"We'll be treating the symptom and not the disease"

[AnOhioan]

Found this blog post and it sums up nicely our situation.

It's starting to sink in...I'll have to go home, the opportunities to kill these fuckers is rapidly coming to an end

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-- email home from an unnamed Marine F/A -18 pilot in Iraq.

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Of course, his targets are all insurgents: no sense of any human capacity for doubt on that point. ... Hopefully, the man who wrote this ghastly thing is an aberration and not at all representative of the men and women in our military.

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I believe that Marine pilot is driven by the same forces that render the presidential candidacy of someone like Dennis Kucinich impossible in America. A country that feeds itself through the manufacture of war technology is bound to view peace, nonviolence and mercy as seditious concepts.
It will create policies first and then people to fit its machines, finding wars to fight and creating killers to fight them. If that's true of us, and I think it is, our troubles won't be over even if someone brings the Iraq war to an end. We'll be treating the symptom and not the disease. And the reason our elections are a sham is that the disease is never on the table.
Excepting the occasional Kucinich, no one in either party is interested in trying to change who we are, no matter how sick we become.

Entire post found at

http://joswift.blogspot.com/2007/03/support-our-troops-they-love-killing.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. The Romans were driven to madness (I tend to think) by the

lead pipes that carried water to their domiciles..... but then, the leaded gasoline of the 70's did leave more than a few Americans mentally deficient and potentiall violent for decades.

http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/lead/state.tcl?fips_state_code=09#blood_child
Counties in CONNECTICUT with the Greatest Reported Releases of Lead to Air:

Rank County Pounds
1. HARTFORD 1,011
2. NEW HAVEN 94
3. LITCHFIELD 52
4. NEW LONDON 11
5. FAIRFIELD 8

Counties in CONNECTICUT with the Greatest Reported Releases of Lead Compounds to Air:

Rank County Pounds
1. FAIRFIELD 473
2. LITCHFIELD 160
3. WINDHAM 138
4. NEW LONDON 109
5. NEW HAVEN 58

[donsu]

3. kicking truth to power

many toxins, bad schooling, media propaganda have and are making americans stupid

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. War takes our sweet and tender young boys and

makes them into cruel and hearthless men . Those who do not become heartless suffer terribly for what they are forced to do.

It is the way of war.

This is only one reason why I am a pacifist