Anti-War
For the past six years, the American Gulf War Veterans Association have
received numerous reports from veterans stating that US forces were
responsible for the setting of the oil well fires at the end of the Gulf
War. These testimonies are now being taken very seriously in light of
recent revelations of the events that occurred during the first Gulf War.
Joyce Riley, spokesperson for The American Gulf War Veterans Association is quoted as saying: There was intentional misinformation given to the American people to generate support for Desert Storm often created by advertising agencies such as Hill and Knowlton.
* Revelations regarding the Incubator story, in which Republican Guard were reported to have thrown babies out of their incubators onto the cold floor turned out to be false and a fraud on the American People. (S.R. 103-900).
* The St. Petersburg Times disproved the report of satellite photos showing a thousand Iraqi tanks amassing on the Saudi border.
Joyce Riley, spokesperson for The American Gulf War Veterans Association is quoted as saying: There was intentional misinformation given to the American people to generate support for Desert Storm often created by advertising agencies such as Hill and Knowlton.
* Revelations regarding the Incubator story, in which Republican Guard were reported to have thrown babies out of their incubators onto the cold floor turned out to be false and a fraud on the American People. (S.R. 103-900).
* The St. Petersburg Times disproved the report of satellite photos showing a thousand Iraqi tanks amassing on the Saudi border.
Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf, I decided to write a paper and keep things in proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons, munitions, and training expert.
Lesson number one: In the mid 1990s, there were a series of nerve gas attacks on crowded Japanese subway stations. Given perfect conditions for an attack, less than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured were better in a few hours), and only one percent of the injured died.
"60 Minutes" once had a fellow telling us that one drop of nerve gas could kill 1,000 people, well he didn't tell you that the 1,000 dead people per drop was theoretical. Drill Sergeants exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the recruits awake in class (I know this because I was a Drill Sergeant too).
Forget everything you've ever seen on TV, in the movies, or read in a novel about this stuff, it was all a lie (read this sentence again out loud!). These weapons are about terror, if you remain calm, you will probably not die. This is far less scary than the media and their "experts" make it sound.
Lesson number one: In the mid 1990s, there were a series of nerve gas attacks on crowded Japanese subway stations. Given perfect conditions for an attack, less than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured were better in a few hours), and only one percent of the injured died.
"60 Minutes" once had a fellow telling us that one drop of nerve gas could kill 1,000 people, well he didn't tell you that the 1,000 dead people per drop was theoretical. Drill Sergeants exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the recruits awake in class (I know this because I was a Drill Sergeant too).
Forget everything you've ever seen on TV, in the movies, or read in a novel about this stuff, it was all a lie (read this sentence again out loud!). These weapons are about terror, if you remain calm, you will probably not die. This is far less scary than the media and their "experts" make it sound.
“Only in the most direct sense is the Bush administration’s Iraq policy directed against Saddam Hussein. In contrast to all the loud talk about terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and human rights violations, very little is being said about oil. The administration has been tight-lipped about its plans for a post-Saddam Iraq, and has repeatedly disavowed any interest in the country’s oil resources. But press reports indicate that U.S. officials are considering a prolonged occupation of Iraq after a war to topple Saddam Hussein. It is likely that a U.S.-controlled Iraq will be the linchpin of a new order in the world oil industry. A war against Iraq may well herald a major realignment of the Middle East power balance.“
The USA has bombed the
following countries between 1945 and 1999:
China (1945-46 & 1950-53)
Korea (1950-53)
Guatemala (1954 & 1960)
Indonesia (1958)
Cuba (1959-60)
Congo (1964)
Peru (1965)
Laos (1964-73)
Vietnam (1961-73)
Cambodia (1969-70)
Guatemala (1967-69)
Grenada (1983)
Libya (1986)
El Salvador & Nicaragua (all of the 1980s)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991-present)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
None of these bombing campaigns led to the establishment of humane democracies in the countries.
China (1945-46 & 1950-53)
Korea (1950-53)
Guatemala (1954 & 1960)
Indonesia (1958)
Cuba (1959-60)
Congo (1964)
Peru (1965)
Laos (1964-73)
Vietnam (1961-73)
Cambodia (1969-70)
Guatemala (1967-69)
Grenada (1983)
Libya (1986)
El Salvador & Nicaragua (all of the 1980s)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991-present)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
None of these bombing campaigns led to the establishment of humane democracies in the countries.
Following the infamous September
11 terrorist attacks, there’s been an
active international debate surrounding the Bush administration’s secret oil negotiations with the Taliban earlier in the summer of 2001. U.S. oil giant Unocal proposed a massive natural gas pipeline project extracting oil and gas from former Soviet Central Asian republics through then-Taliban ruled Afghanistan to its final destination in Pakistan.
The recently revised and expanded English edition of Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy And The Failed Hunt For Bin Laden details the Bush administration’s threats against the Taliban a month prior to the 9/11 events. French intelligence experts Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié suggest that Bush administration threats stating that “Either you accept our carpet of gold or we’ll carpet you with bombs,” led to the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The recently revised and expanded English edition of Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy And The Failed Hunt For Bin Laden details the Bush administration’s threats against the Taliban a month prior to the 9/11 events. French intelligence experts Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié suggest that Bush administration threats stating that “Either you accept our carpet of gold or we’ll carpet you with bombs,” led to the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Some resent the term “class warfare,” but what a great description for our headlong rush to war with Iraq: Class Warfare. Ask yourself, “Who will benefit and who will pay?” While there is no evidence of a connection between Iraq and Al-Qaida, there ARE many indications that war with Iraq will energize Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. Why would anyone want that?
Plans were prepared for a war with Iraq BEFORE the attack of September 11. How could those plans result from an act of terrorism which had not yet occurred and which, by its own statement, the administration could not have anticipated?
If America’s goal is to protect Iraq’s neighbors, why are all its neighbors except Israel against the war? If our goal is to protect the larger world from a mad man, why has the rest of the world been so loath to support us?
Plans were prepared for a war with Iraq BEFORE the attack of September 11. How could those plans result from an act of terrorism which had not yet occurred and which, by its own statement, the administration could not have anticipated?
If America’s goal is to protect Iraq’s neighbors, why are all its neighbors except Israel against the war? If our goal is to protect the larger world from a mad man, why has the rest of the world been so loath to support us?
George Orwell wrote 1984 as a
warning of the threat of totali-
tarianism. But when George W. Bush read the CliffsNotes version he must have seen it as a blueprint for good government.
Bush’s continued chipping away at Americans’ rights as part of the war on terrorism is one prominent example of his penchant for a supreme government. The most frightening manifestation of this is the Pentagon’s plan to use computers to monitor hundreds of thousands of civilians in search of terrorists. What makes this idea even more scary is the person Bush has put in charge of it — John M. Poindexter. The former national security adviser was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, but the convictions were overturned because he had been given immunity for his testimony during the congressional investigation of the affair.
Another example of Bush’s push for a supreme empire is his threatened war on Iraq. To our Orwellian president, this war is peace — Pax Americana style.
Bush’s continued chipping away at Americans’ rights as part of the war on terrorism is one prominent example of his penchant for a supreme government. The most frightening manifestation of this is the Pentagon’s plan to use computers to monitor hundreds of thousands of civilians in search of terrorists. What makes this idea even more scary is the person Bush has put in charge of it — John M. Poindexter. The former national security adviser was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, but the convictions were overturned because he had been given immunity for his testimony during the congressional investigation of the affair.
Another example of Bush’s push for a supreme empire is his threatened war on Iraq. To our Orwellian president, this war is peace — Pax Americana style.
PRESIDENT BUSH: GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: GOOD MORNING, GEORGE.
SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL: REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: GOOD MORNING.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, boys, I've gotta tell you I'm pretty steamed this morning. Why haven't we found those weapons of mass destruction yet? Colin?
SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL: They're not in Iraq, Sir. They're in Korea.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: George, we've been through this before. We all knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam isn't stupid.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I don't need to hear about whether Saddam Hussein is stupid or he isn't stupid, Dick. I'm not stupid, that's all that counts. We set to attack Iraq long before I ran for president. And where the hell is the evidence we need to sell this damn thing.
SECRETARY POWELL: Seems like we've been outfoxed.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: GOOD MORNING, GEORGE.
SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL: REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: GOOD MORNING.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, boys, I've gotta tell you I'm pretty steamed this morning. Why haven't we found those weapons of mass destruction yet? Colin?
SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL: They're not in Iraq, Sir. They're in Korea.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: George, we've been through this before. We all knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam isn't stupid.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I don't need to hear about whether Saddam Hussein is stupid or he isn't stupid, Dick. I'm not stupid, that's all that counts. We set to attack Iraq long before I ran for president. And where the hell is the evidence we need to sell this damn thing.
SECRETARY POWELL: Seems like we've been outfoxed.
We feel that the United States is violation of the following articles, for the following reasons:
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
But when Shea-Keneally insisted on an explanation, she was in for an even
bigger surprise: The recruiters cited the No Child Left Behind Act,
President Bush's sweeping new education law passed earlier this year.
There, buried deep within the law's 670 pages, is a provision requiring
public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not only with
access to facilities, but also with contact information for every student
-- or face a cutoff of all federal aid.
"I was very surprised the requirement was attached to an education law," says Shea-Keneally. "I did not see the link."
The military complained this year that up to 15 percent of the nation's high schools are "problem schools" for recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new recruitment requirement, says such schools "demonstrated an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive."
"I was very surprised the requirement was attached to an education law," says Shea-Keneally. "I did not see the link."
The military complained this year that up to 15 percent of the nation's high schools are "problem schools" for recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new recruitment requirement, says such schools "demonstrated an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive."