Columnist – John Sammon
The U.S. Marines seen urinating on the corpses of Taliban enemies, and those posing with the body of a 10-year-old Afghan boy proudly as though they’re readying to mount him on the hood of their jeep like you would a deer after a hunting expedition, will eventually be expected to rejoin American society as peaceful, productive citizens.

Yeah right!

We invade small impoverished countries, only small countries, and where a majority of the American people can ignore it and go about their everyday lives.

We let these wars drag on for years and not once in all that time has the government told the American people what exactly the goal is, what we’re trying to do. We train thousands, some of them simpletons, some malcontented dysfunctional nincompoops, to kill, then send them overseas among impoverished people, many of whom don’t even have shoes on their feet, people we consider backward and subhuman.

These people are poor, bearded, and by our standards, dirty. They don’t have huge tiled showers to be cleaner. They’re easy to hate, and so it makes it easier to kill them. The Nazi guards at Auschwitz had the same experience. As their victims became more starved and filthy, they looked less like human beings and became easier to murder.

You’re an American soldier in Afghanistan. You’re a not-very-bright misfit who in civilian life had few options and little money, unlike a politician who spends all his time accumulating money by preying on faltering companies. You’re not that clever. But you are filled with vainglorious macho fantasies, fears, neurosis, and hate, both for yourself and your fellow man (even some women soldiers are like this too).

You’re placed as a god, with the power of life and death, over a bunch of stinking, bedraggled, bearded, turbaned, foreign-looking what-are-to-you sub-humans. You go wild. This is heaven. The danger. The power. The possibility of instant death is an adrenaline rush, the ultimate narcotic high. For the first time in your miserable, nondescript life, as nothing more than a local yokel hanging out around the Seven Eleven Store, you feel real power in the high-powered high-tech rifle America put in your hands.

But this is war. You need to kill somebody. You don’t want the war to end and go home without having killed somebody. You don’t want the war to end. You’ve got to kill somebody. You do. You kill somebody and maybe it wasn’t justified. Nevertheless, you’re proud because you actually did it. You’re a killer. You actually have someone else’s blood on your hands.

You feel superior.

Now your hitch is up and you’re supposed to return home and resume an average life struggling for money and become a veteran like millions of others, the numbers swelled because of the endless deployments from two wars that dragged on forever without attempts to end them.

You’re expected now to become a peaceful, law abiding citizen who respects the rights of other people.

How can you do that when you’ve been a false god? When you’ve had the power of life and death over other lesser people (Afghans)? You had that rush of danger and hate and triumph. Now your biggest challenge is not to survive and kill, but to fix the clothes washer that’s on the fritz.

You can’t stand it. You drink, you do drugs. You get a gun and kill your wife, or a pain-in-the-ass co-worker who mouthed off to you.

This is just the beginning.

If the American people think there isn’t going to be any fallout from the kind of behavior they saw in the Marines pissing film, they are mistaken. You can expect a variety of atrocities here at home from the myriads of malcontents we sent over there. Below is a partial list of domestic tragedies to expect from veterans who were dysfunctional before they went to war and who can’t adjust to peaceful life.

I mean fallout beyond the economic strain to the Veterans Administration (VA) from millions of new veterans requiring services and help. And remember, the war in Iraq was launched over false weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist.

A guy shoots his wife and seven party-goers at a function. Then he shoots himself.

A former vet makes a bomb and blows up the convenience store where he was unhappily employed killing 17 people.

A guy goes on a rampage at a school and then kills himself (the usual story). He had been awarded a Bronze Star.

A former vet doesn’t like a local politician and assassinates him and 12 others at a rally.

A vet drives a car under the influence of drugs into a crowd waiting to enter a theater, killing 17.

The message you get from the film clip of Marines pissing on corpses is that a portion of America has lost its soul.

There’s an old saying about war that says, “Even the victors are undone.” In other words, the winners lose too. This has always been the case. The ancient Greeks returning from burning Troy, (except for Ulysses), all eventually died or went mad.

Nothing has changed.

Sarah “Death” Palin could only muster “WTF” ['What The Fuck'] to rebut Obama’s SOTU address to Congress on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in responding to Obama’s reference to “our Sputnik moment” — Right-wing media relentlessly attacked the president by taking the metaphor literally while attacking Obama’s NASA policy. [ READ MORE ]

…..and Osama Bin O’Reilly of the O’Garbage Factor, defended himself and Fox — with edited videos of comedian Jon Stewart, which in their original form — clearly prove Fox’s penchant to label progressives as Nazis. O’Reilly, the self-made “culture warrior” at the Fox, tried super-hard to absolve the lying, NAZI CHANTING propagandists at his network — using one random commenter on the Huffington Post who said something cruel about Nancy Reagan.

The NAZI paranoia at Fox and for that matter, right-wing Republican radio — is so toxic — it prompted four hundred rabbis to publish a letter on Thursday calling on Fox News to sanction host Glenn Beck for repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on World War Two survivor, philanthropist — George Soros.

O’Reilly Defends His “Dead On” Nazi Comparison

Here is Jon Stewart’s video …..”24 Hour Nazi Party People“

Palin: Obama Had “A Lot Of WTF Moments” In State Of The Union

Palin Calls Obama’s Sputnik Analogy A “WTF Moment“

Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Address By Taking “Sputnik” Metaphor Literally

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Other Fox Morons
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Hannity Claims Obama Gave “Shout Outs To His Favorite Communist Regimes” In State Of The Union

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•   An Attack Dog Named Doocy
•   Beck: Progressives Are “Enemies Of God”

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Notes on HITLER’S FINAL SOLUTION: The Final Solution was Nazi Germany’s plan and execution of its systematic genocide against European Jewry during World War II, resulting in the final, most deadly phase of the Holocaust. Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it: “the final solution of the Jewish question”. [ READ MORE ] [ VISIT THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST MUSEUM ]

If there has ever been any American president who had a Final Solution for anybody — It’s Bush and his cohort Dick Cheney!!

MEDICARE: Republicans Have NO CLUE What They Are Opposing!

Palin TEA-BAGGING

   Columnist – John Sammon
Before the election last November, a Frenchman (immigrant) who was canvassing for Barack Obama saw me in my yard working, and came over to ask me to vote for Obama. We got to talking about France, and I asked him if France had conservatives?

“Oh yes,” he said with a serious expression. “They are called Fascists.”

His candor was refreshing, to say the least. But there are indeed some similarities between the right wing of the GOP, and the most reprehensible regime ever inflicted on mankind, Hitler and his Nazi rat henchmen.

1.   The general feeling, whether spoken out right, or kept not-so-subtly-hidden, of being better than others. Nazis, like Republicans, and Republicans, like Nazis, think they’re better. They’re white. They don’t like, not necessarily in this order of dislike, niggers, spics, gooks, zips (Koreans), dinks (Chinese), wops, Jew kikes, Japs, wet-back greasers, camel-jockeys and sand niggers (A-rabs), Frogs, foreigners, immigrants, faggots and butch lesbians, and a host of others. Republicans often talk about (white) Americans as though they’re God’s chosen people, the only people who matter (in the war in Iraq, no mention has ever been made of the number of Iraqis killed because they don’t matter). The Nazis of course called themselves the Master Race.

2.   Religious Xenophobia. God is a Republican. The Republicans tie religious belief to their supposed superiority, and to politics and policy-setting. They know God. You don’t. God favors them, not you, if you disagree with them. The German Nazis had belt buckles that read, “Gott Mitt Uns” (God is with us).

3.   Patriotism as propaganda. Republicans consistently and improperly display the flag, often from car antennas, to demonstrate their patriotic resolve, when the flag was meant to be displayed properly, only in places where decorum would allow dignity. The flag was not meant to be a feckless political prop to back a right wing world viewpoint. For their part, the German Nazis had rallies with thousands of flags.

4.   Love of war. The Republicans used to pride themselves as the party that didn’t start wars, the Democrats did. No more. Today, they never saw a war they didn’t like (they won’t admit it), and view war not as a purely defensive measure as the Founding Fathers intended, but as a useful tool, an instrument of shaping foreign policy. The German Nazis use of war is well known to the world.

5.   Love of radio propaganda. Political talk radio is a largely right-wing creation, to counter what conservatives endlessly contend is the liberally biased mainstream media, and has mushroomed across the country, fed by angry white boys who like to listen to it. It is hosted by a host of American Joseph Goebbels (German minister of propaganda) imitators, who dispense false accusations, right-wing claptrap and mocking, thinly-disguised hate for those who disagree with them. Their most recognizable traits are smugness and the school-yard bully mean spirit.

6.   The cult of the leader (fuehrer). Democrats may praise the tough pluck of little Harry Truman, or the dignified wisdom of FDR, but mythologizing conservatives as some kind of gods brought down from on-high is a right-wing phenomenon that has recently grown in scope. Current deification efforts include among others, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and the pre-posthumous Rush Limbaugh. The Germans of course had Hitler.

7.   Use of diversions. The Germans used the Reichstag fire of 1933 to suspend civil liberties under emergency decree. George W. Bush used 9-11 to invade Iraq under the guise of false weapons of mass destruction, and to re-make the Middle East. He did illegal wire taps of American citizens to make Americans supposedly safer. Both German and American citizens largely accepted these measures with docility and without debate or protest.

8.   Use of scapegoats. The Germans called people they didn’t like “sub-humans.” The right-wing Republicans call them “bad Americans.”

9.   Contempt for Democracy. Hitler said Democracy was corrupt, soft. Bush said being a dictator would be easier than being president.

10.   The blame game, or denial of bad news. Conservatives, in power for eight years, blame Obama for the country’s impending economic collapse. Hitler said his generals let him down.

Copyright 2009 Sammonsays.

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Recommended Reading: 41 Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today
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It tears into their guts that a ‘BLACK MAN’ occupies the White House!

Coulter suggests Soros, “the head of” the Democratic Party, “collaborated with the Nazis”

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In CNBC host Cramer’s “U.S.S.A.”: “Comrade” Obama is a “Bolshevik” who is “taking cues from Lenin”

This IDIOT is always wrong!
In the past month, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer has repeatedly characterized President Obama and congressional Democrats as Russian communists intent on “rampant wealth destruction.” Specifically, Cramer has referred to Obama as a “Bolshevik” and said he is “taking cues from Lenin.” Cramer has also used terms such as “Marx,” “comrades,” “Soviet,” “Winter Palace,” and “Politburo” in reference to Democrats and questioned whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the “general secretary of the Communist Party.”

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Lou Dobbs – The ‘King of Xenophobia’ Lies About ‘Obama Economic HoneyMoon’

On the March 4 edition of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs claimed that “President Obama’s honeymoon with Americans on the economy appears to be at an end; the president failing to win broad support for his economic policies, despite his personal popularity.” Dobbs continued: “The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showing only 54 percent of Americans say the president has the right goals and policies for this country.” However, contrary to Dobbs’ assertion that the February WSJ/NBC News poll shows that Obama’s “honeymoon with Americans on the economy appears to be at an end,” the survey results for the same question from the January and December polls are nearly identical.

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