U.S. undergoes rapid military
expansion
This article appeared in USA TODAY on January 15,
2002. The WarHawks wasted no time in setting the world stage for the final
act of George Orwell's 1984
and
the beginning of their long planned neverendingwar.
Do not miss the fact, toward the bottom of the article,
the admission that the U.S. is downplaying publicizing its military expansion
in return for bases in many countries. Even before the holocaust on September
11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, "the military had a presence in 140 countries
worldwide".
Who will protect America?
When the phrase 'military presence' is used, a
sterilization process takes place. We forget the military consists of America's
young men and women who have no idea they are being used as a mercenary force
for an alien power in control of the U.S. government.
It would NOT be surprising to discover that the
U.S. is threatening to bomb them if the countries' leaders refuse a U.S.
"military presence". Lot's of American 'tax' dollars being used as bribe
money.
-- Jackie --
November 3, 2002
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USA TODAY
January 15, 2002
U.S. undergoes rapid military
expansion
By Amr Nabil, AP
Egyptian troops come ashore from a U.S. hovercraft
on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria last October.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is rapidly
increasing its military ties with nations large and small, thanks to the
war on terrorism.
That means more U.S. soldiers will be spread around
the globe in coming years, despite President Bush's warning during his election
campaign that the military was stretched thin, with too many overseas
deployments.
Already, American special forces train armies across
Africa. The Pentagon fights war games in the Middle East. U.S. soldiers engage
in scores of joint training exercises from South America to Southeast
Asia.
Even before Sept. 11, the military had a presence
in 140 countries worldwide.
Now it is busy expanding -- or considering expansion
-- not just in Afghanistan, where the war against accused terror mastermind
Osama bin Laden is taking place, and neighboring Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan,
but in a slew of countries beyond:
Armenia and Azerbaijan in Central Asia to
Somalia in East Africa to the Philippines and Indonesia in Southeast
Asia.
"Overall, the American military global presence
is more pervasive today than at any point in American history," said John
Pike, a military analyst in Washington.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has suggested
a pullback in only one place -- a cut of about one-third in NATO troops
on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia.
The new reach of America's military is worrying
some nations. Iran is increasingly nervous about being encircled by countries
with new U.S. military ties, said Judith Kipper, a Middle East expert in
Washington. China has long worried about American power. The military presence
worldwide also could further anger Islamic hard-liners across southwest Asia
and the Middle East.
Bin Laden first targeted America when thousands
of U.S. troops who came to Saudi Arabia to fight the Persian Gulf War stayed
on to maintain regional security. During his 2000 campaign for president,
Bush criticized his opponent, Al Gore, and the vice president's boss, President
Clinton, for overextending U.S. military forces by intervening in places
where vital U.S. security interests were not at stake.
Yet a recent Pentagon paper identifies vital American
security interests in almost every part of the globe, with the notable exception
of Africa.
The Afghan campaign again has taught U.S. officials
that it pays to have relationships with countries important and obscure
worldwide, whom the United States may need tomorrow, national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice said recently.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States moved
quickly to strengthen ties with Pakistan so it could use Pakistani air bases.
It approached the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and
reached deals to put air bases in both.
In return, those countries get valuable help with
military training or access to equipment. Countries like Singapore, where
Navy ships dock, get a public linkage with America that might deter aggression,
even if the United States makes no formal guarantee of military
help.
The United States also increasingly tries to
pre-position military equipment worldwide, to lessen its dependence on cargo
planes when trouble pops up, said Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Lexington
Institute in Washington. A recent Pentagon study proposed putting even
more equipment in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
"Coming out of Desert Storm (in 1991), we started
to build up prepositioned things," Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem
said Monday.
In some cases, as it courts a country's military
forces, the United States is willing to set aside human rights or other problems.
U.S. officials want to help Indonesia fight possible
member clusters of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, for example, but are under
restrictions because of human rights abuses there, Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz recently told The New York Times. Those restrictions "really
need to be reviewed in the light of Sept. 11," he said.
The United States doesn't trumpet much of the military
cooperation. Uzbekistan, for example, is skittish that its role could anger
Islamic hard-liners and thus has pressed U.S. officials to restrict news
coverage. Rumsfeld and his spokeswoman, Victoria Clarke, have said that is
a fair deal, in return for base access.
Saudi Arabia also doesn't talk about the thousands
of U.S. forces there. That trend will only grow as America's presence grows,
analyst Pike said.
In both the Persian Gulf and central Asia, he said,
"A great deal is being done to downplay the thing."
Copyright 2002 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett
Co. Inc.
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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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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