"President George W. Bush, who dodged danger in the Vietnam War by signing up for the Texas National Guard and then ducked even that domestic duty, and Vice President Dick Cheney who used five different excuses to duck military service, morbidly rubbed themselves with that flag for eight long years, even as they sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women into harm’s for political advantage. President Barack Obama (who also avoided military service), continued this ripe tradition when, in his weekly PR address to the nation, he urged to “leave a flower” on the grave of a soldier who died in one of America’s wars “so the rest of us might inherit the blessings of this nation.” Obama is also sending young Americans to kill and die halfway around the world in a war that has no purpose other than to demonstrate his political “toughness.” Yet he disingenuously declares that it was “to preserve America and advance the ideals we cherish” that “led patriots in each generation to sacrifice their own lives to secure the life of our nation, from the trenches of World War I to the battles of World War II, from Inchon and Khe Sanh, from Mosul to Marja.” What nonsense!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Non-fiction authors from the United StatesJournalists from the United StatesPolitical authorsPeople from ConnecticutInvestigative journalists
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Lindorff
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dave Lindorff
11 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dave Lindorff →
Related Quotes
"Khe Sanh, one of the major battles in the Vietnam War, was just one little piece of a huge malignant disaster in a wa…"
"According to some accounts, civilian deaths caused by America’s permanent war in the Middle East since 2001 could exc…"
"Add to that the other uncomfortable reality that many of the combatant deaths caused by US forces in places like Iraq…"
"And I am even sicker of politicians who wrap themselves in the bloody flag and try to rub off some of the stench of d…"
"I’ll grant you that there were noble motivations that led many Americans to die fighting for this country’s independe…"
"After days of breathless reporting in the U.S. media about public and military support for Venezuelan President Nicol…"
"Take the president’s mention of . It is a city in Iraq, and the Americans who died there and in other Iraqi cities di…"
"As for Marjah, its mention at all in the same breath as the American Revolution or the Civil War is truly grotesque. …"
"If and when America and American freedom are really threatened, I have no doubt that American men and women will rise…"
"World War II, at least in Europe, may have had some moral justification, though there can be some legitimate debate a…"