American's Did This - For What?

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2790.shtml
We have been lied to and have gone to war against a people who not only never meant us any harm but who were also themselves victims of the thug our government had befriended, helped to elevate to power, armed, and cosseted -- until our government decided the thug needed to be disciplined. So, first our government rained bombs and depleted uranium on the thug’s people without bending a hair on his head. When the bombed people rose up and tried to take down the thug, our leaders helped him to suppress them. Then, our leaders continued the sanctions (surely war and sanctions combined must have been a siege strategy outlawed somewhere, somehow shortly after the demise of the Middle Ages -- and certainly, in spirit, after the formation of the United Nations) that killed 500,000 people, most of them children. That was the Clinton guy. His lackey said, “It was worth it.” Think about it -- worth it. What was “it” that was so worthy of a child’s blood on their hands was never made clear. Money, I suppose. A competitive edge. Profit. Territory. Bases. Power. Resources. Markets. It always is.

So, we were persuaded to bomb them again and invade them -- first to liberate them, then to bring them democracy, and, finally, to protect them from anarchy and civil war. This last claim is being made after it has become known that nearly 1.4 million Iraqis have died since the invasion and twice that number was forced to flee into exile to secure their lives!

We, the duped, discovered our error, and voted for other leaders. The war went on just as if we hadn’t voted. They don’t take our wishes more seriously than they do the Iraqis.’ People are expendable. Always plenty more where we came from. Call it the “sanctity of human life,” and send in the cannon fodder. The Romans called the likes of us -- the people -- “proletarians,” or producers of offspring, “proles” in Latin. Proletarians, having no other wealth, contribute people whereas they, the ones who kill because it’s worth “it,” are special and unique and so produce war, poverty, and injustice for us and riches and comfort for themselves.

Let’s face it: the criminals ‘R them. We are the dupes, the tools, the taxpayers. Hate them, if you have to hate anybody. This is not to say that we can exonerate ourselves of the crimes our leaders have committed in our name, but while we hubristically revel in impotent self-loathing the Iraqi genocide goes on -- as does much else that is criminal and anti-human in the world. All of which could change if we didn’t embrace defeat and left the stage without a fight -- or, worse, played along with the bloody farce. It’s time we concentrated on something other than ourselves -- our guilt, our shame, our failure, and our stupidity. Lives depend on it -- and lives are worth it.
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