Dick Bennett's Anthologies focused on Stopping US Wars & Nuclear Holocaust and Stopping Warming & Climate Calamity, including examinations of their causes, consequences, and cures
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Moral Disaster of US Army in War and Resisters
ARMY INDIFFERENCE TO KILLING, SUFFERING, AND INJUSTICE, BRADLEY MANNING, AND
A former Army intelligence analyst in
There are very few analysts -- current or former -- who are willing to speak openly about their experiences in
The untold story is that the
During my first week in basic training, I watched a man nearly die of pneumonia and heat stroke in the
By the time I was 20, I had a rifle and a top-secret security clearance. My mission in
My first night at
I also worked as a targeting analyst compiling intelligence data for "preparation of the battlefield." In this, I weighed the lives of my fellow human beings -- military and civilian, American and Iraqi -- and decided fates with the stroke of a pen. By my 21st birthday I was responsible for many deaths. In
Another Army intelligence analyst -- 23-year-old Bradley Manning of Crescent, Oklahoma -- was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 on suspicion of releasing restricted military documents to the WikiLeaks website. For outing war crimes and causing a year-long public-affairs crisis for the State and Defense departments, Manning spent nearly 10 months in maximum-security, solitary confinement at the Quantico Marine Corps base in
Though several years apart, Manning and I went through the same training course at Fort Leonard Wood and the same intelligence analysis school at
Manning also allegedly discovered classified footage taken from Army Apache helicopters during a 2007 air-to-ground attack near
The
Many of my friends who went to
Evan Knappenberger is a disabled Iraq war veteran, a student, and a community peace activist living in Bellingham,
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