{"id":34931,"date":"2016-04-02T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34931"},"modified":"2016-04-02T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T23:28:09","slug":"war-is-the-only-real-campaign-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34931","title":{"rendered":"War Is The Only Real Campaign Issue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Carlsbad, CA<br \/>\nApril 2, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>War is the only serious political issue in this campaign. Everything else is<br \/>\na side-show to distract and polarize the electorate.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-great-unmentionable-2016-us-elections\/\">http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-great-unmentionable-2016-us-elections\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>War is truly an &#8220;unmentionable&#8221; topic because it goes to the heart of what we<br \/>\nhave become: an Empire rather than a Republic!<\/p>\n<p>All the major candidates from both parties support more war. Obama finessed<br \/>\nhis first election by stating how he opposed the Iraq War. Sanders is attempting<br \/>\nto do the same by reminding us he voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>But like the Neocons and Wall Street billionaires whom they denigrate, both men<br \/>\nhave fully backed all our recent wars with Sanders apparently willing to do the<br \/>\nsame should he capture the White House in 2016 (see the above article).<\/p>\n<p>We know Hillary is a full-fledged Neocon hawk as are all the Republicans except<br \/>\n(maybe) Trump who has teased us with his confusing pronouncements about NATO,<br \/>\nRussia, avoiding intervention, Bush lying us into war and 9\/11 being a possible<br \/>\nfalse flag.<\/p>\n<p>But time has revealed his true colors and a closer inspection of his remarks along<br \/>\nwith the pedigrees of his foreign policy advisors shows clearly that the man who wants<br \/>\nto &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; is a hawk who might use torture, nukes and staged<br \/>\nterror attacks as an excuse to justify a more aggressive use of force than even Obama<br \/>\nwhom he calls weak.<\/p>\n<p>The Military-Industrial-Complex is fully ascendant in America today. We were warned<br \/>\nby Ike about its dangers while the Founders told us to avoid foreign entanglements.<\/p>\n<p>But foreign entanglements are what we do best whether by invasion for regime change;<br \/>\nusing &#8220;economic hitmen&#8221; like John Perkins to destabilize nations we oppose; unleashing<br \/>\nthe CIA to overthrow foreign leaders; or supporting sovereignty-disrupting trade deals like<br \/>\nNAFTA, GATT and the TPP to transform the political character of our nation from what<br \/>\nthe Constitution established into a New World Order.<\/p>\n<p>America is toast! Elections are a farce! A few brave souls attempt to inform us in<br \/>\nrational terms about what we&#8217;ve become but are drowned out or marginalized by the<br \/>\nmedia who turn the elections into a grade school circus.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Celente; Paul Craig Roberts; Jesse Ventura; Cynthia McKinney; Tulsi Gabbard;<br \/>\nand Ron Paul are part of a small group of leaders and pundits who have attempted in<br \/>\nword and deed to enlighten the public who remain willfully ignorant and\/or comfortably<br \/>\nangry at all politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders and Trump have captured the most attention but when all is said and done,<br \/>\nseven months from now, little will have changed no matter who becomes the Commander<br \/>\nin Chief.<\/p>\n<p>We already have a Fascist state with welfare for the rich through the warfare state and<br \/>\nwelfare for the poor via entitlements. The left and right are bought off as the nation dies.<\/p>\n<p>Until someone has the courage, integrity and ability to speak truth to power and take on<br \/>\nthe most important political issue we face as a country, the future of America is bleak!<\/p>\n<p>War is now more than a racket: it has invaded the very fiber of our cultural soul and made<br \/>\nus into something we only see in &#8220;them&#8221; when those we so gleefully demonize are as much<br \/>\na reflection of us as they are the evil beings we are so eager to fight.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few decades, American wars have killed large numbers of innocent civilians and<br \/>\ncombatants, perhaps millions. Now the prospect of unleashing nuclear weapons by us or<br \/>\nother countries will make those numbers possibly puny by comparison:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prepperfortress.com\/risk-nuclear-war-higher-ever-as-weapons-of-mass-destruction-proliferate-to-ever-more-nations-the-nuclear-equation-becomes-more-complex-and-dangerous\/\">http:\/\/www.prepperfortress.com\/risk-nuclear-war-higher-ever-as-weapons-of-mass-destruction-proliferate-to-ever-more-nations-the-nuclear-equation-becomes-more-complex-and-dangerous\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The time for peace is now! The time to address the issue of war was yesterday. Wake up<br \/>\nAmerica&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;please! <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}