Activists are calling for a demonstration in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Ramses St., Monday, 3 March, 12 noon, to protest Condoleezza Rice’s visit to her client Mubarak in Cairo, to denounce the US support for the massacres in Gaza as well as the sending of US warships to Lebanon’s shores. PLEASE CIRCULATE!
Interesting developments:
U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.
“The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it,” said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. “That’s left a lot of misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true nature of military occupation looks like.”
Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicised incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples”, as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation”.
