I know of one man who was a prisoner of war in Iraq last year, a westerner. Infact he was the only POW from his country in the entire war. He had a very bad time and suffered many of the things the anti-war movement love to moan about., He was abused by American soldiers and held in custody for no reason. He went back to his country expecting that the anti-war people would support him, invite him to speak, offer comfort and advice and arrange things to assist his mental state.

BUT NO, HE HEARD ONLY SILENCE.

He waited for a while but nothing happened, despite one of the anti-war dudes knowing him personally. Still nothing happened so he assumed they thought he must have needed time alone. He did at first but had a lot to un-load; he needed someone to talk to. He waited some more.

BUT NO, HE HEARD ONLY SILENCE.

This frigntening lack of response happened in the good old UK folks. Get this; even when Georgie Boy went over to the UK in Nov last year, they still didn't get in touch! He thought they would have been busy with the Bush visit so he kept calm and waited a bit longer.

BUT NO, HE HEARD ONLY SILENCE.

He then thought that they may not have his email (impossible as the story is widely posted on the net) so he went to the local ant-war web site and emailed every email address he could find, explaining what he'd suffered and witnessed. He expected to be flooded with mail and offers to speak, advice on lawyers and all the rest of it, but no. Only one person replied, yes thats O N E, one!!!! This was not a friendly mail and tried to sugest he should subscribe to the discussion group. The mailer then said that my friend (who I have written about on Indymedia) should expect nothing from his local anti-war group. WHAT !

I find this incredible, I really do. Here is a story right before their eyes and they chose to ignore it, wasting time handing out leaflets in town, selling cakes on saturday markets and marching to god knows where with banners than no-one reads. Here was a hot international news story but they were too jealous to allow this guy to steal the show.

WERE THEY JEALOUS? Here was a guy right next door who had a story that could blow them all away but still nothing.

They do not want to deal with this man or help him in any way as they feel it will defeat the reason for their existence. In other words, the survival of their little clique, the continuance of their crappy meetings is more important than this mans truth. They don't want to hear the truth as it will, effectively, put them out of an effective job. They wish they too could have been captured in Iraq.......IN THEIR DREAMS.



In case you think I am pro-war, listen up. I am an extreme pacifist and lover of truth. I find the actions of these people absolutelty pathetic. I almost went along to my own local anti-war group but decided that these are the kind of people I don't want in my ilfe.

The prisoner of war I refer to in this article knows I am posting on Indymedia. He does not agree with the postings but will allow them providing I do not reveal his name. Please contact me for more information directly......unless indymedia is full of people like this local anti-war group I mentioned.

Without hunger and third world poverty there is no Oxfam - get the point. Without problems in society there are no police so both the state and NGO need problems to exists.

I may post more details on this; we'll see.



Mark James.

Stopping the murder of thousands of Iraqis was more important than a single individual. The fact is, the Anti-War movement was right ABOUT EVERYTHING regarding Iraq. Silly attempts to point out that we cannot do everything will not negate that fact. You fail to point out the American held in Peru who has never been helped by Bush.

Bush is going down as a disgraced president. Expect war crimes trials and impeachment.

"The fact is, the Anti-War movement was right ABOUT EVERYTHING regarding Iraq. "

This is nonsense.

The AWM claimed 600,000 deaths..closer to 1000.

The AWM claimed no WMD ..we've found thousands...Islamists.

The AWM claimed the war would lead to new attacks on America...NONE.

The AWM claimed the war was about oil...so when is this massive oil theft going to start..not a single drop has been diverted.

The AWM denied all the MASS MURDERS and SLAUGHTERS of Sadam...WRONG again.

The AWM was correct about...well...nothing really.

he did have some unusual qualities....

of course

that is why the CIA used him.

speaking of Saddam, I have enjoyed the OJ like TV coverage of him.

chuckle

it's becoming so evident that all the news is or-castrated.

Ha ha

"it's becoming so evident that all the news is or-castrated.

"

Of course it is...unless you wear the tinfoil hat.

you may post more articles; we'll see, huh? well if you do, change your tone. THe antiwar movement was deffinitely monopolized by the big orgs, and I didnt think there was enough done to mobilize the protests into strikes, so there was a lot to complain about for sure. But dont complain because of one obscure story that didnt get promoted. Soudns like youre jealous of something, I dont know what but youre a bitter sonofabitch.

What's the !@#$ story?

Who is this vet?

Where is he located?

Why is he silent?

Maybe the "anti-war movement" would be willing to stroke your friend's bruised ego if he were more willing to do some promotion on his own, like, you know, actually relaying some interesting information instead of just moaning about not being loved enough.

?!!? wrote:

"The fact is, the Anti-War movement was right ABOUT EVERYTHING regarding Iraq. "

Israeli shill "fresca" wrote:

"This is nonsense.

The AWM claimed 600,000 deaths..closer to 1000."

Are you referring to the 600,000 Iraqi children killed by our sanctions between '91 and '03? Don't try to "pooh pooh" this number, or I'll come back with Madeline Albright's acknowledgement of the numbers.

"The AWM claimed no WMD ..we've found thousands

...Islamists. "

Is that the official line from Tel Aviv, fresca? You obviously feel that blowing the arms and legs off innocent civilians (including babies) is perfectly acceptable, just so long as they're Muslims.

"The AWM claimed the war would lead to new attacks on America...NONE."

Bush hasn't sunk low enough in the polls yet to warrant another 9-11, but watch out, he's going down fast.

"The AWM claimed the war was about oil...so when is this massive oil theft going to start..not a single drop has been diverted."

It's being diverted to Israel - the country that cooked up the bullshit "yellow cake from Africa" story.

Iraqi oil for Israel

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz (8/25/03) published a report confirming that the war in Iraq was very much about oil. The U.S. Defense Department sent a telegram to the Israeli Foreign Ministry on the possibility of pumping oil from U.S.-occupied Iraq to Israel, A "senior Pentagon official" has sent a telegram to a "top Foreign Ministry official" on the cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. Americans are looking into the possibility of laying a new pipeline via Jordan and Israel."

http://wais.stanford.edu/Iraq/iraq_IraqiOilForIsrael(110503).html

"The AWM denied all the MASS MURDERS and SLAUGHTERS of Sadam...WRONG again."

No, the antiwar movement pointed out that the US helped put Saddam in power, financed him, armed him with biochem weapons, and then looked the other way while he used them on Kurds and Iranians.

"The AWM was correct about...well...nothing really."

Correct on every point, turd breath, and unfortunately for you, more and more people are seeing through the Bush/neocon lies.

Your illinformed, fantastical gibberish has only PROVED ALL my points yet again.

No 600,000 people died in the first hours of Shock and Awe bombing. As for the dubious number of those dead under sanctions, talk to your buddy Sadam. That's his responsibility 100%. He could have stopped those sanctions any time he wanted.

And as for the filthy Islamists the place is lousy with, here's the deal. If there were no Isalmists attcking the civilized world GLOBALLY over the last couple of decades, we wouldn't be there in the first place. It's a war dummy. We are fighting these monsters. People die in war. What part is confusing you.

And as far as the divertion of oil to Isarel.

Well, I'll file that alongside chemtrails and the flat earth society.

Look, you can go on hating Jews all you want while you defend the obvious savagery of RADICAL Islam all you want. Mix in your skull and bones nonsense too. That's what you're here for. For the rest of us to laugh at your inane racism and unlearned fantasies.

You are doing EXACTLY what we want you to do.

Entertaining us.

shitpile: "The AWM claimed no WMD ..we've found thousands...Islamists. "



...ohhhh, so THAT'S where they were hiding....well that's a relief, 'cause we all thought da shrub was a lying fuck for a minute there, but now it's clear....