F The Military

Memorial day’s coming soon and while many see it as the unofficial start of summer, it was originally intended as a way to honor our troops. But fuck that shit, because our military sucks.

First of all, i must preface this by saying that most soldiers aren’t bad people and that they’re just doing what they think is right, but they’re not.

To start, let’s go back to September 11th 2001, when planes hijacked by terrorists were flown directly into the twin towers, killing everyone in the plane as well as many more. George Bush responded by declaring war and even those like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul that were generally anti-war agreed, boosting his approval rating to 90% (including 84% among Democrats) and the few who did criticize him (such as Democrat Barbara Lee) received death threats.

Now don’t get me wrong, those attacks were horrible but the Taliban offered to hand over Osama Bin Laden on the condition that George Bush could prove that he was the one responsible for the attack. However, Bush reused the perfectly reasonable offer, instead opting for the bipartisan clusterfuck now known as the never ending war on terrorism.

Shortly thereafter, he passed the Patriot Act which gave the government the unconstitutional right to spy on people online and over the phone. Despite clearly violating people’s 1st and 4th amendment rights, this bill also had bipartisan support (although far more Democrats were opposed to it then Republicans).

Then, we get to the invasion of Iraq. In 1991, George Bush Sr. invaded Iraq for oil related reasons but chose not to kill and or imprison it’s leader Saddam Hussein (if you’re going to do a bullshit war, at least kill the leader of the country you’re invading).

Fast forwards 12 years later and George Bush Jr. decides that he wants to invade Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction. Even if that was the case (which it wasn’t), WE GAVE THEM WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BACK IN THE 80’s. But as with his father, the real reason was oil.

You see, Iraq has a lot of oil and America wants that oil so they’ll do whatever it takes to get that oil.

If George Bush was the president of any other country, he would’ve been tried by the United Nations and spent the rest of his life in prison. And if he did these attacks through executive order instead of taking advantage of his bipartisan support, he would’ve been impeached, acquitted, and arrested. But because everybody loved George Bush during his first term, all that happened is that we got stuck in these never ending wars in the Middle East, costing us trillions of dollars and many, many innocent lives sacrificed in the name of crony capitalism, not freedom like the rednecks want you to believe.

But enough of George Bush, let’s not forget Vietnam. While we were in Vietnam under the Kennedy administration, the 1964 Gulf Of Tonkin incident convinced Lyndon B. Johnson to go full scale into the country. So starting in early 1965, we poured our many and resources into this nonsensical war and even forced men to join against their will, only to lose 10 years later.

But the sad truth is that the Gulf Of Tonkin incident never happened, these were false radar readings used to justify a war against communism.

And then there’s the civilian casualties, those who died just because they live in the wrong country.

A perfect example of this is the Kunduz Hospital Airstrike where American troops bombed an Afghani hospital. This attack is wrong on so many levels and John F. Campbell should’ve been arrested, along with Barack Obama and Joe Biden for doing nothing to prevent it, not to mention everyone actually performed the airstrike. But as with George Bush, the only consequences are to those who suffered from the attack and should be prisoner Joe Biden is even running for president.

But we can also look at the My Lai massacre, where American troops were ordered to shoot unarmed civilians. And as horrific as the incident was, the only thing to come of it was general William Calley Jr. getting 3 and a half years of house arrest.

So we’ve seen how much of a waste of time our military is and a brief sampling of some of the atrocities they’ve committed, but that’s not all.

For example, if they find out you’re trans, they’ll pay for your sex change but if they find out you have autism, they’ll have you dishonorably discharged, court martialed, and have you face up to 3 years in prison.

Or how about the fact that it’s illegal to wear combat fatigue pants at an anti-war protest.

So instead of remembering our fallen soldiers, let’s instead remember those who fight for our freedom without a gun in their hand.

When The Beatles recorded The Word in 1965, they wanted to remind us all that the word is love and we should remember that sentiment for years to come.