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Date Posted: 07:46:20 06/17/05 Fri
Author: Shawn
Subject: Check it out

Hey, gang. Dig this...although it pretty much preaches to the
awakened/enlightened chior, it is still worthy of a reading.

May Love, Peace & Sanity Prevail,
Shawn

Bush Lies, America Cries
This just in: Global terrorism rates are higher than any time since
1985.
Thanks, Dubya!

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Oh my God I feel so much safer. Don't you?

I mean, don't you feel so much more secure in your all-American
gun-totin'
oil-happy lifestyle now that we have wasted upward of $300 billion
worth of
your child's future education budget, along with 1,600 disposable young
American lives and over 20,000 innocent Iraqi lives and about 10,000
severed American limbs and untold wads of our spiritual and moral
currency,
all to protect America from terrorism that is, by every account, only
getting worse? Nastier? More nebulous? More anti-American?

Here's something funny, in a
rip-your-patriotic-heart-out-and-spit-on-it
sort of way: Just last week, BushCo's State Department decided to kill
the
publication of an annual report on international terrorism. Why? Well,
because the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were
more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985. Isn't that
hilarious? Isn't that heartwarming? Your tax dollars at work,
sweetheart.

Lest you forget, this is what they do. They trim. They edit. They
censor.
BushCo kills what they do not like and fudges negative data where they
see
fit and completely rewrites whatever the hell they want, and that
includes
bogus WMD reports and CIA investigations and dire environmental studies
and
scientific proofs about everything from evolution to abortion and
pollution
and clean air, right along with miserable unemployment data and all
manner
of research pointing up the ill health of the nation, the spirit, the
world.

In other words, if BushCo doesn't like what comes out of their own
hobbled
agencies and their own funded studies, they do what any good
dictatorship
does: They annihilate it. Now that's good gummint!

Let's be clear: The obliteration of the National Counterterrorism
Center
report merely goes to prove what so many of us already know -- that
BushCo's brutish and borderline traitorous actions since they leveraged
9/11 to blatantly screw the nation have done exactly nothing to stem
the
tide of terrorism -- and, in fact, have, by most every measure,
apparently
increased the threat of terrorism. In other words, the world is a more
dangerous place because of George W. Bush. Is that clear enough?

Let's put it another way: Under Bush, in the past five years, the U.S.
has
made zero new friends. But we have made a huge number of new and
increasingly venomous enemies. And no, they don't hate us because of
our
malls, Dubya. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They don't
hate
us because of our low-cut jeans and our moronic 8 mpg Ford Expeditions
or
our corrupt Diebold voting system that snuck you into office.

They hate us, George, because of our policies. Anti-Muslim. Pro-Israel.
Oil-uber-alles. Anti-U.N. Anti-Kyoto. Anti-planet. Pro-war.
Pro-insularity.
Pseudo-swagger. Bogus staged "town hall" meetings stocked with
prescreened
monosyllabic Bush sycophants. Ego. Empire.

But here's the truly sad part, the hideous and depressing and
soul-shredding part about all those young kids in the U.S. military
right
now, all those mostly undereducated, lower-middle-class kids, most of
whom
aren't even old enough to buy beer and many of whom have barely had sex
and
many who got sucked into the military vortex in an honest attempt to
help
pay for a college education so they could go out and not find a decent
job
in this miserable economy. The sad part is all those kids in the
military
who've been trained/brainwashed to believe they are serving in Iraq to
protect America's freedom, to protect us from, well, something dark,
and
sinister, and deadly. When in fact, they're not. Not even close.

The truth is, we were never under threat from Iraq. There were never
any
WMDs, and Bush knew it. Our military is protecting nothing so much as
our
access to future stores of petroleum, nothing so much as helping set up
a
giant police station in Iraq to ensure surrounding nations don't get
all
uppity about just who controls the rights to those oil fields.

So let's get honest and just ask it outright: Is this a worthy use of
the
massive bloated machine that is the U.S. military? Of the largest and
most
advanced fighting force in the world? To protect the flow of oil to the
most gluttonous and wasteful and least accountable developed nation on
the
planet? Is this worth so many young American lives?

You already know the answer. Ask any oil exec. Any government
economist.
Any BushCo war hawk or auto manufacturer or the leaders of any major
manufacturing industry. Ask the president himself. They all say the
same
thing: You're goddamn right it is.

Here, then, is the warped, convoluted irony: We went to war under the
lie
of a Saddam-fueled terrorism threat that never existed. We are at war,
instead, to protect our oil and to establish regional control, an act
that,
in turn, has destabilized the Middle East even further and is actually
inciting much of the very terrorism we were ostensibly there to battle
in
the first place, thus producing a level of anti-U.S. hatred not even a
(still alive and apparently very chipper) Osama bin Laden could have
wet
dreamed. Isn't democracy fun?

We are not "spreading democracy" by invading Iraq. We are not giving a
gift
of a more peaceable Iraq to a grateful world. That is merely insidious
Republican PR spin. Right now, the U.S. military is, in short,
protecting
your right to a $3 gallon of gas, which will soon be $4 and then maybe
$5
and $6 as we are running out of the stuff faster than anyone thought
and
the fight for that which remains will only turn uglier and more violent
and
so I have to ask again, do you feel safer?

Because if you say yes, you are, quite simply, lying. Or delusional. Or
you
have had your brain edited by BushCo. Or those are some mighty powerful
drugs you are obviously taking and you might wish to consider switching
to
aspirin and wine and Fleshbot.com.

They say that violence is the last refuge of a desperate nation. And
violence under the guise of secrecy and outright lie such as BushCo has
foisted upon the nation is the last refuge of a nation of thugs. Yes,
I'm
looking at you, Rummy. I'm looking at you, Cheney. I'm not looking at
you,
Karl Rove, because looking at you makes my colon clench and looking at
you
makes birds die and looking at you makes small children feel hopeless
and
lost, like the world is full of black venomous hate and bilious
condescension that is aimed squarely at their heads, like a gun.

It's true. We are living in a nation run by overprivileged alcoholic
frat
boys and power-mad thugs. This much we know. This much we need to be
reminded of, over and over again, until we finally wake up.

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