US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan are planning to descend on Wa****ngton from Mar. 13-16 to
testify
about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those
countries.
"The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous
it
is for re****ters to cover it," said Liam Madden, a former Marine and and
member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. "That's left a lot of
misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true
nature of military occupation looks like."
Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicised incidents of
U.S.
brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire
family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents
perpetrated by "a few bad apples", as many politicians and military
leaders
have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of "an
increasingly bloody occupation".
"The problem that we face in Iraq is that policymakers in leader****p have
set a precedent of lawlessness where we don't abide by the rule of law, we
don't respect international treaties, so when that atmosphere exists it
lends itself to criminal activity," argues former U.S. Army Sergeant Logan
Laituri, who served a tour in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 before being
discharged
as a conscientious objector.
Read more: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41398
Link to Michael Wares current wherabouts.
http://www.mickware.info/NewsInfo/2008News/2008News.php
He's still out there re****ting. The Drudge Re****t, John McCains
people
and the Pentagon tried to put pressure on CNN to shut him down last year
after his re****t on Snipers killing US soldiers in Iraq. Saying he was
giving propaganda to the enemy. Then McCain claimed Michael heckled him at
a
press conference. CNN put him on their International programming more
often
than their American propaganda fest.
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