The Harsh Reality
The Blackwater disaster in Iraq is exactly what should have been expect to happen, by sending heavily armed macho men into a war zone with inadequate training and insufficient disciplined. They don’t have to answer to anyone, because they’re not subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice or to Iraqi law. This is not a new story. This has been going on with Blackwater ever since this war began.
Another aspect of this catastrophe, is that this would not have happened if more Americans had been required to share the sacrifice of this war, in the first place. Going to go war, ought to be a shared sacrifice by all segements of the population and our country shouldn’t be employing mercenaries. This war would not have happened, if the sons and daughters of the privileged elite were vulnerable to a draft.
There’s no question that our troops would have been doing the security details, which Blackwater mercenaries are doing, if there had been a shared sacrifice.
The ideological aspect of privatizing functions that used to be taken care of by government has serious consequences. The Bush regime wants to privatize as many government services as possible in order to make money off of it.
Our troops are fighting for Mobil and Exxon, who are making enormous profits. When Bush came in office, gas was a dollar and a half a gallon. Today, it’s over $3 a gallon and it’s affecting the lives of middle class Americans the most.
When will our representatives in Washington admit that this was economically driven war and is about our need for gasoline. We have to get down to the harsh reality that each life that was lost, each limb that was lost, each life that was ruined and changed irrevocably was for oil.
Another aspect of this catastrophe, is that this would not have happened if more Americans had been required to share the sacrifice of this war, in the first place. Going to go war, ought to be a shared sacrifice by all segements of the population and our country shouldn’t be employing mercenaries. This war would not have happened, if the sons and daughters of the privileged elite were vulnerable to a draft.
There’s no question that our troops would have been doing the security details, which Blackwater mercenaries are doing, if there had been a shared sacrifice.
The ideological aspect of privatizing functions that used to be taken care of by government has serious consequences. The Bush regime wants to privatize as many government services as possible in order to make money off of it.
Our troops are fighting for Mobil and Exxon, who are making enormous profits. When Bush came in office, gas was a dollar and a half a gallon. Today, it’s over $3 a gallon and it’s affecting the lives of middle class Americans the most.
When will our representatives in Washington admit that this was economically driven war and is about our need for gasoline. We have to get down to the harsh reality that each life that was lost, each limb that was lost, each life that was ruined and changed irrevocably was for oil.
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