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CONNECTING THE DOTS
Frosty Wooldridge
More About: Politics: General ActivismKorea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria: America war-monger nation
American presidents, starting with Kennedy-Johnson in
Vietnam to Bush-Obama, pushed America into deadly, costly, disastrous and
pointless wars in the last 50 years. Millions
of people died while the American “Silent majority” sat quietly watching the
slaughter on the evening news. As Walter
Cronkite said, “And that’s the way it is.”
At this moment, Barack Obama races toward a bombing campaign
on the Syrian people. He mandates death,
destruction and mayhem on a country and people struggling in their own civil
war. He uses an excuse like Assad
“gassing” his own people.
Harry Truman used the “Domino Effect” to stop communism from
conquering Korea. We lost 33,000 young
men and killed thousands more of their troops.
Countless civilians died. Korea
solved nothing because it proved to be a civil war. It has cost over $1 trillion for troop
deployment and logistics for the past 60 years.
Lyndon Baines Johnson used the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” to
justify sending 58,319 young American kids to their deaths and killing over 2.1
million Vietnamese soldiers, men, women and children. He poisoned their land with Agent Orange that
still kills and disfigures into 2013.
Then came 9/11 to give George W. Bush justification to bomb
the hell out of a goat-herder third world country like Afghanistan into little
pieces. Never mind that nearly all 19
terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. Ten years later, after killing bin Laden, we
still haven’t “conquered” Afghanistan, but we lost 1,400 American kids to ugly
deaths and another 1,500 who committed suicide from the insanity of that
war.
A special note: I followed an M.D.’s book about Vietnam
whereby 175,000 to 200,000 American combat troops that left Vietnam in one
piece—later committed suicide. Countless
tens of thousands suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and drank
or drugged themselves into their own private hells after the torture of
Vietnam. Predications for the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars as to American suicides:
estimated at over 200,000 suicides will ultimately manifest by our
returning troops. Hundreds and thousands will suffer a lifetime of PTSD.
Out of nowhere, George W. Bush dreamed up “Weapons of Mass
Destruction” and his “shock and awe” bombing rampage into Iraq. He killed over a quarter of a million
innocent men, women and children. He
used bunker-busting bombs with depleted uranium that poisons the soils of Iraq
for centuries. He killed 4,400 of our finest
young men and women and left 35,000 hideously wounded.
Today, Barack Obama, a man who never served in the U.S.
armed forces, who instead, smoked a lot of dope and snorted drugs, and who
knows nothing of the horrors of war—stands ready to send bombers into Syria
because he thinks he’s going to stop Assad from gassing his people.
"Nothing is
so important as that America shall separate herself from the systems of Europe,
and establish one of her own. Our
circumstances, our pursuits, our interests, are distinct. The principles of our policy should be so
also. All entanglements with that
quarter of the globe should be avoided if we mean that peace and justice shall
be the polar stars of the American societies." --Thomas Jefferson to J.
Correa de Serra, 1820.
Obama, enjoys
the unearned and unwarranted Nobel Peace
Prize of 2009, yet threatens to expand
his ever widening “War on Everything” from Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria,
Mali, Al-Awlaki and his son and nephew, Snowden, Manning, Assange, Rosen and
now Syria.
I
must ask you Mr. Obama, is killing everything but the 2013Super Bowl Champion
Baltimore Ravens football team the answer?
Finally,
what about our feckless U.S. Congress?
The Constitution mandates that all war choices must be agreed by the
House and Senate. Instead, we let LBJ,
Bush II and now, Obama, wage wars they cannot justify and, in the end, will
kill a lot of people, but do nothing good in the world nor will they accomplish
anything good. Additionally, the president has
no legal authority to attack Syria absent congressional and United Nations
Security Council approval.
What
about each American citizen who cannot be bothered to participate, but watches
by the sidelines as the 21st century “Silent Majority”? How many more innocent, brain-washed kids
must die, not in service to America, but in service to the U.S. Military
Industrial Complex and the bankers—who provoke, guide and determine wars? Plus, make a lot of money on our mechanized
military violence!
John
Lennon sang, “Give peace a chance.” If
we citizens take action by stopping our government from waging useless, insane
and meaningless wars—a lot of our children will be able to live their lives
instead of being sacrificed like sheep to the slaughter.
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents - from the
Arctic to the South Pole - as well as eight times across the USA, coast to
coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway
to Athens, Greece. In 2010, he cycled 3,400 miles coast to coast across
America. In 2012, he bicycled the northern tier coast to coast across
America. In 2013, he bicycled 2,500 miles from Mexico to Canada on the
Continental Divide, 150,000 vertical feet of climbing and 19 crossing of passes,
10 of the Continental Divide. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis
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Golden, Colorado
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