March Madness -- again!
It's March again, and again, I'm still mad! and here's why --
I took this photo 42 years ago. Forty-two years!!! And still we've learned nothing. Our president -- who didn't serve in the war in the photo -- keeps us mired in a war with no apparent end. One major presidential candidate, himself a war veteran, says we could be in Iraq for a century. The other major candidates are being a bit vague about getting out, each getting more vague as the campaign continues. Enough is enough.
I'm mad at hearing right wing politicos saying that the 'surge' in Iraq has worked. Yes, it's reduced American casualties. For the moment. But Iraqi casualties have risen sharply. What the surge has done is to protect American soldiers. Which is terrific. Although if they weren't there in the first place, they'd hardly need protection.
and more and more voices are being heard, saying this whole war is futile. what will it take for our 'leaders' in Congress to pay attention? Obviously, the 'president' will pay not heed -- he never has paid much attention to what the public wants. And the delicious news about his favorite painting -- which he thinks is of an evangelist bring the Methodist word to the prairie is, in fact, an illustration of a horse thief! Delicious! Or would be if he didn't have the power of the presidency behind him.
It's also a pretty awful irony that (1) this is the Ides of March and (2) tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre.
Again, apparently we never learn. Or our leaders never learn, a point made by Seymour Hersh, who broke the story in 1969.
I took this photo 42 years ago. Forty-two years!!! And still we've learned nothing. Our president -- who didn't serve in the war in the photo -- keeps us mired in a war with no apparent end. One major presidential candidate, himself a war veteran, says we could be in Iraq for a century. The other major candidates are being a bit vague about getting out, each getting more vague as the campaign continues. Enough is enough.
I'm mad at hearing right wing politicos saying that the 'surge' in Iraq has worked. Yes, it's reduced American casualties. For the moment. But Iraqi casualties have risen sharply. What the surge has done is to protect American soldiers. Which is terrific. Although if they weren't there in the first place, they'd hardly need protection.
and more and more voices are being heard, saying this whole war is futile. what will it take for our 'leaders' in Congress to pay attention? Obviously, the 'president' will pay not heed -- he never has paid much attention to what the public wants. And the delicious news about his favorite painting -- which he thinks is of an evangelist bring the Methodist word to the prairie is, in fact, an illustration of a horse thief! Delicious! Or would be if he didn't have the power of the presidency behind him.
It's also a pretty awful irony that (1) this is the Ides of March and (2) tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre.
Again, apparently we never learn. Or our leaders never learn, a point made by Seymour Hersh, who broke the story in 1969.
Labels: Bush, Iraq, March Madness, My Lai, Vietnam
posted by aim | 11:55 PM
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