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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Soldier From 101 (City Of London)Engineer Regiment (EOD) Killed In Nahr-E Saraj

30 Oct 10 Ministry of Defence

It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 101(City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) serving with theCounter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force, was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday30 October 2010.

The soldier was killed as a result of a gunshot wound suffered whilst he was tasked to asuspect device in the Nahr-e Saraj North area of Helmand Province.

'Fallen Hero' Lynch Is Laid To Rest

Pallbearers remove the casket from the hearse containing Marine Lance Cpl. ScottLynch at the Church of the Holy Rosary in this image captured from video.

10/14/10 By Alyssa Sunkin, Times Herald-Record


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GREENWOOD LAKE Shoulder to shoulder, they packed the pews at the Church ofthe Holy Rosary Wednesday to honor and say goodbye to fallen Marine Lance Cpl. ScottLynch.

We gather here today to honor a fallen hero, a husband, a son, a brother, a comrade, aMarine, said the Rev. Robert Sweeney, to the standing-room-only crowd for a FuneralMass Wednesday morning.

Family, friends and neighbors paid homage to the 22-year-old Greenwood Lake man known for his beaming smile who was killed Oct. 6 while conducting a combatoperation in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, according to the Department ofDefense.

He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II MarineExpeditionary Force, out of Camp Lejeune, [email protected]

He is the third serviceman from the region to be killed in Afghanistan and the 20thfrom the region to be killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

It's horrific, said family friend Nadine Vaccarino. Parents aren't supposed to bury theirchildren. It's not supposed to be that way.

Especially for this man, whom Vaccarino, her daughter Cassie and friend Celia Hoffmandescribed as a sweet and loving person who always smiled. They called him ScottySmiles.

We're all proud of him, and we'll never forget him, Hoffman said.

Lynch is survived by his wife, Tanya Sterling Lynch; parents, James and Tammy Lynch;

two brothers, James Lynch and Jerry Lynch; as well as other family members.

Tanya Lynch told the Times Herald-Record last week that her husband lovedunconditionally, and he was equally loved by all who knew him.

He was the most genuine, sincere person you could ever meet, said Lauren Farrell,whose brother Michael was one of Lynch's best friends. Farrell said she looked up toLynch as an older brother.

Mourners lined the streets clutching flags as the motorcade for Lynch left the church forSt. Stephen's Cemetery in Warwick, where he was laid to rest. They did the sameMonday, when a motorcade brought Lynch's body back from Afghanistan.

During calling hours Tuesday, the line to pay respects to Lynch and his family spilled outof the church and snaked around Windermere Avenue.

Over the past week we have seen a town come together, said the Rev. Chris Yount ofthe Warwick United Methodist Church, who married Lynch and Tanya last May.

Scott brought an entire community together. This man has touched your lives, and hissacrifice can make a huge difference if we stay together.


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Yount said it's tempting to ask why this tragedy happened. There are so manyquestions. We can try to answer them, but the answers seem to fall short and our painremains.

If there is one thing that's certain, it's this: Lynch was a great man who had a captivatingsmile, Yount said. He lived and died a hero.

Chiefland Remembers Fallen SoldierOctober 11th 2010 by Kristin Giannas, WCJB

Audrey Campbell of Chiefland says it was her daughter-in-law who called last Monday,with devastating news.

When i got on the phone, she said to me, he's gone...and I said who's gone, and thenshe said to me, Karl got killed, and all I said was, not my son, said Campbell.

On Monday, 34-year-old Sgt. Karl Campbell was killed while on foot patrol in Babur,Afghanistan, after insurgents attacked his unit with an explosive device.

He was in the lead, so he got the blunt of the explosion, but there were two othersoldiers that were seriously wounded, but Karl was the only one that was killed, saidCampbell.

Karl enlisted in the army in 1995 and served as an infantryman until 2003. During thattime, he became an Airborne Ranger, and a father.

He was a great dad, he loved his kids, said Campbell.

After a six-year break from the military, Karl re-enlisted last November, joining the 101stAirborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. On June 15, Karl was deployed toAfghanistan.

The day he was deployed, he told my daughter in law... that he would come home toher, said Campbell.

With just two months until he'd be back home for some R&R, Karl returned home, andCampbell says, on Thursday, just as when he left, her son's wife and children were thereto receive him.

She stood and saluted his casket as they took it from the plane to the van, and afterthey had it in the van she leaned over and said to me, 'mom, he's home, my hero ishome.'

Sgt. Karl Campbell will receive the Bronze Star and Purple Heart as well as the ArmyCommendation Medal.


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The memorial service will be this Saturday, at 1:00 P.M., at the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter Day Saints in Chiefland.

South Grad Killed In AfghanistanOctober 13, 2010 By JODY MURPHY, Parkersburg News and Sentinel

PARKERSBURG - A Parkersburg man killed in Afghanistan this weekend is cominghome to be buried.

Details are sketchy, but David Alan Hess, a 2003 Parkersburg South High Schoolgraduate, was apparently driving a vehicle that was struck by a roadside bomb, saidHess' mother Kathryn Dowler.

Hess, 25, had been living in Ruskin, Fla., where he worked in construction before he joined the military in December. Hess, a member of the 101st Airborne, shipped out toAfghanistan in June from Fort Campbell, Ky., said Dowler, who spoke to Hess about twoweeks ago.

He called me every week, she said.

Sarah Hess said her brother talked about seeing his buddies hit by a roadside bomb.

She spoke to him by phone on her birthday and the two chatted over the computer onceor twice a week.

He was scared, she said. There was a roadside bomb and one of the guys in hisplatoon had been killed and he was scared.

Hess' Facebook page lists Only the dead have seen the end of war as his favoritequote.

Hess' father Jeffrey was the first member of the family to be notified of his son's death.

Jeffrey Hess, who lives in Ruskin, said he was heading to work Sunday afternoon whenhe was informed by military officials. He described his son as the all-American kid whoplayed baseball, football and wrestled at Parkersburg South, and enjoyed hunting,fishing and watching sports.

Jeffrey Hess called his daughter Sarah Hess to deliver the news. Sarah Hess called her

older sister, Christie Hess. The two drove to Cisco in Ritchie County to tell his mother.

My mother was the last to know, Christie Hess said. We couldn't find her.

Dowler, who was four-wheeling Sunday, didn't return to the house until around 7 p.m.when she was greeted by her daughters and servicemen.

They showed up around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Dowler said. I got back at 7 p.m.and they were still sitting on the porch, waiting on me when I got back.


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Dowler said funeral arrangements are being made at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home onPike Street. Memorial services will be at the South Parkersburg Baptist Church, but adate has not been set, Sarah Hess said.

Dowler said everything is up in the air until Hess' body is released by the military. Dowlerhad nothing but praise for the officers helping the family.

They have been excellent, she said.

Dowler said Hess will be buried at the family plot in Sandyville next to his grandfather,who died in March.

In addition to his mother, father and two sisters, David Hess is survived by his wife ofalmost three years, Diane Hess, and their 5-year-old son, Bryor.

Sarah and Christie said their phones have been ringing off the hook from people callingto express their concern and condolences.

I don't even answer my phone, Sarah Hess said. It still won't bring him back.

Granite Bay Marine Killed InAfghanistan:

I Don't Know What To Do With MyWedding Dress

10/14/2010 Jason Kobely, News10.net

GRANITE BAY - A Marine from Granite Bay was among four U.S. servicemen killedearlier this week during combat operations in Afghanistan, according to the U.S.Defense Department.

Private First Class Victor A. Dew of Granite Bay was one of four Americans killedWednesday when an improvised device exploded around the Marines' vehicle duringfighting in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

Dew was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, IMarine Expeditionary Force stationed out of Camp Pendleton.

Dew's fiance Courtney Gold said Dew, a graduate of Granite Bay High School, had onlybeen Afghanistan for about three weeks before the blast that took his life.

We had plans to start our whole life together, a tearful Gold said Thursday night. Wehad wedding plans. I don't know what to do with my wedding dress.


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Three other members of Dew's battalion also died in the explosion, including Cpl. JustinJ. Cain, 22, of Manitowoc, Wis.; Lance Cpl. Phillip D. Vinnedge, 19, of Saint Charles,Mo.; and Lance Cpl. Joseph E. Rodewald, 21, of Albany, Ore.

As of last week, at least 1,219 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as aresult of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Presscount.

Family Remembers Fallen SoldierOctober 15, 2010 By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, St. Tammany bureau, Times-Picayune

It was about noon Thursday, and a flower delivery woman approached. Beforespeaking, the grieving Slidell mother intercepted her, explained, I'm Janice and signedfor the condolences, suddenly seasoned at receiving care packages.

Three weeks to the day after her son, Spc. Matthew C. Powell, had hugged her goodbyeand returned to Afghanistan, the 20-year-old Slidell native died Tuesday of wounds hereceived from an improvised explosive device near the Pakistani border.

Janice Powell, 48, recalls her son's sighs as he prepared to fly back to rejoin his unit onSept. 21: Ah, I wish I had more time. I wish I didn't have to leave so soon.

A member of the Northshore High class of 2009, Powell was killed in Ghunday Gharwhen his military vehicle was attacked, the Department of Defense announcedWednesday night.

On Thursday, Janice Powell stood in her front lawn in Slidell's Yester Oaks subdivision,five small American flags blowing in the wind as cars packed her driveway.

I'm still in shock, still dealing with this, his mother said.

Yet despite her son's natural longing to continue hugging her last month, Powell wasready to re-enter the theater, his mother said.

On Thursday, his family and friends described how Powell had matured, grown into aman, since joining the Army in July 2008. He'd found something that gave his lifepurpose and pride, they said.

Powell was assigned to Company A., 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade

Combat Team, of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) based in Fort Campbell, Ky.He arrived in Fort Campbell in November 2008 and first left for Afghanistan in May.

During his recent home leave, Powell had paid a special visit to his former footballcoach, Mike Bourg. As the two walked onto the Northshore High football field, side byside, Bourg noticed Powell held himself taller.


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Four Marine Casualties In Nabuk

A U.S. Marine from the 8th Marines Alpha Company bends over from fatigue uponreturning to base after an intense battle against Taliban insurgents that lasted severalhours and led to four Marine casualties in the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan'sHelmand province, November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Taliban Successfully Launch ANorthern Afghanistan Surge:

Insurgents Offensive WreckingThe Obama Regime Afghan WarStrategy:

Day By Day, The Taliban AreAdvancing Into New Districts

U.S. Commander Admits That In OrderTo Deny That Terrain To The Enemy,You'd Have To Have People All Over

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The northern provinces where the Taliban presence has grown in recent monthssuch as Baghlan, on the crossroads of highways linking Kabul to Central Asiaare among Afghanistan's most strategically important.

OCTOBER 19, 2010, By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, The Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

PUL-E-KHUMRI, AfghanistanThe Taliban's influence in northern Afghanistanhas expanded in recent months from a few hotspots to much of the region, asinsurgents respond to the U.S.-led coalition's surge in the south by seizing newground in areas once considered secure.

Taliban militants stop traffic nightly at checkpoints on the road from Kabul to Uzbekistan, just outside Baghlan province's capital city of Pul-e-Khumri, frequently blowing up fuelconvoys and seizing travelers who work with the government or the internationalcommunity.

In many areas here and the rest of the north, the Taliban have effectively supplanted theofficial authorities, running local administrations and courts, and conscripting recruits.

Day by day, the Taliban are advancing into new districts, said provincial council chiefMohammad Rasoul Mohseni of Baghlan.

Such advances challenge the coalition strategy that assumes Taliban losses in itssouthern heartland would undermine the entire insurgency, driving the militantsto pursue peace on terms acceptable to the West.

The northern provinces where the Taliban presence has grown in recent monthssuch as Baghlan, on the crossroads of highways linking Kabul to Central Asiaare among Afghanistan's most strategically important.

The number of insurgent attacks in Baghlan alone jumped to 163 in the thirdquarter, from 73 in the second quarter, according to the Afghanistan NGO SafetyOffice.

The Taliban have consolidated their war gains by tapping into broaddisillusionment with the incompetence and venality of Afghan governmentofficials.

People don't love the Talibanbut if they compare them to the government, they seethe Taliban as the lesser evil, said Baghlan Gov. Munshi Abdul Majid, an appointee ofPresident Hamid Karzai.

As a result, the Taliban are winning support beyond the Pashtun community, theirtraditional base.

In Baghlan, where Pashtuns account for less than one-quarter of the province's 804,000residents, the insurgency is now drawing ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks and other minoritiespreviously seen as unsympathetic to the rebel cause.


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It's clear that the insurgents concentrate their efforts on those areas where they canhope to reach a significant impact, explained Maj. Gen. Hans-Werner Fritz, the Germancommander of 11,000 coalition troops across Afghanistan's nine northern provinces.

The northern part could become the game-changer for all of Afghanistan.

Baghlan is of strategic importance, he added, because most supplies fromUzbekistan and Tajikistan pass through, including most of the coalition's fuel. Thepower line from Uzbekistan, the main source of Kabul's electricity, also runsthrough here.

Initial signs of insurgency in the north appeared around 2007. Ethnic Pashtun villages insome districts of Kunduz were the first to succumb, virtually unopposed by the Germanmilitary, whose rules of engagement limited offensive operations.

The expansion of the Taliban's reach has caught the coalition and Kabul off guard.

Only some 300 Hungarian soldiers, recently reinforced with small German andAmerican units, are policing Baghlan province. By comparison, there are almost30,000 allied troops in Helmand, with roughly the same population.

U.S. and allied military commanders in Kabul classify the campaign in the north as aneconomy of force operation, however, saying troops and materiel are more needed forthe main effort in the south.

The north, in short, is having to make do with a shoestring version of the surge.

In order to deny that terrain to the enemy, you'd have to have people all overAfghanistan in combat outposts, said Army Col. Bill Burleson, commander of the1st Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, the main infantry contribution to the

surge in the north.

The Taliban, who collect the Islamic ushr and zakat taxes across the north, alsobrought their mobile courts, much to the relief of the locals who usually have tobribe Afghan officials to lodge a complaint and often wait for years for a verdict.

An American official familiar with Baghlan noted that the Taliban courts make aspecial effort not to show any preferential treatment to Pashtunsa contrast togovernment officials, who often favor their own clan or ethnic group.

Even a year ago, small bands of Taliban roaming in the mountains and deserts ofBaghlan were too scared to enter Baghlan's villages, said Gul Mohammad, a teacher

from the area. Now the Taliban are in our village every night, he said. The peoplehave to either give their youngsters to the Taliban as fighters, or send them far away aslaborers.


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Resistance Captures KhogyaniDistrict In Ghazni Province:

The Ghazni Assault Was Only TheLatest In A Series Of Significant AttacksBy The Militants In The Past Few Days

Nov 1, 2010 By Mustafa Andalib, Reuters

A large number of insurgents attacked and seized a district in an Afghan province onSunday night, officials said, the latest in a string of assaults on foreign and governmenttargets.

Mohammad Yaseen, police commander for Khogyani district in Ghazni province,southwest of Kabul, told Reuters the militants had set fire to the district headquartersand police had suffered casualties defending the area.

Yaseen, who fled to the provincial capital, Ghazni city, did not know the exact number ofcasualties and said the insurgents were still holding the area.

Several rooms in the district centre and a police vehicle were destroyed in the attack, itsaid, but gave no details on casualties.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the Islamist group had carried outthe attack, adding the militants had seized police vehicles and weapons.

The Ghazni assault was only the latest in a series of significant attacks by the militants inthe past few days.

There were at least two other attacks in the south and just north of Kabul, on Friday andSaturday, Afghan and ISAF officials said.

U.S. Occupation Fuel Tankers Attacked,As Usual

Nov 1 AFP

Taliban fighters armed with assault rifles fired at two tankers just across the Pakistanborder in Afghanistan carrying fuel for U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Monday, woundinga driver, his assistance, and another person, police said.


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Around eight militants in two cars intercepted two oil tankers near the town of Pabbi onthe Grand Trunk road and fired at them with Kalashnikovs, local police official HayatKhan told AFP.

Two drivers and a helper were wounded and taken to hospital in Peshawar. Theircondition is stable now, Khan said, adding that oil leaked from the tankers but did notcatch fire.

Intelligence officials in Peshawar also confirmed the attack and said the attackers fledthe scene.

More Resistance Action

The site of a bomb blast in Kunduz November 1, 2010, where at least three guards to anAfghan district chief were wounded after a remote controlled roadside bomb explosion innorthern Kunduz province. REUTERS/ Wahdat

October 28, 2010 By Associated Press

A bombing in western Afghanistan on Tuesday killed four Afghan policemen, including alocal police chief. The bomb appeared to be targeting the top police official in Obedistrict and exploded as his vehicle drove past, said Naqib Arwen, a spokesman for the

governor of Herat province where the blast took place. It was a very strong explosion,he said. We are investigating, but our initial reports show that it was a remote controlled bomb.


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The Great Afghan Army TrainingFiasco Rolls On:

Corruption, Drug Use, Mediocre Or PoorFighting Skills, Including An

Unwillingness To Patrol Regularly And InSizable Numbers, Or To Stand Watch In

Remote OutpostsSome units openly shirked combat duty refusing to patrol, or sending a bareminimum of soldiers on American patrols, sometimes only a pair of soldiers to

accompany an American platoon.The remaining Afghans stayed behind, lounging in the relative safety of outpoststhe Americans secured.

October 12, 2010 By C. J. CHIVERS, New York Times [Excerpts]

KABUL, Afghanistan Long a lagging priority, the plan to produce many more highlytrained Afghan troops is moving this fall at a rapid pace.

Away from the capital, in the rural areas where the insurgency rages, the Afghan militaryhas not performed well. In provinces where the Taliban are strongest and the fighting is

most pitched, the common view is that the Afghan Army and the police have thus farbeen disappointing.

At the small-unit level, Western troops and journalists have documented theircorruption, drug use, mediocre or poor fighting skills and patterns of lacklustercommitment, including an unwillingness to patrol regularly and in sizablenumbers, or to stand watch in remote outposts.

At the higher levels, Western military officers often describe patronage, favoritismand an absence of managerial acumen, rooted in part in the pervasive culture ofcorruption and in widespread illiteracy. (Now, 14 percent of the combined forcecan read or write at the third-grade level.)

There is also a strong worry about Taliban infiltration into the ranks, especiallyamong the police.

The training mission in Afghanistan also labors under a legacy of unfulfilled pastpromises, inadequate training even in basic skills like marksmanship and driving militaryvehicles, and a pattern of overstating how ready or skilled the forces are.


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Early this year, the Pentagon and senior Afghan and American officers in Kabulinsisted that the complex operation to re-establish a government presence inMarja, a Taliban stronghold, was Afghan led.

It was not.

And many Afghan units, by the accounts of many Americans present, performed poorly.

Some units openly shirked combat duty refusing to patrol, or sending a bareminimum of soldiers on American patrols, sometimes only a pair of soldiers toaccompany an American platoon.

The remaining Afghans stayed behind, lounging in the relative safety of outpoststhe Americans secured.

In the operations under way in Kandahar, reports continue to indicate thatAmerican forces are almost always in the lead

WELCOME TO OBAMAWORLD:WHERE EVERY DEATH IN COMBATACCOMPLISHES NOTHING AT ALL

Oct. 10, 2010: U.S. soldiers carry the body of an American soldier, killed in a roadsidebomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, to a medical evacuation helicopter.Pararescuemen and pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadronsresponded to the attack which killed two American soldiers and wounded three others.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)


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Our goal is for Traveling Soldier to become the thread that ties working-classpeople inside the armed services together. We want this newsletter to be aweapon to help you organize resistance within the armed forces.

If you like what you've read, we hope that you'll join with us in building a networkof active duty organizers. http://www.traveling-soldier.org/

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MILITARY NEWS

The Traitor Gates Inspects His BloodyWork

SecDef Gates, left, look on at the burial service for Sgt. Karl A. Campbell, at ArlingtonNational Cemetery Nov. 1, 2010. Campbell, 34, of Chiefland, Fla., died in Babur,Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvisedexplosive device. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Army Suicides:I Blame The Medication, Ms.

Barrientes Said. You Go And TryTo Get Help And All They Do Is Put

You On MedicationAdvocates For Veterans Say The

Shortage Of Therapists Means That


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Army Doctors Tend To Rely More OnMedication Than Therapy

The Majority Of Soldiers Who HaveCommitted Suicide About 80 Percent Have Had Only One Deployment Or

None At All[Thanks to Clancy Sigal, who sent this in.]

October 10, 2010 By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., The New York Times [Excerpts]

[N]early 20 months after the Army began strengthening its suicide prevention programand working to remove the stigma attached to seeking psychological counseling, thesuicide rate among active service members remains high and shows little sign ofimprovement.

Through August, at least 125 active members of the Army had ended their own lives,exceeding the morbid pace of last year, when there were a record 162 suicides.

Advocates for veterans say the shortage of therapists means that Army doctors tend torely more on medication than therapy.

They also say the Army screens too few soldiers for mental problems after deployments,placing the burden on the soldier to seek help rather than on officers to actively find thedamaged psyches in their corps.

In July, Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the vice chief of staff of the Army, ordered that allsoldiers returning from combat be evaluated by a mental health professional, either faceto face or by video conference.

General Chiarelli and other top commanders have argued that the roots of the rise inmilitary suicides are complex and that blame cannot be laid solely on repeateddeployments.

The majority of soldiers who have committed suicide about 80 percent havehad only one deployment or none at all.

Another factor is that after years of war, the Army is now attracting recruits alreadyinclined toward risky behavior and thus more prone to suicide, according to a 15-monthArmy review of suicides released in July.

Master Sgt. Baldemar Gonzalez, 39, an airborne combat veteran in the Persian Gulf andIraq, began seeing a therapist at Fort Hood a year ago and received a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He suffered nightmares, insomnia and flashbacks, said his


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wife, Christina Barrientes. He had planned to go to school for engineering on the G.I. Billwhen his enlistment ended this year.

Army psychiatrists prescribed antidepressants, sleeping pills and a tranquilizer acocktail of five drugs, she said. He started taking them in mid-March, and his personalitychanged. Always an athletic, outgoing man, he became listless and quiet, sleeping muchof the day and avoiding his friends.

On Sept. 25, he dropped his daughter off at a football game at her high school, thenreturned home and told his wife he was going to work on some homework in the kitchen.She found him upstairs later in the day, dead in their bedroom closet, having apparentlyhanged himself.

I blame the medication, Ms. Barrientes said. You go and try to get help and all they dois put you on medication.

Holiday Mailing Deadlines or OverseasTroops10.18.2010 Karen Jowers, Army Times [Excerpts]

Its time to get cracking on those holiday gifts particularly packages going to friendsand loved ones in the overseas military community. How you plan to send those giftsdetermines how long it will take to arrive.

If theyre traveling the slowest way parcel post mail that package by Nov. 12 to getit there by Dec. 25, according to recommended holiday shipping dates provided by theMilitary Postal Service Agency.

Hanukkah begins Dec. 1 this year, so subtract 24 days from each of the recommendedmailing dates.

MAILING DEADLINES

Express MaiI N/A* Dec. 18+

Military Services:First-class cards and letters Dec. 4* Dec. 10+Priority Mail Dec. 4* Dec. 10+Parcel Airlift Mail (PAL) Dec. 1* Dec. 3+Space Available Mail (SAM) Nov 20* Nov. 26+Parcel Post Nov. 12* Nov. 12+

*: APO/FPO/DPO AE Zip 093 (contingency locations)+: All other APO/FPO


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FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

Hope for change doesn't cut it when you're still losing buddies.-- J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War

I say that when troops cannot be counted on to follow orders because they seethe futility and immorality of them THAT is the real key to ending a war.-- Al Jaccoma, Veterans For Peace

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time totime that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.-- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787


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A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the rulingclasses did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people fine manners.-- Leon Trotsky, History Of The Russian Revolution

The Nixon administration claimed and received great credit for withdrawing theArmy from Vietnam, but it was the rebellion of low-ranking GIs that forced thegovernment to abandon a hopeless suicidal policy-- David Cortright; Soldiers In Revolt

It is a two class world and the wrong class is running it.-- Larry Christensen, Soldiers Of Solidarity & United Auto Workers

Disneyland Happy Hour

From: Mike HastieTo: Military Resistance


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Sent: October 17, 2010Subject: Disneyland Happy Hour

Disneyland Happy Hour

America is so unfathomably self-centered,that it can't see its own narcissism.That is like a medical doctor not being ableto diagnose his patient with alcoholism whenthe patient's drinking history parallels his own.The United States Government suffers frominebriated violence.The guy with the gun is in a blackout.

Mike HastieU.S. Army MedicVietnam 1970-71October 17, 2010

Photo and caption from the I-R-A-Q (I Remember Another Quagmire) portfolio ofMike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam 1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work,contact at: ( [email protected] ) T)

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or aso-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizenof Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike HastieU.S. Army MedicVietnam 1970-71December 13, 2004

For The Last Nine Years, U.S.Government Officials Have Used The

Pretext Of The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks AsA Blank Check To Wage War Against

Any Country This Government ChoosesSeptember 13 - 27, 2010 Spark Newspaper

After a Florida preacher tried to make a name for himself, threatening to make 9/11 aday to publicly burn Korans, he was opposed by Obama administration and militaryofficials.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Fox News and Republican Party politicians already were making outright appeals tobigotry and racism by mobilizing opposition to the construction of an Islamic culturalcenter two blocks from ground zero in New York City supposedly hallowed groundthat had previously been a Burlington Coat Factory store, that happened to be one blockaway from a gentlemans club that is, a strip club.

These outright bigoted appeals posed problems for the U.S. military in its wars in Iraq,Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, especially since the U.S.s main allies and clientstates are themselves Muslim fundamentalist states.

So Obama and all the rest pretended to oppose bigotry.

Obama highlighted that in his speech at the Pentagon on September 11. As Americanswe are not and never will be at war with Islam. No, the U.S. is not at war with Islam

only with the people of several countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Yes, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which took 3,000 lives, were horrifying and barbaric like all terrorist attacks against civilians. And, of course, people, especially in New YorkCity, may feel upset by them.

But for the last nine years, U.S. government officials have used the pretext of the 9/11terrorist attacks as a blank check to wage war against any country this governmentchooses sowing the U.S. militarys own brand of terror and mass murder against thepeople of Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen.

The U.S. government has also carried out a witch hunt against immigrants, with massarrests and detentions on trumped up charges that followed 9/11.

Obamas Justice Department continues to frame-up Muslims under charges of terrorism,

including gunning down a Detroit minister in cold blood by FBI agents. U.S. officialshave turned the remembrances of the horrendous 9/11 terrorist attacks into a politicalcircus.

They have invoked the 3,000 deaths in this country to justify carrying out terroristattacks on a vast scale against entire populations, as well as to justify that we payfor those wars, while the government steps up its repression at home.

And the U.S. governments own policies have sown the seeds of racism, bigotryand hatred.

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The Origin Of The Golden Rule: [Those Who Have The Gold Make The

Rules][Via Gerald Ali]

By Frederick Engels 1887. Source: Marx and Engels On Religion, Progress Publishers,1957

The world outlook of the Middle Ages was substantially theological. The unity of theEuropean world which actually did not exist internally, was established externally,against the common Saracen foe, by Christianity.

The unity of the West-European world, which consisted of a group of nations developingin continual intercourse, was welded in Catholicism.

This theological welding was not only in ideas, it existed in reality, not only in the Pope,its monarchistic centre, but above all in the feudally and hierarchically organized Church,which, owning about a third of the land in every country, occupied a position oftremendous power in the feudal organization.

The Church with its feudal landownership was the real link between the differentcountries; the feudal organization of the Church gave a religious consecration to thesecular feudal state system.

Besides, the clergy was the only educated class. It was therefore natural that Churchdogma was the starting-point and basis of all thought.

Jurisprudence, natural science, philosophy, everything was dealt with according to,whether its content agreed or disagreed with the doctrines of the Church.

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A new class appeared in opposition to the big landowners.

The city burghers were first and foremost and exclusively producers of and traders incommodities, while the feudal mode of production was based substantially on self-consumption of the product within a limited circle, partly by the producers and partly bythe feudal lord.

The Catholic world outlook, fashioned on the pattern of feudalism, was no longeradequate for this new class and its conditions of production and exchange.

Nevertheless, this new class remained for a long time a captive in the bonds of almightytheology.

From the thirteenth to the seventeenth century all the reformations and thestruggles carried out under religious slogans that were connected with them were,on the theoretical side, nothing but repeated attempts of the burghers andplebeians in the towns and the peasants who had become rebellious by contactwith both the latter to adapt the old theological world outlook to the changedeconomic conditions and the condition of life of the new class.

But that could not be done.

The flag of religion waved for the last time in England in the seventeenth century,and hardly fifty years later appeared undisguised in France the new world outlookwhich was to become the classical outlook of bourgeoisie, the juristic worldoutlook.

It was a secularization of the theological outlook.

Human right took the place of dogma, of divine right, the state took the place of the

church.

The economic and social conditions, which had formerly been imagined to have beencreated by the Church and dogma because they were sanctioned by the Church, werenow considered as founded on right and created by the state.

Because commodity exchange on a social scale and in its full development, particularlythrough advance and credit, produces complicated mutual contract relations andtherefore demands generally applicable rules that can be given only by the community

state-determined standards of right it was imagined that these standards of rightarose not from the economic facts but from formal establishment by the state.

And because competition, the basic form of trade of free commodity producers, isthe greatest equalizer, equality before the law became the main battle-cry of thebourgeoisie.

The fact that this newly aspiring classs struggle against the feudal lords and theabsolute monarchy then protecting them, like every class struggle, had to be a politicalstruggle, a struggle for the mastery of the state, and had to be fought on juridicaldemands contributed to strengthen the juristic outlook.


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But the bourgeoisie produced its negative double, the proletariat, and with it anew class struggle which broke out before the bourgeoisie had completed theconquest of political power.

As the bourgeoisie in its time had by force of tradition dragged the theologicaloutlook with it for a while in its fight against the nobility, so, too, the proletariat atfirst took over the juristic outlook from its opponent and sought in it weaponsagainst the bourgeoisie.

The first elements of the proletarian party as well as their theoreticalrepresentatives remained wholly on the juristic ground of right, the onlydistinction being that they built up for themselves a different ground of rightfrom that of the bourgeoisie.

On one side the demand for equality was extended so that equality in right would becompleted by social equality; on the other, from Adam Smiths proposition that labour isthe source of all wealth but that the product of labour must be shared with the landownerand the capitalist the conclusion was drawn that this sharing was unjust and must beeither abolished or modified in favour of the worker.

But the feeling that to leave this question on the mere juristic ground of right in no waymade possible the abolition of the evil conditions created by the bourgeois-capitalisticmode of production, i.e., the mode of production based on large-scale industry, alreadythen led the major minds among the earlier socialists Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen

to abandon entirely the juristic-political field and to declare all political strugglefruitless.

Both these views were equally unsatisfactory to express adequately and embracecompletely the working classs desire for emancipation created by economic conditions.

The demand for the full product of labour and just as much the demand for equality lostthemselves in unsolvable contradictions as soon as they were formulated juristically indetail and left the core of the question the transformation of the mode of production more or less untouched.

The rejection of the political struggle by the great Utopians was at the same time therejection of the class struggle, i.e., of the only form of activity of the class whoseinterests they represented.

Both outlooks made abstraction of the historical background to which they owedtheir existence; both appealed to feeling: some to the feeling of justice, others tothe feeling of humanity.

Both attired their demands in the form of pious wishes of which one could not saywhy they had to be fulfilled at that very time and not a thousand years earlier orlater.

The working class, who by the changing of the feudal mode of production into thecapitalist mode was deprived of all ownership of the means of production and by themechanism of the capitalist mode of production is continually engendered anew in that


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hereditary state of propertylessness, cannot find an exhaustive expression of its livingcondition in the juristic illusion of the bourgeoisie.

It can only know that condition of life fully itself if it looks at things in their realitywithout juristically colored glasses.

But Marx helped it to do that with his materialist conception of history, byproviding the proof that all mans juristic, political, philosophical, religious andother ideas are derived in the last resort from his economic conditions of life, fromhis mode of production and of exchanging the product.

Thus he provided the world outlook corresponding to the conditions of the lifeand struggle of the proletariat; only lack of illusions in the heads of the workerscould correspond to their lack of property. And this proletarian world outlook isnow spreading over the world.

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