Un Fucking Believable. Well, I believe it...but I don't. I don't know.
Captain America was set to come home next week. They were in Kuwait. They had been decontaminated. They had a flight date set to come back home. And yesterday...BushCo decided to stick a big spiked strap-on in his ass.
They're not coming home. Where they're going, we don't know. How long they're going for, we don't know. But for the third time in 14 months, he's been lied to...and he's at the end of his rope. I didn't think I'd ever see him get this way...but he's about ready to crack. And I think I already have.
I'm sure some of you have friends or family in a similar situation. There are roughly 135,000 people getting fucked right along with Sparxxx. They're fighting an unnecessary war. They're fighting for people that don't give a fuck about them. They're being toyed with like pieces on a Stratego board. And they have no real choice but to sit there and accept it.
War is the dumbest idea ever conjured up by mankind. We hate each other. We hurt each other. We kill each other. Sometimes, it's necessary -- you need to defend yourself. But this isn't necessary. We're fighting against a country that poses NO threat to us whatsoever. They never did. And yet we've been in there for over a year, and thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans and others -- all human beings regardless of what "side" they're on -- die for no reason.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their boy band of evil fucks don't care. They've never experienced the horrors of war firsthand. They don't even really know anyone who has. Only one of the Congressmen who voted for this war has a child in the military. They have no personal stake in this thing. They can sit back and play soldier from a desk. They don't know what it's like for these soldiers, their friends or their families. And they don't care. Don't think for a second that they do.
How can they put young men and women in this position when they've never been willing to do it themselves? Conservatives will call it "courageous leadership." I call it the very definition of cowardice. If Bush's daughters were on the front line, we wouldn't be there. If Paul Wolfowitz or John Ashcroft had to suit up and go into Fallujah, we wouldn't be there. But they're not. They don't have to live with the consequences of these stupid decisions. They're spending our money, and they're spending our blood. They have everything to gain from this "war"...if anything can be gained. But they have nothing to lose.
The vast majority of Americans are now against this war. And yet the government that is supposed to represent the will of the people doesn't care. They're staying the course -- the stupid, asinine course. Fuck us all because they refuse to simply come forward and say "I fucked up." Even Senior Bush has said he didn't think we should have gone in.
Maybe you don't know anyone going through this thing. Maybe you have no personal stake in it. Maybe you really believe we're doing the right thing in Iraq. You're crazy, but that's beside the point. Put yourself in the shoes of those soldiers right now. Put yourself in my shoes. Pretend that your best friend has been over there for a year...that they were ready to come home next week...and now they're being told they can't come home -- and that they don't know when they will be able to come home. Put yourself in that position -- or try to -- and tell me how you'd feel.
Pretty shitty, probably.
His return was the one thing I've had to look forward to for the last few months. I was going through my daily existence KNOWING that everything would be okay and that I'd be able to go to DC later this month and hang out with him again. Life was about to be normal again.
But not now.
I'm almost past the point of being angry. I'm almost numb. The roller coaster ride I've been on over the past year and a half has basically drained me of any emotion I had. And that's me sitting here. Imagine what it's done to the guys that are actually there.
How any American can be okay with putting their fellow man in this position is amazing to me. Accepting it is not okay. It's our right to speak out against this bullshit. In fact, it's our duty. Telling yourself and others that what we're doing is right...and that what these soldiers are going through is okay...it's not just un-American.
It's inhuman.
Bring 'em back. Not next year. Not next month. Not next week. Now.
Because THAT, George, is the right thing to do. And you know it.
-- O
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