A thread on the UG was recently created in order to give thanks to the troops, as sort of a symbolic morale booster.

Jeff Monson, who was recently a topic of conversation on this very board, refused to join the salute, opting instead to use the thread as an opportunity to air his views on the US government and the US armed forces.

From: anarchyatt
Date: 06/01/05 04:17 AM
Member Since: 12/06/2004
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the 9/11 commission report had forty plus pages blacked out which showed the US involvement with Saudi Arabia. the government tells its citizens what is wants to tell them. the fact is the US gave Iraq mustard gas and other chemical weapons during its 80's war with Iran and turned the other cheek as Sadaam killed thousands of civilian Kurds with our "gifts".

Multinational corporations run this country and maintain world capitalism with the US military and its military backing keeping the flow of money and oil to these corporations.

how does the government get people to die for these multinational corporations? by telling its citizens they are dying for a greater cause. in the name of country. when in fact they are treated no better than sheep being led to the slaugherhouse. left behind are children, husbands, wives, etc.

how crazy is it to shoot and kill another human because someone tells you to do it? these 'soldiers' are easy to train to do such horrific acts because they have no ability to think for themselves. they believe what they are told when years and years of facts affirm the US uses military force, sabotage, puppet dictators, etc. to enforce its own policies at the same time oppressing others. (see ghana, chad, afghanistan, iran, iraq, nicaragua, haiti, el salvador, etc.etc.etc.

saluting these sheep just reinforces the governments control over our lives. if these 'soldiers' picked up a book or did some thinking on their own instead of watching fox news and pumping iron maybe their perspective on the world might change. one can only hope.