Politicians lie, soldiers & civilians die 1-20-2020

20, January 2020            Politicians lie, soldiers & civilians die 

The story of the death of Cpl. Jimmy Cleveland Kinsey recently went viral.
He and his wife had been childhood sweethearts meeting at the render age of 12 and 14. Shortly after they got married Kinsey went to the army recruitment center where they promised to train him as a marine and provide him with good survival skills.

Meanwhile former President Bush and Vice-President, Dick Cheney were busy launching a massive propaganda campaign to justify an invasion of Iraq. The propaganda war was so successful that 80% of Americans supported the invasion convinced that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s. Analysts in the UK and the US reported that their governments applied enormous pressure on their spy agencies to “cook up” the justification of launching the invasion. 

Cleve Kinsey was one the early victims. He was wounded in Ramadi, Iraq, about three months after his marriage. His wife was suddenly forced to assume a new role, a caregiver. Cleve was in excruciating pain and was  on opioids for the remainder of his short life. He finally succumbed to an overdose. Following his death his wife received a neatly folded American flag, a symbol of the Government’s enormous deceit and dishonesty to its soldiers who have become the fodders of war.

Those who opposed the war were deemed unpatriotic. “Either you are with us or against us” was the slogan used by pro-war politicians. Journalists were imbedded with soldiers to discourage honest reporting.

There was also little debate in the run-up to the invasion of Afghanistan. A few of the perpetrators of 9/11 had escaped to Afghanistan and were protected by the Taliban and Pakistan. In an effort to minimize human US causalities, the Pentagon conducted a massive drone war killing thousands of innocent civilians which intensified the rage against the US . Repeating the same misguided strategies in Iraq, the military continues its massive air bombardment which is proving to be totally ineffective against the growing insurgency and tribal affinities.

Under the irrational leadership of President Trump, the US continues its downward slide.
Our military continues to engage in more misguided foreign adventures, punishing Iran for adhering to the 2015 nuclear agreement. The other timid P5+ members have fallen into lock step with US demands threatening to impose even greater sanctions’ on Iran. This is economic blackmail. We have a long history of waging wars of terror on smaller nations in futile attempt to impose regime changes. Our leaders have lied repeatedly to misguide the American public (recent examples, Vietnam, Iran and Afghanistan). The CIA has engaged in raw terror across the globe torturing and maiming scores of people in black sites and supporting right wing dictators in much of Central and South America. Trillions of dollars and millions of lives have been lost in this insane attempt to demonstrate raw US military power,