Author's posts
Apr 01 2008
“We Are Your New Winter Soldiers” – IVAW Winter Soldiers 2008
Back on March 19th I placed a post, on my site, as well as a few others. I also sent that out to a small e-list I maintain to a few site boards, mostly Veteran, and individuals. I will give you the link and part of that post shortly, but first I would like you to view these closing remarks, from the Winter Soldiers 2008 Testimonies, by Camilo Mejia of Iraq Veterans Against The War.
Camilo Mejia, chair of Iraq Vets Against War on GI resistance, the Real News Network Video report.
Mar 31 2008
Tracking a Marine Lost at Home
Chip Litherland for The New York Times
Eric Hall, an Iraq war veteran, disappeared last month after having a flashback.
The following needs no commentary, Visit the article and Read the whole report, Absorb and Learn!
Mar 30 2008
“Stop Loss” Military and Military Family Perspective
The reviews you should be reading and listening to, from Military Personal and Family members Of. The ones, small numbers they are, who are actually sacrificing and understand the meanings some of these movies are trying to bring out, that the greater majority, the civilian population, really need to be explained to. Especially in these conflicts they do little to nothing as a sacrifice, most important not wanting to pony up the cost of these Wars of Choice and the Huge longterm Costs of!
Stop Loss:
Retention policy of keeping solders in the military past their contractual obligation
Mar 29 2008
This is the face of the war in Iraq
The mind behind it will never be the same.
The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine
Only one face, of the tens of thousands, radically changed by their experiance in a War Of Choice, Choice by those who don’t fight them, not Absolutely The Last Resort! In Wars Of Choice most start questioning the Why? of their being ordered there, Survival becomes the ‘Nobel Cause’, theirs and those around them, and Survival comes with Deep Costs! Once having normal trained minds, absorbing more knowledge and experiances, the Nightmares of Death and Destruction take over, haughting many for the rest of their lives!
Mar 28 2008
How a War pRes. F***’s Up His War
Exclusive: Who’s Behind Abu Ghraib?
“It is important to understand that the MI units at Abu Ghraib were far from complete units,” reads the internal report. “They were small elements from those units. Most of the elements that came to Abu Ghraib came without their normal command structure.
One of Numorous F***ups!!
Mar 28 2008
Arlington West – March 2008 – Honoring The Fallen
Before dawn every Sunday morning, at the foot of the Santa Monica Pier, volunteers set up crosses in memory of American service members killed in Iraq.
The Video was produced for the New York Times and can be also seen At Their Site
Mar 26 2008
Tomas to pRes. dick, “We Didn’t Volunteer Where You Sent Us to Go”
If you missed ‘Democracy Now’ today:
“Many of us volunteered with patriotic feelings in our heart, only to see them subverted and bastardized by the administration and sent into the wrong country. Yes, we volunteered, but we didn¹t volunteer where you sent us to go.”
Mar 25 2008
Basra Breaking?
A few days ago we get this:
U.S. Wants British ‘Surge’ In S. Iraq: Paper
And why, because:
It quoted an unnamed senior U.S .military source saying: “Three big militias are currently engaged in a particularly bloody battle in southern Iraq.
Mar 24 2008
4,000 Souls
Sen. Robert Byrd has a request posted over at Huffington Post, the title is his.
He hasn’t Waivered as apparently many in this Country have!
Mar 23 2008
The Dark Side
Lets see Saddam, even though we installed and supported him, Had To Go. Because he Arrested the Innocent and his ‘Henchmen’ Tortured and Killed many of those arrested, as well as Killing and Maiming Tens of Thousands of Iraqi’s. Those are only a Couple of the many ‘Nobel Cause’ Reasons for the Righteousness of Invading, Destroying, and Occupying Iraq for our National Security!
Mar 22 2008
Body Of War
Last night, 3-21-08, on the PBS Bill Moyers Journal, Bill talked
with Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the true cost of war and their documentary, BODY OF WAR
The filmmakers talk about Iraq war veteran Tomas Young who was shot and paralyzed less than a week into his tour of duty. Three years in the making, BODY OF WAR tells the poignant tale of the young man’s journey from joining the service after 9/11 to fight in Afghanistan, to living with devastating wounds after being deployed to Iraq instead.
