Sorry State of Affairs, Huh, Cindy?
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Sad news yesterday when it was reported Cindy Sheehan was taking leave of the antiwar movement. Despite all the popularity she’d achieved in the war against the war, Sheehan claims the non-responsive Democrats in Congress after the mid-term elections last fall tipped the scales.
In her postings on the liberal online Daily Kos, Sheehan wrote the Iraqi war peace movement “often puts personal egos above peace and human life.” She became involved with the antiwar crowd following the death of her 24-year-old son, Casey, in April 2004 during a firefight near Baghdad. And now she’s come to a sad conclusion Casey “did indeed die for nothing.”
Sheehan then founded the Gold Star Families for Peace. She achieved national attention in August 2005 when she held a vigil outside Decider George’s shit-kicker’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. Decider George ignored her then, but the asshole probably was crying with delight yesterday with her announcement.
Beyond the horrific war, Sheehan wrote the US has become “a fascist corporate wasteland” and she is not going home to return being a full-time mother to her surviving children. She not only lost her son, she lost a husband and amassed a pile of medical bills.
“I am going to take whatever I have left and go home,” she wrote. The horrible part is that Sheehan has finally reached the end-point when hope against hope the nit-wits, assholes and hair-brains that started this shit in Iraq would end it, but it is not going to be.
“I will try to maintain and nuture some positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.”
Apparently, Sheehan indeed chose the right word: Mendacious also means lying, deceitful; given to or marked by deliberate concealment or misrepresentation of the truth. Decider George, Dufus Dick Chaney, Wolfman, Pappa Don Rumsfeld, and a host of other brain-dead assholes are, and always have been, “mendacious” to the freaking max.
DeDe Miller, Sheehan’s sister, told CNN Cindy’s online letter was emotional. “She cried for quite a bit after writing it,” Miller said.
Anyone with any sense of decency and a fright for the future should cry after reading it.
Decider George’s Memorial
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As the US marks another Memorial Day, the vicious lies and propaganda spewing forth from Decider George and his crowd of low-life henchmen is enough to make those who died for this country roll over in their graves and weep. The so-called patriotic adage of “My Country Right Or Wrong” is a cause for far more alarm than Osama and his boys.
Today Decider George was at Arlington National Cemetery trying to tie the loose ends of a horrific war with the heart strings of America. He continued with his usual “we must stand firm” bullshit as he gave his little talk amid gravesites dating back to the Civil War. Decider George has the total gall and a cold-hearted attitude to ask for sacrifice when he himself never went to war and his two bobbsie-twin daughters have not enlisted. Prince Harry at least put his neck out and was about to go to Iraq, Bush’s daughters are like their daddy: Lazy-assed, chicken shit.
“Now this hallowed ground receives a new geberation of heroes,” Decider George said at Arlington. “The men and women who gave their lives in such places as Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad and Ramadi.” He was apparently trying to connect the freaking bloody dots between battles sites in 1860, 1917 and 1942 into a modern hell hole created by his lies and deception.
And on Saturday, in keeping with the continuing lie, even if the lie has been fairly-well proven, Dufus Dick Chaney gave the commencement address at West Point and babbled halfway incoherent about the tie between 9/11 and Al-Qeada, the same kind of shit he’s babbled about for the past four years. Even in the face of a Senate Intelligence Committee Report last week that the White House was well informed of what would happen if the US invaded Iraq, before the March 2003 invasion: Just what’s going on there now. Dufus Dick kept the terror loop going as he attempted to bridge the gap between reality and his view of the world. “Their ultimate goal is to establish a totalitarian empire, a caliphate, with Baghdad as its capital,” Dufus Dick told his captive crowd of about 1,000 new soon-to-be second lieutenants. Even as those guys get set go serve their country in Iraq, they apparently have no idea Dufus Dick and Decider George are pieces of lying horse shit.
And the so-called war of terror? According to a report from Transactional Records Action Clearhouse, 85 percent of all the charges brought by the Department of Homeland Security the past three years were mundane visa problems. Out of the 814,073 cases, only 12 were terror related. What have these assholes been doing? Decider George screams about the war on terror and these clowns seemingly aren’t involved at all.
And to make matters even more stupid, Alabama’s DHS Website was shut down this week after it reported that gay rights advocates, environmentalists, antiwar people, among others, could be suspected terrorists. Officials at ‘Bama’s Homeland Security said the site will be up and running again soon, but nothing about gays, or tree-huggers or global-warming types being terrorists. This is some way to run a freaking operation, is it not?
And, to top this Memorial Celebrations, the US’s top soldier, Gen. Peter Pace apparently had a brain fart when discussing the numbers of GIs killed the past four years in Iraq as compared to the number killed Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center. Pistol Pete said those killed were quickly approaching the number that died in the Twin Towers. This dipwad is the freaking chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What an idiot: so far 3,441 soldiers have died since the Iraq war started and only 2,996 people died on 9/11. Pistol Pete is as big an asshole as his boss.
What to say this Memorial Day? Lord have mercy!
The Flatulence of Decider George
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As the earth warms, toxic, noxious gases are released from anuses of certain bottom-dwelling, obtuse, but insolent creatures. Quite a number of these human-like slugs grow up to be president.
Decider George has once again shown his ability to understand which direction the wind is blowing, and, once again he’s demonstrated the fact the world has a lot to fear from the sonofabitch. Even in the face of the mounting and overwhelming evidence human beings have created an enormous time bomb ticking quickly away, Decider George still holds on to the bottom line: Profits. Global warming’s biggest contribution (and awareness) is the true inconvenient truth the world’s economies have to slow down, if not cease, in order to stop an almost-unstoppable, catastrophic event.
According to the AFP News Service (Agence France-Presse) on Saturday the global environmentalist group, Greenpeace, published a leaked document revealing that Decider George will shoot down a global warning declaration supposedly set to highlight next month’s Group of Eight summit in Germany. In a situation sickly similar to the Kyoto Accords bullshit from the mid-1990s, the US will once again undermine concerns just about everybody else on the planet has: The earth is warming, and quickly, and because of it, some real ugly shit is about to hit the fan.
AFP reports Greenpeace’s leaked document says: “The United States still has serious, fundamental concerns about this draft statement.” The G8 nations plan to raise overall energy efficiencies by 20 percent by 2020, just 13 quick years away. The document goes on to say: “The treatment of climate change runs counter to our overall position and crosses multiple ‘red lines’ in terms of what we simply cannot agree to.” (AFP did not report what those so-called ‘red lines’ are or what they could be — might be the old bottom line, “in the red/or black” of finance).
Decider George won’t be moved. The document continues is a similar vein: The proposals at the G8 “are fundamentally incompatible with the (US) president’s approach to climate change.”
What the hell is Decider George’s approach? Last year he still wasn’t sure if global warning was made by humans, despite several scientific reports establishing that fact. The polar ice packs melting, animals dying (especially, and most chilling, the demise of certain frogs, an air-quality control similiar to doves/pigeons in mines).
Just last week, 15 chairs of US House of Representatives committees wrote to Decider George concerned about US plans to weaken the G8 climate-change accords. Nothing came to naught. Decider George has indeed created a doomsday device and it’s not just one piece of machinery, or even one single thought, but a multi-handed scheme placed in every corner of human existence, already igniting, spreading.
And another dismal bit: US News&World Report has a story Saturday about something hundreds of millions of people, especially Americans, take for total granted: tap water. The news magazine says in studies by all sorts of people in and out of government that $250 billion to $500 billion will have to be spent over the next 20 years to maintain the drinking-water and waste-water systems. Major culprit: hundreds of thousands of miles of underground pipe laid in place generations ago is breaking down.
Add that to an infrastructure (road, rail systems, public transportation) that would make some third-world country proud.
And Decider George passes horrifying gases onto the upturn faces of a public unaware of the shitfire coming lickety-split over the degrading land fill.
Decider George should be canned instead of him continually sitting on the can and spewing out a flatulence reaching into the heavens.
Anguish of the Medes
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What is private grief? Go off alone and cry? Hide it and tough it out, in private, within your own self? What, for hard-crap’s sake, is public grief?
This morning a very private, horrific heartbreak became public, which in turn, touched a sad, and increasingly-abhorrent nerve. Coffee ingestion was relocated to the back patio, out of eye and ear of the television in the living room. As the war grinds in Iraq, the public anguish of parents, wives, children, anyone remotely connected to the family of a killed GI, can get splattered all over the news. Parents do not like to see other parents in total grief over children. The pain and empathy can sometimes overwhelm, i.e., ‘Except for the Grace of the Lord, go I.’
On the Today show this morning was an interview with family of Pfc. Joseph Anzack, Jr., a 20-year-old kid from Torrance, Ca., whose body was recovered from the Euphrates River, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. He’s the first found of three soldiers missing now for nearly two weeks after an ambush wiped out an entire patrol. The media has been covering this story on the ground in Iraq – massive manhunt, film of US and Iraq soldiers jumping around, digging through trash, buildings, old cars, etc. –and now the shift is to grief.
In one of Woody Allen’s earlier films, Bannas, Howard Cosell interviews a dying South American dictator as he is prone on the steps of a courthouse. The dictator had just been victim to an assiassination and Cosell, in classic Wide World of Sports/Mohammad Ali interview, asks the shot leader how does it feel and what will he be doing next. Very funny, but an absurd glimpse into public grief.
What possible question could be asked of a grieving parent or relative? Or even a friend? How does it feel, what are you feeling? What are you going to do next?
You’ve got to be shitting me!
Since Vietnam, the first of the so-called television wars where conflict was pumped into the world’s living rooms, technology has more-than-rapidly increased since then and the dinner table has become a real-time open forum to events. And the grief. The media is everywhere: In the land of media everything is up for grabs. Feed the machine 24/7 and grief is just another story to be told.
On NBC.com, is a couple of graphs which really shows the grief of what’s going on in the Middle East — Twenty-two-year-old Spc. Daniel Seitz of Pensacola, Fla., a friend of Anzack’s and on the ground in Iraq: “I just angers me that it’s just another friend I’ve got to lose and deal with, because I’ve already lost 13 friends since I’ve been here and I don’t know if I can take it.”
How long does the world have to take it? Don’t the cries of Anzack’s family and comrade-in-arms move any damn, sorry-assed sonofabitch in Washington. Shit no!
Yesterday, Decider George pulled out some old declassified Al-Qaeda intelligence in an attempt to give some credence to the shithole he’s created in Iraq. During some half-assed speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, he said off a two-year-old intel document Osama and his boys are scheming to come to the US and blow the shit out of us, and he’s doing it from Iraq. No, not exactly. Osama is supposedly somewhere in Pakistan, but Decider George wants to use the old 9/11, Osama Bin Laden scare to take the glare off the real reality of Iraq.
And today Decider George during a press conference retorted again that his little talk yesterday that the threat from Osma’s boys was real and worthy of confidence.
“I’m credible because I read the intelligence,” Decider George said.
This morning, however, on CBS New’s Early Show an analyst involved with an upcoming Senate Intelligence Committee report, said Decider George and his cronies were warned prior to the beginning of “shock and awe” in March 2003 that the US being in Iraq would actually increase terrorist effectiveness.
The analyst, Paul Kurtz, said: “Prior to our invasion of Iraq…Iraq was not a fertile ground for terrorist activity…” But Decider George’s hard-headed, hard-nose incompetence led to now “a safe haven in Iraq for terrorists.”
Why the shit didn’t Decider George read and heed that bit of intelligence?
And the storm is building even bigger. The “surge” has not only failed, but has made life on the killing grounds of Iraq even worse. This month there’s a 25 percent rise in combat deaths for US soldiers: 82 killed, which puts the rate at 3.5 GIs a day.
If more and more stories of grief, pouring from parents and families like those of young Pfc. Anzack, are exposed maybe the ship-of-course this nation is fast traveling will be altered. Don’t hold your freaking breath, though. Decider George and Dufus Dick Chaney are hard-nuts to crack. They don’t give a shit.
Maybe the medes of the media will turn on those sonofbitches and lay open the ugly innards, and the grief will rest in the House of Decider George forever.
Technical ‘Secret Surge’
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The hand is quicker than the eye, and a double-shuffle is twice as fast. An inept laggard, however, can be just as deceiving. Cover tracks by being quiet, overlap schedules attempting to be real clever: Words and smoke screens, a taste of governmental hocus-pocus. In this case, playing with lives.
According to sfgate.com, Decider George will have nearly doubled the US ground forces in Iraq by Christmas. By using the very-public “surge” announced in January, coupled with requiring troops already there to extend missions from 12 months to 15, Decider George has what one guy said was required more than four years ago: 200,000 American soldiers in Iraq. We’re talking Vietnam-era numbers here, boys!
Of course, at the height of Vietnam about 500,000 troops were there. However, 200,000 is a mean figure no matter how you record it. Seven US soldiers died Saturday in Iraq, putting the death toll at 71 already killed this month – Since December 1, 531 servicemen have been killed, an average of three dying a day. The US has lost 3,421 military personnel since March 2003 when this illegal, immoral and highly-dubious war started.
More to come…