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Troops Want Out; End the War or Serve the State

29 January 2007, 23:44

"Our soldiers are proud of their mission, and do not want us ot leave."

Really. Polls show a different result. See:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12103.htm

"It does not help anyone for people to be protesting the war at this time."

How else is the war going to end? With no victory conditions set, it’s hard to anticipate our departure. And just who will guard the oil fields? Mercenaries, all 25,000 of them in Iraq, aren’t enough to secure the oil.

If the war were actually accomplishing something, we could perhaps tolerate its continuation, theoretically. But back here on Planet Earth, the Iraq War is killing thousands. The death rate accelerates as the conflict drags on.

Protesting is the only way to end this war. Until Americans are drafted, resistance is not as widespread, which is a sociological requirement for persistent war. If the war doesn’t affect American lives, it stays out of the the public conscious. Cindy Sheehan had the unfortunate experience of being one of those affected by Bush’s war. Rather than sitting back and doing nothing to prevent other mothers from sharing her fate, she’s protested the war.

And about terrorists: there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq until we invaded. Like the war on drugs, the terror war is about extending governmental power over the individual. It has no end, as the violence the war creates (terror inflicted by the State) engenders more terror in response. It’s a win-win for mil-ind complex and Right-wing ultranational militarists. For as long as war drags on, the more they can make off people’s suffering and the more our foreign policies can be bent to serve the interests of colonialism.

Help stop the war or you will be victimized by the State in its endless quest for power.