NorthernGent
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My brother is in the Army. He got back from Iraq in late October.
He will not speak about much in Iraq, for many reasons.
Once, he told me about the children. He used to gather up some of the local children, and bring them to his trailer and play video games with them. One day, when one of the boys had beat him in some game with guns and what not, he turned in utter fear to my brother and asked " Nice Mister, you will not kill me, too?" Floored, my brother looked at him and asked him what he meant. "You are nice, Mister, but your people kill my family." My brother asked him about this, and the boy told him that his father, grandfather and uncles had all been killed. He asked the other boys huddled in his trailer who had stories like this and 7 out of 9 boys admitted that most of their male relatives had been killed.
My brother, though very right wing, at that point only wanted to get out of there. He is still haunted, and nothing we as his family can do for him alleviates that. More Iraqis are dying than we either document or give a damn about.
Puella, it sounds like the reality of war. If an army is sent somewhere, civilians are going to be killed including leaving kids parentless, homeless etc. It can't be good for soldiers involved because they have to live with that - it goes without saying that we're all human, regardless of political affiliation.
A group of British soldiers were caught on camera kicking the shite out of young kids in Iraq. It was there for all to see and at least two of the soldiers were clearly heard laughing their heads off and they seemed to be getting a real thrill from the whole experience.
On your brother being right-wing, I think we're leading parallel lives......my sister left Britain to live in Dubai - partly to reduce her tax bill, my dad was in the RAF (they all vote conservative because they direct funding towards defence), my mum and the rest of my family are ardent royalists.....the queen makes a speech on TV at 3pm every Christmas day here...I once considered phoning a child abuse helpline because I had to sit through it before I was old enough to do my own thing :-) I keep telling them that what they don't see is the queen training her corgis to attack the poor and what they don't understand is that she shot diana in the face, at close range, in a tunnel in Paris (all because diana's butler ran off with a couple of silver spoons from buckingham palace).
I think we can all agree that Clinton had a certain amount of charm, whether not or he was sincere is a different story.
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