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From Democracy Now:

CBS: Obama to Send Up to 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan

More reports are emerging that President Obama has decided to send as many as 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. CBS News reported last night that Obama plans to send four combat brigades plus thousands of additional troops beginning in early 2010. Over the weekend, the McClatchy Newspapers reported Obama would send 34,000 more troops. The White House is denying these reports, claiming that the President has not yet made a final decision.

So, on this Veterans Day, the beat goes on. We should recall Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in history, a retired Major General. Some may remember his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, where he “presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare.”

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

As it’s often said on the streets of Memphis, true dat shit, Smedley. True dat.

How do we stop it? Will protests work? Doubtful. Obama seems to be cut of the same cloth as previous puppets, committed to the war machine. Pray that oil hits $200PB sooner than later? Perhaps, but the U.S. juggernaut is poised to control vast supplies and keep things rolling along for years to come.

‘Bout all we can do is stop buying the oil and other things in an attempt to bring the locomotive to a screeching halt. After all, the beast is fed by our purchases.

That, and stop supporting the Democratic party members that continually lie and willfully ignore the desires of their electorate. Quit sending money to them, and let Goldman and the Wall Street Mafia pick up the bill.