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I try hard to be proud of my service

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but all I could feel is shame

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the racism can no longer mask

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the reality of this occupation.

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These were people, these were human beings

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I since been hit by guilt anytime I see an elderly man

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like the one who couldn't walk

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and we rolled onto a stretcher

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and called the Iraqui police to take him away

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I feel guilt anytime I see a mother with her children

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like the one who cried hysterically

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screaming that we are worse than Saddam

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as we forced them from their home

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I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl

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like the one I grabbed by the arm

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and dragged to the street

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We were told we were fighting terrorists

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the real terrorist was me

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and the real terrorism is this occupation

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Racism within the military has bee a long

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and important tool to justify

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the destruction and occupation of another country

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Is long been used to justify the killings

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subjugation and torture of another people

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Racism is the vital weapon employed by this government

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It's more important weapon then a rifle

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a tank, a bomber or a battleship

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It's more destructive than artillery shells

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or a bunker buster

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or a Tomahawk missile

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While those weapons are created

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and owned by this government

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they are harmless

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without people willing to use them

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Those who send us to war

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do not pull a trigger

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or lob a mortar round

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They do not have to fight the war

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they merely need to sell the war

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they need a public who is willing

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to send their soldiers in the harm's way

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they need soldiers willing to kill or be killed

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without questions

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they can spend billions on a single bomb

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but that bomb only becomes a weapon

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when the the ranks in the military are willing

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to follow orders to use it

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They can send every last soldier anywhere on Earth

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but there will only be a war when soldiers are willing to fight

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And the ruling class, the billionaires

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who profit from human suffering

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who care only about expanding their wealth

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and controlling the world economy,

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understand that their power lies

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only in their ability to convince us that war,

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oppression, and exploitation are in our interest.

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They understand that their wealth is dependent

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on their ability to convince the working class to die

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to control the market of another country.

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And convincing us to kill and die

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is based on their ability to make us think

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that we are somehow superior.

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Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen

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have nothing to gain from this occupation

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the vast majority people living in the US

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have nothing to gain from this occupation

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In fact not only do we have nothing to gain

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but we suffer more because of it

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We lose limbs, endure trauma,

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and give our lives.

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Our families have to watch flag-draped coffins

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lowered into the earth.

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Millions in this country without health care,

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jobs, or access to education,

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have watched this government squander of a

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450 million dollars a day on this occupation

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Poor and working people in this country

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are send to kill poor and working people in another country,

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to make the rich richer

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and without racism, soldiers would realize

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that they have more in common with the Iraqi people

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than they do with the billionaires who send us to war

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I threw families onto the street in Iraq

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only to come home and find families thrown onto the street

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in this country, and it's a tragic

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and unnecessary foreclosure crisis

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We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies

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are not in some distant land

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they're not people whose names we don't know

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and cultures we don't understand

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The enemy is people we know very well

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and people we can identify

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The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable

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The enemy is the CEO's who lay us off from our jobs

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when it's profitable

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it's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable

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it's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable

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Our enemy is not five thousand miles away

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they are right here at home

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When we organize, and fight with our sisters and brothers

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we can stop this war, we can stop this government

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and we can create a better world