Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly make snarky, almost celebratory comments about human beings committing suicide at Guantanamo Bay. Sean Hannity makes vulgar references to Iraqi civilian deaths,
while proudly proclaiming that the 500 pound blockbuster bombs dropped on them to get to Zarqawi “gave him Goosebumps.” The Right Wing echo chamber, matter-of-factly and with a “hand waving you away “arrogance, feeds their sheeple misinformation about
the death toll in Iraq being lower then an average day in Washington, D.C. Then there’s the old steady, reliable;
shameles, and disgusting profiteering at the expense of those who will forever be scarred by the death and horror that they incurred during a senseless and preventable tragedy. What’s appalling to me, is not these neo-con shills doing all of these so effortlessly, as much as the very PRIDE that they take in it.
And these are the people that DARE to call us here on the left “the culture of death?”
Whether it’s from a war thousands of miles away, or closer to home
on our own shores, the neo-con right just can’t get enough of that taste of other peoples blood, just as long as it does not directly affect them. If there is any group of people that I have ever seen, that deserves our complete disdain, it’s this crowd. Smug, over-comfortable, over-fed, arrogant, conceited, cowards. They just don’t care how long this illegal war in Iraq goes on - as long as the agony is endured by others, and the worst of the suffering is restricted to a safe distance from them, and that they can change the channel if it starts to affect them emotionally.
I have to ask one more time—these are the people that DARE to call us here on the left “the culture of death?”
Embodied in the neo-con right, is all the craziness of our present world. George Orwell, who wrote 1984 as a cautionary vision of what the world could become if those in power remain unchecked, must be shaking his head from beyond the grave, at the pure irony. Freedom is slavery; replaced by
we are liberating the oppressed Iraqi people. War is peace; replaced with support the troops—or else. Life is death; replaced with
blame those that are against war and senseless killing, for the innocent deaths that their neo-con heroes are causing.
Again—these people have the audacity, the ARROGANCE to call themselves “the culture of life?”
So, how is it that Bush /Cheney minions such as Halliburton, General Dynamics, and GE, steal, kill, and profiteer on the Iraq war with such complete impunity? Unfortunately I must call a spade a spade, and point my finger to the apathy of the American people. Ignorance really IS bliss, to the point that the war has lost the ratings battle to “American Idol” and “Big Brother.” It almost borders on depraved indifference. Just take a look in people’s eyes, and notice the vacant stare, when you start talking about the suffering and toll in human life that our permanent state of war has caused. The neo-cons know this, and have capitalized on it. They are more than willing to pay the highest price in other people’s blood to achieve their goals. They are the true “culture of death.” Until all of us as a people, Democrat and Republican alike, wake up and find a way to set aside our squabbling over insignificant wedge issues, and petty little ideological differences, they will continue to exploit this one chink in our collective armor.
Plato wrote that “the penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Wisdom of the ages that proves history really does tend to repeat itself through the millennia.
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