Yes, an excellent time to Honor Our Troops, thank you for your the reminder! Recently a friend posted a link to this article on Facebook:
http://reason.com/blog/2011/05/16/marine-survives-two-tours-in-i
reason.com
"Please send me an ambulance and you can ask more questions later, please!" Guerena tells the dispatcher that her husband had returned home about 6:30I heard an interesting radio interview with Darius Rejali, a professor of political science at Reed College,and a nationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. He discussed how the US introduced the practice of waterboarding into the Philippines a century ago, and when the soldiers returned to civilian life as policemen (the sort of job many of them end up doing) they introduced the practice domestically.
He said something very similar in a different interview I was able to locate online: "We all know what waterboarding is. What we forget is that waterboarding was a technique that, although it was learned in the Philippines—we've all seen the New Yorker article, I'm sure, on how that happened—those soldiers, when they come back, what kind of jobs do they get? They get jobs as policemen. They get jobs as private security people. And very soon, in the 1920s, all those techniques from the Philippine war started appearing all across the United States. They were used on conscientious objectors during World War I. The techniques that appeared in Chicago in '72 to '92 were all techniques that we have already documented in Vietnam that MPs were quite familiar with, right? So, after every war, people come back."
It sounds like the SWAT team handled this raid much as the Seals handled the Bin Ladin assassination. I expect this sort of thing is going to be commonplace, and will continue to be until Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and the people they train, retire.
The domestic terror these damaged men and women introduce into our county will no doubt make the sordid history i touched upon here look mild by comparison, after being multiply deployed, despite severe physical and mental injuries. Because the war is so unpopular, and so people to willingly commit themselves to the unfortunate cause, there is a push to get them back out on the battlefield as soon as possible after incidents. The awareness of what repeated exposure to concussive blasts is doing to their brains is only starting to develop.
So if only for self-preservation, it is urgent that we support the troops, by bringing them home immediately.
He said something very similar in a different interview I was able to locate online: "We all know what waterboarding is. What we forget is that waterboarding was a technique that, although it was learned in the Philippines—we've all seen the New Yorker article, I'm sure, on how that happened—those soldiers, when they come back, what kind of jobs do they get? They get jobs as policemen. They get jobs as private security people. And very soon, in the 1920s, all those techniques from the Philippine war started appearing all across the United States. They were used on conscientious objectors during World War I. The techniques that appeared in Chicago in '72 to '92 were all techniques that we have already documented in Vietnam that MPs were quite familiar with, right? So, after every war, people come back."
It sounds like the SWAT team handled this raid much as the Seals handled the Bin Ladin assassination. I expect this sort of thing is going to be commonplace, and will continue to be until Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and the people they train, retire.
The domestic terror these damaged men and women introduce into our county will no doubt make the sordid history i touched upon here look mild by comparison, after being multiply deployed, despite severe physical and mental injuries. Because the war is so unpopular, and so people to willingly commit themselves to the unfortunate cause, there is a push to get them back out on the battlefield as soon as possible after incidents. The awareness of what repeated exposure to concussive blasts is doing to their brains is only starting to develop.
So if only for self-preservation, it is urgent that we support the troops, by bringing them home immediately.
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Teresa Tittle <ttittle1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Please Watch this video and Honor our Troops this weekend, Thank you and may God Bless You!
Please Forward this to as many people as possible.
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