RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| America Orders 100,000 Body Bags |
On the way to work this morning I saw three people
in camouflage loading their gear into the back of their cars at three
different places.
None of them could've been older than 25.
The first was when I was coming out of my apartment to walk the dog.
The second was at the gas station when I was filling up my tank. And
I saw the third when I was pulling into work after picking up breakfast
this morning.
When I got into work I read an article that claimed that no less than
100,000 body bags and 6,000 coffins had been quietly delivered to
a US base in Italy.
Archbishop Renato Martino, president of the Pope's Council of Peace
and Justice, said the consignment had arrived at the Sigonella base
near Catania on the island of Sicily 10 days ago.
I know military people will swear up and down that they are under
no illusions, they could die, that war is ugly and what not, but there
is a reason that you secretly deliver body bags as opposed to FEDEX'ing
those bastards to the base.
An 18-year-old Army recruit was 10 years old the last time we fought
in Iraq.
Now I am being serious here when I say this. Did any Americans die
in the first Persian Gulf War?
That should be a trivia pursuit question. The war lasted like 38 days
and that was including commercials.
Now with all of this talk about Saddam luring American troops into
urban combat to lessen the effectiveness of our high tech weaponry,
even more so now than ever, I truly hope everything our president
says Saddam is trying to do is true.
It better be.
Hell would be too good for Dubbs if he would sacrifice 100,000 American
lives to stimulate an economy and stay ahead in public opinion polls.
I mean, fuck Iraq. Whatever happened to killing Bin Laden?
If you aren't going to kill Osama Bin Laden somebody at least cancel
his AOL account for Christ's sakes.
I am tired of reading about Osama Bin Laden sending his weekly e-mails
to al-Jazeera, giving those bastard's exclusive interviews every month
while we keep talking about Iraq like we have washed our hands of
Bin Laden.
I mean when is the last time that you have heard Rumsfeld or Bush
even mention Bin Laden and whatever progress we are making towards
finding him and pulling his scrotum from his throat?
I mean, what the fuck have our troops been doing in Afghanistan since
we ran the Taliban out of power? Are they still searching caves?
I am so tired of hearing the media debate on whether or not he is
still alive.
Of course heis.
Afghanistan isn't that damn big. We ran the Taliban out of Afghanistan
in like 2 fucking weeks.
I am no intelligence expert but I am guessing that Bin Laden probably
ran into Pakistan with everyone else.
Osama Bin Laden, his entourage just wheeled him and his dialysis machines
right across the Afghan - Pakistan border, slipped the border guard
a goat, a bitch and a $100.00 and now he is organizing his terrorist
efforts from his Internet message board in Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf's basement.
You see the problem is that we can't go marching into Pakistan waving
our dicks around because they have the Nuke too.
I don't care how deep your southern drawl is or you ten-gallon hat,
the rule is that the only way you deal with a nuclear power is through
diplomacy.
You have no choice.
Have you noticed all of that Axis of Evil North Korea stuff has stopped
flying out of Dub sack's mouth every since he found out that Kin Song
Il wasn't bluffing about the size of his Lajatang?
The CIA just reported that North Korea's nuclear missiles could easily
reach the west coast of the United States if they wanted to make good
on their first strike threats.
Oops.
Diplomacy. Dubbs doesn't have to learn how to say it just learn how
to do it.
When my brother was thinking about joining the military the recruiter
told him not to worry about going off to fight in the Middle East
- if he enlisted they were going to train him to be an office admin.
That was 6 weeks ago.
I don't even want to think about how many of those young men and women
that I see crowding around Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America getting
ready to be shipped off to Fort Gilgamesh somewhere were told by their
friendly neighborhood recruiter that if they enlisted they would be
given some cushy job in Hawaii coordinating tours at the Pearl Harbor
museum.
I wonder if the average American saw those 100,000 body bags being
delivered to the Sigonella base would they be even more insistent
on Bush pitching a case for war that we can buy.
They say that what destroyed America in Vietnam was the bulk of the
American public were never really persuaded of the case for fighting
in Vietnam at all.
This might not be another Vietnam, but 100,000 body bags sure is a
far cry away from anything that can relate to a Playstation II. |
