Obama Sucks*

PERSONAL GROWTH:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/5391252/US-Army-prepared-to-stay-in-Iraq-for-a-decade.htm

http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=19310

So many opportunities for "personal growth." Like a job in a depression -- now, that's a great opportunity. Can't get work, hey, join the imperial centurians and go hunt down and kill kids out there on the fringes of empire in some place like Afghanistan where kids just like you can't find a job either and have the opportunity for "personal growth" offered to them by some mullah & madrassa that does the work of our Army Experience Center or your local festival featuring cool Humvees and SAWs. Seems the world is full of opportunities for personal growth these days. Kurt Vonnegut summed it up best: And so it goes. 

John Grant, Army Security Agency 1965-69, Vietnam 1966-67

No, We Can't:

http://ciaran-gallagher.blogspot.com/2009/04/atheo-news-obama-demands-right-to.html

Humboldt County, California voters passed measures F and J last November prohibiting military recruiters from initiating contact with minors. Now the Obama administration is demanding that the law be overturned. A court hearing is scheduled for June 9 in Oakland, California.

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OKINAWA

The US military and their tactics remain the same, only more deadly with high technology help. The Battle of Okinawa is a perfect example of parallel time with Iraq.

There was a Shock and Awe, as the Navy bombarded the island for three straight months. The locals call it "The Iron Storm". The invasion and occupation began and continues to this day. The rape of the Castle of the Ryudyu Kingdom began, and the riches and records were ransacked, a la, the Iraq Historical Museum.

The Air and Army bases continue to pollute the island, and the surrounding air and water. Jets roaring overhead, the run off of rainwater into the feeding and mating fields of the Dugong threatens the existence of the fifty remaining members. The people of Okinawa are daily put into a position of disrespect by the off base antics of soldiers, sailors and airmen. Many, many outrageous acts, including the rape of school girls, have happened in the near past. Helicopters have crashed on the university grounds. Each day they are threatened both physically and mentally.

The Vietnamese call Okinawa the "Island of Death" because of the bombers that took off from there to rain hell on the Vietnamese people. This is not a reflection of the Okinawan people, who are caring, loving and peaceful. This description may apply more accurately to the North American continent, the home of the policies that put the military bases in Okinawa and Iraq. Death, destruction and spiritual fear is what the US Government and their legislators call Democracy.