Excerp: Truth of War - Page 2

U.S. troops serving in the Iraqi city of Ramadi made a video of themselves kicking a gravely wounded Iraqi detainee in the face and trying to make the arm of a corpse wave, then called the film 'Ramadi Madness'.

http://aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7188

PENTAGON SUED FOR RECORDS ON PROPAGANDA, PSY-OPS AND 'PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT' TARGETTING U.S. CIVILIANS

http://www.judicialwatch.org/4303.shtml

US Marine Calls Public Story of Saddam Capture Fiction

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/090305saddamcapture.htma >

"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.

Sounds like the Jessica Lynch Story now.

In my opinion, war/killing is reprehensible, from the standpoint of the sorrow, destruction and needless death it causes. This statement does not include that age-old Irish hobby though, especially when you get to buy a drink for the loser. And of course, we must admit the phenomenal advances in medicine, aviation, and electronics, etc. as well as the more destructive pursuits.

I particularly do not agree with our government's current reason for being there. We claim to be part of the world community, then we just ignore everyone and go in guns-a-blazin'. Too bad Saddam used up all the WMD we gave him. Now I worry on what other poor country we are going to pick a fight with next. In my opinion, you can't fight terrorism with terrorism; there are no victories there.

Iraq allies accused of failing to investigate civilian deaths

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1435181,00.html

Prisoners at Abu Ghraib Said Included Kids

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20050311/0
351929671.htm&sc=1107&photoid=20040622BAG121

http://www.captaincynic.com/thread.php3/thrdid=34018-u-frmid=1

I thought these videos were in this thread, guess not, they should be, just a link to a thread with very good video of lecture by Dr. Major Doug Rokke. An Army officer and Scientist tasked by the Army to clean up after and report health and environmental effects of DU usage in Gulf 1.

You might be surprised at what he has to say.

Deadline Iraq - Uncensored Stories of the War in Iraq

http://www.truthstream.org/deadlineiraq.htm

http://www.truthstream.org/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6853125/#survey

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"Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, was reported as having told Mr Blair that Washington had fixed policy on a war against Iraq and was going to fit the intelligence around that policy."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1442257,00.html

U.S. Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves - Soviet Intelligence Chief

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/21/shebarsh.shtml

Guantanamo abuse taped, as 'explosive' as Abu Ghraib

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12613354-2,00.html

" the ash-Shaykhli team -- again, appointed by the Bush-backed government -- confirmed the use of "mustard gas, nerve gas and other burning chemicals" by U.S. forces during the battle.

"confirmed the use of "mustard gas, nerve gas and other burning chemicals" by U.S. forces"

(This is in referrence to Fallujah)

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/18/120.html

RIGHTS:
U.S. Soldiers Told to 'Beat the F**k Out of' Detainees
William Fisher

NEW YORK, Mar 31 (IPS) - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is charging that U.S. Army documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the mistreatment of detainees in Iraq was much more widespread than the government has admitted..


http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=28099

The Pentagon's Secret Stash

Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos

Matt Welch




The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." Everyone who saw the photographs and videos seemed to shudder openly when contemplating what the reaction would be when they eventually were made public.

But they never were.

http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml