There are many reasons why you should not trust FOX NEWS to bring
you the truth, however the most important reason IMO is because FOX NEWS has
loaded up their programs with retired military personnel and retired politicians
who are now working as lobbyists for a wide variety of defense contractors who
would like to see the United States engaged in more wars.
FOX NEWS has been critical of President Obama's plan to pull all
troops out of Afghanistan by 2014 and FOX NEWS trots out scores of former
military personnel and political pundits from the Bush and Cheney administration
who cite all kinds of reasons why exiting Afghanistan would be a bad
idea.
The biggest problem with their thinking is they don't provide any
reason why we should stay in Afghanistan other than to say the country would
fall into the hands of Al Qaida again if we pull all of our troops out of the
country.
Afghanistan has such a weak government that it won't make any
difference how long we stay in Afghanistan because once we do leave the country
will be taken over by Al Qaida, or elements of Al Qaida, and the Taliban.
FOX NEWS has been careful to never mention the number of young
Americans killed in Afghanistan.
The latest figures released by the Department of Defense indicates
over 2,000 young Americans have been killed in Afghanistan over the ten years we
have been waging a war in the country.
FOX NEWS did the same thing with the war in Iraq and never
mentioned the number of Americans killed in that war.
According to the Department of Defense over 4,700 young Americans
were killed in the Iraq war and another 70,000 were seriously wounded including
many who will be disabled for the rest of their lives.
The Iraq War was started when President Bush and Vice President
Cheney lied to the American people and to Congress about how Saddam Hussein had
Weapons of Mass destruction and was close to producing a nuclear
bomb.
United States forces who invaded Iraq never found any weapons of
mass destruction nor did they find any facilities capable of producing a nuclear
bomb.
President Obama pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq two years ago
and the fragile Iraq government has become friends with Iran and now Al Qaida
and other terrorist elements are creating havoc all across Iraq.
Yesterday 52 Iraqi civilians were killed and 236 were injured when
an Al Qaida led attack killed them as they made their way to a
religious gathering.
The former military personnel and retired politicians who appear on
FOX NEWS used every appearance as a means to suggest the United States should go
to war with Iran, Syria and even North Korea.
FOX NEWS also never mentions our troops are stretched to the
breaking point and it would be impossible for the United States to get involved
in another war without re-instating the military draft.
Judging on how the American public and the mainstream media have
turned a deaf ear on the war in Afghanistan it is obvious the citizens of the
United States do not have an appetite for another war---especially if the next
war would have to be fought with their own children and grandchildren who would
be drafted into the United States military.
