IRAQ WAR VETERAN FORGOT THE ASYLUM SEEKERS CREATED BY THE BUSH IRAQ WAR,

Dying veteran to Bush, Cheney: Day of Reckoning is coming

Tomas Young, an Army veteran took a bullet in Iraq that confined him to a wheelchair and inspired his vocal opposition to the war.

Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:32PM GMT

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From Tomas Young, a Known Veteran

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live.

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I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq.

I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives.

I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries.

I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day.

I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all-the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans-my fellow veterans-whose future you stole.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power.

I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done.

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character.

You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit.

Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens.

I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States.

I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East.

I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion.

I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes.

The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East.

On every level-moral, strategic, military and economic-Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love.

I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned.

You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins?

I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live.

I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.

Originally posted at Veterans Today 

STOP DEPORTATIONS AND DO GOOD TO HUMANITY.

Deporting Zimbabweans, Iranians and Sri Lankians, who are failed Asylum Seekers over rhetoric of the current establishment in Zimbabwe does not constitute a well thought policy by the UKBA. The Zimbabweans who did not manage to get Asylum Status in the United Kingdom need to be considered for status that runs between 2 to 3 years with the right to work and allow a sane repatriation programme. Whilst the United Kingdom may think that deporting these Zimbabweans gains its country fame and other invisible gains, this policy is evil and not well thought. These failed Asylum Seekers did not fail to be Asylum Seekers by choice, but that the system that assessed them is always biased against them. It is not a new policy that the United Kingdom and many other EU countries are driving the anti-African immigrants’ agenda in their economic recovery plans. The truth of the matter is that whites are re-writing again the books of slavery. The abuse of those that cannot save themselves, it is clear to everyone that events in Zimbabwe would not prompt a civilised government to believe that it is good time to deport people they have failed on Asylum. We all hear the events that are unfolding in Zimbabwe; the MDC executive is not safe from abuse what will then happen to people labeled failed Asylum Seekers when they arrive in Zimbabwe.

It is not surprising that Israel has now taken the band wagon of also brutally abusing Africans in its country using the current precedents in EU trends. The seed of hate is being sown by the very countries that are carrying out the sponsorship of the Arab Spring. The United King has always been in the past a good example of democracy before its association with the USA. Zimbabweans have been used as pawns in political settlement and reconciliation by the EU and other Developed Despots who posture as liberators by day when they are murderers by night. Asylum Seekers deserve justice as they are not responsible for the political demise that hit their countries.

Stop the deportation of Zimbabweans and give them a better deal if claim to be civilised. We have seen that it is very easy for the United Kingdom to sponsor war than to engage in sensible social policies that promote harmonious international peace.

 The constrains associated with political interference by the Western bloc many Asylum Seeking people from Sri Lanka, Iran and Zimbabwe will continue to languish in poverty and destitution as the UKBA is unwilling to understand the tough life confronted by Asylum Seekers from these countries. The nature of the Western mentality on Asylum Seekers is far divorced from the reality that manifest in different individuals. An examples of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom 5 -13 years in the Asylum System not allowed to work or do anything that helps individuals to retain their sanity, What does one expect of such unfortunate people.

Authorities must always put themselves in the shoes of the people they preside over if they are to remain relevant to the genuine cause of humanity. What good is it to be able to find money for financing wars, and many other forms of life destruction when people fleeing the destabilisation caused by Western democratic ideologies are left to suffer in the streets of Western Capitals?

Asylum Seekers deserve the same Just treatment as everyone else and to condemn them to fate of the Street does not reflect a single grain of democracy as preached by those who have imposed sanctions and send their forces to die for the same values they do not respect in their own background. Whiles we all shy away from reality of The United Nations becoming a tool of destruction. The very countries that are fomenting violence are the ones controlling the decisions that the United Nations makes. These decisions are creating more people seeking Asylum and refuge in different parts of the world. 

Positive decisions on many Asylum Seekers would assist economies in host countries and reduce a lot of social problems that host communities’ experience.  People Seeking Sanctuary do not deserve the treatment that they are getting if host countries can easily fund war that kills innocent people and children.

Politicians coerce and campaign for support but once in power they become monsters and forget about the needs of their various constituencies. A shame for those who waste their time putting effort in matters the central government are not sincerely addressing. The surprise is that most Western countries are war mongers that are trying to resuscitate their economies through the sale of military hardware and reconstruction contracts in victim countries.

The world in general is now living in fear as it has become a culture for the Americans and their allies that they have the right to liquidate those that do not curve in to their unjust demands. The world is never going to be safer with the abuse of drones and other chemical warfare being waged by the Western bloc. It is such posturing that has created Asylum Seekers a category of people that suffer for leaving their countries owing to problems started by the so called democracy.

The other shadow is that Asylum Seekers are “Business” their presence create demand for housing and many other functions such as Security. Those benefiting from their presence would feel hurt when authorities responsible for granting stay act efficiently resulting in smaller numbers seeking state assistance.

FUNDING WAR AND NOT GRANTING ASYLUM SEEKERS STATUS IS SIMPLE HUMAN EVIL TAKEN TOO FAR.

The report the 100 000 Asylum Applications were not even opened? The Home Office Workers and Officers even received Bonuses for cheating the Tax Payer and well as 100 000 Asylum Seekers whose life was dependent on the outcome of the assessment of their cases. If such behaviour is injust what have the authorities done to make sure Asylum Applicants are not subjected to such injustice. We guess the officers concerned's behaviour is acceptable in the UK because had it happened in developing countries heads would have rolled, the international community would have been made make an out cry that would have deafened the world's ears.
Why would such behavior be allowed to occur and why do the responsible officers go on to accept their bonuses after being so evil not only to those whose life hanged on their actions but those responsible for paying their salaries and bonuses? There are many innocent men, women and children whose life has been hanging in limbo and it seems no one is going to rescue if such conduct occurs at such senior levels of authority in the UKBA offices.

WHAT ACTION WAS TAKEN TO CORRECT THEIR ACTIONS?

We never head any need or reason to call for an inquiry, is because the constituency affected is not of any significance? 
The newspapers that wrote articles on the actions of the Home Office actions did write very small articles easily missed by readers as a way of their trying to make the issue an insignificant matter to the nation of United Kingdom. These newspapers would made huge bold Headlines if the behaviour under scrutiny was that deploring Asylum Seeker/s. The bias of people who are hate filled has failed the United Kingdom whose reputation has been standards based on Excellence.

SOME SECTIONS OF THE UK MEDIA NOT FAIR TO PEOPLE SEEKING SANCTUARY.

Media has been use as an agent of infuriating social discontent against those the media owners do not like the  presence of immigrants and Asylum Seekers in this country. The same media community enjoys printing pictures of the horrors of war and make money out the sale of such news but they do not want this country to host and assist those affected, persecuted and failed by such wars. The media has always want to confuse the ordinary public by mixing up Asylum issues with other immigration matters. Whiles the very owners of the media companies one way or the other benefits from all forms abuse that happened in the countries currently under strife they find quite easy to be draconian with people seeking sanctuary from political persecution. 
It is a shame that politicians have actually fed the media with Vernon to poison ordinary citizens to develop xenophobic behaviours towards people seeking sanctuary and other immigrants.  

IS AN APOLOGY NOT APPROPRIATE?

The Home Office need to apologise the those it failed and make right their actions by writing to all those that they ignored as many of the people affected some have been languishing in this system for more than seven years.
It is quite sickening to understand that such important responsibilities are given to men and women who do not understand the values and need to be just. The consequences of their failure does not only affect the affected individuals only but other arms of government that have to deal with the traumatically of people languishing in this failing system perennially. 

WHO WAS AFFECTED?

Asylum Seekers needed to be informed who were affected by the behaviour and where possible an apology. It takes a lot of resources to compile evidence for an Asylum application let alone the numerous people involved in this process only to be dumped in a place where these documents are not viewed for any objective decision making purpose is a very serious insult to all that claim that this country stance for people's rights and freedoms.

WE NEED SEPARATION OF IMMIGRATION ISSUES FROM ISSUES POLITICAL FLEEING PERSECUTION AND OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL ABUSE.

EXPERIENCE OF A FORMER ASYLUM SEEKER AND ADVICE OF HOW TO COPE.

I SAW THE WORLD CRUSHING ME. EVERYTHING AROUND ME DID NOT LIKE ME. I DECIDED TO DROWN MYSELF IN DRINKING ALCOHOL AND IT MADE ME A WRECK.
DO NOT FALL IN THIS PATH. SOMEONE WHO CARES CAN SAVE YOUR DAY.

Dasuk Founder really did help me to see the positives alternative way to deal with negative circumstances.

The asylum system is a waiting game, and waiting entails worry most times One very wise man once said " worry will not add a minute to your life". So what does one do when it seems all they can do is wait, well stop worrying pay more attention to the present moment.How do you do that? Well, accept the situation is as it is but more importantly narrow that down to the present moment not what you are going to do in 5 minutes time or next week, off course if you need more evidence or need to phone your solicitor do so in that present moment if that is possible, if its not possible accept the present moment as it is and see what happens.( Eckhart Tolle, the power of now). Most mental illnesses are related to the resistance of the present moment, non acceptance of what is. by letting go of resistance you are truly empowered and from that state of non resistance ,to the present moment, worry and fear naturally fall away. I Was detained for three years and through resistance i suffered much, until i did the seemingly impossible which is acceptance of the present moment.

Thank You.

THE DETERIORATION OF THE HUMAN MIND WHEN WE ALL CANNOT SERVE A GOOD PURPOSE.

Its very unfortunate that many Charity Organisations have made very serious commitments to assist people seeking sanctuary who in turn do not value themselves by engaging constructively with their helpers. As former members of the Asylum Seeking community we have learnt that it is not worth sitting and mourning about issues affecting you and others without and significant outreach effort to look for answers.
The level of inertia among the Asylum Seeking populations sometimes defeats all positive efforts extended to the constituency.
It is not noble to blame the stake holders that determine and make decisions on Asylum when the population and individuals affected are literally divorced the world of getting the justice they deserve. We totally have sympathy with those people who have been let down by the poor workmanship of the UKBA causing some Asylum Seeker claims to be unaccounted for. The Home Office should in its dignity do justice to all that have been failed by their working attitudes and lack of proficiency in dealing with the different change of circumstances that affect the people seeking sanctuary.

Unless it is open confirmed that the business of processing Asylum Seekers cases cannot be concluded and a measure to make sure people have jobs and the longer such decisions take the better it is for those working in these department, the reasons are noble for those that benefit from this outcome. It is unfortunate such practice of not considering the importance of time in dealing with asylum applications maybe an acceptable culture but it is not the same for those affected by this practice.

We understand many private companies make money of the Asylum Seekers' predicament but it is not reasonable to continue burdening Tax Payers with issues that can be resolved and save loads of public funds.
We understand that the Presidents and Prime Ministers who authorise war are doing for promoting the arms industry and other Multi-nationals but the morality behind the practice is not Godly. It is a shame that it is common knowledge that war displaces people and causes immigration problems and issues of all sorts but those responsible for authorising these are turn around and deny the people that their actions will have affected. People seeking sanctuary are as human as everyone else and it is important to offer them dignified human living conditions.

Millions of pounds and dollars are donated to rebel groups around the world whilst these same government cannot provide adequate housing and social care for their citizens. It is Shame that millions of pounds and dollars are donated towards memorial monuments of the world wars whilst the citizens of the nations are all in abject poverty without decent home to live in. The events that occur in the minds of people entrusted with power to rule country is truly bizarre. The nations' citizenry have become objects of exploitation through economic marginalisation. There is no more respect for life among the human species and the executive continue to pretend that they are in place to promote democracy when actually their daily efforts are simply fermenting hate and turmoil.

The world has just gone crazy with irresponsible Presidents and Prime Ministers making war cries over other countries' expense to decency and tranquility. Asylum Seekers should be treated like everyone else as they are all not animals but human beings displace because of the love for Big Money by people in power that pretend to represent and respect human rights.

STOP THE MANUFACTURE OF ARMS OF WAR IF ALL WORLD LEADERS ARE IN PLACE TO BRING PEACE TO THEIR NATIONS.

CHANGE OF OUR ORGANISATION'S NAME

We changed our name from Denied Asylum Seekers United Kingdom to DIASPORA ACTION and SUPPORT UNITED KINGDOM, (DASUK)
This has been necessitated by the positive development that has happened to majority our founding members who have all been granted status. This is a move that we applaud and give credit to the United Kingdom Home Office. People that are true activities remain passionate to this cause no matter what circumstances confront them. As a gesture to our attained status we have found it necessary to have a name that embraces the positive development that has been experienced within our organisation.
Dasuk does continue to do the work it was formed to do. With the support that we have experienced from North East Regional Refugee Forum, Citizens for Sanctuary, Thrive Methodist Church, Ners and many other RCOs that we have worked with we acknowledge the numerous benefits gained through positive engagement in this region. It is our wish our members and supporters from other parts of the United Kingdom feel confident to approach us whenever the want to understand how the activities of DASUK have impacted positively on the Asylum community in the North East Region.
We are currently developing an interesting programme that is aimed at making life safe and fair for those that find themselves facing the challenge of Removal from the United Kingdom.

Contact us on our e-mail for any questions in connection with this programme, which we feel should benefit all that see sense in contacting our work with passion and concern for others. We remain patriotic the aims and objectives of Dasuk in our daily work and wish if everyone would work hard to promote the upholding of human rights where ever we are in the world.

DASUK does pass its positive comments to the UKBA for the positive decisions made and we also understand their professionalism in areas they have found not meeting the criterion of not awarding status if this is supported by the applicants' failings in presenting the credible evidence of their cases. We do not wish anyone who finds themselves unable to be articulate in presenting their cases being victims of their failings and we urge all affected by such short comings to contact us and we will assist or sign post them to our trainers.

THE WEST FIGHTS TO IGNITE WAR ON SYRIA.

The world of peace must support China and Russia for refusing to cooperate with the United Nations West driven Security Council. The events unfolding in Syria must squarely be blamed on the Americans and their allies. Syria has no problems managing in internal chaos until the involvement of the regional allies of America started the sponsorship of rebels. The miscalculation by the West has led the world into serious economic decline which never mentioned when the Euro-zone discuss their crumbling economies.

Refugees created by the Western military adventures around the world are not at all the focus of the American led military engagement. There is no interest of catering for human rights. As visibly illustrated but the three leading countries in the West, America, United Kingdom and France these are the countries whose Asylum Seeker policies have caused serious damage to people seeking sanctuary. The shame in the whole issue is that most of those that fall victim to the West’s double standards policies are people coming from war zones that have a lot to do with these three countries. The world economy does not require war it is time for the world to turn the military tanks into tractors for food production. American are mourning of the faltering of the American Dream that they thought the election of President Obama was a step towards this dream. Little did they know President Obama has no power to control the appetite for war by the Republicans? The republican are always after the expansion of their business within the serious capitalist framework which does not consider any of the poor people oriented policies that alleviate poverty.  Asylum Seekers get raw deals when the reach the shores of America, United Kingdom and France.

Looking at these three countries in fanning global conflict these are the countries that you would expect to be in the protection of people that are coming from the war zones as these countries are the one particularly responsible for the world’s most damaging military conflicts. Asylum Seekers are victims of the world’s arms industry which is fast developing and with new lethal weapons coming in the form of Drones and robotic fighters and all that one can imagine. The removal of the serious threat to human loss on the battle front has become an incentive to the West.

The infrastructure damage effects on victim countries are so huge that it enslaves the victim countries to adhere to Western policies and exploitation whilst paying the damage caused by the false liberation wars.

Asylum Seekers should Unite throughout the world and call for that halt of the production of lethal arms. The human cost of these modern Western liberation wars against dictators is not happening at the level of genuine and those being liberated believe. Human beings in developing countries are being sacrificed for military profits for the extremely rich Western multi nationals.

The resources that are channelled to wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan can literally be diverted to reducing poverty in those countries and leave more financial resources to fight world poverty. Why has it been easy for the Western world to produce military weapons that kill and destroy livelihood? Is it not easy to finance poverty alleviation programmes that empower people to live in peace and harmony? There is all the evidence from the past wars that more suffering has been endured in all countries where these fake liberation wars are fought. The world has remained hostage to the American ruthlessness motivated by their multinational financial interests in owning the whole world’s resources.

The United Nations Security Assembly has become the most irrelevant international organisation as it has allowed its authority to be used to spear head the interests of the big three world bullies. It is unfortunate that many other countries in the United Nations Security Council have not been useful to their constituencies by support policies that do not bring any meaning to their grassroots populations.

America and its top three allies in Europe are responsible for the deterioration of the world’s security situation as these are attitudes that are made to benefit their robust economies that at the same time ailing and failing to support their population. Tax Payers money is getting channelled in military engagements that have failed to bring significant profits for the entire nation. Military adventures have been the gains of the Multi-nationals who are into the production of military hardware and software.

The world must also agree that we need to have an international Court where countries that motivate other countries to attack another sovereign state must be brought to justice. No sensible and responsible leader should ever advocate for war fully aware of the consequences that ware bring to innocent people and the destruction of social infrastructure of the affected countries. Why has it been easy for these countries to promote war instead of peace?

The promotion of war by the United Nations Security Council is very immoral as it defeats the relevance of this international body. Why is the United Nations not letting Syrian people be guaranteed an opportunity to use the ballot to remove dictators. This a process that can be achieve by forcing a country violation human rights to accept to have UN monitors to make sure elections are held without any form of intimidation. Dictators have often sighted the arrogance of the American and its European allies as reasons why they not leave power because they find their own actions similar to the way the Americans and their allies are operating in the world.

RUSSIA AND CHINA SHOULD BE WORLD LEADERS

These two countries are responsible for the liberation of Africa and they should be reward through free expression of appreciation by Africa and its populations. These countries have not dictated policies and waged wars to force the removal of any leadership that does not foster their interests. If they have done that these two countries have not used their mightiness to coerce the United Nations to endorse wars on small countries in order to facilitate the installation of puppet governments and leadership.

For all that does not support the increase of people seeking asylum around the world should support Russia and China in their effort to counter the efforts of the USA and its Allies. Moscow and Beijing should continue with their veto powers to counter the impending American appetite to go to war in the Middle East.

The Syrian people should be left to seek their own political solution without the support being offered by the West which will bring another puppet government that will continue to undermine the freedom of the Syrian people but continuing to undermine other countries’ peace and freedom.

If Americans, British and French want war they should allow these wars to fought on their soils. If war is fought on these countries’ territorial land it will create a new thinking among those that crave for war and promote the manufacture of lethal weapons of Mass Destruction.

STOP THE IMPENDING WAR ON SYRIA, STOP FUNDING THE SYRIAN REBELS. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.