Re: How to approach the troops?

["lvnadal" <lvnadal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 "Walter Lippmann":

> Excuse me, Richard, but how would YOU
> appeal to the troops? What would you be
> saying to the troops right now as they're
> being killed thanks to Bush and Blair?
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I would never be so presumptious as  to answer for Comrade Harris, but for
myself I might just appeal with the exact words Comrade Lippman supplied:
"Hey, you're being killed thanks to Bush and Blair."  I might say "Hey,
you're being paid to fuck over people more fucked over than yourself .
That's democracy."  I might say "Hey, ask your captain what his folks do or
did for a living, compare it to what yours do, and if you take an Iraqi
prisoner, ask him what he or his folks do, see which income group you're
closer to."   I know I would say "Reduce your profile.  Keep your weapon
clean.  And don't get yourself fucked up on behalf of Cheney's severance
settlement."  I know I would say, "You think these people want you here?"

You know I would say:  "When your officers talk about success and failure,
they're discussing career opportunities.  When we talk about it we're
talking about the difference between breathing and not breathing."

I know I would say, as I did say:  "Remember that SDS slogan?  Bring the War
Home? Well, this war's coming home all right, and you won't like it one bit
when it gets there.  Five hundred thousand chickens coming home to roost.
Now that will be goody time."