Of course this should be shocking to the public conscience -- 650,000 Iraqi souls, men women, and children -- dead, slaughtered for the benefit of rich white American billionaire men and their families.
I asked one shell-shocked returning GI about US soldiers being killed and wounded, and he got very serious and sad, and I could see that he desperately needs post traumatic stress disorder counseling by the VA, and/or Vet Center(s). Then I asked about all the dead Iraqi men, women and children, and he abruptly said, "Oh, they don't count"!
He has been paralyzed with indifference, hardened to screen out emotions of terror and fear, and to turn those emotions into killing "those gooks", or be killed himself as part of an occupying force in another country's sovereign land.
I asked him, in front of my nephew's high school buddies, if he had heard the report of the soldier that refused to return to combat after being on patrol within a massive open pit depository where bodies were dumped by the thousands. This young man reportedly arrived with a squad of soldiers and was told to search among the mass of dead bodies to find spent cartridges and weapons to be used as evidence for the military to justify such slaughter as "self defense". While searching among the dead bodies, this young soldier soon looked up to see other GI's in recreation kicking around soccer balls. One of the balls was kicked his way, and he turned around to kick it back, only to find that it was a mutilated and decapitated Iraqi head. He threw up, returned to the APC, returned to base, and immediately checked into the hospital with a nervous breakdown. This screamed horror at his idealistic reasoning for joining the military, and it shattered his defense of America values and t
ruth. It was, and is, fascism.
My nephew's buddies were shocked. Then I told them about the conservative estimate of 650,000 Iraqi men women and children slaughtered, and that the actual count might be well over one million dead, and two million who have fled the country, like Moses leading the masses out of danger and to relative safety.
The young returned GI was staggered by this data, and I could see his turmoil. So, I relented with my rant. Later, I listened as he attempted to recruit his now graduated buddies into the military. He explained that he would go to the recruiter's office with them to make sure they got a fair deal. And I was so happy to hear one after another tell him, "NO"!
Next day, I told my nephew that people get financial bonuses for delivering new recruits, so beware. This clearly entered his consciousness, as if being pre-armed with survival data.
It is beyond "shame" that psychological warfare programming has worked to paralyze us into indifference (within this security base of operations) ... to this fascist, blood-sucking genocide. Consider the Twin Towers and 9/11 -- were you shocked? Hell yeah! Would we be shocked if the Empire State Building was blown up? Hell yeah! Would we be shocked if 3,000 Sunday Church services were bombed and all inside were thus slaughtered. Hell, yes! Would we be shocked if 650,000 Americans were slaughtered in war right here at home? How many millions of Americans would immediately flee to Canada and Mexico?
I am so very sorry that I have not stopped this slaughter, that we collectively have failed, and for me, I hereby sincerely apologize to the Iraqi people for our slaughter of their poor men, women, and children by our poor soldiers for rich white American men; and I do want to humbly thank the Iraqi people for not killing our small children like we have killed theirs.
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