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US military in Iraq needed “hardcore” troops with warlike mentality - journalist

Published: 30 May, 2010, 02:59
Edited: 27 July, 2010, 12:29


Under the Bush administration the U.S. military allegedly started to recruit neo-Nazis and gang members to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues investigative journalist Matt Kennard.

 
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PR101 May 30, 2010, 05:05 quote
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thank you RT for sharing this interview with your readers. I came cross publications in almost all the points raised in RT’s interview with Matt Kennard. Also, please see Fallujah: "Hidden Massacre." Matt Kennard is correct when he says that there is no left or right difference in the United States when it comes to conducting and supporting illegal wars of aggression. But the those who spread evil will receive evil in return. Now, it makes sense that fear of the returning troops is the primary reason why Obama sees “home grown terrorists’ as the biggest threat facing the U.S security. It seems the Chickens are Coming to Roost.

Larry May 30, 2010, 12:00 quote
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I don't know why anybody would be shocked by this news. The NeoNazi presence was prevalent during the NATO war on Yugoslavia especially in the present day 'country' of Croatia.Croatians openly recruited skinhead Nazis from Europe to fight in their ranks. Croatians today fly their checkered flag of Nazi collaborators, the Ustashi'. The first president of Croatia , Franjo Tudjman was an open apologist for Nazi war criminal Ant Pavelic and was shockingly was invited to preside over the holocaust museum opening in Washington DC during the NATO war on Yugoslavia. The facist-prone military of Croatia took direct orders from US military contractor MPRI which in turn had a direct pipeline to NATO...The Russians now know MPRI as the outfit aiding and abetting Georgia's military....Maybe RT can look into this story.

Tom May 31, 2010, 02:40 quote
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I am sorry to say but this is absolute hog crap . They did lower standards to some extent and some neonazis and gangbangers do get into the military , even now and always have to a small extent , but the US military has absurd standards that don't let hardly anyone that has made mistakes in the past in the military and I say this from my own personal difficultys in trying to serve my country . I was never allowed to sevre for the reason of my juevinle record containing 3 misdarmeanor assault and battery charges . I got into alot of fights growing up and the mistakes I made as a child has forever haunted my overwellming desire to sevre even in their most desperate hours for personel . The only thing they want more than anything is brainwashable sheep that will follow their orders to the tee despite if their orders are imorale , they want sheep full of fear . And I have to say this Matt Kennard is an partial idiot that speaks for his rear . I don't generaly comment on things like this but this article has deeply sparked a nerve with its absolute incorectness . And also Pr101 the biggest threat facing U.S. security is the Goverment that is runing this once great nation , they pose the biggest threat to our freedom and way of life .

PR101 May 31, 2010, 03:30 quote
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Tom, Matt Kennard made points that have already been published. For example, it had been published in number of U.S based magazines and websites that soldiers recited Biblical prayers and reaffirmed their Christian Crusading mission as they got ready to unleashed yet to be fully revealed one of the greatest war crimes of the this century, the 2004 U.S.A attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The U.S military has a well documented “caste” system of procuring new recruits: the Navy and the airfore recruits primarily from white middle class types. The ground troops, foot soldiers attracts poor whites, poor Latino and poor blacks. At present, the U.S.A is running 700 plus bases in foreign countries, causing untold human and environmental damage. The way of life you are so proud of include access to cheap oil and access to cheap credit. For example, the $U.SD dominance as global currency is maintained through military threats and or use of brute military force [Saddam Hussein was overthrown because he threatened to trade his oil in euros]. My fear is that the U.S may start WWIII. We were all fearful it will start in Iran but now, I am not so sure. It could start in the Korean Peninsula.

Project Paper Clip May 31, 2010, 03:43 quote
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Of course America recruited Neo-Nazis into the US Military! Don't act all shocked and suprised, Matt Kennard. After WWII, the US brought Nazi war criminals to the USA to become part of the US intelligence and military establishment, after all. This was called PROJECT PAPERCLIP. Then there are other examples US-Nazi connections like the GEHLEN NETWORK, where the US worked with Nazis to figtht the Soviets during the Cold war; the connections between scions of the US Establishment like Henry Ford and Prescott Bush and the Nazis; and even American connections to Nazi eugenics programs. Look up the book "War against the Weak." America is a Nazi nation through and through. All the propaganda about "freedom and democracy" that you and other American apologists believe in are LIES. "MK: I mean there's been a lot of anger with the Bush administration. They say the war has been prosecuted badly and that the idea that we wanted to take democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan was never questioned. So I think that this is a massive failure of the U.S. media." This was not a failure of the USA media--because the American media is NOT a free press. It has never been. The role of the American media is to act as a mouthpiece for the American Empire and justify its genocidial wars around the world. In fact, you could say that these wars have been a massive SUCCESS for the American media. Finally, most of the opposition to America's war in the USA is purely self-serving, as your comments implicity admit. Most Americans are angry over these US wars because they have been "prosecuted bady"--not because they are criminal or genodicial in nature. Antiwar opposition in America is itself chauvinist to the core. Americans have no problem with genocidal US wars of aggression. They only have problems with genocidal American wars of aggression that are "prosecutedly bady" (i.e. unsuccessful). That's Americanism in a nutshell.

PR101 May 31, 2010, 04:35 quote
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Project Paper Clip You are well informed! In fact, Henry Ford was so dedicated promoting Germany's new eugenics programs during the reign of the Third Reich that he dedicated a magazine, hired a Canadian editor of the magazine that promoted Nazi eugenics ideas in the United States.

Sean May 31, 2010, 17:52 quote
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to Project Paper Clip: If America didn't take the Nazi scientists and other top officials then the Soviet Union would. It was survival of the fittest and the US won.

Tom June 01, 2010, 03:38 quote
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PR101, Brother you missed what I was saying completly , They have not gone out and recruted anyone as this man has said the standardes for recrutmant are absurdly hard for most people with any crimminal background to serve , even in their most dire times for pesonel and the biggest problem right now with the US is the goverment that is runing it and your probaly right that we would be the ones to drag the world into ww3 and that would be a shame . It is not the same nation of grand parents and forefathers . There are alot of things on here that are absolutly correct but what this man Mr. Kennard is saying about the recrutment is completly incorect and I am telling you this from first hand expeiriance , yes they target the poor and lower class but if you have the smallest crimminal record you can kiss your chances of service goodbye and that is exactly how it is . I am not going to get into it with you about anything else my only point I am trying to put across is that they do not accept people with crimminal records to the extent that this man is trying to portray and that our biggest problem is the people who are running things , nothing more . Read my words for what they are don't read what you want to see to make an argument out of nothing . You can't just read stuff and take it all for fact because thats what you want to believe . Read as many differnt veiwpoints as there are available and come up with your own logical conclusion .

Project Paper clip June 01, 2010, 07:38 quote
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May 31, 2010, 17:52, Sean wrote > to Project Paper Clip: > If America didn't take the Nazi scientists and other top officials then the Soviet Union would. It was survival of the fittest and the US won. This is a tired rationalization that American apologists always use. What this American alibi ignores is that many Nazis were NOT scientists. They were Gestapo and SS spooks who were guilty of war crimes. The USA wanted them because they were useful assets against the Soviet Union and America's attempt to spread Capitalism throughout Europe and the world. Finally, America aided and abetted Nazis BEFORE the Cold War, when the USA was allies with the Soviets. So the Cold War rationalization does not hold there. As for "Survival of the fittest," so much for your propaganda about liberty and democracy.

Wildey July 27, 2010, 00:06 quote
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You mustn't forget foreigners in the US military. The military is offering mainly mexicans and others from Latin America citizenship if they'll sign up in the military. The Catch 22. If they get killed, they do not appear as American casualties because they aren't Americans. Thrown out with yesterdays garbage. The American government is on the Road To Empire. Anything goes. We discuss the here and now but don't think of the goal. When discussing these things that are happening, ask how does it fit toward the goal. The battles and the war.

Kaela Creighton March 17, 2012, 05:18 quote
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Some of the best soldiers I met were "speshial."  Honestly, the army is a great place for them, but they shouldn't be shocked when they can't make it in the real world.  I should say "we" shouldn't be shocked.  I made a 76 and 111 on the ASVAB though, and I had pretty even, good line scores.  It wasn't Earth shattering.  I had to get a waiver because I have raynauds.  Though people always try to make me out to be retarded, my IQ has always tested 115-120.  Now before my "free" lobotomy (novacaine-Beck), I was a little more vocal, but I was a lot smarter than I am now.  How can you do this to another person?

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