In which Pooh works himself into a lather about the world.
I am so sick and tired of all the war BS that is being fed to us from around the world like some kind of Power Rangers meets the Matrix video game.
Don't get me wrong ..I think we should have journalists embedded with the troops like we did back in WW2 and Viet Nam.
Journalists...... that is the crucial distinction. Not media pretty boys dressed up as soldiers disseminating information being fed to them by the military. (You are aware that EVERY media person over there has his own personal military shadow aren't you?)
Do you really think we are getting the real story? Do You??? Really?? Where are the bodies? The civilian casualties?? Do you really think we can drop more bomb weight in 3 weeks than we did in the entire run of WW2, no matter how well guided by computers and not kill and maim civilians?? How often does your computer freeze and gork-up?? Try banging it around in a tank at 60 MPH ...PLEASE..get real..of course we are killing women and children and old people..that is what war is.
Let's at least be honest about it.
Except for a couple of strategically placed stories showing US troops that had been brutalized, we have seen no civilian devastation......maybe a couple of short blips into hospitals showing wounded children quickly followed by OUR disinformation claiming it was all done by Saddam, or when they were used as human shields..........Do you actually believe that this is what this war looks like on the ground over there???? We as a people are being managed and manipulated just as completely as Baghdad Bob manipulates his people when he stands in front of a Saddam palace and says, "Americans are committing suicide and running away by the thousands" We laugh because we can see the American tank coming up behind him as he is broadcasting.. Do you think we are not being manipulated by the media with the information our Government chooses to tell us?
Where are all the millions of weapons of mass destruction Saddam had????
Where is OSAMA...What about NORTH KOREA...OUR ECONOMY...MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT ... SARS...TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH....DUCT TAPE AND PLASTIC????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????????????
Does this sound patriotic to you???
No?
Let me throw a little phrase out to you..see if it rings a bell..
Intellectual Integrity...
Now I know these two words have not been used much these days.... especially with the current administration.
It makes me so angry that I could scream when I hear people say, we need to support our president, and that speaking out against him is unpatriotic..
Really? How about a little .. Intellectual Integrity...
Do you really think I am not capable of separating my revulsion and utter disdain for the boob we have as President with my heartfelt desire that all our troops come home safely???
Do you really think I am unable to think simultaneously that this war is 100% wrong and yet the situation over there needs to be changed???
Do you really think that my exercising the VERY rights we profess to champion with this war is Anti-American?
Intellectual Integrity...
Can we agree that the UN can be both wonderfully effective and damnably mired in politics?
Can we agree that France has been self-serving and duplicitous ..just like the US has been. (Sure France has been selling war stuff to Saddam...but remember..WE started it, by giving him the money and military stuff in the first place...Isn't it ironic that the US troops that have been killed by Saddam, were in all likelihood killed by US supplied guns and munitions)
Intellectual Integrity...
How about this for you, "stand behind him no matter what" people..
Were the millions that protested and marched to get us out of Viet Nam wrong??
History tells us that our ill-advised actions in this war were stopped BECAUSE of people protesting....
Were our forefathers wrong when they rioted and dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation??? Hmmm?
Can we agree that morons and greedy war mongers should NOT be allowed to bully other nations with chemical, biological and nuclear fear and forc.............wait......does this sound familiar............... NOW WHOM AM I TALKING ABOUT??????? (Hint..He did not win the election, but was appointed by the daddy stocked Supremes)