Dying for a Lie

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 29 May 2006 09:50:45 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Laurence M. Vance at LewRockwell.com - today is Memorial Day, a day to honor soldiers who died "for our freedoms." Guess what. Lots of soldiers think they died for our freedoms, but most of them actually died for lies. They died to increase the wealth and power of our masters in DC. They would have done much better to use their weapons to eradicate that threat. [lew]

The focus this Memorial Day will be on those men and women who have died in the current Iraq war, although it is likely that only a small minority of Americans realize that 2,464 U.S. soldiers have died thus far. The 117,000 U.S. soldiers who died in that war to end all wars, World War I, are ancient history. Few can name even one of the 405,000 U.S. soldiers who died in that "good war," World War II, so that Eastern Europe could be turned over to the mass murderer Stalin. The 54,000 U.S. soldiers who died in what is called America's forgotten war, the Korean War, are certainly long forgotten. The 58,000 U.S. soldiers who died in Vietnam so their names could be inscribed on a wall are remembered by very few.

They died in vain; they died for a lie.

This does not mean that they were not brave, heroic, well-meaning, or patriotic. They may have fought with the best of intentions; they may have sacrificed themselves for others; they may have been sincere in their belief that they were fighting for a good cause; but they died for a lie.

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