Community | July 21, 2009 | 17 comments

The U.S. Military has a Racist Genocidal Policy toward all "Hodgies"

source: http://current.com/items/90431077_iraq-war-veterans-take-their-stand-against-u-s-racist-geno...

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Iraq veterans have cited over and over that the U.S. military is profoundly racist by policy. They refer to all Muslims as "hodgie" a slang form of Hajji, which is a Muslim term of respect. They hardly use the term with any respect. Disdain and contempt are more fitting adjectives.

Is it a misuse of the terms to say the U.S. commits genocide? I don't think so. The Holocaust Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/genocide) defines genocide as follows:
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Genocide is a term created during the Holocaust and declared an international crime in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The specific "intent to destroy" particular groups is unique to genocide. A closely related category of international law, crimes against humanity, is defined as widespread or systematic attacks against civilians.
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The U.S. does indeed have the "intent to destroy" members of the Islamic culture anytime they can get away with it. They have given directives as such to troops who testified to this fact. These are not isolated incidents or just a few "bad eggs". This is the United States of America's racist genocidal policy practiced as a standard by our military.

On top of this as a humanitarian and international crime it is also a crime toward our own veterans. It is a crime the U.S. military has waged upon our own nation and our own citizens. Our veterans come home with serious mental problems coping with the fact they have killed innocent civilians, including women, children, babies and innocent men and boys. Often this leads to suicide or the inability to cope with life, to work, to interact with people, and to live as a human being.

Support our troops. Before anyone attempts to refute these facts please review the veterans' testimonies at http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier. These veterans have been there. Have you?
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17 comments // The U.S. Military has a Racist Genocidal Policy toward all "Hodgies"

  • Ares
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      Ares  

    • The term Hadji as used in the war today comes from the character on Jonny Quest. It isn't a butchering of a respectful Moslem greeting.

      Sim sim salabim, dumbasses. Downed.

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
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      larrysnotes  
    • Ares:

      100% I called them that in 1986, well before to first war. It was easier to say, then most of their names. They called us joe, or red white and blue, I like being called red white and blue. And they didnt care to be called Hadji, maybe they did but never said.

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
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      larrysnotes  

    • When you get shot at for the first time, its hard to like that person whom shot at you. I dont think thats the way to say HEY ! So............

    • 2 years ago
  • clownpuncher
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • I think religion rather than race is at the root of the problem. The US military is racially integrated.

      However, for many in the service, "if you aint right with Jesus, you aint right"

      .

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • unimatrix0:

      "I think religion rather than race is at the root of the problem."

      Indeed. If there was no religion, people would automatically stop hating other groups of people who had viciously and cowardly attacked their homeland. Brilliant.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
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      2helenahandbasket  
    • unimatrix0:

      "However, for many in the service, "if you aint right with Jesus, you aint right" "

      Oh bull. You're simply showing your hate for religion by making such a silly statement. I have three kids who are/were in three different branches of the military, one son who's a lifer and has been all over the world on military duty, and not one of them have ever heard your quote. Nice try. That might be something the extremely religious might say, or someone like you who is ridiculing, but it's not typical, or common.

      Or maybe it IS a common saying for those military folks who happen to be in a war zone. "There are no athiests in a foxhole", you know. Now THAT saying is very common, and also very true.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
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      2helenahandbasket  

    • As the parent of three children who are/were in the military, my children have never told me of any such stance the military has, except on militant Muslims, and to that I say "Who cares?"

      I couldn't care less what happens to militant Muslims who would like, more than anything, to see our country fall apart over them so they can then hope to gain power in our country in the hopes of one day being able to slaughter those of us who would not embrace their religion.

      There. I said it. Put me on the list.

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • 2helenahandbasket:

      I take that to mean that one or more is currently in the service, while one or more is no longer in service. I would surmise that he/she meant that a child of theirs is currently serving.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
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      2helenahandbasket  
    • 2helenahandbasket:

      Two of my daughters are out now, one served 8 years in the Air Force. One served four years in the Marines. Neither of my girls saw combat. My son is a lifer, been in the Army for 20 years. He spent 14 months in Afghanistan in 2001/2002. He's a Special Ops soldier who is very good at what he does. He's an officer now, worked up from inlisted.

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
  • JonRaymond
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      JonRaymond  
    • 2helenahandbasket:

      You see this is mostly only relevant after 9-11. That was when we committed a racist genocidal preemptive war. Though, it's true that the military has always been racist. Ever heard the term gook? slope? Those are official military terms along with "hodgie".

      Your kids never told you? I'm not surprised. Even if they served in a combat zone with officers who routinely refer to "hodgies", they might not want to tell you about it. A lot of homogenized Americans prefer to sweep these things under the rug, like you do.

      In any case, if you were to take the time to listen to veterans who were in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan here: http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier you would see what the truth is. Anyway, how can you deny these facts? Are these veterans lying?

    • 2 years ago
  • StopWarProject
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      StopWarProject  
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    • The U.S. military has a policy of not counting civilian deaths. Why not? Because they are just Muslims and we are a racist nation. They don't count. So, we don't really know how many we have killed. But there are those who have made informed studies.
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      What Just Foreign Policy’s Iraqi Death Estimator Is and Is Not

      Since researchers at Johns Hopkins estimated that 601,000 violent Iraqi deaths were attributable to the U.S.-led invasion as of July 2006, it necessarily does not include Iraqis who have been killed since then. We would like to update this number both to provide a more relevant day-to-day estimate of the Iraqi dead and to emphasize that the human tragedy mounts each day this brutal war continues.

      This daily estimate is a rough estimate. It is not scientific; for that, another study must be conducted. However, absent such a study, we think this constitutes a best estimate of violent Iraqi deaths that is certainly more reliable than widely cited numbers that, often for political reasons, ignore the findings of scientifically sound demographic studies.

      In September 2007, a new scientific poll of Iraqis confirmed that the number dead is likely to be over a million. The prestigious British polling firm, Opinion Research Business, estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis had been killed violently since the U.S. invasion.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
  • StopWarProject
  • dainjdc
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      dainjdc  
    • StopWarProject:

      First off, I have friends that have fought in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Some are still serving and some are vets. Secondly, this is not a normal war. It's Guerilla war tactics that're being used in Iraq and Afghanistan and there's no real way to be able to spot the enemy from the civilian. The incident that Geoff Millard talks about is sadly a common occurrence. One of my friends that was in Special Forces had a story exactly like the one Mr. Millard describes. My friend also said a car came speeding up to them when they were posted at a security checkpoint and would not stop after several warnings and warning shots. They then had to make a decision. It was to take out the vehicle barreling towards them.The saddest part of it was the fact that it was a pregnant women with her husband.Now, if that was a car with a suicide bomber in it it would have taken out his entire platoon,and my friend would not be alive or would've been seriously hurt. Now making decisions like that is impossible; You shoot and destroy what could potentially kill you or you let them speed through and see what happens. But when it comes down to it you have to make the best choices you can when in such a horrible situation. I can totally empathize with this. The fact that it was a car load of civilians is incredibly tragic but this a dirty war that's being fought and you have to do what you think is best in a split second decision.To the point of what the Colonel said, I think that was said out of total frustration and anger towards how things are going. I don't think for a minute that it was said in an " I hate all Hodgies and let them die" manner.I know there's prejudices in war but come on, what war hasn't prejudice been established for the opposing forces? This war is very very hard and my heart goes out to the vets and those still fighting. We need to end this as quickly as possible so they can come home.

    • 2 years ago
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