by Erin Solaro

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

01/24/05

If you're the U.S. Army, how do you say,'Hell No, We Won't Go? By proclaiming, loud, clear and often, your opposition to the draft. Put bluntly: The U.S. Army has no desire to be large enough to implement the Bush/neocon agenda of 'cauldronizing the Middle East' or anywhere else, and it will oppose by every means at its disposal, any attempt to so enlarge it. And it is right to do so -- militarily, politically and morally.

According to an oft-documented Vietnam legend, an anonymous Army general vowed: 'I'll be damned if I permit the United States Army, its institutions, its doctrine, and its traditions, to be destroyed just to win this lousy war.' In Iraq, the destruction is already well under way. But if the Army is not prepared to lose in Iraq to save itself, it is ready to remain a force that cannot prevail there, let alone invade anywhere else...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/208407_focus23.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp