美國大兵的驚人演說 Amazing speech by war
Veteran -看不見的敵人
美國大兵的驚人演說：
“我們被告知是在反恐，然而真正的恐怖分子卻是我。這次佔領（伊拉克）才是真正的恐怖主義。
那些把我們送入戰場的人不必扣動扳機或反射迫擊炮，他們並不需要親自奔赴戰場，他們僅僅靠戰爭發財。
那些靠人類苦難而獲利無數的統治富豪階級，只關心如何擴大財富以及操控世界經濟。”
Transcript
for Amazing Speech by war veteran Soldier Mike Prysner:
And I
tried hard to be proud of my service but all I could feel was shame. The racism
could not longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people, these
were human beings. I've since been claimed by guilt anytime I see an elderly
man like the one who couldn't walk and we rolled out on a stretcher and told
the Iraqi police to take him away. I feel guilt anytime I see a mother with her
children like the one who cried hysterically and screamed that we were worst
than Saddam as we forced her from her home. I feel guilt anytime I see a young
girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm, and dragged into the street. We are
told we are fighting terrorists; the real terrorist was me and the real
terrorism is this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an
important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country.
It's long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another
people. Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government. It's a more
important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship. It's more
destructive than an artillery shell or a bunker buster, or a Tomahawk missile.
While those weapons are created and owned by this government, they are harmless
without people willing to use them. Those who send us to war do not have to
pull a trigger or lob a mortar round. They do not have to fight the war, they
merely have to sell the war. They need a public who is willing to send their
soldiers into harm's way. They need soldiers who are willing to kill and be
killed without question. They can spend millions on a single bomb, but that
bomb only becomes a weapon when the ranks in the military are willing to follow
orders to use it. They can send every last soldier anywhere on Earth, but there'll
only be a war, if soldiers are willing to fight. And the ruling class, the
billionaires who profit from human suffering care only about expending their
wealth, controlling the world economy. Understand that their power lies only in
their ability to convince us that war, oppression and exploitation is in our
interest. They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability to
convince the working class to die to control the market of another country.
And, convincing us to kill and die is based on their ability to make us think
that we are somehow superior. Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, have nothing
to gain from this occupation. The vast majority of people living in the U.S.
have nothing to gain from this occupation. In fact, not only do we have nothing
to gain, but we suffer more because of it. We lose limbs, endure trauma and
give our lives. Our families have to watch flag draped coffins roll into the
earth. Millions in this country without health care, jobs or access to
education, just watch as this government squander over 450 million dollars a
day on this occupation. Poor and working people in this country are sent to
kill poor and working people in other country to make the rich richer. Without
racism soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi
people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war. I threw families
onto the street in Iraq only to come home and find families thrown onto the
street in this country and this tragic, tragic and unnecessary foreclosure
crisis. We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some
distant land and not people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't
understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify.
The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable. The enemy is the
CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, is the insurance companies
who deny us health care when it's profitable, is the banks who take away our
homes when it's profitable. Our enemy is not five thousands miles away, they
are right here at home. If we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers
we can stop this war, we can stop this government and we can create a better
world. If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy... The loss of Liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger real or imagined from abroad..." - James Madison
- Edité par Phaedrus
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