Search:

battlebots robot combat build robot fighting robots robot weapons robot competition robot wars robot rumble



Michael Parenti -- Support our Troops?

Robot Building and Competition Videos
Robot Building and Competition Videos Robot Building and Competition Videos
Robot Building and Competition Videos

The exercise of U.S. power is intended to preserve not only theinternational capitalist system but U.S. hegemony of that system.Why are we locked into such empty political rhetoric? In a recent post "Support Our Troops?" I tried to look at the mentality of supporting our troops and why I believe support is horrendously misplaced in this nation. The post was later published as a letter to the editor in the Modesto Bee. Another letter writer, a few days later, hoped that I was not the first person these soldiers see when they come home. I beg to differ. But first we must look at the mentality and why it is so pervasive.The "support" of our troops has been wielded over us like a sword of Damocles by the current Administration. It has been used to garner support for not our troops but rather the war. I will not and cannot support any war. How then can one who completely disagrees with war "support our troops"? It is not really possible. For any change to happen we have to look past this truly empty political rhetoric and find the heart of the issue. I "support" our troops in that I want them all brought home, alive and unharmed, now! Why is that such a difficult concept for "patriotic" Americans to understand? Forget the political rhetoric and bring our troops home now.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: February 5, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Author: Suryu

Length: 04:42
Rating: 4.17
Views: 43768

Tags: 9/11  Empire  exercise  intended  Iraq  is  not  of  only  power  preserve  Terrorism  the  to  U.S.  Vietnam  War  

Video Url:


Embed Code:

Video Comments

moediggity28 (September 4, 2008 at 6:55 am)
pitou be proud 2 nut speel right! supert teh truups!
iamnoturbuddyguy (September 3, 2008 at 8:02 pm)
If you believe in that shit, enlist and tell me that when you get 'over seas'.GROW UP.
gogogadgetart (September 3, 2008 at 6:53 pm)
I love Parenti!! (and he's a really nice in person too :)) thanks for posting this video.
jonnyfromhull (September 1, 2008 at 1:31 am)
Yeah, i believe parenti said something like: you dont notice you're tied to a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
blazak (August 26, 2008 at 7:40 pm)
Obama has received nearly six times more in donations from soldiers deployed overseas than McCain has.
dave777blaster (August 20, 2008 at 1:42 am)
Not one American soldier died for the freedom of Americaindeed America lost much of it's freedom since the war began.Americans use baboonish ideas to explain why the troops are their,this is because they have no clue why they are their. They echo the chorus from the money changers.Johnson took America off the gold standardwith a 10 year warBush will make the Middle class third world citizens.the concentration camps are readythe rex 84 plan is readythe economy is set to go Bankrupt
buddyfreakinholly (August 18, 2008 at 1:37 am)
The war was based on lies and the troops are being used as expendable pawns.
Jacamballs (August 15, 2008 at 3:54 am)
I don't support the war, i support our troops. I just get pissed off everytime people disrespect our troops especially over seas. Do they realise people are dying for their freedom, people who are just like them or better they should be asking theirselves am i worth saving?
Freethought42 (August 11, 2008 at 1:12 pm)
I don't see how any of these wars preserve Capitalism.Corporatism maybe, not Capitalism.
pito19888 (July 29, 2008 at 1:33 am)
gob bless america and god bless all u i proud to be american and allway and i be proud to figth for me country usa!


Robot Building and Competition Videos © 2008 Logan Bot All Rights Reserved.