U.S. Military Recruits Neo-Nazis and Gangs to Fight in Iraq & Afghanistan 2/2

US military in Iraq needed "hardcore" troops with warlike mentality -- journalist... (RT) — Under the Bush administration the U.S. military allegedly started to recruit neo-Nazis and gang members to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues investigative journalist Matt Kennard.

RT: A question about the series of essays you wrote, "The regular army." When you were working on this, which one of these topics was the most shocking for you?

Matt Kennard: The neo-Nazis was obviously the most shocking, because these people hate everything to do with the Middle East and their goal is to kill what they call "hedgies." So that's the shocking result of the war of terror, as the mainstream narrative is that the West is taking democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet we are sending these neo-Nazi troops there. Gangbangers is another one, which is gang members from all over the west coast have been in the military since 2002.

RT: This whole issue of neo-Nazis in the army, how did you come across this? When did you realize it is actually a much bigger issue than people might think?

MK: I knew when I went to graduate school that there was a problem in the U.S. military in that they couldn't get enough recruits. They were explicit about allowing felons in and people with low IQs and they changed the regulations so they could get more people into the U.S. military. But with neo-Nazism it's obviously not going to play as well in society, so they had kept that low.

So I decided to investigate via FOIA request and by interviewing neo-Nazi soldiers that had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. What I uncovered basically after a six-month investigation was that this was a military-wide phenomenon that had been allowed to happen under the Bush administration, under the cover of the press. No one was actually covering it, they were covering other sections of the military, but not this specific phenomenon, so I spent the next year looking into it and eventually published it. Even after publication the U.S. military made no comment on it, so they have done nothing about it.

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