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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