War Propaganda (ZOT!!! Warmonger mod drops the bomb.)

5/1/04 | Charley Reece

[raysol]

> > by Charley Reese > > If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are > constantly being propagandized to approve of war - not just the wars in > Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. > > We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings. It > is so disgusting and horrible in reality that even the most "realistic" > Hollywood movie sanitizes it. The news media sanitize it. The government > sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. Most of all, > it doesn't want you to see the bodies before they are put in the coffins. > The Bush administration's real beef with the Arab television station > Al-Jazeera is really nothing more than the fact that Al-Jazeera shows the > bodies. > > No, the Bush administration doesn't want you to see the bodies - not the > bodies of our men and women, and not the bodies of Iraqi men, women and > children. The administration wants you to see the war as an electronic game > with bright lights in the distance and good sound effects, or close-ups of > our brave warriors firing their guns at an invisible enemy. It doesn't want > you to see the torn flesh, blood, intestines, feces, urine. If you did, you > might not support the war, and billions of dollars depend on your support. > > The government line is that if you don't approve of the war, you are > disloyal. If you don't agree to give the Pentagon whatever it says it wants, > you are disloyal. If you don't agree to surrender your civil liberties to > the Patriot Act, you are disloyal. If you disagree with the Bush > administration, you are disloyal. If you disagree with the chicken-hawk > demagogues on radio and television, blathering about the war from the safety > of their studios, you are disloyal. > > This entire glorification of war - as if the whole and only purpose of the > government and the country were to fight wars - smells of fascism. The news > media glorify the war and militarism; we get the same dose on television, in > the movies and in video games. If the American people aren't careful, they > will wake up one day to find out they've become a nation of mindless > heel-clickers. > > America should not be about war. War is justified only in self-defense. > We've been involved in many wars, but the last war fought in self-defense > was World War II. That was also the last war that was constitutional, with a > formal declaration of war by Congress. Not one single poor soul of the more > than 100,000 Americans who have died in the Cold War and the hot wars since > 1945 has died in defense of America. > > The sad thing is that when the last soldier leaves Afghanistan and Iraq - if > that day ever comes - we won't be any better off. Afghanistan will still be > Afghanistan. Iraq will still be Iraq. There will be more graves, there will > be more Americans without arms and legs, but nothing will have changed. > Politicians will be searching diligently for more "bad guys" for the next > generation to fight. First it was the fascists, then the communists, now the > terrorists. Who's next? God only knows. > > We should not equate peace with weakness. We ought to be like the Swiss. > Their policy is armed neutrality. They have a sound defensive force and can > be in the field in 48 hours, but they will fight only if they are invaded. > They do not send their sons to foreign countries to die for political or > economic reasons. > > We should emulate the Swiss. No American should ever kill or die except in > defense of this country. And no corporation should be allowed to make a > profit off the blood of American soldiers, as is now happening in Iraq and > has happened in every war. > > An old Marine general had it right when he said, "War is a racket." Let us > all learn to hate it as it deserves to be hated. > > May 1, 2004

[darkwing104]

Have a nice zot amigo...

[Grampa Dave]

raysol = another worthless anti GW Troll embedden in Free Republic like a blood sucking tapeworm.

Charlie Reese's articles should be banned on Free Republic.
He has sold his soul to the Islamofascists. Makes one wonder if his name will show up as one of the take re the Oil for Food, Scam!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Dr. Strange. Very nice.

[Tijeras_Slim]

raysol 5-17-2001

quite the sleeper.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh, that's a good one!!

[Brett66]

Blah,blah,blah. Inability to use paragraphs. Blah blah blah, corporations,Bush conspiracy, blah blah blah.

Another troll-bot from DU. Yawn.

[Poohbah]

quite the sleeper.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep..."

[tiamat]

I am frankly surprised to see you here after yesterday.

Kitties must be asleep.

[FourPeas]

Html is your friend. Really.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Oh, that's a good one!!"

Yeah, my favorite so far!

[Old Sarge]

And ANOTHER Sleeper-TRoll eliminated, adding to the count since Free Republic declared a beginning of offensive operations on 16 FEB 04!

[section9]

Look, di&kless. If you can't format properly, you can't troll property. Go back to schule.

Posting Charley Reese articles to back you up? Ah, that ol' chestnut....

Meantime, does ANYONE have the pic of the "troll booth"?

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[cwb]

"The administration wants you to see the war as an electronic game with bright lights in the distance and good sound effects..."

No...this is what liberals want people to think of war. They want people to think of war as they do everything else in our fast-food, microwave society...so when it isn't over by the next episode of Friends, they can start calling it a quagmire.

[PigRigger]

quite the sleeper....

....quite an idiot as well. But one should not be surprised, ignorance and naivety is their way.

[Constitution Day]

Peruse, if you will, this gem by raysol:

VOTE RIGHT VOTE SMART

"We the People/Sheeple"... LOL.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Not much of a posting history, long periods of hibernation or whatever. They usually out themselves sooner though.

[Not A Snowbird]

My eyes hurt. Learn to paragraph, please, whatever point you were trying to make got lost.

[Catspaw]

Geez, I just watched Louis Farrakhan on C-Span saying about the same thing as Charlie Reese.

[Moose4]

Lousy formatting makes Livingston the Viking Kitten angry. Now he's got to take his frustration out on poor Mr. Hussein again.

}:-)4