Top US War Criminal, Gen. Richard Myers to visit Dublin on Wednesday

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | news report Tuesday July 19, 2005 03:34 by Damien Moran - Dublin Catholic Worker/Pitstop Ploughshares (Personal Capacity)

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Gen. Myers warned before the war that, despite the military's best efforts to prevent civilian casualties, "people are going to die."

A dossier documenting reported civilian casualties in Iraq since the outbreak of the official invasion is due to be posted later today on www.iraqbodycount.net

Myers Imperial CV is linked below:
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/myers_bio.html

He can now add the Iraqi civilian casualty dossier to the end of it.

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Top US general to visit Dublin

July 17th by Pat Leahy

The most senior officer in the US military is to visit Dublin this week. General Richard Myers, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will be in Dublin on Wednesday and will meet with his Irish counterpart, chief of staff General Jim Sreenan.

He will also meet the Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea. However, the Taoiseach's office said that there were no plans for Myers to meet Bertie Ahern. A spokesman for the Defence Forces said that the visit of Myers was a “follow-up to our visit last May'‘, when Sreenan and his staff met Myers in Washington.

The US Embassy in Dublin said that the two officers would “continue to discuss issues of mutual concern.”

Myers is the principal military adviser to George W Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the National Security Council.

An Air Force general, he has been chairman of the joint chiefs of staff since 2001, and was the country's top military officer during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is due to retire in September.

When interviewed recently on CBS, Myers was asked if he regarded the action in Iraq as a success. “I do now, I do,” he said. “I mean, I don't know why I said ‘now'. I do, absolutely. I think it's a success.”

http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=6524-qqqx=1.asp

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Where Richard Myers should be on Wednesday...............

Anglo-American War Crimes Trial of 2010 - Satire or Prognostication?

http://www.democrats.com/node/4742

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Myers has been the chief military adviser to Bush, Sec. of Defence Rumsfield and the National Security Council since early October 2001.

A couple of weeks before the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., George W. Bush appointed Richard B. Meyers as the chairman of his joint chiefs of staff stating, "[O]ne of the reasons Dick Myers is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs nominee is because he has had a lot of experience in space... It's an area that we need to explore and know more about. He's had a lot of experience when it comes to the leading edge of technology that is becoming more and more prevalent in our military. "

Myers is from Kansas City, Missouri. He enrolled in the Air Force in 1965 through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program.

He flew combat missions in Vietnam, and subsequently held several key command positions.

Myers was commander of U.S. forces in Japan from 1993-96. He then served as asst. to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which was followed by a year as commander of Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii.

The top military adviser has blamed a 'bare handful' of US soldiers as been responsible for the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal despite Red Cross evidence to the contrary.

He threatened to move NATO's HQ from Brussel's after an attempt to try General Tommy 'We don't do body counts' Franks in Belgian courts.

General Myers wasn't so impressed with Amnesty International after they called Gitmo the 'gulag of our times'.
He called their report 'absolutely irresponsible' .

As Voltaire put it, "All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."