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September 22, 0800, email to the Radical Press

I just called and left my major assertions:  that the US Army has suffered far more deaths than have been reported in the mainstream media.  As a former general staff officer (75th Division, Houston, TX) specializing in military intelligence and media, I can see the daily cover-ups conducted by CentCom and its subordinate units under orders from the White House.  This policy flies in the face of the US Constitution, something apparent to all the many media and military contacts who have confirmed my analysis.  Since I began to confront them with silencing the truth, not a single person has flatly contradicted me.  They know, believe me.

I began to take an acute interest in all of this while watching CNN at around 8:30 p.m. (Central) on Friday night, April 4 (predawn in Baghdad).  That was the night when

·  the US 3rd Infantry Division had surrounded Baghdad;

·  its scout unit (the 3/7 Cavalry) was guarding the just-taken Baghdad Airport;

·  and Saddam Hussein was promising us an unconventional attack by morning.

The attack he promised came just before dawn, falling on the 3/7 Cavalry at the airport first, which was reinforced by the 3rd ID.  The military and media cooperated to shut the disastrous picture down, but to a professional, the reality of events was patent.  Their actions were proper at the time, because giving real-time coverage of an ongoing battle would have provided real-time intelligence to the attacking forces.

As a matter of operational security (OPSEC), they switched to the Private Jessica story to hold the cameras off until the struggle for the city was decided – by the Iraqi forces receding into the population until national resentment of the invasion could set the stage for a return to power.

Every word that I’ve written above – including the intent to fight a guerilla war, is confirmed by Iraqi Resistance Report IV, which you can find on the Internet.  (I found it last month.)  If the public were to read that single document, it would know more than it has been told by the mainstream media for half a year about the reality of Iraq.  But they couldn’t be allowed to know the truth, because had they known it they would have questioned the leadership of the commander in chief, and the soundness of the war plan.  In other words, they would have had exactly the kind of questions that they should have, and are now (belatedly) beginning to have.

At present US forces are coming under intensified attack by an enemy admitted to be in possession of mortars, TOW missiles, RPG’s, and heavy machine guns.  Whole US companies are engaging in night-long firefights.  We have lost the initiative, and are reduced to saying that we’re winning the fight because we’re getting attacked by so many terrorists.  Given the filtering out of information in the mainstream media, I infer an even worse picture:  I believe the Iraqis are destined to grow a new nationalist cadre – not necessarily Baathist – who will lead the popularly supported anti-occupation uprising in a major battle against a US Army that has low morale, iffy logistics and major mechanical problems.  We stand on the brink of disaster. [Editor’s emphasis, in all cases]

The president and his press have become co-dependent, propping up each other’s warped mirrors of reality so that they can see themselves as they would like others to see them:  In the president’s mind, he must not be a failure to his dynasty; in the media mind, they have been coerced, but are not collaborators.  No one has a compelling reason to admit that they have become propagandists against the people.  It’s the greatest of all ironies that the media that so prided itself on dragging down Nixon is buttressing Bush.  They have become the White House Plumbers Unit, plugging information leaks for an abusive president.

Everyone knows that the truth will out, one way or another – hell, Wesley Clark was on duty for CNN the night it happened, and his candidacy insures that the issue will return – but no one has the guts to go after the story first, because going after the story means going after a tyrant and admitting that – for all the noblest reasons – you became party to foul deception.

It’s a dream story for the small media and the Internet.  Enjoy the attachments.

First I will attach two op-eds, both written in early April, that set forth my allegations, along with an email to Thom Shanker of the New York Times.  Shanker confirmed its premises in a quarter-hour phone conversation I had with him during which he would only talk Russian (a language we share) because of fear of his own bosses.  Just for good measure, I’ll add Iraqi Resistance Report IV and a list of around twenty open-source indicators that corroborated my analysis of the Battle of Baghdad during the first week of the cover-up.

Second, my book, April Fools, Captain May, so-named because it seemed that everyone was fooled in April – including me, because I believed enough in human beings to think that someone would stand beside me to end tyranny.  It is longish, but the chapter headings alone will give you some insight into how extensive the silencing of the truth has become.

Regards, Captain May

PS:  Please note that there are many major media outlets reading this email.  Several of them have reached out in their tenuous ways, and I believe they are setting Bush up for the fall.  Please feel free to take any person mentioned in my book and call him or her.  A few calls will convince you that they are hiding a wild cat in a thin bag, that they know they can’t keep it in, but they’re scared as hell to let it out.

 

 

September 22, 1700, email to the Radical Press

I attach my report in the form of my pending book.  In response to your question as to whence I drew my conclusions I must state forthrightly that I had no doubt of the military disaster at the Baghdad Airport from the night of April 4, when it was quite apparent from the CNN broadcast at 9:30 p.m.

The arrangement of correspondence is chronological.  If you put the document into Word Outline view, then show only heading 2, you will have the table of contents, which is also a list of whom I contacted, when I contacted them, and what their responses were.  As you will find as you work through the document, there have been outright confirmations by a dozen military & media; there have been dozens and dozens of evasions; there has been nary a denial at all.  Hmmm…

The fix is in, wouldn’t you say?  Or at least it was in.  Given that we have lost the Quicksand War, I would think things will be coming apart rather quickly now.  I hope I get to see the end of it.  I think the prez is still intimidating the timid mainstream media:  In his address to the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division September 12, he mentioned that this wasn’t Iraq, where people were “executed for speaking their opinions.”  For some reason, the White House folks cleaned that line out of his official speech transcript.  Hmmm…

Yep, they’ve all got their pants down, my friend; they call it embedding.  In the Army we used to call it a clusterfuck.  I think the latter word is more descriptive, don’t you?

In the manuscript, please make allowances for the glitches of style and organization, especially for the three weeks (April 21-May 14) when I was traveling to Ft. Stewart to investigate my suspicions.  Those chapters are letters to Houston friends and family; I have copies here and there, but have not fully transcribed them yet.

A final point:  Although I believe my book will be widely published, I will accept no remuneration for writing it.  I am doing my duty as an officer of the United States military.  I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  I was a Desert Storm volunteer.  I am a patriot, and believe that revolution against the instruments of tyrannical lies and assassinations is my only course of action in light of current circumstances.  It looks very much to me as if we have lost much of our Bill of Rights in the last months; our next fallback position is the Declaration of Independence.  If any one lesson for every American student has come out of my experience in the last half year, it is that the Constitution is the mind of America, while the Declaration is its heart.  I believe those two documents will restore the checks and balances soon.

Captain May

PS:  You may also want to start the manuscript from today (which is at the back of the book), and work your way in reverse.  That will show you that in the last two weeks I’ve hooked the Republican National Committee and the office of Senator Saxby Chambliss (R, Ga.) into attempts to obstruct and duck my allegations.

 

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