Posted this on Gaybook but thought it would be a good read here.
I am sure this will disrupt the matrix with some of my Marine brothers and sisters, however, here goes and just stay with me for a moment.
Was around the fall of 2011, while stationed in Quantico at the Warfighting Lab, that I was selected to attend Warrant Officer Basic Course. 4 1/2 months of glorified land nav and grunt work, with zero instruction on how to become an officer of Marines. All the grunt stuff is great, but there's a reason we have Gunner's and SME's in other MOSs'. That's totally a different topic for a different day.
Upon my selection, I start picking the brains of others who have come before me and asked them advice and sought out some prereading material along with books we would have to read while in attendance. One of the books that I remember to this day is "War is a Racket," by General Smedley Butler.
If you know anything about Marine Corps lore, General Butler is one of only TWO Marines in our history to be the recipient of TWO Medals of Honor. Glory be to those that receive one, but two? That's something straight out of some heroic comic book that seems unimaginable.
Within his book he outlines 5 chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!
At the time, I had completed (3) tours to Iraq, dating from 2003, 2004 and 2009. I started to grasp things while working at the Warfighting Lab and Systems Command later on.
War is a racket. No doubt. The amount of BS we spend money on and initiatives that never see the light of day. We're succumbed to vendors as the next highest bidder. Ask yourself why is it that the Pentagon has failed audits, year after year, after year?
September 10, 2001 - SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld stated, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building. Because it's stored on dozens of different technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”
Now of course you will Google this and various "fact checkers" will say that this statement is true but not tied to anything nefarious involving 9-11 whatsoever. In fact PolitiFact states that META, "Posts were flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed."
Oh. You mean the same Meta, run by Zuckerberg who just released a letter to Chairman Jordan of the House Oversight Committee that they were coerced to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop and to censor COVID-19 material. That same META?
The reason I say all of this is because I am getting sick and tired of the non-stop lies about Trump calling Marines buried in Belleau Woods "suckers and losers.
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https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/06/28/trump-soldiers-suckers-losers-2/
At first glance, someone who has lost friends in combat would take this as an abhorrent take that should be condemned. I posted the Snopes article because as a left leaning site, it is something that some of my audience will take at face value. Supposedly, General John Kelly is the ONLY person alive to hear Trump make these comments. With the 21st Century in technology we have ZERO audio or video of this taking place.
Zach Fuentes a staffer that left the ADMIN stated, "Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff, he said, "I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?"
Bolton and Pompeo who has been on the record against Trump in many fashions as of late even issued a denial, days after the article came out, saying it was "simply false."
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020. He said, "I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I'm thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article. Just, I never saw it."
So where's the validation?
Do your research.
Where has Kelly come and gone to?
Where has the beloved General Mattis come and gone to? General Dynamics?
H.R. McMaster?
One thing you DO NOT DO, IS DISRUPT the Military Industrial Complex because...
War is a Racket.