AP: US Soldiers Were Under Orders To “Kill All Military Aged Men” In Iraq...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press.
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The United States military has been defeated. It is thoroughly decimated. Tens of thousands have been seriously wounded, many irreversibly disabled. Twenty-five hundred or so have died. Countless suffer psychological problems and will for a very long time - perhaps for the rest of their lives. Untold numbers of American military families have been ruined, destroyed by time and distance, destroyed by intolerable hardships, destroyed by loss of life.
For Bush's war in Iraq, we've called up the National Guard. We've called in the Reserves. We have seen military recruitment programs spend billions of taxpayer dollars on advertising. We've also witnessed our military spend billions more in offering special incentives for recruitment and re-enlistment. And despite needing the most capable people to operate the most sophisticated military in the world, we've seen unprecedented lowering of recruitment standards ... and then lowering them again ... and yet again ... with no end in sight. We've witnessed the raising of age limits for enlistment ... and then raising it again. And notwithstanding all of the above, we have record low enlistment and we have had to resort to stop-loss programs to keep some soldiers fighting in the field.
More ironic still, we cannot keep the most highly trained Special Forces combat veterans because they are being seduced with small fortunes by "private security" firms hired to protect American contractors in Iraq - who are also paid for by our tax dollars. So we spend billions of dollars trying to enlist more soldiers at the very same time we spend billions more luring them away from the military. Those are your taxes at work ... working at cross-purposes!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-02-spec-ops_x.htm...
Along with the protracted tours of duty, the hardships in Iraq, the uncertainty of the mission, the absence of any definition of victory or timetable for withdrawal and the lowering of enlistment standards, we see a precipitous decline in US troop morale.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0516-02.htm...
Admitedly, its tough to maintain high morale when the danger level is so high and there are few avenues of stress relief. Unlike serving in Europe and SE Asia, there is very little nightlife for our troops - few opportunities for sexual expression in Iraq, which has become an increasingly fundamentalist Islamic society since our invasion. So the logical conclusion seems to have become rape - not only of the native inhabitants - but of our own troops. Imagine trying to keep your sanity, keep up your morale when you are raped?
http://www.alternet.org/story/38942...
And if all this wasn't enough, now we've got racist graffiti in Baghdad, courtesy of skin-heads and Neo-Nazis who have become pervasive in our military ranks. It's just our way of "winning the hearts and minds" of the Iraqis - and making Iraq a training-ground, not only for terrorists, but for future Timothy McVeighs. (a veteran, if you'll recall, of the first Gulf War ) How many will come home now with specialized training, only to blow up more Americans?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html?ex=1309...
Could our military be in any worse shape? Well ... yeah! There's also this bit of news obtained through the FoIA:
("The Hartford Courant, citing records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act and more than 100 interviews of families and military personnel, reported numerous cases in which the military failed to follow its own regulations in screening, treating and evacuating mentally unfit troops from Iraq.)
... and ...
(Twenty-two U.S. troops committed suicide in Iraq last year, accounting for nearly one in five of all non-combat deaths and was the highest suicide rate since the war started, the newspaper said.
'Chemically active time bombs' Some service members who committed suicide in 2004 and 2005 were kept on duty despite clear signs of mental distress, sometimes after being prescribed antidepressants with little or no mental health counseling or monitoring. Those findings conflict with regulations adopted last year by the Army that caution against the use of antidepressants for "extended deployments."
"I can't imagine something more irresponsible than putting a soldier suffering from stress on (antidepressants), when you know these drugs can cause people to become suicidal and homicidal," said Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. "You're creating chemically activated time bombs.")
Where do all of these revelations leave us? In just three short years, we've witnessed the steady descent of what was once the best trained, best supplied, and most disciplined fighting machine in the world, with the highest morale of any armed forces on earth ...
... reduced to becoming racists and torturers ...
... reduced to becoming rapists and murderers ...
... and those who survive long enough to return home may be "ticking time bombs" !!!
And who is responsible for the incalculable wartime failure of the past three years? Who single-handedly brought the most powerful nation on earth to its knees? Who did this to us?
Was it Osama bin Laden?
No! It couldn't be. We don't even care where he is. The president himself has stated that he doesn't consider him a priority. The CIA has closed the section that was dedicated to finding him.
Was it Saddam Hussein?
Certainly not! He's in custody and currently on trial for acts he was committing with our sanction - back when he was our ally. (Yes, that's right. Look up the charges filed against Hussein and the dates when he was supposed to have committed those crimes )
Was it Iran? Could they have done this to our military? No.
How about North Korea? It must be Lil' Kim's long dongs, right? Wrong again!
Who could possibly be responsible for the crippling of the greatest military force on earth?
It was George W. Bush.
It was the commander in chief - who had no plan other than to invade.
It was the President of the United States - who had no exit strategy.
It was the chosen one - who still, after more time than it took to wage World War II, has not even a timetable for our withdrawal from Iraq. And the REPUBLICAN PARTY still supports our FAILING OCCUPATION !!!
Yes, it's been George W. Bush ... and the people who have supported him. A man so proud of being the "decider" that he'll never admit when he's "decided" wrong. That is who is responsible for the devastation of our fighting forces after three years of utter failure in Iraq ... three years that can never be undone ... time that will forever be known as the failure of the president who wouldn't learn from his mistakes.
And it's three years ... AND COUNTING ... with no end in sight.
The assault on our military has been George W. Bush's ...
... and, by extension, those who support him.
So now our military orders, at least the ones we follow, include the extermination of any Iraqi man capable of defending his homeland. How desperate must be our situation there for our army to slaughter people ... in a country we have no business being in?
And when will the American people put a stop to it?
8
By: nyland8 on July 21
"Ich war nur folgende Aufträge."
("I was only following orders.")
SIEG HEIL
`By: OZ----
The true monsters in any conflict are not those issuing orders, but those that follow blindly.
By: WeTheCorporations
Link Here
The United States military has been defeated. It is thoroughly decimated. Tens of thousands have been seriously wounded, many irreversibly disabled. Twenty-five hundred or so have died. Countless suffer psychological problems and will for a very long time - perhaps for the rest of their lives. Untold numbers of American military families have been ruined, destroyed by time and distance, destroyed by intolerable hardships, destroyed by loss of life.
For Bush's war in Iraq, we've called up the National Guard. We've called in the Reserves. We have seen military recruitment programs spend billions of taxpayer dollars on advertising. We've also witnessed our military spend billions more in offering special incentives for recruitment and re-enlistment. And despite needing the most capable people to operate the most sophisticated military in the world, we've seen unprecedented lowering of recruitment standards ... and then lowering them again ... and yet again ... with no end in sight. We've witnessed the raising of age limits for enlistment ... and then raising it again. And notwithstanding all of the above, we have record low enlistment and we have had to resort to stop-loss programs to keep some soldiers fighting in the field.
More ironic still, we cannot keep the most highly trained Special Forces combat veterans because they are being seduced with small fortunes by "private security" firms hired to protect American contractors in Iraq - who are also paid for by our tax dollars. So we spend billions of dollars trying to enlist more soldiers at the very same time we spend billions more luring them away from the military. Those are your taxes at work ... working at cross-purposes!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-02-spec-ops_x.htm...
Along with the protracted tours of duty, the hardships in Iraq, the uncertainty of the mission, the absence of any definition of victory or timetable for withdrawal and the lowering of enlistment standards, we see a precipitous decline in US troop morale.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0516-02.htm...
Admitedly, its tough to maintain high morale when the danger level is so high and there are few avenues of stress relief. Unlike serving in Europe and SE Asia, there is very little nightlife for our troops - few opportunities for sexual expression in Iraq, which has become an increasingly fundamentalist Islamic society since our invasion. So the logical conclusion seems to have become rape - not only of the native inhabitants - but of our own troops. Imagine trying to keep your sanity, keep up your morale when you are raped?
http://www.alternet.org/story/38942...
And if all this wasn't enough, now we've got racist graffiti in Baghdad, courtesy of skin-heads and Neo-Nazis who have become pervasive in our military ranks. It's just our way of "winning the hearts and minds" of the Iraqis - and making Iraq a training-ground, not only for terrorists, but for future Timothy McVeighs. (a veteran, if you'll recall, of the first Gulf War ) How many will come home now with specialized training, only to blow up more Americans?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html?ex=1309...
Could our military be in any worse shape? Well ... yeah! There's also this bit of news obtained through the FoIA:
("The Hartford Courant, citing records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act and more than 100 interviews of families and military personnel, reported numerous cases in which the military failed to follow its own regulations in screening, treating and evacuating mentally unfit troops from Iraq.)
... and ...
(Twenty-two U.S. troops committed suicide in Iraq last year, accounting for nearly one in five of all non-combat deaths and was the highest suicide rate since the war started, the newspaper said.
'Chemically active time bombs' Some service members who committed suicide in 2004 and 2005 were kept on duty despite clear signs of mental distress, sometimes after being prescribed antidepressants with little or no mental health counseling or monitoring. Those findings conflict with regulations adopted last year by the Army that caution against the use of antidepressants for "extended deployments."
"I can't imagine something more irresponsible than putting a soldier suffering from stress on (antidepressants), when you know these drugs can cause people to become suicidal and homicidal," said Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. "You're creating chemically activated time bombs.")
Where do all of these revelations leave us? In just three short years, we've witnessed the steady descent of what was once the best trained, best supplied, and most disciplined fighting machine in the world, with the highest morale of any armed forces on earth ...
... reduced to becoming racists and torturers ...
... reduced to becoming rapists and murderers ...
... and those who survive long enough to return home may be "ticking time bombs" !!!
And who is responsible for the incalculable wartime failure of the past three years? Who single-handedly brought the most powerful nation on earth to its knees? Who did this to us?
Was it Osama bin Laden?
No! It couldn't be. We don't even care where he is. The president himself has stated that he doesn't consider him a priority. The CIA has closed the section that was dedicated to finding him.
Was it Saddam Hussein?
Certainly not! He's in custody and currently on trial for acts he was committing with our sanction - back when he was our ally. (Yes, that's right. Look up the charges filed against Hussein and the dates when he was supposed to have committed those crimes )
Was it Iran? Could they have done this to our military? No.
How about North Korea? It must be Lil' Kim's long dongs, right? Wrong again!
Who could possibly be responsible for the crippling of the greatest military force on earth?
It was George W. Bush.
It was the commander in chief - who had no plan other than to invade.
It was the President of the United States - who had no exit strategy.
It was the chosen one - who still, after more time than it took to wage World War II, has not even a timetable for our withdrawal from Iraq. And the REPUBLICAN PARTY still supports our FAILING OCCUPATION !!!
Yes, it's been George W. Bush ... and the people who have supported him. A man so proud of being the "decider" that he'll never admit when he's "decided" wrong. That is who is responsible for the devastation of our fighting forces after three years of utter failure in Iraq ... three years that can never be undone ... time that will forever be known as the failure of the president who wouldn't learn from his mistakes.
And it's three years ... AND COUNTING ... with no end in sight.
The assault on our military has been George W. Bush's ...
... and, by extension, those who support him.
So now our military orders, at least the ones we follow, include the extermination of any Iraqi man capable of defending his homeland. How desperate must be our situation there for our army to slaughter people ... in a country we have no business being in?
And when will the American people put a stop to it?
8
By: nyland8 on July 21
"Ich war nur folgende Aufträge."
("I was only following orders.")
SIEG HEIL
`By: OZ----
The true monsters in any conflict are not those issuing orders, but those that follow blindly.
By: WeTheCorporations
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 3:55 PM
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