04/11/05

Modern war has now become a video game. We watch it on TV; middle-class kids don't have to fight; it's so heavily censored we don't see our coffins coming home or blown-apart Iraqi 12-year-old kids with no arms. For all practical purposes, the wars don't exist for most people. That's the way the military and the administration wants it. Most people won't be affected by the wars until it bothers them economically or until casualties get too high. And that day will come, quite soon. I think it's already starting. I am reminded of spectators in the Coliseum, who apparently didn't see the combatants as real people. To them, it was like TV for us today...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/wallace/wallace16.html

from Strike the Root, by Bob Wallace


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/12/05

[T]he only American deaths that have occurred from any anthrax attack have been five civilians in the USA during the fall of 2001 from exposure to a strain of anthrax widely believed to have been domestically produced. But while zero service personnel have been killed in action from Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of anthrax and other Iraqi WMD that have mysteriously gone walkabout -- or anthrax from any other source -- six Americans have died after receiving DOD's anthrax vaccine!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43747

from WorldNetDaily, by Col. David Hackworth (USA, Ret.)


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/09/05

While the TV networks remind us that today is an anniversary of sorts, we should remind ourselves that the entire war has been a fraud -- from the supposed threats that George Bush kept waving in our faces -- to the staging of the statue toppling -- to the honoring of Jessica Lynch's 'heroic deeds' and her supposed rescue -- to the constant claims that the Iraqi people are free -- to the celebrating of every small step as proof that killing all those people has produced something wonderful...

http://www.harrybrowne.org/Articles/HusseinStatue.htm

from HarryBrowne.Org, by Harry Browne


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/10/05

US and Iraqi forces are holding a record 17,000 men and women -- most without being formally charged -- and those in Iraqi-controlled jails live often in deplorable conditions. About two-thirds are locked up as 'security detainees' without any formal charges in US-run facilities, Lieutenant Colonel Guy Rudisill, the US military spokesman for Iraqi detention operations, told AFP. The rest are incarcerated in Iraqi-run jails in conditions that fall well below any international standard and are in dire need of reform, said Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's outgoing human rights minister...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraqusprisoners

from Yahoo! News


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/10/05

I'd like to place all the blame on the Bush administration for maintaining this insatiable war machine that eats our young. But I think we all share responsibility. If we pay income taxes, recruiters are on our payroll. I have heard the same good-hearted school counselors, teachers and parents who are passionate about college also say that there are 'some' kids who would be 'better off in the military.' Maybe there is a behavior problem, and they think more discipline would help. Or they think some kids 'just aren't college material.' Being a soldier seems a better risk than 'a life on the streets...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0409-22.htm

from Common Dreams, by Susan Van Haitsma


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The "massive and orderly" protest of 300,000 Iraqi citizens demanding an end to the U.S. -led bloodshed in Iraq should be the lead news story for the major media. However, most media reported only a demonstration, and fewer still reminded readers that the removal of Saddam Hussein's statue in Bagdad was a media stunt orchestrated by special operations soldiers with a only small group of Iraqis watching.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3047

Simple lack of knowledge can sometimes be a killer. Take the invasion of Iraq, for example.

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/040805Burns.html


From Information Clearing House