WATCH VIDEO OF IRAQ VET TALK ABOUT RACISM IN MILITARY

There has been a lot of talk about race on TV, especially on FOX NEWS which has used comments made by Democratic Presidential candidate Barak Obama's former pastor, as a reason to try and divide and conquer the United States along racial lines more than it is already.

In this report and accompanying video, an Iraq war veteran says "racism" is very much a part of the military and it starts at the top of command.

Iraq Vets: 'Racism Endemic; Comes from the Top of Command Chain' (VIDEO)

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79865/ (click on this link to see video)

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted March 17, 2008.

At its core, the "War on Terror" is inherently racist. Its central tenet is that all Muslims are interchangeable.

To a significant degree, the invasion of Iraq was sold on that premise.

At the time of the invasion, a majority of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of 9/11 (a third still believe that, as did 90 percent of soldiers deployed in Iraq in 2006, according to a Zogby poll).

Only a populace that thinks all Arabs are the same could be convinced that it was possible to avenge Osama Bin Laden's attack -- carried out mostly by Saudis and Egyptians -- by invading Iraq.

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