"France, Germany mark armistice together; For first time, chancellor at Paris ceremony" by Alan Cowell and Steven Erlanger, New York Times | November 12, 2009
PARIS - French president Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that remembrance of the past “is also to consolidate the present and prepare the future.’’
I just felt a globalist chill, didn't you?
Across Europe and other parts of the world, people gathered yesterday to commemorate the end of four years of fighting, from 1914 to 1918, in which millions of lives were lost in what are now depicted as strategically ineffective trench battles. Neither side gained significant territory as each lashed the other with artillery fire and often futile infantry charges....
ALL WARS are FUTILE -- unless you are a WAR-PROFITEER!
The commemorations were the first in many places held in the absence of veterans from the conflict.... The number of dead from both sides has never been known, partly because of poor recordkeeping. But most accounts put the number of military deaths at more than 8 million.... Additionally, more than 6 million civilians were killed, and 2 million soldiers from all sides were reported missing in action....
All for NOTHING, readers!
That had to have been one of the MOST USELESS WARS in HISTORY!
Recently the bond between Paris and Berlin seems to have loosened as Germany pursues closer ties with Russia.
It was never that close to begin with -- at least, not according to my state-sponsored school lessons.
In her first speech to the German Parliament after winning a second term in September, German chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of dialogue with Moscow but did not mention France or its relationship with her country. In her speech yesterday, she praised the European partnership and reconciliation with France, but she alone mentioned the importance of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
Which is what a globalist servant would say.
The war that was supposed to end all wars pitted empires against one another and destroyed several of them, with forces from Imperial Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire ranged against the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, which joined the war in 1917. The United States lost 116,500 soldiers in the conflict....
On would have hoped that USrael LEARNED from the experience, but....
Yeah, no wars worth celebrating today:
"Tributes and trepidation; War worries weigh on Veterans Day" by Peter Schworm and Matt Viser, Globe Staff | November 12, 2009
Veterans Day came with a raw poignance, falling as the nation ponders the heavy toll of two grueling wars and amid the pall of grief that followed reports of an Army psychiatrist’s calculated slaughter of fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. From the laying of wreaths at veterans’ graves to State House ceremonies and dedications of new memorials to war dead, observances of the holiday yesterday were washed with despair, bleak anger, and an unmistakable feeling of unease....
On a day Massachusetts learned that yet another of its native sons, 21-year-old Benjamin Sherman, an Army paratrooper from Plymouth, had died in Afghanistan, many along the parade route shared 46-year-old Manuel Pina’s misgivings about the protracted conflicts overseas.
See: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Missing Soldier Washes Ashore in Afghanistan
Only last week, another service member, Marine Captain Kyle Rolf Van De Giesen of North Attleborough was buried. Both men left behind pregnant wives....
Related:
AmeriKa's Afghanistan Abortion
Arthur Smith, a former state commander for the American Legion, said grief and frustration should never eclipse the day’s essential purpose - honoring the sacrifice of soldiers past and present....
That's a little cold, isn't it? Especially when they died for lies.
At the State House, where Gold Star Mothers in yellow blazers and Patriot Guard Riders in leather jackets joined together in remembrance, Governor Deval Patrick spoke before several hundred veterans, family members, and lawmakers in the Hall of Flags, where murals depict scenes from wars past....
Yeah, NO ANTIWAR MESSAGES from the CULTURE or the PAPER!
Yes, we REVEL in WAR!!!!
That's AmeriKa, and WHAT WE DO BEST!
For all its death, World War II was easier to understand, said Wesley Alston, who landed at Normandy in the invasion of Europe 65 years ago. The stakes were clear, as were the battle lines. The enemy was easy to recognize, and engagements had some sense of order. It bears little resemblance, he said, to the current fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sounds like a great time, huh?
Down the street, Virginia Barber passed out American flags to smiling children, who lined the street with their parents for a good view of the parade. Barber, who has worked with the American Legion for five decades, said it was a good turnout for a chilly, windy day. But the mood was noticeably subdued. “What happened at Fort Hood put a damper on everything,’’ she said. “It makes you stop and think what is the world coming to.’’
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The incomprehensible Fort Hood shootings last week, in which Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 12 soldiers and a civilian, compounded the apprehension. Hasan was reportedly distraught at the prospect of being deployed to Afghanistan, and had shown signs of mental instability in the past.
Yeah, that's why he was COMMENDED and PROMOTED!!
Related:
MSM Covering Up Military Munity at Fort Hood
Fort Hood Hoax Front and Center
Did I mention I was sick of the lying?
The massacre renewed larger questions of whether the country is winning the overseas conflicts, and of what victory might look like.
I know: ABOUT FACE! FORWARD MARCH!
Even some veterans, who feel duty-bound to attend parades and memorials and count every day alive as a blessing, said they were at a loss as to how the country should proceed....
Yeah, ENDING the damn things NEVER ENTERS the CONVERSATION, huh?
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And about the Hoodie....
WASHINGTON - The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people last week at Fort Hood, Texas, did not formally seek to leave the military as a conscientious objector or for any other reason, an Army official said, despite claims by one of his relatives that he had....
I know whom I'm believing, especially in light of the shabby job the government and MSM have done covering this case.
Even if Hasan had sought to quit the Army over his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his aunt has said he did, the Army almost certainly would have denied any such request, senior Army officials said. Hasan had a continuing obligation because the Army provided him with medical training.
At this point, I realize I am LOOKING at a REEDITED REWRITE!!!
Arrrgggghhh!!!!
What was KEPT:
Hasan joined the Army in 1997, attended Army medical training, and then worked as a psychiatry intern and resident at Walter Reed from 2003 until July, when he was transferred to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood. Hasan’s last official performance evaluation took place in June, according to an Army summary of his career known as an “officer record brief.’’
The Army has received about 50 conscientious objector applications each year since 2001 from soldiers seeking either not to bear arms or to leave the service entirely because of religious or deeply held moral or ethical beliefs. Of those applications, a little more than half have been approved. In the past three years, the Army board that decides whether to approve or disapprove such applications has not received any from Army officers with a remaining service obligation, according to the Army official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
As a psychiatrist in training, Hasan was characterized in meetings as a mediocre student and lazy worker, a matter of concern among the doctors and staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences military medical school, the official told the AP.
Oh, REALLY?!!!
Please REMEMBER to COMPARE THAT with what you will find below!!!
The AP reported that a law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn’t linked to terrorism. The official says a Defense Department worker and an FBI supervisor agreed to end the assessment of Hasan earlier this year. Authorities had taken a look at Hasan after intercepting messages between the psychiatrist and a radical imam overseas. The official says the FBI supervisor did not authorize that the information about Hasan be shared with other military authorities - and the military investigator didn’t ask for authorization - because they didn’t find evidence Hasan posed a threat.
More BS being SHOVELED at us!
What was CUT:
"In a further indication Hasan was not actively seeking formal discharge, he underwent an Army promotion board in the spring of 2008 that called his performance as an officer as patriotic and elevated him from the rank of captain to major, a promotion that took place in May 2009, according to the official.
(Bllllllllllllllllllllll, SAY WHAT?!!!!)
The Army faces a severe shortage of officers who hold the rank of major, as Hasan does, and that shortage is particularly acute in some medical branches. The Army this year is short about 2,000 majors needed to fill slots created as the service has grown in recent years, according to Army data. In the field of medical doctors, the Army lacks about 15 percent of the majors it needs, the data show.
I smell a DRAFT, kiddos?
To address the shortfall, virtually all Army captains are being promoted to major. The Army's promotion rate from captain to major has been well over 90 percent since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, leading some officers to describe the trend as the "no major left behind" program....
So what are they implying?
That he didn't deserve the promotion and the Army report was a lie?
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What was ADDED:
Meanwhile yesterday, The New York Times reported that the account of how Kimberly D. Munley, a former Newton waitress, and Hasan went down in an exchange of gunfire does not agree with the account of an eyewitness.
After the Globe FRONT-PAGED IT?:
At local pub, Texas officer’s ex-colleagues beam with pride
That is why you NEVER GO with the OFFICIAL VERSIONS of anything anymore!!!!
THEY LIE!!!!
The witness, who asked not to be identified because it could damage his military career, has been interviewed by the Defense Criminal Investigative Division. He said Hasan wheeled on Munley as she rounded the corner of a building and shot her, putting her on the ground. Then Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol.
It was at that moment that Senior Sergeant Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Hasan fumbling with his weapon, and shot him. How the authorities came to issue the original version of the story, which made Munley a national hero for several days and obscured Todd’s role, is unclear.... "
Do you know what PROPAGANDA is, readers?
Remember the Jessica Lynch story?
Hey, what is ONE MORE LIE, right?
Update: Reviving the War of Terror: Patsy framed in Secret Team psy-op to generate public support for wars
