Come on Baby and light my FIRE!

Human Rights Day today started at the UN.   Everyone has a right to live in this world.  The U$ is dropping a bomb on the Middle Eastern Countries every 12 minutes.   This is a crime against Humanity and it must be stopped.  Live by the Sword Die by the Sword!     The U$A is on a path of self destruction.    No one is protesting this fact as our Military Budget is over $700 Billion and another Trillion to up grade our Nuclear Weapon System.   As the Bible said, "The world will end not with a Flood , but a Fire!"      

18th Day of Infamy!    7th of December in Afghanistan.    I can't believe that, can you?      Going to Kazakhstan in 1988 to a conference with Vietnam Veterans and Soviet Soldiers who fought in Afghanistan finding out their stories were the same as Vietnam Veterans.   We will never go to Afghanistan to fight a war??   Well, we are between Iraq and a hard place???    Afghanistan is one war to have when you are having more than one.    Now the war cost U$ a Trillion Dollars for the same thing the Soviet Soldiers and Vietnam Veterans fought for.    The Corporate profits are the most important aspect of Government????   War is a Racket,  Few Profit and the many pay??    As we are cruising along in an unending war, the bumper sticker tells it all.   There is too much Apathy in this Country, but who cares??     Happy Weekend.   

Here we are in the 18th year of the Afghanistan War!   Some people call it an occupation.   The U$. # 1 occupation is WAR!      3 more soldiers killed in Afghanistan this past week.   This is not an occupation for those families.    Now we are in the Holiday Season with soldiers on our Southern Border unnecessarily!  200,000 soldiers spread though out the world for no reason!   Building our nuclear arsenal is a project for the next ten years.   The interest in the debt of the U$A will be larger than the Defense Budget in 2020!    This is important that the American People have 2020 vision when it comes to debt and defense spending.  The Pentagon failed it's first audit in over 20 years.   They lost a trillion dollars and they can't account for the # of contract workers that the Pentagon employs.   You might need a Prozac after you read this blog.    We have to confront the evil that our military is spreading around the world.    Being a Vietnam Veteran I participated in spreading the Evil of the U$ Government.     Live by the Sword .   Die by the Sword.    The U$ government are making enough swords to destroy ourselves with small cuts or one massive gash! Our saying should be   Pentagoing , Pentagoing, Pentagon!  Work for Peace is the only way we have a chance to have a FUTURE!    The more the merrier?   See you on the streets protesting the wars and working for peace. 

17th Thanksgiving in Afghanistan, and the people could careless what happens over there.   "They Volunteered for this War~"   This is what Trump said to the wife of the soldier killed in Niger.  "He knew what he was signing up for!"  I have been hearing this for 15 years so it is nothing new when our fearful leader says the same thing??  We have a Fowled up foreign policy with a fearful leader who is doing the exact same thing as Obomba and Baby Bush!   They are carrying the water for the Military Industrial Complex who are making a killing in this war.    They are the victors as long as the war goes on and have no end.   The losers are the soldiers who are killed, wounded, or commit suicide after 4 or 5 tours to the combat area.   Have a wonderful Turkey Day and ask your guests or bring up the subject of Afghanistan and listen to your tablemates say about the War! I am sure this subject will be changed quickly?   Let me know.   Joe 

As the war drags on this seems like a habit.  Just like Smoking  the War in the Middle East is a DRAG!     I think we need a 12 Step Program to end the War Habit that the U$A is in.  Only 9 months of this Millennium , we have not been at war!    That is long enough to have a baby!  I think these wars are misconceptions.   The Citizens of the U$A don't even know it is still going on. Maybe we need Civics to teach our children how our government works for the Corporations.  Maybe Lincoln should have said, The U$ Goverment is  For the Corporations, With the Corporations, Is the Corporations.  It will never perish from the earth without the permission for the Corporations.    As we can see there are no peace party, peace people in Congress or in fact not many people in the Streets marching for peace.  As I was told to be against the on going wars is very UnAmerican.    A woman told me that Afghanistan is a waste of money!   I would put the loss of life as a first priority.   The money for the wars is not being wasted.  The Military Industrial Complex is getting the Lion Share of the Cash!  

Peace is a DIRTY WORD!

As the holiday for Veterans fade away the war continues unabated for the military who is fighting it.   The Corporations are making a killing and the future looks bleak for the young who have to pay for it.   It is a brilliant way to keep a war going without end AMEN!    The vast majority of Americans don't know we are still fighting a war in the Middle East.   The MIC   (MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX) are making Hugh Profits!   I haven't heard of an audit of these industries or the Pentagon by the government!  The profits are put into overseas banks by the wealthy and they don't pay their fair share of taxes.   This way the common man pays the bills and lose their children!   They are the real losers of the war.  The Wealthy are the winners so why not keep this boom to the economy going for ever and ever!    I know from my experience in the Vietnam War that the only thing that stopped it was the faulting economy.  The Government ended the draft so by 1971 the major demonstrations against the war were over.  The Volunteer Force was coming in.   While in Vietnam draftees were sent home no matter how long or how short they served in Nam.    The April 1972 Offensive by the North Vietnamese was stopped by huge Bombing runs by the U$ Air Force that saved the South Vietnamese from total collapse.   I was able to get out of Nam alive because of the Easter Offensive was stymied.   So the seeds for the unending war was planted in the Minds of MIC!    The first Casualty of their plan was Gulf War I which "Kicked the Vietnam Syndrome from the American Military".   That war was too quick and over in 90 daze.    The Second Gulf War is a dream come true.   There was an off hand remark by the Captains of Industry of (MIC).  "Bombing of Syria is the ISIS on the Cake!"   "We can let these Wars Drone on and ON!   So with 4000 more soldiers going to Afghanistan, MIC is having the time of their lives.      As the Catholic Mass says at the end.  "Peace Be To You!" but only in the Pews!    Peace is a dirty word in the U$A!    The people might have impure thoughts when they think of Peace!   These impure thoughts are UNamerican since they might lead the people to protest like the 60's and help end the gravy train these companies have been riding on for their 17th year!

11th Hour 11th Day, 11th Month and still no Armistice for Afghanistan.  People think I am full of kaBULL when I talk about the War in Afghanistan.   It has cost us $`1.7 Trillion, 17th Year, 17,000 wounded Soldiers.   This is costing U$ an arm and a leg!   Now more Tax cuts are on the way?  The poor will pay for the war with their children and their money!   General Electric, General Motors, General Dynamics,and General Mills are the Victorious Generals of this war.  All the Losing Generals are now running the Country.  General Mad Dog Mattis and General Kelly is indited.   So we have a Leader in the White House who dropped a MOLAB Mother of all Bombs in Afghanistan and the war still continues.  We have 14,000 Troops there now.  The Air Force has no restrictions and this  leads to many more civilian deaths.    The German People said after WWII when there were 6 million Jews killed in the Concentration Camps??  "We didn't know it was happening!"    The American People when they found out that the U$ Military Killed 6 million people in the Middle East, will say the same thing!  "WE DIDN"T KNOW"!    I wonder what Websites they were looking into for the past 16 years??   Spiderman's I am sure??  

Afghanistan War has been going on for 17 Veterans Day and unfortunately no Armistice Day!   I was told that to protest the War on Terror is UnAmerican?   What about the 1000's of people who protested the Vietnam War??  Were They UnAmerican.?   They saved my life since President Nixon pulled me out of Vietnam before my year tour was up.  SO those protesters saved my life.   Now I am out protesting the Afghanistan War for 16 years so I can save one soldier from getting killed in the Middle East.    It has been successful since I have been seen by millions of people over 16 years.   Hopefully they will protest  so the war will come to an end quicker than if I did not spend the last 16 year out on the Streets.   Happy Armistice Day!   We need an Armistice for the War on Terror!

The Government has shut down.   Why not shut down the Afghanistan War!  This way we can save  some $$$$$ Save a Life, Save a Marine for his wife.   106 Soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far in 2013.  We have 15 months to go before the war is official over.  Unfortunately the war is over for 2272 U$ Military soldiers, hundreds of other Nato Troops and Thousands of Afghans.    The last soldier should have died in the war yesterday!    Who will be the last soldier to die for a mistake?    28% support the war and 90% don't even know the war is still going on????  What are you doing to end this insanity?  

I took a long time off because  I have retired 2 years ago!  The time goes by so fast and all I do is a half fast job.    Of course the Job of Retirement is like a man named JOB or a Job.   It is wonderful to find my Blog is still here.  I thought it was lost in Cyber Space.   I am sure there is not enough space for my Blog in the Cyber World???.    Now my subject for today Are the Wars America is involved in.  The most important War is the War against Apathy and Ignorance.    Most people will tell me.   When it comes to this war,  I don't know and I don't care????/     In the Vietnam War's 12th year was the height of the anti War Demonstrations.    1959 is when the first soldier killed on the Vietnam Wall.   The last was in 1975,but there was a 21/2 years without a death.      January ,1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed by the North and South Vietnam!  All U$ Soldiers left Vietnam.   The Casualties in 75 were at the embassy as the American Embassy was being evacuated?   Why was that done on the last day as the North Vietnam Soldiers were pouring into Saigon????    This should have been done a few days before Saigon was overrun????      Well 1971 was a turbulent year in American Streets.   Students, Workers, Anti War advocates were pressuring the government to end the War.   The  American Streets are empty today of any one protesting the Afghanistan War.    The reasons are simple.   There has been no story of  the Afghanistan War in the News Media~!!   There is no draft for the military.   There is no Tax to pay for the war.   All these have combined to damp down any protests.   The soldiers now die at a lower rate than in Vietnam.    Although for the soldier who dies all this doesn't matter.   They died for a lost Cause like Vietnam, Lebanon 1983, and Iraq in 2011!     We have 16 months and 8 to 10 Billion Dollars A month until 2015 when the last combat soldier leaves.       How can we tell the last soldier killed in Afghanistan, that he died for a lie.   John Kerry used this quote about Vietnam!    Ironically the last soldier killed in Vietnam was from Woburn, Mass.       

The Afghanistan War is still going on Folks.     Over 2148 U$ Soldiers have been killed.   Many 1000's have been seriously wounded.   The Suicide Rate in the U$ Military for 2012 is one successful incident a day  and many attempts.   During my days in Vietnam there were many officers murdered by enlisted men. This was called "Fragging! "   A long protracted war with no end in sight is the perfect storm for self destruction.   The soldiers are like toys where the Pentagon sends them to Iraq and Afghanistan many times during their enlistments or until they break!   The American public believe the lines fed to them from the leaders in Washington.  "We are making progress and we will be leaving Afghanistan in 2014.    Then the Afghans will have to stand up to the Taliban on their own...   Al Qeada is never mentioned and neither is the American (contract worker or soldier)being killed today.  This 2014 pull out is much too late for her./him!  How many more soldiers need to die in Afghanistan.?   The Soviets left Kabul  after 8 unsuccessful years of war.  There have been comments heard on the streets.   "The Russians got  their butts kicked in Afghanistan!"   Unfortunately the triple Amputee who threw out the first pitch in the World Series didn't come home in tact after his tours of Iraq and Afghanistan?  The U$ will be leaving Afghanistan like the British, Soviets and Alexander the Great did in the cover of darkness so the Afghans won't shoot them on the way out.   That is what happened in Iraq almost a year ago.    At least there was a sign in Oakland Army Base saying to the Vietnam Vet.  "Welcome Home, USA is proud of you.   I didn't hear of any parades or celebrations with the last troops out of Iraq?   Unfortunately there will be NATO Soldiers killed in Afghanistan who were 3 years old when 911 happened in New York in 2014.    What Achilles said at the Wall of Troy after 10 years of war.   "By the way, what are we doing here!" This could be applied to the Afghanistan War.   Smedley Butler famous quote sums up the Wars in Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan.   "War is a Racket,  few profit and the many pay!"    How can the American people Stand Afghanistan!   10 Billion Dollars a month and 17 US soldiers killed there this month of October?       The Presidential Candidate did not talk about the war except for Ron Paul  The American People don't talk about this war as the few peace vigils have fewer people every year the war goes on.  Rod Serling would have a Great Twilight Zone Show.   "A 12 year War rages and the American People Ignore it's very existence!" 

September 1, 1939 was the first day of World War II in Poland. Today is the first day the American Army will not conduct combat operations in Iraq! Unfortunately there are 50,000 U$ service men in Iraq until next year on 31 Dec 11 when the last U$ soldiers are suppose to be brought home. Unfortunately Millions of People did not live to see 2 Sep 45 when the Japanese signed the treating ending World War II. Unfortunately there will be many U$ soldiers in Iraq who will not live to see the end of next year! I returned to the U$A from my tour of Vietnam in Oakland, California with a sign " Welcome Home the U$A is Proud of You!" in 1972! I wonder if the last combat brigades will have a sign like this when they return to the U$A? The American People were duped into this war with lies and now the war official ended with more lies. The taxpayers are still spending billions into Iraq while we are eating bad eggs. That is no Yoke! The soldiers killed in Iraq were buried in the wrong grave sites. The wounded soldiers were given substandard rehabilitation at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. Multiple tours of combat in Iraq created a very high suicide rate among the soldiers. The Commanders of the units had to instruct the soldiers to watch for early indications of potential suicides among their buddies! Iraq still has not functional government. The last soldier has not be killed in this war yet? Remember on May 1, 2003, and the famous "Mission Accomplished" speech by President Bush! Obama is making an Instant Replay of his speech last night only 7 and a half years later.

Iraq and Afghanistan

Combat Operations ended in Iraq on August 1st 2010. Yesterday a U$ soldier died north of Baghdad? Was this an accident or a combat casualty? May 1. 2003 was the end of the war in Iraq according to Commander in Chief G W Bush! The only real end of Combat operations will be when the last U$ soldier leaves Iraq! Leaving 50,000 soldiers in Iraq will lead to more combat deaths! The end of 2011 will be the day the U$ is required to have all the soldiers out of Iraq? Why not today be the end of combat operations in Iraq? I wonder what the last soldier to die in Iraq is doing now? Is he enjoying his last summer holidays before joining the army? Is she a reservist in some National Guard Outfit? How will that family feel when they receive the word that their family member will not be coming home alive? Why do U$ taxpayers have to pour $10 Billion a month into Iraq? The real question is why the American People are allowing this to happen?? This is a perfect example of what Smedley Butler's famous quote. "War is a Racket , Few profit the many pay! The big corporations are milking the last bit of profit from this war, before it ends. The American People are paying through the nose seeing their own economic situation crumbling before their eyes. That is if they have them opened to seeing what is really happening around them??? The U$ Tax payer and the American Military since 19th of March 2003 have been between Iraq and a Hard Place!
Afghanistan will send the most bodies back to the U$A this year than any other year of the 81/2war! The U$A is withdrawing from Afghanistan one body bag at a time. The protest against this war is muted due to the fact that we will withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011! The American People still believe the Afghans landed the planes in the World Trade Towers. "Fight them over there so we won't fight them here!" is the famous quote of the supporters of the war. We spend $708 billion in defense so how can 2,500 Al Qeader land on the West Coast and take over the country???? That is the only response that is out in the public to justify this disaster. When soldiers are brought back mangled by road side bombs they are quoted in the Newspapers, "I want to go back and be with my buddies!" Of course they want to justify why they lost arms, legs, and eyes. The public still want to blame Bush for the war. Who is signing the sympathy cards to the families in the White House???? Obama is playing the same role as our last President only with more troop. He is droning on and on in Pakistan! Now with the threatening posture with Iran the U$ seems to think that the Military has all the answers. The Military budget and Wars are the reason that the U$A economy is going down the drain. "Live buy the sword, Die buy the sword!" The U$A is buying too many swords. I am trying to get my point across. The end of the Soviet Union was through Kabul and the U$ is taking that same route! Afghanistan is Killing U$

Full of KarBull

President Karzhai and President Obama are in a Love Fest in Washington DC! Let By Gones be Be By Gones! Obama was pointing the finger at Karzhai for a Corrupt Government! When ever you point your finger at someone, don't forget that 3 fingers are pointing back at you! Obama is the President of the most corrupt government in the history of the entire world. The amount of dollars stolen by defense contractors dwarfs any corrupted government in the world today! The bank bail out was another case of U$ taxpayers money stolen by the CEO's of these financial institutions that were bailed out! Now Obama and Karzhai have kissed and made up! In the 60's there was a slogan "Make Love Not War!" These guys are doing both,"Making Love and War" at the same time! Peace is never on their lips! How can a man send soldiers to die in a two wars that have pull out dates. 2011 in Iraq was too late for 27 soldiers killed there this year! 2012 is too late for a soldier killed everyday this year in Afghanistan. " Who wants to be the last soldier to die for a lie!" John Kerry in 1971! The more things Change the More they stay the same. Cows may come and Cows may go but the Karbull goes on for eternity for the Soldier killed there today and everyday until 2012!

Health Care!

The U$A is very ill. WE need health Care to get better. We are addicted to War! One soldier killed is too many and 1000 is not enough. In Vietnam the soldiers could not tell the good Vietnamese from the bad ones. In the U$Army today is the same story. We can't tell the good Muslims from the bad ones. We are between Iraq and a hard place. The Health Insurance companies make out like Bandits. The Banks are robbing U$ Blind and Military Industrial Complex is reaping the Profits from all these Wars. The American People belong to the 4 H club. Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless and Haggard ! 34% of the wealth is owned by 1% of the population up from 27% of the wealth. The American people are suffering the first economic depression caused by a war! The Biggest Crime in U$ History kicked off 2 wars. I always thought the police were sent in to solve crimes not the Army! If we don't have some health care soon the U$ prognosis could be Bleak!

Cost of Health Care!

$10Billion a month into Iraq and a million dollars a year for every added Soldier going to Afghanistan is going to equal the price of Health Care Bill in Congress. Why are the American People concerned about the Cost of Health Care when the two wars are robbing the U$A of it's future! Around and around and around we go! When the wars stop only the Corporations know! Two things will end the war. The total collapse of the economy! In Vietnam the collapse of the army ended that war! In the Mideast history could repeat itself! The Army in Fort Hood and in Afghanistan can't tell the good Muslems

The Fall of the Wall!

Today we start the 21st year without the wall in Berlin. Now lets look at what East Germany lost. Free Health Care, an apartment, a job and free day Care. Education was free and the country was at Peace. The 21st Century U$A, Foreclosed housing , 10% unemployment, a Two Front War,(We won't drone on and on about Pakistan) that has gone on for over 8 years! Unaffordable Health Care, Day Care and Higher Education are the main stays for this Capitalistic Society! The U$A is spying on their citizens and torturing their prisoners! Who really won the Cold War?

All Souls Day!

November 2nd is All Souls Day in the Catholic Church. This is the Day we Pray for the Dead! On November 2nd 2009 the number of Soldiers Killed in the Afghanistan War was 911! That is very ironic to have that number killed in Action in the 8 year going on 9 year War! Obama has a Huge Decision to make. 40,000 more soldiers to be shipped off to this War! 5 Soldiers of the English Army was killed yesterday by an Afghan police man! The Russians' have an expression. "The Road to War is Wide. The Road returning is Narrow!" As we can see the Afghan Politics and election was a sham! All I can see is that we are using a great domestic stimulus package program in our Foreign Policy. President CARzai is "Cash for Clunker!"

10 Billion Dollars a month in Iraq, No wonder the economy is flat on it's back!

Afghanistan

The U$A (United States of AMNESIA) is on an impossible dream! This is Sigmund Freud's favorite Song! 8 years of war and the the U$ Army is going no where fast. War is not the Answer and we are throwing away money and lives. The British in the 19th Century, and the Russian's in the 20th Century learned the lessons of Afghanistan. Wake up America before it is too late! Why lose our Future when we could be learning from the Past!