Here are two views of the same war from patriotic Americans. Army Major Scott Bleichwehl "packages" the Iraq War using Power Point slide presentations. In contrast, Hugh Upton presents the war on a web site using real pictures most media won't publish. Upton says his site is not "anti-war." Rather, he wants citizens to know the truth about the war. According to one Iraq War veteran, Upton's web site is "the winner" in this public relations battle.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2499

The Pentagon has admitted that the war on terror and the invasion and occupation of Iraq have increased support for al-Qaeda, made ordinary Muslims hate the US and caused a global backlash against America because of the “self-serving hypocrisy” of George W Bush’s administration over the Middle East. The mea culpa is contained in a shockingly frank “strategic communications” report, written this autumn by the Defence Science Board for Pentagon supremo Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2498

by Derek Seidman

Jim Talib HM3 (FMF/PJ)

Jim Talib is an antiwar vet who served in Iraq earlier this year for nearly seven months. He has recently begun speaking out against the war and occupation. Derek Seidman ( co-editor of http://www.lefthook.org ), was able to catch up with Jim Talib and ask him some questions about the war and occupation, his personal experiences in Iraq, and issues concerning the relationship between antiwar soldiers and the broader antiwar movement....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Seidman1206.htm

The Detritus of War

Disabled veterans hate the government, with good reason. Article by Fred Reed:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed50.html

Once again, the current administration attacks journalists, international aid groups, religious leaders, and others so that only U.S. government propaganda dominates the news. However, many witnesses to the widespread humanitarian crisis and explosive civil war in Iraq won't be silenced by U.S. government intimidation tactics, such as those used by the acting ambassador to the United Kingdom, David T. Johnson.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2492

You aren't supposed to see. You aren't supposed to know. You are to remain ignorant and shielded, and, if you're like most Americans, you have been very carefully conditioned to think Bush's nasty Iraq war is merely this ugly little firecracker-like thing happening way, way over there...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fgate%2Farchive%2F2004%2F12%2F03%2Fnotes120304.DTL
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From Information Clearing House

http://reason.com/0203/fe.mw.the.shtml


Informant: foxhall69

http://www.aztlan.net/us_marine_suicide.htm


Informant: Shanti Renfrew