They're advisers, they do not constitute boots on the ground.....  

Best regards,

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/11/16 at 15:47:04:

Watching this be avoided is kinda funny.
We marched into Iraq, because of 9/11, no, scratch that,

WMDs, uhhh, nope, nothing there, which surprised me. I figured we would at least plant something to Find,, but , no. Alas, we stayed and finished saving those people from a bad man. Boy, aren't they better off now?
And let's not forget that Saddam was our guy, once upon a time, and became very unpopular once he started making noises about selling oil and Not accepting dollars in payment.

And what caused the uprising against Gaddafi? Has anyone else bothered to go look at what life was like there before we went and saved them? He, too, foolishly believed he could sell his oil how he wanted. And, in our fervor to see those peoples lives improved, we bombed the world's Largest irrigation system into oblivion.
Try reality, it's uncomfortable, but it is honest.

And,here we are,,once again, the media and pols pumping Americans full of crap, and the very same geniuses who say
How stupid do they think we are?
Continue to prove just how gullible they are.
We have exactly Zero business in Syria stirring up a rebellion against Assad.

Smedley Buttler
War is a Racket

Excerpt, and, he states
TRUTHFULNESS requires that he says it.

Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.


But, just keep believing in what you are told. Then, you can stand in front of God and pretend that you had no idea what you were being lied to about.

Be deceived by no man.

Sound familiar? Hiding from the truth is willful ignorance. The Bible doesn't discuss Keynesian economics.