Name: 一位退伍軍人的激勵演說 - AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN
Uploaded: 2013-05-24T14:53:13.000Z
Duration: 4 min 39 s
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... and I tried hard to be proud of my service

基礎被動語態

These were people.  These were human beings.

I've since been plagued by guilt anytime I see an elderly man

and told the Iraqi police to take him away.

I feel guilt anytime I see a mother with her children

and screamed that we were worse than Saddam

like the one I grabbed by the arm and dragged into the street.

We were told we were fighting terrorists.

and the real terrorism was this occupation.

Racism within the military has long been an important tool

to justify the destruction and occupation of another country.

It has long been used to justify the killing,

subjugation and torture of another people.

Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government.

It is a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank,

It is more destructive than an artillery shell,

or a bunker buster, or a tomahawk missile.

they are harmless without people willing to use them.

do not have to pull a trigger or lob a mortar round.

They need a public who's willing to send their soldiers

They need soldiers who are willing to kill and be killed

when the ranks in the military are willing

the billionaires who profit from human suffering,

understand that their power lies only in their ability

to convince us that war, oppression and exploitation

They understand that their wealth is dependent

on their ability to convince the working class to die

to control the market of another country.

is based on their ability to make us think

have nothing to gain from this occupation.

The vast majority of people living in the U.S.

In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain,

Our families have to watch flag-draped coffins

Millions in this country without health care,

are sent to kill poor and working people in another country

that they have more in common with the Iraqi people

in this tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis.

that our real enemies are not in some distant land.

They're not people whose names we don't know.

The enemy is a system that wages war when it is profitable.

The enemy is the CEOs who lay us off from our jobs when it is profitable.

It's the insurance companies who deny us health care

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