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A Bitter Anniversary For the Family of a Murdered Soldier

Posted by Philip Barron at 11:00 AM on July 27, 2007.


Philip Barron: The details of LaVena Johnson's death have been shrouded in lies and deception, the kind of official obfuscation that surrounds the death of Pat Tillman and other fallen soldiers.

Today, July 27th, marks what should have been a joyous celebration, perhaps including a party filled with family and friends. Today would have been LaVena Lynn Johnson’s 22nd birthday.

The month of July also marks another solemn milestone.

Two years ago this month the body of PFC Johnson was returned to her family and laid to rest, but there can be no rest for her her family and friends. The military continues to claim that LaVena took her own life while serving in Iraq, despite several indications to the contrary.

The details of LaVena's death have been shrouded in lies and deception - the kind of official obfuscation that surrounds the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman and other fallen soldiers. Let’s honor PFC LaVena Johnson with a push for ten thousand signatures on the petition to reopen the investigation into her death.

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Philip Barron is a St. Louis writer and author of the blog Waveflux.


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LaVena Lynn Johnson, Pat Tillman and other US casualties
Posted by: fmajor7 on Jul 28, 2007 11:29 AM   
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How come AlterNet.org never talks about the thousands of innocent Iraqui people (women, children, old people etc) were slaughtered by the US troops. Some of these military guys were drunk or high on drugs etc. And they all hated these filthy muslims.
Don't get me wrong - we do feel angry about LaVena and Pat and the others - but please talk about those poor Iraquis you killed for no fault of theirs. For God's sake show some feelings for those Iraquis. They were humans too.
Besides, LaVena, Pat etc knew why they were going to Iraq. Those poor Iraquis didn't know why they were slaughtered.
Do you guys seriously expect sympathy for your dead ? Then show some respect for those hundreds of thousands of Iraquis you killed.

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The Axis of Evil Lives a Lie.
Posted by: Paxmana1 on Jul 28, 2007 2:03 PM   
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A hundred years or more .. rapine plunder and savage corporate or religious inspired bestiality .. not even the second world war is free of the taint of the inspired moral cretin.

The language used by these cretins is a disgrace to the motherhood that spawned them .. but then that is how one justifies the killing .. but the worst WMD that these maniacs use on the innocent is the complete indifference to the murder. And the Main Stream Media looks the other way.

Project the mental filth onto innocents .. it makes it easier to kill them .. thats how its done .. who's agenda is that? .. is it yours?

Did you go to kill them there .. so you will not have to kill them over here and expose the truth? Is an American life like an Israeli life .. whereby not even 100 innocent deaths can atone for the death of an American or Israeli?

If Jesus had to deliver a sermon in Baghdad tomorrow on the current state of affairs .. Mossad or the CIA would take him out.

Paxman

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Tillman and Johnson have been "Rommeled"...
Posted by: Carl Street on Jul 30, 2007 8:20 AM   
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Welcome to Nazi AmeriKa -- No surprise that the 4th Reich is being run just like the 3rd Reich. When celebrated Nazi war hero General Erwin Rommel (the deserf fox) became a political liability he was assasinated. Then, the hypocrites running Nazi Germany gave him a state funeral and made a hero out of him claiming he died of wounds received in battle. If this kind of cynical propaganda sounds familiar you should NOT be surprised since the same people are using the same game plan here...

Don't forget, it was Prescott Bush (grandpa) who, with others provided the funding to get Hitler into office. And, during WWII supplied money and access to vital strategic supplies even as American soldiers, sailors, and flyers were being gunned down by Hitler's war machine.

Despite all the tripe being pedaled by the "History" Channel, the REAL Nazis were NOT defeated in WWII. The REAL Nazis NEVER wore a uniform, drove a tank, flew a Messerschmitt or launched a rocket. The REAL Nazis were in the universities, banks, stock exchanges, and often were not even in Germany; but resided in the halls of political power in America and Britain. The REAL Nazis just bided their time and have worked tirelessly to accomplish by stealth and subtrefuge what Hitler could not accomplish through military force. If you do NOT believe that; just look at what the Nazis wanted to accomplish in America and compare that with what America has become in terms of restrictions upon your rights.

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