Don't forget about the patriotic Michael New, who was court martialled and given a dishonorly discharge for having the courage to refuse to wear UN blue and accept commands from a foreign commander.
Donald, this is an amazing article which I really enjoyed reading. Remember our ‘hero’ nurses and doctors who were dancing in the hospitals while it was reported the starved to death patients for the financial best will of the hospitals? I totally agree that the real heroes are the mum’s and dad’s whom are 24/7 caring for their children, many with disabilities, etc. Keep up the good work in writing as we need people like you not afraid to expose the truth.
Another one was Smedley Butler, retired 2 star Marine Corps General awarded the CMH twice wrote a book called War is a Racket, he was and is correct. You can download a free copy of his book. I agree, the US was only invaded 2x, the 2nd time was the President's fault for trying to annex Canada, but it was an invasion.
First of all, the first false flag was Fort Sumpter. Resupplying that fort which was no longer in the USA was the one thing South Carolina proclaimed was intolerable. I can't remember the source but it makes sense that the Civil War was ignited the same as the others.
Also FDR is guilty of far more than provoking Pearl Harbor. Mark Weber's article of many years ago:
detail his roll in provoking Germany's attack on Poland. Very reminiscent of how Russia was provoked to neutralize Ukraine.
Finally to anyone who still is trying to make sense of the world in terms of nations and economies I recommend a film called "The Money Masters". I also just finished rereading Henry Ford's book "The International Jew" written in 1920. In it he details the mechanisms of the domination of all key parts of the US economically by people pretending to be descendants of Hebrews. In my view the Civil War was arranged to establish an unquestioned controlling Federal government. Since then the US has been a pleasant soldier farm. Beginning with the war to steal Spanish colonies American men have been unquestioning mafia muscle for global finance cartels. We go break the legs and whack countries and people who don't want to pay tribute (interest) anymore or worse create something like "The German Economic Miracle" that threatened hegemony. That is what the war with Russia is about as well.
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0bama, after promising to end Bush's wars, kept them going even longer than Bush did. Started a couple of new wars to boot. The first and only president to have America at war every day for 8 years. Dropped 200,000 bombs on 7 countries. Bombers and bombs are very profitable. The Military-Industrial Complex loved 0bama. Peace prize indeed!
Trump started no new wars and was gradually decreasing our military presence overseas. Gradually, so as not to leave military hardware behind for the enemy and get innocents killed. Bad for business. He had to go.
Biden is doing a great job enriching defense contractors. Long before the Ukraine fiasco, he started a war (unmentioned by the LSM) on day 2. On day 1 he had a more important priority: Signing an E.O. saying college and high school boys can be on the girl's sports teams and in their locker rooms and showers.
Fantastic. I commented on the same thing on a post praising dead soldiers. Every year we must suffer through the same fanfare of heroic men and women who died being conned by the political elite. I'll definitely acquire your book. Phil
Phil Davis
Writes Vintage American Images
9 hr ago
"The unfortunate part of wars in the US since the Civil War is they never should have happened. The sacrifices of those young men and women were at the hands of politicians, not everyday people.
America was content with staying out of foreign wars; our leaders were not. Every war since our Great Civil War was manipulated to get America deeply involved. Yes, even WW2. The political establishment needed the public to endorse the US engaging in that European conflict, but the public after WW1 wanted nothing to do with another drama across the Atlantic.
But, Japan attacked us, you say. Yes, that's true, but why? The answer was that FDR sanctioned US oil deliveries to Japan, their only source of oil. Japan only had one month of oil left when it attacked Pearl Harbor. I am willing to bet most do not know this piece of history. Another gem of the past never put in history books is that all the new warships, especially all the aircraft carriers, were put to sea shortly before the attack. Only the old battleships from WW1 were left in the harbor as sitting ducks.
Many months before Pearl Harbor, American intelligence had cracked Japan's codes; they knew of the impending attack. Furthermore, the wire hours before that fateful day, a message warning of planes flying to Pearl somehow got lost at the State Department; the attack surprised those at Pearl Harbor. But, was it a surprise to confident government leaders in DC? I'll let you decide.
I post this because the Neocons are plotting another venture of war, this time with Russia. Again we will be asked, if not demanded, to sacrifice young men and women's lives by people who never fight in these conflicts. Their children never see war; they are safe in the family business or enrolled in a university.
Are we again going to buy the propaganda that this sacrifice is necessary? Is Ukrainian territory or Taiwan vital to you or your family? Do we, the people, get any benefit from fighting in manufactured wars?
Maybe for once, we can tell our government leaders and the Neocons to fight their wars and leave us alone.
Or.
Will we allow another grassy field to be marked with white headstones?
My Dad was a Vietnam Vet. I was born in 1970. By the time Iraq War 1 came (Y'know, the 'Legitimate One', where we actually *declared* war...) I was already too cynical of our Government to join the Hurrah! Crowd. But even I didn't imagine how horrific it really was. Not until 1992.
In High School, there was a guy I hung out with occasionally. Since we were both Sci-Fi fans, we Groked on the tech-side of things, both real and fictional. We weren't very close, but close enough for me to know that entering the Army after Graduation & becoming a Tank Commander, was his reason for Being. Through a mutual friend I learned that sometime before Desert Shield started, he had achieved his goal & had been deployed there. That was the last I heard of him.
In the summer of 1992, I'm leaving a local grocery store, when some stranger calls my name. I look around, not seeing anyone I recognize, when this quiet, pale ghostlike man comes up to me. It was my Buddy from School. I finally recognized him, but everything about him was different. His demeanor was SO different that he looked like a different person.
We chatted a bit & I made a move to go. Something was wrong, though I couldn't put my finger on it & not knowing what it was, or what to do, I thought leaving was the best option. He stops me & says that he knows we weren't close, but he HAD to tell me something. 'You HAVE TO know this.' He said. Why he felt that way, I have no idea.
He said that his crew was deployed to Desert Shield, as I had heard. When Desert Storm started, these huge Ram-Prows were fixed on the front of their Abrams Battle Tanks. They had standing orders to just bury the Iraqi soldiers alive, EVEN if they tried to surrender. 'My Team must have killed Thousands of them.' He said. I believed him. As I wrote earlier, this man was a Ghost. His eyes were fixed on something I could not see. Perhaps the faces of the soldiers he murdered. Even then, I knew that as a signatory of the Geneva Convention, if the US ignored the attempted surrender of an enemy soldier, it was no longer War. It was Murder. This young man clearly knew that as well & the knowledge had shattered him.
I wished him well, though thankfully I offered him no empty platitudes that it would, 'Get Better.' I left, as there was nothing I could do. I have prayed for him many times over the years though. I hoped that perhaps some day, in some fashion, he was able to find some peace.
I did not hide what I knew, events like WACO, where the US Government murdered nearly 100 Men, Women & Children, were impossible for me to ignore & I tried to share the truths that I knew, when I had the chance. This did not endear me to my Father, who was very much a 'Support AMERICA!' kind of man. For some time, he thought I was some pinko-loving anti-american, commie sympathizer.
Then, in 2002, he was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer & given 5 years at most. Since this cancer could be traced directly to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, he was entitled to compensation. It was in his Battle to GET his promised benefits, that he finally realized I was right- The Government had used his desire to serve his Country like a Cheap Whore & discarded him when he served no more purpose.
He DID finally get those benefits, though it was a miserable struggle for a dying man. He fought against his Cancer for 15 years, finally succumbing to it in 2017, just shy of 70. I am glad that for those last 15 years, we became close. I am glad that he passed with love and understanding between us, unlike the regret of Missed Opportunities I have seen with my Peers. I am glad that he did not live to see what a Clown Show the country he loved so much has become.
But I miss him like crazy. He was the kind of 'Ordinary Guy' that is the foundation of all stable societies. Hardworking, dedicated to his Family, unselfishly giving up all Treats, Toys, Time for Himself that he 'deserved', so that we could have a better life. I am not his Equal & I mourn his passing more because of it. We will need Men like him now, more than ever before, real Heroes.
Don't forget about the patriotic Michael New, who was court martialled and given a dishonorly discharge for having the courage to refuse to wear UN blue and accept commands from a foreign commander.
Very good article. Thank you very much for taking the time to post it.
A good book to read is America’s Cesar.
There’s a similar title about MacArthur. that is not the one you want.
This one has Lincoln statue on the front get the two volume series, not the abridged version.
One must understand the Bible to make sense of the world today.
folks we are under Biblical judgment. God is long-suffering, but He destroys the people who ignore his Law.
Example after example in the Scriptures.
If you care to learn about this, go to sermonaudio.com find Pastor John Weaver then find his sermon “how God destroys nations”
after that find the 14 sermon series “where we are at how we got here”.
A lot of true history mixed in there.
The most important thing you can do is become a Christian.
only through the blood of Jesus Christ will you get to heaven.
If you are already a Christian, get busy studying his word.
If you are a Christian and studying his word, get busy telling others as I am doing here.
Donald, this is an amazing article which I really enjoyed reading. Remember our ‘hero’ nurses and doctors who were dancing in the hospitals while it was reported the starved to death patients for the financial best will of the hospitals? I totally agree that the real heroes are the mum’s and dad’s whom are 24/7 caring for their children, many with disabilities, etc. Keep up the good work in writing as we need people like you not afraid to expose the truth.
Another one was Smedley Butler, retired 2 star Marine Corps General awarded the CMH twice wrote a book called War is a Racket, he was and is correct. You can download a free copy of his book. I agree, the US was only invaded 2x, the 2nd time was the President's fault for trying to annex Canada, but it was an invasion.
War is a government enterprise. No governments, no war. In the most general terms, war is an attack by government on people.
Oscar Wilde quote, "Patriotism is the virtue of the viscious".
I know a two-time real hero. Pulled a man from a burning truck. Then, saved a baby whose airway was blocked.
First of all, the first false flag was Fort Sumpter. Resupplying that fort which was no longer in the USA was the one thing South Carolina proclaimed was intolerable. I can't remember the source but it makes sense that the Civil War was ignited the same as the others.
Also FDR is guilty of far more than provoking Pearl Harbor. Mark Weber's article of many years ago:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html
detail his roll in provoking Germany's attack on Poland. Very reminiscent of how Russia was provoked to neutralize Ukraine.
Finally to anyone who still is trying to make sense of the world in terms of nations and economies I recommend a film called "The Money Masters". I also just finished rereading Henry Ford's book "The International Jew" written in 1920. In it he details the mechanisms of the domination of all key parts of the US economically by people pretending to be descendants of Hebrews. In my view the Civil War was arranged to establish an unquestioned controlling Federal government. Since then the US has been a pleasant soldier farm. Beginning with the war to steal Spanish colonies American men have been unquestioning mafia muscle for global finance cartels. We go break the legs and whack countries and people who don't want to pay tribute (interest) anymore or worse create something like "The German Economic Miracle" that threatened hegemony. That is what the war with Russia is about as well.
0bama, after promising to end Bush's wars, kept them going even longer than Bush did. Started a couple of new wars to boot. The first and only president to have America at war every day for 8 years. Dropped 200,000 bombs on 7 countries. Bombers and bombs are very profitable. The Military-Industrial Complex loved 0bama. Peace prize indeed!
Trump started no new wars and was gradually decreasing our military presence overseas. Gradually, so as not to leave military hardware behind for the enemy and get innocents killed. Bad for business. He had to go.
Biden is doing a great job enriching defense contractors. Long before the Ukraine fiasco, he started a war (unmentioned by the LSM) on day 2. On day 1 he had a more important priority: Signing an E.O. saying college and high school boys can be on the girl's sports teams and in their locker rooms and showers.
Fantastic. I commented on the same thing on a post praising dead soldiers. Every year we must suffer through the same fanfare of heroic men and women who died being conned by the political elite. I'll definitely acquire your book. Phil
Phil Davis
Writes Vintage American Images
9 hr ago
"The unfortunate part of wars in the US since the Civil War is they never should have happened. The sacrifices of those young men and women were at the hands of politicians, not everyday people.
America was content with staying out of foreign wars; our leaders were not. Every war since our Great Civil War was manipulated to get America deeply involved. Yes, even WW2. The political establishment needed the public to endorse the US engaging in that European conflict, but the public after WW1 wanted nothing to do with another drama across the Atlantic.
But, Japan attacked us, you say. Yes, that's true, but why? The answer was that FDR sanctioned US oil deliveries to Japan, their only source of oil. Japan only had one month of oil left when it attacked Pearl Harbor. I am willing to bet most do not know this piece of history. Another gem of the past never put in history books is that all the new warships, especially all the aircraft carriers, were put to sea shortly before the attack. Only the old battleships from WW1 were left in the harbor as sitting ducks.
Many months before Pearl Harbor, American intelligence had cracked Japan's codes; they knew of the impending attack. Furthermore, the wire hours before that fateful day, a message warning of planes flying to Pearl somehow got lost at the State Department; the attack surprised those at Pearl Harbor. But, was it a surprise to confident government leaders in DC? I'll let you decide.
I post this because the Neocons are plotting another venture of war, this time with Russia. Again we will be asked, if not demanded, to sacrifice young men and women's lives by people who never fight in these conflicts. Their children never see war; they are safe in the family business or enrolled in a university.
Are we again going to buy the propaganda that this sacrifice is necessary? Is Ukrainian territory or Taiwan vital to you or your family? Do we, the people, get any benefit from fighting in manufactured wars?
Maybe for once, we can tell our government leaders and the Neocons to fight their wars and leave us alone.
Or.
Will we allow another grassy field to be marked with white headstones?
Thank you Don for this valuable piece of work. Beautifully put 👍 Enjoyed the Norm MacDonald mention as well - what a legend he was.
My Dad was a Vietnam Vet. I was born in 1970. By the time Iraq War 1 came (Y'know, the 'Legitimate One', where we actually *declared* war...) I was already too cynical of our Government to join the Hurrah! Crowd. But even I didn't imagine how horrific it really was. Not until 1992.
In High School, there was a guy I hung out with occasionally. Since we were both Sci-Fi fans, we Groked on the tech-side of things, both real and fictional. We weren't very close, but close enough for me to know that entering the Army after Graduation & becoming a Tank Commander, was his reason for Being. Through a mutual friend I learned that sometime before Desert Shield started, he had achieved his goal & had been deployed there. That was the last I heard of him.
In the summer of 1992, I'm leaving a local grocery store, when some stranger calls my name. I look around, not seeing anyone I recognize, when this quiet, pale ghostlike man comes up to me. It was my Buddy from School. I finally recognized him, but everything about him was different. His demeanor was SO different that he looked like a different person.
We chatted a bit & I made a move to go. Something was wrong, though I couldn't put my finger on it & not knowing what it was, or what to do, I thought leaving was the best option. He stops me & says that he knows we weren't close, but he HAD to tell me something. 'You HAVE TO know this.' He said. Why he felt that way, I have no idea.
He said that his crew was deployed to Desert Shield, as I had heard. When Desert Storm started, these huge Ram-Prows were fixed on the front of their Abrams Battle Tanks. They had standing orders to just bury the Iraqi soldiers alive, EVEN if they tried to surrender. 'My Team must have killed Thousands of them.' He said. I believed him. As I wrote earlier, this man was a Ghost. His eyes were fixed on something I could not see. Perhaps the faces of the soldiers he murdered. Even then, I knew that as a signatory of the Geneva Convention, if the US ignored the attempted surrender of an enemy soldier, it was no longer War. It was Murder. This young man clearly knew that as well & the knowledge had shattered him.
I wished him well, though thankfully I offered him no empty platitudes that it would, 'Get Better.' I left, as there was nothing I could do. I have prayed for him many times over the years though. I hoped that perhaps some day, in some fashion, he was able to find some peace.
I did not hide what I knew, events like WACO, where the US Government murdered nearly 100 Men, Women & Children, were impossible for me to ignore & I tried to share the truths that I knew, when I had the chance. This did not endear me to my Father, who was very much a 'Support AMERICA!' kind of man. For some time, he thought I was some pinko-loving anti-american, commie sympathizer.
Then, in 2002, he was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer & given 5 years at most. Since this cancer could be traced directly to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, he was entitled to compensation. It was in his Battle to GET his promised benefits, that he finally realized I was right- The Government had used his desire to serve his Country like a Cheap Whore & discarded him when he served no more purpose.
He DID finally get those benefits, though it was a miserable struggle for a dying man. He fought against his Cancer for 15 years, finally succumbing to it in 2017, just shy of 70. I am glad that for those last 15 years, we became close. I am glad that he passed with love and understanding between us, unlike the regret of Missed Opportunities I have seen with my Peers. I am glad that he did not live to see what a Clown Show the country he loved so much has become.
But I miss him like crazy. He was the kind of 'Ordinary Guy' that is the foundation of all stable societies. Hardworking, dedicated to his Family, unselfishly giving up all Treats, Toys, Time for Himself that he 'deserved', so that we could have a better life. I am not his Equal & I mourn his passing more because of it. We will need Men like him now, more than ever before, real Heroes.
I have to disagree about the necessity of the War of 1812. Do a google search for "Only a Fool Defends His Country... By Jonathan M. Kolkey"