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-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.earthpulse.com/ A HREF="http://www.earthpulse.com/"Earthpulse.com/A - Bringing The War Home by William Thomas Bringing the War Home is a war story unlike any you will ever read. Drawing on his experiences as a reporter and environmental emergency response worker in the war-torn Persian Gulf - as well as US congressional and military records never before assembled in a single volume - William Thomas takes readers from nighttime missile attacks on American forces and frantic cries of "gas, gas, gas!" to the dazed survivors of Baghdad bombing raids and the wreckage-clogged Highway to Hell. But this is only the beginning of a book that is really three volumes in one. In part two, this award winning journalist and former member of the US military lays bare a Pentagon cover-up intended to bury forever Washington's complicity in supplying the chemical and biological weaponry thrown into its soldiers faces. A succession of shocking disclosures leads us through a labyrinth of political expediency and military incompetence which saw American troops and support personnel inoculated with experimental vaccines - including a nerve agent pill that amplified the effects of the sarin nerve gas repeatedly detected in their positions. In a climactic courtroom-style drama, US Senator Donald Riegle confronts the head of the US Army's Chemical Warfare Department and demands the truth. Part three of this remarkable and timely book is a mini-medical thriller. Looking over the shoulders of medical investigators we peer into powerful microscopes as they search for a mysterious malady first identified as a syndrome, and later simply called Gulf War Illness. With official US combat-related casualties now exceeding 6,200 dead - and more than 100,000 returning American GI's stricken by a confusing spectrum of degenerative ailments that appear to be spreading to their spouses and children - researchers race the clock and their own superiorsÂ’ orders to desist to find the causes of a disease described as more baffling than AIDS. This book concludes with good news: Gulf War Illness can be treated. The chapter on successful treatments will bring new hope to those afflicted by this multi-faceted disease. = Bringing the War Home Chapter 2 - Face by William Thomas Reprinted from Bringing The War Home Order this item now It was around five on a Thursday morning, the second of August, 1990, when King Hussein was roused by an urgent call from King Fahd. The distraught "Protector of Mecca" announced that Kuwait's defenses had crumbled. Iraqi troops were racing toward Kuwait City. As his country burned, the emir who had earlier contained his political opponents by dissolving parliament was easing his shaken nerves in what People magazine called "an artificial oasis of green grass and pink gardenias in Taif, the posh resort town favored by Saudi royalty." In their haste to reach this Saudi sanctuary, Kuwait's royal rulers had left splendors behind. Among the discards, journalist Michael Emery later counted "an irreplaceable collection of ancient Islamic art, fleets of luxury automobiles, thousands of top-secret documents," and 26 of the emir's wives. Saudi Arabia's monarch was not worried about expendable females. "It's all the Kuwaiti's fault," the king blurted to Hussein. "Please tell Saddam to stop where he is." King Hussein immediately called Baghdad. It was around 10 in the morning before he heard Saddam Hussein's voice on the line "What did you do?" King Hussein asked. "Well, you heard," said Saddam. "Please, tell me, don't stay there!" "Well, I will withdraw. It is a matter of days, perhaps weeks," Saddam assured the head of Jordan. "No. Don't talk about weeks, only a matter of days," King Hussein implored. "Yes," Saddam answered, "but I have learned that the ministers are meeting in Cairo and they want to condemn us. If they do I am afraid that will not help." As mutual rivals for the mantle of Arab leadership bequeathed by Nasser, the presidents of Iraq and Egypt were not pals. "Let them look at it seriously," Saddam continued, "and not take it that way, because if they do, we will not take it lightly and they will not like our reaction." Realizing that all chances of striking a deal for an immediate pullout would evaporate if Egypt denounced Iraq, the king of Jordan mounted his royal jet and flew immediately to Alexandria. Around four that afternoon, he met with President Mubarak. Agreeing with the king's call for discretion, Egypt's president promised to restrain himself until King Hussein could see Saddam and try to talk him into withdrawing. Mubarak also offered to carry an invitation to the Iraqi president, asking him to attend a mini-summit to be hosted by the Saudis in Jeddah the following Sunday, just three days away. Hussein replied that he preferred flying first to Cairo to head off condemnation by the Arab League already meeting there. After offering the use of his
[CTRL] Bringing the War Home
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 2:52 PM Subject: Bringing the War Home (fwd) = http://WorldNetDaily.com === May 6, 1999 Violence Chic By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. On cue, the midgets in the Senate are holding hearings on violence in the public schools. What's to blame for the shootings in Colorado? Several members lashed out at a predictable target: Hollywood and its supposed glorification of violence. But kids these days don't have to go to the movies to see maiming and killing. They can see the real thing by turning on the nightly news. Once again, it's government, not private industry, that provides the worst example to children. U.S. bombs do to Belgrade what tornadoes did to Oklahoma and Kansas, and the senators think they can send a non-violent message to young people? Worse, Clinton and Gore think pious speeches can blunt the reality that the U.S. military is killing civilians in foreign countries every day. If offing people you hate is OK in Pristina, why not Littleton? The primary sponsor of violence chic is not the movies, which portray fantasy, but the government, which engages in real-life war. The seventy premature babies in a Belgrade hospital, whose incubators went dead after the U.S. "soft bombed" an electrical plant, are the real-life casualties of Clinton's war. To gin up the Gulf War, the Bush administration told stories about Iraqi troops dumping preemies on the floor, stories which turned out to be false. This time, however, it is for real, but it is the U.S. doing it. The sixty people incinerated on board a civilian bus in Kosovo were made of flesh, bone, and blood, not frames on a film. No wonder the violent imagination of the killer Eric Harris ran wild with dreams of joining the war. He told one and all he was prepared to fight, not for his country, but for the sheer thrill of killing people who don't stand a chance of fighting back. Unable to get to Yugoslavia, he decided to cover the home front. If violence in the Balkans is getting to be old hat, turn your attention to Iraq, where the bombings and bloodshed, not to speak of the murderous sanctions, have been relentless. With everyone's attention riveted on Yugoslavia, the U.S. has stepped up its war on Iraq, with almost daily skirmishes against radar and other sites, and the deaths of dozens of civilians. While nature ravished the American Midwest, an unnatural disaster befell Northern Iraq. U.S. jets launched missiles near Mosul, killing two civilians and mutilating another 12. Twenty-five miles north of Mosul, a family of seven was snuffed out by U.S. bombs. Official excuse No. 1: the U.S. was targeting air-defense sites. Gee, but isn't that a funny place for a family to live? Official excuse No. 2: Saddam Hussein is placing these sites in civilian neighborhoods to deter attacks. But why would he think this would deter anything, given the U.S. performance in his own country and Yugoslavia? Official excuse No. 3: The U.S. had to act because Saddam was planning a showdown while the Pentagon is occupied in the Balkans. But what kind of "showdown" is this broken regime in a broken country capable of? Enough of this nonsense. The credibility of administration spokesmen has begun to run very thin. For instance: a court recently cleared the owner of the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant of having had any connection to chemical weapons. But this was a year after the U.S. reduced the entire place to rubble, and insisted, vehemently and for many months, that it was making chemical weapons to be used against Americans. Moreover, these
