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Are You Proud of your Country? I'm Not!

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Let's talk about the first Gulf War. No less than Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein the go-ahead on that little excursion. People forget that Kuwait was part of Iraq until the post-war powers divided the Middle East up. We went to war with Hussein because he wanted Euro's for his oil instead of dollars. That would have wrecked the U.S., being the reserve currency of the World. Can't have that, can we?

We had a war in Iraq and the United States citizens hardly made a peep. We told the World that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was a lie and our government knew it was a lie. Where is the recrimination on this? We still sit silent while hundreds of thousands are born deformed or dead from the Depleted Uranium we used to poison their country. This uranium which has been reduced from explosions to microns of.0.2 size. It's in the dust, the water, the plants. It has a half-life of 400,000 years. Iraq mothers and fathers no longer ask if the baby is a boy or a girl, they ask if it's normal. Over - of the people are refuges from Iraq. Estimates of civilian deaths range from 200,00 to over a million. Over half of the population have been displaced. Their infrastructure has been destroyed. They have very little gas, electricity and medical supplies. All in the name of bringing "Freedom to the Iraqis"

Now we are in Afghanistan bringing carnage to that nation. We spend half our budget on military spending. We used to support the Taliban when they were fighting the Soviet Union. Now, since we want to build an oil pipeline through their country (Called TAPI), we are at war with them. We could be there for decades. They are now our premiere enemy (besides the insurgents in Iraq that are still shooting at our 50,000 troops).

 

Politicians aren't stupid. Many of our forefathers waned us about this. They wrote it on paper. Let me give you a few of their quotes. Please read these words with care. These are our founding fathers and their vision of our nation is well worth reading today.

Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people to remain silent."

"Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocate the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our society."

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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