Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: Iraq Vets Go Viral
Over the last few months and particularly the last few weeks a previously obscure organisation of United States Forces Veterans has reached critical mass in the US. So critical that is t is now organising national peace actions which will really make a difference because the media just can't ignore them.
Fuelled by the resentment that comes from seeing their so-called commanders ordering and even relishing the killing of unarmed civilians in Iraq and clearly also from seeing friends and colleagues dying pointlessly IVAW has become a major thorn in the side of the current war crime conspirators now occupying the US Executive.
Being very much aware of the power of face-to-face public engagement and the mass broadcasting media to spread their message of hope they are getting out on the streets all over the United States to make their point. Forming a sometimes uncomfortable alliance with pacifist anti-war activists.
One thing's for sure though. These brave boys are pretty much the only thing in the world that now stands in the way of the Bush/Cheney/PNAC axis creating another 9/11 style provocation to launch wider Middle East wars and they deserve all credit for that.
Remember the 'mutinous' crew of the August 30th 2007 Nuclear armed B52 who turned themselves in rather than carry out illegal orders and aid a possible nuclear provocation? Seven of that crew are now dead. Such is the stuff of which these brave US servicemen are made.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:13 am Post subject:
Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order
Mystery surrounds deaths of Minot airmen
Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:10:30
Capt. John Frueh
Six members of the US Air Force who were involved in the Minot AFB incident, have died mysteriously, an anti-Bush activist group says.
The incident happened when a B-52 bomber was "mistakenly" loaded with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander.
The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base on August 30.
The Air Combat Command has ordered a command-wide stand down on September 14 to review procedures, officials said.
The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber's wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand.
In addition to the munitions squadron commander who was relieved of his duties, crews involved in the incident, including ground crew workers had been temporarily decertified for handling munitions.
The activist group Citizens for Legitimate Government said the six members of the US Air Force who were directly involved as loaders or as pilots, were killed within 7 days in 'accidents'.
The victims include Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20, who died while on leave in Virginia. A statement by the military confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
In another accident, a married couple from Barksdale Air Force Base were killed in the 5100 block of Shreveport-Blanchard Highway. The two were riding a 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with the husband driving and the wife the passenger, police said.
"They were traveling behind a northbound Pontiac Aztec driven by Erica Jerry, 35, of Shreveport," the county sheriff said. "Jerry initiated a left turn into a business parking lot at the same time the man driving the motorcycle attempted to pass her van on the left in a no passing zone. They collided."
Adam Barrs, a 20-year-old airman from Minot Air Force Base was killed in a crash on the outskirts of the city.
First Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, a Minot Air Force Base bomber pilot, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee, the military officials say.
Police found the body of a missing Air Force captain John Frueh near Badger Peak in northeast Skamania County, Washington.
The Activist group says the mysterious deaths of the air force members could indicate to a conspiracy to cover up the truth about the Minot Air Base incident.
RE/RE
US Forces appear to be all that might stop Blackwater starting World War III.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: Hidden Resistance - The IVAW US Military Bloggers
"The Great Untold Story of Iraq"
Last Weekend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Iraq War veteran Paul Abernathy of Pittsburgh spoke at McCaskey High School.
The Pittsburgh native and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War spoke about his experience in Iraq and Middle East Diplomacy.
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