[lbo-talk] How's It Feel

[maria.gilmore]

The post-modern hi-tech battlefield introduced by the first GW goes beyond
the call of duty by orders of magnitude we have only begun to appreciate.
Its lethality is a poisoned gift that keeps on giving, full of toxicities
like the delight that is depleted uranium... it's a shell casing that will
rip thru steel like it's paper when solid, it's a potent carcinogen when
vaporized...it's two weapons of death in one!  How could the Pentagon
resist?   Statistically Gulf War Syndrome seems to be quite real, but of
course the gov/ military can't come out and admit they poisoned their own
troops, that's another thing the American public won't stand for any more.
So the govt just stonewalls and gets away with ignoring the obvious --- and
they get away with it because when the troops do come home that's when all
the yellow-ribbon-tying dies out and nobody much gives a rat's ass about
them; there's no huge groundswell of "support the troops" when they return
to us from their dirty work broken, sick in body and soul.  This culture is
only interested in hearing about those who really believe they were
"conquering heroes" in places like Iraq.  What will it produce?  For one
thing, sooner or later, we'll have living in OUR society ex-Marines who, if
some press coverage is to be believed, took real unabashed pleasure in
sending automatic fire into crowds of defenseless unarmed people of all
ages; who cut shopkeepers to pieces with machine gun fire because they were
armed with Russian rifles to protect themselves from looters and because the
looters told them they were Saddam's men, they blew them away with no
questions asked.

- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How's It Feel


> maria.gilmore wrote:
>
> >But then there are things that make me cry, and feel alienated on top of
> >that grief:  not only the horrors visited on the innocent and the
helpless
> >in Iraq, but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be taking in
> >burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via body bag and they're
> >GLAD!
>
> The first gulf war severely damaged the Americans who fought there,
> and produced Malvo & McVeigh, sickness, and thousands of early
> deaths. This one is so much nastier - I wonder what it will produce.
>
> Doug
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How's It Feel


> maria.gilmore wrote:
>
> >But then there are things that make me cry, and feel alienated on top of
> >that grief:  not only the horrors visited on the innocent and the
helpless
> >in Iraq, but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be taking in
> >burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via body bag and they're
> >GLAD!
>
> The first gulf war severely damaged the Americans who fought there,
> and produced Malvo & McVeigh, sickness, and thousands of early
> deaths. This one is so much nastier - I wonder what it will produce.
>
> Doug
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