An Open Letter To The Troops-From a Veteran Sonar Technician, U.S. Navy

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An Open Letter To The Troops:
"Fight For True Freedom Now!"

By Chuck Richardson

17 May, 2005
Bastardpolitics.com

Dear ______________:

I am writing to let you know I support you, as a human being, with all my heart; but can’t support your military service to the United States because it is enabling a criminal enterprise. Mafia hit men are never acquitted because they’re “just following orders.”

If the U.S. is defeated (and there are more scenarios for defeat than mission accomplished), you could be subject to prosecution in the International Criminal Court. Or, if not prosecuted, called as a witness. In the end, you will answer to yourself or God, if you hold such beliefs, for volunteering your services for meager pay and false hopes. Your behavior today will be judged tomorrow, and the day after that.

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Long after this war is finished for the Bushes, Cheneys and Rumsfelds, you will have to live with your first hand memories—the smell of burning flesh, the screams of mutilated women and children, the taste of polluted dust, visions of obliterated old people, perhaps even the physical and/or psychological pain of your own wounds, or the cancer caused by your exposure to depleted uranium. Where will today’s leaders be for you then?

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Perhaps you are privately wondering about your leaders’ wisdom—even their righteousness—as you risk your life or, perhaps, take the lives of others. If you’re not questioning them, I beg you start. If you have asked and don’t like the answers, do something about it for the sake of your own humanity. The future will thank you for it.

Peace,

Chuck Richardson

Citizen of the World, Veteran Submarine SONAR Technician, U.S. Navy

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-richardson170505.htm

[alittlelark]

1. Thank You for being a possible mentor to MANY who know...

... SOMETHING IS WRONG. You are helping them to figure out WHAT it is that they are confused about.O8)

[chlamor]

2. For Clarity's Sake

That individual who wrote the open letter is not myself. It sure is a powerful letter. hope it gets across the wire and into the eyes of many soldiers. Things like this can get around.

[alittlelark]

4. I know that, I was responding to the words, I should clarify also.

[alittlelark]

5. I know that, I was responding to the words, I should clarify also.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. This is why my son will not be going to boot camp this summer after all

"Did you know the suicide rate for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is above average for war veterans as a whole? Why do you think they’re doing it? How complicit are you in all this death by going along to get along? Sometimes, what seems to be the hardest thing now is the easiest thing to do in the end. Quit cold turkey—go AWOL, refuse to fight and support those who do. We’ll all live longer and better, especially you. How will you live in the future, what will you make of your past?"

I raised a beautiful, kind, smart boy. He told me last week, he is having second thoughts, even though he has signed the papers. He is realizing that they lied to him, and they are not defending the U.S., but destroying it. That's NOT what he signed up for.

[Karenina]

6. Kick!

:kick:

[B Calm]

7. People the world over will be suffering from exposure to depleted uranium

for millions of years.