Letter to Vets for Freedom

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Letter to Vets for Freedom
by Clifton Hicks | Mon, 11/05/2007 - 11:47am

“War is a racket, it always has been... a few profit, and the many pay.”
- Major General Smedley D. Butler (two-time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor)

It is every active duty service member and veteran's duty to resist this and any illegal and unconstitutional war. The only true patriots during this dark time in our history are either dead or working to bring the troops home. Just as there is nothing honorable or patriotic about war, there is nothing honorable or patriotic about your organization; you are pro-war, pro-imperialism, pro-lies, and pro-death, you are anti-peace, anti-freedom, anti-military, anti-constitution, and ultimately you are anti-American. Your interests are not those of America and her citizens, the overwhelming majority of whom have learned to hate this war and their corrupt administration, your interests are those of corporate greed, war profiteering, aggression, imperialism, and fascism.

How come nearly every single one of you people that I've seen or read about are Lieutenants and Sergeants? When I look at your little war pictures and read your poorly written bio's my vision is overflowed with images of lazy, incompetent, cowardly Officers with a handful of brain-dead NCO's to do their dirty work, as usual. I wonder where you boys all served? The Green Zone, BIAP, on some spit and polish General's staff perhaps? Or hell, maybe you actually were in combat, maybe you had the pleasure of ordering teenage boys to their deaths for a pack of lies, maybe you gave the orders to kill civilians and imprison the innocent, maybe you got to stand over your soldiers in your clean uniforms and new boots while they toiled to fix all the shit you broke on your last joy-ride mission, maybe you got to get drunk with all your old West Point buddies, laughing and joking all night because you knew nobody could punish you for it, maybe you even payed a couple dollars that night to get your dick wet in your favorite interpreter girl. And then, at the end of your long and glorious deployments, you all got Bronze Stars just for showing up.

Regardless of where you were and what you did over there, you all missed something. You somehow skipped the part where it all came crashing down on you like a ton of bricks and you finally realized, "Holy shit, this war is WRONG!" I don't know how you could possibly have missed that one but you managed to somehow, perhaps you all aught to go back and give it another try. You obviously haven't had your fill of dead children and burning shit, of ringing ears and aching bones, of blood and of tears, of grinding innocent people under you boot heels.

This war will end someday and when that happens it will not be because of your efforts but of mine. I suggest you read the constitution and the bill of rights, I suggest you crack a history book, I suggest you sit down and think long and hard about this war and your roll in it. Assuming that your organization is not completely forgotten and overlooked in years to come, history will prove that you were wrong, that you spread a message of death and fear, and that your logic was horribly flawed.

Peace,

Clifton Hicks
Private, US Army (Ret.)
C Troop, 1-1 Cavalry
Baghdad, Iraq OIF-1



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[NYVet]

1. A question for you.

I know that you, as the OP, did not write this letter, yet you have posted many comments that show your support of this letter.



As for this being an illegal war, the United States Congress approved the invasion of Iraq, and has not yet revoked that authorization.

Please tell me where in the US code this war is illegal? (And also post the related section where you found it. IE XX USC XX)

[zbdent]

2. "Congress approved the invasion of Iraq,"

was that the authorization to use force against "terrorists"?

As I remember, unless you're talking about the 1991 attack on Iraq, there wasn't any formal declaration of war on Iraq by Congress ...

[NYVet]

3. I speak of the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002"

House Joint Resolution 114, whch passed the House with a vote of 296-133 and the Senate 77-23.