COWARDS ALL- OUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS-THEY LOVE THERE WARS BUT LEAVE FIGHTING TO

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Cowards All - Our

American Presidents

They Love Their Wars But

Leave The Fighting To Others

 

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By Douglas Herman

3-18-6

 

Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Bush (again),

Roosevelt, Truman. What do all these guys have in common? Gee, all of

them loved to start aggressive wars against little countries they

could conveniently bully but without getting their own hands bloody.

Ever.

 

Funny how those guys-whether Democrat or Republican--liked to talk a

good game, about American virtues but, once in power, browbeat an

equally cowardly Congress into giving them war power against some

tiny Third World country that had neither attacked American nor

threatened us.

 

Take Truman for example. He was once a Captain in the US Army. But

once in power, in 1945, he permitted two nuke strikes against

Japanese civilian cities. And the Japs were ready to surrender before

he nuked them!

 

FDR, his predecessor, never served in the military but was

rewarded, " appointed, " Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow

Wilson. Twenty years later (such was his loyalty to US sailors), that

FDR allowed the US Navy to get bombed at Pearl Harbor!

 

One of the first actions undertaken by LBJ, suddenly shot into

office, was to rescind little-known National Security Action Memo

263, which John F. Kennedy signed (an action that sealed his death).

That memo called for withdrawing 1,000 troops from Vietnam by the end

of 1963. Curiously, NSAM 273, overturning Kennedy's earlier memo, was

already secretly written one day before JFK was killed!

 

Like most other, recent, US presidents, LBJ never served anywhere

close to combat but didn't mind sending half a million American men

to fight and die in a foreign war against a tiny country that never

attacked us.

 

Are we beginning to see a pattern here? Almost all American

presidents (With the exception of Washington, Eisenhower, Kennedy)

dodged actual fighting but rushed soldiers into some bloody foreign

war where they fought and died for God-only-knows what concocted

lies.

 

Nixon was a prime example. Here was a guy raised as a Quaker who sat

out the War in the Pacific playing poker. Rising quickly to power

after the war, Nixon became president in 1968. Promising gullible

American voters he would end the war in Vietnam, he instead

escalated!

 

Jimmy Carter, now considered a near saint, hardly uttered a peep of

protest about the massacres occurring in Central America during his

presidency in the late Seventies. The brutal killers, specializing in

torture, rape and dismemberment, were mostly trained in America by US

Special Forces. These foreign soldiers then massacred their

impoverished fellow citizens for the sake of some rich thug propped

up by US taxpayers. (Uncle Sam: The crucifixion of El Salvador)

Predictably, Carter never spoke out in protest or threatened economic

sanctions, at least never very forcefully. Today Saint Jimmy spends

his time building houses for poor folks under Habitat for Humanity;

perhaps to absolve massive guilt for aiding and abetting war crimes

against millions of other poor folks.

 

Ronald Reagan--- " The Great Communicater " -- loved to regal people with

his war stories. Only problem was they all occurred in Hollywood,

where he served for the duration of World War II. Like his immediate

predecessor, Reagan loved to prop up the right-wing dictators in

banana republics, when he and Carter weren't castigating the Soviets

for doing the same!

 

Another avowed Christian (like Carter) who avoided US military

service, Reagan had no qualms about supporting foreign death squads,

even ones that murdered nuns and archbishops. Revered to this day, by

hundreds of historians, for somehow " destroying communism, " (maybe he

talked it to death) Reagan shared the same traits as many presidents

who both preceded and followed him.

 

A genial scoundrel and war criminal, Bill Clinton darted across the

pond to England to avoid military service during the Vietnam War.

Some speculate William Jefferson " Bubba " Clinton is related to the

unscrupulous royals there. His flight to Oxford would then make

perfect sense. Like his fellow cowards, Clinton loved to sanction

small countries and send US bombers over others, but found no reason

to serve in the war zone himself.

 

Likewise the Bush " bookend " presidents, father and son. They

hoodwinked Americans into voting for them with lofty speeches about

long-lost American ideals (that mostly never existed) but found ample

reasons to waste American men, money and materials in foreign wars.

Especially wars against tiny countries they could easily defeat.

Bullies themselves, the Bushes commanded the American military in the

same style.

 

And so we come to the conclusion: American presidents, with few

exceptions, are bullies and cowards. Not only did most of them shirk

any military service but they proved quick to dispatch the US

military on bully missions around the globe. Cowards all, they

deserve little admiration and entire encyclopedias of condemnation.

 

USAF veteran and amateur historian, Douglas Herman wrote the recent

novel, The Guns of Dallas, far closer to the truth about the JFK

assassination than the fairy tale Warren Report