Veterans day
by Capt. Fogg
Yes, they need to know that. They need to know that so much that they will believe it when it is manifestly untrue and George is there to milk grieving mothers for support by lying about why their children died.
Their sacrifice has brought us torture, murder, rape, the displacement of millions and the death of hundreds of thousands who will never have the chance to tell us how much they love freedom. How hollow such words sound from the man who has been given everything and given his loyalty to profiteers and foreign powers while sacrificing nothing except our sons and daughters.
cross posted from Human Voices
"In their sorrow, these families need to know — and families all across our nation of the fallen — need to know that your loved ones served a cause that is good and just and noble,"said George Bush yesterday. No it wasn't at Arlington as tradition and duty would suggest, but back "home" in Crawford at the American Legion Hall where his latest vacation wouldn't be interrupted.
Yes, they need to know that. They need to know that so much that they will believe it when it is manifestly untrue and George is there to milk grieving mothers for support by lying about why their children died.
"Their sacrifice will not be in vain."said the man of leisure, whose family grows richer by the day and whose boots cost more that what we pay to families in Iraq whose children we have murdered; said the man whose policies have our future teetering on the brink of recession and our grandchildren already in debt and our reputation lost and our leadership lapsed. In our sorrow, we need to know who profits by it, who brought it about, who fights to maintain it, who lies to pass the blame and on whose shoulders rests the shame.
Their sacrifice has brought us torture, murder, rape, the displacement of millions and the death of hundreds of thousands who will never have the chance to tell us how much they love freedom. How hollow such words sound from the man who has been given everything and given his loyalty to profiteers and foreign powers while sacrificing nothing except our sons and daughters.
cross posted from Human Voices
Labels: George Bush, hypocrisy, Iraq
posted by Libby Spencer at 10:32 AM
7 Comments:
Fogg, your turn of phrase just knocks me out. Great post.
That smug SOB deserves more than a turn of phrase, but what else can I do? He doesn't care and soon enough we'll have somebody like Rudy with all that power.
That's America and you can't fix stupid.
Bite your tongue. I surely hope it doesn't come down to Rudy. If Americans are that stupid, it really is time to leave the country.
They say that Huckabee is doing well in Iowa. . . .
Good point. What does it say about us when that feels almost comforting?
I read today that it's the internets that are polarizing America. All this gathering of like minds that don't wander fosters extremism...
Libby: I read today that it's the internets that are polarizing America. All this gathering of like minds that don't wander fosters extremism ...
Not necessarily. Here is what Jack Balkin had to say on the hypothetical polarization of cyberspace:
Even if Internet speech has its share of heated and unpleasant exchanges, the blogosphere has also shown, I think, that fears of group polarization produced by the Internet are overstated. It's important to distinguish distribution of viewpoints from polarization of viewpoints. The Internet allows for a much wider distribution of ideas to be expressed than in the traditional unidirectional mass media, but that is not the same as increasing group polarization. Indeed, wider distribution along multiple dimensions is the opposite of polarization, which is an increasingly tight bimodal distribution along a single dimension.
Link:
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004_01_18_balkin_archive.html#107480769112109137
Maybe that's true. E-mail certainly allows the mass distribution of lies and slander, but it all boils down to stupidity. We've never evolved the brains necessary to live in the world created for us by a tiny minority of smart people.
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