US troops and warships are gathering in the Caribbean. It reminds me of my college years and the impending war against against Vietnam. Back then the big lie was that North Vietnam had attacked US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. It didn't really happen, although President Johnson went to Congress the next day and said that it had. 58,000 US soldiers were to die because of this fabricated story. So were over two million Vietnamese.
US troops and warships are on their way again. The big lie this time is that Venezuela is responsible for drug trafficking to the US. And the truth? Fentanyl is not made in Venezuela, and there are much better routs for sending drugs to the US. But lies don't matter when the US war machine decides it wants another bloodbath.
Our media has been repeating this lie for several years. Our beleaguered pedophile in chief needs a major distraction right now, and war against Venezuela fits the bill. His crazy tariffs and giveaways to his Gilded Age billionaires have brought our economy to the brink. Trump needs a war against Venezuela, with the world's largest oil reserves.
I was drafted in 1967, so I have seen the long term destruction of war on our society. I know Vietnam vets who have never fully recovered. I have witnessed the takeover of our democracy by the "Military Industrial Complex." The invasion of Venezuela will be yet another US war crime gone bad.
