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130. Keith Schneider, "Military Has New Strategic Goal
in Cleanup of Vast Toxic Waste," New York Times, Aug. 15, 1991, p. A1;
Matthew Wald, "U.S. Sharply Increases Cost Estimates for Cleaning Up
Weapons Plants," New York Times, Sept. 6, 1991 ; H. Jack Geiger,
"Generations of Poisons and Lies," New York Times, Aug. 5, 1990; INFACT,
Bringing GE to Light (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990)
pp.117-121.
131. Greg Baisden and S. Destefano, " Pool of Tears," Real War Stories,
No.2 (Forestville, CA: Eclipse, 1991), pp. 1-3.
132. Matthew Wald, "Study Says U.S. Chose Riskier Atomic Test Site," New
York Times, May 17, 1991. The cited study predicted that 430,000 people
would die by the end of the 20th century.
133. Schneider.
134. Ridge cited in Philip Shenon, "Ridge Warns That Iraq War Could
Raise Terrorist Threat," New York Times, March 4, 2003.
135. Cheney cited in Davide E. Sanger, "Taking on Another War, Against
Mixed Messages," New York Times, Sept. 4, 2001.
137. Cheney cited in Washington Post, Oct. 21, 2001.
138. For updated information on post 9-11 restrictions on civil
liberties see the American Civil Liberties Union's website: www.aclu.org/safeandfree.
139. U.S. Dept. of Defense, Selected Manpower Statistics, p. 111.
140. Walter Capps, The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American
Conscience (Boston: Beacon: 1990), p. 1. Soldiers coming home from Iraq
today suffer from the same kind of distress; for an account about one
soldier, see Scott Calvert, "After Iraq, the guilt of killing tears a
life apart," Baltimore Sun, Oct. 26, 2003.
141. The U.S. Government estimated 150,000 to 250,000 veterans are
homeless on any given night (Jason Deparle, "Aid for Homeless Focuses on
Veterans," New York Times, Nov. 11, 1991).
142. U.S. Dept. of Defense, Worldwide U. S. Active Duty Personnel
Casualties (Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 5.
143. Parenti, p. 79.
144. Cotto cited in interview by Pete Hamill, New York Post, Feb. 2,
1991, pp. 2-3.
145. Hass cited in Walter Goodman, "How Bad is War? Depends on the
Images," New York Times, Nov. 5, 1991.
146. Grossman cited in Allan Nairn, "When Casualties Don't Count," The
Progressive, May 1991, p. 19.
147. For lists of the other corporate boards on which board members of
major media corporations sit, see the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
(FAIR) website: www.fair/org/media/interlocking-directors.html.
148. Wilson cited in INFACT, p. 97.
149. INFACT, pp. 11, 17, 28, 47-49, 107-110, 118.
150. Benjamin Compaine, et al., Who Owns the Media (White Plains, NY:
Knowledge Industry, 1979), pp. 80, 84, 97.
151. Twain cited in Philip Foner, Mark Twain: Social Critic (New York:
International, 1958), p. 260.
152. Zinn, p. 481.
153. Chicano Communications Center, 450 Years Of Chicano History
(Albuquerque:, 1976), pp.160-I63
154. Zinn, p. 477.
155. David Cortright, "Soldiers In Revolt: The American Military Today
(Garden City; NJ: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975), pp. 5-8; Zinn p. 476.
156. Heinl cited in Thomas Boettcher, Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow
(New York: Crown, 1985 ), p.399.
157. Cortright, pp. 1-32,51-136; Zinn, p. 486.
158. Johnson cited in R. Barnet, The Rocket's Red Glare: When America
Goes to War (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1900), p. 346.
159. Bush cited in Newsweek, March 11, 1991, p. 30.
160. Bush cited in "Bush Foresees a War Longer Than Two Years,"
International Herald Tribune, October 18, 2001.
161. See, for instance, Maura Reynolds, "Most unconvinced on Iraq war,"
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, 2002.
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