Wear a Uniform? Your Government May Be Trying to Kill You
The past few weeks in the US we've seen marches, vigils and rallies held in protest of the four-thousandth soldier killed on Easter Sunday.
Our government may chalk up these deaths as nothing more than a "number" so we are fortunate that there are people who understand that 4,000 is a life that held meaning and value and not just an abstract bean to be counted.
However, the 4,000 milestone neglects a more sinister number. We have 162,000 US soldiers stationed in Iraq, almost 100,000 of those in combat units.
In a country whose "democratic" government supposedly took over after the January, 2005 elections.
Now I hear Bush is saying don't sweat those 4,000 because they "laid the foundation for peace". I don't know about you, but I'd have a difficult time living in a house built atop the corpses of even one person, let alone 4,000. Pretty sure it wouldn't pass inspection, either.
The government really doesn't want our soldiers to come home. They treat soldiers in the same manner that they treat our nation's impoverished -- as disposable people.
If they weren't so easy to use up and toss away, we'd put the effort in to doing the little things. Like making sure they were eligible for education benefits under the GI Bill, instead of stiffing them by bringing them home one day short of the requirements. Or, perhaps we would make sure that our contractors didn't electrocute our soldiers. Hell, maybe we'd even go a little crazy and make sure soldiers didn't Return Home Homeless, and have to listen while the Bush Administration Argues Veterans Not Entitled to Mental Health Care.
We wouldn't turn our soldiers into Torturers.
We wouldn't leave one third of them open to Harassment.
We wouldn't ask Wounded soldiers to return signing bonuses.
We wouldn't futz around with "cause of death" to keep soldiers injured in combat who later die from those injuries off our casualty list.
Our own nation constantly follows orders from a government that fucks our soldiers up the ass and tells them they like it, bitch.
In the meantime, here's a new number for you. 720 million. That's how much money we spend each day fighting this war. Want to know what we could be doing with it?
Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government http://goodusgov.org/
Our government may chalk up these deaths as nothing more than a "number" so we are fortunate that there are people who understand that 4,000 is a life that held meaning and value and not just an abstract bean to be counted.
However, the 4,000 milestone neglects a more sinister number. We have 162,000 US soldiers stationed in Iraq, almost 100,000 of those in combat units.
Which means that our government has decided that one-hundred-thousand Americans is an acceptable loss to win this war. A war we supposedly won way back in May, 2003.
In a country whose "democratic" government supposedly took over after the January, 2005 elections.
Now I hear Bush is saying don't sweat those 4,000 because they "laid the foundation for peace". I don't know about you, but I'd have a difficult time living in a house built atop the corpses of even one person, let alone 4,000. Pretty sure it wouldn't pass inspection, either.The government really doesn't want our soldiers to come home. They treat soldiers in the same manner that they treat our nation's impoverished -- as disposable people.
If they weren't so easy to use up and toss away, we'd put the effort in to doing the little things. Like making sure they were eligible for education benefits under the GI Bill, instead of stiffing them by bringing them home one day short of the requirements. Or, perhaps we would make sure that our contractors didn't electrocute our soldiers. Hell, maybe we'd even go a little crazy and make sure soldiers didn't Return Home Homeless, and have to listen while the Bush Administration Argues Veterans Not Entitled to Mental Health Care.
We wouldn't turn our soldiers into Torturers.
We wouldn't leave one third of them open to Harassment.
We wouldn't ask Wounded soldiers to return signing bonuses.
We wouldn't futz around with "cause of death" to keep soldiers injured in combat who later die from those injuries off our casualty list.
Our own nation constantly follows orders from a government that fucks our soldiers up the ass and tells them they like it, bitch.
In the meantime, here's a new number for you. 720 million. That's how much money we spend each day fighting this war. Want to know what we could be doing with it?
Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government http://goodusgov.org/
Labels: bush is an idiot, iraq, soldiers, war
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