Fiver Years Later - Buried Pentagon report directly contradicts Bush-Cheney claims of links between Saddam & bin Laden

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/JDF-Saddam-Report.pdf

Here is a link to Crooks and Liars of the 230 page report that Bush spent the first part of this week trying to suppress. This report was published by the Pentagon itself, and examines 660,000 documents and reports after which it concludes without shadow of doubt that the was ZERO connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

The report is available under the Freedom of Information Act, by contacting the joint forces command website and ordering the CD through the contact form. I don't have a link for that, but if you want to find it, I am sure it would be easy.

or you can go to Crooks and Liars and see the report.

The point here is that even for cave people here in Texas and Sidney, Montana the information that those of us in the anti-war movement have known for more years than Operation Iraqi Liberation aka OIL has been going on, is now available, now, if only cave people could read!

Read it and weep for our dead and betrayed troops, for the Iraqi people, and our world that will be worse for wear thanks to Bush's dirty little war.


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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."--George McGovern.

"They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people."
-Eugene Debs
Still in Iraq

Support Our Troops - Implement Dole-Shalala Commission Recommendations

I received the following message today. Why do we continue to allow our civilian leaders to speak hollow slogans such as "support our troops" while the needs of our battle scarred veterans go unmet?

"Wednesday, President Bush addressed the largest gathering of veterans in the country - the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City. Instead of taking the opportunity to discuss the urgent issues facing veterans today, the president offered a history lesson -- and actually compared Iraq to Vietnam. This was an ideal opportunity for the President to show real leadership on the crisis facing veterans' healthcare, but he failed to do so.

Plenty of people are making arguments about the historical accuracy of the President's Iraq-Vietnam comparison. We are more frustrated by what Bush did not say.

We have often admonished the President for not addressing veterans' issues. This speech today represents a new low. After taking credit for increasing the veterans' budget, even after years of underfunding the VA, the President was strangely silent on the real issues facing new veterans, including naming a replacement for Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson who steps down in October, and implementing the recommendations of the Dole-Shalala Commission to fix the nation's military and veterans' hospitals.

Take a minute now to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper using our online tool. Demand that Congress and the President take real action now to implement the Dole-Shalala recommendations.

It only takes a few minutes, and at the link above we've included some talking points you can use in your letter.

What happened to all the outrage and promises after Walter Reed? The words "Dole-Shalala" were not even mentioned in the President's speech. The Dole-Shalala Commission's Report set out six clear recommendations to be implemented (most by the President), and now they are gathering dust on a shelf somewhere while the President and Congress are on vacation for the summer.

So if we're going to talk about the legacy of Vietnam, we need to remember what happens when a nation fails to take care of its veterans. We cannot abandon another generation of combat vets to untreated mental health problems, substance abuse, unemployment, homelessness, and suicide. As President Bush said today, "History does remind us that there are lessons applicable to our time. And we can learn something from history." Let us learn that the men and women who have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, (and all wars) deserve to be provided for. Not just used as a backdrop for another political photo op.

Make your voice heard today .

Thank you for your continued support."

Sincerely,

Paul

Paul Rieckhoff
Iraq Veteran
Executive Director

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

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