SHOULD AMERICAN SOLDIERS START USING THEIR BRAINS AND QUESTION THEIR DESTRUCTIVE OVERSEAS WARS ?

I would say it is idol worship that makes people blind followers. And it isn't just soldiers.
Whether it's religion, ideology, role models, material things.... people believe in anything that comes their way that has some sparklie quality to it.
Not just God or country, but anything that requires more intelligence to make/understand than they posses - they make themselves submissive to. I guess the biggest idol is other people. They'll let themselves be dominated by someone who can BS them into just about anything - because 'he's an expert, he must know better'.
So they believe in God, and the USA, but they also believe in anything else that may capture their fancy at any given moment. They are distracted by minor ideals/things in the pursuit of higher goals and there's no shortage of vampires to dazzle them off the path. The vampires also talk about God and country, but only to insert themselves in its place and make you submissive to them.

The ways things are going there will probably be war crime trials at the end of this whole thing. A monster is being created and let loose on the world.

Soldiers are trained not to think. Following orders without question is what the military promotes. I have a hard time with things like this because I feel a mixture of hate and sympathy for our soldiers. A lot of them are assholes who get pleasure out of killing while others simply saw joining as a means to make money and didn't fully realize what they were getting into.

In my view, the puppet masters waging the these wars are the worst culprits, but most of the troops are evil too.

I ended a friendship with an Iraq vet because he insisted on showing graphic photos of victims he murdered, with glee in his voice.

War sucks, but we are likely about to go to war with Iran since we now have a war economy and Obama needs a new war for his reelection campaign.

Very fair question OP. Most people, let alone soldiers, are brainwashed in this country, and probably most others. The MSM programs the public, would-be, and current soldiers that we are fighting an enemy that is hell bent at fighting against our alleged liberties. Little do the soldiers and the public at large realize that we are all being manipulated to believe this lie. The fact of the matter is: the TPTB is feeding the war machine from all sides to make money, to create ever-present chaos, and to promote genocide. Plain and simple. That way, if we are always fighting each other, real or imagined threats, then we will never band together to realize what the manipulators are doing to US.

Last Edited by UseLessRepEATER on 12/26/2011 03:51 AM

Another thing... a lot of soldiers are 18 or 19 - they're still children. Sure they're legally adults, but some mature faster than others. The point is: they are trusting in their fellow soldiers to show them the way, but the only guidance they get is to follow orders.

That's why a lot of them are killing themselves - they know what they are doing is wrong, but they don't know how to confront their comrades. So, the ones using their brains are the ones driven to kill themselves.

the American military machine is a huge business, roughly 1/4 of the whole US economy.
The american military spending is the highest in the world, 10 times that of china by GDP.
many american business and politicians have made obscene fortunes out the the american military invasions of such small pushover countries such as Vietnam, Iraq etc.

but when these people can charge the government $170 to supply a $7 plastic toilet seat, it simply means that these people are making huge profits out of these miserable wars, while the US economy is saddled with carrying the cost that the military machine runs up.

we all know who the financial beneficiary are,
and we all know that these wars are costing the US taxpayers $3 or 4 trillions a year.

All this wasted money when the citizens of the greatest nation on Earth have no basic health cover and cannot afford to buy a home.
why can't americans see that the military are sending the country broke? for absolutely no national security in return?

couldnt disagree

Now that I am "awake" to what this country's govt. is all about, I am ashamed to be a citizen of this country. I used to be a proud American, but I no longer feel that way. I am ready for the impending collapse. Sorry about your carbon tax, but I am sure it will be here soon enough.

Last Edited by UseLessRepEATER on 12/26/2011 04:05 AM

Fuck off, douchebag.

no mate!! being american is still a thing to be very proud of.
I absolutely love America, the country and the people.
America has done innumerable great thing for humanity.
with it's generous aid and with the great inventions that have lifted humanity from its darkness.
I am disappointed with the system of governance which is based on lobbyism from interested groups.
These groups control the governemt policy both domestic and foreign and teh average people seem totally oblivious to what is really going on.
these lobby groups can be the jewish lobby, the farmers lobby, the military arms manufacturing, the wall street lobby etc. ect.
they are the real powers behind the congress and the president

Thanks for your support mate, but I just can't be too uppity about this country like I used to be. I don't know where else to go, since I feel like the globalists are squeezing us from all angles, so I will just sit tight. We all need to peacefully resist our controllers.

I AM A VET OF THE VIET NAM EREA. THIS IS A GOOD BLOG THAT YOU ARE PRESENTING TO THE PEOPLE. WE MUST NOW AGAIN WAKE UP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY THE SOLDIERS, TO STOP KILLING PEOPLE. THAT ALL WAR I WRONG. STOP MAKING HEREOS OF THE SOLDIERS.STOP BEING PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY THAT IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD. THESE SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN BRAIN WASHED FROM CHILDHOOD WHEN THEY WERE GIVEN THERE FIRST GI JOE WAR TOY SOLIDER DOLL.THIS FORM OF BRAIN WASHING IS ALSO CALLED PROGRAMING. NEXT PROGRAMING THEY DID WAS THE MAKING OF WAR MOVIES & HEREOS AT THE CENIMA & ON T.V. TODAY THAT GOES EVEN MUCH FUTHER. THEY HAVE VIDEOS & THE WORST AND MOST POWERFUL BRAINWASHING IS DONE BY THE VIDEO GAMES ,WHERE THE YOUNG LEARN NOT ONLY HOW TO KILL BY WATCHING IT BUT THE GUNS AND WEAPONS ARE PUT IN THERE HANDS SO THEY CAN GET THE THRILL OF KILLING FIRST HAND THEM SELVES.

I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE WAR. BUT TODAY THERE IS NO DRAFT & YET THEY HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH KILLING SOLDIERS TO OCCUPY MORE THAN 8OO BASES AROUND THE WORLD. EISENHOWER WAS A EX-GENERAL & PRESIDENT,& WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE HE WARNED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF THE DANGERS OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRY COMPLEX. WHICH IS NOW RUNNING & CREATING THESE WARS WITH THE HELP OF THE CIA. BUT WE MUST NOW GO FUTHER INTO THIS & ASK WHO IS BEHIND THEM. THE D.C ILLUMINATE, BANKSTERS ARE BEHIND ALL THE WARS, ALL THE WAY BACK HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THEY SUPPLY WAR MACHINES & WEAPONS TO BOTH SIDES.TODAY THEY EVEN HAVE THERE OWN MILITARY MISSIONARIES CALLED.BLACK WATER, HALABURTON &BROWN.THE SOLDIERS ARE LIKE AMERICAN SHEEPLES, TRAINED TO FOLLOW ORDERS WITHOUT QUESTION.& ARE THROW AWAY ITEMS OF NO IMPORTANCE TO THEM. AMERICAN PEOPLE & SOLDIERS MUST WAKE UP TO THIS FACT THAT THEY ARE BRAIN WASHED & ARE PROGRAMED ,SO THAT THEY CAN STOP IT & REPROGRAM THEMSELVES THE MINUTE A SOLDIER STEPS FOOT ON A FORIGN LAND ,THEN THEY ARE THE ENEMY.WE MUST STOP THE WARS.BRING THE WAR HOME!AMEN

True, but what do you call soldiers from any other fucking country, anywhere else in the world? Face it, this applies to soldiers anywhere. Let's just say that those in the military are not exactly the "cream of the crop" in any fucking army. Start pointing out the group of misfits that comprise the army of any other nation, and then get back to me on American soldiers and their quality.

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Don't equate your sense of Americanness to what the US government does or doesn't do. Culturally speaking, you have no need to be ashamed of being an American, and if you feel you do, then you're as brainwashed as the soldiers.

If Americans soldiers are going to question something, it should be WHY are they taking orders from a Commander-In-Chief who is not really an American ?

Soldiers need to stop acting like sheep and start thinking for themselves. They are all intelligent, they just need to get out of that sheep mentality.

Lame OPie is lame...

Also, just because you are a soldier, DOES NOT MAKE YOU A HERO. That is such brainwash propaganda.

Vietnam might have been small, but it sure as hell was no pushover.

I would like to start by saying thank you to all of our soldiers for protecting our freedom. Even when it is criticized by ungrateful Americans. The notion of not having any war at all is a fairy tale dreamed by people that do not have a firm grip on reality. Anyone who thinks that all of the problems in the middle east disappear if we pull all the troops out should probably be the ones to start using their brains. This is the real world. It is not a world where everyone can get along because the radical islamic agenda is to convert us to islam, or kill us. There is no other plan from them. Wake up, and thank every soldier you see for protecting your lazy, ungrateful butt.

hahah , you sound slightly brainwashed....and obviously the military propaganda machine works well on people who are not propense to thinking for themselves, which was the very essence of this post.

War has always existed and is a sad legacy left behind by every single generation of mankind.
War and aggression and occupation of weaker people and nations is an innate trait of humans.

In recent years, sadly, american people have been brainwashed into believing that they are the good guys invading other countries not to rape and pillage but for a noble purpose of bringing to them the utopia of democracy.

when these american soldiers of invasion and aggression return home wounded or in body bags, the propaganda machine hails them as heroes who have laid down their young lives to protect the freedom of others.

Nothing is further from the truth.

In recent decades ALL the wars around the world have been caused and instigated at the behest of american illegal invasion of other countries.
From Vietnam to Afghanistan.

Does any american soldier with half a brains ever stop and think and question : "why the hell are we invading the innocent country of Iraq (as an example) and kill hundreds of thousand of innocent civilians for?"
what has Iraq and Saddam ever done to the USA?
absolutely nothing.

Iraq was invaded and its people exterminated by american soldiers for absolutely no reason.

and yet the military propaganda machine has managed to make americans believe that Saddam was responsible for 911.
Which he totally had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it.
and yet over 70% of americans believe that Saddam did it.

No american would stop to reason that except for 2 Egyptians all the rest of the 911 terrorists were Saudi.
So why didn't the US retaliate against the Saudi, why invade Iraq?

and how have americans been brainwashed to believe that their soldiers are heroes protecting them from the harm of Islamic freedom fighters?
why can't they see it that world terrorism ONLY exists because of American pro-israel stance that continuosly denies the Palestinians god given right to their homeland?

If only America had used it's muscle and clout to help create a new palestian state, we would not have had the wars and killings and terrorism we have endured in the past 50 years.

Anyone with a bit of brains can see that american misguided foreign policy (formulated in Washington under the pressure from lobby groups with their own interests and agendas)is the very reason why terrorism exists.
Do you really think that islamic countries would hate America if the US government had minded its own business??and not interfered in other countries affairs??

just lok at Switzeland or Sweeden...they are peaceful, prosperous democratic countries who are neutral and have minded their own business. Do Islamic countries hate Swiss people? NO. because they mind their own business.

The up coming war with Iran is over oil. The elite want control of it and will use our military to get it. I wish our guys would wake up.....

I feel sorry for General Colin Powell, he seems to be a good honest gentleman, and yet he was made to look like a total incompetent fool at the eyes of the world when his boss made him show up at a UN security meeting trying to present Bush's case for going to war against Saddam on the basis of trumped up false evidence.
The germans and french totally laughed at his face and made him look like a total fool. He was embarassed for trying to defend his idiotic superiors.
The germans (foreign minister Joscher Fischer)laughed at Powell and said to his face : if you americans want to go and make a war based on this fabricated evidence, you go ahead, but I cannot send my soldiers to get killed on a foreign soil for fabricated reasons.

So who are the smart countries?
no french or german young life was lost on this totally futile Iraq war, but thousands of american young people are gone. what a shame.
and what has america achieved in 10 years of fighting and killing? absolutely NOTHING. They have destroyed a country of innocent people for absolutely no reason.

Speaking of karma......