WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #228, MAY 7, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-228-may-7-2025.html

Three Arkies against War and Warmakers.

Ann Wright, Bentonville, with the Gaza Flotilla Ship, Malta.

Malcolm Cleveland, Fayetteville, on Costs of War.

Bob Billig, Elkins, You-Tube, It’s a Police State.

Three Arkies Speak and ACT UP against War and Warmakers

From Bentonville AR’s International Peacemaker Offshore Malta

[VFP-all] ANN WRIGHT: “I Am In Malta With The Gaza Flotilla Ship ‘Conscience’ Bombed By Israel.” Forwarded by Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com to gerrycondon@veteransforpeace.org

“As best that we can piece together what happened,, our ship “Conscience” which was anchored in international waters 13 nautical miles off Malta, an Israeli C-130 aircraft flying from Israel at 5,000 feet dropped two drones from its cargo bay. The crew of the “Conscience” heard two drones before two explosions blew a hole in the bow of the ship and severely damaged the ship.”
[VFP-all] Veterans For Peace Condemns Israeli Drone Attack on Gaza Aid Ship.   Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com         Sat, May 3, 2:37 PM (19 hours ago)   to gerrycondon@veteransforpeace.org
Veterans For Peace joins in the international condemnation of Israel’s outrageous drone attack on an unarmed ship attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian men, women – and especially children – who are being deliberately starved by Israel, with active collusion by the U.S.
We demand accountability for this attack on an aid ship in international waters.
We demand that food, water, tents, fuel and all necessary aid be allowed to enter Gaza.
We demand an end to US/Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
We will continue to protest and resist US weapons shipments to Israel, and all forms of US support for genocide.
We will defend the Constitutionally protected right of freedom of speech and assembly.

https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/flotilla-coalition-ship?

Keep on Waging Peace!

Gerry Condon, Mobilization Committee, Board of Directors, VETERANS FOR PEACE, 206-499-1220

COSTS OF WAR, Excerpt from Letter from Malcolm Cleaveland, 2020

The biggest mistake of this century was George W. Bush’s Iraq adventure. He lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and we are still paying the price for destabilizing the Middle East. And will be paying in blood and treasure for decades to come. I believe Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld should be tried for treason. Typical Republicans, Trump Republicans before Trump.

If you want to get a glimpse of the cost of war aside from the many casualties, read The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Stiglitz and Bilmes for a conservative economic estimate of the costs. Of course, that was published in 2008, so the human and monetary costs have escalated considerably. Think what this country could have done with that 3 trillion dollars! Our crumbling infrastructure could have been repaired, we could have high speed rail like Europe and China, and so on. The cost of caring for those who have “borne the battle” alone is staggering. Despite what you may hear from Trump (as if he, or any of the Republicans really care), the VA is doing a good job with limited resources.

Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Ph.D. LTC USAR (Ret.)
Professor Emeritus of Geosciences
University of Arkansas – Fayetteville

Bob Billig. “It’s a Police State.” Me on Youtube. May 6, 2025.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WneU-E48nNo?si=I6ws5-rCAM88CEx-

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END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #228, MAY 7, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.