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(vid) Molyneux: A FINAL PLEA FOR PEACE — "This has to stop!"

At about minute-15, Stefan explains how many US soldiers wouldn’t shoot the ‘enemy’ during WWII, so their soul wasn’t seared, unlike those who did shoot in Vietnam and our recent wars.
After WWII, the “Full Metal Jacket,” dehumanizing, mind-control, boot camp model was implemented so future soldiers’ humanity would break, so they would shoot to kill without hesitation.
Western media hides the horrors from our eyes, so we don’t see our soldiers maiming and killing men, women and children through our wars.
But they do see exactly what we do to them.
Enraged at us, we then accept them into our country, and this is going to turn out terribly.
Stefan then gives a heartfelt plea to Donald Trump to stop this warmongering. Stefan ponders how a few people can decide whether we live or die, if they push the nuclear button.
“This has to stop!”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1sCHUg0tM

A FINAL PLEA FOR PEACE

[video] Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress About the Horrors of War — Dehumanization = “What makes the green grass grow? Blood, blood, blood” | Policy = looking good over doing right

“…it is clear to me that that policy of looking good over doing right has been established firmly by this administration and has poisoned not only the military culture but our entire society and political leadership, as well.”

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From: Democracy Now

War veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Capitol Hill earlier this year to testify before Congress and give an eyewitness account about the horrors of war. Like the Winter Soldier hearings in March, when more than 200 service members gathered for four days in Silver Spring, Maryland to give their eyewitness accounts of the injustices occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, “Winter Soldier on the Hill” was designed to drive home the human cost of the war and occupation—this time, to the very people in charge of doing something about it. […]

SERGIO KOCHERGIN: […] One other responsibility we had in al-Najaf was to guard an ammunition supply point about thirty miles northeast from our base. Our job consisted of patrolling ASB, and when we came into contact with Iraqis stealing stuff, we would take a physical action and to make sure they would never come back. We would shoot their tires out or shoot their windows, putting them on their knees like we’re about to execute them and just shoot in the air and laugh and yell at them and tell them that the next time will be worse. Our orders directly from command was to roughen up all the guys up. They would always tell us that everybody is an enemy and that we can’t trust them and the only way to keep them in place is to put as much fear as possible and to let them know that we’re not playing around. During the deployment in al-Najaf, nothing was fixed or intended on being fixed at all, except keeping the city in the occupied hands and instill the fear into the people at every chance we got.

My second deployment was in the city of Husaybah in Al Anbar province in Al Qaim region on the Syrian border. First thing I want to talk about is the drop weapons. Drop weapons are the weapons that are given to us by our chain of command in case we kill somebody without any weapons, and so that we would not get into trouble. We would carry an AK-47, and if the person that was shot did not have the weapon, an AK-47 would be placed at his corpse, and when the unit would come back to the base, they would turn it in to identify the shot man as the enemy combatant. The weapons could not come from anywhere else but the higher chain of command, because after the raid, all weapons were turned in into the armory and should have been recorded.

Two months into deployment, our rules of engagement changed to a personnel with having a bag and a shovel at the intersection or on the roads, that they were suspicious. This gave us a bigger window on who we can engage. Looking at the situation, this point of view, a lot of enemy combatants that we shot were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were tired, mad, angry,

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