US Servicemen asked to put their lives on the line for corporate profits.

[Scuba]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUQ_N_vHc0


Abuse of our Patriot servicemen and women.

[wtmusic]

1. When haven't they? nt

[Ed Suspicious]

2. That's powerful stuff.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. They wanted me to risk my neck and kill people so LBJ could look tough. K&R

[Obamanaut]

5. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy were all part of that as well.

It looks like there will be multiple CinC's in these multiple conflicts also.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Well, LBJ was capo di tutti capi when they asked me.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Yep.

Young people who sign up for the military think they're going to "fight for America's freedom." What crock. It's all about the corporate payola.

[cliffordu]

6. It's been this way since the beginning of time.

Genghis Kahn was into acquisitions and mergers.

He was a Bid'nessman!!!

[EC]

7. That's what

"American Interests" are. Corporations are the interests they are protecting. The American Way of Life IS capitalism, so that's what is meant when they say we are protecting the American Way of Life, blah, blah, blah...

[bbgrunt]

8. see Smedley Butler's "War is a Racquet"

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[hootinholler]

9. Bullshit!

Nobody and I mean nobody *asks* them. They order them to put their life on the line for corporate profit.

-Hoot