War Games Gulf style.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Sat Sep 7 04:10:56 PDT 2002
Wake-up call
Article based on an interview with retired Lt Gen Paul Van Riper, the 'wily
64-year-old Vietnam veteran' who 'sank most of the US expeditionary fleet
in the Persian Gulf' during a recent war game organised by the Pentagon - '
"You're going to have to use cellphones and satellite phones now, they told
me. I said no, no, no - we're going to use motorcycle messengers and make
announcements from the mosques," he says. "But they refused to accept that
we'd do anything they wouldn't do in the west." ' ( Guardian )
See also this Army Times article from last month, and this transcript of a
US Defense Dept briefing from last month.LINKS
http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
The Troubling New Face of America
'We have ignored or condoned abuses in nations that support our
anti-terrorism effort, while detaining American citizens as "enemy
combatants," incarcerating them secretly and indefinitely without their
being charged with any crime or having the right to legal counsel. This
policy has been condemned by the federal courts, but the Justice Department
seems adamant, and the issue is still in doubt. Several hundred captured
Taliban soldiers remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay under the same
circumstances, with the defense secretary declaring that they would not be
released even if they were someday tried and found to be innocent. These
actions are similar to those of abusive regimes that historically have been
condemned by American presidents'
( Jimmy Carter via Washington Post )
'Donahue' for Sept 5
Transcript of yesterday's edition of Donahue, a US public affairs
programme, during which investigative reporter Greg Palast was interviewed
about the electoral assistance George W Bush is giving his brother Jeb in
Florida ( MSNBC )
The Florida state pension fund is heavily invested in Enron, apparently
(for the record I can't stand Donahue/Carter but we are in a 'kingdom of
fear.')
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