[Peace] FW: wilpf-news Fw: [nfp] Call to Conscience

[Marianne Brun]

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Von: Rosalie Huzzard <rosalie.huzzard at btinternet.com>
Antworten an: rosalie.huzzard at btinternet.com
Datum: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:17:24 -0000
An: Wilpf News <wilpf-news at igc.topica.com>
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Betreff: wilpf-news Fw: [nfp] Call to Conscience

This is well worth reading!
Rosalie
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Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: [nfp] Call to Conscience


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lightsal7 at aol.com
> To: Lightsal7 at aol.com
> Sent: 15 January 2003 16:16
> Subject: [abolition-caucus] Call to Conscience from Vets to Active Duty
> Troops and Reservists
>
>
> Friends,
>
> Please take a look at this magnificent statement sent out by Jeff Paterson
> on behalf of veterans opposed to the US' war on Iraq.  Please share with
> others.
>
> In peace,
>
> Sally Light
>
> Subj: Call to Conscience from Vets to Active Duty Troops and Reservists
> Date: 1/14/2003 10:49:12 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From:    JeffPaterson-bounce-964629672-12263811 at ezinemanager.net (Jeff
> Paterson)
>
>
> Call to Conscience from Veterans to Active Duty Troops and Reservists
>
> For more information, or to add your name to the list below:
> http://www.calltoconscience.net/
>
> We are veterans of the United States armed forces. We stand with the
> majority of humanity, including millions in our own country, in opposition
> to the United States' all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras,
have
> many political views and we all agree that this war is wrong. Many of us
> believed serving in the military was our duty, and our job was to defend
> this country. Our experiences in the military caused us to question much
of
> what we were taught. Now we see our REAL duty is to encourage you as
members
> of the U.S. armed forces to find out what you are being sent to fight and
> die for and what the consequences of your actions will be for humanity. We
> call upon you, the active duty and reservists, to follow your conscience
and
> do the right thing.
>
> In the last Gulf War, as troops, we were ordered to murder from a safe
> distance. We destroyed much of Iraq from the air, killing hundreds of
> thousands, including civilians. We remember the road to Basra-the Highway
of
> Death-where we were ordered to kill fleeing Iraqis. We bulldozed trenches,
> burying people alive. The use of depleted uranium weapons left the
> battlefields radioactive. Massive use of pesticides, experimental drugs,
> burning chemical weapons depots and oil fires combined to create a toxic
> cocktail affecting both the Iraqi people and Gulf War veterans today. One
in
> four Gulf War veterans is disabled.
>
> During the Vietnam War we were ordered to destroy Vietnam from the air and
> on the ground. At My Lai we massacred over 500 women, children and old
men.
> This was not an aberration, it's how we fought the war. We used Agent
Orange
> on the enemy and then experienced first hand its effects. We know what
Post
> Traumatic Stress Disorder looks, feels and tastes like because the ghosts
of
> over two million men, women and children still haunt our dreams. More of
us
> took our own lives after returning home than died in battle.
>
> If you choose to participate in the invasion of Iraq you will be part of
an
> occupying army. Do you know what it is like to look into the eyes of a
> people that hate you to your core? You should think about what your
>  "mission" really is. You are being sent to invade and occupy a people
who,
> like you and me, are only trying to live their lives and raise their kids.
> They pose no threat to the United States even though they have a brutal
> dictator as their leader. Who is the U.S. to tell the Iraqi people how to
> run their country when many in the U.S. don't even believe their own
> President was legally elected?
>
> Saddam is being vilified for gassing his own people and trying to develop
> weapons of mass destruction. However, when Saddam committed his worst
crimes
> the U.S. was supporting him. This support included providing the means to
> produce chemical and biological weapons. Contrast this with the horrendous
> results of the U.S. led economic sanctions.  More than a million Iraqis,
> mainly children and infants, have died because of these sanctions. After
> having destroyed the entire infrastructure of their country including
> hospitals, electricity generators, and water treatment plants, the U.S.
> then, with the sanctions, stopped the import of goods, medicines, parts,
and
> chemicals necessary to restore even the most basic necessities of life.
>
> There is no honor in murder. This war is murder by another name. When, in
an
> unjust war, an errant bomb dropped kills a mother and her child it is not
> "collateral damage," it is murder. When, in an unjust war, a child dies of
> dysentery because a bomb damaged a sewage treatment plant, it is not
> "destroying enemy infrastructure," it is murder. When, in an unjust war, a
> father dies of a heart attack because a bomb disrupted the phone lines so
he
> could not call an ambulance, it is not "neutralizing command and control
> facilities," it is murder. When, in an unjust war, a thousand poor farmer
> conscripts die in a trench defending a town they have lived in their whole
> lives, it is not victory, it is murder.
>
> There will be veterans leading protests against this war on Iraq and your
> participation in it. During the Vietnam War thousands in Vietnam and in
the
> U.S. refused to follow orders. Many resisted and rebelled. Many became
> conscientious objectors and others went to prison rather than bear arms
> against the so-called enemy. During the last Gulf War many GIs resisted in
> various ways and for many different reasons. Many of us came out of these
> wars and joined with the anti-war movement.
>
> If the people of the world are ever to be free, there must come a time
when
> being a citizen of the world takes precedence over being the soldier of a
> nation. Now is that time. When orders come to ship out, your response will
> profoundly impact the lives of millions of people in the Middle East and
> here at home. Your response will help set the course of our future. You
will
> have choices all along the way. Your commanders want you to obey. We urge
> you to think. We urge you to make your choices based on your conscience.
If
> you choose to resist, we will support you and stand with you because we
have
> come to understand that our REAL duty is to the people of the world and to
> our common future.
>
> Veteran signers as of January 31, 2003:
> Ed Armas, Army, 1962-1965
> Peter B. AShaw, Marine Corps, 1951-1954
> Tarik Aziz, Army, 1970-1975
> Niall Aslen, Royal Air Force, 1962-1986
> Aram Attarian II, Air Force, 1965-1966
> Collin Baber, Air Force, 1994-1998
> David E Baker, Army, 1988-1991
> Philip L. Bereano, USPHS, 1966-1970
> Anton Black, Navy, 1977-1984
> Dave Blalock, Army 1968-1971
> Michael Blankschen, Army, 1972-1973
> David Bledsoe, Air Force, 1987-1997
> Louis Block, Army, 1966-1972
> Blase Bonpane, Marine Corps Reserve, 1948-1950
> Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ, Air Force, 1955-1959
> Don Broadwell, Marine Corps, 1960-1966
> Roger W Brown, Marine Corps, 1957-1960
> Greg Busby, Air Force, 1980-2000
> Rick Campos, Air Force, 1969-1971
> William J. Cavanaugh, Army, 1951-1953; Army Reserve, 1953-1982
> Fredy Champagne, Army, 1965-1966
> Elwood A. Chirrick, Navy, 1970-1972
> Debra J. Clark, Army, 1976-1984
> Rockney Compton, Army, 1967-1974
> James M. Craven, Army, 1963-1966
> Charlotte Critcher, Army, 1964-1971
> Carl Dix, Army, 1968-1972
> Barry Donnan, British Army, 1987-1993
> Pat Driscoll, Navy, 1972-1975
> Kenneth Dugan, Navy, 1984-1988
> Jake Elkins, Marine Corps, 1965-1969
> Marcus Eriksen, Marine Corps, 1985-1991
> T. Patrick Foley, Navy, 1997-2000
> Dr. Ray Foster, Army, 1972-1975
> Lou Fox, Army, 1965
> Dean Friend, Marine Corps, 1981-1985
> India Mahdi Gamboa, Air Force, 1985-1987
> Ernest Goitein, Army, 1943-1945
> Jay R Goodman, Army, 1969-1970
> Todd Greenwood, Marine Corps, 1993-2001
> James F. Harrington, Air Force, 1966-1967
> Rev. Richard K. Heacock, Jr., Navy, 1944-1946
> Glenn Helkenn, Army, 7 yrs
> Dud Hendrick, Air Force, 1963-1967
> Rodger Herbst, Army, 1969-1971
> Andres Hernandez, Navy Reserve, 1979-1985
> John Hockman, Army, 1963-1965
> Walter Hrozenchik, Navy, 1951-1955
> Eric Edward Johansson, Army, 1989-1992
> James Michael Kearney, Army, 1963-1965
> Keith Keller, Air Force, 1966-1972
> Ron Kovic, Marine Corps, 1964-1968
> Robert Krezewinski, Navy, 1973-1977
> Marty Kunz, Navy, 1970-1976
> Krystal Kyer, Navy, 1993-1997
> Neal Liden, Navy, 1965-1969
> Mark McCleary, Navy, 1996-2002
> Teresa Media, Navy, 1972-1977
> Jack Minassian, Army, 1943-1945
> Michael Moore, Army, 1975-1979
> Paul S. Moorhead, Navy, 1943-1946
> Catherine Morris, Marine Corps, 1981-85 & Army Nat Guard, 1989-96
> Paul Pat Morse, Air Force, 1965-1968
> Bryan Morrison, Air Force, 1994-1998
> Stan Nishimura, Army, 1964-1967
> Bruce McFarland, Navy, 1982-1986
> Rob Moitoza, Navy, 1965-1971
> Dale L. Morgan, Air Force, 1956-1960
> David Rees Morgan, British Royal Air Force, 1948-1950
> John J. Pagoda, Air Force, 1965-1968 and 1985-1998
> Todd A. Papasadero, Army, 1983-1989
> John Pappademos, Naval Reserves, 1943-1946
> Jeff Paterson, Marine Corps, 1986-1990
> Wilson M. Powell, Air Force, 1950-1954
> Erwin Rommel, Army, 22 yrs
> Randy Rowland, Army, 1967-1970
> Rodney A Rylander, Air Force, 1962-1967
> Lee Santa, Army, 1965-1968
> Nikko Schoch, Army, 1968-1970
> Betty R. Scott, Navy, 1943-1945
> Charles T. Smith, Army, 1969-1971
> John Steinbach, Coast Guard, 1965-1969
> Darnell S. Summers, Army, 1966-1970
> Thomas Swift, Army, 1953-1955
> Harold Taggart, Air Force, 1959-1964
> Toby Tahja-Syrett, Army, 1992-1996
> Tom Trigg, Army, 1967-1975
> Joe Urgo, Air Force, 1967-1968
> Gerald Waite, Army, 1967-1982
> William H. Warrick III MD, Army Security Agency, 1968-1971
> Joel Wendland, Army, 1991-1993
> David Wiggins MD, Army, Gulf War
> John P. Wirtz, Army, 1943-1946
> Mike Wong, Army, 1969-1975
> Howard Zinn, Air Force, 1943-1945
>
> Please reprint and forward to other veterans.
>
>
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