U.S. Storm Troopers - Occupation Of Iraq - 101

3 Minute Video

Proud moments in US. military history caught on tape. How are these action different than those of Nazi raids in occupied France?

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country: Bertrand Russell, attributed

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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in: George McGovern

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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery: Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

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"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill." : R. Aldington

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"Patriotism is the belief your country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." : George Bernard Shaw
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"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography." : George Santayana

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I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr

"I gravitate toward people who have a vision, people who are
uncompromising, people have moral authority without being moralistic." -- Patti
Smith


"Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. ... They
never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call
human existence." -- Father Anthony de Mello


"Time is the truth-teller. They love you, they hate you. They buy you,
they trash you. But over years and years, because I held on to myself,
I became a commodity that other companies would put their money on." --
Betsey Johnson


"Self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that
work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where
one keeps assignations with oneself..." -- Joan Didion

People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service: Albert Einstein
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I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, And they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead: Edmund Vance Cooke

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future." --
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into." --
Mahatma Gandhi