A Nation Rocked to Sleep

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A Nation Rocked to Sleep


Neocons drive the nation toward ruin, Iraqi guerrillas kill our soldiers, veterans are ignored, and Americans fall asleep.

By Stewart Nusbaumer


For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.

We fought a war so we understand the horror of war. We know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought a losing war so we know the military needs a clear, specific military goal, not a vague wishful goal. We know that lifeless bodies shipped home to the heartland will eventually speak louder than all those determined words roaring out of Washington. But this can take years and many thousands of dead bodies.

All knowledge is not equal, nor can all knowledge be easily learned. That which is learned from painful reflection after horrible experience is often the most important knowledge. “No pain, no gain” applies not only to biceps.

For those who experienced that ugly war, Vietnam was a hard experience for learning what is possible and what is not possible -- a massive sobering antidote, actually, to hubristic foreign adventures. Yet, for those who fervently supported the Vietnam War yet refused to fight in that war -- those now running our country -- what they learned on the safe sidelines far from the fighting was something quite different. They learned fantasy can survive bloody reality and lies are more politically effective than truth. They learned America can win any war, anywhere, anytime, as long as they are in charge. They learned nonsense. But they run this country, not us.

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[dbeach]

1. Her brother died in Iraq..bush lied..we cried

"Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?"


Bush lied.people died.he gets a free ride..while the media hide.. and the sheeple step aside
Hail Caesar! Hail bushfraud! or shoud it be heil bush!!

[tom_paine]

2. Rocked to sleep...with a real rock

The mighty power and awesome marketing subtlety of Goebbels v2.0

Everything Hitler did was "legal", too.

[indigobusiness]

3. The parallels are striking.

Very frightening.