>>Mein Kampf has been repackaged as creationism, a fairy tail about why white evangelicals are a special white folk sent to to kill starved helpless brown civilians in Iraq. It is shameful what we have done and what we are doing.
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>>It's our duty to deprogram you guys - you fell for a 12 step program that turned you into arrogant sanctimonious dry druck tongue talking crazies. They deprogrammed a bunch of you in the 80's - and now it has to be done all over again!
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>>But you may be one of them smart pupit pounders - tell me why we are killing Iraqis?:-)
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>Don't know if you guys saw this. Monday (or Tuesday?) evening, BBC news showed partial footage, made by an embedded reporter, of an American soldier shooting to death one unarmed, wounded Iraqi, who was unable to flee. They said the guy would be court-martialed, as this is entirely against Geneva convention, and classified as a war crime.
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>Now the interesting part: there was a poll already in the States, and 95% of the answers were "he was in his rights to kill the Iraqi".


Dragan;

Shades of Mi Lai, Vietnam. Should or would a rational person shoot a wounded, or unarmed, disabled, or helpless person? I think not. We send 17 year olds off to kill in the name of freedom, democracy, mother hood (United States motherhood – no one else counts!), apple pie and old glory waving high overhead along with the Bible raised high!

When confronted with a battle situation your thinking in a very different mode. You have been programmed through your military training to act and react to survive. All other thoughts are suppressed and that includes any humanity you may have had previously.

Trying to rationalize this is pointless and has no value. In the end one man is dead and another man must live with that for the rest of his life. This act should not have occurred nor should any war. Trying to live with having been in battle is very hard for many people. I saw what it did to my father and others as well as first hand experience.

There is nothing morally right about war and killing others. I can imagine the Iraqi’s just added this to the many events we have created in their country to free them.

Tom - A Vietnam vet.