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Gerry Condon is a longtime U.S. antiwar activist and writer who works closely with active duty GI’s and military veterans. In 1968, while in the U.S. Army Special Forces, Gerry Condon began to speak out against the Vietnam War and to refuse all military orders. The U.S. Army then ordered him to deploy to Vietnam and Gerry refused. Condon was court-martialed and sentenced to ten years in prison and a Dishonorable Discharge. But he escaped from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and from the United States, initially going to Montreal, Quebec and then heading to Europe. Condon lived in West Germany for six months in 1969, while traveling all around Europe, finally receiving “humanitarian asylum” in Sweden. In early 1970 he joined the American Deserters Committee (ADC) in Stockholm, and helped to produce their newsletter, The Paper Grenade. He traveled around Europe as a liaison for the Stockholm exiles, meeting with American deserters and draft resisters in Paris and London, as well as with European activists who were assisting GI resisters in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. Gerry represented the American Deserters Committee at the Stockholm International Conference to End the War in Vietnam and at the Paris International Conference on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. He met several times with representatives of the Vietnamese liberation struggle. Condon has been a member of peace delegations to Syria, and has denounced American meddling in that nation in no uncertain terms.“Almost everything we read about Syria in the media is wrong,” said Gerry Condon. “The reality is that the U.S. government is supporting armed extremist groups who are terrorizing the Syrian people and trying to destroy Syria’s secular state.”“In order to hide that ugly reality and push violent regime change,” continued Condon, “the U.S. is conducting a psychological warfare campaign to demonize Syria’s president, Bashar al Assad. This is a classic tactic that veterans have seen over and over. It is shocking, however, to realize how willingly the media repeat this propaganda, and how many people believe it to be true.”
It takes a lot of integrity and a lot of courage to stand up against the raging pack that is clamoring for war. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has earned the admiration of many in the U.S. who are not in a rush to go to war, in Syria, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Iran or in North Korea. In U.S. politics, however, there is always a price to pay for not going along with the war drive.
Tulsi Gabbard is from the tradition off Gandhi & Ahimsa…. not the rampaging violence of the judeo.christian.islamic tradition, ever in search of an enemy to destroy beginning with the crusades until today… where scapegoating, genocide and annihilation are the path to power and glory.
Tulsi we support for her enlightened and fair understanding of the butchery in the Middle East, stirred up by Washington’s mafia as they continue to meddle there to control oil, but the commenter is contradicting herself: Tulsi despite her Ahimsa beliefs enlisted in the US military and fought in that region to advance US imperial designs. Now, I suppose she has finally seen the light.
The point is not her past, but that unlike all the other legislators steeped in the judeo.christian tradition of violence and conquest have not seen the light. It is quite easy to say this is a matter of oil, but that is just scratching the surface…. There is no oil in http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39771288- but the holy warriors of the dominion tradition have rampaged and destroyed a Muslim nation. American soldiers in Afghanistan are forced to attend christian services…. and bible thumpers, called aid workers rush in behind the soldiers to distribute the New Testament…. Sounds a lot like the Crusades of… Read more »
It seems the christian left has co-opted the greanvillepost….