Valiant IVAW Toss Medals At NATO Summit

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John Whitfield
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Valiant IVAW Toss Medals at NATO Summit

Among the comments of the valiant Iraq Veterans Against the War, IVAW, were: "this is for Bradley Manning," the soldier proclaimed, tossing his medal in the direction of the NATO summit. Manning, the Daniel Ellsberg of his day, who blew the whistle on the horrors of Viet Nam that had been kept secret, with the Pentagon Papers, published by the New York times over four decades ago, Bradley Manning is an imprisoned veteran for having been accused of alledgedly releasing sensitive information, as you know,to wikileaks. Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks, though under the same scrutiny, to put it mildly, as Bradley Manning, meanwhile was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2011.

Another veteran welcomed the protestors of all political stripes while tossing his medal, stated that, "we shall kill no more for you NATO."

There were vets of the on going war in Afghanistan as well at the front of the march.
Needless to say they are afainst the war as well.

Some 40 veterans threw away their medals awarded them by the military industrial complex, offering that NATO take them back.

General Tommy Franks once declared, "we don't do body counts." Civilian casualties, need we be reminded, in Iraq between 2003-2012, according to Iraqbodycount.org are between 106,749 and 116,609 with other studies going much higher. So how much higher will the toll go in Afghanistan?

Since the soldier that lost it, and went on a rampage stalking and killing civilians going door to door, the burning of the Koran, and soldiers caught urinating on dead bodies, the percentage of Americans that oppose the war, and want US troops out of Afghanistan immediately has skyrocketed to 80% in favor of a withdrawal before 2014, preferably much sooner.

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