Thursday, December 09, 2004
On this day:
War is war
There is no such thing as a right war or a just war. War is war no matter how you slice it, debate it. A life is lost, atrocity is committed.
I've seen plenty of those gas-sucking SUV zipping around town and speeding up and down the interstate proudly displayed the USA flag and "I support our troops" bumper sticker. Those people just simply do not get what this war is sbout. And when they start to complain about the rising fuel price, they do not get any sympathy from me. They had a choice when they made a purchase for the car. They made the mistake of not being a conscious consumer, a responsible citizen of this world, which I strongly believe is the least we all can do to affect change from the most basic level. Vote with your dollars, it will speak louder than words sometimes. Oh, and all those gas-sucking SUV that proudly display "Keep Tahoe Blue" simply does not get it also. It's the CO2 emmision and the exhaust run-offs from your polluting unnecessary behemoth, stupid!
This is what you won't see in the paper.
This is what you won't see on CNN or on MSNBC or CBS News or on any major media Web site anywhere and especially no goddamn way ever in hell will you see it within a thousand miles of Fox News.
You aren't supposed to see. You aren't supposed to know. You are to remain ignorant and shielded, and, if you're like most Americans, you have been very carefully conditioned to think Bush's nasty Iraq war is merely this ugly little firecracker-like thing happening way, way over there, carefully orchestrated and somewhat messy and maybe a little bloody but mostly still patriotic and good and necessary and sponsored by none other than God his own angry Republican self...
Funny thing is, many right-wing neocons consider the act of displaying such pictures unpatriotic, even traitorous. As if revealing the true horrors of war somehow disrespects our long-suffering soldiers, somehow harms them by depicting the full violence of what they must endure for Bush's snide and viciously isolationist policies. You think soldiers don't want the folks back home to know what they have to deal with? You think they want you numb to the truth of war and pain and death? Guess again.
Maybe this should be the rule: If you can't handle seeing what really goes on in a war, maybe you don't deserve to support it. If you can't stomach the truths of what our soldiers are doing and how brutally and bloodily they're dying and in just what manner they have to kill those innocent Iraqi civilians in the name of BushCo's desperate lurch toward greed and power and Iraqi oil fields and empire, maybe you don't have the right to stick that little flag on your oil-sucking SUV. Clear enough? Read more...
I've seen plenty of those gas-sucking SUV zipping around town and speeding up and down the interstate proudly displayed the USA flag and "I support our troops" bumper sticker. Those people just simply do not get what this war is sbout. And when they start to complain about the rising fuel price, they do not get any sympathy from me. They had a choice when they made a purchase for the car. They made the mistake of not being a conscious consumer, a responsible citizen of this world, which I strongly believe is the least we all can do to affect change from the most basic level. Vote with your dollars, it will speak louder than words sometimes. Oh, and all those gas-sucking SUV that proudly display "Keep Tahoe Blue" simply does not get it also. It's the CO2 emmision and the exhaust run-offs from your polluting unnecessary behemoth, stupid!
