McCAIN MIA ON VETERANS ISSUES
Iraq Veterans Against
the War marched on the RNC in St. Paul Minnesota to protest the war,
and deliver a letter on the treatment of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan War. McCain's
representatives refused to receive the letter or meet with the IVAW
representative. (1Sep2008)
see also www.ivaw.org
www.veteransforpeace.org
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RACHEL CORRIE - AN AMERICAN HERO: Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
In her Winter Soldier II testimony Dr. Wasfi
paid tribute to Rachel Corrie. "Rachel at the time -- 2003 --
was a 23-year-old college student who, after September 11th, wanted
to learn about other cultures...wanted to try to understand what was
going on. Tragically on March 16, 2003 Rachel was crushed by an
Israeli Caterpillar D-9
Bulldozer (commanded by the Israeli Defense Forces) while blocking a
home demolition in Rafah with the International Solidarity Movement.
full text/more
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A SNIPER'S TALE:
Garret Reppenhagen
"There are ways to resist this war within army
regulations, if you're a citizen soldier you still obtain your
rights as a citizen you’re able to use those rights and you should
since your the one sacrificing to protect those rights." Reppenhagen
spoke on the IVAW panel, "The future of GI resistance," at the
Winter Soldier testimony in March 2008. He is the co-creator of an
active duty resistance blog
ftssoldier.blogspot.com
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WORKING CLASS WAR:
Prof. Chris Appy
After the Vietnam War and the great slumber (1973-2003), those at
the top and the ideologues who achieved control of the U.S.
government, learned visceral lessons from the Vietnam War: do away
with the draft, control the media, privatize the military, fine tune
the killing machine (the officers) & govern by stealth and false
flag. Appy, in his March 15 2008 testimony, sees cause for hope in
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I’M NO LONGER THE MONSTER I ONCE
WAS: IVAW activist Jon M. Turner began his Winter Soldier
2008 testimony, “‘Once a Marine, always a Marine.’ But there’s also
the term, ‘Eat the apple, F the core.’” With that, Turner ripped his
many medals from his shirt, “I don’t work for you no more.” In
bravely relating his horrific experiences In Iraq, Turner exposes
the purposeful and on-going creation of monsters by the U.S.
military, the politicians who direct them and the public which
acquiesces. As Francisco Goya wrote many years ago, “the sleep of
reason produces monsters.”
see also
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'I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING THE RIGHT
THING'
Iraq Veteran Against the War Sergio Kochergin woke up to the
criminal nature of the war sometime in his second deployment to
Iraq. Speaking out at Winter Soldier Sergio described how he was
used and abused. Winter Soldier 2008 Testimonies from Iraq and
Afghanistan, Silver Spring Maryland.
15min
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part one 5:43
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part two 9:32
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‘WE’RE POISONING THE WORLD’:
WINTER SOLDIER II Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW),
Silver Spring Maryland, March 13-16, 2008. Matt Howard (USMC 1st
Tank Battalion) reveals the military policy toward its troops: lie
and cover-up, then discard and/or discredit.
full text/more see also www.ivaw.org
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"I JOINED THE NATIONAL GUARD..
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE THE INTERNATIONAL GUARD."
- IVAW member Ryan
IVAW Winter Soldier Fundraiser - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Feb 23 2008.
Winter Soldier,
Washington D.C. March 13-16th, 2008
For simulcast info visit:
www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier/howtowatch
Once again, veterans are fighting for the soul of our country.
They will demonstrate their patriotism by speaking out with honor
and integrity instead of blindly following failed policy.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from
U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate
account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the
ground.
see also:
http://www.myspace.com/ivawchicago
www.ivaw.org
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WE BLEW UP THE WORLD TRADE CENTER..NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON. HELLO! -- MAJOR DOUG ROKKE, U.S. ARMY
After over 30 years in the military, happily doing whatever the military told him, Doug Rokke worked his way through college, BS in physics (Western Illinois), and MS and PhD in physics at the U. of Illinois Champaign/Urbana. All this time, he was still a “warrior”. And then, after “Desert Storm” (mass murder part I), Major Doug Rokke was handed he “DU clean-up project” by the U.S. Army. The Army brass (read corporate flunkies) knew what a hideous thing “depleted uranium” was, but Doug Rokke didn’t. When he found out, he was determined to expose the crimes, In this talk, Doug Rokke relies on his life-long contacts and experience in the Pentagon (3rd floor office, a 100 feet from the impact site) for the low down on the absurdity of a 757 folding its wings back and disappearing through a series of holes. Hello!
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DOUG ROKKE IN 2003 IN
ROCHESTER, NY at a VFW
post.
Maj. Doug Rokke, PhD, was tasked to do the 1991 Gulf War clean-up of 'depleted uranium' - DU -- for the U.S. Army. Here he speaks to veterans and anti-war activists. Rokke exposes the US military's total indifference to the fate of not only the Iraqi people, b ut also to the men and women in the US military and the rest of the world. Rokke was told to lie by his superiors about the harmful effects of DU while he himself and his military comrades were sick and dying of DU poisoning. (part 1 of 4)
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"KILL EVERYBODY" - AMERICAN
SOLDIER EXPOSES US POLICY IN IRAQ
"I joined in '03," 'cause I was broke, I needed money, but I was a young American kid, I wanted to fight in a war. I joined up. [A] month out of training I arrived in Baghdad, Iraq, January '04. Saddam's been captured. And I get there and the guys I'm serving with have been there for six months already; they were there in '03. And I go, "Well, you know what, I think it's come out that, you know, these people had nothing to do with 9/11, there was no Iraqi on those planes. We can see around here there's no Al Qaida, there's no terrorist syndicates in Baghdad, or Iraq. Saddam had stamped 'em out." And I asked my buddies, "Well, you know, we're here to find 'weapons of mass destruction'." And they laughed at me. And I said, "Well, you know, we're here to 'help the people.'" And they laughed at me. And I said, "What's our mission? What's our goal?"...They're like, "All we're trying to do is make it home alive..." Anderson describes the escalation of violence against unarmed civilians: "In April, they told us, "In a crowded area, if one person shoots at you, kill everybody." Anderson explains the rationale from the officers, "They [members of the crowd of people] are letting them [the person or persons firing at the U.S. military] attack you. They're no longer innocent if they're there at the time of the crime..." (9/11 conference, Chandler AZ Feb 23-25, 2007) 911TV.org
- snowshoefilms post-production. (more)
9:46min forum
discussion
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WILL WILLIAMS: A VETERAN FOR PEACE
The only way out of Mississippi for Will Williams was the U.S.
Army. He joined in 1962, served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam, then
realized his hatred for his and his peoples’ oppressors in
central Mississippi had been transferred onto the Vietnamese; he
had been an easy mind control victim, used to kill Vietnamese.
In his talk, Williams demystifies the euphemisms and acronyms (IED,
PDD, CVS, TBI) that hide the ongoing genocide of Iraqis, the
treachery being visited on the American soldiers, and the
privatization of the military via mercenary corporations. A
Madison-based VFP member, Williams spoke at the Milwaukee
Veterans For Peace-sponsored rally, Jan. 26, 2007 (transcript)
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THE CANADIAN PEOPLE SAY 'WAR RESISTERS WELCOME HERE': Brandon
Hughey, US Army war resister, escaped to Canada to avoid
participating in what the young soldier came to regard as a
crime against humanity, the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Brandon spoke to some 15 thousand assembled in Ottawa on Nov. 30, 2004 to
protest Bush’s visit to Canada. (transcript of Hughey’s remarks)
more on Brandon
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DOROTHY MACKEY: SURVIVORS TAKE ACTION AGAINST
ABUSE BY U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL (STAAAMP) A former U.S. Air
Force captain, Dorothy Mackey explains that rape is integral to
the military. She explains the military’s systematic training to
abuse and accept abuse, the programmatic decreasing of
self-awareness that constitutes perhaps the most important part
of “basic training” in which malleable youths are indoctrinated
to think of themselves as expendable...20min 15meg quicktime file 12meg winmedia file - thanks to
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Vets for Peace (Ft Benning GA) Veterans for Peace: Nov. 23, 2003 Ft. Benning GA SOA Watch. The vets - Dick Underhill, Austin: This is the only country that wants war; John
Amidon, Albany: We're defending our rights to assemble, speak, demand justice; Dave Arnolds, Denver: I thought
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Wounded "Held Captive" at Walter Reed
Disabled Vets Fire Back at Rumsfeld
By DAVID VEST
The organization known as Disabled American Veterans has been helping U.S. combat casualties figure out what benefits they have coming to them and how to apply for them since 1920. Lately the Bush administration has been going out of its way to make the DAV's job harder.
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VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR: BARRY ROMA Coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War: “If you love the GI’s, say
No to war. Our government loves their vets so much, they’re cutting their health care.”
Chicago, Daley Plaza, March 16, 2003.
www.vvaw.org
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TIME TO PUT THOSE GUNS AWAY: Veterans For Peace (NYC, Feb. 15, 2003) They came from all over the US, veterans of US wars and occupation all over the globe. Some of their voices: Harry Fisher (Lincoln Brigade): We have to start fighting for not war, but for peace. David Cline: They wave the flag when you attack, when you come home, they turn their back. Tony Flaherty: This is an immoral, illegal war; the US is becoming an international disgrace. Michael
McPhearson: The US needs to lead the world not with force and coercion but through cooperation. Gene Glazer: When the body bags start coming back, what are they going to tell us?
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