thetransplant (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thetransplant) wrote,@ 2005-12-31 22:06:00 |
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Where is Walter Cronkite
Two hours until the bell tolls, and where am I? Suburban hell. Once again. I fell a bit like Bilbo, getting cabin fever in the Shire. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, MOUNTAINS!
Well, what have I learned in the past month?
I guess getting a blowjob is an impeachable offense, but spying on Americans on American soil without a warrant is not.
When it's "Who outed Valeria Plame?" the white house responds, "Wasn't me!" When it's "There are secret US torture bases in former Eastern Bloc countries" it's "Who snitched?" "The NSA has spied on Americans over 30 times since 9/11 without a warrant, not even the 'secret warrant' required by the USA PATRIOT Act," the white house wants to know "Who's giving this secret to our enemies? You're only helping the terrorists!"
How many times have I heard the same tiresome line, we're fighting for democracy in Iraq by polluting it here? The USA PATRIOT Act has been extended. Did it take George Lucas to tell us that this is how democracy ends? With thunderous applause?
Where is Walter Cronkite to tell us that Iraq is nothing but a stalemate? The Shiites will bide their time until we leave until they run in and crush the Sunnis, or vice-versa. And what of the Kurds? Do they not deserve their revenge? Isn't the Bath party not a deserving target of that revenge?
Years ago, we had a war in Vietnam, which is now known more as an verb than a noun. This Blatant Disregard for human life in Iraq is offensive. Thousands of Americans dead, and do you know what they're not telling you? Those are the men and women who died IN-COUNTRY, not the ones they shipped off to die in Germany or Turkey or Kuwait City (which I heard from one of our fighting men is the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen).
LOTR: "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?"
Or Star Wars, Episode 4, as we beg for some sanity: Help me, Walter Cronkite. You're my only hope.
Two hours until the bell tolls, and where am I? Suburban hell. Once again. I fell a bit like Bilbo, getting cabin fever in the Shire. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, MOUNTAINS!
Well, what have I learned in the past month?
I guess getting a blowjob is an impeachable offense, but spying on Americans on American soil without a warrant is not.
When it's "Who outed Valeria Plame?" the white house responds, "Wasn't me!" When it's "There are secret US torture bases in former Eastern Bloc countries" it's "Who snitched?" "The NSA has spied on Americans over 30 times since 9/11 without a warrant, not even the 'secret warrant' required by the USA PATRIOT Act," the white house wants to know "Who's giving this secret to our enemies? You're only helping the terrorists!"
How many times have I heard the same tiresome line, we're fighting for democracy in Iraq by polluting it here? The USA PATRIOT Act has been extended. Did it take George Lucas to tell us that this is how democracy ends? With thunderous applause?
Where is Walter Cronkite to tell us that Iraq is nothing but a stalemate? The Shiites will bide their time until we leave until they run in and crush the Sunnis, or vice-versa. And what of the Kurds? Do they not deserve their revenge? Isn't the Bath party not a deserving target of that revenge?
Years ago, we had a war in Vietnam, which is now known more as an verb than a noun. This Blatant Disregard for human life in Iraq is offensive. Thousands of Americans dead, and do you know what they're not telling you? Those are the men and women who died IN-COUNTRY, not the ones they shipped off to die in Germany or Turkey or Kuwait City (which I heard from one of our fighting men is the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen).
LOTR: "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?"
Or Star Wars, Episode 4, as we beg for some sanity: Help me, Walter Cronkite. You're my only hope.
