Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Stan Goff: 'Hold on to your humanity: An open letter to GIs in Iraq'

From last November, worth another look ...

Stan Goff: 'Hold on to your humanity: An open letter to GIs in Iraq': "refuse illegal orders, and orders to abuse or attack civilians are illegal. Ordering you to keep silent about these crimes is also illegal.

I can tell you, without fear of legal consequence, that you are never under any obligation to hate Iraqis, you are never under any obligation to give yourself over to racism and nihilism and the thirst to kill for the sake of killing, and you are never under any obligation to let them drive out the last vestiges of your capacity to see and tell the truth to yourself and to the world. You do not owe them your souls."

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