American Soldiers Waking Up About War

With the start of yet another war in the Middle East, this video is even more important than when it was made (February 2011). American Presidents, Democrat or Republican, are devoted to war. The only way these wars of opportunity and profit will end is when the soldiers say no and stop participating. Congress is not even involved anymore. “They merely have to sell the war.” Can you imagine going to jail for not wanting to kill people? It’s happening right now in our military. The only good reason for war is direct self-defense. Soldiers have to stop being willing to kill and be killed for no good reason. Last Saturday, March 19th, 113 people were arrested outside the White House, protesting the wars we are engaged in and the treatment of Bradley Manning. “The protesters were arrested af­ter ignor­ing or­ders to move away from the gates of the White House. The demonstrators cheered loudly as Daniel Ellsberg, the for­mer military an­a­lyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon’s secret history of the Vietnam War that was lat­er pub­lished in major newspapers, was arrested and led away by po­lice. The demonstration merged var­ied causes, including protesters de­manding a U.S. military with­draw­al [...]

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