Discontent rife in U.S. military ranks...

[King_Crimson]

By James Cogan
16 October 2004

With the US election just weeks away, some reports in the US media have provided a glimpse into the discontent among American troops in Iraq. Young soldiers, many barely out of high school, are seething with anger over being used to police the indefinite occupation of the country, against the will of both the Iraqi and the American people.
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The Bush administration's lie that has had perhaps the most demoralising effect on the soldiers was the claim that they would be treated as "liberators". Instead, they confront a civilian population that despises them as invaders and is providing a constant stream of recruits to the armed resistance.
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An element in the anger is the steadily mounting toll of dead and wounded. Far from casualties decreasing as time goes on, more Americans were killed in August and September than during the invasion itself. Of the 1,100 marines in the Firsat Battalion, Second Marine Regiment, four have been killed and 102 wounded since it arrived in Iraq on July 28--a casualty rate approaching 10 percent

more...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/mili-o16_prn.shtml

on and on it goes :mad:

[bluestateguy]

1. Their job is to serve President Bush

They belong to the Leader's military, and as such, their job is to fight in his wars and fulfill the objectives of the Leader.

:eyes:

[whistle]

2. Shades of the fall of the Russian Czar Nicholas in 1917 and the...

...revolt of the Russian army on the eastern front who saw how pointless it had become to go on fighting and dying for a cause that could in now way benefit them through victory or defeat. It was the end of the corrupt Russian aristocracy which had completely lost touch with reality, the decadence of the Russian bourgeoisie and the total exploitation and hopelessness of the Russian peasant masses by the Orthodox church and all of the privileged classes who wrongly believed that the peasants were too stupid to know what was happening to them and totally powerless to do anything about it. The privileged classes were as usual totally blind or in denial to what was about to happen in that days that would follow and shake the world.

[Vickers]

3. Some of them are starting to realize he ain't one of them

Military folks ain't dumb...they are just inundated with bullshit info (Limbaugh on Armed Forces Network, anyone?).

They are starting to realize his bullshit, and they don't like the smell.