> Massive "End the Occupation" Protest in Baghdad Dwarfs the "Saddam Toppled" rally: Photos
13 April 2005, 00:01
My father killed many Germans on the bombing missions over Germany in WWII, he said that when they returned to the base that there was every kind of booze waiting for them and they stayed drunk on their off time. Then they all returned from the great war all alcoholics, the Vietnam soldiers all returned drug addicts, as well as alcoholics, two generations of men rendered out of comission by substance abuse, The next gereration of Americans will also find a way to numb the pain of a violent and senseless war.
The U.S./Vietnam war lasted for 10 years and killed more than 58,000 young American men/women and more than 1,000,000 Vietnamese people, and nothing good was accomplished there, only ruined lives, poverty, and the destruction of a once beautiful rainforest and all of its creatures. But the worst part was that it was all based on lies fabricated by our government, a government that now can not be trusted, yet one that has never been held accountable to its people by its people for what it has done. A government that is repeating this pattern of war profiteering by lying about the need to attack another country, one that had never threatened us. We will be in Iraq for generations, just as we are still in Germany, and Japan despite SIXTY YEARS of occupation and the populations of both countries wanting us to leave.
Is this policy a government by the people? We have lost ALL representation in the government, and in the voting proceedures, is this progress? All of this waring has made us hated and much less safe around the world, is this where the people want our government to be taking us? Are we going to continue this wrong path into the future? Do we really care about our country? Or are we fighting among ourselves to keep from having to confront our form of government and address what we as citizens can do to change this? We need as humans to strive to evolve past violent conflict and find ways to share the planet.
My father killed many Germans on the bombing missions over Germany in WWII, he said that when they returned to the base that there was every kind of booze waiting for them and they stayed drunk on their off time. Then they all returned from the great war all alcoholics, the Vietnam soldiers all returned drug addicts, as well as alcoholics, two generations of men rendered out of comission by substance abuse, The next gereration of Americans will also find a way to numb the pain of a violent and senseless war.
The U.S./Vietnam war lasted for 10 years and killed more than 58,000 young American men/women and more than 1,000,000 Vietnamese people, and nothing good was accomplished there, only ruined lives, poverty, and the destruction of a once beautiful rainforest and all of its creatures. But the worst part was that it was all based on lies fabricated by our government, a government that now can not be trusted, yet one that has never been held accountable to its people by its people for what it has done. A government that is repeating this pattern of war profiteering by lying about the need to attack another country, one that had never threatened us. We will be in Iraq for generations, just as we are still in Germany, and Japan despite SIXTY YEARS of occupation and the populations of both countries wanting us to leave.
Is this policy a government by the people? We have lost ALL representation in the government, and in the voting proceedures, is this progress? All of this waring has made us hated and much less safe around the world, is this where the people want our government to be taking us? Are we going to continue this wrong path into the future? Do we really care about our country? Or are we fighting among ourselves to keep from having to confront our form of government and address what we as citizens can do to change this? We need as humans to strive to evolve past violent conflict and find ways to share the planet.