How does it feel to have a shotgun blasted in your face by two guys with
almost as many DUIs as draft deferments?
Just ask Iraqis. For that matter, just ask Americans.
Both countries are unraveling now, if at different velocities, and the cause
is the same for each. The sheer incompetence of George Bush and ***** Cheney
is eclipsed only by their pathological compulsion to externalize their own
self-loathing, both of which maladies have now been fully visited upon an
unprepared and now - literally and figuratively - much tortured world.
On the day after September 11, 2001 (as distinct from another September 11,
in 1973 - the day that America & Nixon launched a surprise attack on
democracy and human rights in Chile and installed the murderous twenty-year
Pinochet regime in a bloody coup), the French paper Le Monde gave voice to
France's empathy for America by headlining its edition with gracious words
of solidarity. We, of course, repaid in kind just a year later by trashing
them viciously (remember "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" and "freedom
fries"?) for having the audacity to think invading Iraq might be a bad idea.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0302-23.htm
"We are all Americans", Le Monde said. Hmm. Maybe then. Certainly not now.
Today, we are all Harry Whittingtons.
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