Thursday, December 02, 2004
US Marine: They told me it was a war for oil. posted by Richard Seymour
The Guardian prints the comments of a Marine who has started actively campaigning against the war and occupation. I spotted this on the internet a while ago and have been desperately hunting for it since. Here you go:I know the commitment it takes to serve your country, but I also know this war has nothing to do with protecting my country. My sergeant put it best a week before we left for the Middle East: "Don't think you're going to be heroes. You're not going for weapons of mass destruction. You're not going to get rid of Saddam, or to make Iraq safe for democracy. You're going for one reason, and that's oil."
War for oil. Excellent. As some perspicacious critic once remarked in a wholly different context: "Strange humanism. Strange human rights."
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