JFK really opened my eyes wide open (see previous post), when before they were only squinting at best. If even half of the shit in that movie is true then the implications against our government are gigantic. The War Department, CIA, FBI, and Secret Service all worked together to kill Kennedy, and they probably did the same to RFK, Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others too. Why? Because peace is the enemy of the American government.

The biggest business in America is its war machine. Our product is death. We take it door to door and push it on people who don’t think they need it, but we convince them they do. The American public pays for all of this, and when it comes to a major war we’re the ones who fight it too. I’ve had taxes taken out of my wages. I’ve also sent in my draft card. To think that this is an issue that has nothing to do with me is just foolish. Next year I could be lying on my back in a field in North Korea dying. I don’t want that.

JFK was killed because he wanted out of Vietnam. It was a legacy that he had inherited from Eisenhower, who is turn inherited it from Truman. I’m not trying to paint JFK as a saint, because he did increase the number of advisors in Vietnam while he was president, but as more and more reports from MacNamera (I think that’s how you spell his name. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I just don’t feel like looking it up) came in to him, JFK started having second thoughts and wanted to pull out. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco JFK started pulling back on all military expenditures, moving away from war. You can see this in the treaty he signed with the USSR to stop nuclear testing, and in the Cuban Missile Crisis where this country came the closest its ever come to nuclear war, our only savior being Kennedy’s quick thinking and peaceful attitudes. The War Department didn’t like this (they get particularly nasty whenever funding is taken away) and so Kennedy needed to be eliminated in a conspiracy coup that put LBJ in place as our next president.

Look at what happened after that. Not long after assuming office Johnson reversed all of JFK’s policies concerning Vietnam. Not long after that was the Gulf of Tonkin incident which was the precedent for major military action in Vietnam. After the Tonkin incident Johnson had no problem passing a bill in which Congress gave him all of the means necessary to take on his “police action.” We know now that the Tonkin incident was a fake. No Vietnamese patrol boat ever fired at a United States Navy vessel. The whole thing was a lie, not unlike the cover up of Kennedy’s assassination. But it was all that was needed to give LBJ more than enough power to wage war in Vietnam. In 1964 American troops were being sent to Vietnam. In November 1965, two full years after Kennedy’s assassination, was the battle of the Ia Drang valley, which was the first full-scale battle between the NVA regulars and the United States. After that battle America was fully committed to the war in Vietnam, in a place most American’s couldn’t locate on a map, against people that were no threat to the American way of life.

Want to know more about Vietnam? Ho Chi Mihn after the First World War went to the League of Nations summit and asked America to recognize an independent Vietnam. Wilson was sympathetic, but Vietnam was a French colony, and because of that factor and the fact that Vietnam was such a small and inconsequential country, Mihn’s pleas were ignored. Mihn was never a true Communist and only turned to Communism in order to get some backing, since the whole of the Western world was ignoring him. Mihn was a Nationalist through and through. During World War II Vietnam was taken over by the Japanese, and the Vietnamese people were treated even worse than the French was before treated them. After the War most Western nations were given their freedom, but since the economy of France was so weak and fragile America let France keep Vietnam as a colony in the hopes that the added income would help prevent the spread of Communism in western Europe. The Vietnamese staged a brutal war against the French, which the French ultimately lost. And yet the United States kept sending money and advisors to the South Vietnamese (who were simply using the USA for it’s own means) after the French had given up on Vietnam. Why? The spread of Communism. America was sore over the turn of China, and then the loss in Korea. Indo-China had been lost. The military needed funding, and the spread of Communism gave them all the necessity they needed in order to wage more wars.

Why did America lose in Vietnam? Probably for the same reason they went to Vietnam: incompetent leadership. I’ve read some many different accounts of kick ass platoons of soldiers that can do no wrong, only to be abused and misused by those above them. Generals like Westmoreland lost the war, not the grunts. The American military is the most highly trained, best equipped, and most advanced technologically military in the world. Used correctly they can do just about anything. And yet if a business were run in the same fashion as the war in Vietnam, that business would not last the year before going out of business. The men in command were so out of touch with the realities of the war that the whole thing was just ridiculous. When a GI came back from the war there were no ticker tape parades. No one told them “Thanks for doing a good job over there.” Instead they were called baby killers and spit on. Imagine you are a GI trained to kill, trained to follow the orders of those superior, and sent into an entirely hostile country where you can’t tell friend from foe. All of your friends are dying, and it’s your CO’s fault. What would you do?

It amazes me the amount of money that our government spends on the military. In a recession or a boom, it doesn’t matter, tax money is always going into the military. They control the government, even though the people are the ones that pay for it, and are the ones who fight in the wars. Where is this madness going to stop?

And try comparing Kennedy’s assassination to our present day events. This isn’t a problem that went away in the 70’s or 80’s. Consider the year 2000. Bush vs. Gore. Equal candidates and yet Bush wins even though the votes were with Gore. Who do you think set that up? Fast forward to Bush as president. He makes promises that he doesn’t keep, promises that make us all happy with him, and yet he doesn’t have to keep them. Why? September 11th comes. Anything Bush says or does after this is gold. 9/11 is the perfect distraction. Was it an accident? I don’t think so. Consider the following: recent evidence shows that the CIA and FBI knew about a possible attack using commercial jets. Washington paints this as agencies not sharing information and dropping the ball. I think they either let 9/11 happen, or worse, sponsored the attack. Look at the date. Could there be a more symbolic date than 9/11? It screams the same sentiment as “Remember Pearl Harbor.” Compare 9/11 to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. After 9/11 Bush got all of the support he needed to fight the war on “Terror.”

Terror. Does that seem odd to anyone other than me? How the hell do you fight a war on Terror? In the early 90’s the Cold War was over. There was no more evil “Communism.” Washington no longer had a scape goat for future wars. We fought a war on Hunger but that didn’t go over really well. Fat American’s aren’t really afraid of Hunger while they are eating their Big Macs. Washington needed something ambiguous that they could rally around like Communism for all of their fake wars. Enter Terrorism. You can defeat Communism. Can you ever defeat Terror? I doubt it.

Since 9/11 we have fought wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the near future there is Libera and North Korea for us to kick around. Figureheads of Terror, Bin Laudin and Saddam, have not been caught. Or have they and we haven’t been told about it? Or are we just not looking? They make great symbols to scare us to sleep at night. As long as the boogiemen are on the loose we won’t feel bad about our continued presence in those countries. This is history repeating itself. The War Department owns America. And it will destroy America. The government seems only to be able to see in the present. What will help me get my opinion polls up? What will help me win the next election? No one looks to see what today’s actions will do to the America 50 years from now. No one looks to the past to compare to today. No one sees the trends. If things don’t change soon the world is going to be really fucked up by the time we are old and gray. I predict that big things are going to happen before we die (that is if we don’t die in wars before old age gets us). Things have got to change or else we’re all fucked.