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Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq
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"It’s not just the guys with the guns that are killing in Iraq, it’s the truck drivers who are coming back really messed up because their orders are to run over anything that doesn’t get out of the way. In a country with a big urban population, with lots of children, they are running over children. That’s the dark dirty little secret that people don’t want to talk about."
"It’s not just the guys with the guns that are killing in Iraq, it’s the truck drivers who are coming back really messed up because their orders are to run over anything that doesn’t get out of the way. In a country with a big urban population, with lots of children, they are running over children. That’s the dark dirty little secret that people don’t want to talk about."
It seems to me if you are a vet and try to tell anyone what horrific orders you sometimes get from those in command...which you are expected and trained to follow, that you risk being labeled negatively like they tried to label Kerry, just as some tried to fault the ones responsible for turning in and reporting on the prison abuse in Iraq.
In schools, if you turn in someone doing something bad, you are often labeled as tattle tale or ordered not to speak out, often ostracized. Later, when something bad happens, people ask and wonder why nobody spoke out and told the teachers or parents about it. It makes it more difficult when more blame is placed on the one trying to help by telling the truth than what is sometimes placed on the one committing the offense or illegal actions in the first place.
In schools, if you turn in someone doing something bad, you are often labeled as tattle tale or ordered not to speak out, often ostracized. Later, when something bad happens, people ask and wonder why nobody spoke out and told the teachers or parents about it. It makes it more difficult when more blame is placed on the one trying to help by telling the truth than what is sometimes placed on the one committing the offense or illegal actions in the first place.
QUOTE(VIETNAMVET @ Nov 12 2004, 07:58 PM)
Excerpt ...
"It’s not just the guys with the guns that are killing in Iraq, it’s the truck drivers who are coming back really messed up because their orders are to run over anything that doesn’t get out of the way. In a country with a big urban population, with lots of children, they are running over children. That’s the dark dirty little secret that people don’t want to talk about."
"It’s not just the guys with the guns that are killing in Iraq, it’s the truck drivers who are coming back really messed up because their orders are to run over anything that doesn’t get out of the way. In a country with a big urban population, with lots of children, they are running over children. That’s the dark dirty little secret that people don’t want to talk about."
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