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

[raysol]

once again the lying weasel Bush administration proves that truth is the 1st casualty of war.IMPEACH BUSH TOO.

[Billthedrill]

Bye, dipwad.

[Constitution Day]

[Alouette]

ZOTbait, and not even formatted.

[dawn53]

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are > constantly being propagandized to approve of war

Wonder what media he's listening to? Obviously not ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc.

[Constitution Day]

Yes, a very poor effort. I give it a D-.

[RightWhale]

There I was just browsing and enjoying the day and suddenly I found myself outside, looged out. Somebody had pulled my plug, so I stuffed another plug of Redman Golden Blend in my chaw and went for a walk.

[rdb3]

Aw, geez. Now this crap again...

A.K.A. Sleepy Brown

[areafiftyone]

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Yep. Those 3000 people who died horribly in the flames of the collapsing two towers? They died for nothing too.

Nothing matters. Nothing is real.

Toss me the remote, will ya?

[AppyPappy]

Raysol is the king of anti-Bush vanities

[JamesA]

It's dipsticks like you that convince me I am correct.

[Alouette]

[areafiftyone]

He is listening to DU and Airhead America.

[rdb3]

It would appear so.

[BobFromNJ]

"Be like the Swiss"???!!! Go away loony! Get a life!!

[StopThePress]

Is that you Mr. Faracon???

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[rdb3]

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Okay

[Liberty Valance]

tell charlie bye for us...and aren't you supposed to be in study hall?