Soldier tells how it really is in Iraq.

[Rich Siddall]

Personally, I think he hit the nail firmly on the head. Powerful stuff.

 

 

Do you think he's right?

 

Wow! Powerful stuff indeed, I wonder how long before he's crucified by the media and those that want him to shut up

[VideoPro]

"This video is not available in your country".

So what does he have to say?

[Tony Erikson]

Sorry it's all in one chunk and poorly written..

 

 

I tried hard to be proud of my service but all i can feel is shame The racism you can not master the reality of the occupation it's the people it's the human beings I seem i claim by guilt everytime i see an eldery man like the one that could't walk and we brought by the stretcher and we called the Iraq's Police to take him away I feel guilt everytime i see a mother with her children like the one who cried hystericly and screaming that we are worst than Saddam, as we forced her from her home. I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm, and dragged into the street. We are told we are fighting terrorists; the real terrorist was me and the real terrorism is in this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. It's long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another people. Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government. It's a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship. It's more destructive than an artillery shell or a bunker buster, or a Tom Hawk Missile. While all those weapons are created and owned by this government, they are harmless without people willing to use them. Those who send us to war do not have to pull a trigger, or lab a mortal round. They don't have to fight the war, they merely have to sell the war. They need a public who is willing to send their soldiers in the harms way. They need soldiers who are willing to kill and be killed without question. They can spend millions on a single bomb, but that bomb only becomes a weapon, when the ranks of the military are willing to follow orders to use it. They can send every last soldier anywhere on earth, but there'll only be a war, as soldiers are willing to fight. And the ruling class, the billionaires who profit from human suffering care only about expending their wealth controlling the world economy. Understand that their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war, oppression and exploitation is in our interest. They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability to convince the working class to die to control the market of another country. And, convincing us to kill and die is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior. Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, have nothing to gain from this occupation. The vast majority of people living in the U.S. have nothing to gain from this occupation. In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain, but we suffer more because of it. We lose limbs, and bear trauma and give our lives Our families have to watch flag draped coffins rolling into the earth. Millions in this country without health care, jobs or access to education, just watch over this government squander of a $ 450 million a day in this occupation. Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in other country and make the rich richer without racism we realize that we have more common with the Iraq people than we have with billionaires that send us to war We need to wake up and realize that our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land the people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't understand The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable the enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not five thousands miles away the are right here home but if we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers we can stop this war we can stop this government and we can create a better world If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy... The loss of Liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger real or imagined from abroad..."

[Vague_Boy]

Someone once said that war was a situation where one countries idiots fought another countries idiots for the benefit of the ruling classes.

 

 

A former U.S. Major General wrote:

 

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

 

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

 

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

 

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

 

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

 

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

 

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

 

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

 

LINK

 

Don't forget that Prescott Bush, father of George Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush, had his companies' assets seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act for having financial dealings with the Nazis, even after America joined the war (link).

 

For people like him, war is a great way to make money.

[Harleyman]

This man was obviously a misfit and should never have signed up in the first place. I've seen his type after serving in two different military organisations. The type are chronic whingers, malingerers, generally loners and have no concept of what being a team player is all about

 

More than likeley he was a complete failure as a soldier and all this is just a case of sour grapes

 

As for someone making the statement that wars are fought by idiots then there are millions of "idiots" lying in cemeteries around the world who fought and died for the right of the spoiled, namby pamby generation of today to sit at their keyboards and make such statements.

[sarasen92]

This man was obviously a misfit and should never have signed up in the first place. I've seen his type after serving in two different military organisations. The type are chronic whingers, malingerers, generally loners and have no concept of what being a team player is all about

 

More than likeley he was a complete failure as a soldier and all this is just a case of sour grapes

 

As for someone making the statement that wars are fought by idiots then there are millions of "idiots" lying in cemeteries around the world who fought and died for the right of the spoiled, namby pamby generation of today to sit at their keyboards and make such statements.

 

here here, well said that man.

[sarasen92]

Because he has a different view to you? Can i ask, did you serve in Iraq?

 

i served in iraq, we did some real good there.

[Harleyman]

Because he has a different view to you? Can i ask, did you serve in Iraq?

 

Two years national service in the British army 1960-62 served in Malaya 61-62Three years in the US Marine Corps, one year Vietnam 67-68.

 

That good enough for you?

[KenH]

i served in iraq, we did some real good there.

 

He means Iraq the country.

[sarasen92]

Not really - it doesn't mean you know what it is like now, in Iraq.

 

I'm not denigrating your service, but I am sure things have changed since the 60's.

 

why? water is wet bullets kill. whats changed?