I feel as if I have a say on the 'war'. First, this had most likely been covered on multiple occasions: What is going over seas is not a war. Second, I am part of the generation that has grown up knowing/remembering nothing but the sad, depressing news. I was in second grade when the Twin Towers were hit. Now, being able to understand, I want to cry for all those families, friends, loved ones who were harmed in any way. I have grown up in a household that loves to have political disscussions. I have debated politics with my parents since about fifth grade. And the war comes ... a lot.

As much as this should have never happened, it did. I do not support the war itself, I do, however, support our troops. OUr troops are suffering along with strangers from another country who did not want our invasion and "help". There was no reason to place any troops in any country. But, that has been realized by thousands and thousands of people and our current president. As much as I like our current president, he has done a few things to throw me off his team, however, I am still a loyal supporter of him. Now, people get mad and stomp their feet because Obama said he'd get the troops out.

He has gotten some out and YES there are some left in there. But he cant pull out all the troops for the countries we are in would go crazy, we could be attacked again and that would be grounds for a REAL war. We are trying to get out of this insanity without causing more insanity.

I do not personally know anyone who has been sent over seas, but I know people who have had their uncle, brother, cousin, father etc sent over. It is a devestating feeling. It is a scary feeling. It may be one of the worst feelings in the world. And we do not deserve to feel it. I want the troops to come home as much as the next person, and it is hard to accept the fact that it may be a few more years before they all come home.

Writing this and thinking these things make me very emotional ( and I am not an emotional person ) and I just wanted to get this out there for the yougner generation... this is all we have remmeberd or even known... war. Terrible news reports and our loved ones crying or dying.

So I will end here. My prayers go out to every single person who has lost a loved one or has a loved one over seas at this moment.

War is a Racket

This isn't Anti American. But quite the contrary.

How IS this war remotely Patriotic ? As in having benefited our Nation ?
Except for the benefit of a few wealthy American families ?

Looking at where we as a Nation are today, It hasn't remotely benefited America in the least.

Our founding fathers establish a system of Government .....

Of the People, For the People and By the People ?

Did we ever vote to go to fight in Iraq ?


Major General Butler said it best in his book "War is a Racket":

WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. ..... How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Excerpted from:

War is a Racket
USMC Major General Smedley D. Butler

Originally posted by adifferentbreed
Ya gotta try harder, surely you can come up with yet another "I hate Americans" thread and go for yet another star and flag fest. Grow up and make the change you keep bitching about or shut the hell up son.

How sad. Why is it that when Americans have no intelligent response at all they always go for the "America Hater" punchline? It's absolutely pathetic and indicative of just how much the government has brainwashed you. I'll expect next you'll attempt to use that other ridiculous punchline - that the world is somehow 'jealous' of you for 'freedoms'. You're all the same really, no imagination, just collectively spewing out the same old nonsense time after time.