Support Our Troops - Bring them Home!!!

End the Occupation!!!

We veterans took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same." Upon discharge from service, we did not renounce that oath. Our political leaders take that same oath upon assuming office.

It has become painfully clear that our Constitution is under attack and has been gravely violated by domestic enemies - indeed, by that very government we served to preserve and protect.

We support and defend Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution, which declares our international treaties "the Supreme Law of the Land." The Bush wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, waged in our name and paid from our national treasury, are violations of all treaties establishing the international laws of war since 1928, which uniformly prohibit wars of aggression. Additional war crimes have been committed through use of prohibited weapons and torture. These define our country as a violent outlaw state, a state unworthy of any citizen's uniformed service. Only Congress can stop these atrocities by refusing to fund the wars. We demand that our Senators and Representatives stop this funding.

We denounce decreased funding for veteran care. As John Kerry said in his 1971 presentation to Senator Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, "Where is the leadership?... Where are they, now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war."

Reduction of VA funding and closure of VA facilities is desertion of our troops. We are being deserted by our leaders hiding behind the budget crises they themselves created at the expense of those they sent to face the terrible risks and horrors of war.

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We support 1LT Ehren Watada

We support Suzanne Swift

We support the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney
View our case for Impeachment, a slideshow of 32 webpages

We support an immediate end to this illegal war
 

What we Oppose

We oppose the use of torture

We oppose the use of illegal weapons

We oppose sexual harassment

We oppose racism
 
 

Jack Dresser Collection

Brian Cloughley Collection
 
 

Events:

Statement to Senator Gordon Smith - March 20th, 2006

VAT makes its debut
at the Veterans Day Parade in Eugene, Oregon on November 6, 2005
 
 

Founding members:

#1 - Gordon Sturrock, Cold War Veteran, U.S. Army,
165th Military Police Company, HQ Platoon

#2 - Jack Dresser, Ph.D., Vietnam Era Veteran, U.S. Army,
Madigan General Hospital

#3 - Edgar Peara, WW2 Veteran, U.S. Army,
1st Engineer Amphibious Brigade

#4 - Hank Dizney, Ph.D., WW2 Veteran, U.S. Army,
97th Infantry Division, 386th Infantry, Company G

#5 - Scott D. Shipe, Cold War Veteran, U.S. Army,
165th Military Police Company, 3rd Platoon

#6 - Benjamin Bonner, Vietnam Era Veteran, U.S. Army,
1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry, Co. E (Honor Guard)

#7 - Wolfgang P. May,  U.S. Army,
Intelligence Operations Officer of the 4th US Armored Division in Goeppingen

#8 - Van Doren, Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Army,
498th Med Co (AA) Dustoff Medic

#9 - Joseph Walsh, Vietnam Era Veteran, U.S. Navy (1962-71),
USS Independence, USS Davis

#10 - Kim Maynard:, Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Army (1968-69),
1st Air Cavalry Infantry, Company D 2/12

#11 - Reggie DeSoto, U.S. Army (1966-68),
Air Crash Rescue A Co. 633rd S.S.G., 4th Inf. Div., Vietnam
Air Crash Rescue, 59th AVN Co, HQ Co. I Corp Group, Korea

#12 - Bill Perry, Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Army (1967-68),
Paratrooper with the 101st AIRBORNE Division
A/1/506th Parachute Regiment, Phuoc Vinh
VVAW, VFP, VFW, VVA,  Disabled American Veteran

#13 - Bruce Freeman, Vietnam EraVeteran, U.S. Navy (1972-74)
Navy Corpsman, HM2, E-5

#14 - Suzanne Swift, Iraq War Veteran, U.S. Army
54th Military Police Company

#15 - Christopher Havlik, Iraq War Veteran, U.S. Navy (2000-05),
Seabee Battalion NMCB 4

#16 - Geronimo Tagatac, Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Army (1963-66),
5th Special Forces

#17 - Ethan Crowell, Iraq War Era, U.S. Coast Guard (2001-04)
Radarman on CG Cutter Morgenthau

#18 - Billy Kelly, Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Army (1967-69)
1LT, Infantry Platoon Leader

#19 - Dave Tschoepy, Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Air Force (1967-68)
C-130 Mechanic, Detachment 1 of 314th TAC Airlift Squadron
at Nha Trang, Vietnam.

#20 - Ted Sexauer, Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Army
173rd Airborne Medic, & 571 Dustoff Medical Detachment - Helo Ambulence

#21 - "Arnie" Arnet, Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Army (1968-71)
4th Infantry Division

#22 - Jacob Courtright, Iraq War Veteran, U.S. Army (2001-04)
1st Armored Division








Additional relevant links for further information:

The Lancet Report

"Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading treatment or Punishment", site of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations.

Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions: A informational guide for journalists, useful to anyone.

Copy of the Army's own Field Artillery Magazine, where illegal use of WP is described. No longer available from the origianl military link, but preserved here, just over 1 MB and in PDF format: