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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:57:12 EST William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>-Caveat Lector-
This is not meant to be answering for Powell, but some of these questions
can and should be answered by any who have an informed opinion.
>- Who won the Gulf War?
The Oil Companies.
>- How many people did your troops kill during the Gulf war?
I think the answer is that we killed 126 out of the 143 total losses on
"our" side.
>- Why did we have to kill that many?
Lack of a $129.95 IFF transponder in our vehicles caused many of them.
Luck, happenstance and stupidity did in the rest.
>- Is the sort of censorship, disinformation, and misinformation
>provided by the military during the Gulf war and Panamanian invasion
what we could
>expect from a Powell presidency?
I would certainly hope so if we were at war. The enemy has cable news
also.
>- Why did you help to cover up allegations of a massacre of 400
>Vietnamese at My Lai?
>- While in Vietnam what steps, if any, did you take to stop war crimes
>such as the shooting of unarmed civilians from US helicopters?
War is hell. As a two tour frontline vet, I can tell you that I
personally did many things that I could be tried as a war crimminal for.
Only those not in combat would question the actions of those who are.
This is not to excuse or diminish those acts, only to point out that one
of our problems in Viet Nam was that we "played too nice". I spent a
year in the Phoenix Program, and it was a success untill the politico's
shut it down.
>- Why do you think it is that a higher percentage of American veterans
>than non-veterans are unemployed, homeless or imprisoned?
Maybe because we are less likely to buy into the B.S.
>- You have shown considerable interest in the Buffalo Soldiers.
>Discuss their role in the ethnic cleansing of native Americans by the US
military.
Considering their options at that time they had about as much choice as
the white poor who made up the rank and file. The military has always
been one avenue for the poor to escape their situation.
>- You urged military men to resign if they also opposed Clinton's
>policy on gays in the military. Name one or more other issues in which
you
>expressed public opposition to your commander-in-chief?
Considering that it is far better for all of us if a military officer
resigns over his dissagreement with the leaders, rather than formenting
dissent or revolt among his troops, I would postulate that Powell (if
indeed he did advocate this) was doing what we expect of him by telling
his subordinates to either shut up or resign.
>- Are you at all concerned about the growing intrusion of the military
>into democratic American life -- including law enforcement? Discuss.
Posse Commitatus was put there for a good reason. It has been subverted
(like most of the Constitution) by the War on Drugs. In 1992 I was in
Europe when the Command asked this question (hidden among many others) of
the troops: "If so ordered, would you fire on American citizens?". 57%
said yes. Scary isn't it? I don't think we have too much to fear from
the military itself. But when politicians use the military for their own
purposes and get away with it, that is when we need to fear. The use of
the military in the Drug War is obscene.
Jayson R. Jones
The foregoing is purely my own thoughts on the questions asked of Powell.
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