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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As President George W. Bush reminds us so often, he is the War President, the "decider", and the supreme authoritarian commander in chief. He has micromanaged the Iraq War since day one. So it would appear he is the one who ordered these injured troop back into battle. I wonder how many these military mmembers voted for Mr. Commander in Chief in 2004.
Creepy, isn't it? I keep thinking of wounded, demoralized Wehrmacht soldiers being sent to the Russian Front in the last days of Nazi Germany. The U.S. Army is reduced to this? Please wake me up and assure me that this nightmare isn't happening- the Walter Reed scandal, vets neglected in other Veterans' Hospitals, and now wounded soldiers pressed back into battle to fill out "The Surge"? It isn't just the President who has betrayed the country, it's the officers who allow this to happen. "Support The Troops?" My ass.
John Potter
How many rifle humping grunts are there? Support operations are at least as large. Seems that all those injured troops could count socks, type and whatnot. Not everyone is a steely eyed killer you know. And if those cases could be sent to do administrative/support duty then is that so bad?
When is this craziness going to end? Bush and his Neocons, the Israel Lobby and their Christian fundementalist buddies don't get it. America is not Israel!
In Israel, the "war on terror" is used as a smoke screen to steal Palestinian land and resources and ethnically cleanse the inhabitants of the West Bank to create a "racially-pure" Jewish state . Many Americans don't know about this and would resent it greatly if they knew how their tax dollars (and troops' lives) support a system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Jimmy Carter's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" explains how this system of apartheid is allowed to flourish using lies and spin.
Americans do not want the "war on terror" to be used as an execuse for questionable agendas promoted with the lies and deceit of the Bush administration and Israel Lobby. People may put up with this theater of the absurd for some time, because of the powerful propaganda and fear, but, underneath all the spin about democracy and terrorism, people are starting to understand what this war of choice is really all about.
"Those who are concerned for Israel's security .... should recognize the need for American success in Iraq and responsible exit," Ehud Olmert (Israel's Prime Minister) said in remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on March 13.
Speaking by a video link from Israel, Olmert called Iran the greatest threat to the Jewish state and said it was building sophisticated weaponry systems and trying to create nuclear capacity.
- Reuters, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12400820.htm
DoH! I forgot, this is Salon. Let's blame the Jews for this shitstorm. My bad.
Many Jews have opposed the Neocons' plans for the invasion of Iraq and have been leading voices against the Bush Administration's mad rush to war.
It is a fact, however, that most leading Neocons are ideologically aligned with the right-wing Likud party in Israel. They themselves explained their motives in "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." for the Netanyahu Likud government at the time (the authors incuded leading Neocon idealogues Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser). In the report they stated:
"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right" http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
THE US HAD NOTHING TO GAIN FROM INVADING IRAQ AND THE WAR WOULD NOT HAVE TKEN PLACE WERE IT NOT FOR THE FALSE INTELLIGENCE AND SPIN OF THE NEOCONS. Surely, any objective observer of facts can see this!
Also to gain better insights into the Neocons' plans for Iraq, you may want to read about it on Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh03092006.html
"I wonder how many these military mmembers [sic] voted for Mr. Commander in Chief in 2004."
-- Margaret N. Tipple
It's too bad those silly, inferior troops of ours were so stupid that most all of them voted for Bush and therefore, they are getting what they deserve. So we can wash our hands of them and smugly say, "You should have had more sense than to go into the military." They are all Republican stooges so let them rot!
Well, thank you Margaret. For a few decades there, I was heartsick over how the DOD treats enlisted ranks and how the Veterans Administration short-changes them after they get out. But thanks to you, I no longer have to carry their burden or worry about them because you have so wisely absolved us all of any responsibility.
"If joining the military was about defending your country then it wouldn't be bad to sign right up but they haven't defended this country since world war 2 [sic]. anyone who voluntarilly [sic] signs up either actually believes all the commercials, gung ho war movies and propaganda or else they are doing it for purely economic reasons due to lack of jobs, opportunity and education.
We have a mercenary army that doesn't defend this country, but defends corporate interests and imprerial [sic] ambitions."
-- Rupert_c
Well, thank you too, Rupert. I guess now is the time to tell Mark Benjamin and Salon to get off of this kick about mistreated soldiers and veterans because after all, they are just a bunch of mercenaries that don't defend our country, they are just a bunch of greedy, stupid tools of the corporate imperialists.
I'm glad you showed me the error of my ways, Rupert. I was so blind all these years! Instead of giving our soldiers any health care or benefits when they return from their corporate marauding and crushing the innocent people beneath their combat boots, we should instead try them all for war crimes, put them in detention cells and let them all rot!
We don't need no stinkin' military! There's never a reason why we would need to defend our country. We should disband all of our armed forces and live in peace and harmony with all the peaceful and harmonious peoples of the planet.
Kumbaya, my lord, Kumbaya.
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