Once Were Soldiers: More Bush Abuse for Cannon Fodder

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

... The Bush gang and its media bootlickers have elevated "support for troops" into, quite literally, a religious dogma, which they invoke at every turn to choke off debate and dissent about the war. Yet I doubt that there has ever been a presidential administration that has abused and neglected its soldiers as egregiously – and deliberately – as the Bush Regime has done. The chief abuse, of course, is sending them into a brutal and brutalizing war of aggression where they are killing, dying and suffering for the greed and ignorance of a privileged elite. But the utter contempt the Bushists show for their broken cannon fodder – not only the "ethnics" and white trash that no Bush could be expected to care about, but even the nice, white "citizen-soldiers" of the National Guard units Bush has impressed into service – is breathtaking in its openness: "Wounded? Tough shit. Get back to the front – or at least stand around over there in the desert sun to make our numbers look better. Or if you're really such a damn sissy that you need a doctor or something, then crawl into this filthy room here with the rats and the mold, and one of our private contractors will get around to you – eventually."...

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