Comments on: The art of caring

By: Brenda Condiotti

Brenda Condiotti — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:22:20 +0000

Fern, i politely ask you to realize Mr. spence position as ownership and accountability. As for clarification, one may share the same courtecy of the court.

By: Morningstar41

Morningstar41 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:22:52 +0000

Fallujah? We as a nation are still treating our fighting men and women as though that battle was something that could be described as rational, prosecuted with due accord to the international laws governing such conflict, and hold individuals accountable for the result? Lunacy.

The only discourse left on that account is to argue how best to apologize, forgive and defend those involved against a code designed to prevent it from ever happening.

By: Regis

Regis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:11:58 +0000

if Cheney breaks Iraq, and owns it in the sense noted by General Powell, what did that mean for Halliburton,..?
Surely Gerry and some of you, who have commented here have a clue on that.
Halliburton raked off billions from the spoils of
misery in Iraq.
Sgt Nelson is a mere pawn of the Cheney ” break it” operations.

By: Regis

Regis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:54:54 +0000

You want us to care about Sgt Nelson !
And about the fathers of the Iraq famlies, and there all caring is lost.
General Powell said to Cheney: you break it you own it.
Caring must be in the eyes of the beholders.
Iraq is so far away, with a different language, a different culture, it must be easy to pick sides on which person the blessings of caring is bestowed, if known from some TLC connections.

By: T.P. (Tom) Erikson

T.P. (Tom) Erikson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:26:06 +0000

Having read all of your books and growing up in an environment similar to a one in which you grew up in, I wanted to contact you. I do not require your counsel. (Perhaps just talking to you now and then , as we we both espouse the same views on the Bush regime!) I grew up on a farm that raised both beef cattle and registered Appaloosas and Quarter horses, consequently I learned at an early age to ride. However, my fondess memories that are with me to this day are that of my grandfather and I checking his trap line. We would cross crountry ski to check the traps; I learned to trap, shoot, respect the elements of which we have no control. I won’t go on, other than to only say it would be a pleasure to talk to you some day. When I went to university I was like a fish out of water; somehow I survived. Your comments concerning Nancy Grace are right on target; she has never met a defendant that wasn’t guilty. Take care.

By: Steinerway

Steinerway — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:34:43 +0000

There are web sites, that contend:

“Unfortunately, millions of Americans are unable to accept the fact their government is engaged in massive war crimes in Iraq.
It does not matter
what evidence is presented?”

Such as:

http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/us/war_crimes_fallujah.html

How do we sort out myth, from truth, from propaganda, in the larger issues of funding –with tax dollars, pursuits in far off lands ? We know so little about teh cultrue the languages, the people, we are so often in the dark, glued to the latest Breaking news on Michael Jackson’s latest drug cocktail revelations.

This is not to draw any conclusions on one enlisted man, facing charges in Southern Ca.

If one goes through the web site, one can see Defense Sec Rumsfeld in 2004, with enlisted men, jocking to have their photos taken with him.

Who is a Shia, who is a Bathist, who is a Kurd, who is a Sunni, who is an Al Qaeda…
So many U S Congressmen seemed unable to discern what the differences were in any material ways.

Caring, do any care on the larger issues from which this troubling situation lingers, as it will for some time, and which you fund—as a U S taxpayer.

Or, is it just easier to be totally oblivious on the billions/ month used by the U S Government where no questions looked at or asked, or contemplated.
Change the channel, more breaking news on Thriller Record Sales, revived.

By: Roselli

Roselli — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:21:32 +0000

There is one overiding time tested truism:
The first causality of war is the truth.

This is not to issue any verdict on one lowly Corporal in the hell hole of the pits of the center of chaos. He was following the Command orders that started at the top of the U S Government.

However, is the attached propaganda, from another slant, a slice of reality, or what;

You decide:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/

By: Kailer

Kailer — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:22:01 +0000

About Fallujah:

http://english.aljazeera.net//focus/2009/04/200948132212418175.html

So, a view from Al Jazeera, a discordant note.
What is to be believed.
It is never a pretty thing when an armed occupation force goes into a place that is a hostile area, where there are not exactly people –locals–handing out roses on every corner.
Some wanted General Patton’s head, to have him fired when he was in the occupation forces in Germany, after WW-II was declared offically over.
Some were screaming he was too nice to the German civilians.

By: Alpha

Alpha — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:53:34 +0000

The torture of Marine familes in Calif:

Instructive of matters:
“The jury took six hours to find the former marine, Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, not guilty of charges that he had killed or caused others to kill four unarmed detainees on Nov. 9, 2004, in Falluja, Iraq, during some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The verdict left the defendant in tears. He cried so loudly that the judge smacked his gavel to call for order.

The trial was the first in which a civilian jury had determined whether a former military service member had violated the law of war in combat.

After the verdict was read, a juror, Ingrid Wicken, hugged Mr. Nazario’s sobbing mother, Sandra Montanez, without speaking. “I watched her all week,” Ms. Wicken said later. “She was being tortured every day.”

Above from:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/middleeast/29marine.html

By: Alpha

Alpha — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:40:23 +0000

The place from which events unraveled; after action reports note:

“These Marines said they encountered two kinds of enemy, both of whom were committed to killing as many Marines as possible. The first were classic guerillas, engaging at a time and place of their choosing, and then evading out of sight of the Marines using pre-planned evasion routes,..”

The 2004 battle of Fallujah was not a park picnic in Beverly Hills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah

4 Blackwaer guards(contractor personnel) had been mutilated by insurgents, before the major battle.

On February 12, 2004, insurgents attacked a convoy carrying General John Abizaid, commander of US Forces in the Middle East, and the 82nd Airborne’s Major General Charles Swannack, firing on the vehicles from nearby rooftops with RPGs, after seemingly infiltrating the Iraqi security forces.[16]

In March 2004, Swannack transferred authority of the Al-Anbar province to the I Marine Expeditionary Force commanded by Lt. General Conway.

The Marines were called in not because it was a high fashion puppy show, at the Greenwich Faire, but because all hell had broken loose, under a situation of poor planning in the occuptaion, by the Pentagon/ Sec of Defense Rumsfeld, and the White House.
In the wake of that, events are being recast in the trial of Sgt Nelson.
Welcome back to America.
Jose Nazario was fired from the Riverside(CA) police Dept. Ryan Weemer, was rejected for any job by the Secret Service. Gerry, why don’t you get Dick Cheney to sign the petition,(at his summer fish/ dip a line in the Snake vacations(Teton), and maybe his pal, Rumsfeld, and W… Bush. Or, are they now too busy post Mission accomplished, to care one hoot for the guy on the low end of the totem pole, on such matters.(A front line Marine, who took fire, and was a sitting duck target in Falljuah/ 2004