Please have a thorough look at this site and forward widely:

This site is comprised solely of letters directly from the G.I.s.
The site is updated daily.
http://www.militaryproject.org/
http://www.militaryproject.org/article.asp?id=529
and also:
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/

Then visit http://www.addictedtowar.com/


Informant: sash

Denis Halliday resigned as co-ordinator of humanitarian relief to Iraq in 1998, after 34 years with the UN. His was the first public expression of an unprecedented rebellion within the UN bureaucracy. "We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that."

http://www.democratsdiary.co.uk/2005/04/poor-are-revolting.html


From Information Clearing House

The number of soldiers to desert the army or go absent without leave has more than doubled over the past year, the Ministry of Defence has revealed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1458283,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Journalist and former hostage Giuliana Sgrena says that the American military is lying about the shooting at a security checkpoint in Iraq that wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence officer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/12/60II/main687555.shtml


From Information Clearing House

"I had to pick up several of my friends piece by piece. I had to kill women, children, old men - everyone."

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2005/04/02/local/doc424e94a503a1f286702309.txt


From Information Clearing House

The international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders is calling on the U.S. government to release a CBS cameraman it shot last week while he was covering a gunfight in Mosul. When he was shot, the Iraqi freelancer was armed with only his camera.

http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=5521


From Information Clearing House

The United Nations special envoy to Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, has told the UN Security Council that greater attention needs to be paid to human rights there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4435315.stm


From Information Clearing House

The US is failing - and hatred of the occupation greater than ever.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8527.htm

by Ted Rall

Repetition is key to successful advertising. The American media uses repeated arbitrary labeling in its supposedly impartial coverage in a deliberate campaign to alter public perception. Americans were meant to feel less sympathy for an kidnapped Italian woman shot by U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint in Iraq after the talking heads repeatedly referred to her as a "communist journalist."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8525.htm

Take Action:

Right now, the Senate is considering amendments to the Bush administration's $82 billion spending request for tsunami relief and U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan .

Regardless of whether you believe U.S. forces should leave today, next year, or the moment Iraq is able to provide for its own security, one p rob lem remains clear: the Bush administration is not doing enough to create a responsible way out of Iraq .

While reports of progress in equipping and training Iraq 's new security forces are encouraging, U.S. assistance has fallen short in helping Iraq build the civilian institutions that underpin democracy.

Two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq 's national ministries, directorates, and governing institutions lack the capacity to effectively direct resources or make decisions based on the needs of the Iraqi people.

Join the Education for Peace in Iraq Center ( EPIC ) in asking the Senate to amend the emergency appropriations bill. Urge them to require that the Bush administration provide a detailed plan for supporting Iraq 's transition to a fully independent and stable democracy, including a clear timetable for the reduction and full withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Click below to send a letter today:
http://dev.epic-usa.org/index.cfm?MemberID=40068&Page=Campaign&CampaignID=1&subPage=Action