U.S. Senator John Kerry told a group of college students they could either study hard in school or “get stuck in Iraq.” Sounds sensible advise to me. Since the draft was abolished in the U.S. many men and women born in poor families end up in the military because it’s about the only place where they can get a job and earn a living. Then they get send to Iraq and either get stuck there or return maimed or worse, in a body bag. Study well and you may avoid this bloody fate.
Well, what had Bush and his fellow war-criminal Republicans to say about this? “We should agree that every one of our troops deserves our gratitude and respect.” Oh yeah? What for? For invading a sovereign country based on blatant lies? A country without WMD, with no links to Al Qaeda and which would have been better off in 2006 under the presidency of Saddam the Butcher?
82,029 people voted in the CNN Quick Vote as I write these lines. 57% say John Kerry should not apologize for his remarks. The Republicans believe they can use Kerry’s remarks to turn the tide, which is going against them. They are wrong.
Suppose for a minute that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Il decide to send their troops to invade the U.S. because they rightly believe the U.S. people would be better off without Bush. Should their troops then “deserve our gratitude and respect”. Well, no they don’t, because invading another country cannot be justified and they would be guilty of the crime of aggression.
That’s exactly the crime the U.S. military is guilty off. The only thing they deserve is to be brought to justice as guilty of the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Starting with the Commander-in-Chief.
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