9/11 was Pearl Harbor, World War II popular songs,
Remember the Maine
All these and more were the propaganda dreams of militarist right wing, most of whom never served a day in their lives in the US military and certainly would not encourage their good, intelligent children to do so. They are followers of Dick "I had better things to do" Cheney and hope to get in on the looting of another middle eastern country, as their friends and relatives did in the Green Zone all in the tradition of Romans in the First Century BC.
All of this is fine and good, but it neither wins wars nor advances the United States of America, so consider
- No taxes were raised to pay for the invasion of Iraq because "the oil would pay for it". In fact, taxes were lowered in the full knowledge that a military exercise would take place. Dishonorable and stupid.
- "They would greet us with flowers", except we stayed so we could loot Iraq's resources. At least Rome's leadership took tribute and let the city-states they defeated continue their lives.
- There was a clear intent to invade without the tools to govern, even though there is a general staff position called "Civil Affairs" in all division and higher military organizations within the US Army and USMC which is designed to assure continuity or creation of governments in defeated areas. But, those estimates of resources needed by a general officer were "far overstated".
- Iraq did not let the British off easily from the end of WWI until the Hashimite kings were removed by a military coup in 1958.
- We have spent over 1,000,000,000,000 United Stated Dollars in the past 8 years to accomplish this "without cost" effort.
The "Holy of Holies" at World Trade Center Plaza is only a symbol to create more anger and to elect Teabag Republicans who would have our country invade or, at minimum bomb, hopefully with nuclear weapons, Iran, ignoring the damage which such an action would bring. There has always been a loud segment of this group, and they get media attention because of their outrageous rhetoric. All we have to do is to listen to five seconds of Tom Tancredo, another "too busy to serve" chickenhawk, to see one of their leaders.
They are like the polluting industrialist who pours poison into the water supply and lets the down stream residents worry about cleaning up the polluters' mess.
This whole outrage is a well-designed advertising-propaganda campaign aimed at the large uninformed American electorate to help the Republicans gain political power where they can once again loot the Treasury through privatized outsourced contracting of government services at the expense of the taxpayers and the greatly needed and failing infrastructure. Who would have guessed that Americans would support this kind of Soviet-style stupidity.
Maybe it is time to start reminding voters of this. |
