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This disturbingly compelling photoshop was included in a veteran's facebook post about the Iraq war. I actually gasped when I saw it.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)We need to make that connection unmistakeably clear
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)That's my reaction.
Does THIS put it in perspective Mr. and Mrs. America?
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)(iwo jima... I probably didn't need to explain that one)
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)chollybocker
(3,687 posts)Irony has no better author than truth.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)The REAL oil rigs they're putting up are camouflaged...duh..
madamesilverspurs
(15,814 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)camouflaged.....
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)In the meantime, here's one with KBR.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)Is it just a collection of big companies, or did they all have some specific wrongdoing?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)but I don't think there is any particular reason other than the time in which it was designed.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Who "WON" in Iraq?
Remember when Rumsfeld and Cheney promised that "the OIL will pay for the War"?
LOL.
The American Taxpayer paid for The WAR...in our blood and money.
The Global Corporations walked away with The Oil.
"They" will be GLAD to SELL some of that oil to the American taxpayer,
at the current rate of exchange and record PROFITS.
It was/is a SCAM,
and the sad part is that it IS a Bi-Partisan SCAM.
The ONLY Democrat who questioned the Legality and Morality of the "Iraq Oil Law" (2007)
which "privatized" the Iraqi Oil was Dennis Kucinich.
The American Military now Works For the Global Corporations and the IMF.\
SEE: Libya
SEE: "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022857804
Democracy, Freedom, Peace are an obscene joke.
DURec,
and thanks for the graphic.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their promises or excuses.
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)The problem with that is that plunder of public or private property or resources in war is a war crime.
indepat
(20,899 posts)of pre-emptive wars of aggression as preferable national policy.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)Big Oil: Good for our environment AND our pocketbooks!
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)We knew that's what it was about before the first bombs were shocked and awed.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Fuuuuuuuuuuu . . .
AndyA
(16,993 posts)I see their ads on TV all the time--telling me how wonderful the energy industry is...it employs tons of people, is good for the environment, and provides the fuels needed to keep America moving!
Having our military march to orders from the oil companies seems like the least we could do for them.
ellennelle
(614 posts)note the uniforms and gear; definitely not 1945. those are desert fatigues. which means, all those guys studied the iwo jima photo and staged the whole thing, likely at a leaning derrick nearby.
awesome find, tho; thx.
Initech
(100,129 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)10 + years in Iran & Afghanistan has given the USA a few new million veterans to aid to the mix of the ignored and abused. When the revolution comes, having over 20 million trained veterans on our side is good.
YeahSureRight
(205 posts)Look at any police action against Occupy the first people they go after is their biggest threat, the Vets that are in Occupy, they know the college kids don't know how to fight but the Vets do.
Say for example a Vet joins Occupy and that Vet spent his time serving his country by training people in other countries in insurgent tactics and improvised munitions. The 1 vet could easily train hundreds if not thousands of others that is why Vets are a direct threat to the 1% and the police will go after the vets first every single time. That is until the vets in Occupy fight back.
The 1% need to worry about how they treat vets, it could very well come back to haunt them someday.
proud patriot
(100,716 posts)it breaks my heart
toby jo
(1,269 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)YeahSureRight
(205 posts)invasion.
One of the many dirty secrets is that they, my friends, spent half their time guarding oil wells and driving around oil company workers.
Everyone knew it was all about the oil but few actually have the courage to speak up and those that do are ridiculed for speaking the truth.