The article by William Rivers Pitt (linked above) describes clearly how I feel about what has happened here in the US since that time. We have been and continue to be attacked by lies more than anything else--there were no weapons of mass destruction, a major "justification" for the invasion of Iraq (Iraq?? The men who commandeered the planes were mostly Saudis). The liars are still at it--still lying in their best effort to bring down President Obama. Rep Joe Wilson of SC yelled "You lie!" during the President's speech Wednesday night, but Wilson himself had his facts all wrong.
William Rivers Pitt writes:
Afghanistan started eight years ago today, as did Iraq. Bush stood before the American people on live television and told us about 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX gas, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program ("noo-clee-urr," not "nook-yuh-lurr," by the way; he never once got it right), mushroom clouds, doom, fear, and all the rest of that tremendous, deadly lie. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians were torn to pieces because of those lies, but he got away with telling them, thanks to the best day of his life: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, eight years ago today.
A French newspaper declared "We Are All Americans" on September 12, but it was all downhill after that. By the first week of October, with a pall of poison smoke still hanging over New York City, Bush declared that, "We have to counteract the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates," and the world threw up into its collective mouth. He took us to war; he took us to Hell, and we are still far, far from anything resembling recovery.
Excellent post. I am amazed that there are people who still believe the lies and listen to Cheney. It's beyond belief.
ReplyDeletedarlene, we don't really KNOW who believes the lies except as we're told/shown by the MSM. i'm tired of "libruls" being called merely polite and passionless because we don't raise a ruckus in public demonstrations or do and say outragous things. most of us polite folks at the mostly unreported and unremarked on demonstrations are reasonable yet very passionate about what we want (check the vote, eh??), and yet we're up against an unreasonable, nay irrational, opposition. i think it's still true that the VAST majority of US citizens want single payer. but the greedy folks have dug their heels in good.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is a mystery to me.
ReplyDeleteThey elected Geo W Bush TWICE!!!! I have no idea why.
And then they elected Mr Obama cos they wanted "change" and everyone was happy happy and now there are demonstrations about all the changes he wants to make.
It's a mystery to me.
shammy....some of us don't agree that we literally elected him twice. the first time, Al Gore actually won, but the Supreme Court more or less gave the election to Bush by disallowing a recount in Florida. The second time, there were voting shenanigans in the state of Ohio that again gave the election to Bush. if you ask me, and nobody does, he STOLE the election twice. in other words, we suffered a coup d'etat. most of us were so cowed by the very notion that this could have happened HERE that we did not fight it vigorously. nevertheless, there are the red states and the redder-than-red states who now are revealing what we americans have lived with for a long time--there are crude, racist, ignoramuses among us in great numbers, and many of them are from the south and middle of the country. it's no surprise that the most egregious of the rebels are from south carolina. these people simply cannot believe they lost the civil war. it's frightening. they go around armed to the teeth, spouting nonsense--comparing obama to hitler because he want the US to offer them health care. their cheerleaders rule the day on radio and fox news--rush limbaugh, glenn beck, sean hannity, o'reilly--not to mention idiots like sarah palin and michelle bachman.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Shammy, America for me is a mystery. I am annoyed seeing those demonstrations online against Obama expecting him to make changes fast. I mean he is not a god who can pull out miracles and lift America´s economy in a flash. They should understand that it takes time to fix what the Bush administration destroyed.
ReplyDeleteCharles:
ReplyDeleteone other thing...you'd never know that the great majority (some say 70% some say as many as 83% of US adults are IN FAVOR OF single payer health insurance (aka socialized medicine, aka "what the other countries have") just from watching US TV or reading the US newspapers. I've been to TWO pro-obama, pro-single payer demonstratinos in the nation's capitol about which not one word appeared in print. they just block us out. we don't carry guns or hitler signs, so they don't cover us.
how do you think WE feel??
Every year I try to write something about 9.11, but can never find the words. I'm still speechless. I should thank you for expressing my thoughts and sentiments for me.
ReplyDeleteDarlene, I'm often as amazed as you at the gullibility of the American public. Or, maybe, as Extreme English pointed out, most people know and understand the truth, but their voices can't be heard above the din of the mass media propaganda machine. Thus their perceived silence somehow creates an illusion of agreement.
That's why it's so important to speak our truth whenever and wherever we have the opportunity. We can still be polite, but we can't be silent. Call me naive, but I still believe truth, when spoken, is its own megaphone.
Thank you, English (if I may call you that for short), for offering such a congenial and intelligent forum.
I'll be back, often :)