"...We should never, as a policy, maltreat people under our control, detainees. We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A." - US Army General Barry McCaffrey commenting on US television in 2009 about US Army troops in Iraq.
Tag: Army
“conservative” Pentagon budget includes NASCAR
No, really, the "Conservative" TeaPotty and Republitards have voted to continue funding sponsorship of NASCAR teams as part of their "Recruitment" budget. Yep, get the kids into the Murder Machine any way they can. So-Called conservatives don't even care about their own kids. Much less anybody elses' kids. Hell, they see a kid and they reach for their AK 47. Why do Republican TeaTard Minutemen Klan Militia members Hate American Kids? Why do they hate the English language so much that they continue to call their greedy overfed herd of Hogs "conservative" when it's obvious they conserve absolutely NOTHING? Leaving alone "patriotism" and "freedom" and "morality" and "family values" and Christianity. Just a bunch of babykillers as far as I can see. Why don't the NASCAR drivers go into the military, seein' as how they're so all fired up about going to other countries, taking everything from the people and killing anybody who objects? (especially the kids, them Republicans sho' does love them some babykilling) Couldn't possibly be that they're not healthy enough, they brag all the time about being Professional Athletes. Then again, so does Rush Limbaugh's equally Chickenshit brother David. Guess they're as skilled at lying as they are at being Gutless Wonders.
TSA and Pentagoons play same lame blame game
TSA of course saying that people being angry about their Neo-Gestapo (betcha thought I was gonna say "nazi" huh?) thug tactics would cause delays. And not their Thuggish heavy-handed State-Sponsored Terrorism. The people, you see, have no right to resent being treated as criminals with no evidence. Guilty until proven innocent. Then blame anybody who acts any way non-docile or non-subservient for the punishment THEY, the Gesta errrr... Noble Defenders of freedom CHOOSE to inflict on other people. There's a counter-terrorism standard employed and enjoyed by every dictatorship, including the U.S. Military "free" puppet governments, (not just the Nazis, although they're the ones most famous for it) where they would round up local civilians in areas where a "terrorist" attack had occurred and simply execute some of them, and made sure to tell the survivors to blame it on the actions of the Resistance Fighters. That's the TSA tactic. Also, the Pentagon/State Department Gesta tactic for dealing with Wikileaks. Kill the messenger. Never mind that it's not the REVELATION of their many murders and miscellaneous misdemeanors, mayhem and malicious malfeasance that's caused their shared TSA/DoD/DoS/DoJ problems. It's the actual commission of their multiple misdeeds that caused the problem. If they didn't want the name surely it would have been easier to avoid that by not playing the game. The best way to avoid gaining an undesirable reputation as a Babykiller is simply not actually killing babies. That way you can point out, hey, no actual dead babies, no babykilling. But a bunch of dead babies and other Former Humans chewed to pieces by the weapons of ones Armed Forces is bound to rouse suspicions.
Interesting wording: Taliban blamed for Afghan civilian deaths
First the generic word Taliban. Which translates, if I've got the wording right, according to the State Department, "soldier". More or less. Then "blamed for". Is that a tacit admission that they're catching the rap but not in fair measure? Then there's the notion that the "Taliban" in general and al Qa'eda in particular have been driven far from civilian population centers. So that's two conflicting if not Mutually Exclusive stories being told by the same party, the Koalition of the Killing. At its most blunt, its an admission that they're losing, in the first part, and that they were covering it up with a blanket of lies about having the Taliban driven far away from the civilians. Then there are the Wikileaks files. Which tell a third tale, by the Same Party, Koalition of the Killing, in what they thought were Secret communications. By the way, Free the Hero Bradley Manning!! Aside from that, there's an old Baptist adage provided by some Old Baptists who i happen to know. If you don't want people to find out what you're doing, don't tell anybody. There's a really sad story you hear a lot from people convicted of felonies. "My accomplice snitched me off to get a good deal from the DA." The more serious the crime, like say, War Crimes, and the more often it's committed, and the more accomplices you have... then the more people will want to find out who is responsible for those crimes, and will be snooping around. Usually armed with subpoenas and warrants but ALWAYS armed with well, Arms. Cases that involve human deaths and especially the deaths of Children tend to draw a LOT more attention. Now, the way the Army and Co. set up their communications and storage of those communications is critical to their relative success at doing their crimes. The bigger the Army, the more records, the more copies of Accomplices ratting each other out, only, in a system where they're ratting each other out to each other and the evidence stored by their own Criminal Organization to help figure out what happened when their Criminal Organization loses its collective rosie-red Arse. Such as what's happening now in Greater VietRaqiStan. I can't help but believe that quite a few people in the Pentagoons actually DID know right from wrong, they KNEW that the tactic of Might Makes Right ALWAYS has backfired, they KNEW they were telling lies... because other than them having this certain knowledge of what they were doing, and why it is WRONG, you would have to have a couple of million complete Airheads running the Weapons storage and utilizations system known as the Military, and... the largest one on the face of the Earth. Dumb, or lying. Not much of a choice, is it?
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Statistical Manipulation
This has a two part trigger, for me, I saw a bus stop sign saying that 1 in 5 returning soldiers have TBI and a BBC headline about "stocks fall on manufacturing data", the last being a poorly constructed sentence that can be read two ways, manufacturing as a noun or as a verb transformed to adjective. Either way it would be accurate, recent events on Wall Street show they've been manufacturing the data for a long long time. But with the TBI example, we get some really complex thought-lines from the one sentence. Is that perhaps 20% of ALL returning military personnel? Even with that 20% being limited to Combat Infantry personnel that would be a shocker. And you KNOW the Army would make it minimal. They've been treating (and getting busted doing it) TBI as "underlying personality disorders with onset prior to service" which means the Pentagoons are Covering Their Collective Poopy Butt. That gives them the opportunity to give the soldiers thus affected anywhere from an "Unfit for Service - Psychiatric" Honorable Discharge BUT, since it's not officially service connected, they don't have to pay a dime to the broken soldiers. Just throw them away and holler "NEXT!"... To Bad Conduct or Dishonorable discharges complete with Prison Time if their injuries, or battlefield-induced psychoses caused by an overdose of combined Conscience and Unconscionable Deeds they're ordered to commit, cause them to commit "crimes" like telling their Commanding Officer to fuck himself and go kill the "enemy" civilians himself if he wants them dead so damn bad. That's called "mutiny" and punishable by death at the highest level or "insubordination" and punishable as a Federal felony at the lowest. By denying TBI and PTSD claims the Pentagoons can handle a lot of the symptoms of both as crimes, to be punished, rather than as symptoms of damages caused by the Pentagon Mission. They can also punish the soldiers for "malingering" - faking illness to get out of performance of their duties... if they report the symptoms to Medical Personnel and Medical, who are under orders from their "superiors" (which would make themselves "inferiors", something the military discourages you mentioning) and if those orders pointedly Exclude diagnosing PTSD or TBI, that means the Medical Personnel themselves would be required to report the soldier for "malingering". They did that crap with Agent Orange victims too, and still do. File an A.O. claim and they'll investigate YOU as a criminal rather than Monsanto, Dow and Union Carbide... That leads to the Other Interpretation of the statistic. If "Soldiers" is limited to the Army, possibly the Marines, that's still the largest chunk of Military personnel and would mean possibly 37% of returning Army and Marine Corps being affected. That's one in three instead of one in five. Be All That You Can Be, as the lying ass recruiter slogan used to say.
Pentagoons arrest Army Spc Bradley Manning in Global War On Truth
For providing the footage of the "Suicide By Cop" Helicopter Murders of Reuters reporters and civilians in Iraq. The person who snitched him off for money ,a former high-profile hacker, Adrian Lamo, said he didn't want to "obstruct justice" as in, actually have Murderers punished for their crimes. The BBC report also falsely claims that the group of CIVILIANS murdered by the Helicopter High-Tech Hit Men "contained some Armed Men" even though the Murderers and their accomplices didn't bring forth any such evidence. Just when I thought I could count on the BBC to put out a report unbiased by the Pentagon Warmonger Thugs. - handed his name to US authorities because of concerns over US national security and because he did not want to be found to have been "obstructing justice" in the course of any investigation. "National Security"? NONE of the victims provided a threat to the security of the United States. God-Damned Lying Prick. So when does the PROOF of the FACTS that the U.S. Army is on an unregulated murder spree in Iraq and routinely murders CIVILIANS, then LIES about their murderous actions, become a "threat to National Security"? The Army commits heinous War Crimes and dares the people to provide evidence of their crimes, then when somebody IS man enough to provide the evidence, they have their PIG comrades in the FBI and Homeland "security" arrest the man. Bradley Manning is the hero of this affair, and those who MURDERED civilians, whose victims included CHILDREN, are Cowardly Skulks. Some "Operation Enduring Freedom" they've got going there. Must pretend that we're over defending America and liberating the people. Lying sack of putrid decadent bloodstained shit.