Remember

Dammit, I already forgot!



Edit...there was not a picture when I made my post. I will never forget.

4500 Americans killed in Iraq.
2000 Americans Killed in Afghanistan.
There is no telling how many are ruined for life by dreadful wounds.
All for nothing.
Oh,I forgot. Not in vain. The Military-Industrial-Complex and the millionaires that Manufacture and Sell War Materials to our government and our enemies as well at top dollar prices have become vastly wealthy.

Cry havoc! Loose the dogs of war!

[quote="Yella"]4500 Americans killed in Iraq.
2000 Americans Killed in Afghanistan.
There is no telling how many are ruined for life by dreadful wounds.
All for nothing.
Oh,I forgot. Not in vain. The Military-Industrial-Complex and the millionaires that Manufacture and Sell War Materials to our government and our enemies as well at top dollar prices have become vastly wealthy.

Cry havoc! Loose the dogs of war![/quote

...and the majority KIA in Astan was on Obama's watch.

BUSH'S WATCH




Makes you proud...

[quote="PACEDOG#1"]

Yella wrote:4500 Americans killed in Iraq.
2000 Americans Killed in Afghanistan.
There is no telling how many are ruined for life by dreadful wounds.
All for nothing.
Oh,I forgot. Not in vain. The Military-Industrial-Complex and the millionaires that Manufacture and Sell War Materials to our government and our enemies as well at top dollar prices have become vastly wealthy.

Cry havoc! Loose the dogs of war![/quote

...and the majority KIA in Astan was on Obama's watch.

Yep. It was one of his biggest mistakes. I figure he caved in to the power of the MIC

http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/11/13/support-the-troops/

I’d like to – and would – if “the troops” were actually defending
“our freedoms” – rather than stomping the freedoms of people across the
globe. Us included, I hasten to add. Because you can’t expect “the
troops” who brutalize people abroad to not come home and abuse the people here.
The mindset – and the precedents set – cannot be compartmentalized.
Brutality – contempt for other human beings – cannot be turned off and
on. The transformation of Andy Griffith into Officer 82nd Airborne is no
random happenstance.

It has happened for a reason.

The casual bloodlust of the average American – safely cocooned in front of his TeeVee (probably watching fuuuuuuhhhhhhhtttttball)
also has consequences. Osama was right. You send troops to other
people’s countries, topple their leaders, drop bombs on them from afar.
It tends to annoy those people. Some will try to hit back. We call it
“terrorism.” Just as the British of King George III’s era called the
insurrectionist colonists who dared to fight back “terrorists.” Just as
Reinhard Heydrich’s SD thugs called the partisans in the occupied east a
few generations later. Just as we – “we” being the comfortable couch
potatoes watching “the game” – call anyone who dares object to the
American Imperium – and its imperial storm troopers.

No one wants to hear this, of course.

The troops are “fightin’ fer freedom,” god bless ‘em. Just exactly as the legions of the Wehrmacht had belt buckles stamped Gott mit uns – and fought for freiheit, too. Or so they were told.

As we are told today.

The problem is one of separating sympathy for the idealistic kid from
StumpJump, West Virginia from revulsion at what the kid from StumpJump,
West Virginia, will do in my name. With my tax dollars.

I don’t want the kid to have his legs blown off. But I also do not
want him to blow the legs off people in far-away lands who have done me
no wrong – and done the kid no wrong, either. When he does so anyhow – I
am complicit. As are we all. Because we cheer – and we pay. We “support the troops” – by paying the taxes that make it possible for the troops to do their thing. Such as this thing, for instance...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qa4Tm0WsPcI

Joanimaroni wrote:Dammit, I already forgot!



Edit...there was not a picture when I made my post. I will never forget.

I had to reinsert the URL, the original went kaput for some reason. For the others on here who seem to think Vets are war mongers I have to say, as a Vet who has been to war, NOBODY wants peace MORE than those who have fought at their country's behest.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:BUSH'S WATCH




Makes you proud...

Thanks Teo. I needed a new screensaver.

BHOs watch: