REDWAVE
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SOLDIERS!
Why are you in Iraq? Is it to stop the threat from Saddam Hussein's "huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction"? No, because not the tiniest trace of any such weapons has been found. Is it to topple the dictatorship of Hussein and his Baathist Party? Again, no-- the U.S. government supports many brutal dictatorial regimes in the same region, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, etc. Is it to "bring democracy to the Middle East"? A thousand times NO! The U.S. government has even engineered the overthrow of democratically elected governments, such as that of Mossadegh in Iran, replacing it with the brutal dictatorship of the Shah. How can Bush bring democracy to the Middle East, when we don't even have democracy here at home? We all know the real reasons you have been sent to Iraq: to control the oil of the Middle East, and further the cause of U.S. world domination.
Soldiers! We know that most of you don't want to be there. You are there only because you have been ordered there. We know also that you live in constant fear of attack, and that the attacks on you by guerillas are much more numerous than what people are told back here at home. We know that many of you have been crippled and maimed for life, losing an arm, a leg, an eye, your manhood, etc. We want you brought home NOW!
Soldiers! We know that many of you live in horrendous conditions, ten to a tent, suffering in the heat, in the dust-- while the Army brass and the Air Force flyboys live in luxury and opulence! We also know that many of you are reservists, and have seen your lives totally disrupted, and in some cases destroyed, by being called up. In many cases, your income has drastically declined, you have lost your civilian jobs, your family has been hounded by creditors, your marriages or love relationships have fallen apart under the pressure of separation and poverty. As one reservist said: "One weekend a month, my ass!"
Soldiers! Bush and his rich cronies are just using you, and laughing at you. He has not attended a single funeral of your fallen comrades. They regard you as chumps and suckers. While sending you off to fight and die, they have cut veterans' benefits! They are fighting a lawsuit to get compensation for American troops who were captured and tortured in Iraq in 1991! They don't give a damn about you! To them, you are just cannon fodder to be used to fight and die for oil and empire. YOU will get to make the sacrifices and endure the hardships; THEY will reap the benefits. Bechtel, Halliburton, and other big companies are reaping a bonanza in Iraq from their shameless war profiteering. They get the gold mine. You get the shaft.
Soldiers! When you come home-- if you come home-- there will likely not even be a job for you. Back here, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. They are celebrating a so-called economic "recovery" even while job losses mount! Many of the homeless here are vets. You will be used and then discarded, squeezed dry like an orange and then thrown away!
Soldiers! You have been lied to repeatedly. They told you the Iraqis would welcome you with open arms as "liberators"-- did that happen? They told you that you would be home quickly-- did that happen?
Soldiers! Tens of millions of Americans are filled with anger and outrage against Bush and his gangster regime, but their voices are largely stifled and suppressed by the lying corporate media. Mass demonstrations have already broken out against the occupation of Iraq, and will only grow larger over time. Your family, your friends, your loved ones all want you back home!
Soldiers! We know many, if not most, of you are blacks, Latinos, or poor whites. This war will not benefit you or yours, only the filthy rich pigs who exploit and oppress all the rest of us. You are committing the same ignominious crimes against the Iraqi people which the cops commit against your friends and neighbors here at home! Not only that, but the war you have been sent to fight is an immoral one, a colonial war of repression, and a violation of international law. The Nuremburg Tribunal, set up by the U.S. itself after World War Two, established the precedent that obeying orders is NOT a defense to charges of war crimes. The illegitimate Bush regime is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity right and left in Iraq! You have a moral duty to resist and disobey unlawful orders.
Soldiers! The Iraqi people are NOT your enemy. They are victims and pawns, just as you are. Your true enemy, and theirs, is the same: the lying warmongers who sent you there, and the filthy rich parasites they front for.
Soldiers! In Vietnam, another unjust war of imperialist aggression and mass murder of poor, dark-skinned people, many U.S. soldiers refused to fight. When a gung ho officer tried to force them to fight, he received a little present, in the form of a live granade rolled under his tent flap in the middle of the night. Even the most gung ho officer has to sleep sometime . . .
SOLDIERS-- TURN THE GUNS AROUND! Shoot your officers down! Rise up in rightful rebellion against the lying warmongering scum who sent you off to die for oil and Halliburton! The world will applaud you for your heroic resistance to imperialist aggression.
-- Statement of the Fourth Internationalist Committee. Reproduce and distribute as widely as possible, especially to U.S. military personnel.
Why are you in Iraq? Is it to stop the threat from Saddam Hussein's "huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction"? No, because not the tiniest trace of any such weapons has been found. Is it to topple the dictatorship of Hussein and his Baathist Party? Again, no-- the U.S. government supports many brutal dictatorial regimes in the same region, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, etc. Is it to "bring democracy to the Middle East"? A thousand times NO! The U.S. government has even engineered the overthrow of democratically elected governments, such as that of Mossadegh in Iran, replacing it with the brutal dictatorship of the Shah. How can Bush bring democracy to the Middle East, when we don't even have democracy here at home? We all know the real reasons you have been sent to Iraq: to control the oil of the Middle East, and further the cause of U.S. world domination.
Soldiers! We know that most of you don't want to be there. You are there only because you have been ordered there. We know also that you live in constant fear of attack, and that the attacks on you by guerillas are much more numerous than what people are told back here at home. We know that many of you have been crippled and maimed for life, losing an arm, a leg, an eye, your manhood, etc. We want you brought home NOW!
Soldiers! We know that many of you live in horrendous conditions, ten to a tent, suffering in the heat, in the dust-- while the Army brass and the Air Force flyboys live in luxury and opulence! We also know that many of you are reservists, and have seen your lives totally disrupted, and in some cases destroyed, by being called up. In many cases, your income has drastically declined, you have lost your civilian jobs, your family has been hounded by creditors, your marriages or love relationships have fallen apart under the pressure of separation and poverty. As one reservist said: "One weekend a month, my ass!"
Soldiers! Bush and his rich cronies are just using you, and laughing at you. He has not attended a single funeral of your fallen comrades. They regard you as chumps and suckers. While sending you off to fight and die, they have cut veterans' benefits! They are fighting a lawsuit to get compensation for American troops who were captured and tortured in Iraq in 1991! They don't give a damn about you! To them, you are just cannon fodder to be used to fight and die for oil and empire. YOU will get to make the sacrifices and endure the hardships; THEY will reap the benefits. Bechtel, Halliburton, and other big companies are reaping a bonanza in Iraq from their shameless war profiteering. They get the gold mine. You get the shaft.
Soldiers! When you come home-- if you come home-- there will likely not even be a job for you. Back here, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. They are celebrating a so-called economic "recovery" even while job losses mount! Many of the homeless here are vets. You will be used and then discarded, squeezed dry like an orange and then thrown away!
Soldiers! You have been lied to repeatedly. They told you the Iraqis would welcome you with open arms as "liberators"-- did that happen? They told you that you would be home quickly-- did that happen?
Soldiers! Tens of millions of Americans are filled with anger and outrage against Bush and his gangster regime, but their voices are largely stifled and suppressed by the lying corporate media. Mass demonstrations have already broken out against the occupation of Iraq, and will only grow larger over time. Your family, your friends, your loved ones all want you back home!
Soldiers! We know many, if not most, of you are blacks, Latinos, or poor whites. This war will not benefit you or yours, only the filthy rich pigs who exploit and oppress all the rest of us. You are committing the same ignominious crimes against the Iraqi people which the cops commit against your friends and neighbors here at home! Not only that, but the war you have been sent to fight is an immoral one, a colonial war of repression, and a violation of international law. The Nuremburg Tribunal, set up by the U.S. itself after World War Two, established the precedent that obeying orders is NOT a defense to charges of war crimes. The illegitimate Bush regime is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity right and left in Iraq! You have a moral duty to resist and disobey unlawful orders.
Soldiers! The Iraqi people are NOT your enemy. They are victims and pawns, just as you are. Your true enemy, and theirs, is the same: the lying warmongers who sent you there, and the filthy rich parasites they front for.
Soldiers! In Vietnam, another unjust war of imperialist aggression and mass murder of poor, dark-skinned people, many U.S. soldiers refused to fight. When a gung ho officer tried to force them to fight, he received a little present, in the form of a live granade rolled under his tent flap in the middle of the night. Even the most gung ho officer has to sleep sometime . . .
SOLDIERS-- TURN THE GUNS AROUND! Shoot your officers down! Rise up in rightful rebellion against the lying warmongering scum who sent you off to die for oil and Halliburton! The world will applaud you for your heroic resistance to imperialist aggression.
-- Statement of the Fourth Internationalist Committee. Reproduce and distribute as widely as possible, especially to U.S. military personnel.
haven't seen it expressed that way before...
