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=Are we Spreading Democracy? Or are we Just Addicted to War ? =



Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks. -Bob Dylan-



  All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.  -Alexis de Tocqueville-

The leaders of the newly independent colonies believed that they were preordained to rule all of North America. This was so obvious to them that they called it the "Manifest Destiny". Unfortunately after they won the right to determine their own destiny, they though they should determine everyone else's too! This was just the start of a long history showing why the United States can't kick militarism.

This has been the resolution many of America's leaders draw upon; dating all the way back to colonial times right up to the present.

**I am singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, Held where he cannot move:

Under the sun Are sixteen million men, Chosen for shining teeth, Sharp eyes, hard legs, And a running of young warm blood in their wrists. And a red juice runs on the green grass; And a red juice soaks the dark soil. And the sixteen million are killing. . . and killing and killing. 

I never forget them day or night: They beat on my head for memory of them; They pound on my heart and I cry back to them, To their homes and women, dreams and games.

I wake in the night and smell the trenches, And hear the low stir of sleepers in lines Sixteen million sleepers and pickets in the dark: Some of them long sleepers for always,

Some of them tumbling to sleep to-morrow for always, Fixed in the drag of the world's heartbreak, Eating and drinking, toiling. . . on a long job of killing. Sixteen million men. **  The spiral of bloodshed is escalating dangerously. America’s long-time addiction to war has reached a new level, creating greater dangers for people in this country and around the world. **
 *  - Carl Sandburg -

Citation for all cartoon pictures on this page- Artist: Joel Andreas Date of Composition: 2004 Place Found: Addicted to War (book)

Citation for WTC picture- Taken By: c/o of freerepublic.com Date of Composition: 9-11-2001 Place Found: [|preparednesspro.wordpress.com/.../ the-next-911/]

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