8000 Mexican and Mexican-descent troops are in US mil. in Iraq

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/ross02212005.html

"You Could See the Fear in Their Eyes"
Mexico: the Pentagon's Proxy Army in Iraq


Mexico, which unlike its Central American neighbors was never a member of George Bush's "Coalition of the Willing", now has the largest contingent of any Latin nation fighting on the ground in Iraq--8000 Mexican and Mexican-descent troops who voluntarily joined the U.S. armed forces.

All Central American contingents save for Salvador, which also has a considerable number of security and construction personnel on the ground, have been withdrawn from Iraq by their governments.

Mexico's bellicose national anthem speaks glowingly of "a soldier in each son of God" and Mexico's sons have been marching off to wars--albeit U.S. wars--since Pearl Harbor. Bush's doomed aggression in Iraq is no exception.

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Just about half of the 110,000 Latinos (Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans, Ecuadorians, Mexicans) in the U.S. military are of Mexican descent, and 22,000 out of the 37,000 non-citizens serving in anticipation of obtaining U.S. citizenship, are similarly of the Mexican persuasion--most of them smuggled into the U.S. as kids without legal documents.
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have Mexicans been fed kool aid? are they so poor that murdering people for america (and getting injured and murdered in return)is worth it? american citizenship is worth more then life?

our borders are open because the bushgang wants them open - and you know it

[ArkDem]

1. What is a Mexican descent troop? Do they climb down mountains?

[Wind Dancer]

2. DOD doesn't even count the deaths or injuries to non-citizens.

I think poor Latinos, desperate for US citizenship, are being manipulated by our current policies.

Promises are being made by this government and these kids believe in the American dream, the kool-aid tastes better if you are thirsty. What will happen when they find out the kool-aid is poisonous?

[SouthernDem2004]

3. Huh? DOD counts the death of any U.S. soldier regardless of what country

he was born in.