Don’t Enlist
by Roedy Green ©2002-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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Don’t Enlist
“Accelerate your life!”
~ Navy recruiting slogan. This is refreshingly honest —
effectively, “Get your life over with faster.”
Here are reasons I think you should not enlist in the US military and join the
Iraq war.
- According to the US
Army about nine in every 1,000 soldiers deserted in fiscal year 2007, which
ended 2007-09-30, compared to nearly seven per 1,000 a
year earlier. Overall, 4,698 soldiers deserted in 2007, compared to 3,301 in
2006. These are not draftees deserting. They are people like yourself, eager for
war, who knew full well they would be killing innocent civilians and children.
They knew about suicide bombers and IEDs. You are certainly aware of how harshly
the army treats deserters, and you know the life-long disgrace society heaps on
deserters. Yet still many young men like yourself decided to face the
consequences rather than continue to fight in Iraq. What happens to you in Iraq
must be pretty awful. Think how painful it would have to be before you would
even think of deserting, much less actually do it. Shouldn’t you at least
talk to some of these deserters to find out what it was that sent them over the
edge? If you think you might not be able to handle it, now is the time to find
out. Sometimes the army shoots deserters, a fairly harsh punishment for not
doing a little research before enlisting. Those guys that deserted were just
like you. They too thought they could handle it no sweat. What would it hurt you
to find out what it was that made them crack?
- On average, a surgeon has to amputate
the genitals of two wounded US soldiers each day in Iraq.
- You may be killed. Your family, friends and people who love you will have a
lifetime of heartache. Any children you would have fathered will be aborted with
you.
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You may be maimed, have one or more limbs amputated or lose half your face or
your penis and balls. According to military historian Gwynne Dyer, for every
person killed, 8 are seriously maimed. You will live the rest of your life
disabled. You may be so disfigured you will never have sex again. You will be
stuck with the bulk of the medical bills. Modern medicine can resuscitate badly
maimed people who would have died in previous wars. This means the Iraq war is
cranking out an unusually high numbers of seriously maimed people.
- Many returning from Iraq become mental
basket cases unable to deal with the horrors of war and the guilt at what
they have done. They beat up their children and wives and are emotionally
distant. Friends and family reject them. They can’t hold down a job. They
become homeless. Look at the way American treats the homeless vets of the Viet
Nam and Iraq wars begging on the streets. Watch some documentaries about the
shell shocked vets. One grabbed a clerk by the throat when she did not hand over
the change with sufficient respect. Others wake up screaming in the night
decades later reliving trauma. Most have marital breakdown. The sound of packing
bubbles popping sends a vet to the floor in cover. Another found he could not
handle his job clearing up road kill since he could not shake his fear there
were bombs hidden underneath the carcasses. You will become, at least to some
extent, a nutcase. 28% of Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan are
classified as having serious mental problems such as suicidal tendencies, post-traumatic
stress disorder or depression. The Veteran’s Association estimates 37% of
American soldiers returning from Iraq are classified as having serious mental
problems. Even the Bush administration admits 15% of soldiers returning from
Iraq suffer from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
On 2007-11-11 CBC Newsworld Sunday Night aired a
documentary called PTSD: The War at Home about Iraq vets suffering
from PTSD who snap and kill their families and neighbours. According to the
documentary, to get treatment for PTSD, there in a terrible catch 22, men must
sign up for another potential tour of duty in Iraq. They can’t face that
so they go untreated. According to CBC Newsworld documentary, aired 2007-11-13
16% of Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan have a dangerous drinking
problem, e.g. drunk driving.
I feel so ashamed of myself. It is even worse than when I was in Afghanistan. I
have nightmares all the time. I feel so empty because I don’t know why I
did what I did in Afghanistan.
~ Travis, Canadian soldier returning from Afghanistan.
- Over half the soldiers who served in the Gulf War, died of Gulf War Syndrome or
were treated for it. They were in Iraq for only weeks. You will be there years.
Read the fine print. Bush is keeping soldiers in Iraq for years after their
contract expires. To this day no one knows for sure what causes Gulf War
Syndrome.
- You will be exposed to DU (Depleted Uranium), as were soldiers in
the first Gulf War. This may cause cancer later, or even more likely will cause
your children and their children to be genetically
deformed. Check out the middle part of this video
that shows what sort of children are common to those exposed to the DU-laden
winds in Iraq. Imagine explaining to your wife why you did this to her. Also pay
attention to parts how can make your wife and family sick indirectly.
- Iraq is no threat to the USA. You are not defending your country. There
were no WMDs. Even Bush admits Iraq had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks
on 9/11. All that mayhem is for nothing, unless you count stealing oil for Exxon
as a worthy cause.
“We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September
11th attacks.”
~ George W. Bush,
2003-09-17, audio.
The USA illegally
attacked an unarmed country under false pretenses. The war is about ignoble motives
such as oil and world domination. There is utterly no point is you risking your
life in Iraq.
- You will be routinely ordered to kill civilians and children, and commit other
violations of the Geneva conventions, according to 12-year Marine Staff Sergeant
Jimmy Massey. Once you are in the military, resisting is very difficult. You
will be shot or imprisoned, and treated extremely badly if your conscience
awakens. American soldiers have already killed 100,000
civilians, mostly children, and that was before Fallujah. You will kill them
to. That is what soldiers do, kill people they are ordered to. If you don’t
believe me, have a long talk with some vets about their experiences. Keep in
mind they won’t be proud of it, and won’t leap to tell you what they
have done.
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for
their country.”
~ Bertrand Russell (1872-05-18—
1970-02-02)
- There is some chance you may be ordered to guard and torture
POWs.
- If you are very unlucky you may be ordered to participate in the raping
of young Iraqi boys
and preparing kiddie porn videos of the rapes for Bush.
- The back
door draft. Everyone has been kept in Iraq far longer than the agreed term.
If you find it intolerable, there is no way out. You have no idea how long you
are really signing up for. Before you sign up, google for the phrases “back
door draft” “stop-loss”
to see what a trap you are getting yourself into. Marines who have finished
their terms and gone home find that later they are dragged
back for involuntary duty.
- Since Kofi Annan and Boutros Boutros Ghali of the U.N. have declared the Iraq
invasion and occupation illegal,
you will technically be an international war criminal. This means you may at any
time be arrested if you leave the country to travel in a country that subscribes
to the International Court in The Hague. It is a hanging offence, though more
likely it will be commuted to life imprisonment. The USA may not forever be
powerful enough to protect you from prosecution, even on home soil. Everything
you do in the Iraq war is illegal since the war itself is illegal. Even if you
don’t kill, you are still guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, on the
same principle the guy who drives the get-away car is guilty of bank robbery.
You are in much the same position as a German participating in the invasion of
Poland. Recall that some Nazis faced prosecution even into their 90s.
- The base pay for active duty killing people according to the goarmy.com
recruiting site is
a year for a private E1. Granted there are bonuses
such as housing and food, same as you would get in a civilian job outside your
home city. You are liable to be shot at 24/7. Presuming you get two promotions
to an E3 level, that works out to
a day, or
an hour. If you are a private your pay does not even increase after 6 years of
experience. Minimum wage at McDonald’s is
a hour. You are an idiot to risk your life for such paltry pay, especially when
the work has nothing to do with defending your country. Recently the military
has been offering higher and higher one time enlistment
bonuses. People now realise they are not signing up to defend their country,
so are demanding higher and higher bribes to sell their souls. The very
existence of these bonuses indicates that soldiers know full well what a morally
sleasy job they are signing up for. People don’t need to be bribed to
defend their country against a real attack.
- Iraq is a hot, pestilent, fly-blown, stinking, hell hole.
- Presuming you are a believer in punishment in the afterlife, since you will be
killing innocent civilians, mostly children, you will without doubt be
condemning yourself to eternal damnation. That dread will hang over your head
the rest of your life.
- When you get back, your government will treat you like shit.
They reneged on veterans benefits, housing, health care, rehab…
- When you return, many people will spit on you and treat you like shit. They will
call you “baby killer” and “baby rapist”. You will
receive ever increasing abuse over your lifetime as the horrors and injustice if
the Iraq war surfaces. If you travel outside the USA, it will be even worse.
- Joining the US military is a bit like joining the Mafia or the Bush crime family
as an enforcer, or plotting to murder a child. It is not something you should do
lightly. You should not do it just because other people told you to, or because
the ads were cool, or because it’s an easy job to get. You should check
out carefully who it is you will be killing and why your are going to kill them.
That is your responsibility, not just the president’s. Once you are in the
military you no longer get to choose who you kill. You are the one who will pull
the trigger. You should be sure such murders are necessary, not just that the
person you plan to kill “hates America”, which may well be a
perfectly rational response after what America did to him, his family and his
country and no reason to kill anyone. In Afghanistan, you will find the reason
to kill is to guard a pipeline for Unocal and to guard the opium crop for the
Bush crime family that, through Afghanistan, now controls 87% of the world’s
heroin. In Iraq, you are there to steal oil for American oil companies by
terrifying the locals through shock & awe into giving it up. You also want
to consider the consequences to yourself. You are setting yourself up as a war
criminal, same as any Nazi. Iraq is an illegal war. You are potential subject to
the same Nuremberg war-crimes trials as the Nazis were. Following orders is no
excuse for murder or torture. Also consider the penalty you will take on your
physical, mental and spiritual health. Plan enlistment as carefully as you would
any other premeditated murder of a stranger.
- Enlisting is an almost irreversible step, like selling your soul to the devil,
or taking your first shot of heroin. Once you hand yourself over the army, they
will beat your personal will and morality out of you using standard brainwashing
techniques (sleep deprivation, exhaustion, humiliation, repetition…) and
replace it with blind obedience to military authority. You will never again have
truly free will. Never again will you be fully human. You will become part robot,
part killing machine. Your ability to reflect on the big picture of what you are
doing will be inhibited. You will become as mindless as a lemming. You are not
the sharpest knife in the drawer as it is or you would never even have
considered enlisting. Sumbitting to military indoctination will kill off your
remaining spark, intelligence and ability to think for yourself.
- Recruiters
will lie outrageously to you. ABC caught them on tape saying things like “Your
odds are 10 times higher being killed in the USA than Iraq.”, “The
war is over long ago.”, “If you don’t like it, you just just
quit. It is if it never happened. It is called a failure to adapt discharge.”
and “Nobody’s being sent to Iraq. They are bringing them back.”
- You may have seen movies from the WW II era and imagine women will find your
uniform and your life-risking enlistment an irresistible aphrodisiac. But you
are not defending your country. You will be butchering mostly civilians and of
them mostly children who have done nothing to harm your country. That does not
turn women on. Women are not big on serial killers. As they gradually find out
what you did overseas, even in vague terms, they will shun you. Think about it,
would you want to cuddle with a woman who killed 20 kids in cold blood? See my essay
on why women should avoid you. Would you trust a child killer to babysit your
kids? Of course not! No matter what excuses you make for it, you are still a
baby killer.
- According to the BBC, one in four veterans are homeless. According to The
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans one in three homeless people are
veterans. You might imagine you would return from the bloodletting a fêted
hero; not so. The psychological harm from extended terms of combat often renders
people so frazzled, they are unable to hold a job or even to negotiate the
bureaucracy to get government aid. U.S. troops wounded in Iraq are being ordered
to repay the bonuses they got for signing up, after war injuries cut short their
service. The administration betrays the injured, routinely denying them the
promised lifetime medical help.
- Thousands of people will show up to the funeral of a Mountie or firefighter
killed in the line of duty. Only close family and a few military personnel will
turn up for a funeral of a military hit man (aka soldier). Further, many people
will spit on your grave or curse you with their dying breaths to rot in hell for
eternity. If you want to be considered a hero, you must save lives, not take
them.
- Ask John McCain what is was like to be captured by those whom he had been
tormenting. In Iraq they have even more reason to hate you because the US
targets kids and innocent civilians, routinely uses torture and employs an array
of hideous banned weapons. The Iraqis would have even more motive to make your
life unpleasant than the people of Vietnam had to torture McCain.
- What sort of punishment do you think is appropriate for a serial killer who
travels half way around the world so that he can rape, murder and torture kids
with little chance of prosecution? Being shouted at, shunned, spat on, confined
to jail for life, raped, stabbed, horsewhipped, tortured and murdered himself?
If the Christians or Muslims are right, any of those punishments would be just a
wrist slap compared with the extreme after-death punishments inflicted for
eternity. Is the thrill of killing worth the risk? Eventually the guilt for what
you did will sink through your thick skull. Men a lot tougher than you have
spent the remainder of their lives waking night after night in a sweat screaming,
reliving their war crimes and war trauma over and over.
- According to CBC
News, the brass at the Veterans Administration are under fire for covering
up just how prevalent suicide is in veterans of the Iraq war. This is no
surprise. Once soldiers come back, they realise there was no justification at
all for all the atrocities they committed. By that point, the vets are useless
for further duty, so the VA disowns them. It hits the vets hard what utter scum
they are and, without any emotional support, they off themselves.
- There are many additional reasons not to enlist, which are reasons
why women should not marry you if you enlist. Being shunned by women is one
huge reason to avoid enlisting.
“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it
contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their
children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly and
wickedness of the government may engage itself? Under what concealment has this
power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous
and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal
liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty
of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life,
itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may
require it?… A free government with an uncontrolled power of military
conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense
that ever entered into the heads of men.”
~ Daniel Webster, (1782-1852), US Senator, Speech
in the House of Representatives, 1814-01-14
Most likely you will pay no attention to me, and you will sign up anyway. Think
of me when you are sitting in Iraq with one eye blasted out like a smashed
boiled egg, one leg missing and your penis dangling by a thread of skin. Think
of me in the mental hospital when you are afraid to sleep because the nightmares
of the kids you slaughtered come to haunt you. Think of me when you are on your
death bed, wondering how you will explain to your maker why you killed all those
people. Remember that I told you so. That is your natural punishment for being
such a smartass, sadistic little brat.
“In my youth I did that [killed people] for money, and rather enjoyed it.
The adrenalin rush, the gamble of life, youngsters tend to bit playfull
with life.”
~ Jim E, serial murderer, 2005-04-19
in alt.politics.bush,
believed living in Seattle, on why he enlisted in the 101Abn.
If you decide to enlist anyway, please ask your Mom to drop me a line when you
are killed or rendered a vegetable. I want to celebrate one more sadistic
asshole leaving the gene pool.
If you are a parent or relative of someone at risk for enlistment you might want
to check out LeaveMyChildAlone.org.
Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.
Friends don’t let friends take drugs.
Friends don’t let friends enlist.
Let Jesse Macbeth, Ranger vet who served in Iraq tell you what it is like. “We
would interrogate a family. We’d ask the man of the family a question; if
we didn’t like his answer, we’d shoot his youngest kid.” The
military blog sites claim this tape is phony.
Books
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recommend book⇒10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military |
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| ISBN10: | 1-59558-066-2 |
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| ISBN13: | 978-1-59558-066-5 |
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| publisher: | New Press |
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| published: | 2006-05-01 |
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| by: | Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Editor), Cindy Sheehan (introduction) |
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Some of the reasons include: - Over 2,000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and over 14,000 have been wounded.
- Nearly 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq as a result of the U.S. invasion.
- One in six soldiers returning from Iraq experiences mental health problems.
- Two-thirds of all recruits receive no college funding from the military, and only 15 percent graduate with a four-year degree.
- According to the VA, 90 percent of recent women veterans reported experiencing sexual harassment; a third were raped.
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