Rumsfeld to troops: You're all bullet-stopper slaves now

How many Americans would have signed up for Bush's military if they knew at the time they'd be trapped in rotating tours of the Iraqi hell-hole? Probably not many. In Kuwait yesterday at Camp Buehring, Rumsfeld basically told a gathering of soldiers and Marines tough luck, you're in the army now. "You go to war with the Army you have," he told them, "not the Army you might want or wish to have." In other words, the Army the soldiers "have" is not the same Army they were promised when they signed up. But then that's what happens when you turn yourself over to the government--you become a slave drone and bullet-stopper for the Strausscon version of World War IV.  As for those Humvees sans armor, well, when asked about this Rumsfeld essentially said soldiers should expect to get killed. "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can (still) be blown up," he said. Same thing with the Humvees, the preferred target of the resistance because they are so easy to blow up with improvised explosive devices and RPGs. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., told Rumsfeld in a letter Wednesday that his response to the question about armored vehicles was "utterly unacceptable" and that it was the duty of the government to provide safety equipment. Dodd, of course, is a Democrat and Democrats, it would seem, have a problem with the Pentagon running the Strausscon occupation on the cheap. Dodd simply doesn't understand the reality of the situation: these are throw-away soldiers, the Pentagon doesn't care about them, so why armor up Humvees?

• It's about time young people get with the program and stop buying into the patriotic nonsense and false promises of military recruiters. Bush and the Strausscons are determined to use up America's young people like so much kleenex and toss them on the trash heap. Patriotic Americans defend their country against invasion--not fight Israel's wars against Islam and Arab nationalism. Saddam Hussein did not attack America. In fact, Bush and Crew have yet to provide evidence that Arabs attacked on September 11, 2001. [more]
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