Power of the Small: Here come the storm troopers?

By Diana Nelson Jan 26, 2006, 16:50 GMT

In retrospect, the Bush cabal has been far ahead of the American public and press in the so-called "neo-conservative" drive to hamper democracy by any means possible in order to wrest even more money from the poor in order to please the rich.  

As the wife of a deceased career U.S. Army non-commissioned officer who loved the military and eagerly put his life on the line for his country whenever asked, this writer feels a certain amount of chagrin in pointing out that the Bush Putsch is gearing up to produce elite troops as discussed in an article from the Washington Post this week written by Ann Scott Tyson. 

However, with hourly and daily revelations regarding the Bush administration's malfeasance, machination, and maladroitness which on the whole appears to be an orchestrated attack of long standing and careful planning on American freedom and democracy, and with the easy comparisons that are beginning to be made by the popular press in measuring the Bush administration with the Nazi yardstick, the creating of elitist troops must be closely inspected before it is to late to change the current direction of America.

Soldiers will follow orders, and take great pride in following orders from the 'chain of command'.   When the chain of command is rotten at the top, then we Americans must look closely at any creation of any elite troops and question whether or not those troops can be used against the citizens of this country when we finally rise up to defeat threats to the freedoms that Americans have traditionally and proudly and willingly died to protect.

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