By Reginald Johnson
I
have a couple of objections to Joe Biden's Memorial Day address.
First,
he said our fallen military men and women died fighting to preserve democracy.
No, unfortunately, except for World War II, that's not true. They died, very
tragically, in wars that were fought to preserve corporate access to cheap
resources (see oil) and cheap labor and prevent the advancement of socialist or
populist governments that posed a direct threat to corporate profits.
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| Iraq, one year after US invasion. (Getty Images) |
Second, I found it duplicitous and outrageous that he would pull a card from his pocket to remind him, he said, of the number of Americans who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Biden --- along with Hillary Clinton and other Democrats --- who voted in favor of the Iraq War in 2003, despite ample evidence at the time that the pretext for that war --- that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction --- was a lie.
I'm all in favor of honoring our war dead and veterans, but
I am sick and tired of hearing politicians making self-serving and dishonest
speeches about war on Memorial Day.
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