Fuck The Troops (part two of two)

What I hate most about holy war for oil and hegemony is this ridiculous notion of authority when, clearly, no accountability exists. Why the hell do people trust THE news as THE source for accurate information? They are not only consistently wrong and espouse biased ideas based on everything but objective journalism, they misinform through infotainment that is provided by PRIVATE CORPORATIONS whose only agenda comes from CEOs who have their own agenda- the bottom line. The magic of the Internet allows people access to the millions of varied news sources from around the world, but screw that I don’t want to read. I want “Bill O’Really” to tell me what to think instead. And damn it, it had better be entertaining!

What happens in a free market economy when the government and corporations compete for power, CEOs run shit? But, their word is not law (even if they are protected by bureaucratic red tape that keeps them exempt from face the responsibility of genocide) and when we follow the paper trail, we see the military industrial complex as real and sacrificing the lives of innocents to keep the industry running. We have spent over 1.2 TRILLION dollars and counting which our children’s children will be paying back. So, who’s getting paid? Why, the banks that are funding it and receiving compounded interest of course. “We the People” object, that is until it comes to supporting the “troops”- i.e. military funding and philosophy. Let’s be real- we support MEN who OWN these INSTITUTIONS that are FUNDING this WAR. Private jet with complimentary peanuts anyone?

As for me, I am tired of watching my friends go to war and wondering if I’ll ever see them again. Beating the war drums and then feigning surprise at the atrocities of war has become an American tradition. We for some reason believe that peoples who have fought to maintain their culture and traditions from outsiders (and indeed one another) for thousands of years will automatically lie down and surrender their dignity because the big bad Americans are coming. And we don’t discriminate between the few extremists amongst the millions of innocents. You really want to support our troops, stop feeding the war machine the bodies of our children so that it can churn out a healthy profit. For the apathetic, our eloquent Vice President, whose Halliburton stock blows up on the scale of the bombs we drop (making sure to miss the oil fields of course), summed it up nicely when asked how he feels about more than 2/3 of the country’s disagreement with this war now that it has passed its 5 year anniversary: “So?”

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