Do you think Bush & cronies realize what mindsets they are bringing back to the United States? That we?

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..have a new breed of potential killers in our midst...not THERE, but here!

A DEAD IRAQI IS JUST ANOTHER DEAD IRAQI’
By Neil Mackay
HOW AMERICAN TROOPS VIEW THE WAR
Specialist Jeff Englehart, A 26-year-old American soldier from Grand Junction in Colorado, could not be more blunt. "I guess," he said, "while I was there, the general attitude was: a dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi."
His brutally honest assessment of how GIs view Iraqi civilians is a standard attitude in the US army held by many of Englehart's comrades.
Englehart was just one of 50 US veterans of the Iraq conflict interviewed by The Nation magazine, an American political weekly. It is a unique study which focuses on military attitudes towards the most vulnerable group of people caught up in the campaign: ordinary men, women and children.

Englehart explained matter-of-factly why American soldiers really don't care if civilians live or die: " <<>>>

Englehart explained matter-of-factly why American soldiers really don't care if civilians live or die: "The soldiers honestly thought we were trying to help the people, and they were mad because it was almost like a betrayal.

"Like, here we are trying to help you; here I am, you know, thousands of miles away from home and my family, and I have to be here for a year and work every day on these missions. Well, we're trying to help you and you just turn around and try to kill us.'"

It was only when soldiers got home, away from combat, that "the guilt really takes place, takes root," he said.

A recent report by the US Office of the Surgeon General of the US Army Medical Command found that only 47% of soldiers and 38% of marines felt that civilians should be treated with dignity and respect..

See mor of this article in the Sunday Herald, Scotland
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and before you answer just remember that I am aware that we are in a war, illegal, but still a war. I am aware of many other wars. I know people die in wars and that there are many many veterans who never did anything to hurt anyone once they came home.
But this is a war -- "like none other" to quote your president....
Many severely injured veterans are returning home that would not have returned home due to sophisticated life-saving techniques never tried before...
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There are many....recuperating, reflecting....
What will happen to these men...who cannot let it go?

Answer 1

The soldiers were duped just like most of the American people.

Answer 2

Like the Viet Nam Vet, they will be criticized instead of receiving help. Even the government will forget they were only doing what BUSH ordered them to do.

Answer 3

i hate to say this, but this is what you get when you have an all volunteer army.

there are going to be some selfless people who really want to serve and there are going to be some who just really dig the killing part of the job...