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Titolo: SCUDI UMANI PENTITI E ORA INTERVENTISTI

SCUDI UMANI PENTITI E ORA INTERVENTISTI
Invito a divulgare la notizia, che spero venga data anche dai nostri mezzi
di comunicazione. Un gruppo di pacifisti che si erano recati in Irak
insieme
a degli scudi umani giapponesi, dopo aver ripreso 14 ore di dialogo con la
gente del posto evitando la presenza delle Guardie Repubblicane, si sono
convinti. Kenneth Joseph, un giovane Pastore, ha riferito alla United Press
International di essere stato riportato alla realta' in modo traumatico. Ha
incontrato, e ripreso, iracheni che si dicevano pronti a suicidarsi pur di
vedere terminata la dittatura di saddam e ben contenti di affrontare una
guerra pur di far terminare la guerra che Saddam ha fatto contro di loro
per
tanti anni. I resoconti agghiaccianti delle torture, purtroppo, si
conoscevano gia' bene
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A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese
human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of
uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present.
Kenneth
Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told
UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he
interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American
bombing
didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their
freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a
monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler.
He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing
made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products,
feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from
foot to head."
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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030321-023627-5923r
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 Invito a divulgare la notizia,
Gia' ti ci trovi, divulga pure questa.
Il sito e' quello dei Veterani della Guerra del Golfo,
chiaramente tutti "komunisti antiamericani" pure loro,
suppongo...
"Gulf War Vet Opposes Iraq War"
Bill Harlan
Rapid City Journal (SD)
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/03/21/news/local/news03.tx
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Posted 3/21/2003 4:57:44 PM
March 20, 2003
... Key Quotes from a Gulf War veteran in South Dakota: "I'm 100 percent
behind the GIs." ... "We need to give them everything they need to
finish their mission and get out of there." ... "I'm not convinced that
Iraq is an overwhelming national-security threat, and I'm not convinced
there's a direct connection between Iraq and al-Qaida."
Hot Springs, South Dakota - Not all local opponents of the war against
Iraq were publicly protesting on Thursday.
"I support most of those people who do that - we need them - but I'm
uncomfortable with it myself," Hot Springs businessman Redge Dass said.
Dass is wary of being associated with left-wing "fringe groups" that
sometimes show up at demonstrations. He also said that now that the war
has started, he wants to focus on supporting troops. "I'm 100 percent
behind the GIs," he said. "We need to give them everything they need to
finish their mission and get out of there."
Dass has good reason to be empathetic with soldiers. He served in the
U.S. Navy for 11 years, from 1982 to 1993. He and his wife recently
moved to Hot Springs, where they have several enterprises - including
concert promotion and yoga instruction.
Dass served with Navy Seabees, the famed construction unit, during
Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Two years earlier, he saw action in
Panama during Operation Just Cause.
"In Panama, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
"That was a weird environment."
His small unit was repairing damage at a military "fuel farm" when the
operation to oust Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega began. Dass and
his fellow engineers and a small group of U.S. Marines were attacked
with mortars and small-arms fire.
The Seabees and Marines returned fire and drove the attackers off,
although Dass gives most of the credit to the Marines. "They were there
to make sure we didn't hurt ourselves," he said. "It was over in 20
minutes."
Dass spent Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, training other Navy
personnel to work more effectively with Marines in combat. "I wasn't a
frontline soldier, but I was sending kids out there," he said.
Dass supported Desert Storm. He even remembers being disappointed that
the coalition didn't attack Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein. The case
against Saddam was clearer back then, he said. "It was cut and dried. He
had invaded another sovereign nation. We knew what we were dealing
with."
Dass opposes this second war with Iraq.
"Maybe I'm more geopolitically sophisticated now," Dass said. "I'm not
convinced that Iraq is an overwhelming national-security threat, and I'm
not convinced there's a direct connection between Iraq and al-Qaida."
He also believes the manner in which the United States went to war was
unconstitutional. He doesn't think the Bush administration is wholly to
blame for that, either. "Congress has abdicated its role," he said.
Dass has joined Veterans for Common Sense, a national group opposed to
the Iraq war, but for the most part he has remained on the sidelines of
protests. Still, he is angered by supporters of U.S. policy who call the
protesters and other war opponents "unpatriotic."
"I do resent that," he said. "I'm a military veteran and a combat
veteran. I have a right to speak out."
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/article.asp?id=568

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mezzi....
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Condivisibile o meno la loro scelta, onore a loro... come disse Nenni: "solo
i morti e gli imbecilli non cambiano mai idea".