Here is some "Glorious Pro-War Propaganda" that was sent to me by a family member. Click here if you don't see the video embedded below.
It came with this explanation, FYI it actually came out last year but is still making the rounds, nothing ever totally vanishes from the net:
This film was made by a 15 year old girl.
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> The following is the hottest thing on the internet and on Fox News today.
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> Lizzie Palmer who put this YouTube program together is 15 years old. There
> have been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning. In case you missed it,
> here
> it is.
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> Watch all of it.......and, pass it on!!
I have a couple of comments to make about it.
1. This is a very nicely done and professional looking bit of propaganda.
2. It makes the claim, during the middle portions, that these people are fighting "for you." This is not true, they are fighting for an empire, they are fighting for Oil companies and they are fighting on behalf of Israel, none of these things has the slightest connection to "me."
3. The video shows only two options for these young men and women when they come home, either hale and well to happy families or in a casket to grieving families. Somehow the many tens of thousand of maimed and disabled vets were left out, I guess we would not want to look at their disfigured faces and missing limbs, that would be too disturbing to our warm and fuzzy propaganda aims. Go here, to Disabled American Veterans, to learn more about the real results of these wars, and to help out the victims, the wounded and disabled soldiers who will NEVER be whole again.
4. The video shows the troops serving and smiling in far off lands but does not give the slightest indication of the horrors they have brought to these nations that never did a thing to the United States of America, the hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed men, women and children, the destruction and terror they have made a seemingly permanent state as they obey the orders of those who have sent them there to enrich the corporate sponsors of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Nice video, evil deception.
It came with this explanation, FYI it actually came out last year but is still making the rounds, nothing ever totally vanishes from the net:
This film was made by a 15 year old girl.
>
> The following is the hottest thing on the internet and on Fox News today.
>
> Lizzie Palmer who put this YouTube program together is 15 years old. There
> have been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning. In case you missed it,
> here
> it is.
>
> Watch all of it.......and, pass it on!!
I have a couple of comments to make about it.
1. This is a very nicely done and professional looking bit of propaganda.
2. It makes the claim, during the middle portions, that these people are fighting "for you." This is not true, they are fighting for an empire, they are fighting for Oil companies and they are fighting on behalf of Israel, none of these things has the slightest connection to "me."
3. The video shows only two options for these young men and women when they come home, either hale and well to happy families or in a casket to grieving families. Somehow the many tens of thousand of maimed and disabled vets were left out, I guess we would not want to look at their disfigured faces and missing limbs, that would be too disturbing to our warm and fuzzy propaganda aims. Go here, to Disabled American Veterans, to learn more about the real results of these wars, and to help out the victims, the wounded and disabled soldiers who will NEVER be whole again.
4. The video shows the troops serving and smiling in far off lands but does not give the slightest indication of the horrors they have brought to these nations that never did a thing to the United States of America, the hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed men, women and children, the destruction and terror they have made a seemingly permanent state as they obey the orders of those who have sent them there to enrich the corporate sponsors of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Nice video, evil deception.
Larry you mentioned something that bothers me every day I drive into SF. As you well know, we have a huge homeless problem in that city. And the amount of homeless vets is staggering. I drive in on the Duboce exit area often, and the homeless there are quite often guys my age, from the first Gulf War. The Vets clinic is across the street, and many of these guys just wheel themselves over to the corner to beg for money.
ReplyDeleteI am very pro military, when it comes to defending ourselves. But I have come to the conclusion that our current administration doesn't give a rat's @ss about these citizens, or a few administrations for that matter. And I see the results of this every week. It breaks my heart.
You are so right, that is why I constantly hound people to contribute to DAV, we have to pick up where our government has dropped the ball.
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