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Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan 2008
By Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
War Comes Home
The horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven’t heard it before.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, features testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.
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Soldiers In Revolt
By David Cortright, Howard Zinn (introduction)
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US Deaths in the Iraq War
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
--Laurence Binyon
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Your country needs you, again!
Big and small things, all important, that you can do, that we can do, to make a difference.
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To read why veterans and their families opposed this war, go to the Sound Off Board:
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Join our forum! Lots of discussions, facts, action alerts, etc...
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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In their youth Chickenhawks were extremely skillful at evading the military, while today they are fervent advocates for war.
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There has always been a higher percentage of veterans in Congress than in society as a whole, but not today.
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"Whatever our political persuasions, we all are patriots. We must rally around the flag to protect it from being stolen from us."
--Robert T. Flint, USN, 1954-1958
"If we have to go to war against Iraq because they are lying about their weapon systems, then we have to go to war against most countries, including the United States.
--Phil Hartman, USMC, 1966-1968
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Support the Troops, Oppose the Policy
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Helicopter Travel In Iraq
By Anna Badkhen
Military travel is grueling, especially for a soldier with a hole in his face from a sniper bullet who's trying to get back home to Missouri.
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Investigate The Pentagon Pundit Project
By Noah Shachtman
...have the networks purposely ignored a major story that implicates them in Pentagon propaganda-pushing? Here's your chance to fact check the media majordomos yourself.
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Breaking The American Army
By Gian P. Gentile
"But I have to ask my country as a soldier and a citizen how the American army will carry on in what has been referred to as a 'long war'."
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IRAQ: Mickey Mouse Operation
By American Progress
With the help of the Defense Department, the Los Angeles-based company C3 is "developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience...."
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Veterans Against Iraq War is a coalition of American veterans who support our troops but oppose war with Iraq or any other nation that does not pose a clear and present danger to our people and nation.
Until and unless the current U.S. Administration provides evidence which clearly demonstrates that Iraq or any other nation poses a clear, direct and immediate danger to our country, we oppose all of this Administration's pre-emptive and unilateral military activities in Iraq. Furthermore, we cannot support any war that is initiated without a formal Declaration of War by Congress, as our Constitution requires.
Although we detested the dictatorial policies of Saddam Hussein and sympathized with the tragic plight of the Iraqi people, we opposed unilateral and pre-emptive U.S. military intervention on the grounds that it established a dangerous precedent in the conduct of international affairs, that it could easily lead to an increase of violent regional instability and the spread of much wider conflicts, that it places needless and unacceptable financial burdens on the American people, that it diverts us from addressing critical domestic priorities, and that it distracts us from our goals of tracking down and destroying international terrorists and their lairs.
Furthermore, we do not believe that the American military can or should be used as the police force of the world by any administration, Republican or Democrat. Consequently, we believe that the lives and well being of our nation's soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines should not be squandered or sacrificed for causes other than in the direct defense of our people and nation.
Finally, we believe that a doctrine of pre-emptive and unilateral U.S. military attack on Iraq or any other nation is illegal, unnecessary, counter-productive and presents a truly dire and distressing threat to our vital international interests and basic national security. As military veterans, we have a unique understanding of war and know the many hidden truths that lie behind war's easy theories and promises, as well as behind the tragic consequences that even, "victory" brings. We therefore call on all like-minded veterans and family members to endorse this statement and support us in our efforts to help avert, mitigate or stop a national tragedy and an international calamity.
We ask that you support our troops, by demanding that they be brought home from Iraq immediately. We ask that you support our nation's vital interests, by demanding that our troops should never be placed in harm's way except to meet and defeat any direct and immediate threat to our people. |
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VETERANS, to Endorse Veterans Against Iraq War CLICK HERE!
FAMILY MEMBERS, to Endorse Veterans Against Iraq War CLICK HERE!
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"The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement."
By Ann Scott Tyson
The Washington Post, May 10, 2008
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"Congress has heard from politicians, pundits, and generals, but not, up to this point, from the average boots-on-the-ground soldier."
By Lane Anderson
VFP, May 9, 2008
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"As the saying goes, the picture was worth a thousand words because it showed the true horrors of this war."
By Helen Thomas
Hearst White House, May 7, 2008
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"With the help of the Defense Department, the Los Angeles-based company C3 is 'developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum' and 'is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland'."
By American Progress
May 6, 2008
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"...have the networks purposely ignored a major story that implicates them in Pentagon propaganda-pushing? Here's your chance to fact check the media majordomos yourself."
By Noah Shachtman
Wired, May 07, 2008
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"Military travel is grueling, especially for a soldier with a hole in his face from a sniper bullet who's trying to get back home to Missouri."
By Anna Badkhen
Salon, May 7, 2008
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" Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad."
By AFP
AFP, May 4, 2008
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"For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention under martial law?"
By Christopher Ketcham
Radar Magazine, April 28, 2008
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"Ed Frawley is mad as hell — and thanks to a video he recently posted on YouTube, so are a lot of other people. What has the Menomonie man so hot under the collar are the “embarrassing and disgusting” — and downright unsafe — conditions he discovered in an aging barracks at Ft. Bragg, N.C."
By Barbara Lyon
April 30, 2008 9:17 AM CDT
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"When it comes to recruiting troops, just how badly are things going? Well, that depends on how you define 'bad'."
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 25, 2008
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