Illusion of War

What has the world truly learned since P.F. Sloan wrote the song, “Eve Of Destruction” that Barry McGuire had performed, and it was a billboard hit in 1965?

Looking into our times, a few Political Extremists from the Corporate War Machine have been beating their chests, while this group of Warmonger appears to be planning to carryout Military action against another Middle Eastern Nation, Iran.

Quoting a few words from “Eve of Destruction”:

“The eastern world it is exploding.
violence flaring,
bullets loading..
you’re old enough to kill
but not for voting.
You don’t believe in war-
but what’s that gun you’re toting?
And even the Jorden river has bodies floating.

But ya tell me over & over & over again, my friend,
ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.” http://www.brownielocks.com/eveofdestruction.html

Just the first few verses of this song have such a strong message. Yet, now we are on the verge of a new time, where blood from innocent people and soldiers from our generation may be further spilled, if the ideas of peace cannot be reached. But, we all should question, for what…Oil…Modern Day Crusade…Possible smoke screen…revenge for the black eye the Political Extremist received over the Iran-Contra Scandal…or is it freedom like a few from the War Machine wish to tell the world? Hasn’t enough blood already been spilled in our times?

Haven’t enough young soldier already been lost in Nations that are so far from their homes? Why hasn’t there been a National Referendum taken to the people, who would decide by their vote whether to continue to send troops to Afghanistan, Iraq, and possibly Iran? Under the ideas of Democracy, only the people should be permitted to rule the nation, not the select.

Before answering these points, first let’s remember, what Al Gore the Former VP of the United States was quote as saying in an article called “Gore cautions Canadians,” written by Katherine Monk and published January 26, 2006.

In this article, Gore was quoted as saying, “The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta,” said Gore. “And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election … and to protect their interests.”
www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060131003149749

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=0da3e2c0-a5df-4fea-96ab-0e101d3543ee (with password)

Also, at the same time, turning our attention to a CBS 60 Minutes piece on the Oil Sands project out of Alberta. Quoting sections of this piece:

“There are 175 billion barrels of proven oil reserves here. That’s second to Saudi Arabia’s 260 billion but it’s only what companies can get with today’s technology….the total estimates could be two trillion or even higher,”… The oil sands are buried under forests in Alberta that are the size of Florida.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml

Image for a brief moment, the ecological effects that the destruction of a forest in Alberta the size of Florida would have not only upon the wildlife and environment within this province; but also throughout all of Canada. Why hasn’t there been uproar by the environmentalists and people?
Yet, the Political Extremists have been able to turned the masses’ eyes away from the effects that the Oil Sands in Alberta would caused, as this political group of Warmongers first created an illusion of a war, then pass laws which do not permit the people to stand up for their basic rights (National Security Mayhem in Canada http://www.quietpoly.com/juryfury/debates/canada/nationsecuritymayhemincanada-reginaldangusargue-dec2004.html .)

While all of this is happening, anyone who attempts to appose the war, or protest to protect the environment for future generations would be classified as unpatriotic and against democracy, isn’t that a perfect example of “Do what I say, not what I do?”

So with the record profits recently being posted by the Oil Companies in 2006, and the half truth that have been shown by some Western Leaders. Why aren’t we looking into the mirrors and seeing, that war only begets war?

“Could one of the main underlining reasons behind this War possibly be that it may be a modern day Crusade, which was met to be use as a weapon to wipe out one Organized Religion, at a time? Also, with the War on Terrorism, I fully admit that there are terrorists, however, why is the Western World only focusing on Middle Eastern, why aren’t we focusing in on the Western base Fanatics, who preach peace yet show War, who talk about freedoms, and yet they only show oppression? Why aren’t these people being arrested as terrorists? If these people continue to be allowed to get away with their injustices, the only purpose for the anti-terrorist’s laws seem to be to oppress the ordinary people’s rights, which in itself is a direct terrorist attack against the people.”
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/angus-mcleod-without-justice

In closing, I leave people with a poem I wrote in 1999, which was called “O Why O Why.”
O Why O Why

The banging from the weapons echoed in the valley
The smell of gunpowder consumed the air
People were dying all around
Crying could be heard from everywhere
Looking down I see a man
Looking closer, I see that it was I
O why O why did I have to die?
For this war made no sense in our minds or in our souls
Disputes between leaders was its cause
Now I lay on the ground
Too young I am to lose my life
All the experiences that I have had, have been too few
O why O why did I have to die?
For no mark I have left on this earth
Dying in this war so far from home
My life has now finished
And no longer will I be able to see my home
Or smell the flowers that grow in the fields
Now my unborn children will cry themselves to sleep
And lost loves will now be with a stranger
For never will I been able to hear the sweet breathe of the ones I love
Or feel the soft touch of a kiss
So no longer will the sound of the ocean be able to echo in my ears
Or will my eyes be full of the beauty that come from the world
But I wonder if we have learned anything from this war
Or does another innocent person have to die so far from home
In a needless fight
From a cause that makes no sense
CC 1999
http://angus-mcleod.com/poetry.html#BODY4

From 1986 to 1995, I served in the Canadian Military, with one United Nations tour over to Iran in 1988, where I witnessed first hand how destructive that war had been to a nation’s landscape and it’s people. From this experience, I learned that there is no glory in war. There is only the needless suffering of the innocent people and the young soldiers, who in some case are forever lost in a land that is so far from their homes.