Disabled Veteran's Tribute Upsets Army Recruiters In Minnesota

And the truth should eat at you.

Especially the truth about Iraq.

:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5693570

and there are a few other threads floating around as well. :)

"The seven recruiters at the station here, six of whom have served in Iraq, want the sign taken away. “It's disheartening,” Staff Sgt. Gary J. Capan, the station's commander, said.

“Everyone knows that people are dying in Iraq, but to walk past this on the way to work every day is too much,” Capan said."
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Capan should be grateful that people are honoring the sacrifice of his fellow soldiers rather than ignoring their deaths.

You should try it. Wankers!

to many people. It creates great potential for meaning(s) where few or little meaning/purpose existed previously. Afterall, you have to justify all of that dying somehow.

I wish anti-war efforts focused more on what we do to others when we decide to kill for whatever purpose. That discourse could focus more on why the following statement is literally true:

Oil Royalty = Pilate
BushCo = Herod
ALL Innocent Dead = Jesus
You = ?

Recruiters, blame the neocons who squander your lives and morale--not the citizens who point it out.

Or isn't that the story they use over and over to get the kids to join up???

:kick:

It's horrible they'd consider putting out signs discussing death. You have to put signs up promoting death, or tricking others into dying nowadays. :sarcasm:

I mean after all if people weren't dying how could bush possibly make the republicans look good for cheating an election for him? :eyes:

They get more free advertising from video games and patriotic news cuts on the networks.

But one private sign has them all bent out of shape.

claiming to be fighting to give iraqis those same freedoms? do they not see the hypocrisy?

or two with pictures and profiles of all soldiers KIA on it.

--One woman who had just returned from duty in Iraq, he said, found the sign especially disconcerting and impersonal. “It was upsetting to veterans who don't look at their friends and colleagues killed as numbers on a list,”--

And...remove his sign, on what grounds?

None.

... the army is looking for plenty of NCOs in Iraq. Go there, and the sign will no longer be part of the daily routine, and no longer a reminder that the U.S. Army is subordinate to a civil government that is supposed be serving a democracy with constitutionally guaranteed freedoms for its citizens.

These self-admiring idiots have been on the propaganda drug for so long that they have completely abandoned any connection with reality. This kind of attitude in the military is what the nation will continue to reap as long as the military is continually cheered on like some kind of home town football team on steroids. FWIW, I think civil-military relations in the 1930s had some things to recommend to the modern day, particularly the idea that soldiering was not seen as a popular thing to do. After the generals garnered glory in World War II, they found the glory a likeable thing and pretty much have poured dollars into making sure things stayed that way ever since, with the notable exception of the Vietnam War. I have not explained the genesis of this situation well, but there is a 1985 work that hits the theme expertly: "The Pentagon and the Art of War", by Edward Luttwak.

Cheers

BH

doesn't it you POS. Just remember you recruits, you are just an OFU (One Fodder Unit), not a human.