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Excerpt from Corporal Mike Prysner's speech at the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings by Iraq Vetarans Against the War.
Prysner was deployed to Iraq in March 2003 with the U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Prysner was deployed to Iraq in March 2003 with the U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Feb 8, 2010 1:27 PM
Re: Iraq War Veteran Speaks
War is abhorrent. But is racism why we invaded Iraq? Is it not better for the Iraqi people that their dictator has been deposed?
By: LuxoJunior
Re: Iraq War Veteran Speaks
I think his point about racism is that it's cultivated by the military in order to make soldiers more willing to do horrible things.
Of course racism is not a motivation for the U.S. to invaded Iraq. There are plenty of other places with non-white, non-Christian populations. And of course tyranny is not a motivation. There are plenty of other places ruled by tyrants. And of course Islamic terrorism is not a motivation. Saddam Hussein was ruthlessly suppressing politicized religion.
I just can't fathom the level of gullibility required to believe that a superpower might occasionally send its military around the world to help out the downtrodden subjects of a dictator.
To quote a wise man, "Are we a nation of six-year-olds?"
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Of course racism is not a motivation for the U.S. to invaded Iraq. There are plenty of other places with non-white, non-Christian populations. And of course tyranny is not a motivation. There are plenty of other places ruled by tyrants. And of course Islamic terrorism is not a motivation. Saddam Hussein was ruthlessly suppressing politicized religion.
I just can't fathom the level of gullibility required to believe that a superpower might occasionally send its military around the world to help out the downtrodden subjects of a dictator.
To quote a wise man, "Are we a nation of six-year-olds?"
http://mcooki.es/63485
Re: Iraq War Veteran Speaks
These are rhetorical questions I'm sure, but how do you make the leap from your first question (racism) to 'isn't it better... deposed'?
One could also rephrase your last question and formulate it like this : Was Hussein about to murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Or if you were an Iraki, would you welcome a foreign war machine to bomb your country back to the stone age and probably murder members of your family/community just so dictatorship ends this year instead of possibly peacefully later on? They didn't ask for this and benevolence or generosity wasn't a significant motive in this war or any other, ever. So terrible things can have minor upsides. So what?
Death and loss are not the only effects of this war. Many Iraqis have been living in more miserable conditions (no electricity, unsafety, no public service, radio-activity,..) for years because of the war and a few Americans and Europeans died or were sent back home limbless, suicidal..
So you tell me, was war necessairy for change in Irak? Why did America suddenly care so much about those poor Iraqis? Why did they care so much that they were willing to kill all Iraqi soldiers and everyone who lives in the wrong place at the wrong time? How many Iraqi lives does America think Iraqi 'democracy' is worth? 5? 10k? a million? All I know is that American TV stations only talked about the inevitable American deaths. Sure, Iraqi deaths get mentioned, but they belong to the wrong team so it's not the quite the same thing, you see? Brown Iraqi deaths are boring to nationalists and racists. The thing which is at the basis of both of these is collective self-imposed ignorance and the barbaric viciousness that acompanies it.
Just my two cents..
One could also rephrase your last question and formulate it like this : Was Hussein about to murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Or if you were an Iraki, would you welcome a foreign war machine to bomb your country back to the stone age and probably murder members of your family/community just so dictatorship ends this year instead of possibly peacefully later on? They didn't ask for this and benevolence or generosity wasn't a significant motive in this war or any other, ever. So terrible things can have minor upsides. So what?
Death and loss are not the only effects of this war. Many Iraqis have been living in more miserable conditions (no electricity, unsafety, no public service, radio-activity,..) for years because of the war and a few Americans and Europeans died or were sent back home limbless, suicidal..
So you tell me, was war necessairy for change in Irak? Why did America suddenly care so much about those poor Iraqis? Why did they care so much that they were willing to kill all Iraqi soldiers and everyone who lives in the wrong place at the wrong time? How many Iraqi lives does America think Iraqi 'democracy' is worth? 5? 10k? a million? All I know is that American TV stations only talked about the inevitable American deaths. Sure, Iraqi deaths get mentioned, but they belong to the wrong team so it's not the quite the same thing, you see? Brown Iraqi deaths are boring to nationalists and racists. The thing which is at the basis of both of these is collective self-imposed ignorance and the barbaric viciousness that acompanies it.
Just my two cents..
By: wadadde
