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Hastie Words
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are published courtesy of The Wordsmith Collection and
www.Peaceresource.org Ask Why The U.S. is occupying other nations...  This picture was taken at
an Anti-war rally at Portland State University just before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
This small girl is probably
around 17 now.
This is how long this horrible war has been going on. Picture by Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic: Vietnam 1970-71
March 18, 2010
A nation that year after year spends more money on national defense than
it does on programs of social uplift is facing spiritual death. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967
Photograph by Mike Hastie
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Trips Down Memory Lane
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 08:38 am
Well,
I see where 71 more civilians were
killed by American jets in Pakistan.
So, it goes on and on and on....
"Collateral Damage" the Pentagon "
likes to call it. Accidental Murder is what it really is...
On and on and on.
I heard Tiger Woods came in fourth. The old Dallas Cowboy football stadium was brought to the ground.
20,000 people saw and heard the explosions.
The stadium was replaced by another one at
a cost that would feed the Afghan people for a year.
I see where the Tea Party thinks it can
defeat the U.S. Government in a fair fight.
The psych ward just keeps filling up.
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are
thinking about doing a movie about their relationship. They
figure they can make enough money
that would equal the cost of feeding the Afghanistan people for a
year.
The cost of the jets that killed those Afghanistan civilians is enough
to build 300 schools in that
country. As a Vietnam veteran, I'm very proud of the National
Defense Medal I received during my service, because I helped keep the
Viet Cong from landing on the Oregon Coast. Just knowing that
has kept me out of a psych ward since 1994, when I made a trip back to
Vietnam.
I can't believe Tiger only tied for 4th.
I heard he got an erection that wouldn't go away, so that's why he only tied for 4th.
He had to play the last nine holes with that handicap erection.
Duke won the NCAA Championship by 2 points.
The CBS nightly news spent a lot of time talking about it, along with
the Tiger Woods story. (Minus the erection story of course.) No
news coverage about the wars in the Middle East.
When I left Vietnam in 1971, the U.S. Government was killing Vietnamese as fast as they could with air strikes.
The troops were going home, but we were bombing the hell out of the
Vietnamese countryside.
The 155mm howitzers in my unit were firing into free-fire-zones.
Lots of heroin in my unit. Homicides and suicides by our own
troops. But, by 1970-71, the troops were finally going home.
We all talked about peace with honor.
I was moved to another fire base for two weeks, because I was
threatened by a heroin addict.
I really enjoyed my first Christmas home from Vietnam. The next
Christmas of 1972,
Mad Dog Nixon bombed the hell out of Hanoi. He was a Quaker you
know.
The psych ward just keeps filling up. Obama says the troops will be coming home soon. That's good. Drones will take care of the rest of those people. I wish Obama would remember what Martin Luther King Jr. said on April 4, 1967.
" The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own
government."
I could not believe how fast that Dallas Cowboy stadium went down.
Mike Hastie U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71
April 13, 2010
Photograph by Mike Hastie
Painting by Vietnamese artist in the War Crimes Museum at the
My Lai Massacre site in 1994. 504 Vietnamese civilians were
murdered by the U.S. Government on March 16, 1968. Fast forward
to 2010, and the murders are still going on.
Richard Hastie
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 05:14 pm
Many of you have probably already seen this powerful video.
But, if you have not,
|and you want to witness war in reality, this absolutely has to be seen, even if it makes you sick.
Sooner or later, people have to be exposed to the horrors of war.
This will force them into the streets to stop the madness.
Wikileaks has released a classified U.S. military video depicting the
indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of
New Baghdad--including two Reuters
news staff. Two small Iraqi children were also severely wounded.
Go to: www.collateralmurder.com to view the full unedited gun-camera video taken from a helicopter.
The video is 40 minutes long. It was shot on April 5, 2010.
I took this photograph in Vietnam in 1970 of a young Montagnard girl
in her village. This girl has what we
Vietnam veterans call the thousand yard stare. This is the same face
of Iraq and Afghanistan.
America--you will get away with nothing.
Lying Is The Most Powerful Weapon In War
Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71
April 7, 2010
Richard Hastie
hastiemike@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 04:09
 Dear President Obama,
Would you please consider expanding universal
health care in the United States to the innocent
civilians living in Iraq and Afghanistan?
I had a meeting with several of my Vietnam vet buddies last night, and we decided the best way to do that would be to stop murdering these helpless people. Several of my vet friends saw innocent Vietnamese civilians killed by American weaponry and have suffered immensely from these experiences. Most of my friends have also known other Vietnam veterans who committed suicide over the years because of their guilt and shame for following orders. We realize you were probably riding a bicycle when we were in Vietnam, so it is understandable that you may still be learning about things that happened when we were fighting for corporate freedom. I trust your Nobel Peace Prize will guide you in this difficult time of decision making. Sincerely, Mike Hastie
Vietnam veteran, April 7, 2010
The Photograph is from the Palestinian March in Portland 12-30-08 by Mike Hastie
Richard Hastie
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Anti-war march in Portland, Oregon
on March 20, 2010. Missing In America.
Mike Hastie, Vietnam Veteran
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