Comments on: Why Are We At War?

By: Thor

Thor — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:39:56 +0000

Katie, go to http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/, http://www.aipac.org, http://www.dod.mil (Iraq site), http://www.iwf.org, etc.
Why are you opressed those who views are different from your left-wing “I’m always right” opinion?
Read Time, Newsweek, U.S News & World Report, etc. those left-wing slant also reported on it since 2001.

By: kate b

kate b — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:25:19 +0000

rob, thanks for your post. it’s been a while since i read the book (and I’ve packed it into boxes so I can’t delve more into this at the moment). my dad refers the book as leftist’s history :)

you

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:40:05 +0000

Zinn’s book was heavily criticized for its distorted, mixed-up and wrong facts made to suit his revisionist perspective of the American history through the plights of “oppressed” peoples. Some of his propositions and theories from his book were bit far-fetched or unsubstantiated and yet many of his admirers took his book at face value, unfortunately so. To them, a distorted or erroneous fact is preferable to an actual, correct fact.

John D. Rockefeller (the founder of Standard Oil Trust) did not goes into munition or weapon-making business, he started out working for an Ohio accounting firm during the Civil War before he got into the oil boom business.

J.P. Morgan, on the other hand, was approached by a company to finance the purchase of old Army rifles and guns, re-machinate them and to sell them back to the government for higher profits during the Civil War. It was pure government incompetence (for not checking the records and examining the items), not deceit by Morgan acting as an lender for that company who deceived him.

By: Katie Roberts

Katie Roberts — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:23:09 +0000

Thor,

Please do your research before you spit out half-founded assumptions gathered from Bill O’Reilly’s talking points.

Thank you.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:20:10 +0000

Anonymous, it is YOU who is clueless.

By: Thor

Thor — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:14:07 +0000

Neo-conservative is a codeword for being anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. Iraq was a biiger threat in the past. Both of the late’s Saddam Hussein’s late sons “kidnapped” and “raped” Iraqis every night, to the silence of U.S. feminists whoa re doing nothing to help stop the honor killings int he name of PC.
And to Anonyomous, well if you work for the Department of Defense and see the budget cuts to 60% during clinton while he deployed troops overseas with no love, no UN approval (Kosovo), etc, wait till it is your turn.

By: Dan Lawton

Dan Lawton — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:15:55 +0000

So often we focus on the political cost of war and tend to ignore the human cost. Even if we successfully mend the schism in Iraq and provide a Democratic structure conducive to civility, the conflict will still end with thousands of American citizens dead and many more injured mentally and physically. Sometimes it’s important to take a step back and think about that.

Nice post

Dan Lawton

By: kate breen

kate breen — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:13:06 +0000

“represent us”? has anyone sent letters or emailed to their congressional representatives asking for improved benefits for troops such as health care? remember, congress representatives terms lasts two years and we have the power to vote them out or keep ‘em in. that’d be doing something…

By: kate breen

kate breen — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:08:48 +0000

it makes me think about companies that profit from the war other than the haliburtion. i’ve read somewhere (people’s history of the US by zinn, i think) that the Union soliders had defective guns supplied by Rockfeller (or JP Morgan?).

By: Anonyomous

Anonyomous — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:54:07 +0000

I’m heartless? That’s a good chuckle to be had there. I was rolling in mirth at you lot who seemed to be clueless, after all.

For, after all, the blood of the troops is in YOUR hands, those who voted Bush and his hell-bent agenda back into office in 2004. I am tired of all talk and no action from people who are *supposed* to represent us, and that goes for BOTH the hapless Donkeys and the clod-footed Elephants.
And we are no better…we flap our gums, or in this case, fingers clamoring about our poor troops. When they are themselves pawns in an horrible game of chess played by the orge hand that is owned by POTUS.

Oscar, I understand you did not want to invoke politics into this, but the fact is…the onus is on people who continue to stand by while our troops are being assaulted…not by machine guns, but the sleath and shady doings of those on high.