June 28, 2005

• Would you say that
  the suffering and death of thousands of innocents, the degrading of an
  entire culture, and the deaths of hundreds of soldiers is worth it when
  the war in question was entered into for a personal vendetta, and upon
  the false information given to not just the US but to the entire world
  by one of the most corrupt governments known to the world today is
  WORTH IT?
  
  
  
  That's what ol' Shrub has to say in an address to the US today.
  
  
  
  From excite news:
  
  ""Like most
  Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is
  horrifying and the suffering is real," Bush said, according to excerpts
  released ahead of time by the White House. "It is worth it.""
  
  
  
  I disagree.  I do not think
  this war has been worth it - not by any measure.  And I am
  flabbergasted that Shrub has the stones to come before us and say that
  it IS worth it.  He's trying to salvage his political reputation,
  that is all.

  Yes, I called the US government corrupt.  Sure, the police don't
  generally take bribes, and Judges aren't for sale here (at least not
  most of them)...but in an administration that can drive us to war on
  blatantly false allegations and can weather Halliburton and other
  corporate scandals without even the blink of an eye?  Oh yes, that
  is definitely the stench of corrpution I smell.

  Who is there to take up the mantle of our forefathers?  (Not that
  most of them were any great shakes either - elitist, slave-owning pigs
  that they were), but in the last 200 years we've made some good
  progress.  Now the Republicans of Shrub's ilk are trying to turn
  back the clock and make us into a repressive theocracy.  And no
  one in this country has the ability to buck the system and return us to
  our progress.  The system itself breeds corruption in many ways,
  with the diversity of our population, politicians are often out of
  touch with their constituents and rely on PACs and other groups to give
  them the truth.  Problem is, their truth isn't necessarily the
  REAL truth.

  (Of course, that leads us into a discussion of comparative morality and
  just whose truth is the real truth...and I've not had near enough cold
  medicine to go into that right now.)

  Sigh.  What is there to do?  I am at a loss.
  

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