{"article":{"id":117066,"heading":"The more US troops that die the better","author":"atticus finch","created":"2004-09-20 17:47:42","modified":"2004-10-01 03:19:09","last_modified":"Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:19:09","article":"<p>Every US soldier who dies in Iraq is one less murderer\/rapist\/torturer on the loose, one less obstacle to the self-determination, democracy and freedom of the Iraqi working class.  <br><br> Democratic Party loyalists and their suck-ups, like Fernando Suarez Del Solar of Military Families Speak Out, cry: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s immoral and racist to not support the US troops.&rdquo;  <br><br> What is really immoral and racist is to support the US troops as they murder, rape and torture their way around Iraq for the benefit of the imperialists and at the tremendous cost to the working class people of color of Iraq.  <br><br> What is really immoral and racist is to try and wash the Iraqi blood off the US troops&rsquo; hands by putting the entire blame for all of the war crimes that have happened (and will continue to happen) in Iraq on Bush &amp; Co.  <br><br> What is really immoral and racist is to use the anti-war movement in the US to promote the imperialist presidential candidate Kerry.  <br><br> What is really immoral and racist is to display pictures of all the dead US troops at anti-war rallies while ignoring the Iraqis who were murdered, raped and tortured by these very same troops. <br><br> The anti-war movement in the US, which protests only against wars that are started by Republican presidents, is really a &ldquo;Vote Democrat&rdquo; movement.  Immoral and racist to its rotten core, it stands as a pillar of US imperialism.  <br><br> Supporting the anti-colonial resistance in Iraq is the only moral, anti-racist and logical thing to do.  <br><br> SUPPORT THE ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE IN IRAQ BY REFUSING TO SUPPORT THE US TROOPS!  <br><br> HOLD BUSH &amp; CO, THE US GOVT AND THE US TROOPS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR WAR CRIMES! <br><br>  <br><br>  <br><br>  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"atticusfinch@mail.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Some anti-imperialist words for those who really are against the US occupation of Iraq. ","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/09\/117066.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":117068,"heading":"please","article":"I thought this shit went out with the 60s.\r\n\r\nThe sadistic assholes are in the private sector, and called mercenaries.  They're mostly middle aged professional soldiers, law enforcement, security, etd.\r\n\r\nThe typical soldier is a young person with some ideals.  They probably didn't expect to be in whatever the fuck they're in now.  How many young people really know what's going on, and have a conception of what &quot;fucked up&quot; really is?  They don't.\r\n\r\nThat's why they are signed up, molded into killers, and sent to war.  It's ritual abuse.\r\n\r\nYou can undo what the military does to people.  Most people get out, and fix themselves up.  (And the rest go on to become mercenaries :-) )","author":"more rational","parent_id":117066,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-09-20 21:00:16","modified":"2004-09-20 21:00:16","fileurl":""},{"id":117084,"heading":"a soldier's sotry","article":"follow the link to a scary story about one soldier's experience.","author":"more rational","parent_id":117066,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-09-21 20:07:45","modified":"2004-09-21 20:07:45","fileurl":""},{"id":117103,"heading":"atticus fink, take your meds","article":"Take your meds, pal.\r\n\r\nYou're a walking, talking pamphlet for the communist party.\r\n\r\nit would take a special kind of subnormal to buy what you're selling.  Sadly, too many sheepdogs think  they're being more rational by listening to this crap.  \r\n\r\nTime to go take a steaming KPC.","author":"Imperialist","parent_id":117066,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-09-22 20:17:43","modified":"2004-09-22 20:17:43","fileurl":""},{"id":117304,"heading":"re: please","article":"&quot;The typical soldier is a young person with some ideals. They probably didn't expect to be in whatever the fuck they're in now. How many young people really know what's going on, and have a conception of what &quot;fucked up&quot; really is? They don't. &quot;\r\n\r\nYou mean to tell me they don't know what murder is when they see it?\r\nYou mean to tell me they don't know they are killing innocent people? \r\nYou mean to tell me they think it's right to go half way around the world to kill people who never did a god damn thing to hurt anyone in the US?\r\n\r\nUS troops are not victims! They should not be supported unless they refuse to obey orders or organize a rsistance within the US military.\r\n","author":"atticus finch","parent_id":117066,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-10-01 03:19:09","modified":"2004-10-01 03:19:09","fileurl":""}]}