Recruiters admit that they promise things they can't deliver and several have been caught blatantly lying to high school students. Even some of our soldiers can't be trusted anymore, so if you speak to one and they make you a promise, GET IT IN WRITING. Of those who have already signed up, one third are highly stressed. Their soldiers' ethics are suffering. One third of Marines support torture if it would protect others and sixty percent would not turn in a fellow soldier if they killed innocent civilians. (Let's not even try to discuss the moral ethics of the Blackwater crowd, our nation's mercenary army.)
But the lies and lack of morality don't stop when our troops die. A parent of one of our soldiers is conducting a private autopsy to find out what really happened to their child. Was she raped by her fellow soldiers? What really happened the day Jessica Lynch was rescued, and why were we lied to about Pat Tillman's death? And let's not forget about Patrick McCaffrey! Doesn't our government trust us?
We are not a fragile country. This nation has been built by our own hands. Why are we allowing ourselves to be manipulated and deceived? Have we lost so much self-esteem as a nation that we don't believe that we deserve to know what's happening in the White House? Have we convinced ourselves that those in power MUST know better than we, the PEOPLE? Even those who disagree with Impeachment MUST know that there are serious problems with this President, this war, and this nation. The lack of response to those problems indicates something incredibly troubling deep within our collective conscience.
Even MORE troubling is that so few people seem to notice this:
3,361 US soldiers killed in Iraq
25,090 US soldiers wounded Iraq
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I like this site emblem (of Iraq and Stars & Stripes superimposed) and your mission statement from Orwell:
"Political Language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
With respect to the latter and IMHO, we should always take special pains, in these days of Iraq-Nam limbo, to use the word occupation in preference to the word war.
Ah.... I did not exactly describe your emblem, but you get my drift.
Impeachment is the only remaining alternative, saddled with a megalomaniac who refuses to obey the people's will.
Something has to be done about the Right-Wing apartheid that goes on in this country, where one-third of the population dominates the entire country by first hijacking the Republican Party (primaries favor the extremes in a party, on both sides), then by refusing to understand that politics is a game of compromises.
The responsiblity for this lies mostly at the feet of the fiscal and moderate conservatives who have continued to support their party even though it has gotten away from them and anything resembling the ideals that birthed this country.
But blame can also be given to the Democratic Party whose complicity and ineptness as an "opposition" party has not only been ineffective, but shameful.
Vigilante,
That's an excellent point. We have occupied that country for reasons unknown to the American people, and though there is combat involved, it can hardly be called a war.
Tomcat,
I agree, but I don't think it's likely. I support it and do my best to call attention to it, but I don't have much faith in my government, our politicians, or my fellow Americans anymore.
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