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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Oh, this is beautiful, Pete. Thank you for saying what needs to be said -- apparently -- again and again and again.

And to my mother's older beloved brother who was killed at the Battle of the Bulge less than a month after his 20th birthday. Her family was never, ever the same after that loss. And for what? And then to have some seven decades later the "American" people crap their pants and toss their remaining freedoms?

Over a respiratory infection.

There really are no words.

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Liz LaSorte's avatar

Thanks for a great post!

War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing, but making profits for morally challenged people who provoke them.

When discussing the origins of the Vietnam war, Lt. Commander Pat Peterson, U.S. Navy, said

“Unlike Captain Herrick, Stockdale had no doubt about what had happened: We were about to launch a war under false pretenses, in the face of the on-scene military commander's advice to the contrary...

…On 7 August, Congress, with near unanimity, approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which President Johnson signed into law three days later.

Requested by Johnson, the resolution authorized the chief executive to ‘take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.’ No approval or oversight of military force was required by Congress, essentially eliminating the system of checks and balances so fundamental to the U.S. Constitution.”

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin

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