Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria: America war-monger nation

By Frosty Wooldridge

American presidents, starting with Kennedy-Johnson in Vietnam to Bush-Obama, pushed America into deadly, costly, disastrous and pointless wars in the last 50 years.  Millions of people died while the American “Silent majority” sat quietly watching the slaughter on the evening news.  As Walter Cronkite said, “And that’s the way it is.”

At this moment, Barack Obama races toward a bombing campaign on the Syrian people.  He mandates death, destruction and mayhem on a country and people struggling in their own civil war.    He uses an excuse like Assad “gassing” his own people.

Harry Truman used the “Domino Effect” to stop communism from conquering Korea.  We lost 33,000 young men and killed thousands more of their troops.  Countless civilians died.   Korea solved nothing because it proved to be a civil war.  It has cost over $1 trillion for troop deployment and logistics for the past 60 years.

Lyndon Baines Johnson used the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” to justify sending 58,319 young American kids to their deaths and killing over 2.1 million Vietnamese soldiers, men, women and children.  He poisoned their land with Agent Orange that still kills and disfigures into 2013. 

Then came 9/11 to give George W. Bush justification to bomb the hell out of a goat-herder third world country like Afghanistan into little pieces.  Never mind that nearly all 19 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. Ten years later, after killing bin Laden, we still haven’t “conquered” Afghanistan, but we lost 1,400 American kids to ugly deaths and another 1,500 who committed suicide from the insanity of that war. 

A special note: I followed an M.D.’s book about Vietnam whereby 175,000 to 200,000 American combat troops that left Vietnam in one piece—later committed suicide.  Countless tens of thousands suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and drank or drugged themselves into their own private hells after the torture of Vietnam.  Predications for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as to American suicides:  estimated at over 200,000 suicides will ultimately manifest by our returning troops. Hundreds and thousands will suffer a lifetime of PTSD.

Out of nowhere, George W. Bush dreamed up “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and his “shock and awe” bombing rampage into Iraq.  He killed over a quarter of a million innocent men, women and children.  He used bunker-busting bombs with depleted uranium that poisons the soils of Iraq for centuries.  He killed 4,400 of our finest young men and women and left 35,000 hideously wounded.

Today, Barack Obama, a man who never served in the U.S. armed forces, who instead, smoked a lot of dope and snorted drugs, and who knows nothing of the horrors of war—stands ready to send bombers into Syria because he thinks he’s going to stop Assad from gassing his people.

“Nothing is so important as that America shall separate herself from the systems of Europe, and establish one of her own.  Our circumstances, our pursuits, our interests, are distinct.  The principles of our policy should be so also.  All entanglements with that quarter of the globe should be avoided if we mean that peace and justice shall be the polar stars of the American societies.” –Thomas Jefferson to J. Correa de Serra, 1820.

Obama, enjoys the unearned  and unwarranted Nobel Peace Prize of 2009, yet  threatens to expand his ever widening “War on Everything” from Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, Mali, Al-Awlaki and his son and nephew, Snowden, Manning, Assange, Rosen and now Syria.

I must ask you Mr. Obama, is killing everything but the 2013Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens football team the answer?

Finally, what about our feckless U.S. Congress?  The Constitution mandates that all war choices must be agreed by the House and Senate.  Instead, we let LBJ, Bush II and now, Obama, wage wars they cannot justify and, in the end, will kill a lot of people, but do nothing good in the world nor will they accomplish anything good. Additionally, the president has no legal authority to attack Syria absent congressional and United Nations Security Council approval.

What about each American citizen who cannot be bothered to participate, but watches by the sidelines as the 21^st century “Silent Majority”?  How many more innocent, brain-washed kids must die, not in service to America, but in service to the U.S. Military Industrial Complex and the bankers—who provoke, guide and determine wars?   Plus, make a lot of money on our mechanized military violence!

John Lennon sang, “Give peace a chance.”  If we citizens take action by stopping our government from waging useless, insane and meaningless wars—a lot of our children will be able to live their lives instead of being sacrificed like sheep to the slaughter.

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece.  In 2010, he cycled 3,400 miles coast to coast across America.  In 2012, he bicycled the northern tier coast to coast across America.  In 2013, he bicycled 2,500 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide, 150,000 vertical feet of climbing and 19 crossing of passes, 10 of the Continental Divide.  He presents “The Coming Population Crisis facing America: what to do about it.”  www.frostywooldridge.com.  His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, copies at 1 888 280 7715/ Motivational program: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, click:  www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com

Live well, laugh often, celebrate daily and enjoy the ride,

Frosty Wooldridge

Golden, Colorado

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6 Continent world bicycle traveler

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