behavior.
Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this
destructive disease, which originated only a few years ago from a bush found in
Texas, has spread throughout the country.
Behold: Satan Walks The Earth
"The marines that I have had wounded over the past
five months have been attacked by a faceless enemy. But the enemy has got a
face. He's called Satan." US Marine Colonel Gareth Brandl
November 18 2005, Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson,
prisonplanet.com
The gesture represents the horned devil, also known as
the Mano Cornuto and Diabolicus. This gesture is the Satanic salute, a sign of
recognition between and allegiance of members of Satanism or other unholy
groups.
Headlines were made last year during Bush's inauguration
when the President and his family repeatedly flashed the sign.
Europeans were shocked and interpreted the gesture as a
salute to Satan.
General Tommy Franks
Italian Prime
minister Berlusconi
Anton Lavey, Leader
of the Church of Satan
From the
"Satanic Bible"
A Satanic Ritual
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Dick Cheney: War Profiteer
Nov 18, 2005 by Tom Turnipseed, Opednews.com [Excerpt]
Cheney has pursued a political and corporate career to make
himself very rich and powerful.
He is the personification of a war profiteer who slid
through the revolving door connecting the public and private sectors of the
defense establishment on two occasions in a career that has served his
relentless quest for power and profits.
As Defense Secretary, Mr. Cheney commissioned a study for
the U.S. Department of Defense by Brown and Root Services (now Kellogg, Brown
and Root), a wholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton. The study recommended
that private firms like Halliburton should take over logistical support
programs for U.S. military operations around the world.
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