Please pause a moment before you chime in with Edwin Starr’s well-known retort, “absolutely nothing.” The fact is that war is quite good, if you are a war profiteer. Peace activist, and mother of a fallen soldier, Cindy Sheehan, has written a book about American myths, many of which revolve around war.
Cindy states that she had previously believed that profits were a consequence of war. After losing her son in Iraq, following much study and reflection, she came to realize that profits are the primary reason for war. Sheehan has come to the conclusion that there are two economic classes in the world: the robber class and the robbed class. For the robber class, war is fantastic, making them huge amounts of money.
Cindy Sheehan points out that belligerent American acts, like bombing innocent people (such as unnamed drones currently bombing Pakistan), or locking them up and torturing them, are by design. They are done intentionally to provoke and manufacture more enemies of the American War Empire.
Ask yourself to what class you belong. If you are not in the robber class, you are probably in with most of us, being systematically robbed, while being brainwashed by the war profiteer’s propaganda machine to believe that their lucrative wars are in your own or your nation’s best interests.
So let us ask again. War, what is it good for? Absolutely money.
Karl Caster, Bend
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2009.
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You’re absolutely correct, Karl. Cindy Sheehan has indeed profited nicely from the war.
Another brilliant anal-ysis from Jeggles! Imagine the balance sheet:
Losses Profits
One Son A book deal
Several years
of Life
A life under
Surveillance
They must be Conservative “Family Values” you’ve got there sonny.
R Shortall says:
Another brilliant anal-ysis from Jeggles! Imagine the balance sheet:
Losses Profits
One Son A book deal
Several years
of Life
A life under
Surveillance
They must be Conservative “Family Values” you’ve got there sonny.”
Well little one, her son volunteered for service not once, but twice. Why would you denigrate his service?
Next, she volunteered for the situation she is in, and accepted the publicity she received due to a PR firm hired for her. And, she has profited quite well from it. I’ll bet she even took the death benefits from the military which could have been around 400,000.
And Ill bet you think no Conservative has lost a child over there too.
Typical leftwing lack of values.
Krazy Ken! No one said a conservative didn’t lose a child…. please stick to the real-life, reality based actual arguments and ignore those naughty voices in your head.
Jiggles demonstrated faulty “family values” thusly: he said she “profited” from the war even though she lost her son and several years of her life.. .and she will spend the rest of her life under surveillance. What did she “gain”? A book deal. Strange values you Conservatives have? Strange calculus?
Oh no, Shortall is bringing out the big guns……..haiku. Macho!
The ironic truth is that if Casey Sheehan hadn’t died executing his mission, none of us would have ever heard of Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan would be just another raving lunatic anti-war 1 percenter had she not decided to stand on her heroic son’s coffin to present a message not even he supported. Her husband left her, her family denounces her. She ran unsuccessfully for representative in CA on the premise that, of all people, Pelosi was not leftist enough. Oh yeah, and failed at that too. In 2005 she promised to return to protest outside the Bush ranch every year. But since she was merely a media creation and they stopped caring, that never happened either.
This woman is a pathetic figure and zero credibility cashing in on her unexpected fame in far left circles. People who cite her “literary” works are equally questionable.
Jiggles!
The ironic truth is that if Casey Sheehan hadn’t died executing his mission, none of us would have ever heard of Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan would be just another raving lunatic anti-war ANTI-WAR SYNONYMOUS WITH LUNATIC…. BOY, YOU ARE A NEO-CON AREN’T YOU 1 percenter had she not decided to stand on her heroic son’s coffin to present a message not even he supported.HE’S DEAD Her husband left her, her family denounces her. SO, SHE’S PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVES… DID YOU? She ran unsuccessfully for representative in CA on the premise that, of all people, Pelosi was not leftist enough.SHE ISN’T Oh yeah, and failed at that too. In 2005 she promised to return to protest outside the Bush ranch every year. But since she was merely a media creation and they stopped caring, that never happened either. DOESN’T SOUND LIKE MUCH OF A PROFIT SITUATION THEN, DOES IT JIGGLES
This woman is a pathetic figure YOU’D KNOW and zero credibility NOT WITH ME cashing in on her unexpected fame in far left circles THE US HAS NO FAR LEFT CIRCLES. People who cite her “literary” works are equally questionable. JIGGLES, EVERYONE, THE LITERARY EXPERT
Periodic Paralysis says:
Krazy Ken! No one said a conservative didn’t lose a child…. please stick to the real-life, reality based actual arguments and ignore those naughty voices in your head.”
Obviously your “elite” education, probably paid for by the taxpayer, did not include reading comprehension, something you consistently demonstrate. And, since you once again base your “rebuttal” on a false assumption, you show you have no rebuttal based on reality.
The query I made was one requiring an answer, not your brown nosed response.
“Jiggles demonstrated faulty “family values” thusly: he said she “profited” from the war even though she lost her son and several years of her life.. .and she will spend the rest of her life under surveillance. What did she “gain”? A book deal. Strange values you Conservatives have? Strange calculus?”
Who is doing this “surveillance”? Pelosi, Obama?
Strange that you think those who supported her antics would now be seeking to keep her under control through some nefarious means. Or do you think Bush, or Conservatives, really give a shit about what she does?
The ironic truth is that if Casey Sheehan hadn’t died executing his mission, none of us would have ever heard of Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan would be just another raving lunatic anti-war ANTI-WAR SYNONYMOUS WITH LUNATIC…. BOY, YOU ARE A NEO-CON AREN’T YOU 1 percenter had she not decided to stand on her heroic son’s coffin to present a message not even he supported.HE’S DEAD Her husband left her, her family denounces her. SO, SHE’S PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVES… DID YOU? She ran unsuccessfully for representative in CA on the premise that, of all people, Pelosi was not leftist enough.SHE ISN’T Oh yeah, and failed at that too. In 2005 she promised to return to protest outside the Bush ranch every year. But since she was merely a media creation and they stopped caring, that never happened either. DOESN’T SOUND LIKE MUCH OF A PROFIT SITUATION THEN, DOES IT JIGGLES
This woman is a pathetic figure YOU’D KNOW and zero credibility NOT WITH ME cashing in on her unexpected fame in far left circles THE US HAS NO FAR LEFT CIRCLES. People who cite her “literary” works are equally questionable. JIGGLES, EVERYONE, THE LITERARY EXPERT