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In reply to the discussion: Iran, Perceiving Threat From West, Willing To Attack On U.S. Soil, U.S. Intelligence Report Finds [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)And what you post shows that you indeed buy into the war lies. Listen to yourself:
"Iran better think twice on that. Payback is a bitch. America will get the last word. Ask Japan, and even Iraq, and Libya."
Let me ask you, while I assume that you were referring to Pearl Harbor when you referred to Japan, what were we paying Iraq back for? Did Iraq attack the US, for that matter did Libya?
You spew the rah-rah cheerleading militarism of any warmonger. Going on about what your parents and grandparents did in the war, well guess what, yours is not the only family who has had many members in various military conflicts, yet we don't wave the bloody flag in order to somehow justify the fearmongering going on currently in the media and the government.
You say you were against the Iraq war, a war that we were lied into(just like we were lied into the first Gulf War, just like we were lied into Vietnam). Did you learn nothing from that? Then why are using Iraq as an example of "payback" that we should all be proud of? We have killed millions of innocents in that country over the years, all because of a lie, yet you term it as "payback". That's beyond disgusting.
Ooo, so you wrote your congresscritters, that's nice, then what did you do? Buy into the bullshit, cheered on the war? Me, I've been out on the street protesting these illegal, immoral wars on almost a weekly basis for over ten years. I've marched in my hometown, in other towns and cities, and in DC. But hey, you wrote a letter or three
Yet you continue to spread the fear: ". . .if Iran comes here with just one person carrying a briefcase that could carry one of those small nukes. . ." Iran doesn't have a briefcase nukes, NOBODY HAS EVER HAD A CONFIRMED VERSION OF A SUITCASE NUKE, IT IS SIMPLY A PLOY TO INSPIRE FEAR AND DREAD! Yet you buy into the bullshit, spread it around, thump your chest over it and loudly crow how America will triumph. You are warmongering, it is simple as that.
You have absolutely no clue what war is about, you have observed what it does to others from the safety of your home. A shame, truly a shame that you didn't enlist when you were younger. Perhaps you wouldn't be such a bloodthirsty cheerleader for war now. Perhaps you wouldn't be buying into the lies and bullshit that driving these drums for war with Iran. Perhaps it would have given you the knowledge and experience to know when you're being fed bullshit.