The Military Industrial Media Complex

With the tremendous failure of the leadership, its time for the warrior class, the soldiers who fight to defend our ideals take the power away and return it to the people. They are our last hope for this democracy.

The generals and the pentagon have become political tools to enforce the will of the NWO.

There is no doubt that corruption takes place. There is doubt that cover-ups take place. But look at the US leadership of our military from the last 8 years. They were mired in cover-ups and lies.
When leaders take that stance, so too will those that follow them. It is not right, but it is a fact of human nature.
There are thousands of poeple, military troops, in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are people...people who are subject to the same emotions/wants/needs/beliefs/likes/dislikes (you get the picture) that people on any street in the US, or elsewhere.
It is inevitable that some of those people will be "bad apples." It is wrong to concentrate on those "bad apples" when so many more are doing that which they know to be right, under the present circumstances.

I'm not advocating war. War is a horrid way to play the human game.

Surrendering to the impulse to wage war is the ultimate abdication of conscience and of character. People who attempt to justify the rape and killing of teenagers by saying it is somehow in service of a higher purpose are ignorant at best and despicably corrupt at worst. The individuals who made the decisions which led to the conduct of the Iraq war and those who used the war as a screen under which to hide their underlying depravity are worse than criminal, and their actions smear filth across the flag they purport to defend.

by the way, where's President in all of this?? Why isn't he asking or demanding a meeting with these people? or saying something about it? He met with a black guy that was roughed up by a police officer months ago... he took notice to that... why not this???

No more beer Obama??

Figures much.... Great Government we have, right folks?

Where was this outrage when Saddam was perpetrating the same on a much larger scale on his own people? Or what about Darfur? Or Somalia? or Uganda?

War by nature is disgraceful, it represents a failure of man. People exposed to the horrors of combat become accustomed to the horror and some, whose minds finally break, will perpetrate violence on innocents. Is this tragic? Yes.

However, every army on earth has been held to a lower standard than the U.S. military. Other armies of past and today did/do not discourage rape, murder, wholesale slaughter of civilians. It was commonplace and often a strategic tool.

We have been at war for 8 years and killed thousands of people, innocent and guilty alike. War is tragic, BUT, American soldiers on the whole perform admirably and adhere to a warrior ethos that transcends those of most other warrior classes that have or do exist. I am proud of my Iraq War Service and the service of the soldiers I oversaw.

Some will undoubtedly fail...some will disgrace us, but let's not forget that most have done their jobs within the law of war without complaint, thanks, or acknowledgment of their extraordinary service in extraordinary times.

War is evil, but so is man. In order to counteract this inherent evil, war will undoubtedly erupt.

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

Ouch. This fucking hurts.
We have got to stop turning our children into rapists and murderers and telling them it''s alright 'over there'; then expect those same youth to turn it all off as soon as they return home. Turn it off, don't think about it. That energy, that imagery has to go somewhere. It's just as toxic on the inside as it is on the out. We're not just killing and poisoning people elsewhere, we're killing and poisoning our own simultaneously. War=self-obsessed greed=evil.

Great post, no matter how many times you see it, it STILL rings true!

We're just now noticing this? Come on, they/we/Americans came here to the "free world" and killed the inhabitants that was already here....