houses.
small are welcome.
I am a manipulated stooge
who sold his soul to exploit
the ignorant with the proud
lies our own leaders..
Weapons of mass destruction, links to the two towers
tragedy, and the ousting of an
oppressive dictatorship are all
bait for a revenge hungry
over-patriotic American.
I doubt that the men in
power are as incompetent as
the world imagines... After
these errors are eliminated
you are left with the truth
behind the media smoke
screens.
This war is about money. Most people believe that
dollars are being handed over
to Iraq to rebuild their country
on the backs of the American
tax payers and under the protection of US troops.
However, the money never
sees Iraq. It leaves your wallet
and goes through the system
in DC and ends up in a corporation with the sizeable government contract. Sure the
product is a new road, a
school house or AK-47s for the
Iraqi National Guard, but the
money is only making a rich
man richer...
I have overheard soldiers
telling racist jokes like "Why
do Iraqis smell so bad? So
blind people can hate them too." It becomes easy to hate the Arab people. We don't understand their culture, their reli- They see gion and their lan- America as a guage. They are a poor people with a tyrant equal to lesser quality of the fallen lifestyle and stanSaddam's dard of living. The average soldier can Baath Party not relate to living without electricity, plumbing, and toilet paper.
If we see them as inferior it makes it easier to kill them...
The Joes hate Iraqis because the command hypes about being in Iraqi to stabilize a democracy and fight terrorists on their own ground. The leadership never explains the fact that a majority of Iraqis don't want a republic that is just a branch of the Western materialistic culture and that they see America as a tyrant equal to the fallen Saddam's Baath Party.
Most soldiers mistake the word insurgent to mean a person that is inserted. As if we are fighting men from other countries than-Iraq. When Tsunami Solidarity appeal launched by Socialist Resistance in January for funds for comrades in Sri Lanka has so far raised an impressive £1,500: the first tranche of money has already been used for constructing new However more money is still needed, and donations however
insurgent means rebel
History is written by the victors and might makes right.
After all is said and done it
will go down that way in the
books. We will kill communists, drug dealers and terrorists. Next will be homosexuals
and atheists. Then full circle
back to Jews and Blacks.
Fear and prejudice is
destructive and we dominate
using it. Every country folds to
American policies afraid their
homes will become the next
Baghdad.
Colin Powell lied) to the
world's most powerful council,
the U.N., about Irag's malicious intent with nuclear, biological, and chemical
weapons. America intimidates
the world while calling the
insurgent freedom fighters terrorists..
Drug usage isn't as much of
a problem here in Iraq
amongst the soldiers, yet.
However with a draft, the
inactive reserve and more
stop-loss it won't be long
before more soldiers discover
the potency of Arab hashish
and opium based narcotics...
As war here in the middleeast gets more violent the soldiers will become less afraid
of punishment. Prison will
become a more sane option
than trying to take Fallujah for
the fourth time...
The boys who joined up to defend the red white and blue are few and far between. I met some soldiers that were motivated by September 11th, but not many... Many soldiers are counting down to their last day in the military from the first few hours at basic training.
We fight for lies, are alienated by our chain of command and are only trying to ride out the clock until we can finish our contracts without losing what we have worked for or seeing the inside of a prison cell.
I myself find it difficult to have discipline in an Army full of ass-kissing lying hypocrites who enforce a wicked US policy with a violent war I disagree with.
serve in shame,
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