Who Will Protect and Defend Our Military From the Bush Administration?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

by Barbara Miller

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0217-06.htm

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Frankly, I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle this film. I don't do very well with graphic violence. It was hard to watch brutality, murder of children, a soldier whose face was completely disfigured by fire. Bodies and blood. Plenty of both. The things of war.

So why watch it? I can only answer retrospectively. I now believe it is incumbent upon every American man, woman, and child whose parents believe they can handle it to watch "The Ground Truth." That includes our elected officials. All of them. It is not enough to hear platitudes ("On behalf of a grateful nation and the President of the United States . . .") nor to see video of the occasional vet who has rehabbed from a lost limb. Oh, no. Not even close to enough.

George Bush's war has killed something approaching 100,000 Iraqis and roughly 3,100 Americans. But that's just for starters. How many inner lives and relationships have been utterly destroyed in the wake of George's war?

According to "The Ground Truth," to some extent, virtually every American assigned to an ultra-dangerous 24/7 war zone like Iraq returns a different person from the one who was deployed. Some of them are able to eventually manage their fear, rage and self-loathing. Many are not. And they may struggle with the aftermath of war for the rest of their lives. Or they may choose to end their lives. Some do. Sound familiar? Can you say "Vietnam"?...

[sam sarrha]

1. the military will have to march into the WhiteHouse, fixed bayonets and arrest him & frog march him

and Chaney out to a court martial.. or just keep them in prison without charges for ever.. and let Iraq vets poke em with sharp sticks thru the bars.. play the screams of tortured innocents 24/7/365 REALLY LOUD..!!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. ALL perfectly legal under Patriot Act II and the Military Commissions Act

[sam sarrha]

3. i hope someone has a cell phone

[lanlady]

4. what, the military in the role of victim?

How about the military wises up, stops voting Republican, and stops squandering trillions of tax dollars on waging war for war's sake?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. I understand your point...

...but there can be no justification for the horrible exploitation of our troops that continues to go on -- these are our kids.

[babylonsister]

6. You might want to read this thread; things aren't always as they appear.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x237425

[MasonJar]

7. Please this has to end. No more deaths of Iraqis; no more deaths

of our young soldiers and marines. No more please. No more deaths of innocent species because man is so cruel and greedy. Please no more GWB & Dick Cheney. Please, Lord, no more. This fragile world will not survive 2 more long years.

[Aussie leftie]

8. Fox News seems to have a different concept of war

Didnt they put the bombing of Bagdad to music. And the neocons created a catchie little phrase "shock and awe"