http://www.liberty-news.com/showNewsletter.php?id=200409181
Here's the lesson that Americans should learn
as a result of the controversy over George Bush's service in the
National Guard. When governments wage futile, unnecessary wars -- such
as Vietnam and Iraq -- young Americans will try to avoid them.
The scandal isn't that so many Americans tried to avoid going to
Vietnam; it's that their government tried to send them there in the
first place. The fact that Bush is sending troops to Iraq proves he
hasn't learned that lesson.
While Democrats and Republicans spar over Bush's service in the
Guard,
Bush's service as president is a far more important issue.
We may never know whether Bush entered the National Guard to
avoid
service in Vietnam. But we do know that thousands of men his age did
so, or sought college deferments, or even fled to Canada, to avoid
getting killed or maimed. And who can blame them? More than 58,000
Americans who fought in this mindless military misadventure never came
back.
The tragedy isn't that Bush, the Guardsman, may have avoided
Vietnam.
The tragedy is that Bush, the president, has sent more than 1,000
Americans to their deaths in Iraq.
There are several similarities between Vietnam and Iraq: Neither
was a
defensive war; both were justified based on false claims; and both
became increasingly unpopular with the American people as the truth
became known.
Contrast Vietnam and Iraq with World
War II. After the attack on Pearl
Harbor, American teenagers weren't lying to get out of the war;
they
were lying about their ages to get in.
In Vietnam, politicians instituted the draft because too few
Americans
were volunteering to senselessly sacrifice their lives. In Iraq, Bush
has already instituted a 'backdoor draft' by extending deployments,
and
there's little doubt that a formal draft would be just as widely evaded
as it was in Vietnam.
The point is that the American people know which wars are
essential to
national security and which are not, regardless of what the president
says.
Fortunately, there's a way for Bush to salvage something positive
from
the controversy, while ensuring that no American is ever again accused
of 'hiding out' in the Guard. Quit waging wars that have nothing
whatsoever to do with national security, and start by pulling our
troops out of Iraq.
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Source: LP-Announce
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the evil N.W.O. warmongers:-
http://jahtruth.net/plan.htm
