http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc2579.htmlGuerrilla of the Week
Editor's Week, August 3, 2003
During the Vietnam War, you had to read hippie publications like Ramparts to find out what it was really like for American soldiers fighting and dying in Southeast Asia.
Today, a growing number of soldiers are speaking out about another doomed military adventure. This time they're using email - and those electronic dispatches are finding their way to the web. Check out "Soldiers for Truth," a revolutionary site allowing U.S. soldiers in Iraq to directly communicate their plight to the world. Don't get the wrong idea. This ain't no peacenik site. It's fervently pro-military, and fundamentally pro-war. But it is increasingly anti-administration. The site's spiritual leader seems to be retired U.S. Army Col. David Hackworth, the self-described Most Decorated Soldier in America. Hackworth can walk the walk. He was shot eight times in Vietnam, and went on to write the so-called "Vietnam Primer," referred to as the military's bible on counter-insurgency warfare.
As a profile in today's Salon describes, Hackworth has become one of the administration's most vocal critics. The Colonel is best known for being one of the loudest detractors of the Pentagon's invasion strategy in the early stages of the war. His main gripe - Rumsfeld did it "light" and "on the cheap," leaving U.S. forces without the manpower to properly secure the peace. During the invasion, his (and others') comments drew the ire of the neo-con junta, prompting Rummy to lash out at the media and what he called the "television generals" - Hackworth being one. But Hackworth didn't back down. He set up his own site, hackworth.com, where you can read his scathing critiques of the war planners.
In an interview with Salon (excepted below), Hackworth hits back, explaining why he thinks the Secretary of Defense is an "asshole," why the war is far from over, and why Saddam Hussein could be the next Ho Chi Minh.
more......interview ...more & links........
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Soldiers For the Truth -
http://www.sftt.orgRamparts -
http://www.hippy.com/php/article-91.htmlHackworth's website -
http://www.hackworth.com/