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"It was worth it"..They died in the line of what?

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 14 June 2006
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Wars and conflicts International USA

On his visit to Iraq this week George Bush took the time to tell everyone that the fight in Iraq, with all it’s carnage, was...as he so nobly put it, "Worth It"
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Nobody really knows exactly how many US and coalition troops were killed or wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq since military actions commenced, but the numbers are staggering.
Not many media pundits, much less our distinguished El Presidente and staff, take the time to comment on the cost of human life as the results of our preemptive policies. I wonder why?

Could it be because it’s too hard to admit,... to face up to,... to think about? Just consider for a moment the vast number of US troops who were wounded in the battlefield and came home with crippling, frightening wounds...to flesh and to mind. Thousands suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and a few even have taken their lives in confused desperation.

Then there are the numerous troops killed by I.E.D.s, mortars, friendly fire bombs,enemy snipers, tank and helicopter accidents and shootdowns, land mines, car crashes and just plain physical exhaustion. Did these poor souls (and yes, some not so nice),die in vain? Al Gore, in an interview on Larry King’s CNN show said "No", but of course what else could he say? I’ll go out on a limb and say "Yes", those kids DID die in vain,even thought they didn’t believe so. They died for lies, for corporate control of oil and cushy contracts, and for some whacked out Neocons’s strange ideology and dreams of "democratic" nation building. All those lives completely and utterly wasted! Young lives which might well have meant something significant; perhaps they would have become great artists and musicians, sports figures, leaders of industry or inventors. All those dreams gone now. Bush says "It’s worth it".

And have we forgotten about the "unmentionables"? The tens of thousands of mostly innocent Afghanis and Iraqis who fell without warning with lives full of great hope and potential?, their bodies, many of them children, wracked and torn, splintered and shredded,blown to a bloodied pulp,with broken and smashed bones,ligaments torn, brains falling out...torsos ripped. What about them?
They talk about Saddam’s cruelty, and no doubt that’s true, but if and when this pathetic conflict, this "endless" war for hegemony is concluded, those bodies will be counted, where possible, by some intrepid and dedicated bean counting statistician, and the total of the dead, wounded and tortured...as the direct result of George W. Bush’s insane and immoral policies...will far surpass the numbers executed by Saddam!

Did they all "Die in the line of duty"?,.... or for nothing at all?

Forum posts

  • Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosov, Serbia(did I forget anyone?) were Beta tests. We’re next. And since we’ve sat on our fat asses and let this happen to innocent sovereign nations, we’ve got it coming.

  • It is “worth it” to bush, the neocons, and their NWO puppet masters in terms of corporate/government/personal wealth and power to send u.s. soldiers to their senseless deaths and slaughtering innocent people on a massive scale.
    To these filthy and contemptible people, the deaths of their own soldiers and countless innocent foreign bystanders means nothing when measured against the prospect of soaring profits and power that would make Hitler and Stalin green with envy.
    The only thing that continues to prop up their malevolent war scams are the profound ignorance of citizens of western nations and the ridiculous ease with which they are prodded into a state of warlike agitation by state sponsored artificial terror incidents and propaganda geared towards demonizing the chosen “enemies”.
    It also is “worth it” to severely deluded bush supporters who cannot or will not take the time to realize that they are harming themselves by aligning themselves with bush because they don’t want anyone or anything raining on their freak show parade.
    The very thought that all the dead soldiers and Iraqis and afghanis could have been artists or musicians or athletes or other professionals who contribute to the betterment of humanity and peaceful coexistence is saddening and tragic but ultimately of no relevance to the elite controllers of world events who feel moved only by the thought of becoming even wealthier and more powerful as a result of another one of their wars.
    In all truth, soldiers are like well armed roosters trained by their masters to fight and maim and kill each other and die in gigantic cockfights so that their “owners” can win money or power in tournaments of war. The roosters owners feel no sense of affection or attachment to their feathered gladiators and no sense of deep loss if they are killed except for the loss of the big prize money and it is the same for bush or tony blair and their masters who are the owners of the soldiers. Anyone who believes that bush and blair feel any deep loss and anguish at the deaths of even a single one of their soldiers is a rube and one of those suckers that P.T. Barnum said is born every minute.
    Wars are also an effective method of retarding economic and intellectual development in the slaves who might otherwise become too well off and intelligent and start seeing who their real enemies are and rise up in rebellion. The real enemies of people around the world are their own governments and their elite masters whose interests they serve.
    Terrorist incidents(foreign and domestic) are fabricated threats designed to foster a primal terror in the minds of people so that they will cease using their rational minds and instead react fearfully and seek protection through their governments because fear is the most effective means of motivating people into surrendering their freedoms and pledging fealty to dictators.
    When the so-called “president of the u.s.” declared that the soldiers “died in the line of duty” what he really meant was that they died in what he views as their duty to him and his masters imperatives and not any duty to the nation or the people.
    If the soldiers had been fulfilling their constitutionally defined duties, they would have been guarding the continental u.s. from external attacks instead of being sent to do “contract hits” on other nations that defied the bush crime regime’s/family’s/NWO elites wishes.
    Saddam Hussein gave the “finger” to the israelis and the NWO overlords when he wouldn’t give his oil exclusively to israel and tried to sell his oil with euros instead of the fiat currency known as dollars and was “whacked” big time in retaliation. Smedley Butler once said that “war is a racket” after he became aware of his real role as a mercenary for american corporate interests seeking to infiltrate and control markets and resources in far away lands and he was right.
    Wars are nothing but criminal rackets designed by politicians/criminals to extort unimaginable wealth and power from people and have nothing to do with fighting terrorism or WMDs or liberating oppressed wretched peoples.
    The architects of wars care nothing for human lives(at least not the lives of others) or for truth or peaceful coexistence or things that bring beauty into the world. To them, beauty exists only in the contexts of wealth and power and control over others. They experience pleasure in acquiring more wealth than they will every use or need in their lifetimes and possessing more power than any other human beings in history and such control over others that they can kill indiscriminately without fear of prosecution and feel a primal rush of ecstasy at the taking of human lives. This has been the way of war for thousands of years of human history and unless the gladiators and the innocent bystanders recognize this and refuse to be part of it any longer, this is the way it will be for thousands more.

    • Amen to you. It’s too bad I don’t believe in hell, because that is where all of this human scum should wind up for eternity.

    • I wonder just how much it was worth to Bu$h....how many billions has he personally profited from his big mess? We all know how much Dick Chicanery has made from Halliburton, KBR, and all of the other phony "security" corporations of death he is involved in, I can just imagine how much George and Laura have socked away....too bad it has been so bloody and has taken so long. I guess God has just run out of steam, he promised George a "quick" victory and that he would be a hero to the world....I guess God’s chrystal ball has a few cracks in it, poor George he has to endure all of the world’s hatred for each of those bloody dollars he can never spend in his lifetime. And I would bet he is pissed at God for not just depositing the money in his off shore bank accounts in the first place instead of making him out to be the fool.