The Face of War

[Octafish]

A Palestinian man cries after identifying the body of his loved one, killed in an Israeli strike, inside the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

[NuclearDem]

1. This slaughter has to stop.

[Octafish]

3. Human Being

[catnhatnh]

2. Is that "photogenic" mourning? N/T

[Octafish]

4. A Mother's Despair

[Octafish]

5. A Colonel Cries for His Son, KIA in Iraq 2003

http://arlingtoncemetery.net/rbrippetoe.htm

[countryjake]

6. The Blood & Terror

Marines carry an injured soldier back to the medics for treatment following an assault on Hill 484, Vietnam, October 1966 Photo by Larry Burrows

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268602/Mud-blood-horror-The-brutality-Vietnam-War-captured-selection-stunning-images.html#ixzz39D33pWhh

[Octafish]

7. Why?

CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture

By Russ Baker
WhoWhatWhy.com, Jan 7, 2007

(George Herbert Walker) Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a ‘real shocker.’

But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush’s oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting commercial asset” of the agency.

According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush’s original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The ’75 memo describes Devine as an “oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush.” The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963.

“Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil,” the memo reads. In fact, early Zapata corporate filings do not seem to reflect Devine’s role in the company, suggesting that it may have been covert. Yet other documents do show Thomas Devine on the board of an affiliated Bush company, Zapata Offshore, in January, 1965, more than a year after he had resumed work for the spy agency.

It was while Devine was in his new CIA capacity as a commercial cover officer that he accompanied Bush to Vietnam the day after Christmas in 1967, remaining in the country with the newly elected congressman from Texas until January 11, 1968. Whatever information the duo was seeking, they left just in the nick of time. Only three weeks after the two men departed Saigon, the North Vietnamese and their Communist allies launched the Tet offensive with seventy thousand troops pre-positioned in more than 100 cities and towns.

While the elder Bush was in Vietnam with Devine, George W. Bush was making contact with representatives of the Texas Air National Guard, using his father’s connections to join up with an elite, Houston-based Guard unit – thus avoiding overseas combat service in a war that the Bushes strongly supported.

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http://whowhatwhy.com/2007/01/07/cia-bush-senior-oil-venture/

About the photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/in_pictures_philip_jones_griffiths_/html/8.stm

[countryjake]

8. Another Vietnam

is a great book by Tim Page with pictures of the War from the other side and the stories of the North Vietnamese photographers who took them. The best photo in it, now the image that represents that whole time to me, is of Saigon, on May 1, 1975...it's of a tank, with soldiers sitting all over the top of it, surrounded by mass residents of the city, right in front of the presidential palace. Liberation! You won't find that one online anywhere, cause it's contrary to the evacuation pics that the USA loves to promote.

My other favorite is the very last one. It's also from May of 1975 and shows two old ladies, one from the North and one from the South, hugging with the delight of "having lived to see Vietnam reunited and unoccupied by foreign powers."

It really is an interesting book that you'd probably like to have a look at, Octafish.

Thanks for those links (I did already know the old Shrub's hand in Vietnam, from other reading).