Excerpt: "A man ran past in the street trying to catch a galloping black thoroughbred stallion, one of Uday Hussein’s private herd, that had been set free from the adjacent Olympic sports grounds. Soon afterward a thundering procession of Marines in tanks rolled by. I noted down the names they had spray-painted on the barrels of their guns: 'Assassin,' 'Carnage,' 'Cold Steel,' 'Crazy Train,' 'Rebel,' and 'Got Oil?'"
A soldier stands guard outside a Iraqi brick factory, 05/05/05. (photo: Staff Sgt. Russell Klika/U.S. Army)
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"None-the-less, in the end, whether under the thumb of a brutal dictator or free floating in chaos, one can never escape the yolk of personal responsibility."
None-the-less, we were the ones holding the guns, with tanks in the street, having hours before destroyed the status quo power and thus created the power vacuum. Thus according to your viewpoint, we are the ones who shirked our responsibility to stop the chaos, looting, destruction. We are the ones who (tried) to escape, to use your phrase, "the yolk of personal responsibility".
Can anyone give me an honest answer?
Greed?
Time is getting short. In 2 short Months we will be asked to elect mid term representatives . We all must now try to reverse the false reports and images that have been presented by The Republicans and their Multi Billion dollar benefactors.
Because of a propaganda technique and lots of money behind them the republican strategists have been able to turn Barack Obama into the Bad Guy in the minds of far too many American voters.
It is my fear that Lies, deceit and politics will blur the memories of the last 8 years of the G.W.Bush Presidency. We MUST overcome the wealth of the propaganda machine that spouts untruths and attempts to blame all of these years of incompetency on our President who is stymied by the "Just say NO" party of the Republicans.
e-mail articles such as this every day to your friends.
Nothing compares to the massive power of Network News (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN) who all support Obama. FOX is dwarfed by them.
Almost all major newspapers favor Obama.
The real multi-billion $ donors support Dem’s, not GOP. 9 of the top 10 donors give disproportionat ely to Dem's. The 10th gives to both. Wall Street has for years donated strongly in favor of Dem's. Same with corporate America. Same with Hollywood. Same with trial lawyers. But, the largest political donors of all are the unions who give ALL their $$ to Dem’s.
So, who are you kidding? Obviously, yourself.
I believe this is the sum of the entire article. Such soldiers have not there for any reason but for the enjoyment of wreaking havoc, rather than to attempt dispel it. This is how they have been taught.
That's the sad result of the war machine upon so many, which is why soldiers were signing up for two, three, or more tours, to fuel yet another adrenalin-filled experience.
Do you believe that humans keep their humanity, having being exposed to blood and guts day after day, as a matter of routine, throughout their tours?
American sacrifice versus Iraqi? Twenty-five to one is a conjured number to make things look better for the US.
More than a hundred thousand Iraqis have been slaughtered in this war and several times that number have fled their country too, so as to escape the likes of “Assassin,” “Carnage,” “Cold Steel,” “Crazy Train,” “Rebel,” and “Got Oil?”
Also can you imagine if looters here destroyed the ministerium of the interior, or where all the records of who owns what is kept. What a nightmare.
I was so furious at all the destruction of a city we were "liberating" and I was deeply ashamed.
I remember too, Rumsfeld saying that stuff happens. What happened was criminal and in my opinion, along with Abu Ghraib, will always be a shame America can not wash away.
The water supply is now in shambles and under Saddam they HAD electricity. Now the poor people of Baghdad have 120 degrees in the summer and about one hour of electricity. Liberation sure is not all it is cracked up to be
Vote red next time, some of us actually still love our country.
SPC,What does loving your country have to do with the destruction of another one and hundreds of thousands of its people? Do you have a brain?Use it. Was the U.S. in the "right", propelled by "people who love our country" when they lied and deliberately started the Mexican War of 1846-48? The subterfuge of the sinking of the Maine to begin the Spanish_America n War. Industrialists entreaties to get us into WW1? "Domino theory" bulls**t for Korea and Vietnam? How about the 146 treaties signed with native Americans. We didn't honor ONE? Pick up some history books son.Read them!
You don't believe me? Goggle "550 tons yellow cake Iraq". You'll get over 54,000 results including from all the major news outlets about how Saddam had enough yellow cake to make plenty of nuke bombs.
Most of what Hussein had at his command was long gone by the time George W. was put into office, which, by the way, the U.S. government provided. The CIA, surveillance, spy satellites, not to mention Clinton and George H.W. bombing parts of Iraq, pretty much kept Hussein under wraps and his citizens dead and dying.
But - the neo-cons did not attack for that reason, as we all now know. It was merely their first excuse.
None of them pass the smell test.
War crimes trials?
Don't think you will see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc, etc visiting Europe anytime soon.
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