- This reality pains me more than anyone can understand.
I am the son of a career U.S. Marine. My grandfather served and earned
a Purple Heart in WWI. My father served in WWII and Korea, and died in
service. My brother served in the U.S. Army in Desert Storm. I served as
a U.S. Army officer during Vietnam.
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- War is hell and it scrambles men's and women's minds.
From the Vietnam War alone, over 200,000 once healthy men committed suicide
after coming back from Nam in 1975. Hundreds of thousands more suffered
broken marriages and descended into drugs and alcohol. The expectations
for suicides from Iraq and Afghanistan run into the 150,000 range. Those
suicides can be based on the lunacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon
and now, George Bush and Barack Obama.
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- For the record, I personally know Peter Gadiel the father
of a young boy who died in one of the twin towers on 9/11. His pain continues
today because he has battled the U.S. government to stop illegal immigration
and secure our borders for 10 year, but they have not. The incompetence
or the "on purpose" path of supporting illegal immigration as
well as relentless legal immigration shows a grand design to destroy the
sovereignty and culture of our country by some very powerful elites at
the top of the power structure.
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- My heart goes out to every American and non-American
that suffered in the 9/11 massacre. This past 9/11 Sunday, America mourned.
I mourned.
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- I love America with every cell in my body. At the same
time, I urge a reality check to Americans as to open door for 9/11. Nothing
in this universe or in this world happens without a cause. We live in
a cause and effect world. Something or some act causes a corresponding
reaction.
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- A bit of history from the United States of America
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- When the European settlers came to this country, they
slaughtered the Native Americans with superior, mechanized violence. It
proved deplorable yet humanity tends toward self-aggrandizement. Conquering
human tribes always write history in their own best interest. They (our
forefathers) grouped the Indians into detention camps called "reservations."
Our forefathers took away their freedoms, cultures, customs, languages,
religions and ways of life. We introduced them booze and small pox. We
broke treaty after treaty with the Indians. We massacred men, women and
children. Read Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre and Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee if you want to appreciate a really in-depth understanding
of white men's violence toward Native Americans.
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- They have not recovered. They live on welfare, on reservations,
drink endless booze, live on hopelessness and suffer domestic violence
as they attempt and fail to adjust to the white man's world. We also turned
their pristine continent into a chemical, carbon, paved, polluted and littered
trash pit. Look them in the eyes and one can feel their emptiness. How
can we look in the mirror ourselves and feel nothing?
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- During Harry Truman's administration, his advisors cooked
up the idea that we should halt communism by fighting in Korea. We jumped
in to kill hundreds of thousands while suffering 33,000 deaths ourselves-in
a conflict that we had no business entering over 10,000 miles away from
our shores. The Korean War killed countless tens of thousands of people
and did absolutely nothing to move the world toward peace. North and South
Korea today stand as ardent enemies with no solution.
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- When Dwight D. Eisenhower finished his two terms as
president, he warned about the Military Industrial Complex. Quite simply,
that is a group of men and organizations that feed on wars, and as we have
seen, they create and engineer wars. We American citizen did not heed
Ike's words.
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- Thus, the U.S. Military Industrial Complex created the
Vietnam War. It did not create it to make America safer; those elites
created it to make more money and wield their power. We waged it for 10
years because that's how long those engineers could manipulate us. It
would still be going if not for the "reaction" of the college
students screaming, "Hell no, we won't go!"
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- The architect of Vietnam, Robert McNamara, before he
died at 92 a year ago, wrote Fog of War. He admitted that,
"Vietnam was a mistake." His mistake killed over 2.1 million
Vietnamese and poisoned their country with Agent Orange. It still causes
ecological mayhem and birth defects throughout Vietnam in 2011. Since
we don't see or feel the consequences, we feel immune to our causing them.
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- The Gulf of Tonkin fraud provided the pretense for the
Vietnam War. But that's all it took for Johnson to start bombing and sending
53,267 men to their violent deaths with another 350,000 amputated or maimed
emotionally. The "Silent Majority" felt no culpability for the
deaths of 2.1 million Vietnamese any more than it felt culpability for
the massacres of Native Americans. When might we understand that we are
not the final "father figure" of the planet?
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- Then, in the early 1990s, we stuck our noses into Kuwait
and Iraq. We killed a few thousand people with our firepower. We lost
just short of 400 kids. At that time, Osama bin Laden warned us to leave
Muslim lands. Several other imams demanded that we leave Muslim lands
or face jihad. We didn't believe them because we felt immune to the law
of cause and effect.
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- In 1993, Muslims tried to bomb the World Trade Towers
at the basement level. They failed while bin Laden again warned us to
leave Muslim lands. We still didn't listen in 1993. We do not listen
in 2011 at what costs to our young men and women? Answer: 4,200 American
soldier (kids) deaths and 42,000 maimed.
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- On September 11, 2001, not Afghanistan and not Iraq,
but 17 of the 19 men from Saudi Arabia hijacked our airplanes and flew
them into the towers, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania cornfield. Some very
cogent proof shows that 9/11 was an inside job and that someone in high
places concocted the entire terrorist act to get us into another war.
Building #7 collapsed because it was rigged with explosives.
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- From there we have bombed and killed tens of thousands
of "insurgents" in that goat herder country of Afghanistan that
lacks a single fighter jet or helicopter. Isn't it amazing how the finest
army in the world can't conquer a bunch of illiterate goat herders and
poppy seed growers?
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- Then, as usual, the Military Industrial Complex boiled
up "Weapons of Mass Destruction," which allowed George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney to start bombing a country that did not have any weapons
of mass destruction. They used and made a fool out of General Colin Powell.
Subsequently, Bush/Cheney killed hundreds of thousands as they created
2.5 million refugees and contaminated Iraq's soil and water with depleted
uranium "shock and awe" bombs. I charge George W. Bush and
coward Dick "five draft deferments from Vietnam" Cheney with
crimes against humanity. Their total arrogance in the face of Muslim leaders'
warnings borders on Hitler's megalomania.
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- In the meantime, Bush and Cheney stroll around their
mansions with endless money while our precious, though naïve volunteer
soldier/kids walk around with plastic arms, legs and other body parts.
Not only that, 100,000 combat soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan will
commit suicide in the coming years as well as suffer horrible broken families
and orphaned children. Of special note, one young man this past week earned
the Medal of Honor while millions more earned a PTSD diagnosis. (Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder is another term for having your brains scrambled for life.)
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- We mourn that dreadful moment on 9/11, yet our own government's
actions and the Military Industrial Complex caused 9/11. Today, we harbor
over 572,000 military personnel on over 700 bases in over 100 countries
around the world. In effect, we foist our standing army into every corner
of the Earth. We push our empire onto everybody else's country without
merit and without reason.
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- The results: as a nation, we're broke, in-debt and
spiritually vacuous. We suffer 14 million unemployed while spending $12
billion monthly for two wars of 10 years. Our schools turn out illiterate
kids and our country suffers from insidious malaise such as "flash
mobs."
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- Our Congress features a 12 percent approval rating and
our president suffers from a 46 percent approval rating, worst in the modern
era. He has failed on every pledge to get Americans back to work and bring
peace to our country. Obama's Nobel Peace prize is a contradiction as
he added to and lengthened the war in Afghanistan. His floundering represents
our floundering. What could that $12 billion monthly war bill do for our
citizens within our country? Plenty! We have spent over $1 trillion blowing
up two ancient countries.
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- As you now appreciate, 9/11 didn't occur out of the ether.
By our apathy and refusal to listen to Muslim demands to leave their countries,
our government and the Military Industrial Complex caused 9/11. We're
accountable because we supported Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq
with our silence and apathy.
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- Taking responsibility powers change for a more positive
outcome. Doing nothing as we citizens have done for 50 years-allows the
Military Industrial Complex to continue without pause.
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- How do we stop our Congress, presidents and the Military
Industrial Complex from creating and starting more wars?
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- 1. We need term limits to stop the good old boy network
that allows men like Mark Udall, Orrin Hatch, John McCain and Charles Schumer
to languish in office for decades, accomplishing little as politicians.
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- 2. Invite fresh minds and statesmen (women) to move
our country forward.
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- 3. We must elect presidents that honor the Constitution
instead of emotions, hunches or other indolent manners of leadership that
start wars.
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- 4. We citizens must cease supporting the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars with our apathetic complicity.
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- 5. We must abandon our ethnocentric arrogance for
a 21st century integrity that understands that all humans matter in their
own countries-versus our long standing superior view of America's power.
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- 6. May this be America's time to move toward authentic
power with equitable, moral and spiritual actions-understanding that we
are part of the human family. To maintain our current imperialism will
invite another 9/11.
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