by Harry Browne

LewRockwell.Com

11/30/04

Do you remember how, in Bill Clinton's State of the Union speeches, he would always call attention to some child or family in the audience who had benefited from some Clinton program? Clinton never mentioned the family whose taxes were increased .... In the same way, conservatives point to the success stories that 'we hear so very little of from the media' in order to make us think the Iraq war is a great endeavor -- one we shouldn't be criticizing. But, in passing on his 'success stories,' Goldberg neglects to mention the tens of billions of dollars that have been drained from our pockets, the 1,000+ Americans who have died, the thousands of Americans who have been maimed, the tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and resisters who have died, the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians (men, women, and children) who have died, the tens of thousands of homes that have been destroyed, and the tens of millions of people around the world who have learned to hate America because the U.S. military invaded Iraq without provocation and without any provable excuse...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne10.html



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.antiwar.com/mercer/?articleid=4091


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Adminssion: Pentagon Wages Information Warfare:

According to the Los Angeles Times, "'Pretty soon, we're going to have the 5 o'clock follies all over again and it will take us another 30 years to restore our credibility,' said a second senior defense official, referring to the much-ridiculed daily media briefings in Saigon during the Vietnam War."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2484

Since the US military invasion and occupation of Iraq, Iraq’s health care system has deteriorated as a result of deliberate destruction by the US administration. The most vulnerable victims of this destruction are the Iraqi children, particularly children under the age of five.

http://207.44.245.159/article7393.htm

UK: Gulf veterans' angry plea to MoD:

Soldiers on sick leave after serving in Iraq have told a BBC programme of their anger at not receiving proper medical or financial support from the Army.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4050415.stm


From Information Clearing House

There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs - Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception.

http://www.wmdthefilm.com

IBB


Informant: ItalysBadBoy



Pass It On: Weapons Of Mass Deception

by Danny Schechter

To mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq, March 20 is an international screening day for Weapons of Mass Deception, a documentary by Danny Schechter investigating how the network media promoted the war and distorted the news.

Watch the trailer and get more information here:
http://www.globalvision.org/wmd/trailer.mov

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

In the past, the United States has tried to apply the principle of "civilized warfare." After the World War II, we tried German and Japanese officers for mistreating prisoners of war and civilians. We were one of the first nations to sign the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war.

http://207.44.245.159/article7383.htm

U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi said Tuesday that the violent guerrilla tactics used by insurgents in Iraq will take a considerable toll on the mental health of troops, resulting in a lifetime of disability payments for many of those who return from war.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/9783554.htm
http://snipurl.com/aywl


From Information Clearing House

According to the article below, "Nearly 3,000 British soldiers have been evacuated from Iraq to Britain for medical reasons since the beginning of hostilities there last year, The Observer can reveal." This is in addition to the more than 25,000 U.S. casualties. There are also many U.S. civilian casualties, and casualties from the other small detachments sent by other nations to occupy Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2471