REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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Yes, folks, today is Imperialist Cannon Fodder Day. The ruling class, and their flunky Bush, have been using it to try to whip up war frenzy among a reluctant American populace, which really doesn't want to invade Iraq. So here's my tribute to all you unfortunate wretches who have been sucked into the U.S. Imperial military by the poverty draft, and now are about to be led off to the slaughter in the Middle East, and to all the poor deluded wretches who have been used as cannon fodder by the U.S. ruling class, then callously cast aside when no longer useful.
Having been in the Imperial Army myself, I know the many wondrous treats of military life: being abused and reviled by a bunch of barely literate redneck lifer scumbags, kicked out of bed in the early morning before dawn, forced to do menial labor like picking up cigarette butts, cleaning latrines, etc. But those are the minor things. They pale before the larger atrocities.
An excellent example of how AmeriKKKa "rewards" its veterans is provided by the true story of the Bonus Army in 1932. WW1 veterans were voted "bonuses" by Congress, but had to wait twenty years to collect them. In 1932, many of them were ut of work, hungry, and desperate (just as many are today!), so they marched on Washington demanding they be paid their bonuses then, not later. Instead of receiving their bonuses, they received brutal and vicious repression, administered by troops then on active duty. General Douglas MacArthur (may his name live in infamy forever!) led the operation. Major Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton were also involved. MacArthur gassed the veterans ("gassed his own people"!), and set their camp on fire. Two vets died, and a thousand were injured by gas. That's the sort of gratitude you can expect once you get home-- if you come home, that is. I hear the Pentagon has ordered lots and lots of body bags.
Then there's "friendly fire." It's bad enough to have the other side shooting at you. But the U.S. military is so brutal and vicious, it even murders its own soldiers! Think of all the American soldiers who have died from "friendly fire." They don't give a fuck about you! They're just using you as pawns in their dirty game of world domination. Historian Howard Zinn notes that American prisoners of war were probably among those who died in the Nagasaki atomic blast. The U.S. warlords were notified there were likely U.S. war prisoners one mile north of the city, and went ahead with the barbaric act of mass murder anyway.
Happy Imperialist Cannon Fodder Day-- suckers!
Having been in the Imperial Army myself, I know the many wondrous treats of military life: being abused and reviled by a bunch of barely literate redneck lifer scumbags, kicked out of bed in the early morning before dawn, forced to do menial labor like picking up cigarette butts, cleaning latrines, etc. But those are the minor things. They pale before the larger atrocities.
An excellent example of how AmeriKKKa "rewards" its veterans is provided by the true story of the Bonus Army in 1932. WW1 veterans were voted "bonuses" by Congress, but had to wait twenty years to collect them. In 1932, many of them were ut of work, hungry, and desperate (just as many are today!), so they marched on Washington demanding they be paid their bonuses then, not later. Instead of receiving their bonuses, they received brutal and vicious repression, administered by troops then on active duty. General Douglas MacArthur (may his name live in infamy forever!) led the operation. Major Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton were also involved. MacArthur gassed the veterans ("gassed his own people"!), and set their camp on fire. Two vets died, and a thousand were injured by gas. That's the sort of gratitude you can expect once you get home-- if you come home, that is. I hear the Pentagon has ordered lots and lots of body bags.
Then there's "friendly fire." It's bad enough to have the other side shooting at you. But the U.S. military is so brutal and vicious, it even murders its own soldiers! Think of all the American soldiers who have died from "friendly fire." They don't give a fuck about you! They're just using you as pawns in their dirty game of world domination. Historian Howard Zinn notes that American prisoners of war were probably among those who died in the Nagasaki atomic blast. The U.S. warlords were notified there were likely U.S. war prisoners one mile north of the city, and went ahead with the barbaric act of mass murder anyway.
Happy Imperialist Cannon Fodder Day-- suckers!
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