Re: In Defense of war criminals?

Reality check time.

What can we expect when we train 18 year-olds combat tactics and skills? Let's face it, infantry types are not necessarily the pick of the litter, to start with. Those with technical skills (or aptitudes)are filtered-out for schooling on various systems. Those remaining, with above-average aptitudes, usually get diverted into medical or administrative billets. What's left are the cowboys and the slower types. The cowboys are mixed in with the slower guys and all are taught the fine art of killing. We called 'em "ground pounders" in my day. Invariably, the grunts win the battles 'cause they capture the "dirt." Quite honestly, it would take one hell of a different situation than what Bush has placed this country in to entice me to give my life as a patriot. Die for oil...my ass!

Anyway, mix a well-trained killer with the best killing tools ever devised, first hand views of buddies getting maimed\killed by
zealots and you have guaranteed atrocities.

What really bothers me is the civilian occupations these folks prefer or return to when they retire or are transferred back to their guard units. Do they switch to the "gentle" mode?

Why is a citizen that defends his country from an invader, defined as a terrorist or an insurgent? Did Iraq surrender?

RED DAWN...
A film depicting the invasion of the United States from the north and south by communist forces from Nicaragua and Russia in the beginning of WWIII and the efforts of partisans from a small mid-western town to turn back the invasion. This film is one of the basis of the beliefs of the citizens militias and patriot groups about the possiblity of a U.N. takeover of the U.S. The movie and the theory of the New World Order proposed by the militias are similar, invasion by a foreign force, a big gun grab, arrest of gun owners, military equipment being moved on railroads, enemy helicopters re-education facilities (concentration camps), and a citizen force that strikes back



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