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March 5, 2008
The Myth of Glorious War Exposed – Video of US Troops Murdering a Puppy !
By Bill Douglas
The Myth of Glorious War Exposed – Video of US Troops Murdering a Puppy ! America's willful unconsciousness, about the rational for war, is torturing our troops. View a Sad Video of US Soldiers in Iraq Murdering an "Innocent Puppy"
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The corporate media propagates the myth that war is a heroic act, that makes a nation safer and stronger, and calls young men and women to their best nature.In the below video, US SOLDIERS IN IRAQ, MURDER AN INNOCENT PUPPY.
What Else Are We NOT Seeing?
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I and my four siblings spent a lifetime trying to understand our father, who'd returned from combat. The effects of his war were felt even by his grand children, and will likely be felt by their children. Below is a poem my son wrote when he was about 12 years old . It was published in his school district's paper, and won an award.
It is the only poem he ever wrote to my knowledge, but it is enough. When I showed it to my sisters, who along with me had grown up with a father suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from combat) . . . they wept.
WAR
War is black.
It sounds like machines rolling and crushing
It tastes like rotten foods and gasoline
And smells like people suffering and dying
It looks like destruction and money burning
. . . it makes you feel hated.
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The below photos of my Father "IMMEDIATELY BEFORE" war, and "AFTER" tell a story in themselves. [see page 2]
MY FATHER "IMMEDIATELY AFTER" THE WAR
(Chronologically he was only a few years older. Emotionally and Mentally, he returned a decrepit shattered man, who slept with a loaded gun under his pillow for years, and fought enemies in his dreams forever.)
Our entire family will spend the rest of our lives continuing to heal from the scars our father brought home buried within his psyche and his soul. I do not judge him, I honor him. Had I gone through what he had, I would have returned a monster beyond comprehension. I love the man, and have absolute sympathy and honor for his struggle. But, I was a victim of his war as were my siblings.
Our father was a veteran of “The Good War,” the war that had to be fought, World War II. This too was a lie, that would require not just an essay, but entire volumes to fully expose. However, the short and sweet of it, is American corporations made a fortune building the Nazi war machine. Had they been stopped, Hitler’s power would have been stopped, and our fathers would never have had to have been stripped of their humanity in the cruel crime that is war.
Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, made their family’s fortune selling steel to help build the Nazi Panzer Divisions, which tore apart my father’s comrades in Patton’s Army. Standard Oil sold the fuel that fueled the Luftwaffer which tore apart my father’s comrades. It is worth noting, my father returned from war to spend his life working for Standard Oil, never aware that they, his employer, had been war criminals supplying the Nazis with fuel to murder his comrades and friends. I would only learn of that years after my father's death. Perhaps its better that way, for it would have torn him apart to learn that ugly truth.
"NECESSARY" WARS ARE LIES! ALWAYS LIES!
They are about conquest, and greed. The romantic excuses you are taught are lies. The problems those wars were claimed to have been launched to solve, could have been solved faster and cheaper without the wars. The wars were always about power and greed. It is time to stop believing in fairy tales.
Tim Russert, of NBC, recently released a book about his father’s struggles from World War II. Russert romanticized his father’s glorious contribution to our nation. Russert’s fantasies about war, are cancerous to our nation.
For those not physically destroyed in war, the mental cost, as evidenced in the above Iraq War “Puppy” video is legion. When these soldiers return from war, the spousal abuse and domestic violence rates among them skyrockets.
Generations for years to come will be scarred by the mental wounds these men and women return with. TO LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO, READ ON !!
These wars, not only in Iraq, but in Afghanistan, are also corporate wars, based on lies and greed. For, they are both based on 9/11’s attacks. Which are a lie.
The attacks of 9/11/2001, blamed on Arab patsies, most in the world now realize, were the result of a collaboration of criminal elements within our government, aided by criminal elements in corporate media who have helped cover it up, and attack anyone who questions the events of 9/11/2001.
In the above, profoundly poignent video, Tim Russert scurries to flee questions of his involvement in the 9/11 media cover up.
I have worked for six long years to expose the lies of 9/11, in honor of my father, and all the troops now being abused by America’s willful ignorance of the lies of 9/11. Recently I became aware that a New York Times best selling novelist had written a powerful historical fiction, "The Shell Game," which takes on the lies of war, and of the attacks of 9/11, which enabled this latest crime against our young.
I am now dedicating myself to urging as many activists as possible to do all they can to spread the word on this important book to force the issues it raises into the public mass mind. Why this book? Because Americans, at least many of the, are incapable of looking at truth that is too painful. This action fiction gives them a way to face hard truths in a way they can handle. Republicans who voted for Bush are writing the author thanking him for waking them up. We need this book, “The Shell Game” to spread, and expand this awakening.
My Father served in Patton's Army in the 45th Infantry Division out of Oklahoma. He and his Division were the first in to liberate the Dachau death camps. As these battle hardened men entered the gates, many fell to their knees and wept at the site. Outraged they forced the German Dachau suburbanites out of their homes, to help bury the bodies. My father was always struck by how the people there had looked at the GIs with such abject hatred, for making them face a truth too ugly to live with. One they had worked hard to pretend did not exist next to their homes.
Father, I know that look. For my fellow Americans have looked at me that same way for six long years, as I have shown them truths about the attacks of 9/11, that are ugly truths. They are as hard for me to look at as the ravages at Dachau, but I have forced myself to look into the heart of the lies of 9/11, in your honor. So that other American children, like the ones who murdered that innocent puppy out of their utter pain, could be saved from your torture. I want it all to end so badly, I will continue to look at the ugly truth of 9/11, until all my neighbors know it was a lie, and stop supporting this criminal and false "war on terror" created in Washington.
"The Shell Game" can help Americans face a truth too ugly to face head on. As they read this work of "fiction" they are fed manageable doses of real 9/11 facts, so that they walk away hungry for more truth, and knowing they've been lied to. This work of historical fiction is a brilliant, powerful tool for truth. We MUST help spread the word about it!
My father did not deserve what he got. These poor sick puppies in the above video [top of page 1 of this oped] wearing US combat fatigues, who killed another innocent puppy out of their inner pain, do not deserve what our nation is doing to them through its willful ignorance.
Educate yourself about 9/11. You were lied to. Visit
www.TheShellGame.net
and look at the “911 Links” there. Begin with watching the free online “9/11 Mysteries” documentary. Then look at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, PatriotsQuestion911, and the other links there.
Our troops do not deserve our unconsciousness. Our pro-war, "Support the Troops," bumper stickers are making them sick. They deserve us all, together, walking through the pain of awakening.
www.TheShellGame.net
SPREAD THE WORD, SHARE THIS LINK.
DO IT FOR THE TROOPS!
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Below is an excerpt from my "Amateur Parent" book, which I wrote long before the war in Iraq began. Feel free to share it or this article widely:
OUR SONS
Since I was small, I’ve loved horses.There is something so innocently majestic about them. Even horses that were mean to me, I adored. The one that bucked me off, and the Shetland Pony that tried to scrape me off its back under the clothesline, are only fond memories of childhood now.
The saddest movie I’ve ever seen, was a Japanese film, by the great filmmaker Akira Kurasawa. It was a story about war in feudal Japan, between two Japanese warlords. Kirasawa’s slow motion footage of battle is dreamlike, yet hauntingly real. However, it was the horse’s images that broke my heart.
The film’s slow motion battle, was so realistic, I felt transported to an actual battle and forgot these horses weren’t actually being harmed. The horses majestic innocence, being led into a maelstrom that they had no part in making seemed so distorted.
The fact, they were directed by the masters they trusted into a hell of unimaginable proportions seemed so perverted.
My son is a teenager now. He plays baseball, an exquisite sport I only learned to love through my son. As I watch his team out on the field, and begin to learn the other boy’s names and get a feeling for their personalities and quirks, I am awed by their majesty. These young bucks, strapping embodiments of life, stretching the physical limits God gave them, yet laughing with humor and grace, reminds me of wild horses gavanting on the open range. The impending potential of living life fully, sucking the marrow from existence on the meadow of limitless possibility, is an image these boys share with the majestic grace of horses.
I’m sobered by the realization that these boys are nearly old enough to fight in wars. The sad intensity of innocent horses being led to a slaughter they did not create, nor would have ever dreamed of in their innocent state of grace, is an image that haunts me. I could not imagine anywhere in the world I would fear so much to send these boys into the jaws of hell we call war. I pray to God we have learned our lesson.
Authors Bio:
By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent -- A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."