Open letter to the troops.

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http://counterpunch.org/goff06152005.html

An Open Letter to US Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq

By STAN GOFF

I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

I thugged around in eight different places in East Asia, Latin America, and Africa, where I pointed guns at people. Like you, I was an instrument of American foreign policies ­ policies controlled, then as now, by the rich.

In the course of that career, I heard everything you have heard and felt everything you have felt about "loyalty."

Tricky thing, loyalty.

[Qanisqineq]

1. I like it

To the point, not flowery, tells it like it is. Fuck yeah! I'll send it to my husband, but he's a soldier that feels no "loyalty" to return to Iraq.

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2. kick

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3. kick