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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Interesting post at Wired. # @trollout- I’ve known many other soldiers like you that think you can justify the slaughter of innocent men,women, and children by saying you are fighting for every Americans freedom. That we would not be safe leave our homes if it weren’t for you and me over there fighting and slaughtering people. There is no justification for murder. There is still murder during a time of war. Justify it by defending it if it helps you sleep at night. I’ve killed people that didn’t deserve it just because I was ordered to. No other reason. Unarmed, everyday people on more than one occasion. The war zone was made by us and I helped make it. Apparently you haven’t had to take a life, or lives for that matter. Well I have taken many in the false name of freedom and democracy. 33 that I’ve counted and have to live with for the rest of my life. All of these instances were never provoked by the enemy because they were not the enemy, yet we were ordered to fire. Some just wanted to shoot their M4’s so bad they didn’t care what or who they shot at. I know what I did was wrong but ordered or not I am still liable for those lives. Hell, the field manual says ” I was ordered to” is no excuse. These “insurgents” never fired on the helos nor anyone on the ground in the 5 minutes before the choppers opened fire. NO positive ID was observed. Just some pilots word. Don’t make the mistake of questioning my service to this country. I signed up to defend it, not to murder for it. War is horrible, but there used to be honor and bravery in it. There is no honor in slaughter. There is no honor in shooting and torturing prisoners either, but we do it. I don’t expect the enemy to have this honor but I do expect us to have it. We don’t set a very good example. If there is hate for this country, we made it. If there is distrust in this country it is because we earned it. And if this country ever falls, it will be because we deserved it. We live in a country were it’s people despise it’s President that 68 percent of us voted for because of the color of his skin. We are the land of freedom and liberty yet we stop people at our borders and turn them around denying them entry. Our government lies, cheats, and steals to get its way and bend the laws around our needs. Why is this worth fighting for? This country hasn’t had to fight for it’s freedom since the revolutionary war. Every other war we’ve been apart of has been someone else’s war. And the only reason we get in on it is because there is something in it for us. Not because we are proud or to help others. It’s because it will help us in some way. Yet we hide this fact by calling it freedom fighting or whatever. We use the press to scare our people into believing that we are constantly under attack with colored threat levels and other bullshit. America is like a guy who hits a dog and then when the dog bites he has the dog put down. We bother these other countries with laws and policies and occupation until they bite, and then we put them down. Who provoked the dog to bite? We did. You can’t blame those people for not taking our shit. They don’t want our system of government, they want their own. Why we feel we have to force feed our system on everyone is beyond me. I am strong believer in God. And God split everyone up and made thousands of different languages and races of people back in the Old Testament for a reason. He wanted us all to be different but still get along with our fellow nations. Not try am push ourselves on them. Rome fell because of this, Hitler fell because of this, and some day it will be our turn to fall because of this. To go on with no regard for human life, weather in war or not, is sick. Justify it however you want, But there is a right and a wrong and these actions will always be wrong… # Posted by: huangxiaohan | 04/7/10 | 9:14 pm | Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/military-releases-report-on-2007-apache-attack-and-questions-linger/#ixzz0kW4lDL37
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That soldier gets it, from top to bottom. Thanks.
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