Soldier Quits Army in Disgust at 'Illegal' American Tactics in Iraq
By Sean Rayment
The Telegraph UK
Sunday 12 March 2006
An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces.
After three months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to fight alongside American forces.
He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" - the Nazi term for races regarded as sub-human.
The decision marks the first time an SAS soldier has refused to go into combat and quit the Army on moral grounds.
...Last night Patrick Mercer, the shadow minister for homeland security, said: "Trooper Griffin is a highly experienced soldier. This makes his decision particularly disturbing and his views and opinions must be listened to by the Government."
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
Well, "untermenschen" sounds better than "gooks". It's 4 syllables, though, which could cause the prez a problem (not that he couldn't understand the concept - he's quite familiar with the idea of white American male superiority - but he'd have trouble pronouncing it).
The milfare recipients probably use the two-syllable "raghead." Here's a toast I wrote:
Here's to the dumbshits in camouflage green
Who murder civilians and kill sight unseen
They eat rulers' shit like 'They're fighing for freedom'
And other absurd propaganda they feed 'em.
"May the the last king be strangled in the guts of the last priest." - Diderot
With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. - Ingersoll
