US Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty
So, you want to go to war? You may never come
home again. Bush lied, as ordered by his handlers in the office of the president
(CEO?) of the U.S. Government, Inc. Bush lied to gain support of the
genocide now occurring in Iraq; genocide not only of innocent citizens of
Iraq -- including children -- but also genocide and maiming of tens
of thousands more U.S. soldiers.
Bush's handlers are today called "neo-cons".
Can you say J- E- W? These handlers have owned and controlled the U.S.
government since time immemorial. If you believe that going to "war" in Iraq
has anything whatsoever to do with the myth of "serving your country" or
"defending America" you must rinse out the sudsy residue from the intensive
brain washing to which you've succumbed.
And if you still believe -- as I did up until
a year ago -- that the U.S. Constitution was crafted to insure the freedom
and liberty of Americans and that the American Revolution was fought to "win"
that freedom from the British Empire, there is more to learn. There's always
more to learn, and it becomes apparent that the more we "know", the more
we realize that we don't "know".
Other recommended reading would be chapters
12
and
18
of the book on line titled
Jewish
Persecution. Also see:
How Wars Are Made: Behind
the Scenes
Jackie
January 29th, 2006
US Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N196487.htm
29 Jan 2006 13:51:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers
to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called
"stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen
flat.
The policy applies to soldiers in units due to deploy for the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. The Army said stop-loss is vital to maintain units that
are cohesive and ready to fight. But some experts said it shows how badly
the Army is stretched and could further complicate efforts to attract new
recruits.
"As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems
that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer
force," said defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute think
tank.
"When a service has to repeatedly resort to compelling the retention of people
who want to leave, you're edging away from the whole notion of volunteerism."
When soldiers enlist, they sign a contract to serve for a certain number
of years, and know precisely when their service obligation ends so they can
return to civilian life. But stop-loss allows the Army, mindful of having
fully manned units, to keep soldiers on the verge of leaving the military.
Under the policy, soldiers who normally would leave when their commitments
expire must remain in the Army, starting 90 days before their unit is scheduled
to depart, through the end of their deployment and up to another 90 days
after returning to their home base.
With yearlong tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers can be forced
to stay in the Army an extra 18 months.
HARDSHIP FOR SOME SOLDIERS
Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, an Army spokesman, said that "there is no plan to
discontinue stop-loss."
"We understand that this is causing hardship for some individual soldiers,
and we take individual situations into consideration," Hilferty said.
Hilferty said there are about 12,500 soldiers in the regular Army, as well
as the part-time National Guard and Reserve, currently serving involuntarily
under the policy, and that about 50,000 have had their service extended since
the program began in 2002. An initial limited use of stop-loss was expanded
in subsequent years to affect many more.
"While the policies relative to the stop-loss seem harsh, in terms of suspending
scheduled separation dates (for leaving the Army), they are not absolute,"
Hilferty said. "And we take individual situations into consideration for
compelling and compassionate reasons."
Hilferty noted the Army has given "exceptions" to 210 enlisted soldiers "due
to personal hardship reasons" since October 2004, allowing them to leave
as scheduled.
"The nation is at war and we are stop-lossing units deploying to a combat
theater to ensure they mobilize, train, deploy, fight, redeploy and demobilize
as a team," he said.
NO LUCK IN COURT
A few soldiers have gone to court to challenge stop-loss.
One such case fizzled last week, when U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
in Washington dismissed a suit filed in 2004 by two Army National Guard soldiers.
The suit claimed the Army fraudulently induced soldiers to enlist without
specifying that their service might be involuntarily extended.
Courts also have backed the policy's legality in Oregon and California cases.
Jules Lobel, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who represented the
National Guard soldiers, said a successful challenge to stop-loss was still
possible.
"I think the whole stop-loss program is a misrepresentation to people of
how long they're going to actually serve. I think it's caused tremendous
morale problems, tremendous psychological damage to people," Lobel said.
"When you sign up for the military, you're saying, 'I'll give you, say, six
years and then after six years I get my life back.' And they're saying, 'No,
really, we can extend you indefinitely.'"
Congressional critics have assailed stop-loss, and 2004 Democratic presidential
nominee John Kerry called it "a back-door draft." The United States abolished
the draft in 1973, but the all-volunteer military never before has been tested
by a protracted war.
A report commissioned by the Pentagon called stop-loss a "short-term fix"
enabling the Army to meet ongoing troop deployment requirements, but said
such policies "risk breaking the force as recruitment and retention problems
mount." It was written by Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer.
Thompson added, "The persistent use of stop-loss underscores the fact that
the war-fighting burden is being carried by a handful of soldiers while the
vast majority of citizens incur no sacrifice at all."
So... You Want
to Go to War? - Introduction
Introduction by Jackie Patru
"Are you sure? You're willing to risk your life for. . . what? For whom?
Your country needs you? To do what? To massacre innocent, defenseless people?
Why? Is your country at risk? Or do you have your country confused with the
corporation in Washington, D.C... the U.S. Government, Inc.? Are you willing
to forfeit your life and possibly your soul in blind obedience to the government?
Are you willing to become a human guinea pig to the Military/ Industrial/
Pharmaceutical complex? You will ... if you go to war.
Watch out
for this school note: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
It is a wide and deep river of paper,
and in the currents it would be easy to miss the school notification required
under Sec. 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Think of this
notification as the dangerous undertow in the river of paper from your local
schools. It is the one required under the "Armed Forces Recruiter Access
to Students" section of the "No Child" law.
We have assembled the items below into two
categories. Those that are now a part of human history, and those incidents
that fathers, mothers, sons, daughers, brothers, and sisters are currently
living. Our purpose is to compare the abuses of our men and women in uniform
from the past, to the present day reality that nothing has changed.
Think long and hard about whether to send your
children off to war. For whom, and what purpose, will you allow your children
to spill their blood?
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THIS IS
WAR!
An unblinking look — in words and images — at the reality of warefare.
From an excellent website called the Memory Hole.
U.S. Admits
It Tested Nerve Gas on It's Sailors
The Guardian — "The US has admitted
that it deliberately sprayed nerve gas on its sailors in the 1960s as part
of a series of tests... The Pentagon started releasing the previously classified
information... after being pushed by a Democrat congressman from California,
Mike Thompson. [who said] "We now know that our military personnel were
exposed to Sarin gas and VX nerve agent, which are both lethal, and other
agents that are known carcinogens."
Hundreds Died of
Cancer After DU Bombing
ABC News — "Cases of cancer have
been reported among Italian, Belgian, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese
soldiers who served a peacekeepers in Bosnia and Kosovo... Some of the victims
had worn flak jackets made from shells with depleted uranium (DU), he told
Reuters in an interview."
USS Liberty
- Did Israel Commit One War Crime to Hide
Another?
By James M. Ennes, Jr. - Survivor: "When the Liberty was attacked,
Captain Joseph Tully in the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga received the ship's
call for help and immediately sent jet aircraft to her assistance. Tully's
jets were recalled almost immediately by orders from Washington. As a result,
American jet fighter support was withheld for more than 90 minutes. By then
the damage was done and 34 men were dead or dying."
Refusal
To Investigate Israel's 1967 Attack on USS
Liberty
Wisconsin state legislator, Marlin Schneider, was very naive when he agreed
to sponsor a resolution calling for an investigation into the murder of U.S.
sailors on orders of the Israeli government. He was sacked as assistant
Democratic leader, removed from a leadership position and warned to: "beware
of massive political contributions against me and even potential
assassination."
Female
Sergeant Dead From Anthrax
Shot
Retired Air Force LTC Redmond Handy, who resigned his officer's commission
rather than participate in what he calls a "terrible crime against our men
and women in uniform," warned "there are others currently at risk because
of this flawed vaccine. I'm afraid SGT Larson's death won't be the last,"
he told MilitaryCorruption.com. "When will the Pentagon end this
madness?"
Korean
"Police Action" - American Soldiers
Betrayed
From our How Wars Are
Made section
"The enemy then contacted and relayed these battle plans to their communist
forces in the field. The enemy knew when to move from an area and when to
attack our smaller fighting forces. They knew beforehand when we were coming
and how many of us there were. They knew everything about us all the time
– 24 hours a day!!!" |
Pentagon
Eyes Mass Graves (for U.S.
Soldiers)
From our Iraq
section.
Denver Post: "The bodies of U.S. soldiers killed by chemical or biological
weapons in Iraq or future wars may be bulldozed into mass graves and burned
to save the lives of surviving troops, under an option being considered by
the Pentagon."
Talk of War
No Deterrent for Some Looking to Military
NY Times — "Mr. Moran's former
school friends also had something else to say in light of the military buildup
in the Middle East: They said, "'Oh yeah, you're going to go die over there,'
" he recalled. "But I was going to die over here, too, So it doesn't really
matter. As a teenager, it's more of a risk to be in the streets."
"U.S.
Undergoes Rapid Military Expansion" - Who Will Protect
America?
USA Today — "The United States
is rapidly increasing its military ties with nations large and small, thanks
to the war on terrorism. . . "Overall, the American military global presence
is more pervasive today than at any point in American history,": John Pike,
military analyst in Washington. . . A recent Pentagon paper identifies vital
American security interests in almost every part of the globe, with the notable
exception of Africa.
Soldier
Sues Military Over Extended Service
Order
"This lawsuit seeks to stop the forced retention of men and women who have
fulfilled their service obligations. When their period of enlistment ends,
they should be entitled to return to their families", said attorney Michael
Sorgen. The "stop loss'' order means soldiers who otherwise could leave when
their commitments expire will be compelled to remain until the end of a year-long
overseas deployment and up to another 90 days after returning to their home
base.
Maimed
in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in
America
Go ahead, guys and gals, sign up! Join the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, or Air
Force. Join the National Guard so you can be sent to Europe to disarm the
Bosnians. Become an Iraqi 'Liberator', so you can kill and die for the New
World Order.
Unfit Soldiers
Returned to War
Guardian, UK
"A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before
they are ready to serve again. Soldiers went to war with chronic illnesses
such as coronary disease, mental illness, arthritis, diabetes and the nervous
condition, Tourette's syndrome, or after undergoing recent surgery."
Soldier Suicides
in Iraq Increase
Associated Press
"A U.S. commander warned troops Thursday to watch their friends because
suicides are on the rise."
Army
to Recall Former Military
Members
From our
Iraq
section
"The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged
soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve
that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible
service in Iraq or Afghanistan...."
US
Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty
The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers
to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called
"stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen
flat. ...With yearlong tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers can be
forced to stay in the Army an extra 18 months.
Thousands
of US troops evacuated from Iraq for unexplained medical
reasons
From our Iraq
section
September 2003
"At no point in the last six months have the American people been told that
for every soldier who has been killed in Iraq, at least another 15 have fallen
so ill that they had to be flown back to the United States."
Iraq War
Vets Struggle to Adjust to Lost Limbs, Flashbacks
"Unlike the young draftees of earlier wars, many
of these men and women are older, with families. For them, this morphing
from a fighting machine ducking bullets into a mommy or daddy packing school
lunches presents a special challenge. This time the government tapped the
National Guard and the Reserve to augment regular forces. Some
returnees-proportionately many more than in Vietnam-have left limbs and slices
of sanity on an urban battlefield as strange as the Iraq war itself."
Depleted
Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets
"...eight out of 20 men who served in one unit
in 2003 U.S. in Iraq now have malignancies. ... 40% of the soldiers in that
unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months. ...it targets the DNA.
Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets
the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as 'spectacular
... and a matter of concern'."
Google
Video: Veteran Who Served in Iraq Tells of U.S.
Atrocities
Jesse McBeth is with a group called Iraq Vets
Against the War. In this video, he tells of the horrors being committed against
the Iraqi people. Jesse says the people being called "insurgents" and "the
enemy" in Iraq are only trying to protect their families against the
invaders. |
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