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Those marines

6 May 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Syeda Akhtar (RN), Gulshan, Dhaka
6 May 2004, 18:00 PM
The US marines are generally less privileged then the army. They are trained to do the dirty work. Their motto is "Search and Kill". The words "Blind Killer" are painted arrogantly on their tanks. They abusively make use of disproportionate firepower and are conditioned to reach target at any cost. One American psychiatrist recently commented that it appears that men are taught to be killers more than disciplined soldiers.

The brutality is now infamous in Iraq Iraqis are made to run naked the beating of civilians (documented by independent media) and now joined by their British allies has dispelled myths about " heroic" fights.

The insanity that has touched Iraqi lives had a domino effect too. You hear about US marines committing suicides. The killer instinct is difficult to turn off once they begin killing in combat. That insanity caused the Gulf War hero, Timothy McVeigh, to blow up a day care centre along with a Federal building!

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Is America training a new breed of killers and afraid to bring them back home? Maybe, there is a fear of the repeat of Fort Bragg scenario.

American families should start doing some real soul searching. Do they want their children to become killers? Is their life worth sacrificing for fighting a proxy war for Israel or for the politicians who have never been to war themselves? Are gas and oil worth the amount of hatred that is being sown?