http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2708/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

05/02/05

Mission accomplished? If the mission was to create conditions giving rise to sectarian violence, a growing insurgency, and all-out civil war, while dragging us to the brink of bankruptcy, then, yes, you might say that. But only if you were Osama bin Laden. While the ability of this administration to delude itself seems without parallel or limit, it is second only to their ability to delude the American public...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5800

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Veterans still feel Vietnam scars

Vietnam is a 30-year nightmare, from which Jim Doyle is still trying to wake. Every week he sees a psychiatrist, but no-one can free him from the demons of war. The smallest things - like the smell of diesel - bring the memories flooding back. But it is the big things that worry him most. "Nobody who has ever been to war wants to see anybody else go there," he said. "So Iraq has been a very difficult time. "War is hell," he adds. "It has an impact on the people who take part that never heals."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3136


Vietnam's lost lessons

Perhaps fittingly for a war as controversial as that in Vietnam, the last iconic images from the bitter conflict show the chaos, fear and confusion as helicopters evacuate Americans and South Vietnamese from the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy and other locations in Saigon. Four hours after the last evacuees were lifted to safety offshore, the South Vietnamese government announced its unconditional surrender to the Viet Cong. The long, costly war had ended.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3137


30-Year Anniversary Fall of Saigon: Vietnam and Iraq

SPRING HAS COME again 30 times since the last April agonies of the Republic of South Vietnam. None of us who were there in that final collapse are likely to forget it: The seemingly endless columns of refugees snaking ever southward, the infectious fear that ran through the streets of Saigon, the sudden suicides, some of them in public places, the rumors and pathetic false hopes that some kind of deal would be made, that the Communists would not come after all.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3138

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=3037331


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon04292005.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

Custer Battles security guards have also been accused of firing at unarmed civilians. They have been accused of crushing a car filled with Iraqi children and adults.

http://cbsnewyork.com/national/WildContractor-ABRIDG-aa/resources_news_html


From Information Clearing House

As military recruiting tumbles and casualties escalate, the news report below asks, "How far will U.S. Army recruiters go to bring young men and women into their ranks? An Arvada West High School (Colorado) senior recently decided to find out." In addition to the story below, the CBS News 4 web site contains an eight minute investigative report. Watch it and see what really happened in one town.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3132

When Dustin W. Peters, an Air Force supply technician, arrived in Kuwait in January 2004, all he and his fellow airmen knew was that they would be supporting US troops in Iraq. But when their unit received its assignment, they recalled, they were stunned: They would be protecting supply convoys traveling along Iraq's violent roadways.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3130

Since prehistoric times, wars have killed combatants and civilians — by weapons but also by infections. In addition to creating crowded, unsanitary conditions, wars expose people to bacteria and viruses to which they have no immunity.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3127