Reply #27: Another story about green card soldiers!

[Emillereid]

US attacked over green card soldiers


Nearly 40,000 of America's frontline soldiers are not US citizens.


By James Gooder


09/01/03: (Aljazeera) Many of the troops on duty in Iraq do not count English as their first language and would prefer to take orders in their native tongue ... usually Spanish.


The revelation has prompted British MP George Galloway, one of the fiercest critics of the invasion of Iraq, to accuse the US of using its "green card" troops as cannon fodder.


Galloway went on to attack the US policy of putting its poor minorities and non-citizens in the frontline of its foreign wars.


In an exclusive interview he told Aljazeera.net that it was part of a long US tradition of using its underclass as cannon fodder.


The statistics, buried by White House spin doctors, reveal that a significant minority of troops fighting under the US banner are not in fact US citizens but residents hoping to speed up their citizenship.


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"Of course the underclass has now become increasingly more Hispanic than black."


Disproportionate casualties


This explains why a disproportionate number of the so-called US casualties in the invasion and occupation of Iraq have borne Latino names.
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The Pentagon says that there are 37,401 non-US citizens on active duty, and that joining up has a special incentive for them - an American passport.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4584.htm