The Herowin War in
From: Mike Hastie
To: Military Resistance
November 05, 2009
When I left
herowin was everywhere.
It was one of the reasons why
the
We just couldn’t win that war,
because hero-win finally delivered
the truth to the American people.
The
just like we have no mission in
Except to steal natural resources to protect our interests.
That truth was brought home to me shortly before
I left
when an American soldier who was a herowin addict,
blew his brains out with his M-16.
Then there was the time I unzipped a body bag and
looked at another herowin addict who shot himself
in the forehead with a pistol.
Blew his skull wide open.
You just can’t win with herowin.
I saw so many American soldiers destroy their
lives with herowin.
They went back to
No mission.
No cause.
Nobody who gave a shit when they came home.
What the American people know about the Vietnam War,
you could stick in a thimble.
A thimble....
that was about the size of the plastic vials that herowin came in,
in
Some people shot it.
Some people snorted it.
Some people smoked it.
Either way,
you couldn’t win with herowin.
And, that may be the same reason
will not win in
Not to mention that the war is a lie to begin with.
In fact,
that’s why herowin was used so much in
because the war was a lie,
and we could have never won in
Won.
Win.
Herowin.
Don’t mean nothin’
Then, when you get back from
you realize the
herowin trade all along.
The South Vietnamese military was involved in
the manufacturing of herowin.
Ever see an American soldier on herowin with an
M-16 in his hands during a mortar attack?
I have.
And, that’s one reason why we didn’t win in
In the end,
Why?
Because the war was unwinnable.
Because the entire Vietnam War was a lie.
The
the
That is just one of a thousand lies that the American people
never knew about the Vietnam War.
And,
towards the end of the Vietnam War,
that is why tens of thousands of American soldiers were on
herowin.
It’s the lie that makes you want to kill yourself.
It’s the lie that makes you want to use herowin.
It’s the lie that made me want to do a swan dive over a cliff
with my automobile when I got back from
It’s the lie that made that American soldier in
an M-16 to his head.
It’s the lie that still makes me unable to wash the blood off
of my hands.
It’s the lie that is killing
and
Not to mention the great suffering and death our government
is inflicting on hundreds of thousands of people in the
Lying is the most powerful weapon in war.
Ever have a close friend hang himself in a motel room?
I did.
He was a
He did that,
because the lie broke his neck.
Mike Hastie
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
April 4, 1967
From the I-R-A-Q (I Remember Another Quagmire) portfolio of Mike Hastie,
US Army
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