I am beyond tears but not beyond hope. I can no longer tell "defense" contractors "Okay, you took my father, my brothers, nephews, neighbors, cousins and friends for your corporate wars, and you did it all in my name, for my 'security.' I bought your lies, your wanton killing of innocents all over the world." Now, I'll tell you what I want. I want the killing of my family and friends to stop. I will not allow you to live in luxury at the expense of pain inflicted on families here and in foreign lands, using rendition (torture conducted outside of U.S.) on uncharged captives, most, if not all, guiltless. Secret torture at Guantanamo. And what's it all about? Selling drones, tanks, F-16s, helicopters, AK47s, chemicals - all weapons of mass destruction we accused Saddam Hussein of using. We thought that he had WMDs because we gave these weapons to him in the eight year war between Iran and Iraq - a war imposed by us, in the '80s, in which we took Iraq's side. We accused Saddam of gassing the Kurds ... and who gave him the gas? We did. And why the war? To destabilize and weaken two sovereign countries, for later feasting on their oiL Trillions of barrels ... in the Caspian Sea. If the U.S. and Israel own the oil fields, we can keep the prices high, since George Bush, Sr. wouldn't allow oil men in the U.,S. to drill for oil so that his old buddies could become billionaires with no competition. Remember, it was Henry Kissinger who told the Shah of Iran to raise the price of the barrels of oiL When the Shah said "no" - you can see what happened. It was the end of our relationship.It ended in "hostage" taking - the taking of CIA bullies posing as missionaries, a fact admitted in our newspapers long after the return of our covert bullies. Even now, these bullies are honored, because the "young" don't know, and the war games continue.
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