[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:29:45 EST
How do you know these are real images from real situations and not doctored
or "produced" photos for a political cause? Or for money or sensationalism
or whatever.
It's so far-fetched I have a hard time believing it's real.
Julie Krueger
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> Who in the world do you know that is doing this?
> I have good friends who have kids in Iraq.
When the German soldiers returned from their war, they all said that they
had seen nothing.
None of those atrocities or abuses.
When the US soldiers returned from Vietnam, they all said that they had seen
nothing. None
of those atrocities or abuses.
When the US soldiers return from Afghanistan and Iraq, they all say that
they had seen
nothing. None of those atrocities or abuses.
Of course not. These are good boys, returning to their homes, their moms,
their communities.
What else would they say?
But what did these nice boys do, when they were 12,000 miles away on the
other side of the
planet? These are young men, with their overactive male hormones, with their
buddies, in a
completely lawless area, armed to the teeth and they can do whatever they
goddamn fucking
feel like doing.
These are soldiers at war. War is not nice. (Hey, that's another truism for
Phil!)
Soldiers are not trained to be nice. They are not trained to be respectful.
They are trained
to kill. How do you deal with a threat? You kill it. Any potential threat?
You kill it.
But there's more to war than the military stuff. There's the whore houses,
the pornography,
and the booze, all in massive amounts.
And when they return home, they're nice young boys again.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18414
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4278734.stm
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/iraq/#Conduct
Be careful with this next one. It's not nice. (Phil, don't click on this
one). It doesn't
have nice boys in it. It has language and situations.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html
Okay. Deep breath. You wanna see the Freedom Standing Tall? You wanna see
smoked sand
niggers? God Bless America!
http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/bbs/forum23.html
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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