I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the
country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all
ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period
I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big
Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of
it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an
original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties
remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the
higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American
oil interests in 1914. "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place
for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in
the
raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of
Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify
Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and
Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the
sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American
fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that
Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a
swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion.
Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few
hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city
districts. The Marines operated on three continents.
Above was written by the late, great Major General Smedley Butler
(U.S. Marine Corps)
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The problem is that too many American's have been brainwashed. The
devils in charge know that if they tell a lie enough times, that it
will become truth. The US occupation of Iraq is NOT a war on
terrorism. It is terrorism, and we're paying for it dearly. Over
800,000 thousand Iraqis of all ages (including many children) have
been killed since the Goliath USA began their illegal and immoral
invasion of Iraq.
2bc
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Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War
The original terrorists in Iraq were the military and civilian
officials of the Bush administration -- starting with their "shock
and
awe" bombing campaign that destroyed Iraqi infrastructure in order to
"undermine civilian morale." The American form of terrorism continued
with the wholesale destruction of most of Falluja and parts of other
Sunni cities, designed to pacify the "hot beds" of insurgency, while
teaching the residents of those areas that, if they "harbor the
insurgents," they will surely "suffer the consequences."
At the individual level, this program of terror was continued through
the invasions of, and demoli****ng of, homes (or, in some cases, parts
of neighborhoods) where insurgents were believed to be hidden among a
larger civilian population, thus spreading the "lesson" about
"harboring terrorists" to everyone in the Sunni sections of the
country. Generating a violent death rate of at least 18,000 per year,
the American drumbeat of terror has contributed more than its share
to
the recently escalating civilian death toll, which reached a record
3,149 in the official count during July. It is unfortunately accurate
to characterize the American occupation of Sunni Iraq as a reign of
terror.
from:
http://www.TomDispatch.com
7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War
by Michael Schwartz
================================
====================
Here are some good sources for news that are not controlled by
insanely greedy
American businessmen, who don't care if their dollars are soaked in
the blood of
little Iraqi children:
http://AlterNet.org
http://Anti-War.com
http://caracasnews.com
http://www.CommonDreams.org
http://www.DemocracyNow.org
http://www.gregpalast.com
http://www.TomDispatch.com
http://www.truthdig.com
http://www.truthout.org
On Jun 10, 10:39 am, wegona_befree <wegona_bef...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The following is
from:http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqdontenlist.html#DONTENLIST
>
> Please read & share this with others on as wide a scale as possible.
>
> REASONS NOT TO ENLIST IN the US Military and join the Iraq war.
>
> On average, a surgeon has to amputate the genitals of two wounded US
> soldiers each day in Iraq.
>
> You may be killed. Your family, friends and people who love you will
> have a lifetime of heartache. Any children you would have fathered
> will be aborted with you.
>
> You may be maimed, have one or more limbs amputated or lose half your
> face or your ***** and balls. You will live the rest of your life
> disabled. You may be so disfigured you will never have *** again. You
> will be stuck with the bulk of the medical bills. Modern medicine can
> resuscitate badly maimed people who would have died in previous wars.
> This means the Iraq war is cranking out an unusually high numbers of
> seriously maimed people.
>
> Many returning from Iraq become mental basket cases unable to deal
> with the horrors of war and the guilt at what they have done. Friends
> and family reject them. They can't hold down a job. They become
> homeless. Look at the way American treats the homeless vets of the
> Viet Nam and Iraq wars begging on the streets.
>
> Over half the soldiers who served in the Gulf War, died of Gulf War
> Syndrome or were treated for it. They were in Iraq for only weeks.
> You
> will be there years. Read the fine print. Bush is keeping soldiers in
> Iraq for years after their contract expires. To this day no one knows
> for sure what causes Gulf War Syndrome.
>
> You will be exposed to DU (Depleted Uranium), as were soldiers in the
> first Gulf War. This may cause cancer later, or even more likely will
> cause your children and their children to be genetically deformed.
> Check out the middle part of this video that shows what sort of
> children are common to those exposed to the DU-laden winds in Iraq.
> Imagine explaining to your wife why you did this to her. Also pay
> attention to parts how can make your wife and family sick indirectly.
>
> Iraq is no threat to the USA. You are not defending your country.
> There were no WMDs. Even Bush admits Iraq had nothing to do with the
> terrorist attacks on 9/11.
> "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the
> September 11th attacks."
> ~ George W. Bush, 2003-09-17, audio.
>
> The USA illegally attacked an unarmed country under false pretenses.
> The war is about ignoble motives such as oil and world domination.
> There is utterly no point is you risking your life in Iraq.
>
> reasons continue at:
>
> http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqdontenlist.html#DONTENLIST
>
> ========
>
> If Americans are going to pay for the war, they should be shown the
> war, including pictures of the hundreds of thousands of little
> children and women who have been killed and permanently disfigured in
> Bush's so called "war on terror".
>
> WAR PICTURES
>
> Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American
> Aggression in Iraq
>
> These photos are only of a very tiny fraction of the hundreds of
> thousands of Iraqi Civilian Victims who have been terrorised,
> humiliated, injured, maimed and killed through British and American
> bombing of civilian areas in various cities of Iraq. Due to
> insecurity, independent re****ters could not and still can not reach
> many areas to photograph and re****t the atrocities. Several
> independent re****ters and journalists were deliberately bombed to
> prevent them re****ting the atrocities.
>
> WARNING:
> PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THESE PICTURES ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR SMALL
> CHILDREN AND THOSE WITH WEAK HEARTS.
>
> Mind Prod:http://snipurl.com/h6tp
>
> -------------
>
> "How is a military drilled and trained to defend freedom, peace and
> ahppiness?
> This is what Major General O'Ryan has to say of an efficiently
> trained
> generation: 'The soldier must be so trained that he becomes a mere
> automoton;
> he must be so trained that it will destroy his initiative;
> he must be so trained that he is turned into a machine.
> The soldier must be forced into the military noose;
> he must be jacked up; he must be ruled by his superiors with pistol in
> hand.'
> This was not said by a Prussian Junker; not by a German
> barbarian . . .
> but by an American major general. And he is right. You cannot conduct
> war
> with equals; you cannot have militarism with free born men; you must
> have
> slaves, automotons, machines, obedient disciplined creatures, who
> will
> move, act, shoot and kill at the command of their superiors. That is
> preparedness, and nothing else."
> -Emma Goldman
>
> =========================
>
> "Man must change or die.
> There is no other course...
> The time for war has past..."
> The World Teacherhttp://www.Share-International.org
> --------------------
>
> A good source for news and views:http://www.CommonDreams.org
>
> The truth will set us free (from sup****t warmonging politicians and
> their filthy wars).
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