Lives Wasted
Some were offended by Barack Obama saying; “3,100 lives wasted”. It’s the truth, but it’s not the politically correct thing to say. Our finest and bravest young men and woman continue to die needlessly in Iraq and most Americans don’t want to accept that reality. It’s also politically correct to refer to the mission as being in our strategic national interest.
Lives are being wasted, because the mission was not a noble cause from the very beginning. The invasion of Iraq was an avarice, calculated, imperialistic plan to gain control of the world’s third largest oil reserve. Instead of making Americans safer it created more terrorist. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein had no ties to al-Qaeda.
Corporate racketeers have used our troops to steal oil from the Iraqi people, under the cover of bringing the Iraqi people freedom and democracy. Bush has commandeered our military to be gangsters for capitalism, and they’re being used as economic cannon fodder by the military industrial complex to ensure outrageous profits for multinational oil corporations.
A child or grandchild of those in a position of privilege will not come home in a flag draped coffin or be placed in harms way, because they’re part of the ruling nobility and such risks are unacceptable.
Troops are dying for what the ruling elite consider is a “God given right", to take whatever they want from the Middle East. The precious lives of our youth have been wasted, because politicians, many Americans, and the media can’t admit to sacrificing the blood of our men and women for oil.
Many years ago, the Department of War was renamed the Department of Defense. Since, we now have a Department of Homeland Security, our Department of Defense can be renamed the Department of Corporate Racketeering.
Lives are being wasted, because the mission was not a noble cause from the very beginning. The invasion of Iraq was an avarice, calculated, imperialistic plan to gain control of the world’s third largest oil reserve. Instead of making Americans safer it created more terrorist. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein had no ties to al-Qaeda.
Corporate racketeers have used our troops to steal oil from the Iraqi people, under the cover of bringing the Iraqi people freedom and democracy. Bush has commandeered our military to be gangsters for capitalism, and they’re being used as economic cannon fodder by the military industrial complex to ensure outrageous profits for multinational oil corporations.
A child or grandchild of those in a position of privilege will not come home in a flag draped coffin or be placed in harms way, because they’re part of the ruling nobility and such risks are unacceptable.
Troops are dying for what the ruling elite consider is a “God given right", to take whatever they want from the Middle East. The precious lives of our youth have been wasted, because politicians, many Americans, and the media can’t admit to sacrificing the blood of our men and women for oil.
Many years ago, the Department of War was renamed the Department of Defense. Since, we now have a Department of Homeland Security, our Department of Defense can be renamed the Department of Corporate Racketeering.
1 Comments:
Politicians make no difference.
We have bought into the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) ever since we took on Russia in the Cold WAR.
Through a combination of public apathy and threats by the MIC we have let the SYSTEM get too large. It is now a SYSTEMIC problem and the SYSTEM is out of control.
I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak.
There is no conspiracy. The SYSTEM has gotten so big that those who make it up and run it day to day in industry and government simply are perpetuating their existance.
The politicians rely on them for details and recommendations because they cannot possibly grasp the nuances of the environment and the BIG SYSTEM.
So, the system has to go bust and then be re-scaled, fixed and re-designed to run efficiently and prudently, just like any other big machine that runs poorly or becomes obsolete or dangerous.
This situation will right itself through trauma. I see a government ENRON on the horizon, with an associated house cleaning.
The next president will come and go along with his appointees and politicos. The event to watch is the collapse of the MIC.
For more details see:
http://www.rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com
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