A Comment About

Most Likely to Succeed — and Serve, and Sacrifice

May 26, 2008 - 12:20 am - by David J. Rusin
Redmanfms
2008-06-18 16:30:10

“No matter how much you call me numbskull, which is not very mature btw, I still refuse to believe the propaganda US army feeds us.”

US Army propaganda??? Oh boy, I think you may have a problem with your grasp on reality.

“I can read, so I know the official reasons for Afhgan War. Bush would have never been re-elected without 9/11 attacks so he had to begin the war against terrorism. Tough call. CIA knew about the attacks but US war industry needed a new opponent after the Soviet Union fell to keep the wheels and dollars rolling.”

More baloney, buts it’s plenty interesting.

“What comes to Iraq, legal based attack etc. is what US government told the press to get acceptance to the attack from the world.”

So the entire world is stupid. That or legally-binding agreements between nations mean absolutely nothing….

“CIA knew about the attacks but US war industry needed a new opponent after the Soviet Union fell to keep the wheels and dollars rolling.”

Cute, and completely false.

“US lost Venezuelan oil fields after Chavez came to power and US sorely needs to control the flow of oil to have their share of the oil markets.”

Funny, the Venezualans are still one of our largest suppliers of oil.

“US gasoline money is pennies compared to the oil needs of the rising dragon of China!!! China is one big reason for huge rises in the oil prices and of course US owned oil companies want to keep their share of profits. If you can count 1+1 you can see the connection here…almost half of China’s oil come from the Middle East and the consumption is on the rise.”

I don’t know exactly where you are trying to go with this statement, it certainly doesn’t follow the line that the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil resources.

It would be a strong argument for China’s continuing support of a genocidal regime in the Sudan however….

“The poorer folks do most of the basic fighting.”

Really? I came from a middle-class home with a private school education and a college degree and I was far from unique amongst my fellow sailors. The average education of a U.S. servicemember is 13.5 years, meaning that most servicemen have some college. Your phenomenal ignorance of the U.S. military is absolutely breathtaking. You should probably just do yourself a favor and not feign knowledge on a subject you so very clearly ignorant, because those of us who actually served (or know anybody who served) know better.

I don’t hate Micheal Moore at all, I see him as a terribly misguided, hypocritical, dissembler who is a tool of the enemies of the United States. His “documentary” is like all of his other work, poorly researched and dishonestly edited.