The Myths of Military Opportunity Re: Attack Of The Liberals

[Marta Russell]

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>WAR
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>Above all else, the military is an institution with one overriding 
>purpose: to prepare for and fight wars. You literally sign your life 
>over to the military. For some who joined the military before the 
>Gulf War, they didn't fully realize this until they were faced with 
>an actual war in Saudi Arabia against Iraq. Don't make the same 
>mistake they made. If you're going to join the military be prepared 
>to fight a war, even a war you may not agree with. It could be a war 
>we "lose," like Vietnam. Or, it could be a war we "win," like in 
>Kuwait. Either way, people are killed and you might be the one who 
>kills them. As much as the war in Iraq has been celebrated, you can 
>find US veterans who can't forget some of the awful things they saw 
>there. Is that the kind of risk you want to take to finance your 
>college education?
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Let's add that soldiers also sign up and are experimented on by the 
DOD. Tens of thousands died not in the battlefield but after the Gulf 
War from exposure to depleted uranium and other harmful substances, 
delivered courtesy of Uncle Sam. Surely the military knew its weapons 
were tipped with harmful materials yet did not train the soldiers not 
to touch enemy tanks or other expoded materials. Downwind, well too 
bad. So now they know, the gulf War syndrome has shown them exactly 
what those chemicals can do. KPFK reported that 20,000 soldiers died 
of various conditions after the Gulf War.  I have yet to see the 
Pentagon call those casualties or collateral damage.  It is as if it 
never happened as far as they and most Americans are aware. The Gulf 
war was a success because of the "low" number of casualties.  Our 
soldiers died here at home trying to get medical care for their 
illnesses.  That is the war of the future.

Marta
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Marta Russell
Los Angeles, CA
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