The Pentagon Plan to Create Mutant "Super-Soldiers"

by CHRIS FLOYD

The great wizard, leader of the Wise, once known to all the world as a 
force for good, has turned bitter, fearful -- and ambitious. Aping the 
ways of the evil he once fought -- brutality, dominance, greed, terror
-- he descends to his secret laboratory, where, with black arts of 
alchemy and fiendish technology, he breeds a race of mutant warriors, 
"iron bodied and iron willed": fierce fighters who can attack day and 
night, without rest, their combat spirit kept soaring by spikes of 
lightning from the wizard's wand.  

A scene from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, where the corrupted wizard 
Saruman fashions his monstrous Uruk-Hai to wage a relentless, 
remorseless war for dominion? No; unfortunately it's a very real 
scheme now being pursued by the Pentagon, whose dope wizards and 
gene splicers are working on the creation of the "Extended Performance 
War Fighter," the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor report.  

Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shoveling billions of tax dollars 
into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities 
across the land in the wide-ranging effort to spawn "super
soldiers," fired 
by drugs and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to fight without ceasing for 
days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced 
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- yes, the same outfit now laboring 
under convicted terrorist - conspirator John Poindexter to build the 
"Total Information Awareness" network that will allow the government 
to monitor the electronic records and communications of every citizen.  

The DARPA "war fighter enhancement" programs -- an acceleration 
of bipartisan biotinkering that's been going on for years -- will 
involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological 
and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their 
bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying 
them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: 
the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their 
fellow human beings.  

The research is "very aggressive and wide open," says Admiral Stephen 
Baker of the Center for Defense Information. Indeed, the U.S. Special 
Operations Command envisions the creation of "iron bodied and iron 
willed personnel" who can "resist the mental and physiological effects 
of sleep deprivation" while relying on "ergogenic
substances" to "manage" 
the "environmental and mentally induced stress" of the battlefield. Their 
bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in Prozacian haze, the enhanced 
warfighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly toward dominion.  

And the term "creation" is not just fanciful rhetoric: some of the 
research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of 
soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human 
specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days 
and nights on end. These mutations will "revolutionize the contemporary 
order of battle" and guarantee "operational dominance across the whole 
range of potential U.S. military employments," the DARPA wizards 
enthuse.  

Of course, the Pentagon is not waiting on sci-fi technology to enhance 
the physical abilities of its warfighters; old-fashioned off-the-shelf 
"additives" have long been shoved down soldiers' throats. For example, 
the use of amphetamines for pilots has been widespread for decades; 
during the first Bush - Saddam War, whole squadrons were cranked up 
on the stuff. Not only is the gobbling of speed officially sanctioned, 
it's actively encouraged, even implicitly mandated -- careers can be 
derailed for pilots who refuse to drug themselves.  

The results of this dope-peddling were clearly seen on the new imperial 
frontier of Afghanistan last spring, when two U.S. pilots -- hopped up 
on speed -- killed four Canadian allies in a "friendly fire" bombing raid. 
The pilots, now facing legal charges, say Air Force brass pressured them 
into taking the mind-altering drug before the fatal flight.  

But such glitches are inevitable in any grand scientific undertaking, 
and DARPA remains undeterred in its bold quest to "push the limits of 
human input/output," advance the "symbiotic relationship between man 
and machine," and customize "pharmaceutical technology" to 
"embolden the warfighter and his superiors," as military scientists 
declared at a Pentagon-sponsored conference on "future warfare."  

What happens to the burnt-out husks of these "iron" soldiers after 
their minds and bodies have been eaten way by relentless modification 
and ceaseless toil is, of course, of no concern to the Bush Regime. Even 
now, the White House is cutting back on health benefits to military 
veterans -- even going so far as to order veterans hospitals not to 
advertise their available services, lest broken soldiers actually seek 
to claim the promise of support their government once gave them. For 
men like Bush -- protected scions of privilege who sit out wars in 
safety, in booze-addled luxury -- such promises are just cynical sucker 
ploys, aimed at coaxing decent soldiers into acting as the hitmen of 
empire, then discarding them when they're no longer needed.  

How very strange it is: those who want to turn American soldiers into 
mindless, drug-addled mutants and send them off to kill and die in 
far-flung wars of imperial conquest are seen as patriots, noble leaders, 
doing the will of God; while those who would rather see these good men 
and women called home, treated with honor and respect -- their talents 
and dedication applied solely to the defense of their own great country, 
not pressed into the service of a greedy, rapacious elite -- are denounced 
as "traitors," "anti-American agitators," "allies
of terrorism."  

But such is the inversion of values -- the wisdom gone astray and 
turned to fell practice -- that now rules in Bush's Washington, and 
in the Pentagon's fiery crucibles of war.  

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