How Massacres Become the Norm

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey


Coping with combat
SCOTT HADLY
Veterans For Common Sense
Santa Barbara Newspress
Apr 03, 2006

Combat veteran Jonathan Church didn't panic when he saw the 6-foot shark circling below his surfboard. Instead, the now-retired U.S. Army Reserve command sergeant major, who had just returned from Iraq, became enraged. "You don't know who you're (messing) with," the fit 60-year-old yelled at the shark. "I will kill you. I will pull you onto the beach, massacre you and barbecue you for dinner."



The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce




U.S. Military Has New Online Mental Health Resource
Forbes

Apr 03, 2006

U.S. military personnel and their families now have a free, anonymous Web-based mental health and alcohol self-assessment program. The service is available worldwide and provides immediate results, plus referrals to military mental health services.



"...The term 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession..."
-- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, February 4, 1985



FOCUS | Dahr Jamail: How Massacres Become the Norm

Dahr Jamail writes that Robert J. Lifton's studies on the behavior of those who have committed war crimes led him to believe it does not require an unusual level of mental illness or of personal evil to carry out such crimes. Rather, these crimes are nearly guaranteed to occur in what Lifton refers to as "atrocity-producing situations." Iraq today is most certainly an "atrocity-producing situation," as it has been from the very beginning of the occupation.


"[E]vidence came to light that the U.S. administration had sanctioned interrogation techniques that violated the U.N. Convention against Torture.''
-- Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan, May, 2005



'Mass of Shoes' for Landmine Awareness Day

Celebrity supporters will be stepping up today to help create a 'Mass of Shoes' in London's Trafalgar Square for Landmine Awareness Day--highlighting the plight of the 15-20,000 civilians injured or killed each year by unexploded munitions.



Tracking coalition military deaths in Iraq, one day at a time, across the map. Click HERE to see the Flash-Animated Map.



This Country also better be Prepared for what may come from the Children Now Actually Living those Tragic Experiances, in Iraq and Afganistan!!For we waged War, and are Fighting, against many who were the Kids of the 1st Gulf War, the bombings, the highway of death, the loss of family members and others..............! And in Todays World will they Lash Out as have some Leading Up To This, think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!