Let me start
this one off by saying, I disagree with President Obama 100% about the use of
military force in Syria. I’m not going to support him just because I voted for
him. He is on my team but he is wrong on this one. When I think he is wrong I
have no problem saying so. If I didn’t I would be doing what I say Republicans
did when President Bush was in office.
I have to
wonder what is it about the White House that make Presidents want to kill
people. When President Obama was a Senator he was against President Bush using
military force in the Middle East. Now he is doing the EXACT SAME THING. He
would argue that there is a difference but there is none. It was WRONG when
Bush did it and it is WRONG for Obama to do it.
What would
make the man that won the Nobel Peace Prize want to go to war? Why would he do
the same thing that President Bush did? Since this blog is all about what I
think, I will tell you. I believe the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and
those that supply them has some SERIOUS INFLUENCE over the White House. That is
the only thing that makes sense to me.
Think about
what has happened. This war has been going on for a while with over 100,000
people killed with conventional weapons and there was no call for military
intervention by President Obama. Not until Chemical Weapons were used, where
just over 400 were killed, that Military intervention was called for. For me
personally that doesn’t make sense. What does make sense is that MIC doesn’t
approve of Chemical Weapons use because there is no profit in it for them.
Anyone can mix up chemicals. Okay, not anyone, but anyone with knowledge of
chemistry and the right ingredients. MIC wants them to use conventional weapons
because they profit off of every round that is fired, bullets, rockets,
grenades all conventional weapons they profit off them. When Assad started
killing and cutting into their profits they had to bring in their enforcer, The
United States of America.
Our Government
is already training the rebels and now they are asking to strike. The President
says that the world is on his side. The thing is the U.N. is not on his side.
The rest of world, except France, is not offering money or troops. The
President says we as a civilized society decided long ago that Chemical Weapons
could not be used and we cannot allow it to go unchecked. He said if we do nothing
then Assad or someone else will do it again. His argument doesn’t hold water
because the rules the President is talking about have been broken many, many
times by us and our friends. We used Chemical Weapons in Vietnam and aided Saddam
using them against Iran. Torture and indefinite detention is also against
international law but that didn’t stop us. Maybe those rules only apply to other
countries.
President
Obama says we are not going to war but will be using targeted strikes. I would
bet the people on the other end of those targeted strikes say it feels like
war. This feels the same as the lead up to Bush’s wars. A whole lot of saying, we
have proof and very little proof being shown.
Poll after
poll says that the American people as a whole want nothing to do with another
war. The thing is it doesn’t matter what the American people want. The only
thing that matters is what MIC wants and I believe they are putting lots and
lots of pressure on the White House. The only way to combat them is to let our
voices be heard and put our own pressure on the White House. I want to support
the President but I need proof that Assad was behind this. I’m not going to
just take his word. Also if he wants to take us into another war or whatever
Washington wants to call this one, how are they going to pay for it? The credit
card is about maxed out.
