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The Culture of Death

Finally got around to watching the video.
Although offensive, what can you expect from a stressed-out, musically-talented Marine who probably encountered a situation like that, or thought that he could? It's a way of expressing his feelings to relieve combat tension.

I see this "war" from my own biases, from my own understanding safe and dry at my computer. Out there, a brutal occupation has taken place after a "Bring it on!" and a "Mission Accomplished" was issued by an inexperienced political puppet who is running our country at the behest of the power brokers who see countries and it's peoples as merely political exchange for their idealogy.
THEY don't get to see or smell the blood. They don't have to clean it up. It's not THEIR sons and daughters who have gone to war for them. They may feel little or no guilt or remorse.
Their casualty list comes to them in the form of their bank statement.

So the bottom feeders and their CEO's at the defense contractors (aging generals who have the money and the contacts), continue to push for this Culture of Death. Just more ways to kill....newer, more expensive ways. (They've earned this right through retirement.) If killing 100,000 innocent civilians isn't enough, then we have to kill 100,000 more because now those civilians are insurgents or working with the terrorists.
This political game our leaders have played has become a joke. There is no end in sight for this very real blunder. It will continue to suck us dry.........politically and economically and ruin US, the United states which was once a great nation. And a small group of power hungry men rose to the top of this country illegally and changed the playing field by executing illegal changes to the Constitution and putting paid shills in places of power.

We live in Pandora's Box and it's not getting any better.
Three headlines today say it all:
"Race on to build latest, greatest nuclear bomb"
"Coalition troops begin major Afghan offensive"
"U.S. troops launch new offensive in western Iraq"

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