Another kidnapped hostage dead and very little outcry. It’s just another piece of meat that has been thrown to the dogs disguised as towel wearing scum of this earth.
How long are we going to sit back and take it? Social Security, the ports being run by an Arab country, Cheney’s hunting mishap, murders of two young women in Aruba and New York, American Idol, and The Sopranos gather more attention than what is continuing to happen to OUR men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maybe they should have a new reality TV show called America’s Most Wounded to wake us up to the reality of war. We are all doubting Tom’s; we won’t believe it until we see it. This current administration doesn’t want us to see it. They’re afraid to hear that they have made a grave mistake. More people need to see the courage of people such as Tammy Duckworth (pictured above) who lost both legs in the Middle East. May God bless her as she channels her energy in her pursuit for a seat in Congress.
March madness is a term relegated to the upcoming NCAA Basketball Tournament; another diversion from the realism that’s facing 130,000 odd soldiers each day. There should be another form of March madness where the true patriots and leaders of this country rise up and lead a rebellion to put an end to the mess that Cheney and company have put us in.
How can you not get mad when you read about the following?
- 8,000 American soldiers have been SEVERELY injured (many of these would have been killed in earlier wars
- The amputation rate has doubled from previous wars to 6 percent of those injured. Since 2000, the demand for prosthetic services has increased more than 30 percent, and is now funded at $1 billion annually by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- "What we’re seeing from Afghanistan and Iraq that’s really new to us is the blast injuries: the people, who get hit by one of these homemade bombs, and because of body armor, have survived," said VA spokesman Phil Budahn.
The White House combats these facts with their own spin which many conservatives guzzle down like they were free martinis provided by various lobbyists.
The same group, Progress for America, that spent more than $35 million to help re-elect George W. Bush in 2004 and nearly $10 million advocating the president's second-term agenda last year will soon launch a reported $500,000 TV campaign in Minnesota aimed at boosting public opinion about the war on the eve of the 2006 elections.
It's maddening when you see millions upon millions of dollars being spent to put dummies in office when they could be spent on the thousands that have been maimed for life. That’s the least that could be done for them – but when you don’t see it you don’t believe it.
"Naturally the common people don’t want war……but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
This quote is attributed to Hermann Goering one of the principal leaders of Nazi Germany. Read it slowly and see if it doesn’t apply to what is happening now.
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