The 19th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, summed up the ongoing status quo perfectly. "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations."
It's really hard to say if the majority of U. S. citizens are hypocrites or just mentally challenged.
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. It was perfectly clear that their target was the U.S. Navy and not the general population. Even as unsophisticated as their aircraft and guidance systems were, most of the damage was confined to the Navy base. That was not the case on August 6th and again on August 9th, 1945, when the U.S. mercilessly bombed the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not only was this a barbaric act, it was a hypocritical one. The war was over and Truman knew it. The bombs were dropped in hopes of ending WWII before Russia could claim their fair share of Europe. It didn't work. The only thing the barbarians in Washington accomplished was to needlessly murder millions of women and children.
With the cold war winding down in the early 1950s, the U.S. military-industrial complex chose Vietnam as their villain. They spread the propaganda that the Vietnam War was needed to prevent a Communist takeover of the world. It began with military advisory missions in the early 1960s and escalated to full warfare with the deployment of combat units from 1965 onward. But when the War became more of a liability than an asset, the capitalists did what they would love to do in Iraq--they pulled out.
There is only one way to unravel a seemingly complex political event and that is to follow the money. Case in point: U.S. citizens are now being treated better in Vietnamese cities than they are in many European cities. And we just can't seem to buy enough goods from our once arch enemies, Japan and Communist China. Oh, I forgot. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly encouraged the media to drop the words Communist and Red from China's name since either of these words would have made it more difficult to have marketed the poorly made goods from just plain China.
Needing a new war, we dropped some of our surplus bombs on Iraq. The members of the U. S. military who have died in Iraq died not as freedom fighters but as underpaid rent-a-cops for corporations like Exxon-Mobil and Halliburton. Yet the friends and families of these soldiers accept with teary eyes the folded flag, twenty-one gun salute and the military-industrial complex's propaganda that these poor souls died fighting for their country and not for nameless bankers.
The height of stupidity is a US citizen criticizing the Middle East terrorists when the CIA has blown up more civilian facilities than al-Qaeda and the Taliban combined. Official documents from the U.S. government, formerly classified as Top Secret and Eyes Only for the President, were recently declassified, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. These documents indicate that between October 1960 and April 1961, in Cuba alone, the CIA introduced 75 tons of explosives in 30 secret aerial missions, and 45 tons of weapons and explosives in 31 Marine infiltrations. These materials were used to perpetrate 310 attacks with bombs, derail 6 trains, and set fire to 150 factories and 800 plantations. Between 1959 and 2003, more than 800 terrorist attacks were performed, including 78 bombings against civil populations and 61 airplanes hijacked. During the "Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations", the dengue hemorrhagic fever was introduced, affecting about 344,203 persons, with the record case of 11,400 who fell ill in a single day-July 6, 1981.
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