3.24.2006
Mark Morford is right on with his column this morning. It is a must read.
Three years! of war and a really disgusting, nauseous feeling in the pit of your stomach. Do the people who continue to support George Bush know what a horrible situation it is over there now? No, because, like Cheney, every one of their giant television sets has to be turned to Fox News all day. So they don't regret putting him in power, and they'd do it again, holding their Bibles tightly to their chests, they would continue to blindly support the devil himself as long as he SAYS that he is a Christian and as long as he hates gay people and he won't raise your taxes and he'll intelligently, under the radar so that it isn't obvious, continue to keep his foot on the necks of the black people in this country and perpetuate the large, oppressed underclass that we have here in the USA.
Last night we watched the Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert had this guy on there, Dan Senor, who is the former coalition spokesperson and now a frequent cheerleader rah-rahing the war on Fox News. This man is a rose-colored glasses wearing LIER who will say ANYTHING to support the administration and the war. Anything. This guy actually sat there and joked about Iraq, about how you could take the kids and the wife there on vacation because it really is safe there in all but four provinces! Oh, those four provinces are "a little messy" but otherwise take the family! It's great! A little messy.
That is what the people over there at Fox News want this country to hear and believe. That is what they want us all to think. They say that the "liberal media" only shows the "bad things" about the war. "Those liberal journalists don't get off of their hotel balconies to show the school openings and the people voting and the hospital openings!" Those journalists can't show those things because when they try and travel within the country, that sovereign nation that we invaded on false pretenses and that country that we have RUINED, that one!, they can't travel anywhere in that country to show these little feel-good things to make the fat, greedy, gluttonous, blood-thirsty Americans back at home feel better so that they can eat more fried chicken and take more Pepcid AC because they can't get to them! When they try to go and cover some story like that, bombs go off on the road, people get killed all around them and IT's TOO DANGEROUS to go anywhere!
So instead of the IMAGINED danger and fear that Fox News spews every day out to their ignorant American simpleton viewers, Iraquis face real danger every day. They can't go anywhere in their country without putting their very lives at stake. So there are your positive human interest stories. The media is negative about the war because the war is a DISASTER and there is no other way to put it. We have gone in there, into a country where families were just like our families. There are babies born there, children gather around grandparents there, people get married, people write poetry, people travel and go on vacations, and go to college, the Iraquis are not animals as Fox would have you believe. They were not, and they are not. And they are just like you and me except that they happen to sit on a shit-ton of oil that our acid-reflux having, big and tall shopping, self-congratulating populace wanted.
We are the fat kid on the playground who pushes the little skinny kid down and takes their beef jerky.
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