SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

by

Mona Lassiter

Marine Lance Corporal Don Gray was spoiling Saturday for face-to-face battle with the shadowy resistance fighters who have frustrated U.S. forces. "If we fight them, we will kill them," said Gray, "I want to kill them so that we don't have to come back in two months, two years, five years, 10 years ..." To support our military is to support the destruction of humanity. To honor our service men and women means to embrace the evils of this world and all it encompasses, violence, slaughter, mass destruction, rape, human torture, corporate fraud, and illegal imprisonment. The major media cheerleading squad continues to keep score, (as if it's a sporting event), and broadcast how proud we are of them as innocents are robbed of their lifeblood. Well I'm not proud of any of them, especially when knowing that they volunteered to go there to begin with. I'm not proud of the fact that they now know there are no WMD's. I'm not proud of the fact that Bush arrogantly replied "So what's the difference?" to Diane Sawyer when she pointed out that no WMD had been found. I'm not proud in knowing that they can, but don't, apply for conscious objector status. I'm not proud that they've been brainwashed to acquire the taste for human blood of innocents, a thrill for killing all life forms, and they become the Timothy McVeigh's of tomorrow. I'm not proud that some of them rape men, women and children and will be returning to our society and living among us. I'm not proud that the invisible veterans who were psychologically destroyed by previous wars are missing limbs, living out of cardboard boxes and eating from garbage cans, and we don't support them. "Bring them on." Just like Bush taunted the Iraqi troops to attack U.S. troops. Shroud them in the US flag and be as patriotic as you like. Tie yellow ribbons around trees in remembrance while there are still trees on the earth. What has the earth done that is so horrible that our vital life-sustaining environment should be destroyed for millions of years with depleted uranium? Support our troops and welcome them home dead, alive, poisoned or maimed for life. If they come back alive, welcome them with open arms and incorporate these trained mass murders filled with radiation back into civilian life. Make deformed babies just like the 500,000 in Iraq. Let us all take a look in the mirror and experience the new deformed faces of humanity in a bankrupt America without healthcare, jobs, and education. Since we asked for others what we want for ourselves and we do reap what we sow, is there any surprise that we are to be on the receiving end of "Shock and Awe"? Anyway what is a troop's life worth? $20,000., food stamps, a uniform, and maybe a few benefits. "Secretary Rumsfeld said troops from Vietnam War conscription 'added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services ...'"

We have no defense for this war, no justification, no reason: except for the fact that our military is being used to protect and serve the excessive greed of corporate political donors and their global buddies. Yes, corporate America, the takers that offer nothing back to America, except more war, more drugs, more prisons and more stock offers. No taxes, no jobs, no benefits, and MIA 401K plans, unless of course you're a politician. Our government, (that means we the people) are sacrificing our youngest and brightest for this. "Support Our Troops" while we spend our last great days watching political prostitutes twist our national consciousness with blatant lies and decadent half-truths. In Iraq, troops paid with our 4 billion tax dollars every month are acting as bodyguards to private contractors and oil executives who are stealing, robbing and pillaging the cradle of civilization that was once the Garden of Eden. In the meantime, our 1 party Demopublicans have acted like wolves guarding the hen house as they aided and abetted the ransacking and theft of the Iraqi and U.S. Treasury for decades to come. Their children are tucked away in private schools and country clubs and they will inherit billions of blood stained dollars without having to sacrifice their lifestyle, or even breaking into a sweat, except on the tennis court. For the rest of us, it will be our kids dying, killing and destroying so that the perverse can maintain their overwhelming desire for greed.

Maybe the next time you hear the slogan "Support Our Troops" you will realize that in order to do that, we all must turn our back on our Creator and break all 10 commandments. We must violate billions of years of universal laws. If you have an ounce of spirituality or humanity in your soul, support our existence. Support our troops to embrace enough moral fiber to apply for conscious objector status before another flag draped coffin brings them home. Barbara Bush, the President's mother and former first lady publicly stated to Barbara Walters, "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

The real question is why are our troops in the Middle East killing thousands of civilians for your family's greedy private interests Barbara? How much more proof is needed before the White House Administration is Impeached and turned over to the World Court? How many more books should be published with documented proof before begin impeachment proceedings against Demopublician Lawbreakers who refuse to uphold the Constitution? How many more witnesses must come forward that end up silenced? How many more pictures do we need to print before we realize that we are the terrorists, and we are major investors in the end of humanity as we know it?

After all that has been revealed, we're still left with the beheading of Nick Berg and informed by one of Bush's advisors that "finally all that pressure being piled on by those abuse photographs has all but blown away. To be honest our spin doctors were working 24 hours a day trying to pull us out of that quagmire and along come our enemies and do it for us. I must remember to thank them when I've had the marines fry their testicles and nail their asses back to last July for doing something like that to a potential Bush voter."

Note that "the marines" are our loved ones who have names, faces, and families, something that cable news rarely mentions. Some of those marines will die fighting for an evil cause and be brought home draped with another U.S. flag made in a foreign factory. Support Our Troops, who according to Rush Limbaugh are "having a good time. These people: you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of needing to blow some steam off? Head Rush who calls torture a 'brilliant maneuver' and the prison torture photos 'good old American pornography.'"

Dear sisters and brothers, descendants of Adam and Eve, this is a call to all citizens of the world who believe in the Almighty Creator. We still have a choice. We can continue to support this evil corrupt cancer called hate that we are exporting throughout the world. We can continue to donate to the cursed political candidates who work on behalf of themselves and major corporations against our well-being. We can continue to invest trillions of tax dollars and our future in the manufacture and sale of WMD's. We can continue to be sheep blinded by patriotism and deliver up our children to be sacrificial lambs in a cursed war that will NEVER end, and we NEVER win.

Or we can choose to support life in all forms; support the end of this destruction, support the future of humanity; support the replenishment of the environment; support the elimination of weapons of war; support acceptance of our global neighbors who are also made in His Image. Most importantly, support the teachings of spiritual laws and the 'Golden Rule': do unto others, as you will have them do unto you.

May 2004