From Dan Gillings:

I’m an Iraq veteran.  I served with the British Army in 2003, but I currently reside in the US.  This ‘Veterans Day’ crap irks me.  Why do I want to be thanked?  Is it because I helped kill poor brown people in a foreign land for reasons nobody quite understands? Or is it because we got rid of a ‘despotic’ leader only to install a puppet of the American Government?  Or is it for being a pawn of the Anglo-American empire that has helped to erode civil liberties in the western world through fear-based propaganda peddled by governments?

Today is always a fun day though.  I get to wear my Ron Paul ‘just come home’ t-shirt.  I like to get into conversations with people.  Neo-cons are always the best.  They literally short-circuit when a veteran opposes the war based on moral and ethical reasons.  Some even call me a traitor.  I take that as a compliment.  If being a traitor means I don’t have to kill innocent people in a far-away world, then I’m okay with that.

I think we should have a ‘Collateral Damage Day.’  We can all remember the innocent people who were killed by Anglo-American troops for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I imagine neo-cons would again call me a traitor though…

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