War Announced As 'Brilliant' And 'Noble'
- From: "tony" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:05:21 +0800
War Announced As 'Brilliant' And 'Noble'
By Judith Moriarty
noahshouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
8-15-5
Cheney (Oct 30-04) stated "the invasion of Iraq will go down in
history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance".
President Bush stated this month [Aug-2005] "Your loved ones died
for a noble cause".
"The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has
recorded have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble
motives". Gandhi
If war is so brilliant and so noble why is it tha
fat-satiated-bellicose-arrogant-self-centered-egotistical -rich white men
aren't all out on the battlefield? How is it that a few cheap medals sent
off to those ripped and shredded; are the spoils of war for the
dispossessed, poor, marginalized, cannon fodder of generational war?
If war is so noble and brilliant why did those reservists from the
first Gulf War fiasco have to apply for welfare to receive the needed
medical care for themselves and their deformed offspring [depleted
uranium-anthrax shots]? What's so "noble" about begging for medical care,
living under a bridge, or being left behind in Vietnam?
It seems apparent that in time of 'war' those who identify
themselves as leaders-staying the course-liberating the multitudes-fighting
an elusive concept or ideology, might want to vacation with brilliance and
nobility in Iraq or search for Bin-Laden in the Afghan mountains? No, these
places are not Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or ranch living but hey, "nobility and
brilliance" aren't to be found at ease!
If war is so brilliant and noble where is the compensation? GWB has
taken, thus far, 319 vacation days. He is paid $1,123.00 per day [year round
mind you]. So far we have paid him $347,192.00 in vacation pay alone. Those
dying for noble causes are paid $49.00 per day. Per chance they have already
served once or twice in impossible conditions, they are sent off again and
again. If not this, then a "stop loss" order, keeps them from that get away
vacation or fly fishing in Wyoming! One is of the mind that they keep
sending these soldiers back until they die! I note there is no "stop loss"
for Foggy Bottom politicians taking off for fly fishing-slurping and
sunning!
Saddam is locked up [or so it's reported], Bin-Laden has disappeared
with his dialysis machine into the sunset-so why are we still in Iraq? Would
we be there at all if one of the world's largest oil fields wasn't
conveniently located here and everyone and his brother wanting them? Who
owns the Iraqi oil? Who has profited in the billions upon billions these
past few years as oil prices skyrocket? President Bush and Vice-President
Cheney aren't worried about heating their (our) homes, flying around in Air
Force One, or gas for their golf carts. Foggy Bottom politicians aren't
worried with gas write-offs, and automatic cost of living yearly raises-plus
all the perks of medical/prescription/hospital care [which we still don't
have]. Part time workers/sub-contractors, the new American workforces don't
get raises, health insurance or ha, vacations!
Between Afghanistan and Iraq we have spent to date approximately 349
billion! Veteran's benefits are being cut along with housing subsidies. In
the midst of terror alerts, warnings, retina scans, body cavity searches,
shoeless toddlers at airports, one asks who the enemy is. If we are so
vulnerable, and so at risk of imminent attack, why are all of our
manufacturing jobs, steel plants, machine shops, ship building, textile
plants, and American bases, being shipped overseas or closed down? Why are
Americans put through the humiliation of body searches by GED dropouts,
while millions of illegal immigrants pour across our borders [from all lands
mind you] yearly. What's wrong with this picture?
How do you support 'generational war' with sub-contracting jobs [no
benefits-no health-no insurance], convenience store clerks, Wal-Mart
Greeters, Home Depot Associates, groundskeepers, guest workers at
resorts/tourist Mecca's, prison guards, black jack dealers, show girls in
Vegas, and garbage men? How? How are domestic needs going to be met for our
elderly, special needs, veterans, and homeless when over 5 billion is being
spent monthly to install 'democracy' and fight an 'ideology' in a land the
size of California. Do we dismantle ours so that they might experience our
triple ID, body cavity search freedom?
If we are to believe the insanity that we are killing thousands of
our own, and thousands of foreigners, waiting to be liberated into
democracy, then what pray tell is democracy, if nobody is free and all are
suspect? The rich and well connected politically, aren't subjected to insane
searchers on their corporate flights! You don't see private schools [for the
well to do and politician's children] being searched by police and drug
sniffing dogs! You don't see recruiters dogging the footsteps of their
children, promising them that college education that will never be realized
on Mom's Wal-Mart wages and Daddy's unemployment check.
Nah-words like noble, courageous, valor, honor, duty, are mere
scripted nonsense. Who will tie a yellow ribbon [made in China no less]
round the amputated arms or legs of youngsters maimed and shattered? It's
easy to tend a flag or a ribbon. No worry over screams of pain,
unemployment, homelessness, mindlessness, or forever anguish. Noble doesn't
pay the rent, heat the house, or provide for one's children. To date I know
of no utility company or landlord that will take a drawer full of medals or
old Army gear for payment. "Brilliance" isn't going to buy that special
equipped car for the vet with missing limbs! Rest assured the billions gone
missing in Iraq [fraudulent contractors etc], won't be arriving by check at
their doorsteps. The obscene profits of the oil hucksters that they fought
so nobly for won't be taking care of their life time needs, or putting their
children through school. Patronizing, condescending, empty words are
meaningless in the real world of grief, pain and needs. In the end they
proved to be a joke, at some exclusive black tie dinner, as GWB made a
mockery of looking under tables and chairs, for those [ha-ha] "weapons of
mass destruction". God knows there will be no veteran's shelters down at the
ranch or at Kennebunkport [George Senior also vacationed while nobility
died]. No war isn't a cheap joke nor is it a perfunctory 'they died for a
noble cause'. Oil, trophy homes, yachts, exotic vacations, off-shore tax
free accounts, and college educations for the profiteer's of war isn't
'noble'.
I think the words of Smedley Butler, Commanding General U.S. Marines
[one of our most decorated soldiers-served 34 years] are a little more
insightful than the scripted public relations jabberwocky. I believe that it
takes a man, who has seen and experienced war first hand, to inform society
of its inhumanity, not those who costume themselves in heroics. "War is a
racket. I was a gangster for Wall Street: I helped make Mexico and
especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914 , make Haiti and
Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in; I
helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown
Brothers, in 1909-12; I bought light to the Dominican Republic for American
sugar interests in 1916; and I helped make Honduras "right" for the American
fruit companies in 1903".
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been
bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has
captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge-even to ourselves-that
we've been so credulous". Carl Sagan
"War should ONLY be declared by the authority of the people, whose
toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government
which is to reap its fruits" James Madison
"A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate [or
select jm] its successors..Who wields power is not important, provided that
the hierarchical structure remains always the same." George Orwell-1984
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have
come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact,
was false." Bertrand Russell
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to
religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler
whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less
easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
Aristotle
"God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and
unshakeable faith that he was sent to us by God to save Germany." Herman
Goering
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot
easier---just so long as I'm the dictator." GWB-Dec 18-2000
"They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your
patriotic duty to go to war to have yourselves slaughtered at their command.
But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice
in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation
in any age has ever been declared by the people." Eugene Debs
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its
institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing----to
watch over. Institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing and
clothing can wear out or become ragged. To be loyal to rags, that is the
loyalty of un-reason. It is pure animal. The citizen who thinks he sees that
the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet, holds his peace,
and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he
may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it
is his duty to agitate anyway." Mark Twain
Most alarming, in all aspects of today's society; is how slavish,
acquiescent, unquestioning, passive, and apathetic men have become in
following the edicts, policies, corrupt contractual agreements, insane
regulatory rules, and orders from those dressed in authority.
>From an early age, I realized that man was his own worst enemy.
Growing up in coal mining and steel mill country; it appalled me to see men
in security uniforms, beating down working men because they wanted decent
wages and better working conditions. The robber barons who ordered such
attacks were nowhere on the scene. It seemed to me that for a pittance man
could be hired on for any and all atrocities! As a small child I could see
that men would even kill their neighbors for a buck.
During the Civil Rights days, I remember coming home from school and
watching horrified as white people screamed, swore, and attacked Black
children, trying to go to school or adults wanting to vote. The world
watched when students at Kent State were shot by our own military men!
Various protests have seen people kicked, gassed, punched, and shot with
various weapons of plastic and wooden bone shattering bullets. Helmeted
troops crash into people's homes across the land, supposedly looking for
drugs, duh, with our borders an open sieve. A man is in the lobby of his
building, taking out his keys, and is dead in moments from a hail of
bullets! A man [Brattleboro Vermont] seeks sanctuary in a church and is shot
dead in a matter of seconds. No matter the horror or injustice; a simple
hearing, a whitewash commission, settles the matter until the next outrage.
I watch these Ninja dressed troops beating down citizens at conventions or
protesting over their jobs being sent to Third World countries, and I
wonder, will I be standing next to them at the grocery store, or will they
be playing with their children in city parks after their mercenary work is
done? Who are these men and whose orders do they follow that causes them,
for a mere few dollars, to beat down fellow Americans?
Perhaps that's the terror of today. When you see a man shot
execution style, on his way to work, by plain clothes men-is anybody safe?
His crime was that of being from Brazil (dark skin) and wearing a denim
jacket. And men followed orders, from someone, to "shoot to kill" him. And
they did!
Men march off to a foreign land to shoot and bomb strangers. Most
likely the majority of them could not find this land on a global map. No
doubt the majority of troops in Iraq, know next to nothing of the region's
history of war, and how many before them have died for rich men's "noble"
purposes. Doesn't matter---someone ordered a war for vague reasons and
everybody went. Some said it was for "weapons of mass destruction, liberty,
democracy, voting, an ideology and now a concept"? Nobody talks about oil.
Word has it, that somewhere in the distant future, history will write of how
"brilliant" it all was. Thankfully everyone dead and maimed can rest easy
knowing that it was for a "noble cause". "I can hire one half of the working
class to kill the other half." Jay Gould, robber baron 19th century. Here we
are in the 21st century and the killing continuesneighbor killing neighbor,
stranger killing stranger, for the robber barons now called transnational
corporations and hucksters of plunder.
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