2007-04-04 08:51:26 · 8 answers · asked by yashira v 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
How about you go into the heart of Baghdad with a megaphone, and announce that we have officially ended all war?
2007-04-04 08:57:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We Were LIED To and Still ARE Being LIED To:
"Chapter One
WAR IS A RACKET
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
The words of Maj.Gen. Smedley Butler USMC. ret.
2007-04-04 16:12:49 · answer #2 · answered by Juan H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question.
end what war? the war on terror has no end. are we at war with Iraq? not really but we must continue military occupation and support there to help foster some form of democracy, watch Iran, protect Israel, and protect the oil.
2007-04-04 15:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by Diggy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We should end the war because we shouldn't be there. We went there cause Bush said they had WMD. Guess what? They didn't have any. Then Bush said we were there cause Sadaam killed thousands of his people. At that time we financed the operation. So far Bush has killed more Iraqi's than Sadaam did!
2007-04-04 15:58:24 · answer #4 · answered by niterdr47 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. we need to stay and finish the job, be victorious, protect dog's rights to wear pants and put a McDonald's on every street corner.
Say, one, two, three, four what are we fighting for...
2007-04-04 16:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are trying....it is not like we can just leave whenever we want and things will be all rosie again..
we are trying......and if the libs understood the fundamentals of anything..we would get our a sses outta there a ot faster if we all stuck together...
unfortunately they do not...
2007-04-04 15:55:32 · answer #6 · answered by ya ok....sure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats for the President and military leaders to decide, not us
2007-04-04 15:56:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we should end the war.
Because the world doesn't need any more death and destruction.
2007-04-04 15:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋