(September 27, 2016 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Go ahead tell an army brat that being deployed isn't defending your country. You think my first post on this thread was wordy and blunt I will lay into you so hard it isn't even funny. Please for both of us recant that question.
My brother is in the Navy, a Seabee, deployed in Afghan for 1 year. Even he acknowledges that he wasn't "defending this country." He talks constantly about the opium fields they secured over there, and he talks constantly about how our freedoms aren't over there, nor do we need defending over there. You want to lay into me? Go ahead and try it. The soldiers, in the words of George Carlin who was in the air force, are brainwashed. Many of them go in either believing the propaganda and lies about our country, or they go in thinking of themselves, because having military service on your resume is a guarantee for employment in decent paying jobs. There's nothing you can say to me on this topic that I haven't already heard. The soldiers don't defend this country nor do they fight for our freedoms. They fight for an empire. Look at Iraq. Saddam wanted to sell oil in the Euro. Well that would've hurt our fiat empire a bit, so we bombed the shit out of them. Tell me, what threat did North Korea or Vietnam have to the United States? Or Iraq during the gulf war? How about Yemen or Libya? We bomb these places because they're not friendly to US business interests, or to our banks, and nothing more. And we wonder why 911 happened?
1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.
U.S. installs Shah as dictator.
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala.
200,000 civilians killed.
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile.
Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated.
Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.
5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador.
70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.
1980's: U.S. trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.
CIA gives them $3 billion.
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras." 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington.
U.S. invaded Panama and removes Noriega.
3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq.
Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan.
Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing sanctions.
2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."
Sept. 11, 2001: Osama Bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.
We are not hated because of our love for freedom or for our prosperity.
We are hated for our disallowance for others to prosper.
