hprinze wrote:
I love my country, but I do not love some of the things the government has and is continuing to do.
In the early 1800s Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and maybe Nevada and Utah were part of Mexico, a foreign sovereign nation. People from the U.S. illegally migrated to Texas to raise cattle and farm on freeland. So many went there that the Mexican government became concerned and decided to send the i******s back to the U.S. When they refused to leave the Mexican army was sent to remove them. The immigrants bravely, but foolishly refused to leave and decided to fight the Mexican army. They all died, bravely, but to no avail. Then the U.S. government invaded and conquered Mexico. The Mexican army was no match for the U.S. army and was forced to ask for surrender terms. Those terms included giving the U.S. all the territory that is now the SouthWestern U,S. Including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The U.S. was the aggressor in invading a foreign country that posed no threat, and taking by force a huge portion of that country The history revisionists in government, news media, and the government schools have convinced Americans that the i*****l i*******ts from the U.S. were heroes and that the Mexicans were the aggressor.
Since that time every war and military action the U.S. has engaged in, with the exception of WW II was aggression or meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries. That includes the War Between The States, the Spanish American war, WW I, Korea, Viet Nam, Lebanon, Panama, Haiti, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Iraq Afghanistan, and Libya..I think it was right to go into Afghanistan in search of those who had attacked us on 9/11, but I think it should have been full force and then get out, not a 12 year old war with no goals.
Two of the worst cases are the Panama and Haiti adventures. For those who have forgotten, the elder Bush launched an illegal invasion of Panama and kidnaped the head of the Panamanian government.
The first Iraq episode may have been legitimate because Iraq had invaded and occupied Kuwait, an ally of the U.S. After the invaders were repelled, the war stopped and as long as Iraq stayed within its own borders, no further action other than r********n was called for.
Bill Clinton did not like the results of a p**********l e******n in Haiti so he demanded that the loser be made president. He even launched an invasion to force the Haitians to do his bidding. The forces were actually enroute to Haiti when Haiti capitulated and put the loser of the e******n in office as ordered by Clinton.
Neither Haiti or Panama posed any threat to us.
I have saved Grenada for last. My research tells me that there was a medical school in Grenada where a large number of Americans were students. Large numbers of Cubans, including military, were arriving on the island. The Grenada government contacted DC and stated that they feared for the safety of the students and asked the U.S. to aid them removing the students to safety and removing the Cuban military.
As I said in the beginning, I love my country, but I despise the filthy politicians and bureaucrats who have taken control. None of the past or present ones are anywhere near as bad as Obama. I have grave doubts that the USA will survive Obama and his owners.
If we survive Obama and survive the things he has d**gged us down with, I only hope that the government will stop meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries. That would be a giant step in the right direction.
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While I agree with some of your points, hprinze, you are vastly wrong about Texas - where did you learn History? In 1820, Stephen F. Austin took a bunch of mostly German settlers to Tejas with the Mexican government's approval. In the early 1830's, they, along with the local Hispanic population, wanted independance from a government that wasn't helping them, and in 1835, Santa Ana sent an army to whip them into line. He won at the Alamo, but lost (badly) and was captured at the battle of San Jacinto, near present day Houston. (Read up on Goliad, where he butchered the surrendering soldiers!) In 1845, Santa Ana was threatening to come back (although he had sworn not to), and Texas joined the union and became a state. The US Army got involved after Mexican forces came across the river to invade a US State - that was not illegal.
I could pick apart a number of your other points, but here's just one - Grrenada. You forgot to mention it was invaded by Argentina. It belonged to Britain, and we went there to help our ally wrest it back from Argentina; I hardly see how that was an illegal invasion on our part.
About VietNam... I was in the Army when Lyndon Johnson made the campaign promise "I will not send American boys to fight a war on foreign soil!" The 1963 Military Authorization bill greatly reduced the number of authorized overseas troops; this, to me, supports the story that JFK wanted to pull out of VietNam. When January '64 came around (with LBJ in charge), we thought some of us would get to go home (from Europe). But that didn't happen - they just kept sending more and more troops, and I didn't know why; they became "excess personnel," not in an authorized "slot." Some of us were rotated in and out of "slots" so we could get promotions. LBJ was sworn in for his own term January 21, 1965; a week later, all overseas personnel got the order that anyone not in a slot, with at least 8 months left on their enllistment, was going to VietNam, and would be extended as necessary to fill a full 13-month tour of duty there. This proved to me that from the time LBJ took over in November 1963, he intended a buildup of overseas troops he could send to VietNam WITHOUT the US Press Corps seeing what was happening. Many waited around for several months just waiting to get shipped to VietNam, knowing that their enlistment time was getting longer day by day - a dreary time for them.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was totally phony, so why attack VietNam? Money for his Military-Industrial complex campaign contributors, many of whom were his close buddies from his House of Representatives days. I don't know if LBJ had anything to do with the Assassination, but he sure had motive and opportunity. Yes, a war for MONEY, and 58,000 Americans died for it. And our country has not been the same since - it greatly damaged our moral fabric, and it has been mostly downhill since.