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Larry Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Parry, Ray McGovern, Colleen Rowley, and …

Last Thursday, Larry Johnson participated in a symposium at American University with Sam Provance, Dan Ellsberg, Ann Wright, Coleen Rowley, Bob Parry, Akbar Ahmed, Peter Kuznick, Edward Mortimer, Max Friedman, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson. The video and transcript (only of Ellsberg) are now available.

David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org described the impact of the powerful testimony of each participant — including several paragraphs on Larry’s comments (below the fold):

Sam Provance exposed the torture in Abu Ghraib and as thanks had his career ruined, was threatened with prison, has had his wife leave him, and is now barely scraping by. He said Thursday evening that on a personal level his choice to speak out was not worth it. “But,” he said, “this is not about me.” And everyone in the auditorium where he was speaking knew exactly what he meant, because we had just heard Dan Ellsberg, Ann Wright, Larry Johnson, Coleen Rowley, Bob Parry, Akbar Ahmed, Peter Kuznick, Max Friedman, and Ray McGovern lay out the gravity of the situation this nation and the world are now in. … READ ALL.

Here’s a bit more of Swanson’s report on the evening — including the section that describes Larry’s observations:

Thursday evening at American University in Washington, D.C., this group of outstanding academics and courageous truth tellers gathered on the stage of an auditorium packed to overflowing. People had to be turned away at the door.

The event was organized by Ray McGovern and the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity for the purpose of presenting an award. The nominating committee of Sam Adams Professionals for Integrity in Intelligence had chosen Sam Provance to receive this year’s award for Integrity in Intelligence

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University, moderated the first of two panels.

[...]

Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst and operations officer and deputy director of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism, and consultant with U.S. military on terrorism-related matters, said getting a hold of the insurgencies would take 550,000 troops or so, which would require a draft and a couple of years. Therefore there is no military solution.

Referring to Petraeus’ counterinsurgency manual, Johnson said he’s talked to an Army Major at Leavenworth who helped draft it. Petreaus didn’t write it or read it. It’s not his.

The insurgency in Iraq, Johnson said, is multiple insurgencies, and they will not be defeated. And it’s not al Qaeda. And Iran has supported a lot less violence in Iraq than Saudi Arabia, Jordan, or Pakistan. Yet, Johnson says, we are now preparing to attack Iran. At the CIA the Iran task force has been greatly increased in size – same at State Dept and Pentagon. Positioning of naval vessels is also part of preparation for moment when case can be made for attacking Iran. Johnson said he saw the same thing with Panama. The US tried endless provocations against Noriega, and he repeatedly refused to take the bait.

The tours of duty for US troops in Iraq of over 15 months is unprecedented, Johnson said. A unit in Iraq has 60% with Purple Hearts (meaning wounded in combat) – and presumably that’s 60% of those left alive. There are now 24 and 36 month periods of combat for troops. Those in the administration who are pushing to attack Iran believe they’ll crush Iran. Johnson calls this “faith-based war planning”. He challenged men and women in the military to stand up and resign their commissions. Iran, if attacked, could shut down the US supply line through the south of Iraq.

Bob Parry, an investigative journalist who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for AP and Newsweek in the 1980s, and who manages and writes for Consortiumnews.com, said that for many years now the neocons have targeted the press corps and the intelligence agencies, … READ ALL.

Check out the video and transcript.

  • catherine

    The “transcript” link gives only Ellsberg’s speech (which of course I want) but how about your talk and those of others?

    Thanks.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Yes, I wish they’d given a full transcript, but that’s a lot of work. Has anyone viewed the video yet? (I can’t because I need a new plug-in.) I hope the video is of the entire event…. perhaps someone can type up Larry’s remarks?

      • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

        I hope C-SPAN has this on soon. I know they showed Conyers impeachment panel a few years back.

  • catherine

    Sorry about question re transcripts; I left it at After Downing Street, and didn’t see your parens about Ellsberg.

    And also forgot, thanks, Larry for being part of this conference and for everything else you do.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Not you, Catherine. I added the parens later.

      Swanson’s description of Larry’s remarks is valuable. Scary as hell.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Leslie

    Is there some way we could help Sam Provance out?

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Ohhhhhh. That’s what I wondered too. Perhaps Larry can fill us in more on what’s going on in Sam’s life.

      Most certainly, the left blogosphere would welcome Sam warmly if he were to join in with us. If he’s up for it.

      • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Leslie

        Well, he wouldn’t even have to join the left blogosphere. Many might help him out on principle if he needs and wants it?

        • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

          I just meant he might join for the company and support. But surely anyone could help without his joining anything.

          • taters

            Susan,
            Hi, I’ve got a new email addy…
            nagoyaDOTkid@hotmailDOT.com

            When you get a moment,could you email me?
            Nothin’ urgent.

      • Jeff Gauthier

        Sam’s email address if you’d like to write him is:

        caesarssoldier@yahoo.com

  • Cee

    Why is Pelosi the roadblock to impeachment? Blackmailed? Corrupt? What?

    • Fred C. Dobbs

      My Working Hypothesis is that she’s maneuvering to be the VP candidate and doesn’t want to get caught taking a potentially stand on anything.

      • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

        That could be the case, Fred, and, frankly, one I hadn’t considered.

        I was leaning to the ‘Rove has something on her’ theory.

      • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Leslie

        I think it’s a matter of time…there isn’t enough time to impeach. Because it would take a lot of work and time to build the case. The hearings alone would take months.

        But I think it’s unfortunate that she said it’s off the table. Even if there isn’t enough time to impeach while Bush is in office, there’s no statute of limitations on it. It’s a tool to hold over Bush’s head.

        • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

          Impeachment proceedings, no matter how long they took or whether Bush and Cheney were out of office before the process is completed, would at least slow them down.

          As Ellsberg said in his speech, they are attacking the fundamental parts of the Constitution; a reminder that this has dire consequences would be in order for BushCo and any future president, Democrat or Republican.

          • Chris Vosburg

            Yeah, what RS said. When the President screws the constitution, and then turns it over and screws it again [graphic enough for ya?), you’re supposed to do something about it.

            A small part of my Pollyanna nature envisions the next President signing on to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and agreeing that, yes, George W Bush et al really need to visit the Netherlands.

            I imagine that most any ICC jurist would rather just chain him to the seaward side of the Zuider Zee during the nastiest North Atlantic storm of the year and be done with it, but I’ll settle for life in prison.

            • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

              Bush has bought a 100,000 acre ‘ranch’ in the wilds of Paraguay and Cheney allegedly has purchased a ‘fortified estate’ in Dubai. There’ll be no trips to the International Court in The Hague if things go south for them.

          • Shirin

            Forget about the Constitution. They are, by all signs, about to take an action that could very well start WW III.

            • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

              I wonder if they are really delusional enough to think they can profit from WWIII? (Or WWIV, as some of the neocons are calling it.)

        • Shirin

          Yes, there is. There may not be time to complete the process in the Senate, but there certainly IS enough time for the House to impeach. And it is my understanding that once that happens there would be constraints on them that would make it difficult for them to, for example, engage in further military aggression.

          Don’t you think this is a dire enough emergency? Shall we all just sit on hour hands again and watch yet another train wreck – why?

      • Cee

        Fred,

        This is all working against her.

  • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

    Let’s embarrass Larry and give him a big round of applause for being a great American and a true patriot. (And that includes Ray McGovern, Sam Provance, Colleen Rowley and Valerie Plame.)

    They functioned within the government and could have saved themselves much grief by keeping their opinions to themselves, as so many in the CIA, the military, and the FBI have. Instead, they did us all a favor by standing up and speaking out — it took a heap of guts and they are, I think, a vanguard of the change we will see in the future, a change back to the constitutional democratic government they took an oath to uphold and protect, the country of which we were all once proud.

    They are the embodiment of Sen. Carl Schurz’s quote: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

    Thanks to Larry and his colleagues for doing what they can to set it right again.

    • taters

      Well said, RS Janes!

      • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

        Off topic, Taters: if that was you playing guitar behind Etta James on a rerun of Austin City Limits from 2005 I saw last night, you’re a hell of a guitar player!

        I only caught part of the show and you reminded me (if it was you playing the blonde Tele) of Steve Cropper. Good job!

        • taters

          Top of the mornin’ RS,
          That’s my old compadre, Josh Sklair. He’s also our musical director. That is a sweet tele he’s got. I’m the guy with the anaconda ESP. (strat model)
          Josh is a one helluva guitar player and is also a successful LA studio musician. He’s played on a ton of recordings. We’ve stood side by side for almost 20 years, he actually has a coupla years more tenure with EJ than I do. I’ll pass your compliment on to him.

          • http://www.liberaltopia.org RS Janes

            Taters, I was only able to see part of the show on the local PBS outlet, but I hope they replay it soon. I didn’t catch you with the ESP Strat, but I’ll look for it next time. The band was great, as was Etta, as usual.

  • http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

    Kudo’s Larry
    Gotta feel for Sam and the price he has paid for being a person that stood up to expose evil.
    He should have got a medal instead his life was destroyed.
    You just have to shake your head..

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Has anyone watched the video yet? I need to download a huge plugin to see it, so have been waiting for the time to do so. But I’d sure like to know if it shows the entire symposium, including Larry’s statements.

  • Sandy

    Wow, what a DYNAMITE panel! All heroes! Shows there ARE people we can still look up to in this crazy world.

    Applause, applause, applause for your straightforward, honest remarks, Larry! Can’t wait to read the whole thing. (I can wait…and be patient. Worth waiting for.)

    THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL OF US. (all the panelists)

  • http://doublequotes.wordpress.com/ Charles Cameron (hipbone)

    There are several videos, #3 of which shows the complete presentations of Max Friedman and then Larry J.. Very forceful too, if I may say so.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Thank you, Charles! When I get the plugin, i’ll go straight to #3.

  • http://doublequotes.wordpress.com/ Charles Cameron (hipbone)

    And for everyone’s viewing convenience, they’re at:

    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/whistleblowervideos

    • taters

      Thanks Charles. What a panel. Larry, you do us proud.

  • Mr.Murder

    Nicholas Berg was probably a contributing leaker as well.

    He did communications subcontracting in Iraq twice over, and was beheaded by persons wearing trustee orange in a room whose furniture and design matched one of the Abu Gharib rooms, not too long after the stories of torture videos emerged and before much of them were officially discussed in any media capacity.

    Berg didn’t just build radio towers, he did audio/video work in many capacities.

    Follow the Money.

    About the time there was a communications director overhaul he got offed. That was part of the original fracturing of neocon ranks between the Baker/Tutwiler and Cheney/Rumsfeld factions.

    The uber-neocons won out that round. Unfortunately so for everyone, no peace has been won at exorbitant costs of blood, influence, and treasure.

    The young Mr.Berg was a true believer. I’d mistakenly come across his name on a search engine to link a friend who shared a website named the same as his company. Believing it was my friend I emailed him a lengthy piece with misgivings about his departure to Persia to do telecomm subcontracting in the war zone.

    He sent me a reply(old drive is no longer here) and it appeared he was a true believer. My only request was to wish him luck, and to look with skeptical eyes at what he encountered. My feeling was he’d see things not befitting our supposed mission statements or America’s own determined sense of being, worldview, and morality.

    He found the same thing out irreconcilably, on a personal level. His father, surviving Berg’s memory, is an outspoken war critic. He should be heard out anew, both sides of the political spectrum decided to blacklist his views, they didn’t fit either narrative for internationalists on the liberal or conservative spheres of the body politic.

    This may be the perfect forum for his views to be heard.

  • David H. Marshall

    MEDIA MISSED, CENSORED:

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    THE “[BODY]” IS:

    A MEDIA MISSED, CONGRESS IGNORED.

    THE U. S. SENATE BACKGROUND.

    In 2008, despite the efforts of some, the U.S. Congress still treats as an “incident to service” [1] the DOD “experiments that were designed to harm” [8]! “III. Findings and conclusions”, “K. DOD and DVA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical followup to those who participate in military research…” and “N. Participation in military research is rarely included in military medical records, making it impossible to support a veteran’s claim for service-connected disabilities from military research.” Thereby, DOD & VA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM to-date covered up are these experiments and prevented is treatment as documented by the 1994 U.S. Senate Report.[8] By their inaction Congress has approved the Report’s: “INTRODUCTION” A. “During the last 50 years, hundreds of thousands of military personnel have been involved in human experimentation and other intentional exposures conducted by the Department of Defense (DOD), often without a servicemember’s knowledge or consent.”, B. “most Americans would agree that the use of soldiers as unwitting guinea pigs in experiments that were designed to harm them, at least temporarily, is not ethical.” And “FORWARD” C. ” The findings and conclusions contained in this report are those of the majority staff and do not necessarily reflect the eviews of the members of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.” Chairman. In 2008 continued is a version of the DOD Project 112 biological lessons learned, now on the general public.[9] This is by the 19 December 2006 established civilian “Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)”.[11] Under the cover of its “NATIONAL SECURITY MISSIONS”, as it is for military personnel, withheld from the civilian “guinea pigs” are the cause and effects of its Research and Development (R&D) Projects.

    From 1953 the U.S. Senate “to harm” lessons learned were in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary’s TOP SECRET order. Forty one (41) years earlier it required the U.S. Senate’s 1994 “servicemember’s knowledge” and “consent”. [4] 1953 known by the Secretary’s of all Services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and their R&D Board. It was “UNCLASSIFIED” in 1975. Nineteen (19) years later, during the U.S. Senate’s reported past 50 years, most of the “to harm” service records were destroyed in a 1973 National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fire. Those that survived had all witnesses censored by Congress’s 1974 Privacy Act! The “Veterans Right to Know Act” was proposed in the 2005 and H.R. 4259 [109th] 2006 Congress. It never became law. Underlying the DOD & VA U.S. Healthcare System Are Medically Unqualified Laymen Rejection of Physician Decisions, e.g., a from 1952 HOW IT IS DONE.

    ALL IS IN THE RECORD!

    Each Executive Branch (DOD, CIA & BARDA) Project completes the R&D process. The prior lessons learned are reviewed. The then Scope of Work defines what the experiment is “designed” to do. The how, where, when and who is identified. The conducted RESEARCHED cause and effects are closely followed. From the results are DEVELOPED safe production, use, the needed for treatment and protection, e.g., the DOD manufacturers handling of hazardous materials such as Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, the biological agents of Project 112 [9] and the jet-engine noise levels of Project 7210 [2]. All is in the Executive Branch record! Under the cover of national security the revealing treatment evidence: 1. Is not cause identified in a subject’s Medical History, so that they never the wiser become. The deceived victim’s “to harm” effects are not Medical History recorded, therefore not addressed! Prevented is any follow up by independent civilian and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) physicians. And 2. For veterans’ the 64 years of experiment specific injuries are not in the VA “schedule of ratings for disabilities” [7]!

    THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DID NOT KNOW?

    The 1987 U.S. Supreme Court STANLEY decision [5] extends the coverage of their 1950 FERES Case that a death by a military barracks fire was an “incident to service” [1]. STANLEY treats the 1958 DOD “experiments…designed to harm” disobedience of the 1953 order [4] as also an “incident to service”! To-date not accomplished is the Senate Report’s, “IV. Recommendations. G. The Feres Doctrine should not be applied for military personnel who are harmed by inappropriate human experimentation when informed consent has not been given.” Made certain was that the in the record revealing evidence will not be addressed. The year following STANLEY was the U.S. Congress’s few 1988 Veterans’ Judicial Review Act. Established was the Veteran’s Legislative severely restricted, Article I Court. “The court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities or the policies underlying the schedule.”, i.e., the order ignored “to harm” R&D experimental effects and their causes! The Veterans Court Chief Judge’s no teeth statement with his noted VA ignoring of the Court’s decisions! [7] The Secretary of the VA was given FINAL DECISION authority on these issues. [10] Included is the power of NO APPEAL to this LEGISLATIVE Veterans Court or to the independent U.S. Judicial Branch Courts. If allowed an APPEAL, it is not part of the record at the Article I Veterans Court. It’s also missing at the next appeal at the U.S. Judicial Branch Article III, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

    HOW IT IS DONE.

    A “DOCUMENTED IN HIS SERVICE RECORD” EXAMPLE!

    A 1952-1956 USAF Jet Aircraft Mechanic. A picked “volunteer” member of a special F86-D Flight Test evaluation group. The prior to 1949 researched and developed ear muffs, flight line noise protection was not available. An exposure that resulted in an 8 day 1953 sick & dizzy (nausea & vertigo) hospitalization. During 1954 Aviation Cadet training was the USAF Physician’s Cadet Wing Commander washout exam’s, “Had some trouble with hearing while working on warm-up crew for F86-D with very high noise levels.” This is an unprotected, repeated exposure to its PROJECT 7210, J47 jet-engine, from a 60 decibel (dB.) normal hearing base, 158 dB. to over 176 dB. afterburner noise level. [2] An American Medical Association (A.M.A.) 87,381 to over 699,051 sound pressure multiple (X). [3] Reassigned back to the same base and Flight Test position. A USAF Physician’s 6 months after the washout exam get him off the flight line memo! A year later also ignored 1955 USAF Physician’s do not expose to “loud acoustic trauma”. The 1956 Separation from Service recorded perfect health with the 1953, 8 days nausea & vertigo (sick & dizzy) as an in-hospital “4 DAY COLD”.

    In 1957 the local VA Office requested and stamped as received the 1952-1956 service record. Awarded was a VA Rating Board 10% hearing loss only. Their physician submitted the administrators overlooked in-service evidence to the USAF. This resulted in the to-date VA Administrator also overlooked, “MPerR PERMANENT” “SURGEON HQ ARRC JUN 25′ 58 MEDICALLY DISQUALIFIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE”! After which is the physicians “disqualified” cancelled by the 1959 DOD Administrator “Honorable Discharge” with its “Recommended for reenlistment – Yes”!

    Acting on the advice of HMO Physicians the veteran returned to the VA in 1991. Observed was that the VA Physician exam records were incomplete. In 1994 a VA Criminal Investigator noted as misplaced the original VA 1957 received records. Then a 1995 VA Laymen Adjudicator’s medical diagnosis that the 1957 award was an all in the mind “perceptive type hearing loss”! In 1995 a VA Hearing Officer “certified” the veterans retained copies as part of the disability file. Both the VA and veteran records survived the 1973 NPRC fire and Congress’s witness censoring 1974 Privacy Act. On 2/2/96 a VA Hospital Attending Physician determined in-service Menieres disease. A 6/27/96 Supplemental Statement Of Case Laymen Adjudicators medical decision of no “competent medical evidence”! Referenced was the 2/2/96 hospital physician’s in-service determination by, “It appears the examiner was relying on the veteran’s history to make this statement.”, i.e., the “certified” copies of VA original, misplaced records. Included were two HMO Physician 1994 Menieres disease diagnosis and the 10 prior years of its symptoms. In 1999 the VA ENT Chief stated “the Veterans signs and symptoms of Meniere’s Disease clearly are documented in his” [USAF 1952-1956 "certified"] “service record” with his “A STRESS REACTION MAY PRECIPITATE AN EPISODE (OF MENIERES DISEASE) AND CYCLES MAY REPEAT ENDLESSLY”! For which “THERE IS NO RELIABLE TREATMENT”. It is these in and after service “stress reaction” nausea and vertigo attacks that resulted in the loss of a third generation medical practice, business failures and unemployment. In 2005 the VA rediscovered their, withheld from medical personnel, original 1957 Medical History! In 2006 VA locally awarded was a 100% disability. Cited was the Social Security Administrative Law Judge 1996, VA “certified” records based, early “disability benefits solely as a result of his service connected condition.” This is for the 50 years later continuing consequences of 1952-1956 “loud acoustic trauma”! Not known is the A.M.A. for each 6 dB. increase sound pressure doubles, beyond 699,051X (at 176 dB.) unprotected afterburner over pressurization!

    MISPLACED?

    Misplaced records prevent medical, administrative and judicial “ACTIVITIES” that “WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF…MISSION.” This is by the still in 2008 reasoning of “IT WAS NECESSARY TO CONCEAL THESE ACTIVITIES FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IN GENERAL, BECAUSE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNETHICAL AND ILLICIT ACTIVITIES WOULD HAVE SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS IN POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES AND WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS MISSION.” U.S. Supreme Court 1987 STANLEY Case; Footnote 4, Page 688 on its proven 1958 CIA experiment on U.S. Army personnel. [5]

    “RIGHT TO KNOW”.

    There now is no 64 years later “Veterans Right to Know”. After they complete Honorable Service despite the efforts of some Congress has not given back to veterans their rights. Revealed would be the few’s corrupt for the greater good of all. Accomplished by the end justifies the “designed to harm” means. Carried out under the cover of our nation’s wars! A few key members in Congress, have dishonored those that serve. Prevented is injury treatment and correction! Lost are those prior to service rights that convicted rapists and murderers keep! [6]

    HOLD RESPONSIBLE.

    NOW BARDA EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED ON YOU! PLEASE, HOLD YOUR MEMBERS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE! THESE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND U.S. SENATE DOCUMENTED FACTS ARE INTERNET CENSORED. PASSING THIS ON TO OTHERS SO THAT THEY MAY DO THE SAME WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANK YOU.

    David H. Marshall

    REFERENCES:

    [1] U.S. Supreme Court, Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950).

    [2] USAF PROJECT 7210 “A COMPILATION OF TURBOJET NOISE DATA”, BOLT BERANEK & NEWMAN, INC. CAMBRIDGE 38, MA. Sound pressure levels for all jet-engines in-service. Conducted at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) DAYTON, OHIO in 1952. 1954 logged in as the 401st report for that year published as REPORT 54-401 July 1956.

    [3] American Medical Association (A.M.A.) Family Medical Guide Third Edition pages 364-366 with the for each 6 dB. increase sound pressure doubles and the 60 dB. Normal hearing level.

    [4] DOD Secretary’s 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiment’s Memo pages 343-345. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, “The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation” (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). In REFERENCE [8] as NOTES 72, 168 & 169.

    [5] U.S. SUPREME COURT, JUNE 25, 1987, U.S. V. STANLEY, 107 S. CT. 3054 (VOLUME 483 U.S., SECTION 669, PAGES 699 TO 710). In REFERENCE [8] cited in NOTE 169.

    [6] U.S. State Dept., “U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Art. 7″.

    [7] CHIEF JUDGE FRANK Q. NEBEKER, STATE OF THE COURT FOR PRESENTATION TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS THIRD JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OCTOBER 17-18, 1994. In the Veterans Appeals Reporter. http://www.firebase. net/state_of_court_brief.htm Annual Judicial Conference Transcript. http://www.goodnet.com/~heads/nebeker

    [8] U.S. Senate December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 “Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century.” Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session. With NOTES 1 to 170. COMMITTEE PRINT – S. Print. 103-97.

    [9] “Project 112 (Including Project SHAD) Home” chemical and biological experiments; www. 1.va.gov/shad/

    [10] United States Code (USC) Title 38, 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality. http://www.law.cornell.eduhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/

    [11] “Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)” S-3678.

  • Andrew Yu-Jen Wang

    George W. Bush’s sentence-by-sentence speaking skills are deteriorating. Apparently, this may be due to a mental illness called “presenile dementia.” Bush may or may not be secretly still drinking heavily. Bush lied, and thousands of people died. Bush suffers from narcissism and megalomania. Moreover, Bush has been arrested three times. Bush was arrested for disorderly conduct. Bush was arrested for stealing. Bush was also arrested for a serious crime—driving under the influence of alcohol. There are reasons to believe that Bush suffers from a learning disability. Bush’s learning disability would explain a lot of things. All in all, Bush is a severely mentally ill individual. Bush is not fit to be the president of the United States.

    Bush should be locked up.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA