On this Memorial Day Weekend I Ask: Did Our Troops Die For Corporatists?

[clb09]

Liberals who like to be called "Progressives" often state that soldiers, airmen, sailors and the like die in American wars for corporations or other oligarchs.

Do you think that they may have a point or do you think most of the men and women buried at Arlington died to defend liberty, freedom and the Constitution?

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[RSLudlum]

I don't know. If the Revolutionary War and the Southern states' casualties in the 2nd War for Independence are compared with all other wars, how do the numbers stack up?

[andrewh817]

US soldiers died for Wealthy Corporatists....... the insurgents died for their freedom.

[RSLudlum]

Do you think that they may have a point or do you think most of the men and women buried at Arlington died to defend liberty, freedom and the Constitution?


The soldiers may have died thinking so but the politicians that sent them to war knew better.

[Thesemindz]

I think the soldiers went to war because they believed a lie. That they were fighting to defend the individual rights of individual americans. And because that was their motivation, I will honor them.

But it was a lie. They were fighting and dying because states need wars to direct the frustrations of the enslaved. They use wars to increase social control, theft, spending, and power. Those men, women, and children, american and iraqi, who have died in this war died so that our masters can increase the degree to which we are enslaved. That is the only reason.

If they really wanted to risk their lives for our freedom, they should have stopped paying their taxes.


-Rob

[Aratus]

the above poll is not allowing us several choises at the same time
i am going to assume our ww1 and ww2 casualties are a statement
of our principles as a nation, and that the varied reasons for our
civil war cannot succinctly be summed up totally one way or the other

[Aratus]

most of our honored dead are common, everyday americans...
number four seems to be WHY both sides thought we were fighting
our civil war, and why we as a nation entered ww1 and ww2...