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No War on Iraq rally in Sydney
Australia To all our brothers and sisters in and out of uniform in
Australia:
The American Gulf War Veterans Association joins with the
British Gulf War Veterans and Families Association of the UK
in taking
a firm stand against the possible war in Iraq.
Thank you Jenny Black and the "No War in Iraq" participants in
voicing a world-wide
statement of dissent for a war that is fraught with an
agenda from the global
elitist powers.
Our reasons for not supporting this war have nothing to do
with our being anti-American,
unpatriotic or anti-military, though some will want to
conveniently label us that way.
We served, and will continue to serve if the shores of this
country are ever threatened.
We may very well die for this country.
We volunteered, served and believed in the military for
all the right reasons.
Unfortunately, after Desert Storm, we must now question
it all.
I served as a Captain in the United States Air Force as a
Flight Nurse. I was never
prouder than I was the day my "wings" were pinned on me.
Today, I continue to fight for
the men and women that are now sick and dying as a result of
that war.
I returned to the service of my country because of a story the
media portrayed. The story of
fifteen year old "Naira" who said she saw the Iraqi Republican
Guard throw the babies out
of the incubators in Kuwait and bayonet them. This story was
repeated many times before
our Congress and by our President.
To our total astonishment we learned four years later that the
story of "Naira" never happened!
She was the real life daughter of the Ambassador to Kuwait and
she had never been in Kuwait.
This story was, in fact, brought to you by the Hill and
Knowlton Advertising Agency for
$10.5 Million dollars. This alleged atrocity never occurred.
Our men and women of the United
States were manipulated into a war by a public
relations agency!
If a war needs to be fought we can address that on its own
merits. However, one does not
manipulate a country or a world into a war by the use of
marketing and ad agencies. We must
now wonder how many of the so-called global atrocities really
happened.
"Our Desert Storm military is not just sick, they are
dying." That is a statement made by
former Senator Don Riegle in Senate Report 103-900. This report is no longer available from the government and has been taken off the government printing
office list.
Why are our Gulf War veterans dying?
The United States Government along with the UK and other
countries armed Saddam Hussein
with biological and chemicals, helicopters and assorted
warfare. The Bush Sr. administration
also provided for the money (unsecured) to be provided
to Saddam Hussein via the Commodity
Credit Corporation in the amount of $5 BILLION dollars.
This was transferred through the Banca Nationale de
Lavoro.
We armed our enemy from 1983 through 1992, even after
the start of the war. Our troops were sent into
an area that the Department of Defense knew they
would be exposed to biologicals and chemicals
along with depleted uranium.
When our troops returned home, they began getting sick, along
with their wives and families.
The Department of Defense and the Veterans Hospitals looked
the other way, thus kicking our
sick veterans to the side of the curb, like dead animals.
They were given psychiatric diagnoses and 90%
were either offered or prescribed Prozac.
We now have approximately 400,000 sick Gulf War veterans
and we believe over 40,000 have now
died. The same percentage of sick and dead troops exists
for the UK veterans. We have received
information that ALL the coalition countries now have
sick and dying veterans.
We can not and will not tolerate our veterans being used
as cannon fodder and experimental
animals. We were vaccinated with Botulinuum and Anthrax
because the American Type Culture
Collection sold these agents with the support of our
Department of Commerce and our CDC
(Communicable Disease Center). The problem with the Department of Defense, the former and
current Bush Administration and our
own government, is that their credibility has been destroyed
in the eyes of not just the veterans,
but in the eyes of most of the American people. They lied
about the Gulf of Tonkin, the Maine, Vietnam,
Agent Orange, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf War and the ensuing
illnesses. THEY lied too many times.
According to the British and U.S. Gulf War
veterans, "the credibility of the
Department of Defense is in shambles."
We now wince at the very thought of more of our countries
sons and daughters being used as a tool
to create and bring into fruition an agenda we can not
even imagine. An agenda so horrible because it is borne
out of greed, money and power.
We, the American Gulf War Veterans Association
and U.K. Gulf War veterans and Families Association
salute
you for standing strong and resisting a war that "doesn't need
to be fought."
We will now concentrate on breaking into the "controlled U.S.
media" which will not tell the American
people, "Your men are not just sick...they are
dying."
Do not think that silencing any of us will silence our story,
it will only make us stronger.
Thank you Diggers, Korean and Vietnam veterans for standing
proud for your brothers and sisters,
sons and daughters in all the coalition countries. Not only do
we need to take care of our wounded from
previous wars, we need to prevent anymore needlessly wounded
who are sacrificed on the altar of
"duty and patriotism."
For God and Country,
Joyce Riley, RN, BSN
former Captain, USAF
Reserve Flight Nurse
Spokesperson, American Gulf War Veterans
Association
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