Shame: If this has been posted already. Read again any way and when you

[MSgt213]

talk to your congressmen and women suggest they read it also.

by georgia10
Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 03:51:32 PM PDT

I am ashamed. I am ashamed of this President. Aren't you? After watching his press conference today, a sense of shame overtook me. I'm ashamed that he took to the podium today as if he emptied out a container of laughing gas. I'm ashamed of a President who has the temerity to laugh when asked a question about war. I'm ashamed of the whores of the fourth estate who care more about having the honor of being the butt of one of the President's jokes than about exposing the truth to the American people. I'm ashamed that millions of my fellow Americans are so scared and so desperate for leadership that they believe the President's bullshit.

I am ashamed. I'm ashamed of this President, this megalomaniac hellbent on leaving his assprint on the map of the Middle East, no matter how much destruction is wrought and no matter how much blood flows in the streets of lands that never threatened us. I'm ashamed that when I see the American flag waiving, images of flag-draped coffins flash in my mind. I'm ashamed of Freedom's MarchTM. Ashamed when I see villages reduced to rubble. Ashamed when I see the tiny little corpses. God, they're so painfully tiny--lined up in a row, little angels wrapped in colorful blankets that starkly contrast against their gray-tinged faces. Ashamed when I see wailing Iraqis slam their hands against plain, unvarnished coffins, over and over, asking "Why? Is this democracy? Why?" When I see those image of funerals, of broken families, I want to crawl into my TV, I want to go to them and grab their slumped shoulders and scream "I'm sorry, good god, I'm so sorry. I want to leave, I want us to leave, believe me. But they won't listen...No one listens anymore."

I'm ashamed that the word "massacre" is even uttered in connection with our actions in Iraq. I'm ashamed it's not just one massacre that is alleged, but two. I'm ashamed it's gotten to the point that I can't even tell this little voice inside of me to shut up, that little voice that says maybe, just maybe it could be true. That the impossible may be plausible. Before this war, I would have rejected such claims outright. But that voice of plausibility is the consequence of those black hoods. It's the consequence of those leashes, those snarling dogs. It's the consequence of those detainees chained to bedframes. Of naked pyramids. Of forced sex acts. Of beatings and blood-streaked floors.

I am ashamed. Ashamed that Justice is no longer blindfolded, but gagged. Ashamed that in America, in AMERICA, I can only protest in "free speech zones" the size of postage stamps. Ashamed that by the time I'll take my oath as an officer of the court to support the Constitution, I'll be swearing to uphold a tattered document that has managed to survive over 200 years only to be shredded by this President in less than eight.

http://www.dailykos.com/

[lyonn]

1. Ashamed, I am ashamed

This is such a sad and perfectly described condition of so many of us out here in the unheard blank space of America.

[uppityperson]

2. k&r

[babylonsister]

3. Wow. E-mailing to everyone I know. Thanks. nt

[ClayZ]

4. K&R

[Tsiyu]

5. Another kick

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

6. Add Embarrassed as Hell

[GeorgeGist]

7. One of The Greatest Con Jobs in History...

is coming undone. I'm ashamed I once deceived myself that it was enough to believe it was true; while dismissing the roots of it's history and ... it's future.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. kick

:kick:

[donkeyotay]

9. Yes, I am ashamed. America has been laid low

And all because everything supposedly changed on one date, one date where a bad thing happened to us. Why this excused torture, invasions, rigged elections, rigged press conferences, bodies left to rot in NOLA... I do not know. But I do know that Bush put his people in place to carry out these polices before that date. I do know that everything he has done in it's name has been a disaster for this country. I do know that he swore to uphold the Constitution, but from watching his speeches, it is obvious that he doesn't even know what it stands for.

[alterfurz]

10. relevant bumpersticker recently seen in Madison, WI

buSHAMErica