From: Jasper
Date: 12/29/2005
Time: 9:28:57 PM
Remote Name: 192.168.9.72
Lollie, ….During the Vietnam War influential Americans like senators, college professors, singers, song writers, journalists, comedians, movie and TV stars, producers and directors actively campaigned for the military forces U.S. troops were fighting. By 1970 the only way to win a Pulitzer, an Oscar or an Emmy for anything involving the war was to tell a story with the American’s and our military allies as the bad guys. ……………All propaganda was American government propaganda. All civilian casualties were either deliberately caused by Americans or the result of American indifference to the civilian population. The only military casualties that mattered were American. The only good American soldiers or marines were the ones who came back in wheelchairs to confess their war crimes or to join in demonstrations against the evil American war. Dead American solders became martyrs to the cause of the peace movement – and psychological weapons for the Communist armed forces they opposed. …………..The first charges of Americans using chemical warfare involved our use of CS, a gas that was described as causing a wide range of horrible-sounding symptoms. These reports were true as far as they went. Most people didn’t know that CS was a form of tear gas, a non-lethal agent used to drive enemy solders out of bunkers and tunnels without killing civilians that might be with them as family members or hostages. ………….Napalm was another chemical weapon the American military was accused of using indiscriminately against troops and civilians alike. Yes, napalm is a chemical weapon. So are white phosphorus, T.N.T. and gunpowder. ………….When my brother returned from Vietnam he told me how beautiful the country was. He reminded me of this just before I shipped over there. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I knew how devastated the countryside really was from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. I’d seen it on television and read a lot about it. But when I got to Vietnam I was stunned to see no evidence of Agent Orange for months until I went on a mission where it had been used extensively. Yes, it left huge swatches of black, dead, and ugly trees but it clearly did the job it was supposed to do. Nothing could grow there. It denied the enemy concealment. There was no way a large force of enemy solders could sneak up on us through those areas. …………..Shortly before the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, the long-term effects of Agent Orange on humans were documented and everyone in the world knew what they were. Admiral who authorized its use and the officers in the filed who used it didn’t know. The company that sold it to the U.S. military DID know. When the Communists took over all of Vietnam, they knew it, too. They used the palaces Agent Orange was dropped to create “New Economic Zones” for a few million potential troublemakers. The people who told us about the evil American use of Agent Orange said nothing about the way their buddies were using it to murder people. ………The news about depleted uranium contains enough information to tell me that the people who profited from its use knew damn well what the residual effects would be. But there is no way that top officials in the U.S. government or military could have known about it. They would not have done it if for no other reason than it was bad politics. ………The crucial fact missing from these stories is how the depleted uranium was sold. It was sold as a super hard bunker penetration component with no residual effects. That’s what the military thought it was getting – not uranium, “depleted” uranium. The people who belong in prison are the liars like the ones in Dow Chemical who sold the military Agent Orange strictly as a chemical defoliant when they knew damn well it was much more than that. These people are mass murderers. …………Which brings us back the war in Iraq. Some wars have to be fought. I believed back in 1991 that this was one of them that we had to fight. There has never been a war in American history where all of the bad guys were on the other side. Peace is not an alternative to war it is what ever the people with the power to enforce it say it is. Let the “peace” that followed U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia be your guide. –Jasper