Comments on: New Iraq War Suicide Report: A Disturbing Pentagon Briefing http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html An Independent Netzine About Ideas Tue, 15 May 2012 16:14:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ronald Mirman http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html/comment-page-1#comment-4217 Ronald Mirman Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:07:30 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html#comment-4217 This emphasizes once again the Administration's contempt for the people they sent to fight and die to hide their blunderings. Why don't we yell about it? See my blog randomabsurdities.wordpress.com for ways of presenting material to use against them. Let's hit hard. This emphasizes once again the Administration’s contempt for the people they sent to fight and die to hide their blunderings. Why don’t we yell about it? See my blog

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for ways of presenting material to use against them. Let’s hit hard.

]]> By: Greg Forest http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html/comment-page-1#comment-4216 Greg Forest Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:03:07 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html#comment-4216 Causing such mental stress on our troops is just another part of the greater goal. Wear them down, separate them from homes and families long enough, expose them to constant mayhem and danger from "civilians" and you can see this is just the lead up to the post Posse Comitatus U.S. With the Dominianists slowly infiltrating the military, there won't be a problem putting down domestic Satan-lead "insurgents" after the riots sparked by martial law after the next 911 which is surely on the planning boards. Has anyone seen my tin foil cowboy hat? Causing such mental stress on our troops is just another part of the greater goal. Wear them down, separate them from homes and families long enough, expose them to constant mayhem and danger from “civilians” and you can see this is just the lead up to the post Posse Comitatus U.S. With the Dominianists slowly infiltrating the military, there won’t be a problem putting down domestic Satan-lead “insurgents” after the riots sparked by martial law after the next 911 which is surely on the planning boards. Has anyone seen my tin foil cowboy hat?

]]> By: Paul http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html/comment-page-1#comment-4200 Paul Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:53:06 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html#comment-4200 The report, and Col Ritchies' seeming blasé reaction to events, do not address another issue: How this war is gradually degrading our warriors' conformance to long-standing American values. Genuine morality, if you want to call it that. The duties we are laying upon many requires that they become thugs and monsters if they are to succeed at those duties. Success creates an unbearable trauma upon conscience, a pain which some seek to escape through suicide. As an example: THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE SHATTERED It is the middle of a winter's night in 2005 when a Marine corporal named Cloy Richards, working guard duty on the graveyard shift at Camp Pendleton, wakes his mother with an anguished phone call. "Mom, I've got a gun in my mouth, and I'm gonna pull the trigger," Tina Richards recalls her 21-year-old son saying. "I killed too many women and children. I don't deserve a mom and a sister?? http://democracyrising.us/content/view/1022/164/ I am sure that many of the neocons, the ones who have never risk anything but who fomented this war, who are intent upon turning America into a tightly controlled police state, considered that the wars-without-end would make for a useful kind of OJT. The habituation to atrocity and horror would come in handy should the time come when it was necessary to apply the methods of war to the streets of American. If the neocons and totalitarians are expecting to have a cadre of conscience-anesthetized troops available and eager to do their bidding on the home front(should they, say, declare martial law), things may not work out quite the way they expected. The report, and Col Ritchies’ seeming blasé reaction to events, do not address another issue: How this war is gradually degrading our warriors’ conformance to long-standing American values. Genuine morality, if you want to call it that. The duties we are laying upon many requires that they become thugs and monsters if they are to succeed at those duties. Success creates an unbearable trauma upon conscience, a pain which some seek to escape through suicide. As an example:

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE SHATTERED
It is the middle of a winter’s night in 2005 when a Marine corporal named Cloy Richards, working guard duty on the graveyard shift at Camp Pendleton, wakes his mother with an anguished phone call. “Mom, I’ve got a gun in my mouth, and I’m gonna pull the trigger,” Tina Richards recalls her 21-year-old son saying. “I killed too many women and children. I don’t deserve a mom and a sister??
http://democracyrising.us/content/view/1022/164/

I am sure that many of the neocons, the ones who have never risk anything but who fomented this war, who are intent upon turning America into a tightly controlled police state, considered that the wars-without-end would make for a useful kind of OJT. The habituation to atrocity and horror would come in handy should the time come when it was necessary to apply the methods of war to the streets of American. If the neocons and totalitarians are expecting to have a cadre of conscience-anesthetized troops available and eager to do their bidding on the home front(should they, say, declare martial law), things may not work out quite the way they expected.

]]> By: Indigowatcher http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html/comment-page-1#comment-4199 Indigowatcher Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:26:40 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/new-iraq-war-suicide-report-a-disturbing-pentagon-briefing.html#comment-4199 Let's see, how can the GOP twist this macabre little nugget of info into a pro-war slant? Oh, Karl Rove, where are you when they need you!?! Let’s see, how can the GOP twist this macabre little nugget of info into a pro-war slant? Oh, Karl Rove, where are you when they need you!?!

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