[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] War Stories

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

Do you think that we won't have to pay for this?

The disgusting people who are urging votes for the Democrats and Obama are
supporting these crimes.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." [Notes on the State of
Virginia, 1781].

He was writing about slavery, but of course imperialism is just as bad.


On 10/30/10 9:24 PM, David Johnson wrote:
> I worked with a Carpenter friend of mine today and yesterday, who has a new
> son in law who is in the U.S. Army and has so far been in Iraq and Afganistan
> and will be going back to Afganisatn within the next 6 months. Anyway, the
> stories of his experiences he shared with my friend are very intersting. When
> he was in Iraq three years ago ( 2006-2007 ) he said that they trained a
> local Iraqi police force in a small city and the U.S. military gave this
> Iraqi police force all sorts of advanced weapons and vehicles. This guy's
> commanding officer found out that the Iraqi's had sold the equipment on the
> black market and pocketed the money, so the commander ordered his troops to "
> teach these Iraqis a lesson ". So this guy and his unit ( following specific
> orders ) went to the Iraqi police station one night, broke-in, and killed
> every police officer at the station. They then systematicly hunted down those
> out and about in the town on duty patroling and killed them too. Then the
> remainder, they went to their individual homes, kicked in their doors and
> pulled them out of bed in front of their wives and children and murdered them
> as well. When he was in Afganistan, on three different occasions, they had
> run off the Taliban in a certain area and had discovered poppy fields. They
> contacted their commanding officer via radio to get permision to burn the
> poppy fields and each time they were told ; " Do Not destroy the poppy fields
> " ! "You are to guard them until the CIA arrives and turn it over to them."
> ???? Is this typical of American foreign policy in action ? Back in the
> 1980's Jesse Jackson called American foreign policy " gangster diplomacy ".
> Well that seems appropriate, because when I heard these stories, my first
> thought was ; " Is this our government's deliberate policy or an episode of
> Gangland " ? David Johnson