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Forum Post: soldiers were used as canon fodder for the corporate agenda.

Posted 11 years ago on May 21, 2012, 9:51 p.m. EST by gestopomillyy (1695)
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Veterans symbolically discard service medals at anti-NATO rally

http://news.yahoo.com/veterans-symbolically-discard-medals-anti-nato-rally-235355143.html

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[-] 2 points by Middleaged (5140) 11 years ago

1) We know now that Vietnam was an undeclared war started by the US in a false flag intelligence operation in the Gulf of Tonkin.

2) We know that Congress did not declare war on North Korea, North VIetnam, Panama, First Gulf War in Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The power of war is mandated in the US Constitution, just like the mandate of an Annual Federal Budget (un-passed in like 1000 days).

3) We assume Congress won't declare war or pass a budget so they can't be held to account for the vote.

4) Smedley Butler.

5) The US Banana Wars.

6) The Monroe Doctrine.

7) The Doctrine of Right to First Strike.

8) The Doctrine of Right to Invade Failed States.

9) The Doctrine of Torture.

10) The Doctrine of Extrodinary Rendition.

11) The Use of US Mercinary Armies/Private Armies.

12) The Off Shoring of US Defense Contractors to Eliminate/Avoid Income Taxes, Social Securities Taxes, Unemployment Taxes.

13) The 2004 GAO Report on Defense Contractors not paying taxes, and follow up reports.

14) Continuing Reports of Corruption in the Department of War going back to Harry Truman prior to entry of the USA into WW II.

15) Recent Record Level Fraud and Corruption reported in the News about the Biggest Defense Cortractors.

16) Reports of over 1 Million Dead in Iraq, but the federal government doesn't record or report the total dead in any of it's war, just like it doesn't want to know specific information about taxes paid by corporation shell companies, and wealthy taxpayers.

17) Some Military Weapon systems are not needed and don't accomplish stated mission, but the narrative is controlled to continue funding stream to corporate cofferes.

18) How can North Vietnam, North Korea, Panama, Iraq, or Afghanistan possibly threaten the USA from all those miles away. They couldn't possibly at the time of war. Today the threat is from ballistic missiles, but maybe from 500 miles away.

19) All of the Above are examples of testimony or history of corruption in the Department of War or the Use of the Department of War.

20) But the worst is the stories of the CIA and DEA running drugs into the US and the Lobby of Defense and Security Corporations through Global Banks and through Bank laundering of Money.

[-] 0 points by DSams (-71) 11 years ago

Interesting list. Good to see Smedley on it...

[-] 1 points by Middleaged (5140) 11 years ago

Thanks

[-] 0 points by DSams (-71) 11 years ago

You're welcome.

[-] 2 points by tr289 (916) from Chicago, IL 11 years ago

It's sad but it's not like this is anything new. It's the same game played over and over and we can't win, and of course are dumb enough to keep playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8

"I threw families onto the street in Iraq only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country and this tragic, tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis. We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land and not people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable. The enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, it's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable, it's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemy is not five thousands miles away, they are right here at home. "

  • Mike Prysner
[-] 1 points by Middleaged (5140) 11 years ago

Yes. Robert Reich says that we have Health Care Companies that Avoid Sick People. They are just financial companies that reel in the money.

We call it financial Capitalism. That is also what Bain Capital is and Mitt Romney is doing. Financial Capitalism. Just moving money aorund making a few people rich in the process while shifting more of the burden and liability onto the taxpayer.

[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8310) from Phoenix, AZ 11 years ago

Wars allow the excess to be drained so that people don't start demanding justice.

[-] 1 points by MattLHolck (16833) from San Diego, CA 11 years ago

that's so 1984

[-] 1 points by factsrfun (8310) from Phoenix, AZ 11 years ago

orwell is so underaperiated