----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> What would Michael Albert say to and about (A) the US troops and
> civilians who wish to and do carry out orders to help Bush & Co. wage
> the illegal preventive war on Iraq and take other unlawful actions
> elsewhere and (B) regular and irregular combatants (Iraqis,
> Filipinos, Colombianos, etc.) who counterattack them?
>
> What if another devastating terrorist attack (or a wave of
> small-scale terrorist attacks) happened on the US soil and/or the
> anti-war movement got unexpectedly massive and militant? Enforcement
> of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 had already been relaxed before
> 9.11, and Bush & Co. want to further compromised it: Cf.
> <http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/pcomitatus.cfm>. What if one day US
> troops received orders to shoot and kill protesters here?
>
> The rhetoric of "Support Our Troops" can become a petard by which
> we'll get hoisted.
> --
> Yoshie
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Let's just engage in pre-emptive [r]evolutionary action and just start shooting everyone not like us.
Free markets in killing!
Ian