A Soldier Tells It Like It Is
An American veteran of Iraq takes issue with Mike Huckabee’s declarations about how the war in Iraq must be continued ‘for’ the troops’ ‘honor’. As detailed by this former combat soldier, there is no ‘honor’ regarding the situation there. For one, this combat veteran explains how he thought we were fighting for ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, not honor. He also goes on to point out that regardless of this discrepancy, this war has nothing to do with ‘honor’ or ‘freedom’ or any some such, but instead is predominantly about economic profiteering multinational corporations such as KBR and geopolitical strategy for enabling a fatally delusional Neo-Con wet dream of American empire.
Additionally, Huckabee’s comments are dangerous on many levels, but most notably to me is his insistence that “United We Stand” in America means we must unite behind The Leader and national policy, no matter how criminally misguided and dangerous it is. To Huckabee, to be an American in the 21st Century is no different than the responsibilities of being an Italian in the 30’s or a German in the early 40’s. Pretty disturbing stuff, especially the hearty applause he receives for making such comments by all the ‘Good Germans’ who seem to make up the membership of the modern GOP.
Update: It seems the video file has been pulled. Hopefully the Iraq veteran who originally posted it will be able to re-post it or update it.
on January 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am
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