Washington hid damaging Vietnam finding The US National Security Agency has kept secret a 2001 finding by its own historian that its officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence during the Tonkin Gulf episode that helped precipitate the Vietnam War. The historian’s conclusion was the first serious accusation that the agency’s intercepts were falsified to support the [...]
Our Walk Through Life by Zachary Scott-Singley, Iraq What is the human condition? Here in Iraq we fight terrorists and insurgents. We give them names (haji, towel head, rag head) to peal away their humanity. We focus only on the horrible things that have happened so that we can bring ourselves to kill, but in [...]
Half of US Marines to leave Okinawa The United States and Japan agreed Saturday on the most sweeping change in their military relationship in more than 35 years, including a sharp reduction in the number of U.S. Marines on Okinawa and a greater role for Japan in alliance military operations. U.S. Secretaries of State and [...]
Care packages boost homesick troops morale According to guidelines issued by the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA), Americans who want to send support to troops spending the holidays in Operations Iraqi or Enduring Freedom are running out of time. Mailing deadlines issued by the MPSA range from Nov. 12 for parcel post to December 10 [...]
Uparmored’ vehicles aren’t yet in Iraq WASHINGTON – Hundreds of new, top-of-the-line armored Humvees are parked in Texas and Kuwait and won’t be shipped to troops in Iraq even though those soldiers face daily roadside bombs, the Army acknowledged Thursday. The Army said it’s keeping the vehicles out of Iraq until the 3rd Infantry Division’s [...]
A must read for those who “Support our Troops,” but oppose the War in Iraqby Dr. Rand Pellegrino, D.C. I am a Purple Heart Viet Nam Veteran. I am here to speak the truth. I request you listen and I challenge you to to come up with a better solution. I love America, and I believe most of [...]
Congress-SBA vs Direct Loan Programsby Patrick Cherf I feel I need to tell this story so others with a disability may identify with what I am going through. This may shock you but, did you know that congress has discontinued all the direct loan programs 1995? These programs were wonderful tools for vets who wanted [...]
A group of Vietnam vets is suing John Kerry for discrediting its film on the war A few years ago, the term “Greatest Generation” was coined to describe the generation of men who served in the military during the Second World War. And those men were truly extraordinary. But I often have thought that a [...]
U.S. Navy Announces CVN to Replace USS Kitty Hawk in 2008 The U.S. Navy announced today that one of its nine Nimitz-class aircraft carriers will replace the USS Kitty Hawk as the forward deployed carrier in the Western Pacific, and will arrive in Yokosuka, Japan in 2008. The USS Kitty Hawk is nearing the end [...]
Troops Pay Price for Pentagon MismanagementBy Diane M. Grassi Staff Sergeant George T. Alexander, Jr. suffered injuries in an October 17, 2005 explosion in Iraq. He died of his sustained wounds on October 22, 2005 in San Antonio, TX near his home of Killeen, TX. Unfortunately, his death will be earmarked as the 2,000th United [...]
US moves Okinawa air base to heal riftBy Colin Joyce The United States agreed yesterday to move an air base into another military site on the Japanese island of Okinawa in a climbdown aimed at reducing friction between the US military and locals. Okinawans, whose small, southern island houses more than half the 50,000 US [...]
Bush says Iraq war will require more sacrifice WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. George Alexander became the 2,000th soldier to be killed in Iraq when he died of wounds. President Bush noted the milestone Tuesday during an appearance at a lunch for officers’ wives at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington. He [...]
The weekend of October 21-23 saw the coming together of a tribunal that indicted the Bush regime for crimes against humanity. The First Session of The 2005 International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration was held at the Grand Ballroom of the Manhattan Center in New York City. There [...]
Making a killing: a British point of view The American government is hiring private security firms to stabilise Iraq and paying them a fortune to do it. But many of them are unregulated and operate outside the law. Jon Swain joins the hired guns on the streets of Baghdad and assesses the real cost of [...]
Document Permitting Proselytizing WithdrawnBy Alan Cooperman The Air Force, facing a lawsuit over alleged proselytizing, has withdrawn a document that permitted chaplains to evangelize military personnel who were not affiliated with any faith, Pentagon officials said yesterday. The document was circulated at the Air Force Chaplain School until eight weeks ago. It was a “code [...]
WMD reports, satellite photos called lackingBy Russell Contreras Bush administration officials misled themselves on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ”then they misled the world,” Hans Blix, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector said yesterday. Speaking at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Blix criticized the administration’s actions before [...]
Images of WWII continue to surface for U.S. veteransby Alison BathPictured Left MILITARY FAMILY: Members of the Pierre family with past and present military service gather for a portrait. From left, Kevin Lanier and his parents Isabell and James Lanier, Alphonse “Al” and Georgeen Pierre of Fallon (Al and Isabell are siblings), Kevin’s son Jonathan, [...]
9/11 Theologian Says Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Is Now Fact, Not Theory In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries [...]
Afghanistan: That Other War BOMBINGS, SHOOTINGS AND VIOLENT deaths continue in Afghanistan, site of the first post-9/11 American war. Although the campaign in Afghanistan became the “other” conflict once the invasion of Iraq began, the country remains dangerous and uncertain, and international cooperation there is as crucial as ever. Last week, a suicide bomber killed nine [...]
War Vets Share Experiences of Combatby Josh Harris Ithaca, New York–While not readily apparent to most casual observers, the casualties of war are not limited to the loss of lives and limbs. For many of soldiers returning from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those who returned from Vietnam long ago, [...]
The PatriotBy Zachary Scott-Singley I remember when it used to mean something to have a flag. When it wasn’t just the popular thing to do. Now you wear a flag lapel pin and it really doesn’t mean much. Just go to your local supermarket for proof. There you can find things like Patriot’s Choice bottled [...]
What they’re not telling Reservists & National Guard Members War On Terror Reservists and National Guard Members do not have to meet the 24 continuous months of Active-Duty service requirement in order to be eligible for full VA Medical Care Benefits if they were called to Active-Duty by Federal Declaration or Federal Executive Order by [...]
Iraq veterans increasingly throwing their helmets into ringBy Jessica Wehrman When his Republican opponent took a swipe at Democrat David Ashe’s stance on the war on terror during the 2004 race for a Virginia Beach congressional seat, Ashe had a ready retort. “She said I was weak on the war on terror,” Ashe recalls. “I [...]
Startling discovery in remote Sierra Nevada glacier is being unearthed today Climbers in the Sierra Nevada made a startling discovery in Kings Canyon National Park when they came across the body of an airman believed to have died in 1942.Park rangers and military officials are trying to excavate the body. Officials believe the serviceman, who is [...]
Dan Plesch evaluates the evidence pointing towards a new conflict in the Middle East By Dan Plesch The Sunday Telegraph warned last weekend that the UN had a last chance to avert war with Iran and, at a meeting in London last week, the US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, expressed his regret that [...]
Former Green Beret Comes Clean About Mafia-Like Hit On Military Officer Who Knew Too Much About Kennedy AssassinationBy Greg Szymanski Called ‘Dangerous Dan’ by his military buddies does an about face from being a Green Beret and military hitman to now fighting for Christ as a born again Christian. Once he found the Lord, the [...]
All the President’s Men & The PresidentBy Joseph Allen To quote one of the greatest philosophers of our generation, There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There [...]
Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about IraqBy Dave Lindorff More people today want to see President Bush impeached than wanted Clinton impeached on the eve of the House’s vote on his impeachment. According to a poll by the Zogby organization, just released by the group Afterdowningstreet.org, 50 percent of the American public now [...]
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