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03, 2005 "United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam." - Peter Grose, in a page 2 New York Times article titled, 'U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,' September 4, 1967. I will once again repeat that this war in Iraq is unwinnable. Like Vietnam, there are outside forces heavily supporting the resistance fighters in Iraq with munitions and money and fighters who are crossing the borders for nothing more than a chance to kill American soldiers and anyone acting in support of them. The huge difference between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War is that Vietnam was a tactical war, whereas the war in Iraq has developed into a strategic one -- and there's a nasty difference between the two. We could declare false victory in Vietnam and walk away without repercussions. Where Iraq is concerned, when we walk out of there in defeat, as we most assuredly will, we will have created a united enemy of many peoples and nations, and we will be left without the future support of most of our most trusted former allies. When we voted to re-elect George W. Bush to a second term, we lost our innocence as a people. Whereas our international neighbors, and even our enemies, once considered there to be a vast difference between the people of the United States and the government of the United States, the election results of November 2, 2004 caused the people of the world to look upon us in an entirely different light. Unlike the Vietnam War, where massive and sometimes violent anti-war demonstrations clearly demonstrated a division between the sentiments of the people and the government, there are no such signs in America today. To anyone looking on from the outside, the people of the United States are as guilty as the government of the United States. We clearly demonstrated that last November even if we didn't intend to. I remember when one tough old CIA interrogator -- who speaks perfect Arabic -- went to Guantanimo Bay to interview the suspected al Qaeda prisoners held there. Among the other horrors he witnessed, there was an 80-year old man laying in his own excrement in the hot Cuban sun in a 6 by 6 foot cage. I guess the Red Cross wasn't visiting that day. Anyway, he came away realizing at least 90% of the people being held there had never been part of al Qaeda or the Iraqi resistance in any form. He said, "If they weren't al Qaeda when they went in, they will be al Qaeda the moment they are released." Way out in the Iraqi desert, one of our platoons had set up a defensive position near a granary that served a small village. It was around the end of September of last year. As the days wore on, our troops made friends with the people of the town and there were no attacks. Because the Iraqi military had been disbanded, as well as the police, there was no one to guard the granary against robbery, so the owners of the granary got the locals to guard the facility night and day. One evening, another American platoon arrived and set up sniper positions around the granary. They killed every man they saw with a gun. It was pure mindless murder. The captain of the first platoon ran screaming to the commanding officer of those doing the killing, screaming, "Stop, these are our friends!", but it was too late. The mindless and needless slaughter was over. The captain was so distraught over the incident, he contacted journalist Seymour Hersh. He told Hersh that he had filed a report of the incident with his commanding officer and that nothing was being done. Hersh wisely told him to shut up and never utter another word about it. Hersh knew the captain would be crucified and none of the guilty would be prosecuted anyway. Unless it's caught on video, nobody gets prosecuted for war crimes they commit in Iraq. It's bad for morale, you know. Most of the prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison, where all the tortures and humiliations occurred, were as innocent as those held at Guantanimo Bay. A lot of them wound up at Abu Ghraib because a bomb went off on some road, killing American and Coalition forces, so the troops charged the local houses, arresting all the men of fighting age they could get their hands on. Surely they must have seen something, so they went to Abu Ghraib for "interrogation". That's where Rumsfeld's boys could get at them without anybody knowing. Who are Rumsfeld's boys? Well, not long after 9/11, Rumsfeld formed a secret group in the Pentagon of around 40 operatives. Rumsfeld didn't want a lot of red tape when he ordered them to snatch suspected al Qaeda supporters from various nations, including Iraq, so his clandestine group went about their business totally under the radar, kidnapping or simply murdering the suspects. They used Lear jets to get around, and they didn't bother with customs and international laws and all that other stuff. They just did it. Look up the Phoenix Program on a search engine sometime. We did the same thing during the Vietnam War, only we didn't have Lear jets at the time. The CIA didn't like what Rumsfeld's boys were doing at Abu Ghraib, so they pulled out, as did the FBI agents sent there previously. That left Rummy's boys to direct the sniveling soldiers on what to do. A soldier of conscience named Draper got hold of the pictures from Abu Ghraib, put them on CD format and spilled the beans in January 2004. The White House was immediately made aware, but nothing whatsoever was done to stop the shenanigans at Abu Ghraib until those pictures hit our newspapers in May. You all saw some of those photographs. They were mostly humiliation scenes depicting homosexuality, or pictures where dogs are threatening the prisoners. The pictures you didn't see showed the dogs tearing into the genitals of the naked and bound prisoners. So far, 7 soldiers were or are being prosecuted for acting on their own, and none of Rumsfeld's boys were ever there... Some of you may have wondered why those incriminating pictures were taken to begin with. Why-oh-why would American soldiers allow themselves to be photographed directing those acts? I'll tell you why. Rumsfeld's boys wanted to infiltrate al Qaeda and the resistance fighters in general. They knew enough about the Koran and Muslim Law to know the adherents are never to even touch a dog. They knew it was forbidden for a male to be seen naked, and homosexuality? Forget it -- that's a capital offense! So they posed the victims in those photographs before they released, them, telling them to join the resistance and report back to them or their whole village was going to get a gander at those photographs. That's why they did it, and that's why the soldiers didn't fear any repercussions. They were, after all, only following blatantly illegal orders from "military intelligence officers" who were never there... The bad news is that all the nations and peoples of Islam saw you and me committing those heinous acts. You and me re-elected the president who presided over those illegal and immoral acts, whether we voted for Bush or not, and the day is coming when those billions of people of Islam will claim their retribution, whether it be us, our sons, or our sons' sons. Carl F.
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