Comments on: Iraq Winter Soldier Hearings: Victory for Independent Media http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Not Indifferent http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12652 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:08:22 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12652 To the writer Sundus Ameer- Please know there are many, many Americans who ARE filled with sorrow because of the suffering of the Iraqi People. We are the ones who seek out information from independent news sources such as this. Unfortunately, too many people I know mistakenly trust they are getting the full story by watching the evening news...and they don't fully comprehend the devastation that's been done in our names. That's just one explanation....and it's not an excuse. I am greatly frustrated by my countrymen who remain in ignorance when there ARE ways to learn the truth. (And I am equally frustrated by those who do know, but say it's futile to raise their voices in protest and appeal to their elected officials.) All I can say at this moment is I am truly very sorry and I will continue to try to raise awareness and to raise my voice. To the writer Sundus Ameer-
Please know there are many, many Americans who ARE filled with sorrow because of the suffering of the Iraqi People. We are the ones who seek out information from independent news sources such as this. Unfortunately, too many people I know mistakenly trust they are getting the full story by watching the evening news…and they don’t fully comprehend the devastation that’s been done in our names. That’s just one explanation….and it’s not an excuse. I am greatly frustrated by my countrymen who remain in ignorance when there ARE ways to learn the truth. (And I am equally frustrated by those who do know, but say it’s futile to raise their voices in protest and appeal to their elected officials.) All I can say at this moment is I am truly very sorry and I will continue to try to raise awareness and to raise my voice.

]]> by: Sundus Ameer http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12635 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:41:24 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12635 I am an Iraqi,but I can still understand your worries about your troops in my country. What I cannot understand is your indifference to our suffurings because of your presence on Iraqi soil. How can you be human and very concerned when it comes to you, but when it comes to us , no one is willing to hear real stories about what is going on every day that caused millions to be displaced and other millions migrate to other countries including yours. I am addressing here every American to stop once in lifetime to think of us, our country and the future of our children. Don't you have children of your own ? We also do ,and care for their future exactly as you do. So, please, try to look behind the bloody scene in Iraq to see that it's not a newsreal to be watched on TV together with commercials, it's human life being destroyed systematically. You have to know that the sufferings of your troops look extremely insignificant compared to the sufferings of their victims. I am an Iraqi,but I can still understand your worries about your troops in my country. What I cannot understand is your indifference to our suffurings because of your presence on Iraqi soil. How can you be human and very concerned when it comes to you, but when it comes to us , no one is willing to hear real stories about what is going on every day that caused millions to be displaced and other millions migrate to other countries including yours. I am addressing here every American to stop once in lifetime to think of us, our country and the future of our children. Don’t you have children of your own ? We also do ,and care for their future exactly as you do. So, please, try to look behind the bloody scene in Iraq to see that it’s not a newsreal to be watched on TV together with commercials, it’s human life being destroyed systematically. You have to know that the sufferings of your troops look extremely insignificant compared to the sufferings of their victims.

]]> by: JON http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12622 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:38:10 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12622 The new or the old, most are full of shit just as were the assholes that were part of the Keary bunch , most had never even been in the service let alone in NAM. And as far as who and what, keep in mind Kennedy got us in, Johnson made it worse ,his way just cost us lives, but Nixon got us out-- no thanks to Keary. Yea I was in country It was a bad war they all are, but it was made much worse by you sniveling lying "the end justifies the means" liberals. I was there when we came home and got spit on, my friends sister hung up on him, I was there when one of you "non violent" liberals tried to hit a marine that was in three casts , just trying to get home. ALL of you Hanoi Jane worshipers can go to HELL!! your kind of nonviolent should be changed to just VILE! The new or the old, most are full of shit just as were the assholes that were part of the Keary bunch , most had never even been in the service let alone in NAM. And as far as who and what, keep in mind Kennedy got us in, Johnson made it worse ,his way just cost us lives, but Nixon got us out– no thanks to Keary.
Yea I was in country It was a bad war they all are, but it was made much worse by you sniveling lying “the end justifies the means” liberals.
I was there when we came home and got spit on, my friends sister hung up on him, I was there when one of you “non violent” liberals tried to hit a marine that was in three casts , just trying to get home.
ALL of you Hanoi Jane worshipers can go to HELL!! your kind of nonviolent should be changed to just VILE!

]]> by: CW Spurchise http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12616 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:42:26 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/iraq-winter-soldier-hearings-victory-for-independent-media/#comment-12616 Many of us older vets have not forgotten the horrors of the Vietnam War. Ten years of fighting and 58,000 brave soldiers lost their lives for what? It wasn’t about securing democracy for a foreign people. It was to further the profiteering of munitions corporations, political ambitions and the neoconservative movement. Conquest using a foreign policy of death and destruction at the expense of America’s youth. All for power and control over people. The independent media has an obligation to educate our younger generation as to the truth about history and current events. Pound it into their heads, make them see the suffering caused by unnecessary conflict, continue to use whatever communication platform that still isn’t controlled by the Corporate Press Propaganda Machine. Make them understand that killing people and stealing their property and sovereign resources is a violation against humanity and cannot be excused with a patriotic call to arms based upon false pretext. We are in a presidential election year. The people have all the power as long as the Constitution of the United States remains in effect. Only one candidate for the Office of the Presidency has stated unequivocally that he will end the police action and occupation in Iraq immediately. That man is Congressman Ron Paul. Regardless of whether you disagree with the rest of his campaign platform, isn’t this one issue of foreign policy worth it to our sons and daughters as well our career military professionals to elect him? The republican convention in September is a long way off. Demand those legally uncommitted delegates to cast their vote for Ron Paul. I can endure any other financial hardship including the pending deep recession or even depression. But I cannot accept any more death of our military personnel that has nothing to do with defending America. I can’t because I will never forget the fiasco of Vietnam. Never. Many of us older vets have not forgotten the horrors of the Vietnam War. Ten years of fighting and 58,000 brave soldiers lost their lives for what? It wasn’t about securing democracy for a foreign people. It was to further the profiteering of munitions corporations, political ambitions and the neoconservative movement. Conquest using a foreign policy of death and destruction at the expense of America’s youth. All for power and control over people.

The independent media has an obligation to educate our younger generation as to the truth about history and current events. Pound it into their heads, make them see the suffering caused by unnecessary conflict, continue to use whatever communication platform that still isn’t controlled by the Corporate Press Propaganda Machine. Make them understand that killing people and stealing their property and sovereign resources is a violation against humanity and cannot be excused with a patriotic call to arms based upon false pretext.

We are in a presidential election year. The people have all the power as long as the Constitution of the United States remains in effect. Only one candidate for the Office of the Presidency has stated unequivocally that he will end the police action and occupation in Iraq immediately. That man is Congressman Ron Paul.

Regardless of whether you disagree with the rest of his campaign platform, isn’t this one issue of foreign policy worth it to our sons and daughters as well our career military professionals to elect him? The republican convention in September is a long way off. Demand those legally uncommitted delegates to cast their vote for Ron Paul.

I can endure any other financial hardship including the pending deep recession or even depression. But I cannot accept any more death of our military personnel that has nothing to do with defending America. I can’t because I will never forget the fiasco of Vietnam. Never.

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