America's Child Soldiers

Might as well...

Learn About Depleted Uranium From
The US Army's Expert on Depleted Uranium (DU) :
Nuclear Holocaust and The Politics of Radiation
www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Rokke-Depleted-Uranium-DU21apr03.htm

Broadcast Exclusive: U.S. Soldiers Contaminated With Depleted Uranium Speak Out
www.democracynow.org/2004/4/5/broadcast_exclusive_u_s_soldiers_contaminated

Depleted Uranium
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du.htm

Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6009

"We must repudiate the structure of economic privilege and the tyranny of war makers" - George McGovern 1975

"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses." - Edward Abbey

WhiteNoise, you're making alot more noise than just white:)

"War is murder written large." I forget who said it.

The ACLU has fought this before. Schools have even fought the military recruiting of kids on school grounds.

The same laws that keep out just about ever other organization that does recruiting, the DOD has excused itself from...I forget the reasoning behind the ruling. But it's all crap.
I hope the ACLU gets somewhere this time.

I remember when I was in high school, how there would be a group of Marine recruiters in front of the entrance of the cafeteria. They were there every day.

Our school was promised money from No Child Left Behind only as long as they allowed military recruiters to come to recruit within the campus. My high school was from a low-income area so I imagine we had no choice but to let the recruiters in...

Many are economically stressed young people and families that look at this as a way to earn money, get a proper education they would not be able to afford on their own and 'hope' they don't have to get in the battlefield. It seems like this demographic is targeted.

*thanks for the dylan lyrics and history whitenoise

This problem will not go away until a draft is re-instated. A draft must be totally fair with no deferments. The only options are the military and the peace corps. If everyone's child were exposed to danger then we would have never gone into Iraq. How many people that were in a rush to go to war actually had family members serving in the military?

"I would like tonight to call for a removal, an immediate removal, of all US troops from CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, NBC, all of them." - MICHAEL MOORE

This is worldwide phenomena & it is abject, just at par with the use of rape as a weapon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/4078677.stm

Both are rampant in Africa...& you know who calls the shots there...

Military use of children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_soldier

This is exactly what I mean when I use the tag "child chewing monsters"...

They are 300.000 child soldiers around the world. Every year the number grows as more children are recruited for use in active combat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconf...

"Everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being." - Ellen Key

Will we ever learn.

How about this one from 1963...

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Dylan about the song

Dylan spoke to USA Today's Edna Gundersen about the song the day before the September 11th attacks. In the article, Dylan is quoted as saying that the song "is supposed to be a pacifistic song against war. It's not an anti-war song. It's speaking against what Eisenhower was calling a military-industrial complex as he was making his exit from the presidency. That spirit was in the air, and I picked it up."

"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." : Eugene Victor Debs

"It does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchal society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. The war is waged by the ruling group against its subjects, and its object is not victory, but to keep the very structure of society in tact." - George Orwell, from 1984

"Together we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft."- Robert F. Kennedy, March 24, 1968

Man that took me back.

So little has changed since the bad old days indeed...

Except that now the next stop is Iran and the draft has been replaced by economic despair as incentive to sign up ?

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

Chorus...And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?

Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.

Chorus...And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

chorus...And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Country Joe & The Fish

Original vinyl release: Vanguard VSD.79266 [November 1967]

"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" copyright © Tradition Music, BMI, 1965 renewed 1993 by Alkatraz Corner Music, BMI, except : All other songs copyright © 1967 renewed 1996 by Joyful Wisdom Music, BMI

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