Mike's Vacation: August 2007

Thursday, August 9, 2007

WERE WE EVER REALLY THIS YOUNG?

HOW DID WE GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B

HOW DID WE EVER GET SO FAR? HOW DID WE GO FROM HAVING BEAUTIFUL BULDINGS IN NEW YORK, TO HAVING THE LARGEST TWO BURNED TO THE GROUND BY MONSTERS?

HOW DID IRAQ GO FROM BEING A SECULAR AND FUNCTIONING STATE THAT ESSENTIALLY DIDN'T LIKE US, TO A PLACE WHERE NO AMERICAN WILL SAFELY ENTER FOR DECADES?

WHO IS AT FAULT, A PUPPET, OR HIS MASTER?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzMt2QarrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKB4UMdwvZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXw53yJc0Hc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R29YqCf1E3A&NR=1

MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2007

JAPANESE MOURN OVER AMERICAN ATOMIC BOMBS

IT WAS A HORRIFIC DECISION TO USE ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAKASAKI.

SOME PEOPLE FEEL IT WAS MILITARILY NECCESSARY TO WIN JAPANESE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, OTHERS FEEL IT WAS SIMPLY CRUELTY ON THE PART OF TRUMAN AND THE US WAR MACHINE.

SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT AMERICA USED THESE WEAPONS TO SOMEHOW PREVENT THE COMMUNISTS FROM TAKING OVER JAPAN AFTER WW2. THEIR THEORY IS THAT IF CONVENTINAL METHODS WERE TO HAVE BEEN USED, THEN THIS WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE SOVIETS TIME TO TAKE PART IN A JAPANESE INVASION, AND THUS GIVE THEM ENOUGH INFLUENCE IN THE COUNTRY TO STEER IT TO SOVIET SOCIALISM.

MIKES VACATION BELIEVES DROPPING THE A-BOMBS ON JAPAN WAS THE CORRECT DECISION. THIS DECISION SAVED AMERICAN AND JAPANESE LIVES.

MIKES VACATION ALSO BELIEVES THAT LEIGONS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS WENT UNPUNISHED, BECAUSE TO DO SO WOULD HAVE POSTPONED JAPANESE RE-CONSTRUCTION SUFFICIENTLY LONG ENOUGH FOR THE SOVIETS TO GRAPPLE FOR INFLUENCE ON THE ISLAND. EMPEROR HIROHITO SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY EXCECUTED. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CORRECT DECISION. THIS WOULD ALSO HAVE REDUCED AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON THE ISLAND. IT WAS A MISTAKE TO ALLOW SO MANY JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS TO GO UNPUNISHED FOR THE SAKE OF REGIONAL INFLUENCE.

this link features iris chang, author of "the rape of nanking"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V8fzbUoQdio
this link is an interview with Aussie harry leslie, pow held by the japanese
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bBsryUaH-ps
this link is of the japanese mourning us atomic bombs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20190749/

MIKE MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS,
2007

TORTURE AS DESCRIBED BY WIKIPEDIA

AMERICANS MUST BEGIN TO ORGANIZE FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOT ALLOWING OUR WAR CRIMINALS TO GO UNPUNISHED.

EXECUTING AND TORTURING POWS, PARTISANS, AND ENEMY CIVILIANS DEFIES THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN AND GLOBAL HUMANITY.

WW2 ERA NAZI WAR CRIMINALS BELIEVED THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LAW AGAINST THEIR CRIMES, THEY WERE LEGAL AND WOULD GO UNPUNISHED.

THE EUROPEAN VICTIMS OF NAZI GERMANY HAVE LITTLE TO CONSOLE THEMSELVES WITH, EXCEPT THAT PRECEDENTS WERE ESTABLISHED DURING THE NURNBERG WAR CRIMES TRIALS PROVIDING FOR WAR CRIMES TO BE FOREVER PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED.

THE NAZIS COULD NOT PASS LAWS IN GERMANY LEGALIZING WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO THEIR VICTIMS IN EUROPE. NO MAN CAN LEGALIZE A WAR CRIME OR A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

WASHINGTON'S LEGALIZATION OF TORTURE AND OF WAGING WAR UPON NATIONS AT PEACE, CAN NOT BE BONNA FIDE HERE OR GLOBALLY. WASHINGTON CAN NOT LEGALIZE WHAT BY NATURE CAN NEVER BE FORGIVEN, OR PARDONED.

AMERICANS NEED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING METHODS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF OUR WAR CRIMINALS, WE NEED TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERE PUNISHMENT TO THOSE WHO WILL DESTROY EVIDENCE OF THESE CRIMES OR OBSTRUCT THEIR PROSECUTION.

MIKES VACATION IS FULLY AWARE THAT MANY CITIZENS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. THESE MEN SHOULD BE TRIED AND PUNISHED BY THE VERY SAME MACHINE THAT SHOULD BE USED AGAINST OUR OWN WAR CRIMINALS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

Monday, August 6, 2007

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER

THIS IS A GREAT 5 PART SERIES ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER.
Enjoy, Mike Miller

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z8KVF0EPSQQ&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xTmgSCxdZ48&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=POMkeUekTfE&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=43g2FPvPwNg&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I52Ys2QLq6c&mode=related&search=

Sunday, August 5, 2007

READERS PLEASE FORGIVE ME

Dear Readers, There was always something that bothered me about Mr. Krol, I just couldn't put it into words, and I still can't.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/amb/portraits/eur/24564.htm

http://images.google.com/images?q=reinhard+heydrich+photos&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

Ambassador Krol’s home state is New Jersey. He attended St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey

This sentence is taken from section 7 of the below document "Between 1948 and 1950 over 200 Belorussian Nazis arrived to South River, NJ with their families.

http://www.geocities.com/dudar2000/Bcc.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Krol

The highest ranking Belorussian Nazi of WW2 was Radislaw Ostrowski, he was brought to America with the hopes he might assist with the overthrow of the Soviet Union. He lived to a ripe old age and is buried in New Jersey. I am very curious if there is some connection between Ostrowski, and the good Mr. Krol. I am not sure what the connection could be. Perhaps Mr. Krol knew of him, and was ashamed of his presence in America. I find it very odd that the American Ambassador to Belarus would not be aware that New Jersey was full of Belorussian Nazis or their children and grandchildren. So, if Mr. Krol was aware of this problem, why did he do nothing to see these monsters deported to Justice in Belarus?

http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Radasłaŭ_Astroŭski

As long as we are discussing Embassy related issues, can anyone please explain to me just exactly why the U.S. embassy in Belarus is translatable into Belorussian and not RUSSIAN.

According to recent election polls, most Lukashenka supporting people in Belarus speak RUSSIAN. Lukashenka's opposition is skilled with Belorussian. So perhaps the U.S. embassy in Minsk only wants their rhetoric understandable by those that speak Belorussian. Perhaps the U.S. Embassy has posted things on its web site that are so ludicrous that if the majority of the Belorussian public were to understand their accurately translated meanings, the State Department and its "DIPLOMATIC MISSION" to Belarus would be embarrassed beyond timely repair? ! ? .
http://belarus.usembassy.gov/index.html

Dear readers, I got the following message from my long time friend and fellow Belarus advocate Adam Goodman of the BEINGHAD.COM web page and blog. Adam responded " Interesting post and there are some good links but I am not sure why you make the connection between the current ambassador and a dead Nazi collaborator.

Adam, There is no actual connection, there is a physical similarity, at least according to the photos. The Ex-Ambassador had been subverting Belarus by attacking Lukashenka. But frankly, there are the gnawing facts about all those (200) Nazi's settling in Jersey. I just have a real suspicion that American Belorussian Diaspora is corner stoned and led by either the original Belorussian Nazis that settled here, if they are still alive and viable, or their children. And I while I have no evidence of this, I feel that these same groups play a heavy lobbying/bribing role in seeing to the appointment of Ambassadors to Belarus that will serve their interest, and for that matter these same groups likely play an impactful steering role in SETTING what the mission of the state dept to Belarus actually is. You can see this same phenomenon in a more open fashion when you observe the effects that the Cuban exiles living in Florida have on current U.S. policies towards Cuba. Obviously the Belorussian Americans have some other things to consider, like potential deportation for war crimes etc. These looming threats likely keeps them from being as vocal and outrageous as the Cuban diaspora in Florida. However, the current Belorussian Diaspora probably would like to make financial claims against property and or business currently located and operating in Belarus. These claims would be fruitless unless a pro-capitalist/anti -communist leader and government were installed in Belarus. I feel that the extreme physical similarities between Krol and Reinhard Heydrich serve to promote an abstract and imaginative examination on the part of the reader of the facts of the case surrounding the real motivations of what our "diplomatic mission " actually is in Belarus. I also find the physical similarities downright creepy.

Michael Miller

Indianapolis, 2007

Saturday, August 4, 2007

COME AND SEE

As you are aware, I am a big fan of Belarus, and of Soviet and Partisan triumphs during WW2 / The Patriotic War.

I found this incredible movie on youtube.com. Parts of it are dubbed into English, but from what I can tell it is the story of a boy who joins the Belorussian Partisans in their fight against the Germans of WW2.

I recommend that you visit this web page prior to viewing COME AND SEE. This page is the Belorussian government's official Katyn web page. This page will be self explanatory.

http://www.khatyn.by/en/about/

This film has great acting, great costumes, it is shot on location in Belarus, and is very relevant to my prior Jerzy Kosinski blog because the forested area and topography of this film is very likely exactly and precisely the type of area, if not near the exact setting of Kosinski's story The Painted Bird.

This film is highly relevant on its own accord, and I only mention its connection to The Painted Bird in that a reader and interested party of the Painted Bird can now see some very realistic costumes, sets, and topography of almost, if not EXACTLY the area that Kosinski was describing in his book.

This may be a little bit confusing to the reader, however Kosinski's book is very likely "docu-fiction" . The book is a combination of his lifes events, historical accuracies of the period, cultural markers, and plain fictionalizations on his part. If The Painted Bird were to be accepted as an accurate biography of Kosinski's ww2 experiences as a child in Poland, then it very likely took place on parts of what is now Belarusian territory. According to Kosinski, he was sent to the country on a dark adventure, that according to him, was represented in his book. Therefore, with the reference to a giant marsh land, and the fact he was sent away from the Nazis, or east, he would have been describing the marshes and forests inside the borders of present day Belarus. Portions of pre-WW2 Poland were incorporated into what are the modern borders of Belarus.(remember the yalta conference of 1945). Kosinski referred in his book to persons who spoke a dialect variant from the standard Warsaw Polish of the day. This dialect could very well have been a forest version of Polish, or it could have been a forest version of Belarusian. It is possible that these language dialects were intermingled in some regions of the deep forest on the border of what was pre-war Poland and pre-war Belarus.

If the reader of The Painted Bird chooses to accept this book as "docu-fiction" , then this book could have been set in multiple rural areas to include rural Poland, rural Belarus, Rural russia and Rural Ukraine. That is to say the peasant lives described took could have taken place in these countries. Some chapters of The Painted Bird specificly are set in Warsaw by name. One of the topographical clues as to the books setting, regardless of how you classify it is that the book describes of course thick forest, but also large marsh and swamp type areas. Modern Belarus has within its borders an area called the Pripyat Marshes, however these same marshes cross into parts of the Ukraine as well. Infact parts of pre-war Poland were close to these same marsh type areas.

The book largly describes wartime life for peasants living in an isolated and backwards slavic community. ( i am sorry if you are offended at this point, i acknowledge that many polish persons are offended over how Kosinski choose to portray them in his book, i choose to accept his book as "docu-fiction" and accept that there may be portions of the peasants characters and habits that are either under represented by Kosinski, or exaggerated for the sake of drama. ) There are not enough cultural or historic markers in the book to absolutely identify the peasants as being either easter slavic or western slavic.

come and see 1 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=RfQWxoJYwwY&mode=related&search

=come and see 2 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=0hMCKQDdLps&mode=related&search

=come and see 3 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=YXn0oSBv0Dg&mode=related&search

=come and see 4 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=qOvyR97n3Pc&mode=related&search

=come and see 5 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=RpbiuTr3lCw&mode=related&search

=come and see 6 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=38lQjdLajVU&mode=related&search

=come and see 7 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=S1PVbczaIJ8

come and see 8 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=WcO4lmhTDrE&mode=related&search

=come and see 9 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=SCMoVQQHoOc&mode=related&search

=come and see 10 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsSfRRRcxK4&mode=related&search

=come and see 11 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQEK8EQKTs&mode=related&search

=come and see 12 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vbzblw3MF6w&mode=related&search=

=come and see 13 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=scjUVBFjhlQ&mode=related&search

=come and see 14 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=c6P9P8VmB9k&mode=related&search=

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/02/20/come.html http://www.smart-popcorn.com/reviews/595/http://movies.go.com/come-and-see/d810426/foreign

The men that made this film obviously put their hearts and souls into its creation. Thank you for taking the time to watching this film via my blog and for being patient with my likely imperfect viewpoints published in this essay.

Mike Miller
Indianapolis
2007

THE PAINTED BIRD POSTULATE

If a man is either a Jew or a Gypsy, a Pole, a German, a Russian, a Belorussian, or a Ukrainian,

If a man is not clearly a member of these groups, but he has powerful emotions towards them, such as love or hate......

He must at some point in his life, willingly let his emotional guard down, and take this little boy by the hand and walk with him through his journey....

This same man must bravely keep his eyes open and his primary innocence unguarded,,, if he is able....

After this same experience is over,,, if it ever really is....

This same man must return to his own real world and undertake a logical and scholarly examination of the actual and true life of Jerzy Kosinski,, his failures and triumphs,,,

And after all this is over and done.......This man must attempt to be an excellent citizen of the world....

I could describe and critique the links below, but if you are a Jerzy Kosinski fan, then you will simply want to watch every one of them. They are all relevant to Kosinski's life and his impact on the modern and future world.

Michael Miller
Indianapolis,
2007

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q0Mf9_CejQ8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ytvTcWeGa0M&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IvcAnv89CRY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=raidKJDNoIM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3m0eZP07_rE
http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/fah/eng/wc/jk.htm
http://www.geocities.com/~cheshyre/kosinski.htm
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9610/myers.html

CUBAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Cuba's health care system has been widely discussed lately. It is very apparent that the Cuban state apparatus has gone to much time and trouble to engineer and construct conditions that support health care for its population that represents a fair and conscientious use of available resources.

No one can pretend that Cuba's health care system can be perfect, or that all is rosy in every hospital bed in Havana.

However, the Cuban people are currently enjoying the benefits of many decades of doctor cultivation and the affiliated medical education mechanisms that have produced them.

Cubans should be applauded for having something of value to sell or trade, IE parts of their health care system. Cuba and Venezuela are currently bartering doctors for oil and both parties are better off for this arrangement.

I find it troubling and embarrassing that a representative of the United States would have the unmitigated gall to attempt to invalidate the legitimacy of such a barter.

The United States would cry if weapons were being sold or traded between our adversaries, our officials would find some method to impeach a trade in air or sand also. But when such benign resources such as raw oil and medical services are being traded, shouldn't this be encouraged, or at least not insulted?

The Cuban people would do well to not only embrace current sanctions against their small country, but themselves propose further sanctions at the United Nations. It appears that parts of Cuba have flourished without U.S. approval and intervention. Perhaps given more time, and less dependency on U.S. approval than is needed today, they Cubans will reach future goals that seem impossible today.

The United States has many escaped and expatriated Cubans living in Florida , and there is a strong anti -Castro political lobby active in Washington.

The Cubans living in Cuba don't have the benefit of the same lobbying apparatus, so their opinions and voices are unheard to the U.S. public and our leaders.

Education costs money, the Cubans have been investing in an educated public for many years and to deny them the benefits of their labors is ludicrous.

Mikes Vacation applauds the efforts that have produced such positive results for the Cuban people in spite of the economic rival ism they have endured from the United States.

If I wanted to have my appendix taken out and I had the choice of a major U.S. hospital, and a Havana hospital I would choose America.

If I wanted to have any complex and life threatening ailment treated, I would prefer to be in America instead of Havana.

However, if I was a random citizen in Mexico, the Caribbean, central or south America with all the resources a randomly selected citizen would have, and I had to choose between being treated in Havana, or through whatever health system is available to my same random self, I would ABSOLUTELY choose Havana, and be grateful and happy for the ability to do so.

Here is an interesting video hosted from youtube.com that discusses and describes some positive aspects of the Cuban health system. This video does not describe the negative aspects that an intelligent person can guess are there. However, you can deduce from this video that there have been positive and worthy achievements made in Cuba in the area of health care.

This video has poor sound editing, however the sound is crisp and understandable. The graphics are good.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ms8emcoWZM

Michael Miller
Indianapolis,
2007

FARANGS IN THAILAND NEED TO ORGANIZE

The Thais on some level are going to need to decide just exactly whom are their friends, the farangs who live there and visit, or the outside interests attacking these same farangs.

It is sad but true that here in America out government is influenced largely by special interest groups, and often these same groups have their power not because they represent a large portion of the population, but they are simply well funded, well organized and have had time to make political contacts in Washington.

I believe that the Thai visa revision rules that followed the Karr arrest are connected to this same phenomenon.

Farangs visiting and living in Thailand contribute outrageous amounts of money and positive influence to Thailand, but so far only their financial contribution to the economy is recognized.

Regardless of the sexual politics of western farangs visiting Thailand, they represent an upper class element of their own countries society.

International travelers as a whole are persons who have jobs, education, and preserved assets sufficient for the same travel. Therefore they almost always bear the markers of being of an upper element of their home countries.

As Thailand is full of western tourists and residents, Thailand benefits not just from the money spent by these people, and it is probably billions , but they receive untold cultural advantages also.

Thailand receives the benefit of their "average in country education level" being lifted by the addition of these same western minds.

While it is true many westerners are only on vacation in Thailand and are not attempting to contribute to the "brain trust" of the country, they actually do .

When a westerner takes a bath in the morning, and brushes his teeth and goes out on the street and buys a newspaper, or politely buys breakfast somewhere, he has contributed to the overall literacy and decency of the environment around him.

If a westerner is sitting in a beer bar and is trying to describe to a bar girl about his life in New York or London, for a few moments that same country girl is getting a culture lesson from a patient teacher that she would no doubt not get picking rick back in Issan.

Western Farangs as a group are a random composite of characters, but even in our most humble moments, we are adding to the socio-cultural "futurism" of Thailand.

Western Farangs are frequently legitimately nice people, and attempt Thai style politeness and diplomacy in their daily dealings not because they are trying to avoid a mugging, but because they are seriously interested in not talking down to the locals, and learning about their culture and getting along with them.

Anyone who discounts the cultural contribution made by Western Farangs in Thailand on holiday simply isn't considering factors that are abstract, and difficult to observe on a spread sheet.

As a group, we farangs should not consider ourselves superior to the Thais, but we need to collectively recognize that we are positively adding an upper class western feel to this place, even if it is given in the form of single men on holiday unwinding from their daily stress.

The western man has been talked down to enough by "moralizing special interest groups" in America and elsewhere.

We need to recognize ourselves as a legitimate demographic, and put down our beers long enough to come up with a plan for our own equitable treatment while we are residents, or on holiday in LOS.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MQcJGcMCg8E

Michael Miller
Indianapolis,
2007

Thursday, August 2, 2007

AMERICANS NEED TO VIEW OFFICIAL COMPLAINTS FROM TERRORISTS

The United States of America is involved in a very new form of war fighting.

We have recently been involved in fighting on 2 distinct battle zones, these being Iraq, and Afghanistan.

We have been fighting against traditional standing armies, these being the Army of the late Sadam Hussein, and the army of the now out of power Taliban government.

We have sent our military to engage two distinctly different enemies. Saddam Hussein was not friendly with the Taliban of Afghanistan, and they represented two distinctly different cultures, and two distinctly different versions of Islamic religious interpretation.

Secondary to our to our conventional military opponents of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the Talibans Army, we have been engaged in fighting against many different groups of people whom our government has labeled "Terrorists". Our government has not publicized its definition of exactly what a "terrorist" is.

Mikes Vacation defines a "terrorist" as one man, or a group of men who attack non military affiliated civilians, or soldiers at peace, for the purpose of intimidating the countrymen of the victim into changing the way they think, vote, or behave. This same intimidation could also be directed at any non military affiliated civilians, or soldiers at peace in any country. The measurement tool to be met by a "terrorist" is that intimidation of a non-war fighter is his goal.

It is the view of Mikes Vacation that the military attack against the Taliban government of Afghanistan was legal, and warranted because they harbored persons/terrorists/al quaida/osama bin laden who were very likely guilty, if not absolutely guilty in the murder of those civilians in New York, and those passengers that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11.

It is also the view of Mikes Vacation that the military and civilian persons who died at the Pentagon were at a state of "peace" with Al Quaeda as Al Quaeda had not publicized a formal declaration of war against the United States government. The United States government had not published a formal declaration of war against Al Quaida at this time either. Therefore the Pentagon victims also were victims of "terrorism".

These same acts of "terrorism" against the victims involved in this case were "crimes against humanity" as they were savage murders of large civilian populations or soldiers at peace.

The question remains to be debated as to whether the acts of 9/11 could be labeled as "war crimes". War crimes are by definition crimes committed during a state of war. If it could be shown at some time that a "state of war" had been declared openly by either the United States or Al Quaida before the 9/11 attacks, then the non-military civilian deaths could be labeled as war crimes also. However, as I have stated, if the events of 9/11 were fairly war crimes, then they could not have been terrorist acts also.

Mikes Vacation does not believe that the events of 9/11 could be simultaneously war crimes, and acts of terrorism. Although it is obvious that these events constituted crimes against humanity due to the large civilian population that perished as a result of the same.

The United States government should not be held liable for a precision or perfect or humane attack upon the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The Taliban should of kept Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaida under control if they were going to provide them with shelter, or hospitality, or sanctuary. As Al Quaida was living in the house of the Taliban, the Taliban bears responsibility for their guests.

The attack upon Sadam Hussein and his government is another different matter. Hussein was never any friend of the Taliban, or Al Quaida, and while he is no innocent party, he was hardly culpable in the events of 9/11.

The U.S. attack and invasion of Iraq was a criminal and poorly construed idea, executed while an impotent and intellectually slovenly country did nothing as its military went into dubious history. Our attack against Iraq constituted a "war crime" because it was a military attack against a country at peace. It is debatable about whether Iraqi civilians that have died as a result could be clearly labeled as either victims of "war crimes" or victims of "crimes against humanity" . It is very likely that the U.S. military had taken reasonable steps to limit Iraqi civilian casualties to a minimum. However it will be up to history to decide of this minimum civillian death toll that was surely planned for as a result of our invasion should or could constitute "war crimes" . It is very unlikely that the U.S. government could be guilty of "crimes against humanity" in our criminal invasion of Iraq. The U.S. government to include George Bush does not promote or tolerate in any way the wanton mistreatment of what it believes to be "innocent civilians". There have been isolated cases of rogue U.S. soldiers committing "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" against small numbers of Iraqi's , but these are isolated cases compared to the scope of the invaded area and the conditions of the U.S. troops and the civilian population.

Even some of our most infamous Abu Ghabi abuse cases used as their evidence the naked bodies of POW's. While I find the Abu Ghabi events criminal and disgraceful, it should be noted by the world body that very few pows can be displayed "naked " by their captors due to bruises, whip marks, broken bones and excessive injuries. Furthermore, while no American POW should ever desire Abu Ghabi style treatment themselves, most of our living pows would probably be eager to trade the treatment they have received themselves for the treatment received by American controlled POW's at Abu Ghabi.

That being said, if there were significant numbers of Iraqi nationals willing to act as "partisans" or "insurgents", then this indicates that a minimal level of loyalty to Saddam Hussein had existed prior to our invasion to negate the idea that this country was full of a dictators innocent victims needing to be liberated.

It is reasonable that multiple parties in Iraq should view American soldiers as criminal and heavy handed invaders. It is also reasonable that any puppet government installed and controlled by Washington be viewed with equal ire.

It is also reasonable to believe that many Iraqi's are not only tolerant of U.S. soldiers and influence, but grateful and loyal to the same.

The Average American should ask ourselves what we would do if Saddam Hussein were to invade our country. What would our response be to these invaders and anyone our hearts and minds labeled as their "collaborators".

Our government led by George Bush is so criminally culpable for the destruction of Iraq that they will never willingly come clean and openly discuss the facts and ideas you have read.

It is up to the people of America to open their minds and imagine the positions of many different persons living with in the borders of Iraq.

It would behoove us a a country to read the complaints against us by the "terrorists" and the "insurgents" our soldiers are fighting against.

If we the people of America were to agree that some of these groups have credible complaints, we could pressure our own government to remedy these issues.

If we the people of America were to find these same complaints groundless, trumped up or just plain wrong, we could validate and galvanize ourselves as a nation to more fruitfully support our governments efforts in Iraq.

It is not simply adequate for us to see horrific pictures of bombs exploding and to see the carnage and merely believe this is all the work of maniacal islamafascist terrorists.

As a country we need to collectively face the complaints of those who attack us.

Our current situation is that we are paying in our nations blood and money and reputation but none of us is sure what we are fighting for, or who we are fighting, or why we are being attacked by them, or vice versa.

Mikes Vacation recommends and supports a U.S. government sponsored and advertised web page to post the complaints and manifestos of those who attack us. As Americans we need to be proud of the political and intellectual positions our military is fighting and dying for, and the positions that are responsible for untold Iraqi deaths, or we need to change our positions and policies to those we as a nation can be proud of and understand.

I have posted a video that documents graphically the effects of bombs. It shows in ghastly technicolor images of those killed by explosions and violence.

The reader should decide for themselves which slides represent "terrorist" acts, and which slides represent legal and legitimate partisan actions.

It is the opinion of Mikes Vacation that ALL of the images you will see are of legitimate "terrorism". They are all of civilian casualties.

This particular video is anti- Islam, and anti Arab.

Mikes Vacation does not agree with the conclusions implied by this video. This video implies that Muslims and Arabs as a whole are murders and terrorists.

Mikes Vacation believes that Muslims and Arabs desire life and happiness the same as any other people on the earth, however, Mikes Vacation does recognize that a large number of "terrorist" acts are committed by persons of Arab descent, and of the Muslim faith.

Mikes Vacation certainly DOES NOT feel as though these "terrorists" represent the consciousness of the Arab and Muslim world.

The video hosted here is hosted for its technically clean graphics, and not applauded for its conclusions against the Arab and Muslim people of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE7BMNBWAJc&NR=1

This next video is also hosted on youtube.com and is a "documentary" article about the abuses at Abu Ghab prison. I am not posting this video because I am in agreement with the conclusions drawn in it. This video is decoration for the point of my essay. This video reminds the American public the extreme dishonesty and criminality that our current government has decided upon by its refusal to openly and completely disclose the names and coutries of origin of our POW's/ Detainee's/Kidnap Victims.

Mikes Vacation doesn't possess a crystal ball, and it is impossible for me to propose the guilt, innocence or even the potential military value of holding the persons we possess.

However, due to the proven dishonesty displayed thusfar by the U.S. government surrounding the entire Iraqi fiasco, it is the opinion of Mikes Vacation that they can be trusted only to serve their own best interests, not the best interst of America, and not the best interest of our military in theatre.

This video has certain implied conclusions camoflaged into it. These conclusions would be that the men in U.S. custody are innocent. That these same men are grossly mistreated and tortured. That the U.S. government has "tortured" its victims. All of these allegations may be true, but this video does not prove them. This video is a composite of shocking and revolting images cleverly narrated to lead the reader to form the aforementioned conclusions.

I am a Licensed Practical Nurse by trade. I am skilled at assessing the health and and illness of patients. I am skilled at inspecting wounds and sores and bruises. I am not Americas finest at these things, but I am certainly no novice.

I would like you to note the following things about these pictures. Firstly, I would like you to notice the large amount of body/belly fat present on several pictures. Starved men don't have belly fat.

Second I would like you to notice the men in positions to receive whippings or canings. Please notice no whip or cane marks on their flesh.

You will notice multiple nude photos. Please note the relative cleanliness of the men's skin.

You will notice many men wearing hoods. Please note the "newness" of these hoods. The newness implies these same hoods are not worn 24/7.

You will not several photos of a man covered in Feces. This condition is not de regeur for the rest of the prisoners. This leads a logical reader to believe the feces has been self applied. This is not unheard of for severly psychotic patients to do.

You will notice many men wearing ropes, handcuffs or other restraints about their hands. Please not the condition of their skin around these same cuffs. Please not the dogs in the photos used to scare the prisoners. However, there is no photographic evidence, or even rumor of a dog actually biting a prisoner. Even the dogs in the picture do not look to be taking an aggressive stance. In one photo the dogs face appears to be "smilling". The dog does not look to be taking a violent, threatening or aggressive postute. You will also not several photos of dogs standing in front of a hooded prisoner. This leads a logical party to believe that the guard holding the dog is in control of the dogs movements and the prisoner is in little actual danger of a dog bite.

You will see a clip of prisoners being forced to "masturbate" in the shower. I am not a controlled custody expert, but I am sure that most POW's are not going to be "emotionally scarred for life" from this experience. Unpleasant at the time proably, weird, definetly, evidence of a sick mind in charge-- oh yea, torture-- uh no.

As you watch this video, please compare the condition of the prisoners to the condition of our own POW's held by the Japanese in ww2, compare their condition to our POW's of the Vietnam era. Compare their conditions to the conditions of many, many POW's from relatively modern history.

America has shamed ourselves by our mistreatment of these same POW's. Our government has shamed itself by not properly seeing to their custody.

It is likely that many of the prisoners in our custody have been violently and roughly and harshly treated, proably some have received LEGITIMATE torture, and some have even accidenly died or been murdered/excecuted in this process.

However, attempt to seperate what you can extrapolate as truth from your knowledge of the facts, from what is presented in this video.

This video proves very little. If anything, this video is a testimony to the relative "good condition" of the bodies of the prisoners.

This video is not hosted here to prove torture. This video is hosted to illustrate the ingenuous nature of the Bush Regeime, and to inspire the American public to investigate the facts of our Iraqi adventure for themselves by reading what our "enemies" have to say.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0bxSqWMdo

Mike Miller
Indianapolis
2007

HITLERS INJURIES TO MODERN LIFE

History has attempted to catalog the physical injuries that Adolf Hitler inflicted on the peoples of Eastern and Western Europe (and America also). These things should be remembered regularly to help prevent their future recurrence .

But one injury that Hitler has perpetrated on the modern world, that hasn't been documented is the following political phenomenon.

Hitlers rise to power and vise-like grasp on it, were due in no small part to his skills as a public speaker. Hitler utilized powerful gestures and vocal skills, such as dramatic volume increases and dramatic tonal variances combined with powerful and energetic body language and hand gestures to obtain his followers interest.

Hitler felt passionately about the messages he was conveying to large crowds, and to air wave listeners of the day. His oratory sills or his "oration" was a tool if you will, to mobilize public opinion in favor of his causes.

Obviously his "causes", were mainly the theft of physical property from conquered peoples, and his methods were the en masse deaths of his civilian and military opposition. (many people also died who were not old enough, or young enough to oppose Hitler in any way)

Our modern world remembers Hitler with a pained shudder, as well we should.

However, are there not socio-political issues today that should be passionately spoken of?

Do we not have a need for politicians who are willing to energetically use clever and perhaps forgotten speaking techniques to energize the public?

Politicians of today do not use ultra-powerful oration techniques because they would somehow resemble Adolf Hitler, and their messages would somehow be considered as "fascist" , "radical" , or "racist".

The American public, and for that matter the global public is afraid of a passionate politician or leader. Our global sub-conscious tells us that any man who comes to a podium with a powerful message delivered with skilled and energetic body language is somehow similar to Hitler.

We are currently being injured by this false perception here in America. We desperately need a strong and honest politician to come forth and tell us unpleasant things about ourselves. We desperately need a leader with the speaking and oration skills of Adolf Hitler, but bearing the composite intellectual and moral attributes of Woody Allen, Roberto Benini, Albert Einstein and George Washington , to help us correct our multiple socio-economic mistakes that are currently poisoning our present lives, and our countries future.

There is no perfect race, color or creed here in America. We have positive and dreadful aspects to all of our sects and sub sects.

We need a leader, to come forth and honestly expose our failures to us, regardless of his own personal demographic, and we as a nation, need to be mature enough to listen to his plans for our correction, and not resent him or her just because he is not identical to us individually.

We are in a state of broken democracy here in America, clearly we are more democratic than some other countries, but we are also obviously broken. It will take every gram of oration and speech writing skills an honest man has, to energize us from our defeated coma like conditions, and cause us to come together as a country and address difficult issues whose solutions may be immediately stressful, and insulting, and difficult for all of us to swallow.

Michael Miller
Indianapolis,
2007

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