Eleven Score and Twelve Years Ago -
Our Forefathers Declared Independence
From the Crown of England - America was Free!
Now Seniors Can Not Even Afford Depends!
For Two Hundred and Thirty-Two Years -
America Was The Beacon of Freedom!
Our Flag “Old Glory” - Was - The Symbol of Justice!
Gitmo and Water-Boarding - Changed All That!
In the State Song of Maryland - “The Free State” -
The “Despot’s Heel” - Was Vanquished -
But - The Annapolis “Nazis” - Banned Smoking in All Bars!
Yet - Alcoholic Drunken Drivers Still Kill!
Exxon’s Valdez Decimated Wildlife in Alaska -
Twenty Years Later - A Federal Judge Pardoned Them!
One And One-Half Billion Dollars More They Keep!
How Do These Crooked Cronies Sleep?
As Louisiana’s Coastline Dwindles And Disappears -
Oil Barons Watch With Baited Breath -
The Three Mile Limit Being Washed Away -
Corruption and Katrina’s Wake and Wrath Reign!
FEMA Flounders - Federal, State, and Local Lobbyists
Line The Pockets of Putrefied Politicians -
Blind Eyes and Deaf Ears Prevail -
As New Orleans Stagnates and People Suffer On!
Disaster Relief? Independence SHRINKS Away -
Like a Thief in the Night - Congress Cogitates!
No ACTION - Just Words - Lip Service -
Lackadaisical Lying Lip Service!
Yesterday’s NEWS - Seymour Hersh Exposes Bush!
The ‘My Lai Massacre” * Pulitzer Reporter Divulges -
The Presidential Finding - 120 Million Dollars -
For a Covert IRAN Secret OP!
The Six Bi-Partisan Congressional ‘Leaders’
The “GANG of EIGHT” Approved Without Delay!
NPR’s Terry Gross Interviewed Hersh Yesterday -
‘Lame Duck’ BUSH Will Do Another STUPID Thing!
Until The Clock Strikes Twelve Noon On January 20th, 2009 -
The Despot’s Heel Is Still a Threat!
And Like The Iran-Contra Affair of 1986 -
Eleven Convicted Officials were Pardoned by George H. W. Bush
Sonny Boy Can Do No Less - Pardon Himself!
And - Cheney - And Rumsfeld - And Powell - Et Alia!
In The Meantime - Our Troops Might Want to ‘Brush Up’
On Their IRANI Language Skills!
CAPTAIN ERNEST MEDINA: Why? You ask yourself why My Lai, why me, why my company? You can go down outside this building on the street and take any young teenager that’s walking down, average American, apple pie and mother – those were the members of C Company. At times it doesn’t seem real. It’s like a dream.
(HERSH) - “…She said, well, he’s in there. She said, I don’t know if he’ll talk to you. And then this woman, this old Southern uneducated woman, she said to me, I gave them a good boy and they sent me back a murderer.
I go see the kid, and the first thing I do is I spend 20 minutes talking about his leg. And then I said, what happened? And he said, I just began to kill people.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Another enormous story you broke much more recently was the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib. And some have drawn parallels between My Lai and Abu Ghraib. Do you think it’s fair?
SEYMOUR HERSH: Yes and no. They weren’t killing people, but I’ve talked to a lot of young officers, company commanders and platoon leaders, you know, first and second lieutenants, and the one thing you have in common is they couldn’t stand their job because 95 percent of them was keeping kids from doing terrible things to the civilian population of Iraq.
If you don’t see the enemy and you’re losing people to landmines – we had five Americans killed this week in an incident – the other soldiers, what are they going to do? They’ve lost five buddies. The rage toward the civilian population’s got to be immense.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: So there’s the comparison. I’m just wondering, though, isn’t remembering history supposed to prevent us from repeating it?
SEYMOUR HERSH: Are you suggesting that the American leadership learns from the past? I don’t think there’s much evidence for that. As we had hell to pay after Vietnam, we’re going to have hell to pay among our own soldier population from this war. And that does not even begin to deal with the catastrophe that we’ve visited on Iraq and the Iraqi society and the Iraqi children who are now in the fifth, sixth year of this utter madness they’ve been growing up in, this psychotic madness. And what do we owe them?
END OF COPY & PASTE.
TKH NOTE:
Any person who has never been in the Military has NO CLUE! Anyone who has never been in COMBAT has NO CLUE!
Our Congress and Administration have NO CLUE!
I was only a 20-year-old typical American KID who joined the U.S. Army Reserves in June, 1960. Three months later, in September, I found myself standing out on a huge concrete compound, somewhere out in the Army Base at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in a full Company of ‘green’ Recruits, being taught a tactic they called “Bayonet Practice” -
100 PLUS - Young, Sane, GOD-fearing, LAW-abiding, Men - being BRAINWASHED - repeating over, and over, and over -
INSTRUCTOR ON HUGE LOUD-SPEAKERS -
“What is the Spirit of the Bayonet?”
RESPONSE: “TO KILL! TO KILL! TO KILL!”
INSTRUCTOR ON HUGE LOUD-SPEAKERS -
“What is the Spirit of the Bayonet?”
RESPONSE: “TO KILL! TO KILL! TO KILL!”
OVER - AND OVER - AND OVER - AND OVER - AND OVER -
But what, pray tell, could you do, if that long, sharp, cutting BLADE got stuck in the enemy’s RIBCAGE?
Just squeeze the trigger, and pull off a ROUND - it will dislodge -
“BUT GEE, SARGE - IF I HAD ONE ROUND I WOULDN’T BE FIGHTING WITH A BAYONET, WOULD I?”
Exxon’s Valdez Decimated Wildlife in Alaska -
Twenty Years Later - A Federal Judge Pardoned Them!
One And One-Half Billion Dollars More They Keep!
How Do These Crooked Cronies Sleep?
Quite well, I imagine, and much better than the rest of us.
And I hear that spry young 72 year old candidate wants to raise eligibility for Social Security benefits from 62 to 72 - who says he's too old??!!
Congress as a whole is always exempted, they make the laws for those of us down the ladder to follow, but them, never... Freedom is always worth fighting for at all cost, nice writing. Happy 4th!
We need change - won't get it unless 2 things - those we elect listen to the people who put them there and they keep the promises made to get into office - somehow, I doubt that's gonna happen. Oh, a third thing: VOTE!!!!!
Where is our independence. will it come with McCain. I had an 3-mail from Tom's brother in Fla and he said his wife does all good things and told what they were. We are getting her in place of him really, She is motivated beyond compare. Little is know of her cause she does not advertise like he does. But she has some good projects going on in her life.
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Twenty Years Later - A Federal Judge Pardoned Them!
One And One-Half Billion Dollars More They Keep!
How Do These Crooked Cronies Sleep?
Quite well, I imagine, and much better than the rest of us.
And I hear that spry young 72 year old candidate wants to raise eligibility for Social Security benefits from 62 to 72 - who says he's too old??!!
Be always safe,
Karen
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.