It’s the lead up to Veterans Day. By Presidential proclamation, all Americans are urged to observe November 11 through 17 as National Veterans Awareness Week.
On Conglomerate owned TV channels, viewers watch veterans in hospital beds, missing arms, legs and other body parts, being visited by the world’s most famous simple-minded celebrity, smiling and openly enjoying himself while ‘cheering up the boys’, now maimed, who he sent to invade, occupy and kill in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect the United States from Saudi Arabians - (Saudi Arabians having flown suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11.)
Off camera, he might also be congratulating these wounded on their having gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, whose country his daddy had enjoyed invading, wiping out the Iraqi army, and bombing Baghdad, although as Vice President, under Ronald Reagan his daddy’s task had been to work closely with Saddam to help him invade and war against Iran. (Iran has been a U.S. government enemy since its students took over the U.S. Embassy as a CIA terrorist nest)
That ever jovial, charming, affable, ‘regular guy’, maximum leader, Commander in Chief, President George Bush Junior, is the son of a former Head of the CIA, President George Bush the First, and grandson of Senator Prescott Bush who had his property seized under the Trading with the (Nazi) Enemy Act, and is a great grandson of the super wealthy banker George Herbert Walker, a director of many corporations for W. A. Harriman, who also had his business interests seized for Nazi banking in 1942, mid-WWII.
Seeing that the CIA has a reputation of being a secret, murderously criminal organization for overthrowing democratically elected governments of vulnerable small nations on the orders of the president, (to improve the earnings on investments of U.S. corporations), and since making money on investments in Nazi Germany is hardly something to be proud of, it would seem that there is little in reviewing the lineage of the president affectionately called “Dubya” to inspire confidence for military personnel being asked to make the supreme sacrifice or even just the sacrifice of a body part.
Vets can’t help but notice the enormous billions of dollars made by corporations, especially those oil companies connected the Bush family, those corporations Vice President Cheney holds stock in, and the war industries interlocked in ownership with conglomerate media which promotes continuing wars of occupation.
The scare of communism justified the thirty yearlong crucifixion, by the millions, of the mostly farmer population of the French colonies of Indochina. For eight years U.S. administrations paid the French army bills, and thereafter 58,000 American military paid with their lives. Today, the U.S. backs that same communist government of Vietnam for WTO membership and presidential candidate Mike Gravel cries out in debate that they all died in vain.
How many Vietnam War vets listen, shake their heads, and wonder why they didn’t go to Canada like 125,000 others facing the draft.
Since 2002, the catch phrase “The War on Terrorism” justifies another round of crimes against humanity with millions of lives lost.
But the use of Islamic extreme fundamentalist terror first began when President Carter secretly funded, armed and trained the fundamentalist hill tribes, attacking a modern women emancipating government in Kabul, in order to sucker the Soviets into entering Afghanistan SIX MONTHS LATER. The cover up of this now well documented covert use of tribal fundamentalists as a cold war weapon that would come back to haunt America was blown away by Carter’s advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, when he bragged of causing the collapse of the USSR, during a French Newspaper interview in 1998. ('Le Nouvel Observateur')
“Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated” in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
What if our troops today occupying Iraq and Afghanistan should learn of President Carter's heartless criminally homicidal secret attack on a small friendly nation's government using ethnic and religious divisions to foment civil war? (Our presidential CIA government is above all laws, treaties, and our own constitution.)
This week, an exceedingly unpopular American president lectures, “Like the heroes before them, today a new generation of men and women are fighting for freedom around the globe”
“around the globe”? Half of the globe’s resources belong to U.S. corporations. How much more ‘freedom’ do they need? Half of humanity is living on less than $2.00 a day – in ‘freedom’.
Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler, a 33-year veteran of the Marine Corps who was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor, “War is a racket. A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
Musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.
A Vet With His Face Burned Away Is Visited By His President
Wow! the author did not mince any words, we could use a lot more journalism with this kind of unapologetic honesty, thanks Jay you are now on my must read list.
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Matthew Miller (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:04:13 PM
As recruiters brainwash the few remaining kids they can seduce with their brass button uniforms and tough guy theatrics, those students might wake up to the reality of what they are being asked to participate in.
Military service should be noble, but until ours is really a defense department, rather than a force for capitalism by military conquest, it is really just using our children for purposes quite unlike what they are led to believe.
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Michael Fox (51 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 39 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 3:16:38 PM
He was right. But WW II, which was a racket for many, was still what our US government needed to do. By the time Ike was leaving office things were turning around and he was warning us against "the racket" calling it the military-industrial complex.
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Pat Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 6:00:44 PM
This is not about the United States, its about organized crime, and how they use the CIA as a tool for their organized syndicate. Anyone who has money that does not buddy up to them are potential enemies of their so called State. Republicans are complicit in this crime organization. The question is when and how do we stop these thugs? More war in the streets of America? Fighting terrorism is akin to ridding America from the Republican Party. Just like they have banned Nazism in Germany, Republicanism is on route to the same destiny. Of course Americans fail to realize they have been rounded up and are held captive by these criminals who call themselves representatives of Government in the United States. And that may very well be true. The Criminal Government in the United States. We fret and worry that Iran has the possibilty to have Nuclear Weapons, when the USA is afraid of losing its criminal grip on the world? Who stands up against these traitors? Crime Crime Crime, murder murder murder, America America America they clang the same bell. Those who support War are not Americans, those who are Veterans learned their lesson, we hope, those who reject being part of American or being American are really Americans.
How can men stand to serve as leaders after what they have done, and really believe they are legitimate serving individuals is quite horrific. Their lie is their legacy of contempt to the American people, their lie is their disregard to human decency, their lie is their forever documented intrusion to life, being no better than those they have hung, or shot. Veterans are those who don't carry guns, who wage battle everday against the criminals in America who think War is their bread and butter, because they can't find a better job to do. The big Mafia Boss G W Bush showed us clearly why we don't want to become burned by his fire battle stations orders. Just tell him to SHUT UP.
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Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 930 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 6:16:09 PM
"On Veterans Day and during the week, there will be a lot of foolish pride in smart looking uniforms..."
I am an American Soldier.
I am a member of the United States Army -- a protector of the greatest nation on earth.
Because I am proud of the uniform I wear, I will always act in ways creditable to the military service and the nation it is sworn to guard.
I am proud of my own organization. I will do all I can to make it the finest unit in the Army.
I will be loyal to those under whom I serve. I will do my full part to carry out orders and instructions given to me or my unit.
As a soldier, I realize that I am a member of a time-honored profession--that I am doing my share to keep alive the principles of freedom for which my country stands.
No matter what the situation I am in, I will never do anything, for pleasure, profit, or personal safety, which will disgrace my uniform, my unit, or my country.
I will use every means I have, even beyond the line of duty, to restrain my Army comrades from actions disgraceful to themselves and to the uniform.
I am proud of my country and its flag.
I will try to make the people of this nation proud of the service I represent, for I am an American Soldier.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1767 comments)
on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 8:24:51 PM
When Alan Shepard was about to become the first man in the free world to go into space, he was asked by a reporter what would be going through his mind as he waited for lift-off.
Astronaut Shepard pointed to his spacecraft and said "this rocketship was built by the low bidder".
Today we see how reality has changed. Military contracts are not going to the low bidder, they are not bid on at all. Instead they are going to the high campaign donor.
This is happening throughout the congress. From military contracts to the 'bridge to nowhere' government contracts are going to the high campaign donor.
As a conservative I oppose corruption. What I see is people opposed to corruption if it doesn't fit their ideology and turning a blind eye if it does. Whether the campaign donation is from a war-monger, a Socialist, a Democrat or Republican corruption is corruption.
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Barker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 120 comments)
on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 2:26:02 PM
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