trenchfoot
Lifer
- Aug 5, 2000
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Tell me what is Obama's record as a war time president?
How did his 'leading from behind" work out for the people of Libya?
How about his leadership in Iraq?
Anyone think that we are winning in Afghanistan?
Uno
Who, 45 years ago today, was drafted into the US Army.
As a fellow draftee of that era, I do recall sitting in my hooch, listening to the often brought up subject of us being sent over there to swap our blood for the dollars in profit "the man" was making off of us. I also recall how strange it was that some things were given to us in obscene excess while other things that we really really needed was nowhere to be found. We all came to the conclusion that whatever created that weird situation was due to how much profit (or the lack of it) there was to be found in manufacturing and supplying said items.
It all came down to $$$$. Everything, and that includes the huge black market that pervaded the everyday life of everyone trying to survive the war there. Every way we looked at it, young and ignorant as we were, we came to the conclusion that there were no political, moral or patriotic reason that we could think of that could trump the power of greed and profit as to why we got yanked out of the lives we were living to "serve our country".