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Active-Duty Troops Launch Campaign to Press Congress to End U.S. Occupation of Iraq

by Open-Publishing - Monday 23 October 2006
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65 Members to Send "Appeals for Redress" Under the Military Whistle-blower Protection Act

10/23/2006 9:58:00 AM

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, 202-246-5303, or Alex Howe, or Laura Gross, 202-822-5200, for Fenton Communications

News Advisory:

For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, active- duty members of the military are asking Members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring American soldiers home.

Sixty-five active-duty members have sent Appeals for Redress to Members of Congress. Three of these people (including two who served in Iraq) and their attorney will speak about this on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. EDT.

Under the Military Whistle-Blower Protection Act (DOD directive 7050.6), active-duty military, National Guard and Reservists can file and send a protected communication to a Member of Congress regarding any subject without reprisal.

What: Three active-duty members of the military and their lawyer, a retired U.S. Marine Corps JAG, make comments and take questions from the media.

When: Wednesday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. EDT

Conference Call Details: 800-362-0574, Conference ID: "Active Duty"

http://www.usnewswire.com/

Forum posts

  • Way to Go, It would be GREAT for more in our military to tell the ChickenHawks, how they REALLY feel. NEVER FORGET Bush is the one who CUT AND RUN from not even combat but simple guard duty, and now he has the nerve to say do what I say not as i did, you troops must STay and DIE for me, my oil buddy cronies, military hardware contractors, and last but not least my Zionist Banker pals who make BILLIONS off the Blood of our troops. NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL!!!!!!!!!!! The ULTIMATE test will be our military’s resolve when the Neo-CONS attempt their NEXT big False Flag potentially dwarfing 9-11 by a significant margin. Are you guys and gals READY for The Big One?

  • Bless these brave men and women for standing up to the warmongering murderers.

    Our army is in peril NOW!

    Camp Falcon Ammo Explosions http://www.rense.com/general73/falcphotos.htm

    Ah but PLEASE think about the repurcussions

    Almost simultaneous with this event like a day or two later, the journalists and
    photo journalists in Iraq underwent yet another bloody gauntlet, with reporters being
    killed and kidnapped for several days running.

    To shut them up perhaps?

    Now Bush wants out of Iraq -because maybe we cannot stay where we don’t have ammunition.=Sy Hersh has a LOT of contacts in the military and in intelligence.

    He probably has heard a thing or two from people who think the world needs to be told about Camp Falcon (sooner rather than later, since what happened is bound to come out eventually).== Something HUGE happened

    Not a single word about this massive explosion after it happened...except suddenly even the White House says maybe things aren’t going so well, and maybe it’s time to talk about leaving.

    Something happened. Something serious. I’ve heard reports of up to 300 soldiers killed. They’re doing everything possible to keep the lid on this until after the election.=What caught my eye was the sharp rise in military casualties AFTER...
    the incident.
    http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=2006102120432355
    http://www.libertyforum.org/
    whatreallyhappened.com/

    here’s the link posted by WRH

    www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2547.htm#001

    • 300 wow, could be! It was a big explosion. Sounds like a terrorist attack to me. Perhps they stacked the bodies and there will be few extra deaths each month so it doesn’t seem like so many at one time. Tricky!

    • This story of 300 dead in the munitions dump explosion originated in TBRNews (The Barnes Review) which is as reliable as The New York Times for accuracy. Don’t believe a word of it.

  • Americans who supported this war but now changed their minds given it has not gone well but NOT because it was wrong have blood on their hands and are cowards. SUDDENLY they want out. I suspect because even as they deny it they must know a draft is coming. Americans who never wanted to attack Iraq, and those who did but changed their minds are two different animals. They never wanted to do the fighting and yet they will be the first ones to turn on US soldiers.
    Watch and see.

    • Following the mutiny in the French army, an old noncom was asked why he of all people should mutiny. He answered, "Citizens should not be treated like this."

      ==It’s kind of a coup d’etat by proxy...

      Clearly they’ve had it.

      =This is how the organized Vietnam protests started

      Find a copy of "Sir, No Sir" and watch it.

      The Vietnam protests were started by Vietnam veterans, not by peace groups.
      http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2579377
      ===
      Military members’ war protest gaining steam
      http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_4547042

      WASHINGTON — The number of military service members protesting the Iraq War through official communication to their members of Congress nearly doubled since Monday to 118 soldiers and Marines, according to a lawyer consulting the group.

      Marine Sgt. Liam Madden, 22, of Rockingham, Vt., was one of the first active-duty service members and Iraq veterans to file an appeal of redress through a whistleblower provision in military law, saying the war has "too much of a human cost."
      ....