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I tried hard to be proud of my service
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but all i can feel is shame
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The racism you can not master the reality of the occupation
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it’s the people it’s the human beings
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I seem i claim by guilt everytime i see
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an eldery man like the one that could’t walk
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and we brought by the stretcher and we called the Iraq’s Police to take him away
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I feel guilt everytime i see a mother with her children like the one who cried hystericly
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and screaming that we are worst than Saddam, as we forced her from her home.
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I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm, and dragged into the street.
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We are told we are fighting terrorists;
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the real terrorist was me and the real terrorism is in this occupation.
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Racism within the military has long been an important tool
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to justify the destruction and occupation of another country.
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It’s long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another people.
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Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government.
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It’s a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship.
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It’s more destructive than an artillery shell or a bunker buster, or a Tom Hawk Missile.
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While all those weapons are created and owned by this government,
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they are harmless without people willing to use them.
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Those who send us to war do not have to pull a trigger, or lab a mortal round.
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They don’t have to fight the war, they merely have to sell the war.
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They need a public who is willing to send their soldiers in the harms way.
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They need soldiers who are willing to kill and be killed without question.
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They can spend millions on a single bomb, but that bomb only becomes a weapon,
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when the ranks of the military are willing to follow orders to use it.
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They can send every last soldier anywhere on earth,
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but there’ll only be a war, as soldiers are willing to fight.
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And the ruling class, the billionaires who profit from human suffering
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care only about expending their wealth controlling the world economy.
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Understand that their power lies only in their ability
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to convince us that war, oppression and exploitation is in our interest.
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They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability
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to convince the working class to die to control the market of another country.
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And, convincing us to kill and die is based on their ability
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to make us think that we are somehow superior.
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Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen,
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have nothing to gain from this occupation.
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The vast majority of people living in the U.S. have nothing to gain from this occupation.
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In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain,
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but we suffer more because of it.
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We lose wings, and bear trauma and give our lives
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Our families have to watch flag draped coffins rolling into the earth.
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Millions in this country without health care, jobs or access to education,
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just watch over this government squander of a $ 450 million a day in this occupation.
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Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in other country
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and make the rich richer
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without racism we realize that we have more common with the Iraq people than we have with billioners that send us to war
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We need to wake up and realize
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that our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land
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the people whose names we don’t know
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and cultures we don’t understand
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The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify
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The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable
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the enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable,
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the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable,
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the Banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable.
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Our enemies are not five thousands miles away
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the are right here home
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but if we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers
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we can stop this war we can stop this government and we can create a better world
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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign ennemy…
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The loss of Liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger
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real or imagined from abroad…”
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– James Madison –
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Edité par Phaedrus
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