Written By: Ray OQuinne
That the “Iraq War is lost,” a bulletin resounding daily among even those who were in ardent support of it, is Summer ’07′s top reality check. But in efforts to stave off the truth, the die-hard war hawks turn to emotional bewitchment, warning that such talk “hurts troop morale and even assist the enemy”. Troop morale, and the effect that opinions have on it, is a top war-support issue. Most polls, real or contrived, agree that troop morale rises and falls with sentiment back home. If that is true, then what does it say?
A tense truism is uncovered if troops’ confidence is affected by a free speech-nation’s anti-war sentiment, leading to awkward conclusions, like: (1) soldiers can’t comprehend the rightness or wrongness of their mission. (2) soldiers’ naivety to the complexities of foreign affairs needs generals and presidents to spoon-feed them purpose, judgment, and reason to obey unnatural orders – like killing from the air with the enemy being a mere coordinate.
That troops must synthesize hate to the point and for the duration required to kill strangers, needs solid indoctrination. Surely, they must blindly believe the story line that Iraq spews forth concerning the weapons of America’s destruction. This shouldn’t be a difficult sell considering all the slain American citizens showing up in our streets and homes daily! 9/11 was years ago! How long can nebulous mission and equivocal purpose reside on the 9/11 incident, still questioned by reputable experts as even being a foreign instigation in the first place?
The Iraq-Al Qaeda marketing details are the worries on which war propagandists toss and turn. They must keep Americans sufficiently scared of terrorism, manifested in vague, non-contextual occurrences world-wide, while inspiring the troops that “their work is actually saving America”. Our relationship with the war is consummated via TV and Internet – no homes raided, no homes shelled – just young American soldiers’ intestines, bone, muscle, blood, limbs, feces and brains, splattered and scattered on strange ground for the Halliburtons. Pass the potato chips and the remote. We protest not!
One corporation’s greed is not responsible for the war’s continuation. The entire military-industrial complex, solemnly-cited by President Eisenhower, licks its chops at the vast chunk of monthly U.S. taxpayers’ billions, guaranteed to keep their corporate board and CEOs drunkenly rich! This laundered business between government and corporation is peddled to Americans at home and soldiers over there by a ruse of “patriotism and duty to protect us.” And so, scrutiny is halted. War criticism is merely allowed and chuckled away. The Marine salutes his commander and drives over a roadside bomb. Nine more Iraqi police recruits are blown to nauseating bits and pieces while standing in line to sign up.
The essential elements of patriotism, duty, and honor depends upon the success of defeating individual freedom and intellect – subjugating both to the State – to make all that’s individually important and owned, corporate. These snipers of peace, the war hawks, crypto-fascists and war industrialists, are reproduced in Washington D.C., decade after decade and sold to the public under guise after guise.
Senator Harry Reid’s belief that the Iraq War is lost is correct, but is a conclusion drawn perhaps for the wrong reason. The Iraq War was never intended to win, nor end. To do so would mean the end of the need for the Patriot Act, the end of documenting, categorizing and spying on us. An Iraq War win would threaten the perverted dependence upon Uncle Sam, designed to forever protect, i.e., control us. It would mean the end of near plans to suspend the U.S. Constitution, under a pretense of military protection.
Objectivity isn’t an soldier’s attribute. Constitutional matters are for “back home.” A young soldiers’ vulnerability to free thinking must be secretly and continually squelched by military elitists and politicians in order to keep the War Machine intact – i.e., to justify the military aristocracy, a paradigm of patriotism! Ask yourself. Are they patriots or are they traitors? Remove their uniforms, take away their medals and flags. Step them down from behind from the podium. Stand on the ground at eye-level with the jury. Silence their jingoism and mission statement. Then look at them without their stamps. Look at them out of their element. Make them stand before the ghosts of the fallen and their fatherless children and say then that they are “patriots!”
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