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Forwarded mostly for the article that follows the "introduction".
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The U.S. Military is more proficient at killing than WW2 or Korea but there is a
price to
pay. We seem to be creating killers not Soldiers.
Now we have Bush the younger, on his way to creating more of the same???
What price are we willing to pay for OIL???
Think about it for a minute!
G.W. Bush plans on sending 250,000 of Americas finest after the Iraqi OIL reserves!
what will be the price??
In addition to those killed in action, hundreds of guys will return suffering from
P.T.S.T
Many thousands of Innocent Iraqi Men, women and children will be killed.
Rumstead glibly refers to these poor innocent victims as collateral damage and
something
one must expect in a Military operation such as this one!. Something else to consider!
If Saddam knows he is going down, he will lash out at Israel with whatever he has
left in
his arsenal. Ari, The Butcher, Sharon will respond with a vengeance. He has already
stated
that if Saddam hits Israel he will go Nuclear.
The entire Middle East plus India and Pakistan could go up in flames! Bush is
playing a
deadly game with other peoples lives.
Keep The Faith
Tom
Another Gulf War Vet Opens Fire
By Charles Sheehan-Miles, October 30, 2002
"Are you okay?"
My wife asked the question after we learned that Robert Stewart
Flores, who killed three professors at the University of Arizona
before shooting himself, was a Gulf War veteran.
She asked me the same thing last week, when we learned John Allen
Muhammed, better known as the Washington D.C. sniper, is also a Gulf
War veteran. Not to mention British Gulf War vet Paul Delaney, who
stabbed his ex-girlfriend and mother of two, Colleen Chudley, 30 or 40
times. Or Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi, a Gulf War vet who murdered and
sodomized an 11-year old girl in Kosovo. Or Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson,
also a Gulf vet, who murdered his girlfriend and her three children on
Sept. 11, 1998. Or Joseph Ludlam, who murdered his former manager in
November 2000. And then there's the most famous Gulf War veteran of
all, Timothy McVeigh, who killed hundreds of people in a homegrown
terrorist attack in Oklahoma City.
Every time we hear of another incident like this, she asks me the same
thing: "Are you okay?"
I can't blame her for asking: I spent the first five years after the
war in a rage, writing a novel about a Gulf War veteran whose pain and
rage took him over the edge. I lived inside this guy's head, and I
felt what he felt, and shudder to think I have anything in common with
people who would commit these kinds of crimes. Because while any
population of people is bound to have some bad apples, it seems like
we Gulf War veterans have had more than our share of late.
See, not all of the fighting happens on the battlefield, and not all
of it is against the enemy. As the classic 1946 film, "The Best Years
of our Lives," so artfully presented, not everyone readjusts from war
so easily. Sometimes we suffer from nightmares, lack of sleep,
flashbacks. Sometimes the nightmares are when we are awake. Sometimes
veterans inflict their nightmares on other people. War is all about
killing and destruction, and the sane reaction to killing and
destruction is to go a little bit crazy.
Consider the tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans who have committed
suicide, or the tens of thousands of homeless veterans who've never
been able to rejoin society. Just ask the growing numbers of
incarcerated veterans. Just ask Timothy McVeigh. Oh ... well, you
can't ask him.
The good news is that the vast majority of veterans who return from
war come home well adjusted. They have their nightmares privately,
without inflicting them on anyone else, and sometimes they courteously
wait 30 or 40 years before they even realize the war affected them.
But for some, they just can't wait. The price of war is often anger,
divorce, readjustment problems, drug addiction, homelessness, and
sometimes murder.
Remember, when you go to the gas pump to buy your Middle Eastern oil,
secured by the blood of American soldiers, this too is part of the
price you pay. Not just being party to killings halfway around the
world, which our society seems to tolerate with a glib "Let's change
the channel" attitude, but also the lives torn apart back home.
You may decide it's okay -- your chances of being murdered by a combat
veteran are still less than the risk of being killed in a highway
accident. But as we send another few hundred thousand young men and
women off to war, the odds are about to get worse.
Charles Sheehan-Miles is a decorated Gulf War combat veteran and the
author of "Prayer at Rumayla."A former president of the National Gulf
War Resource Center, he qualified as "Expert" on pistol and rifle, but
doesn't currently own any weapons
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�A country which has dangled the sword of nuclear holocaust over the
world for half a century and claims that someone else invented terrorism
is a country out of touch with reality.�--John K. Stoner, 2001
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