US will Attack Iran at 4 AM, April 6, 2007

Expect the long awaited US attack on Iran at 4 AM on April 6. According to a deliberate leak by Russian intelligence services, the US attack is slated to last for 12 hours, from 4Am til 4PM local (Iran) time. Most probably, there will be no ground attack, but rather massive air attacks on key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership.

General Ivashov (see photo), believes that the US expects to degrade the Iranian air defense system, sink a substantial number of Iranian warships, and wipe our the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces. It is quite possible that the Pentagon will use tactical NUCLEAR WEAPONS to create panic among the population and create chaos inside that country.

At this time, it is uncertain to what extent the Russian military forces will intervene, which would create a severe worldwide security crisis.

Similarities Between Adolf Hitler and G.W. Bush

The "bloodforoil.org" website lists 25 similarities between Adolf Hitler and G. W. Bush:
Both were at one time popular with their nation's majority
Both were poor students and failed businessmen, but with ties to big business
Both curtailed civil liberties in response to questionable terrorist attacks
Both glorified patriotism, controlled the media, and used propaganda to stir public support
Both claimed to be fervent Christians, their nation's destiny favored by God
Both pursued recklessly belligerent nationalist foreign policies
Both used war preparations to boost their defense industries

etc, etc, etc....

It isn't quite as bad as it was in Nazi Germany - YET.
Let's work together so that we don't slide down that slippery slope!

Please check out the "Blood for Oil" .org website, from which these timely comments were borrowed, by clicking the link in the title: "Similarities Between Adolf Hitler and G.W. Bush"

"We Can't Make It Here, But We'll Fight for Oil"

As you can see here, our President, who spent the Vietnam war flying National Guard planes within the safe environment our United States, is doing very well. Given his background, how can he possibly identify with our male and female soldiers, whom he has sent into harm's way in Iraq for so many years.
It seems that it takes a gifted singer and talented songwriter like James McMurtry, to set the record straight. (Please click on the title of this posting, or these words, to visit his web site). His haunting ballad: "We Can't Make it Here", should stir the conscience of our citizens who are paying for this ill-conceived war.

A recent "documentary" television program alleged that our CIA had reported Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction", before our ill-conceived war, based on the interview of ONE flaky Iraqi dissident. Having served as Intelligence Operations Officer of the US 4th Armored Division in Goeppingen during 1967/68, I can guarantee that OUR shop would never have dared to advise our commander to commit troops to an attack based on one flaky source. All of us who served in any area of our fine intelligence community have a sincere and well-deserved respect for the professionals in our CIA. Any allegation that this superb group of highly-trained professionals would come to such a bizarre conclusion, based on such flimsy "evidence" represents a gross insult to the many fine professionals in our intelligence community.

Prince Harry: Leading by EXAMPLE !

Prince Harry, age 22, has demanded that if his unit goes into battle in Iraq, he would be leading them. Having trained to become troop commander of an armored recon unit, the courageous prince had threatened to quit the army, if not allowed to serve on the frontline.

What a difference moral courage between him, and the man who is currently serving as President of the United States: When I served in Vietnam, George W. Bush found it convenient to fly National Guard planes around the United States. As a man who has never dared to place himself into harm's way, though he won't hesitate to expose others to danger, his words ring hollow, when he congratulates our wounded for their courage, and, with crocodile tears, thanks the traumatized dependents of our dead for their sacrifice - one which HE was NEVER willing to make.

My father, Gerhard May, was drafted into the German Army in World War II, though he detested the Nazi regime with all of his heart and soul. During my last visit with him, after I had completed the Jungle Operations Course in Panama, and just before I shipped out for Vietnam, he insisted that we have a serious talk: "When I served in the German Army, first in Yugoslavia, and then in Italy, all of my officers had one thing in common: They led by example, and always shared the risks with those of us under their command. If you can't do that, don't come back. Of course, I was shocked that my father would even think that I would not measure up to that standard, and, as S-5 of the 1/10 Cavalry Squadron, as Advisor to the 748 Regional Forces Montagnard Company, as well as during my posting as Advisor to the 25th ARVN Battalion at Trung Lap, at the edge of the "Iron Triangle", I kept faith with the promise to my father. More important, I kept that promise to myself, and to the men with whom I had the honor of serving.

Beside the obvious matter of rank and privilege, there is one more important difference between the prince and myself: He is obviously a lot better looking than I ever was, and, born into a privileged environment, he has a great deal more to lose. His willingness to expose himself to severe danger, together with the less fortunate of his countrymen, is the sign of a truly noble nature, which far transcends the accidents of birth into a privileged class. In our United States of America, we should earnestly pray, that we might, one day, be led by a man as great as Prince Harry of England, a man who is TRULY noble!

Repeating Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan

Eighteen years after the defeated Soviet Army pulled out of Afghanistan, which helped to speed the collapse of their empire, many of their soldiers believe the United States is heading for a similar disaster. Retired Captain Vladimir Vshivtev (photo) was blinded by an improvised roadside bomb 20 years ago in Afghanistan, and he feels the pain of our troops , which are now suffering from the same nightmare. In fact, the Russian Soldiers who fought there can point to many similarities: Their arrival was greeted with flowers and smiles, but the climate changed very quickly: Though their army arrived with 120,000 men, they lost about 1,300 each year, about the size of our combined losses in Iraq and Afghanistan.

My personal experiences in Vietnam point to the same conclusion of this Russian officer. Captain Quoc, my friend and commander of the 25th ARVN battalion at Trung Lap, at the edge of the "Iron Triangle", confided in me that we would eventually lose this war: Every night, after we had finished our patrols, the "Vietcong" would visit the farmers who lived near their rice paddies, and asked them for a contribution to the Vietcong cause. They were fighting for their freedom, they said, against the Americans, who had brought death and destruction to their country. Then they asked for a contribution of rice to their army. Instead of money, they gave the farmers a receipt, payable when they would win the war.

Toward the end of that conflict, many farmers had a huge stack of these receipts under their matresses, which would be worthless if we had won that war, but could, in theory, be redeemed by a Vietcong government. Based on this financial interest, many "neutral" farmers now had bought shares in our enemies' victory, and they gave important intelligence information to our elusive enemy.

February 13, 1945: A Day That Will Live in Infamy

According to Professor Dr. Fetscher, in charge of Civil Air Defense 180,000, mostly civilians, were killed by British and American air attacks in February 1945. The photo shows one pile of burning bodies, and toward the back and in the front of this photo, are the many corpses which had alreeady been burned to avoid an outbreak of disease among the few remaining survivors.

There would be more attacks, for Winston Churchill had ordered his, and the American Air Force units to wipe out all of the refugees fleeing the raping, torturing, and mutilating Russian hordes invading Germany with the phrase: "BASTE THEM ! ! !"

As a young child, I had passed through the doomed city just a few hours before the attack, and I witnessed the destruction from a hill overlooking Dresden. When the British Lancaster bombers flew low over the farmhouse where we had sought refuge, the vibrations were so intense that a 20" x 35" framed painting pounded against the interior wall, almost drowning out the roar of the enemy machines. It had snowed for several days, and then the British dropped aluminum foil over the farm house where my mother and grandmother had sought refuge, to confuse any German radar systems. The foil, which landed on the nearby spruce trees, reminded me of the Christmas celebration we had enjoyed just a few days earlier, I began to sing Christmas carols, while my mother and grandmother cried.

May Churchill forever roast in hell for this atrocity, even if I have to be there personally to stoke the flames!!!

The Grapes of Wrath

If you really want to know what is going on in Iraq, what our "free" press cannot, or does not want to tell us, please click on the pretty lady's photo. Most Americans do not really want to hear the truth, nor can they handle the implications of our current demented foreign "policy".

You will never read her commentary in our newspapers, for if they lose their most lucrative advertisers, they cannot continue to exist. In their constant fear of the continuing decline of their advertising revenue, they have become little more than prostitutes for the irresponsible politicians which now hold this nation hostage. Tied to an ill-fated foreign policy, which enriches a very, very few power brokers, we contiue to make bitter enemies among those who were once our closest friends.

The desperate sadness which you see in this Iraqi woman's portrait reflects her insight, on the occasion of this new year. Though the future is full of hope for some of us, her nation continues to descend rapidly into that hell, in which the residents of her country will soon surpass the horrors of "ethnic cleansing" and perhaps, just perhaps, even the nightmares of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

At the end of this turbulent year, she provides a candid evaluation of the state of her ever deepening nightmare. She writes: "You know you are in trouble, when
1. The UN has to open a special branch (UNAMI) just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed.
2. This branch (UNAMI) cannot be safely administered from Iraq.
3. The politicians who put your country into this sorry state have hastily fled to safety in other nations.
4. Though now openly hostile to each other, the US and Iran can agree on one thing: The continuously deteriorating situation in Iraq.
5. Iraqis now look at an earlier 8-year war and a 13-year blockade as the country's "Golden Years".
6. Though Iraq is supposedly selling (That would erroneously imply that the nation's citizens derive some benefit from such sale) TWO million barrels of oil a day, Iraqi citizens are standing in line for four hours to obtain black market gasoline for their generators.
7. For every HOUR of public electricity, Iraqis suffer at least FIVE hours abandoned by their nation's public utilities.
8. Iraqi citizens are grateful, and consider themselves "lucky", if they can actually find and identify the corpse of a relative, who has been missing for two weeks.

My fellow citizens: In Iraq, you see OUR tax money at work. Is that what "WE, THE PEOPLE" as our Constitution reads, REALLY want? Why are these atrocities then being perpetratated against against the innocents of our planet. Must their agony continue to torture and burden our souls in the JUDGMENT which will expose all of us to the wrath of GOD?