Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War

[JohnyCanuck]

Three-Stomp Blues: Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War
Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 03 March 2008

I. Absence of Evidence
There are many things that the American people are forbidden to know by the immensely profitable organizations that control the dispensing of information in the United States. Some things will simply not be reported, others will be distorted or sugar-coated or shellacked with fabrications until they bear only the most tangential connection to the actual events being "reported."

One of the most forbidden topics of all, of course, is the savage reality of the conflicts being fought in the name of the so-called "War on Terror." This global war – launched solely to advance a long-held, openly acknowledged militarist agenda of global domination by an authoritarian, lawless elite – has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, while corrupting and brutalizing the soldiers ordered, under knowingly false pretenses, to carry out the Dominators' sinister agenda. But the full story – and full force – of the crimes being committed every day in America's name, by American forces, at the command of America's leaders, are hidden from the American public by the American media. It is entirely possible to live your entire life as an active, engaged member of American society, diligently keeping up with the latest news from the most respectable sources, and never once have to confront this horrifying truth. The information-dispensers will not provide it for you; you have to seek it out yourself.

SNIP

II. "All I Saw Were Civilians"
The atrocities began in Iraq at the very start, from the first days and hours when the "mission" was being "accomplished" to a chorus of hosannas from the ex-generals and the war-profiteering commentators like Richard Perle brought in by the networks to provide "expert" analysis of the victorious campaign:

Jason Washburn…fought in the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 where, he says, he met little resistance. Most people were surrendering. "There were massive amounts of artillery strikes before we even invaded. We saw the results of that. Streets full of bodies – women and children – body parts, extremely indiscriminate. I’m talking about rolling through villages here, not military encampments."

He was told there was a military structure in one village.“I didn’t see it. I didn’t see any army uniforms. Or weapons. All I saw were civilians.”

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1446/135/

[Winterblues]

1. "All I Saw Were Civilians"

The last time there were any uniformed troops and/or a real military element was March '03. It has been nothing but an occupation trying to subdue a civilian population. They are all civilians..and we are slaughtering them, men, women, and children.

[Uncle Joe]

2. You can't wage war against fear or terror anymore

than you can wage a war against an inanimate object or drugs, in both cases, they're literally impossible to win.

You can wage a subliminal war against the American People on behalf of the military industrial complex and growing prison industry for example and use these Orwellian Terms as a pretext to do so.

But in both cases these wars will only feed themselves endlessly either through creating more enemies when innocents are killed by us or denied of their parents because the government put them in prison and threw away the key, ultimately the American People will be the fodder.

If the government sincerely believes Al Qaueda waged war and attacked us on 9/11, they need to declare against Al Qaueda, not terror. Then they need to quit pussyfooting around and go to where Al Qaueda is or sue for peace.

If the government sincerely believes drugs attacked us, and they can win war against them, they must be drinking a lot of alcohol. I would suggest asking Marijuana for a peace treaty as a start to their rehabilitation to reality, because frankly Marijuana literally doesn't give a damn if it's burned in as doobie, in a bong or a police confiscated bonfire, it's a tough bastard.

I thought one of the primary lessons supposedly learned from the disastrous war against Vietnam was to have an end or exit strategy and in both cases "The War Against Drugs" and "The War Against Terror" I see only endless war for all perpetuity or until the American Nation collapses from such wasteful tragic foolishness.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. "I see only endless war for all perpetuity ..

or until the American Nation collapses from such wasteful tragic foolishness."


Well said.