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GI Special C/o [email protected] 9.12.03 Print it out (color best). Pass it on. GI SPECIAL #91 General Richard Myers, Chairman, JCS; Lying Stack of Shit

Lying Stack of Shit General Richard Myers says “Things are going well in Iraq.” (Stefan Zaklin/Reuters)

Army Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked optimistically of the situation on the ground in Iraq. Myers, appearing on CBS’s “The Early Show,” said that “things in Iraq are going quite well. We’re winning the battle on terrorism there and we’re winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.”

(Comment: It’s not surprising that Myers is a liar. That’s in a Generals’ job description. What’s truly surprising is the lie is such an obviously stupid one, without the slightest shred of credibility.

(Troops in Iraq know better, and so do the people back home watching them die. Of course, safe in the Pentagon, if he screws up he risks nothing but his huge paycheck, his fine housing, and the staff of uniformed personal servants around him. Let’s call him what he is; the lowest form of life on earth, a ruling class politician who sends troops to their deaths to defend Bush’s Imperial Dreams.) Do you have a friend or relative in the service? Forward this E-MAIL along, or send us the address if you wish and we’ll send it regularly. Whether in Iraq or stuck on a base in the USA, this is extra important for your service friend, too often cut off from access to encouraging news of growing resistance to the war, at home and in Iraq, and information about other social protest movements here in the USA. Send requests to address up top. For copies on web site see:http://www.notinourname.net/gi-special/

IRAQ WAR REPORTS: Resistance Keeps Baghdad Airport Closed

The US Commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez revealed that the threat posed by surface-to-air missiles is still blocking the reopening of Baghdad Airport.(AFP/Sabah Arar) (Yahoo News) 9.11.03

Casualties Reported In Big Firefight; Convoy Vehicles Burning; Attack Comes One Day After U.S. Forces Killed Iraqi Policemen

September 11, 2003, Associated Press and AFP. BAGHDAD, Iraq — A big firefight broke out Thursday about 60 miles west of Baghdad, and witnesses said there were U.S. casualties. The U.S. military said it could not immediately confirm the incident.

Witnesses said the firefight started with an attack on an American convoy.

They said that gunfire and mortar fire was exchanged for more than an hour Thursday in the town of Khaldiyah, 19 miles west of Fallujah, after masked gunmen attacked the stalled convoy with rockets.

The fighting broke out at 4:30 pm (1230 GMT) when two American transporters and two other vehicles stopped in Khaldiyah after one of them broke down, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.

Masked gunmen then fired three rockets at the convoy, setting one of the vehicles ablaze.

Reports ranged from several dead and wounded to just seven wounded.

Associated Press Television News pictures from Khaldia, 18 miles west of the city of Fallujah, showed a burning tank transport truck, a burning five-ton truck and at least one burning Humvee.

Kanaan Ali Ibrahim, a witness, said the convoy was moving from Habaniya to Ramadi when Iraqi “mujahedeen” ambushed it with rocket-propelled grenades.

He said he believed U.S. soldiers were killed and wounded.

A small crowd gathered at the scene of the attack and began shouting jubilantly “Allahu Akbar,” or God is great, and “Oh, Iraq, we sacrifice our lives and blood for you.”

An Abrams tank could be seen on the APTN video and there was the sound of a prolonged gunbattle, with the shooting appearing to be coming mainly from the tank and other heavy guns. The Iraqi guerrillas that carry out such ambushes normally carry only Kalashnikov automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

The incident came a day after US troops shot dead one Iraqi policeman and seriously wounded another when a bomb struck their convoy on the outskirts of Fallujah, according to a senior Iraqi police commander.

U.S. Soldier Killed, Many Wounded; Attacks Break Out In “Stable North” 9.10.03 (AP) By Scheherezade Faramarz

IRBIL, Iraq ---A bomber exploded in an SUV outside the U.S. intelligence headquarters, killing three other Iraqis and wounding dozens, including four Americans, a Kurdish security official said Wednesday.

The U.S. military in Baghdad had said six Americans were wounded but later said four intelligence officers were hurt along with a Kurdish peshmerga guard at the building.

The Kurdish official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the vehicle was filled with TNT. He also said several homes in the neighborhood, which was cordoned off by U.S. soldiers, were destroyed.

A witness to the attack, Jafar Marouf, a 31-year-old teacher, was visiting a friend Tuesday night on the quiet residential street when he saw a white KIA four-wheel drive approach quickly, then explode with the driver inside. Marouf was slightly injured and spoke with the AP in the hospital.

Near Baghdad, a soldier was killed and one was wounded Tuesday evening when a homemade bomb exploded near a military vehicle on a supply route northeast of the capital, the U.S. Central Command said Wednesday.

The death was the first to be reported by the U.S. military in eight days, although sporadic attacks had continued against occupying forces.

The soldiers were from the Army’s 3rd Corps Support Command, according to the military. The wounded soldier was evacuated to a field hospital.

Soldiers, who had flown to the site by helicopter and were guarding the area with local Iraqi Kurdish fighters, refused to give any information.

Three of the wounded Americans suffered serious abdominal injuries from flying glass, the official said.

Soldiers Check The Area of Tuesday Night’s Explosion In Irbil, Iraq. — Misha Japaridze / AP

The Kurdish security official said U.S. intelligence officers worked in the bombed building, with some of the top officers also sleeping there. Others had quarters in two villas about 500 yards down the street.

”It was a blasphemy to put their base in a civilian neighborhood,” said Najib Abdullah, 50, the manager of a gas station nearby. He said he was in his office counting the days proceeds when the blast occurred. “The whole neighborhood shook. Chunks of concrete were falling from the sky.”

The footage also showed the four-wheel-drive vehicle that apparently carried the bomb was intact but badly burned. Its chassis was in one piece.

Authorities in Irbil, about 200 miles north of Baghdad, called to residents over loudspeakers to donate blood for the wounded, CNN-Turk television said Tuesday night.

Northern Iraq had been the most stable part of the country since the U.S.-led coalition ousted Saddam Hussein in April.

For the third time in two weeks, anti-tank rockets were fired at, but missed, the headquarters of Denmark’s 400-man military contingent in southern Iraq, the Danish military said Wednesday.

No one was wounded in the failed attack, Denmark’s Army Operational Command said.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS Check Out Traveling Soldier

Issue 2 of Traveling Soldier - a newsletter aimed at people on active duty - is out now. Check it out at http://www.traveling-soldier.org and email [email protected] if you would like a copy.

Features in this issue:

BUSH LIED - US OUT OF IRAQ NOW! Bush said on September 12, 2002: "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." On March 17, 2003: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." To read the rest, click here: http://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.03.leaded.php

BRING THE TROOPS HOME - HOW? Politicians claiming to be on your side are blowing a lot of smoke. Some people think if Howard Dean is the Democratic Party candidate and beats Bush in 2004, he will end the war and bring the troops home. To read the rest, click here: http://www.traveling- soldier.org/9.03.bringhomehow.php

VIET NAM: HOW THE SOLDIERS STOPPED THE WAR The Vietnam war was not stopped by large, legal protests alone - it was stopped by the very GIs who were ordered to fight it. To read the rest, click here: http://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.03.vietnam.php WORDS FROM THE FRONT-LINES: "I've got my own 'Most Wanted' list. The aces in my deck are Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz." - Anonymous Sgt., 2nd Battle Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Brigade, stationed at BCT's HQ. To read the rest, click here: http://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.03.words.php

GIs GET KILLED, STOCKS GO UP - RICH BASTARDS WIN AGAIN No wonder Bush blurted, "Bring 'em on!" to the Iraqi resistance - he probably bet a lot of money that GIs would keep getting killed! As if the oil contracts weren't enough. To read the rest, click here: http://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.03.stocks.php

TROOP NEWS 101st Airborne Out Of Luck; Replacements From Other Governments Not Coming

September 11, 2003, By Robert Burns, Associated Press

Just days after the United States began pushing for a new U.N. resolution authorizing a multinational military force for Iraq, senior administration officials are seeking to lower expectations that large offers of foreign troops will be forthcoming.

“The expectation is that we would not get a large additional number of forces as a result of an additional U.N. resolution,” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday

Secretary of State Colin Powell said a revived Iraqi economy would have to generate most of the money for Iraqi reconstruction. The only foreign contributions considered solid so far are $300 million from Canada and several hundred million dollars from European countries, he said — well below the amounts needed.

The Pentagon is counting on getting at least one other multinational division into Iraq by next spring to replace the 101st Airborne Division, which will have been there a year by then. U.S. forces are stretched thin with major commitments in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

(Comment: Why on earth do these two idiots expect other governments to help the US Empire grab Iraq’s oil wealth, which was, after all, the point of invading and occupying Iraq.

(Why would other gangs of murdering thieves help a gang of murdering thieves get away with an international robbery without getting a big cut of the loot? And these arrogant assholes in Washington are asking the other gang leaders to give them money to finish the looting of Iraq!!!)

For more see the front page article “End The Occupation, Bring Them Home Now” at www.socialistworker.org. U.S. Troop Strength In Iraq Mysteriously Cut Down To 116,000

September 10, 2003, By Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The number of American troops deployed in Iraq is nearly 116,000, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said Wednesday. That is at least 10,000 less than previously believed.

As recently as last week, the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq was believed to be between 125,000 and 130,000. The coalition spokesman, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, did not explain the reduced figure.

Pentagon Targets Latinos and Mexicans To Do The Combat Army Jobs

By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 10 September 2003

With the casualty rate in Iraq growing by the day and President George Bush's worldwide "war on terrorism" showing no signs of abating, a stretched United States military is turning increasingly to Latinos - including tens of thousands of non-citizen immigrants - to do the fighting and dying on its behalf.

Recent statistics from the Pew Hispanic Center, a non-partisan think-tank, show that Latinos are already doing the most dangerous combat jobs in disproportionate numbers. While they are still under- represented in the armed forces as a whole - they made up 9.4 per cent of enlisted men in 2001, compared with 13.4 per cent of the general population - they are over-represented in jobs that involve handling weapons (17.7 per cent).

An ethnic group has never before been the target of such a recruitment drive.

At a predominantly Latino high school in east Los Angeles, students became so exasperated by the presence of army recruiters at careers fairs that they began a campaign to get rid of them with the slogan "students not soldiers". Guard Families Have Had Enough

MSNBC 9.10.03

Guard spouses and family members have had enough, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., reported “The families of those that are still fighting have waited patiently, but that patience is beginning to break. The Guard leadership is now being overwhelmed by the calls from the families for the soldiers to come home. I don’t have to tell you, but I’m going to, because I’m reflecting my folks.” OCCUPATION ISN’T LIBERATION BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

Infantry Leaders Decry Woeful Supply Lines In Iraq

September 11, 2003, By Matthew Cox, Army Times staff writer.

FORT BENNING, Ga. — As Infantry leaders here began dissecting the invasion of Iraq Wednesday, mechanized forces made one point very clear: The Army’s slow-moving supply operation has no place on the modern battlefield.

Despite the ground campaign’s success, a common theme from members of the 3rd Infantry Division was the frustration over the Army’s logistic operation’s inability to keep up with the unit as it raced toward Baghdad. Col. Will Grimsley, commander of the 3rd ID’s 1st Brigade said that the Army’s “just-in-time logistics” operations hindered at times, the unit’s ability to advance quickly as quickly as it wanted.

“If we are going to do rapid, decisive and non-contiguous operations, it has got to become more responsive to the guys fighting on the front,” Grimsley said.

Capt. Todd Kelly, commander of C Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, agreed with his commander about the prepo gear, and was slightly more blunt voicing his opinion or the re-supply operation.

“Logistics was a failure,” he said. “It was an absolute failure.”

Kelly said his unit did not see repair parts for M1s and Bradleys until it reached Baghdad.

“There were no repair parts. Everything we had we brought with us,” he said. “That is completely unacceptable in this Army.”

What made the difference was the work of the soldiers maintaining these vehicles, Kelly added. “The mechanics — heroes,” he said. “I’m talking about keeping vehicles together.”

What do you think? Comments from service men and women, and veterans, are especially welcome. Send to the E-mail address up top. Name, I.D., withheld on request. Replies confidential Half Of US Troops In Liberia Stricken With Malaria

Failed Safeguards Are Blamed For Marines' Outbreak

David Brown, Washington Post, September 10, 2003,

Despite extensive preventive measures, most of the more than 200 Marines who spent time ashore in Liberia last month apparently contracted malaria, with about 43 of them ill enough to be hospitalized.

The malaria outbreak amounts to a stunning failure of standard protections against a disease that the American military is unusually keen to prevent in troops deployed to the tropics. So many Marines became sick in such a short time that Navy physicians for a while doubted the illnesses could all be because of the mosquito-borne infection.

Although the malaria diagnosis has been confirmed in only 15 percent of the troops, they and their officers report that nearly all who spent the two weeks ashore reported at least mild symptoms typical of malaria. Navy physicians and epidemiologists investigating the outbreak believe most of the onshore troops may have been infected.

"We are extremely, extremely concerned about this," said Capt. Gregory J. Martin, a physician at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, where all but two patients are being treated. The concern is shared not only by the military's infectious diseases and preventive medicine specialists but by combat commanders, he said.

The outbreak occurred even though the troops were taking a drug to prevent the disease, were instructed to use insect repellents and were wearing uniforms treated with long-acting insecticides.

How the Marines became infected despite these measures is uncertain, although failure of the drug to reach adequate concentrations in the troops' bloodstreams is a leading hypothesis. The patients, members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit except for several Navy medical corpsmen, were taking mefloquine (sold as Lariam), West Africa is not known to be an area with high rates of mefloquine-resistant disease, although occasional cases have been reported there. U.S. troops in West Africa have since switched to an alternative medication, doxycycline.

This Is The Same Drug That Didn’t Work In The Story Above About Marines Getting Sick In Liberia… Navy Covering Up Larium Side Effects; Deadly Drug Leads To Homicide & Suicide

Mark Benjamin and Dan Olmsted, United Press International, September 8, 2003

San Diego, California (UPI) - A Naval Reserve commander who volunteered for the Iraq war says the military doctored his medical file to eliminate all traces of an anti-malaria drug that he believes made him severely ill, suicidal and aggressive - and that he has the before-and-after evidence to prove it.

"I was given Lariam. I got sick from Lariam," said Cmdr. William Manofsky, 44, who is based at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif. "The Navy does not want to talk about Lariam. There is no mention of it in my medical record. I'm pretty upset."

Manofsky said there is no indication in his file of ever being prescribed the drug, although the Navy handed it to him last November; that a page is missing on which "Took Lariam" was written; and that a reference to the drug during an emergency clinic visit on May 13 has mysteriously vanished from the page - even though he has a copy that clearly shows it written there.

Manofsky and his wife, Tori, believe the military is covering up problems with the drug - the Navy's main concern so far, they said, is to try to get the medical records back. A spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery would only say that it provides quality care and is working "to resolve the issue."

"The military created the drug," Tori Manofsky said (it was developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and licensed to Roche). "There is a lot of money involved in the drug. I think there are a lot of careers at stake. Anything that shows a problem with Lariam has to be hidden or covered up somehow by the military. If all these people came back and it was clearly Lariam, there would be lawsuits up the kazoo."

Lariam is the drug that at least two of the soldiers who killed their wives at Fort Bragg last summer took while serving in Afghanistan. Both those soldiers - and a third who apparently had taken the drug - subsequently killed themselves. The drug's label warns of psychosis, aggression, hallucinations and reports of suicide that can occur "long after" someone stops taking it. The Food and Drug Administration this year ordered that everyone prescribed the drug be handed a written statement listing those dangers and warning them to quit taking it if they experience mental problems.

The government and the company that makes Lariam, Swiss drug giant Hoffmann-La Roche, say the drug is safe and effective.

Manofsky, who never took Lariam before being deployed to Kuwait last December, became suicidal after returning to California this spring and nearly slugged his wife in a bizarre rage about the way she cast her fishing line. He also suffered seizures, balance problems so severe he sometimes could not stand, panic attacks and depression.

Tori Manofsky became convinced Lariam was the culprit after researching on the Web the medications her husband was taking. On June 26, after several visits to the China Lake clinic in which they raised the Lariam issue but felt they were being ignored, Bill Manofsky went to the clinic to pick up his records on his way to see a neurologist. He flipped through them to make sure Lariam was documented.

"The first thing I noticed was a sheet missing," he said. "Both Tori and I had seen the sheet. Someone had written on an angle, 'Took Lariam' and it was no longer there. There was no entry for being issued Lariam."

Manofsky flipped more pages, looking for the record of a May 13 visit to the clinic. That day, his wife had insisted a Navy doctor write the drug on that record and both had watched him do it. He found the page on which he felt certain that note had been written.

Nothing.

Manofsky knew his memory was shot, that he was acting strangely, and there was no reason for anyone to believe him. But he had a backup. Tori Manofsky - suspicious that Navy doctors were ignoring the drug - secretly photocopied the page after the doctor wrote down "Lariam" on the May 13 visit and briefly left the room.

Tori's copy clearly shows the reference, "Lariam for anti malaria" Underneath that, four other medicines Manofsky was taking also are gone; they are mentioned elsewhere on the visit.

Two independent document examiners consulted by UPI concluded that unless the Manofskys themselves faked the doctor's writing and created bogus copies, only the Navy can explain the omission. The document experts could find no evidence that writing had been erased from the May 13 record. One of the experts - a former head of an FBI questioned documents office - told UPI that the likeliest scenario is that the clinic made a copy of the May 13 page while the Manofskys were still there, and the doctor wrote "Lariam" on that copy after Tori insisted. That sheet never made it into his medical file.

While such a chain of events could theoretically be accidental, Tori Manofsky believes the Navy knows it has a problem with the drug, and was keeping two sets of records and recording Lariam problems on only one.

UPI contacted the doctor who saw Manofsky on the May 13 visit and asked if he knew anything about changes in the medical record. He declined to comment and said he had been told to refer questions to Twentynine Palms Marine base, which forwarded them to the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington. Spokesman Brian Badura issued this statement:

"Successful medical treatment relies on accurate information, close cooperation and communication between provider and patient, and follow-up by all parties involved. Navy Medicine makes a concentrated effort to meet the needs of each patient. Due to the number of circumstances surrounding the Manofsky case and the ongoing efforts by Navy Medicine to resolve this issue, we cannot offer additional input at this time." (Blah Blah Blah Blah Bullshit.)

Several other service members who served in Iraq have told UPI they had serious problems with the drug - including one who says he was afraid of harming his wife and that there was no record of him being prescribed Lariam, either. At least two soldiers were medically evacuated from Iraq with suspected Lariam problems, one an Army officer in charge of 300 soldiers, the other a soldier who felt the way he was treated suggested the Army was "avoiding the Lariam diagnosis." The Army is now discharging him.

The Washington Post reported in July that the military is investigating at least seven suicides among troops in Iraq, among a larger number of deaths classified as "non-combat weapons discharge" or "non-combat related."

The Pentagon hasn't identified any deaths as suicides since the war started.

Earlier this year, two more soldiers deployed out of Fort Bragg who took Lariam in Afghanistan committed suicide after returning home - bringing the number of suicides after that war to at least five. In one case, the soldier's father said he asked Fort Bragg officials if the Lariam given to his son could have played a role. "They have no comment," he told UPI.

In the Fort Bragg homicide-suicides, a team of experts dispatched by the Army Surgeon General's office concluded that Lariam was an "unlikely" explanation for the entire cluster of deaths but acknowledged it had not investigated it in any single case. It blamed the deaths on marital problems.

At the time, critics said some of the Fort Bragg deaths should have been investigated as possibly drug related, especially because there was no history of domestic abuse and all three of the soldiers who had been in Afghanistan killed themselves - both unusual in domestic homicide cases.

A former Roche employee said that Lariam, known generically as mefloquine, is a member of the quinolone family of drugs that can produce severe psychiatric problems in some users.

"Any drug with a quinolone base to it, which includes Lariam, is likely to do this," said Dr. Donald H. Marks, former associate director of clinical research at Roche who now consults with attorneys suing drug manufacturers. "These types of drugs can induce a temporary homicidal or suicidal rage."

The Army puts the rate of severe side effects at 1 in 13,000. A widely reported British study completed in 1996 found that one person in 140 had such serious problems that they temporarily couldn't carry out the function for which they were traveling.

The Manofskys said they were willing to take on the Navy publicly because they are convinced the truth is not being told, and concerned that other soldiers returning from deployments overseas are getting the same treatment.

They showed UPI Bill Manofsky's complete medical file and Navy service record; e-mails from the Navy psychiatrist who treated him before he decided not to work with the Navy any more; a log Tori kept of Bill's symptoms, and all the medicines he was taking including remaining Lariam pills. They gave interviews in California and Washington in which they went over the events almost minute by minute.

The Manofskys outlined this sequence of events.

A 17-year veteran of the Naval Reserve, Manofsky was handed Lariam last November at China Lake before being deployed. There was no prescription written or warning given of possible side effects, and Tori Manofsky said she has since been told by a base medical worker that there were "special instructions for dispensing and documenting" the drug.

Bill Manofsky served active duty at an air base in Kuwait during the war, using his top- secret clearance on a targeting system. But he suffered what he now says were bad Lariam side effects that started in Kuwait and got worse when he got home and kept taking his pills as directed. He's had uncontrollable vomiting and vertigo, depression and anxiety attacks requiring hospitalization. His hands tremble. He stutters and repeats himself. He has frightening seizures.

After 11 years of marriage, Tori said that after taking Lariam, Bill's personality changed drastically from the gentle husband she knew.

The drug is taken weekly while deployed and for four more weeks after a person returns, so Manofsky was still taking the pills when he got back. Tori kept a journal documenting her husband's problems. An entry for May 2 described his symptoms as "balance off, angry, moody, coping poorly, sad, depressed. What really bothers me is 'aggressive - highly aggressive.'"

The couple tried to go fishing in early May in an effort to relax. But Bill got so angry he scared his wife. When she cast her line in the water, "Bill came over and said, 'Do it this way,'" she wrote in the journal documenting his problems. "He kept saying it over and over - extremely angry!!!"

After she told him she was upset and wanted to stop fishing, "he leaned over me like he was going to slug me in the head and said, 'If you don't do it this way I'm going to ...'" He stopped in the middle of the sentence and backed off. She said that a few hours later he had no memory of the incident.

Bill Manofsky told UPI later that, "I was trying not to pull a Fort Bragg."

"I wanted to make sure Bill had the proper care with Lariam toxicity," Tori said, describing the May 13 visit to the China Lake clinic. The symptoms I read on the Internet matched up with Bill's to a tee. I told the doctor that I thought that Lariam was responsible for his symptoms. I said, 'Doctor, would you write Lariam down.'"

"He wrote everything down and put the clipboard on the bed near Bill's legs. I leaned over and I said, 'Bill, I need to copy this.' They had a copy machine down the hall. I went down and copied it and did not say anything to anybody about it."

Later in May, Manofsky became suicidal. On May 31, Tori said that while she was driving them to a restaurant, "Bill's panic, anxiety and distress became so acute that he proceeded to try and claw his way out of the truck so he could jump out. I kept telling him, 'Bill, it's gonna be OK, it's gonna be OK.' He said he was crawling out of skin, he had to get out of there."

At the restaurant, "Bill went to the bathroom and began vomiting, he then sat on the floor and said repeatedly that he was going to blow his brains out.

The Manofskys say that Bill was referred to a Navy psychiatrist who also seemed to resist the idea that a drug prescribed by the Navy could be causing his problems. She diagnosed him with anxiety and "narcissistic" and "histrionic" personality traits.

Then, on June 26, Bill Manofsky discovered the changes in his medical record.

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK Anti-War Protestors Denounce Rumsfeld

Barbara Ferguson, Arab News Correspondent, 11, September, 2003 WASHINGTON, 11 September 2003 — On the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday addressed the National Press Club. His speech was safe and careful. Protestors made his visit newsworthy.

Earlier yesterday, protestors stood at the entrance of the National Press Club with placards that read: “Stop the Secretary of Offense,” “Resistance to Occupation is not Terrorism,” and under a photo of Rumsfeld, the slogan: “Stop the Death Monger.” They also shouted at members of the press: “Look! Members of the National Propaganda Club!”

Protesters interrupt a speech given by Rumsfeld at National Press Club in Washington, September 10, 2003. Protesters unfurled a 'Bloody Hands' banner from the balcony and shouted that U.S. soldiers were dying there, and that he should 'bring the troops home now.' (Larry Downing/Reuters)

It was at this stage that two protesters stood up in the press gallery and screamed: “Rumsfeld, You’re Fired!” Then added: “The war on Iraq is immoral, unjust and unfair.” Before security guards roughly removed them, they hammered at the defense secretary: “How many troops did you kill today? Bring our troops home!” And as they were dragged out, chanted: “Hey, Rumsfeld, what do you say? How many troops did you kill today?”

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