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Originally Posted by fsstnotch
yep.... you do fit the bill of helpless and repungant.........
Exactly where do you think the 100's of terrorists that are killed each day would be if they weren't killing/being killed, here in afghanistan? Since you don't care about illegals... they'd be in YOUR back yard IDIOT! You are a fool! And now a blocked FOOL! Pull the head from your ass!
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Well, to be perfectly straightforward, if our troops were not in their countries supporting corrupt dictators and governments to "ensure stability" so that US corporations can exploit their natural resources and labor... maybe there wouldn't be so many terrorists in the world.
I guess you don't recall that the US government overthrew a democratically elected Iranian president in 1953 and installed a Shah complete with secret police and torture for anyone who objected... ahem, excuse me communists, oops, terrorists.
Or perhaps you've forgotten that the US government overthrew a democratically elected Chilean president in 1973 and installed a military dictatorship complete with secret police and torture for anyone who objected... ahem, excuse me marxists, oops, terrorists.
Or do you simply not remember that the US government launched an illegal, secret war in Nicaragua against a popular government which had wrested power from a long-time, brutal, US-backed dictator...
Or maybe it slipped your mind that during the mid to late 1990s (right up to 2001) several US companies were wooing the Taliban and buying them high-priced lobbyists to spruce up their image with Congress. Why? TAP -- the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project intended to carry Caspian Sea
oil and gas to Pakistan (where it can be shipped to China) and on to India. But the Taliban didn't bite. How interesting that the first public works project announced by the US and its newly installed Afghan government was a 300+ million dollar cross-Afghan highway project from Herat to Kandahar -- which just happens to follow the proposed pipeline route.
Need more examples? Consider the words of USMC Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated Marines in Corps' history:
"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service as a member of our country's most agile military force -- the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers.
"In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism...
"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical of everyone in the military service...
"Thus, I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American
oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers [in] 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard
Oil went its way unmolested...
"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotions. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents."
Now, if you like, you can call me all the names you want -- I've been called far worse by better men than you -- but as far as whose head is up their a$$? I humbly suggest you wipe the s&!t out of your eyes.
Alas, blocked. Oh my. Another right-winger scurrying back under his rock so that facts don't confuse him.