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They fight for our freedom...Our soldiers in Iraq

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 16 August 2006
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Thanks to Bush’s lies which thrust young soldiers into a "war" against "insurgents" in Afghanistan and especially Iraq....thanks to poor and irresponsible recruiting techniques back home....we are losing the VERY expensive "war on terror".

Here is a sample of our troop makeup which clearly demonstrates why we aren’t winning...and never will.

HARRY: Private 1st Class in the Army. Joined in North Carolina 2 days after 9/11. He was angry and wanted to get even. Shortly after going to Afghanistan he was shipped off to fight in Iraq against what his commanding officer called ’heathens’. He was..and still is..fighting them because "They attacked us on 9/11"

BARRY: Spec 2nd Class in the Florida National Guard. He joined to get a college education. They shipped him to Afghanistan to help guard the new government under Karzai. He was shot to death the 2nd day after his arrival.

GARY: Air Force fighter pilot from Las Vegas (Nellis AFB). Ever since a kid he dreamed of blasting the "enemy" with a host of different deadly weapons; rockets, missiles, machine gun fire, bombs. He got his wish. With new "smart bombs" he successfully took out a hospital in Kirkuk only 2 weeks into the war in Iraq. He believes that Saddam, aided by al Qaeda members, planned the 9/11 attacks...and wants revenge. He’s still getting it.

MARY: She is a nurse (corporal) in the Navy, stationed on a Destroyer Escort just off the port of Kuwait. She is a born again Christian whose reverend told her that the Muslims are pure evil and need to be eradicated from the earth. She enjoys helping sick and suffering people, especially our military with severe wounds.

LARRY: He’s a professional soldier, a Special Ops Marine major-general who’s seen action in ’Nam (Commie hater), and Panama (?), and Gulf War I (wanted to save babies thrown out of incubators by cruel Saddam minions). He has an official I.Q. of 89 and loves to kill. He wears a 14 karat gold cross and prays for his enemy’s demise every day. He hates blacks, Mexicans, Jews and Gays.

KERRY: He came from a dirt poor background in Georgia. He cheated on his Army tests to get a source of income. He does his best in Iraq (Baghdad, stationed in the Green Zone), each day venturing forth in a Humvee as a grunt, just trying to make a living. He has no idea why he’s there...or if he’ll ever come home. He doesn’t really care because his parents are dead and his pals back home are drug dealers.

With an array like this, which is quite typical of what we have to work with in Afghanistan and Iraq...is it any wonder we’re losing big time?

I’m not trying to insult our military, just reporting facts. What we were...we are no more.

Thanks...president Bush!

LARRY:

Forum posts

  • Error: "Mary" is an ensign, NOT a corporal! ..Sorry...villy

  • I know it’s a "CYA" when the article says, "I am not try to insult the military, just reporting the facts..." But it would be more effective if you were insulting the military. Think for a moment. Think what are the mission statements of an organization like the American armed forces. And what and how they are implementing those mission statements.

    While you may not be "trying to insult the military" you have certainly offended me by titling your article "They fight for our freedoms... Our soldiers in Iraq".

    Please explain to me how is it that they are protecting "our freedoms". While you are at it I would like to hear your definitions of "our freedoms". I would also like for you to tell me how many or how much of those "freedoms" you actually express in daily life.

    (BTW, you as an American particapate in the same "freedoms" as those in many, many other nations. It is a falacy to think that an American is some how more capable or has any more "freedoms", than say, a person from Togo.)

    • OK, you’ve "got me" I was being sarcastic with the "freedoms" thing. Although I am an American I’m not proud of my country’s military history....but didn’t want to anger that small % of the armed forces who actually believe they ARE fighting to "protect and guard us",etc.

      Our military history is more or less at least as foul and stained as any other country, except perhaps for Russia (Stalin), Germany (Hitler), China (Mao) or Cambodia (Pol)...and that’s only because those leaders killed MILLIONS. In fact, however, the US HAS killed millions over the years...in aggrigate.

      We slaughtered Native Americans, supported South American dictators and taught them torture, tortured and killed in the Spanish American war, firebombed Dresden and Tokyo and dropped "the bombs", killed about a million civilians with agent orange, and murdered 10s of thousands...100s of 1000s with bombs and D.U.

      Now you have my REAL feelings. Better?

    • 209/206 asks, "Do I feel better..."

      Well, yes, a little.

      Although, this world has me completely drained otherwise.

      I not preaching here but I would really like to know why we Americans think of ourselves so much better when we commit the same wicked things as other peoples/nations/political systems. Have you noticed? After all, we Eurocentric (legacy and heritage) settlers wiped out the natives of "Big Turtle Island" (term used by The First Nations to describe what is now North America.)

      And as you say we killed millions throughout the world in our 230 years or so of identifying ourselves as "Americans".

      I mean, our history is as foul as another other, no exceptions, IMHO, but that shouldn’t matter... I mean why compare with anyone else? Why do we not simply say, "Wow, we’re really wicked... We need to be better." and leave it at that instead involving other peoples/nations.

      Why do we Americans continue to think we are better than others? How deeply do we live in mental darkness with these false words?

      I find myself struggling with that when I think of it...

      Anyway, maybe the small percent of even the armed forces need to be offended to that we can see how wicked we really were and area, otherwise, I think we will all continue to be as wicked and simply cover it with "justified worded error"...

      Pity, this nation that spends millions daily for milk and meat price support cannot find it in its heart and mind to ship a tanker or two of that milk that we pour onto our fields to someplace where its needed.

      I hope I live to see the day when another empire leading this world which looks after meeting the needs of the small and helpless... We Americans will never raise to such a platform; collectively we’re too mentally lazy stupid, dishonest and lack compassion.

  • I don’t fell a bit sorry for these "Americans".

    • Its feel, not fell. Hey Villy, even I new you were being sarcastic. Some are so blinded by their disgust, they can’t even decern articles correctly. Instead of trying to list and compare different levels of freedoms in comparison with other countries, lets look at how many peoples of the world dream of coming to America, and are flooding the country every day in record numbers. Look at the productivity of America, an accomplishment only obtained by the satisfaction of feeling good about working in a country where anyone can be successful through hard work. This feeling repeated over and over make up the people of America. I rest my case.

    • THEY TRY TO COME TO THE U.S. BECAUSE OF THE ADVERTISING PROPAGANDA THAT THE WEALTHY PUT OUT - SO THAT THEY CAN KEEP THE LABOR POOLS WAGES DOWN BY KEEPING IT MUCH LARGER THAN NEEDED. THAT EXPLAINS THE CUBANS AS WELL (CUBA - WHICH THE U.S.RICH KEEPS UNDER EMBARGO - AN EMBARGO THAT PENALIZES ANY TRADE WITH THE U.S. FOR ANY OTHER COUNTRY THAT SENDS A SHIP TO CUBA)... SO THE PROPAGANDA AND MAKING THINGS HARD FOR CUBANS - TAKES CARE OF THAT GROUP.

      THE MEXICAN RICH MAKE THINGS SO HARD FOR THEIR LABORERS - THAT **ANYTHING** IN THE U.S. IS STILL A LITTLE BETTER THAN THEY CAN DO IN MEXICO.

      *** NOW THE FACTS: I HAVE BEEN IN AN EXECTUIVE POSITION FOR LATEST PART OF MY WORKING LIFE: THE CONSTANT AND REGULAR SITUATION IS THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED VERY HARD IN THE U.S. END UP IN TRAILER PARKS - HAVING NO HEALTH CARE DURING ALL THEIR LIFE UP UNTIL AGE 65 - WHEN THE SOCIAL SECURITY (WHICH BUSH ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY) GAVE THEM A THIN SKELLATON OF SOME SO POORLY PAID HEALTH OPTIONS - THAT MOST DOCTORS DO ALL THEY CAN TO REFUSE TO SEE THEM OR TREAT THEM -**AND THERE IS NEVER ANY DENTAL HEALTH CARE - FROM SOCIAL SECURITY PERIOD - SO MOST OF THEM LOSE THEIR TEETH BY THE TIME THEY ARE 69**

      THERE ARE PEOPLE OVER 65 ALL OVER THE U.S. THAT BARELY CAN CLOTH THEM SELVES LIVING IN TRAILERS OR ONE ROOM ROOMING HOUSES. ARE THEY A MAJORITY OF THE OLD? NO BUT THERE ARE A GOOD 30% OF HARD WORKERS (FACTORIES AND MILLWORKERS) WHO END UP WITH ABOUT $800 PER MONTH AFTER A LIFE OF CONTINUOUS HARD WORK.

      THERE ARE ALSO THOSE WHO WORKED IN LOGGING INDUSTRIES AND SUCH THAT HAVE NO SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY AT ALL WHEN OVER 65 — AND THEY STRUGGLE ALONG IN CONVENIENCE STORES AND WATCHMEN JOBS UNTIL THEY DIE AROUND AGE 67 OR 68.

      I SEE SUCH OLDER PEOPLE EVERYWHERE IN THIS LAND OF GREAT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY - WHERE HARD WORK GIVES YOU ’A WONDERFUL LIFE’ . WHAT A LIAR THIS GUY ABOVE IS.!!!!!