Sarah Olson | Opposition to the War Growing Among Troops

Sarah Olson | Opposition to the War Growing Among Troops

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807B.shtml



Last week, a convoy of approximately 20 veterans riding in converted

school buses left Fayetteville, North Carolina. They were sponsored by

Veterans for Peace, armed with literature and headed for New Orleans,

where they are spending this week rebuilding houses in the Ninth Ward. On

the way, the group stopped at military bases throughout the South.

Their goal? To pass out copies of the Appeal for Redress, GI rights

information and copies of the videos "Ground Truth" and "Sir! No Sir!"



General McCaffrey Says US Military in "Strategic Peril"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807C.shtml



An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the

situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen.

David H. Petraeus, and 16 other senior US commanders. "The population is

in despair," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote in an eight-page

document compiled in his capacity as a professor at West Point. "Life in many

of the urban areas is now desperate." McCaffrey says that the US

military is in "strategic peril."