The United States of War Criminals (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

"People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America." --Arundhati Roy

Dec. 14, 2010 -- More than half (53.3 percent) of U.S. tax dollars go to a criminal enterprise known as the U.S. Department of Defense (sic), a.k.a. the worst polluter on the planet. We hear about tax cuts this and budget that and all kinds of other bullshit from the U.S. government and the corporations that own it… but the reality remains: Roughly one million tax dollars per minute are spent to fund the largest military machine (read: global terrorist operation) the world has ever known.

What do we get for all that money? To follow, is but one tiny example that mostly slipped through the cracks earlier this year.

On July 23, 2010, Tom Eley at Global Research wrote:

"According to the authors of a new study, 'Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,' the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by U.S. atomic bomb strikes in 1945."

For those unfamiliar with the U.S. attacks on Fallujah, first of all: You should be fuckin' ashamed of yourselves. Secondly, here's Patrick Cockburn's basic description:

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[Arctic Dave]

1. Hope you are wearing your FRCs.

[truth2power]

3. Why?

[Arctic Dave]

4. Actually I am surprised the local DU munitions are harmless

fanatics didn't show up to this thread. Having to be the pro authoritarian cheerleaders for all the WL threads must be taking up their time.

[truth2power]

5. I agree with what you're saying. Sometimes I can barely stand it,..

what we've become, that is. And what some so-called progressives countenance on this board is simply beyond the pale.

[vonarrow]

2. re: War Criminals & the "War On Terror"

Since George W. Bush and the neocons propagandized Americans endlessly re: the War On Terror, even a 12-yr. old armed with a few ole shoeworn neocon talking points can still bring President Obama or an anti-war person to their knees: "Who do you want to win the War On Terror? Al Qaeda or America? Where do you want to fight them? Over there or right here in our own backyards? We don't 'negotiate' with terrorists - we just, "hunt'em down, smoke'em out and kill'em all."

Even to this day, if one writes about or speaks of "making peace with terrorists" one could be mis-characterized as crazy or even turned in to Homeland Security as a potential "security threat."

To this day, proposing the concept of "making peace with terrorists" is considered a "radical idea." for ex., neocons/pro-war types chorus: "Everybody knows you can't make peace with terrorists - terrorists are just crazy, mindless, souless creatures whose evil Islamic faith teaches and instructs them to "kill the infidels" - and that's you and me, bubba."

To this day, you could still be considered a potential enemy combatant if you authored the words/idea that "Islamic terrorism" is the Muslim struggle to free themselves of decades of U.S.-Israeli occupation, oppression, abuse and murder.

The Supreme Court ruled long ago that President Nixon had no right to suppress free speech in the press, yet to this day, some lawmakers propose precisely such nonsense. WikiLeaks is all about transparency in government - something the U.S. government currently fights against. The debate should be on what constitutes a "national security interest." Currently, our government routinely sweeps anything they want to hold secret under this broad, imaginary rug.

Personally, I'm sick of all this "guvmint secrecy." I believe 95% of all the so-called "guvmint secrets" should be declassified. I'm sick and tired of my government spending untold billions on goddamn "intel." It's a huge racket which needs to be defunded and disbanded.
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