'I'm a door kicker-inner,' one young Marine blurted out

[dogday]

WHY can’t we live together in peace?”, read the graffiti written on a wall in Fallujah by a weary American soldier. Next to it a colleague had scrawled: “Die ragheads die!”

The US military has struggled to improve the cultural sensitivity of its troops — often raw youths on their first trip abroad — since the start of the occupation when the first soldiers to hit Baghdad slipped a Stars and Stripes over the head of Saddam Hussein’s statue. Jittery superiors swiftly ordered them to replace it with an Iraqi flag.

Long before the Abu Ghraib scandal, there were numerous examples of brutality and insensitivity by US troops to match tales of their courage. Sometimes it was purely a lack of local knowledge: a minor riot ensued when dogs — considered unclean in the Muslim world — were used to sniff staff entering the Oil Ministry.

At other times it was the crudeness of combat troops thrown abruptly into a peacekeeping role. “I don’t know how many women I’ve seen in labour. These people s*** out kids like turds,” a National Guardsman muttered to The Times on a patrol in Baghdad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1981556,00.html

[Straight Shooter]

1. Support our troops, all of them, damn you, or you're a traitor.

:banghead:

edit: insert heavy dose of sarcasm in post title

[Atman]

2. That door-kicker-inner has a job waiting for him when he returns

...as a speechication putter-togetherer for Chimpy.

[CrispyQ]

3. Or perhaps this:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0112-05.htm


snip...


Forget the ongoing privacy debate over U.S. government spying on telephone conversations--soon you may not have the right to tell cops to wait until you open your door.

In a case involving a private citizen and police authorities of the Midwestern state of Michigan, a team of civil rights lawyers appeared before the Supreme Court this week to challenge the police practice of storming into homes to look for whatever they want as evidence of a crime.

The case was brought before the Court last year by Booker Hudson, a resident of the industrial city of Detroit. Hudson says he was arrested by several police officers after they broke into his home without any warning.

Hudson was found guilty of possession of a small quantity of cocaine (found in the pocket of trousers), which led him to serve 18 months of probation, as sentenced by a judge at a local court.

[dogday]

4. And this would be a great reason to filibuster

Alito. You know he would side with the Police on this since his record shows he is against the little people 84% of the time....

[slaveplanet]

5. Total propaganda

they are specifically trained to kick in doors, their superiors damn well know this as they're the ones who set the training curriculum. They've been training to kick in the doors of US civilians as well, they've been doing that for decades. They put it into use in NOLA, and made no bones about it in the Oakland training ops...It is all preparation for future US state of emergency ops.

But little has changed. “I’m a door kicker-inner,” one young Marine blurted out in Fallujah last month, to the dismay of his superiors.