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It seems like a lost cause. A recent Gallop poll shows a large increase in anti-war sentiment. CNN reports two thirds of Americans oppose the war in Afghanistan. Yet there is no end in sight to the Afghanistan war. It is being compared to Vietnam by some very prominent people like Congressman Ron Paul and Col. Andrew Bacevich (video below), as well as many not so prominent but knowledgeable people, like most veterans (see the Winter Soldiers.

Some film clips provided by: ReThink Afghanistan, Sir! No Sir!; Some photos by: AfterDowningStreet.org, Chris-Floyd.com, and RAWA.org

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The Vietnam War Reincarnated

This is another Vietnam. We can win nothing. It will cost immensely in lives and money, and the return will be less than nothing (ref. The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Blimes - read it). We will be left with tens of thousands of veterans facing lifetimes of disability, poor health, lost limbs and suffering families. These wars are simply made to profit the corporations who benefit from them, as usual. The Iraq war too continues will no commitment to get out of there, despite the fact that our presence there is an illegal racist genocide. But there are things you can do to stop these wars.

Why?

These wars persist because most people are not aware of the reality of what is going on. Most people believe the political rhetoric and corporate media propaganda that these wars are protecting America from terrorists like the ones who committed the 9-11 attacks. The facts are that these wars endanger our freedom more and more with every day. They continually commit genocide against innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. This motivates more and more people to join anti-American insurgencies. There are now more terrorists than ever. The military plays the facts down. They censor all media reports and photographs. Only a very few get through. The media reports that do get through are watered down. If you want to know the truth of what is going on, listen to the veterans who have been there and who have experienced the horror.

You can Stop War

You can stop war by listening to veterans. Post links to their websites and videos on your websites, and on your social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, NewsTrust. If you aren't familiar with these web services and social networks, go to their websites and sign up. Usually all you need is a username, password and email address. once you have accounts on these sites, post links to any stories you find, any video clips of veterans speaking out, any pictures of the truth about what goes on in these wars. Join our project, The Stop War Project, a Ning network. Post your pictures, videos, or blogs about war, on this or any other network. Tell the world your opinions. Post videos from YouTube or anywhere else you find them. Let your friends know. All of these social networks have a feature to let you add friends. all you need is their email address, or if they are already on those networks just invite them to the cause. Use those features to invite all your friends, relatives and contacts to join up, or at least read about the truth. Visit the many veterans against war websites. You will be amazed at how many veterans and honorable military organizations opposed these lawless genocidal wars. Have a problem with the term genocide? Read how the people who know this term best define it, The Holocaust Museum. If you have any problems with any of this, we are here to help. Post a comment here or let us know. We'll put up a tutorial or respond with detailed information. You can also find help on the web. All of these websites have extensive help documentation and even help lines. If we must live with these wars then we should face up to what we are paying for. Americans should admit their country is a racist genocidal warmongering nation. Write your Congressman and tell them what you think. Many of these veteran and anti-war organizations have mailing lists and will keep you informed of opportunities to write your Congressman or to participate in other ant-war activities. Join them.

A Racist America

Do you think America is not racist? Do the police in our cities drop bombs on neighborhoods where there are gangs, who commit domestic terrorism by killing people in the streets? Do we wipe out entire neighborhoods of innocent people just to get to a few terrorists? No. So why do we do that in other countries? Ask a veteran. They don't understand it either. I think the reason is because they are not Americans. They are not white. They are not Christians, and we are a racist nation. So our leaders have no problem with racist preemptive genocide. If you disagree, then get into the fray. Make your arguments. Compare what you have to say with what veterans who have been there say. Read the books and watch the movies that reveal the truth. Link to them on your social networks and pass them on to al your friends. This is what you can do to stop war.

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NewsTrust - Submit your review of news stories on the web. Review other posted stories. Review other reviews. Delicious - Post bookmarks to favorite web links and news items. Make feeds of your links based on keywords you assign. Flickr -post pictures. Join groups. Make contacts. Look at pictures. Make photo albums like ours. Blogger - Create you own blog website for free. Includes free hosting and many gadgets and widgets, like feeds, blog editor, layout, and themes. Wordpress - Create you own blog website for free (like this one). Does not include hosting but is easy to setup on your website. Includes many gadgets and widgets, like feeds, blog editor, layout, and themes.

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Anti-War Veterans' Groups:

IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War)

VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War)

VAIW (Veterans Against the Iraq War) West Point Graduates Against the War Service Academy Graduates Against the War Veterans For Peace Operation Homefront Veterans For America Center On Conscience And War The Central Committee For Conscientious Objectors

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Books

The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes The War Within by Bob Woodward Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean Worse than Watergate by John Dean The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam by General Bruce Palmer, Jr. Blackwater - In his gripping bestseller, awardwinning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine. ...and there are more. Post your suggestions.

Films, Web Series, Media

Rethink Afghanistan - Documentary film and website and Iraq for Sale - Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so. Winter Soldier - Veterans' testimonials to the truth about war Sir! No Sir! - A documentary about the suppressed Vietnam War documentary film, FTA, about Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's anti-war tour among the troops. FTA (a.k.a Free the Army, a.k.a Fuck the Army) - A documentary of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's anti-war tour among the troops. Standard Operating Procedure - Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison. Democracy Now! - A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 750 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
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Obama may be Cute and Cuddly, but he’s not Housebroken

I had kittens when I was young. When you first get a kitten they are so cute and cuddly. But they pee and crap all over the place until you house train them. How do you do that? There is one very fast and fool proof way. Rub their noses in their crap. All it takes is once and they never crap on that place again. Rub their noses in it and then put them outside in the dirt. They make the connection.

Our country and our leaders need to have their noses rubbed in the crap they do. They need to take a good long look at the death, pain, suffering and destruction these wars are. Look at the lost limbs, the dead infants and toddlers, the devastated families, the broken bodies of our GIs, their broken families, their lost wages of never being able to work again. Take a good long hard look at those pictures, show them to the American people and then once again. tell us why these wars are so necessary. Tell us why wars that proliferate terrorism, instead of quelling it, are necessary. These wars are a liability to freedom. They motivate families of the innocent victims of our racist military to become terrorists against the U.S. military. If the U.S. were occupied and our families killed, we would do the very same. Our troops don’t protect our freedom. They endanger it.

The President has stated he will not release photos of torture carried out by the U.S. The argument is that this release would endanger the lives of Americans. Meanwhile, it’s obvious the photos would implicate the U.S. and the Obama administration, even though the torture was carried out in the previous administration. The wars continue. GITMO is scheduled to close, but it’s still open. Renegade marines loyal to Rumsfeld continue to carry out atrocities against Afghan civilians. Bush is gone but his policies still linger like the stench of a week old litter box.

Adams' photograph of Nguyễn NgọcNick Utphoto of Kim Phuc
AP photographers, Eddie Adams’ photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968 and Nick Ut’s photo of a naked 9 year old, who’s clothes were burned off by napalm, taken June 8, 1972

The problem here is that the truth is censored. This is the policy of the U.S. military and it is how they get away with the war crimes they commit. If people saw what goes on in war, as they did in Vietnam, these wars would be stopped. There are two photographs that are purported to have stopped the Vietnam war, one by Eddie Adams of a Vietnam officer executing an alleged Vietcong officer. The other is by Nick Ut of a naked 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack. During that war the American public saw weekly graphic photos in Life magazine of U.S. servicemen with their guts blown out, or their arms and legs shot off. The nightly news reported the body count. We see very little of this today.

The war in Afghanistan is very much like the war in Vietnam. As Ret. Col. Andrew Bacevich testified to Congress, when he quoted The 25 Year War, a book by Gen. Bruce Palmer written in 1984,

“With respect to Vietnam, our leaders should have known that the American people would not stand still for a protracted war, of an indeterminate nature, and with no foreseeable end to the U.S. commitment.”

Bacevich continued,

Today exactly 25 years later, we once again find ourselves mired in a protracted war of an indeterminate nature, with no foreseeable end to the U.S. commitment. Just as in the 1960s we possessed neither the wisdom nor the means needed to determine the fate of Southeast Asia, so today, we posses neither the wisdom, nor the means, necessary to determine the fate of the greater middle east.

The horrors of war, if revealed, and when they were revealed in the past, make us realize how wrong these wars are, and allow no refuge from the truth by our warmongering military complex.

There are pictures of war, of the civilian atrocities, injuries and deaths, along with the same pain and suffering our troops endure in these wars, for which they even admit they know not why they are there. Many such pictures are censored by the military. But some get through. What we are seeing with the administration’s censorship of the torture is more of the same. They censor these photos for political self survival and to keep these wars going. They know if these photos get out the people will not stand for these wars to continue. The rhetoric about such photos endangering lives may hold some truth. But a long protracted war will certainly bring on much more death, pain, and suffering and outlandish war expense. If the release of these pictures stops the wars sooner, an obvious likely result, then their release will save hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of lives, including thousands of U.S. GIs and the devastations to their families.


Photos of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars on The Stop War Project Network

Iraq is an illegal preemptive racist genocide. It started that way, and it continues that way. The fact that we plan to exit Iraq in another year or so does not make it any less illegal. As long as Americans are there, they are engaged in an illegal preemptive occupation, forsaking the lives of innocent civilians as a matter of policy. Afghanistan has the very same policies. We are there under the pretense of fighting the terrorists who committed 9-11. Those terrorists, Al Qaeda, are not in Afghanistan. They are in Pakistan. So why are we dropping bombs on Afghanistan?

We would never stand for our police to drop bombs on neighborhoods in the U.S. just to make sure they kill some gang bangers, forsaking the lives of the innocent. Yet we allow our military to do this very thing day after day as a matter of policy. Why? Because the victims are not Americans. They are Muslims, Iraqis, and Afghans. No matter that they include innocent men, women, children, and infants. We don’t care because they are not Americans. That is a racist policy. That makes America a racist nation. If you can live with this, then you are racist.

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  • Dr.B
    You are certainly making an important and valid point. However, your introduction is inaccurate and outdated. Speaking as a veterinarian with 18 years of experience, I can tell you that kittens do not have to be litter box trained, it is instinctive for them to use a litterbox. Rubbing an animal's nose in feces is unsanitary and cruel, and it does not help with house breaking or litter box training one iota. Your inaccurate introduction raises doubts that the rest of your article does not deserve. Time for a re-write?
  • Doc, this is an analogy, as I'm sure you understand. Rubbing the cat's nose in her feces may be debatable. But your method certainly did not work for me at all. Of course this was 30 years ago, so perhaps cat litter technology has improved since then. Actually, as I recall. this was before cat litter existed. Take note, I did not mention I used cat litter. However, warmongering has remained a constant throughout human existence. Perhaps, you could invent a presidential litter of sorts to address this problem with their disregard for human life.

    You say this kind of nose rubbing is cruel. I'm sure it's also cruel to have our leaders and the American people look at the torture, death, dismemberment, and tearing apart of families that they do so nonchalantly, even disdainfully, to their victims, the over one million dead innocent civilians of these wars. How cruel would you say is this racist preemptive genocide and occupation of countries that have done nothing to us, whatsoever. Al Qaeda is in Pakistan not Iraq, not Afghanistan. Duh. What morons are running this country?

    By the way, I hate cat litter boxes around the house. They stink. My cats lived outside, in their natural habitat.

    Analogies are always inadequate and always allow someone to find holes in their logic. Of course, it's not exactly the same thing. It's an analogy. I actually hate analogies for this very reason and like you, I take the opportunity of their inherent weakness to turn them around on the person citing them, when I disagree.

    But in this case, the real world situation is more accurate to the analogy than the analogy itself, if you know what I mean, and I think you do because you stated the point was important and valid. Warmongering Presidents, unlike cats, are not instinctively trained to respect human life above political aspirations. In this case the rubbing of noses is quite warranted. That's the point I'm making. My intent was to rouse a response, not to accurately explain cat training. So I am satisfied I have succeeded. But thanks for the correction. Stay tuned for the film.
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