choir loft Posted February 3 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,209 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 329 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/23/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/10/1947 Share Posted February 3 Friday’s news (02/01/2024) chronicled President Biden’s “dignified transfer” of three US troops who were recently killed in Jordan. The story was carried by all the major news media in America complete with tearful videos of grieving relatives of the dead. Nothing was said of the 2,402 soldiers who died during the Afghanistan campaign or the 4,492 servicemen killed during the Iraq war. No president was in attendance when their shipping crates arrived on American soil. No president called each family personally and none made such an UNDIGNIFIED spectacle of their arrival. I use the word UNDIGNIFIED because the whole event this past week was done for public manipulation - for show. Is it a coincidence the primaries are to be held this coming week? Are we to expect Biden’s show of sympathy for three soldiers who died needlessly was done purely out of the goodness of his heart? Are we to believe that the bombing of drone sites is the end of American military activity in the area? Great wars begin in small steps. When our leaders loudly proclaim they aren’t interested in expanding their bombing campaigns even as they order another volley of missile launches we can be sure they are LYING. When the dead are paraded before news cameras like cheap movie props, we can be sure the political campaign in America is in full operation. No one seems to want to ask WHY American troops are stationed UNINVITED in sovereign countries. Our recent dead are the consequences of decisions at the highest levels of our government to promote war, not peace. If Mr. Biden is really interested in a peaceful American presence in the middle east he’ll order our troops home. Why do our people need to die in a war that will not profit us? Yet so many of our countrymen call for war. Do we not understand that war brings an end to much of that which we hold dear - including our own brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters? Is the bloodshed worth it? I don’t think so. that's me, hollering from the choir loft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJK Posted February 4 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,349 Content Per Day: 7.90 Reputation: 1,305 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/01/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted February 4 20 hours ago, choir loft said: No one seems to want to ask WHY American troops are stationed UNINVITED in sovereign countries. The answer is obvious, people in the right positions are making lots and lots of money off of it and spending it on the right people in powerful places to keep it going that way. No money to be made and no power to be gained from a war = no war. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamL Posted February 10 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,119 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,555 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Share Posted February 10 On 2/3/2024 at 1:14 PM, choir loft said: No one seems to want to ask WHY American troops are stationed UNINVITED in sovereign countries. Actually, in the case of Iraq, they invited us back in after they had been removed. After ISIS reemerged and took over a large part of Northern Iraq. They are there now in part to train the Iraqi army, and in part to deter another emergence of ISIS. Iraq is a tar baby. The military-industrial complex loves tar babies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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