Would MLK support the Iraq / Afghanistan wars? Pentagon says yes

Thank you , i was going for something really dumb with this post.
I spent 10 minutes looking for the dumbest story i could find & this was the winner.

I think you got it just right

Just before he was killed:

"And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth."

That is a truly wonderful quote. Thank you!

I would like to quote a friend to respond to your comment

"Actually that's one thing we DON'T know for sure, and something you assume you know."

Wow. It's a documented fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was vehemently opposed to non-violence. Anyone who's taken 5th grade social studies would know that.

Uh no, we can know practically for certain.

He spoke out, vehemently, against the Vietnam war and wars in general.

It would be like saying we don't know what Gandhi would think. Come on.

You're right. You probably will never know for sure because you weren't even born yet. His memory is being so commercialized that young people today don't even have the slightest idea of what Dr. King stood for, who he really was and why the government made sure that he was silence.

Know this for an absolute certainty kid. Dr. Martin Luther King was vehemently opposed to American foreign policy. He condemned the mass killing of people from third world countries that most Americans try hard to refer to as expendable and uncivilized cave dwellers like you've done with people living in Iraq and Afghanistan. I've got King speeches collected over the years that I know you've never heard. The man was fearless and he never supported wars that he felt in his heart were evil

Yes we can say with some level of certainty that he would not support the war. But he is not here today to say whether or not he would. Perhaps the plight of the Afghani people would have touched his soul in a way that we cannot understand because we are not him, and he is not here to tell us. We must choose in ourselves whether or not we support this war because it is our war to fight, we must choose for ourselves. We cannot let the past rule us we must shape who we choose to become.

Kid, you are absolutely out of your mind to think that any sane individual that knows just a taste more about MLK than you do, which is nothing at all, would even consider believing an ounce of this crap that you're throwing up against the wall.

At best, you're a joke.

What I said went right on over your head didn't it? Oh well come talk to me when you can leave the past in the past and stop putting it in the present.

Actually that's one thing we DON'T know for sure, and something you assume you know.

Right, he surely would have voted for McCain.

Did you ever read or watch anything he ever said?

Either he supports War or Obama. Obama supports War, so MLK would not support Obama, if MLK did indeed oppose War.

Indeed. Using MLK as an excuse to justify war is absolutely repugnant and depraved... for a number of reasons that should be obvious to anyone.