The Herowin War in Afghanistan
When I left Vietnam in 1971,
herowin was everywhere.
It was one of the reasons why
the U.S. was defeated in Vietnam.
We just couldn't win that war,
because hero-win finally delivered
the truth to the American people.
The U.S. government had no mission in Vietnam,
just like we have no mission in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Except to steal natural resources to protect our interests.
That truth was brought home to me shortly before
I left Vietnam in September 1971,
when an American soldier who was a herowin addict,
blew his brains out with his M-16.
Then there was the time I unzipped a body bag and
looked at another herowin addict who shot himself
in the forehead with a pistol.
Blew his skull wide open.
You just can't win with herowin.
I saw so many American soldiers destroy their
lives with herowin.
They went back to America with a full blown herowin addiction.
No mission.
No cause.
Nobody who gave a shit when they came home.
What the American people know about the Vietnam War,
you could stick in a thimble.
A thimble....
that was about the size of the plastic vials that herowin came in,
in Vietnam.
Some people shot it.
Some people snorted it.
Some people smoked it.
Either way,
you couldn't win with herowin.
And, that may be the same reason America
will not win in Afghanistan.
Not to mention that the war is a lie to begin with.
In fact,
that's why herowin was used so much in Vietnam,
because the war was a lie,
and we could have never won in Vietnam.
Won.
Win.
Herowin.
Don't mean nothin'
Then, when you get back from Vietnam,
you realize the U.S. Govrnment was involved in the
herowin trade all along.
The South Vietnamese military was involved in
the manufacturing of herowin.
Ever see an American soldier on herowin with an
M-16 in his hands during a mortar attack?
I have.
And, that's one reason why we didn't win in Vietnam.
In the end,
America got stoned in Vietnam with herowin.
Why?
Because the war was unwinable.
Because the entire Vietnam War was a lie.
The U.S. Government was bombing Laos before
the Gulf of Tonkin Lie ever happened in 1964.
That is just one of a thousand lies that the American people
never knew about the Vietnam War.
And,
towards the end of the Vietnam War,
that is why tens of thousands of American soldiers were on
herowin.
It's the lie that makes you want to kill yourself.
It's the lie that makes you want to use herowin.
It's the lie that made me want to do a swan dive over a cliff
with my automobile when I got back from Vietnam.
It's the lie that made that American soldier in Vietnam put
an M-16 to his head.
It's the lie that still makes me unable to wash the blood off
of my hands.
It's the lie that is killing America everyday in Iraq,
and Afghanistan.
Not to mention the great suffering and death our government
is inflicting on hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East.
Lying is the most powerful weapon in war.
Ever have a close friend hang himself in a motel room?
I did.
He was a Vietnam veteran.
He did that,
because the lie broke his neck.
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Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71
November 5, 2009
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"The greatest purveyor of violence in
the world today is my own government."
Martin Luther King Jr.
April 4, 1967
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