Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brains | Press Esc

Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brains | Press Esc: "Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size of a grain of rice, which measures and relays information on soldiers vital signs 24 hours a day, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty."

This means that we are one step closer to the chipping of the population, for our own safety of course. First it was Alzheimer's patients down in Florida, who cannot sufficiently agree to the implantation. Now are military boys, who cannot refuse an order, will be the next victims to receive this uniquely-identifiable, and easily tracked, implant. Any RFID reader within range will be able to track where they go, and the RFID readers, even for passive devices, are gaining range every day as the technology improves. Who will they chip next? The mentally ill? Prisoners? When will the marketing campaign begin to chip the rest of us.

The government also has a long history of using our soldiers to test new drugs and other items that have been far from proven safe and effective. In this war, soldiers were unknowingly forced to test an anthrax vaccine, and many had dire consequences from it. In fact, according to this article, three out of four soldiers reported an adverse reaction. This is only one example of our soldiers being used as guinea pigs, and here, there are some more examples.

It is bad enough that many of these guys are dying to protect our country, or oil as the case may be, but to be also forced to suffer, or even die, from a government experiment is simply an atrocity.

The Truth of Iraq

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?: "The results are nevertheless staggering for those of us who read the American press: for the deaths that the victims families knew for sure who the perpetrator was, U.S. forces (or their 'Coalition of the Willing' allies) were responsible for 56%. That is, we can be very confident that the Coalition had killed at least 180,000 Iraqis by the middle of 2006. Moreover, we have every reason to believe that the U.S. is responsible for its pro rata share (or more) of the unattributed deaths. That means that the U.S. and its allies may well have killed upwards of 330,000 Iraqis by the middle of 2006."

Sorry Saddam, we beat your record...

One U.S. soldier who must be counted | Salon.com

One U.S. soldier who must be counted | Salon.com: "As of 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, 3,529 American military service members and civilian employees had died in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. That prepositional distinction, 'in Iraq,' matters. On the same day, June 20, doctors withdrew life support from Army Cpl. Frank Sandoval, following complications from brain surgery for injuries he sustained in Iraq in 2005. He had been declared brain-dead several days prior. Sandoval didn't die in Baghdad or Fallujah; he died in a hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. But as of Thursday, Sandoval has not been included in the official tally by the Department of Defense."

This is a decent article reminding us that the official figures of those who died in Iraq are not necessarily accurate...

At Least 14 US Soldiers Die in Iraq in 48 Hours

At Least 14 US Soldiers Die in Iraq in 48 Hours: "Few details were released. But the military said that the deadliest attack involved a unit working with the Iraqi Security Force to 'clear and control' a section of northeastern Baghdad. Along with the five U.S. soldiers who were killed, three Iraqi civilians and one Iraqi interpreter died, and one other soldier and two Iraqi civilians were injured.

In other incidents, a U.S. soldier died and three were wounded when a rocket-propelled grenade struck their vehicle in northern Baghdad early this morning; four U.S. soldiers died yesterday when a roadside bomb detonated near a convoy in western Baghdad; two Marines were killed Wednesday during combat operations in Al Anbar province; and two other Marines died and four were injured by an explosive device near their vehicle southwest of Baghdad."

Just what I want to hear while my bother is over there.

It's OK to kill millions in Iraq, Saddam did it too - Bush's spokesman | Press Esc

It's OK to kill millions in Iraq, Saddam did it too - Bush's spokesman | Press Esc: "US President George W. Bush's spokesman yesterday defended the killing of nearly a million civilians in Iraq on the basis that Saddam Hussein did the same.

'Many have died, and hundreds of thousands died under the previous regime,' Tony Snow told reporters at a White House press briefing. 'This is a place that has too long been wracked by violence.'"

So by this logic, Gary Ridgway is innocent compared to John Wayne Gacy. Ridgway, the "Green River killer," killed only 7 people, when Gacy killed 33.