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Started the war on our own ? Aside from the misleading headline , note later in the story where it says " But it does n't really matter what twists and turns you put on the war you wanted , in March 2006 . In January 2005 , a group of fifty peace activists from the Vietnam and Iraq eras issued a global appeal to end the war ( online at http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20996/ ) . But no war is ever prompted by one factor alone , and it is evident from the public record that many considerations , including oil , played a role in the administration 's decision to invade Iraq . The North Korean state is built on lies , distortions , and untruths of all sorts , but the most important of them says that Americans started the war and that Kim Il Sung beat back the aggression . But what is wrong with the revolutionary government which has put an end to so many injustices , a revolutionary government which has established 10,000 schools , a revolutionary government which is converting the great fortresses in the country into great educational centers , a revolutionary government which has put the soldiers who made so many sacrifices in the war , which has put these same soldiers , who have turned over their barracks , to work building schools , building roads , and building school cities for the people , a revolutionary government which , far from representing a parasitic and privileged military casts , has organized an army of workers , an army of model citizens , into which go not the worst , as in the past , but the best , those who pass the true tests which a true soldier must pass , a revolutionary government which is building two university cities , and which proposes to help , aided by the efforts of the students themselves , with the building of a third university city , a revolutionary government which is building a school city for 20,000 children , which will be the first in the series of school cities in which 200,000 children of peasants , the most intelligent and best trained boys and girls , will study , a revolutionary government which has built 10,000 houses for humble families in the first year , a revolutionary government which has opened all the beaches , to which in the past only an insignificant minority could go , to the people , a government which has recovered for the country the wealth which was in foreign hands , a government which has recovered for its peasants the land which the foreign masters of our economy exploited , a government which has given jobs to more than 100,000 new citizens in a single year , a government which has created a thousand cooperatives in a single year , a government which has made all the small renters , sharecroppers and tenants who had to pay rent before into landowners , a revolutionary government which has done away with luxuries to meet the most basic needs of the humble families , a revolutionary government which does not sacrifice the interests of the poor to supply luxuries to the rich , but sacrifices these latter to serve the interests of the poor , a revolutionary government which , without economic resources , with a country ravaged by plunder , without asking anyone for a single centavo , without begging a scent from the powerful master who controlled our economy , is carrying forward a creative and productive policy and has achieved extraordinary results in only 16 months , has achieved great things in only 16 months , and has today succeeded in establishing the monetary reserves of the country at about 150 million pesos , in order to have the resources necessary for the industrialization of the country , a government of a small people which has had to carry out this gigantic task in an environment of constant harassment , constant threat , and an incessant campaign of slander throughout the entire world , as a preparation of the conditions for armed aggression against our territory , a government which has had to work in the midst of threats , in the midst of international maneuverings , a government which has had to meet so many needs in such a short time , and which in the midst of this overwhelming task has suffered the burning of its sugar can by pirate planes coming from Florida , which has been harassed and persecuted by diplomatic notes from a powerful country , a government which has always had its economic plans threatened with the suspensions of quotas and reprisals of an economic nature , a government which has to work under constant pressures from foreign officers and despite the incessant plotting of intrigues against our country , a government which in the midst of this overwhelming task has had to tolerate the most adamant and cruel campaign of slander to which any government on this continent has ever been subjected , a revolutionary government dedicated to the superhuman task of resolving so many problems , such as those we inherited as the legacy of a policy of foreign economic domination for 50 years , while in the midst of this task , one day the city of Havana is bombed , the next small planes burn millions of arrobas of sugar cane and the homes of our peasants , and on yet another day a vessel loaded with arms for our defense is blown up , taking the lives of 60 Cuban workers . It was a strictly political upheaval to end the war and to remove the monarchy held responsible for it . Brock was named for Maj. - General Sir Isaac Brock , who lost his life at Queenston Heights in the war of 1812 . Served in the war against the Narragansets in 1676 where his older brother was killed . My father never claimed to be a hero , though he served one tour in the war of his generation and finnished with the rank of PFC , he simply went where he was told . Two long-awaited Pentagon reports on detainee policy had finally reached public view : the Jacoby Report on Afghanistan and the Formica Report on Iraq , available as a result of Freedom of Information Act suits , like thousands of other pages of government reports on the war on terror . It did not end the war on its own , as more outspoken airmen hoped , but bombing distorted the German war effort , demoralized the work-force , and drained the battlefronts of vital resources . But the key thing would be for every Republican to begin to think beyond the next sound byte to the much larger contest between the parties , and to focus relentlessly on the war and the choice before the country . Reserve Corps and served in the war . His statement is the most scathing attack on the war to be acknowledged by the American media , although only a few fragments of sentences were published . Finding a ford there , they endeavored to lead a part of their forces over it ; with the design , that , if they could , they might carry by storm the fort which Q. Titurius , Caesar 's lieutenant , commanded , and might cut off the bridge ; but , if they could not do that , they should lay waste the lands of the Remi , which were of great use to us in carrying on the war , and might hinder our men from foraging .