- About two weeks ago I was speaking with a soldier on
leave, who lives with his parents. Like so many, he turned twenty while
in Iraq.
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- He told me how much he hated being in Iraq, the sordid
details I won't go into. I guess he figured he could talk to me, seeing
as I have a rather large sticker on my rear view window that says "Support
the troops - bring them home."
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- As we continued to talk, I thought he was actually going
to break down and cry when he said, "I don't want to go back to that
fucking death hole! I'd rather go to jail, but I don't know how to go about
it or who the hell to talk to."
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- I told him the smart thing would be to get lost, and
not go back at all. He has no wife or children.
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- I also let him know his commander and chief went AWOL
back in the day when the average Joe's son was being slaughtered on an
hourly basis in Nam.
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- Those days THE BIG LIE was that we were fighting "the
communists." Today it's "the terrorists."
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- Of course, I don't think he's going to listen to me,
but I still think that any American soldier deployed in Iraq who gets his
or her feet back on U.S. soil should do everything they can to keep themselves
here.
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- The smart thing to do, of course, is not to volunteer
in Bush's blood for oil program in the first place. But this poor kid,
like so many others, got snookered.
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- They are young fresh out of school, or still in high
school when the recruiters come. Young kids think they're invincible.
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- They're caught up by the moment and the propaganda. They
don't read any newspapers let alone get themselves on to a good website
to see first-hand what a war is really about, and by the time they find
out it's too damn late.
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- Once they get in, it's too late to ask questions.
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- I think it is our duty as parents to educate and warn
our kids now, not tomorrow - before they do something stupid and end up
caught in the Bush quagmire like this precious young man.
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- What a terrible situation to be in, to find out you were
used because you were vulnerable, and when you come to realize what has
happened to you, there is nothing you can do about it. It is like being
stuck in quicksand. A quagmire.
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- Iraq has become the Black Flag Hotel, with one very big
difference, these are not roaches that are being killed - it's our children!
Our husbands! Our wives!
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- Mr. President, you said in the rose garden yesterday
that we are not leaving Iraq. We. You said that we are not going to be
intimidated. We, Mr. President - we? You're not there. You're safe, not
at all in harm's way. Put on a uniform, get your wimpy fat ass to Iraq,
live and walk in our soldiers' shoes for one stinking day without your
round-the-clock staff of Secret Service bodyguards, and then you can say
.... we, Mr. President.
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- A note to all soldiers on leave who don't want to go
back to Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or wherever the fuck they've sent
you.... Ask Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage, Steve Malzburg, Dick
(get out of the cave) Cheney, Donny Rumsfeld, Condy Rice and all the rest
of the flag-waving Chicken Hawks to do the rest of your time. After all,
they did say they supports the troops!
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