A Reminder of War
by paradox
A perplexing case of amnesia and denial has taken hold of the American ruling political class and its chattering enablers, the corporate media, so let’s take a little stroll down reality lane, shall we?
In 2002 the United States proclaimed that a severely weakened Iraq, which had attacked no one for ten years, nevertheless warranted “pre-emptive war” for its alleged possession of “weapons of mass destruction.”
The subsequent invasion revealed no wmd’s and instantly turned the entire top echelon of Administration officials into war criminals, crushed the reputation of the United States and turned our most cherished ideals into towering pillars of hypocrisy. The United States has killed at least 20,000 innocent Iraqis for nothing, while 2242 of our own have been slain. Jesus knows how many Iraqis have been wounded; approximately 15,000 of ours have been terribly wounded.
Further institutional war crimes occurred at Abu Ghraib and Falluja. Hundreds of billions have been spent on nothing but felonies with no end in sight. Osama and Al Queda flourish. American journalism is rightly criticized as mere propaganda while the domestic populace is rife with shouting, acid invective over the war.
The significant percentage (40-50%) of the American populace that gave Bush a pass on the war through the election, for whatever baffling reason, completely collapsed to 30-35% in the last 120 days so that presently Bush cruises at a steady, dismal 41% approval rating. He’s an unpopular sack of shit felon to anybody but the rabid Republican base for lying about the war and spying upon Americans.
The trumpeting by the media tonight and the rousing cheers for Bush will not change that. Very significant electoral changes have occurred since the election that the Republicans and media will ignore tonight, but they are there.
So too are the graves, the searing screams of the children, the endless turmoil of trudging life left for the bereaved widows, children, parents, and grandparents who lost the most cherished parts of their lives for nothing.
No, none of that has changed, and there will be an accounting.