The United States began to directly aid South Vietnam in January 1955.

At 8:35 a.m. on 30 April 1975, after 20 years of killing and maiming and destroying and accomplishing nothing, the last ten Marines were evacuated from the Embassy. The United States was no longer involved in the undeclared Vietnamese War. By 11:00 a.m., the North Vietnamese flag was flying over the presidential palace in Saigon.

Say, how much for the dominoes?

On our way to realizing and acknowledging that every American president and congressman in those 20 years had been selling us a load of crap, American families in this fine constitutional republic paid an enormous price and imposed an even greater price on the rest of humanity.

An estimated total of 2,122,244 people were killed during the war in Vietnam. Of these, 58,169 were Americans. Of those Americans, 11,465 were teenagers. An estimated 3,650,946 additional people were wounded, of whom 304,000 were Americans. 153,329 Americans were categorized as "seriously" wounded. That total includes 10,000 amputees.

An estimated 444,000 North Vietnamese and 220,557 South Vietnamese military personnel and 587,000 civilians were killed.

6,727,084 tons of bombs were dropped. This is about two-and-a-half times the total tonnage dropped on Germany during World War II.

3,750 fixed wing aircraft and 4,865 helicopters were lost.

18 million gallons of poisonous chemicals were poured on Vietnam.

The dollar cost of the United States involvement in the war in Vietnam is estimated at $140 billion.

Pancakes! We've got pancakes!

Following the events of September 11, 2001, in which 2819 were killed and many injured, the federal government sold the American public on a "pancake theory" of World Trade Center collapse and a global war on terrorism that had to be "fought over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

The federal government's first reaction was to bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age, then invade and occupy. Osama bin Laden, the supposed architect of 9/11, was quickly ignored and soon forgotten.

The US and UK had already spent twelve years--at an annual cost of $1 billion per year to the US--bombing and attacking Iraq nearly every day in an undeclared No-Fly Zone War, the 280,000 sorties and 24,000 combat missions producing 41 percent civilian casualties. Naturally, many survivors of the attacks swore oaths to avenge the deaths and injuries, which they are doing every day now. Several hundred thousand Iraqi deaths are attributed to the imposed sanctions and deprivation.

In March 2003, Bush used the US military to bomb them some more, then invade and occupy Iraq, a country that Bush confirmed on more than one occasion had nothing to do with the events of 9/11. Iraq had not threatened the United States, nor did Iraq pose a threat to the United States.

How much for the pancakes?

The last estimate of the number of Iraqi deaths was 655,000, mostly innocent civilians including women and children, but that was long ago. The number of wounded is likely to be greater still. Millions have fled their homes. Millions have fled the country.

Officially, more than 3500 Americans have died, and more than 26,000 have been wounded. Unofficially the story is much different:

(Baghdad, 16 May 07) - "It used to be two a day, and now it’s up to three. What am I talking about? The number of officially reported deaths per diem. I don't care if fifty bought the farm, the DoD reports for the public will show a maximum of two or three a day.

"Once it became evident that what had been expected to be a short, successful military campaign against Saddam Hussein had turned into a long, drawn out and escalating guerilla war, the Department of Defense, acting on orders from the White House, began to reduce the daily public casualty list. Families and survivors of the dead were duly notified and the bodies were shipped back to the States for private burial, but the numbers of the dead and the wounded, were deliberately kept as low as possible for political reasons. For internal use only, a realistic and accurate monthly report was issued for those concerned, but it was not made public. When this private report was located by outside sources and sent around the Internet, the site was immediately shut down.

"This original listing showed that as of mid-2005, the death count in both Iraq and Afghanistan topped 10,000 with 20,000 seriously wounded. By 2007, the death toll has risen to over 15,000 (and rising daily) with officially reported serious woundings (required out of theater hospitalization) at 50,508 as per a report published in the New York Times of January 30, 2007.

"Also not discussed are the over 10,000 desertions (from March 2003 to date)." [Source]

All together, in Iraq and Afghanistan, about 800,000 people have been killed and 1,530,000 have been seriously wounded. An unknown number have been tortured.

More than 2300 tons of depleted uranium have been spread over the Iraqi landscape via munitions to permanently irradiate Iraq and cause profound mutations in human fetuses. This, apparently, is the approved, Christian method of killing an enemy, an imaginary enemy . . . even prenatally. Just ask the 60 million fools who voted for George Bush and his sidekick twice. I'm sure their version of Jesus would approve of such Israeli-instigated genocide.

So far, $433 billion has been spent on the undeclared war with Iraq, although they are not an enemy. This is only a down payment though, because if the federal government gets its way, the war and occupation, the killing and wounding, and the destruction and rebuilding will last another 46 years. If criminal courts intervene this will never come to pass, and those who have been responsible for these myriad war crimes and crimes against humanity will be removed from circulation.

Vietnam was to support the defense industry. What is Iraq for?

The purpose is to support the defense industry and companies like Halliburton, but more important it is to restrict crude oil production and drive up the price from $10 per barrel to $70 per barrel or higher for the oil industry. It's working, and the resultant increase in the cost of living is bankrupting Americans, which facilitates the planned merger of this fine constitutional republic with the socialist nations of Canada and Mexico into an entity called the North American Union.

A footnote from the front lines in Iraq

"The general feeling here, among many officers and even the men, is that Israel started this war to suit her needs and Bush and Congress are so eager to please Tel Aviv that they go right along.

"And the dead keep being stuffed on planes, and the families mourn. A friend in the CIC told me recently that they broke up a serious plan on the part of some EOD people to blow up the Israeli headquarters here. With its occupants!

"My informant laughed and said, 'It's too bad we caught them . . .' It's sacrilegious things like this that have infuriated Bush and Cheney and have resulted in growing crackdown on 'dissident elements' here . . . especially to include the evil Internet." [Source]