Letters to the Editor
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Fat, amoral Americans don't care
By now it should be clear to all people of conscience that the vast majority of Americans are fat amoral overprivileged sows, sufficiently demented by the cinematic 9/11 attacks to want to punish wholesale anyone within reach in order to send a message to the world that we are not to be messed with.
This kind of stupid (literal) overkill has effectively killed us as a nation in the eyes of the world, and probably in fact, too. Time will tell if a nation that is only 250 years old can survive such a fatal miscalculation of blunderbussing over a region which counts its grudges in thousands of year, where both the British and Soviet empires were brought down.
How sad that we didn't take up the world's sypathetic offer right after 9/11 to join an international police force to hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice. Indeed all of the real prosecutions and busts of so-called "terrorists" have been done by the civilized nations with much better intel services. They would have gladly worked with us to police world terrorism, giving us sufficient cover from the charges of abuse and overkill which destroyed our reputation and probably our country. All that would have been required is a teamwork approach, and willingness to look at why people are willing to die to kill us, something that a nation of dumbed-down greedy clueless nitwits no longer has the capacity or decency to consider.
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forest meet trees
I wonder what the upshot of auditing every single death is going to be?
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Imagine the U.S. Army or Marines in Your Own Neighborhood...
Imagine that a real terrorist hid out in a house on your block. And then, the cops came, and blasted that house with thousands of rounds of 50-caliber machine gun fire.
Then, they called in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force sends an actual jet over your block, and the jet drops a couple 1,000-pound bombs, pretty much on target, but maybe takes out a couple of neighbor houses, as well as the whole vinyl-sided McMansion where the terrorist was hiding.
And several of your neighbors, and their kids, and grannies get burned up. Think of your actual American neighbors. What are their names? What are their kids' names? They are dead, fried, dead screaming, now.
Support our troops!
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Video of an actual war crime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qs71TYwoM
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When I was ten years old..
I went to a drive-in movie with my dad. It was a new science fiction movie, "Star Wars".
For months afterward, I fantasized about being Luke Skywalker and fighting the empire.
Thirty years later, I am getting the sneaking suspicion that I am actually working for the other side..
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No wonder they hate us.
We've gone from "liberating" Iraqis and bringing them democracy to killing them by the thousands. At this point, the only people that feel our troops should be fighting in Iraq are some politicians and the corporations with government contracts raking in the profits.
How could the Iraqis NOT hate the US?
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An occupying army and the ideals of the U.S. cannot co-exist...
It's not just the act of the occupation that is immoral -- it is -- but rather how it brutalizes the citizens supporting it into a certain, as one poster already put it, "fat and amoral" stupor.
What I can't understand is the COMPLETE lack of empathy for what is going on over there. We understood it sucked to be a colonial against the Brits, I guess. More recently, we understood it sucked to be a Bosnian being shelled by the Serbs. So why is it that we cannot grasp the reality that ours is not the first long term occupying army in history not to be served up warm falafel sandwiches every hour by a grateful, if gut shot, citizenry?
16 year olds with guns in my neck of the woods are just s'posed to be great Americans-in-training. We need to be armed to the teeth because what if the King of England came back and started staring down our necks? Gotta have us some guns, and then more guns.
Well then. One might think that gun enthusiasts in this country would then be a little more understanding that a 16 year old in Iraq, whose town is in shambles, whose family members may be dead by our hands (or someone else's, or who even knows?), and who happens to have an AK at his disposal...well, taking a pot shot or three at a Blackhawk may not necessarily qualify him as an "insurgent". Seriously, what American would tolerate this sort of bullshit in their own country? (Not that we're not heading there at micro levels with the drug wars/homeland security turning every local podunk force into a SWAT team, where rednecks get to take state-issued AR-15s home.)
Shooting at American soldiers isn't always a political statement against America, it's not even a political statement against the soldiers -- it's just a generalized, frustrated Get the F Out. God, I only wish they would come over here to AEI and leave the candy-handing grunts alone.
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Nobody in power cares
And watch the conservative blogosphere tear the author of this article, Dahr Jamail, a new asshole. I'm sure that they are already quietly Googling him and connecting the dots between him, the "terrorists" and the shadowy forces behind the Caliphate he is eager to see put into place throughout the free world.
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we never do anything wrong...do we?
The Guardian on Tuesday reported about American soldiers killing five civilians riding in a minibus on their way to work. Here's a fun game for you to play; try finding that story anywhere in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Set aside about fifteen minutes if you're good at searching; a half hour or so if you're not. And no, you didn't miss it on CNN or NBC or ABC or MSNBC or CBS; it didn't run. (I forgot to check Fox..) Oh, and there's going to be an investigation. I'll let you know how that comes out.
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An evil state of affairs...
One can play the game of "perspective politics" well enough these days in the US and indeed it is possible to take the position of the American warmongers easily. The steady day to day propaganda,shoddy fact and truth abuse and simple ignorance and arrogance of American "perception" of who we are and what we are doing in Iraq is fully self-deceptive and not honest.
The American Warmongers clearly believe they will not suffer any true or real consequences for doing what they have brought about in Iraq. Clearly they do not plan on suffering any fate similar to that of what befell German Nazis or Japanese militarists on account of what took place in or around WW2.
It is this blatant moral abuse/disregard and rampant ethical transgress/blindness that frames and defines this American invasion,occupation and subjugation of Iraq repeatedly. The toll it has taken and continues to take on Iraqis in death and suffering fully exceeds any measure of what is reprehensible.
Yet the very same attitude and denial of having violated all the basic rules of right and wrong fully inform how the Americans have conducted themselves repeatedly since WW2 around the planet in other peoples countries and affairs.
It should be and is in fact plain to see based on valid moral and ethical premises that the Americans are no better now for what they do over and over in Iraq then any of Hitlers or Tojos followers or troops were found guilty of having done.
We Americans are the war criminals in Iraq.
And have been in many other places since WW2 ended.Go to the Zmag.org Znet website daily to read more about what the NYTimes,CNN and Time/Newsweek do not/will not cover,present or reveal.
We Americans are not the "good guys" in Iraq today. The American military clearly has gone over to the dark side and is not the agent of good or what is right in Iraq.
We Americans are the monsters run amok in Iraq today.
Dahr Jamail here as others elsewhere have done presents and tells what is much closer to the truth of things in Iraq.
The war criminals in WashingtonDC from the White House,the Pentagon,K Street and Congress should be arrested and held in jail awaiting justice.
This will not happen.
This is an evil state of affairs.