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30-Year Anniversary Fall of Saigon: Vietnam and Iraq
H.D.S. Greenway Boston Globe April 30, 2005
SPRING HAS COME again 30 times since the last April agonies of the Republic of South Vietnam. None of us who were there in that final collapse are likely to forget it: The seemingly endless columns of refugees snaking ever southward, the infectious fear that ran through the streets of Saigon, the sudden suicides, some of them in public places, the rumors and pathetic false hopes that some kind of deal would be made, that the Communists would not come after all.
Vietnam's lost lessons
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Michael A. Fuoco April 30, 2005
Perhaps fittingly for a war as controversial as that in Vietnam, the last iconic images from the bitter conflict show the chaos, fear and confusion as helicopters evacuate Americans and South Vietnamese from the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy and other locations in Saigon. Four hours after the last evacuees were lifted to safety offshore, the South Vietnamese government announced its unconditional surrender to the Viet Cong. The long, costly war had ended.
Veterans still feel Vietnam scars
Matthew Davis BBC News, Washington April 30, 2005
Vietnam is a 30-year nightmare, from which Jim Doyle is still trying to wake.
Every week he sees a psychiatrist, but no-one can free him from the demons of war.
The smallest things - like the smell of diesel - bring the memories flooding back.
But it is the big things that worry him most.
"Nobody who has ever been to war wants to see anybody else go there," he said.
"So Iraq has been a very difficult time.
"War is hell," he adds. "It has an impact on the people who take part that never heals."
Lawmakers shift tone on accountability for prison abuse scandal
MATT STEARNS AND LAUREN MARKOE Knight Ridder Newspapers April 30, 2005
A year ago, when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, several U.S. senators warned that top military officers and civilian policy-makers must share the blame for lower-ranking soldiers who abused prisoners. That hasn't happened. Instead, while the scandal has widened to include allegations of mistreatment at facilities in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the senators' tough talk has mellowed considerably.
War nurses make quick adjustment
DAVID McLEMORE The Dallas Morning News April 30, 2005
The first thing Maj. Dawn Garcia noticed when she came back from Iraq was the quiet. Gone was the throbbing drone of the medevac helicopters in Baghdad that signaled the round-the-clock arrival of more dying and wounded.
Return of Our Fallen
National Security Archive George Washington University April 30, 2005
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005 - In response to Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit, the Pentagon this week released hundreds of previously secret images of casualties returning to honor guard ceremonies from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and other conflicts, confirming that images of their flag-draped coffins are rightfully part of the public record, despite its earlier insistence that such images should be kept secret.
How Far Will The Army Go?
Rick Sallinger CBS - News 4 (Denver, Colorado) April 29, 2005
As military recruiting tumbles and casualties escalate, the news report below asks, "How far will U.S. Army recruiters go to bring young men and women into their ranks? An Arvada West High School (Colorado) senior recently decided to find out." In addition to the story below, the CBS News 4 web site contains an eight minute investigative report. Watch it and see what really happened in one town.
Unready for combat
Bryan Bender Boston Globe April 29, 2005
When Dustin W. Peters, an Air Force supply technician, arrived in Kuwait in January 2004, all he and his fellow airmen knew was that they would be supporting US troops in Iraq. But when their unit received its assignment, they recalled, they were stunned: They would be protecting supply convoys traveling along Iraq's violent roadways.
Chalabi Named Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
JAMIE TARABAY Washington Post April 29, 2005
Thwarted in his bid to be Iraq's leader, one-time Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi has nevertheless captured a key position in the new government _ a deputy prime minister's spot and temporary control of the lucrative oil ministry.
Germs, warfare
STUART KELLOGG Daily Press April 29, 2005
Since prehistoric times, wars have killed combatants and civilians — by weapons but also by infections. In addition to creating crowded, unsanitary conditions, wars expose people to bacteria and viruses to which they have no immunity.
U.S. Considers Toughening Stance Toward Venezuela
Juan Forero New York Times April 29, 2005
As President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela veers toward greater confrontation with Washington, the Bush administration is weighing a tougher approach, including funneling more money to foundations and business and political groups opposed to his leftist government, American officials say.
Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve
Robert Scheer LA Times April 29, 2005
Notice the price of gasoline lately? Isn't it great that we have secured Iraq's oil? And as Congress signs off on yet another huge supplementary grant to supposedly protect U.S. interests in the Mideast, our president pathetically begs his Saudi buddies for a price break. As the fall of Rome showed, imperialism never pays.
U.S.: Abu Ghraib Only the “Tip of the Iceberg”
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH April 28, 2005
The crimes at Abu Ghraib are part of a larger pattern of abuses against Muslim detainees around the world, Human Rights Watch said on the eve of the April 28 anniversary of the first pictures of U.S. soldiers brutalizing prisoners at the Iraqi jail.
Europe Invites the United States to Observe the Law
Reuters April 28, 2005
Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe "adamantly" asked the American government to "observe the principles of the preeminence of law and human rights" with respect to the detainees at Guantánamo.
Chernobyl: Land of the dead
Guardian April 28, 2005
On April 26 1986, the No 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station blew apart. Facing nuclear disaster on an unprecedented scale, Soviet authorities tried to contain the situation by sending thousands of ill-equipped men into a radioactive maelstrom. In an extract from a new book by Russian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, eyewitnesses recall the terrible human cost of a catastrophe still unfolding today
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