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In reply to the discussion: Marine veteran criticizes Pentagon's, "Corrupt, insane and ambitious true believers." [View all]tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)I'm just a veteran that was recalled for Oil War I and I agree 3 bazillion percent with this article. We all knew it was bullshit, about the oil and not Kuwaiti liberation. Hell, the Kuwaitis officers I encountered before my initial separation (ETS) weren't in any hurry to go home and fight. They told me, "That's America's job.". They knew what this was about before we did. After that "war", I watched on Yugoslavia dissolve into chaos and the ethnic cleansing and total destruction of a world class city, Sarajevo while the US sat on it's hands and let it happen. Why? No oil. Fuck 'em.
So, bias or not, this story IS true. Sometimes the truth hurts and this is one example. Wars of choice are killing this country as well as millions of innocent people and the trust of the observers and survivors of those wars. Wake up, America. We're (the military) being used to enrich the 1%.
On edit: Forgot to relate our training excercises to become proficient at killing Communists (Russian ones) while our government was courting other Communists (Chinese ones). Follow the money.