Mark Wilkerson and Dom give their intros

Brian Wolfe and Garett Reppenhagen give intros

 

Garett Reppenhagen served with Jeff Engelhart in Iraq and co-authored the blog "Fight to Survive". Garett points out that through their entire GI resistance process, they stayed within the boundaries of UCMJ and were granted honorable discharges. Garett was the first active-duty member of IVAW. Seventy-five percent of the veterans of this war are still in the military; they are career soldiers. That is what makes anti-war organizing difficult in the military. Yes, they oppose the war, but they also want to remain in the military.

The military's family atmosphere, the safe environment of a military base for raising children, the school benefits, the health care, and the bonuses all make GIs reluctant to risk their position. But Garett says soldiers can use their First Amendment rights to speak out without getting in trouble, and IVAW stands ready to help them learn how. IVAW is asking soldiers and veterans to join a fight to make America better, says Garett.

Dom discusses shooting dogs for sport

Mark wilkerson talks about ramming cars for sport

Garett talks of the "collateral damage" of shooting innocents

Q1: dehumanizing the "enemy" for sanity

Q2: discharging soldiers with PTSD for "pre existing conditions"

Q3: Drugs and aclohol in the military in Muslim countries

Q4: training for soldiers on the Geneva Conventions

Q5: treatment of women in the military

Q6: Vietnam Vet askes about prostitution in Iraq

Q7: Hiring by KBR of foreign nationals

Q8: media coverage of the war

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(original hearings at bottom)

The IVAW marches to Valley Forge to announce Winter Soldier

pt 2 Garret on "Rules of Engagement"

Garret testifies on the future of GI resistance

Kelly Dougherty testifies on the history of GI resistance

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Kelly was a military police sergeant with the Colorado National Guard. She escorted convoys of KBR trucks. They regularly broke down, and the convoy would continue while MPs were left behind to guard the trucks until they could be towed away. Iraqi civilians would gather, hoping to loot the trucks because the Iraqis were poor and the cargo was valuable. Often, they would later be ordered to destroy and abandon the trucks. Once, when they were ordered to destroy a truck loaded with food, she proposed to her superior that they let the people have the food. But he told her that would be too dangerous because people would come close to the MPs and might attack them. So she wound up pointing a machine gun at Iraqis people to keep them away as the food burned. "When you're in the military, you want to feel proud, you want to feel good about what you're doing," she said. "That made me feel really ashamed."

Original Winter Soldier Hearings

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