Stoopid Stuff

I'm back. And I'm PISSED!

Hey America. Comfortable? Lemme get you a pillow.

How bout that argument in Washington about Iraq. Man, those people fucked it all up, huh? But they're getting it right now. Right?

Fucking sick ghouls. Wake UP! Your goddam criminal invasion and occupation NO DIFFERENT than the Nazis invasion and occupation of France in 1940 and every bit as illegal, set in motion a thousand thousand movements and actions that nobody in the sad, sick, brutal bush administration ever bothered to think about.

It infuriates me when pundits and politicians in total safety sit and pontificate on how the "surge" has made things better. How we're "winning". Sorry. That's fucking obscene. And you, YOU are complicit.

Instead of a horrendous bombing every two and a half days, now there's one every six days. You wouldn't choose to live like that. But you'll choose it for the Iraqi people, because you are bloodthirsty, inured to the brutal violence your criminal leadership unleashes on the world every day. YOU ARE COMPLICIT.

The blood of a million innocent Iraqi men, women and children is on your hands. Because you allowed this "experiment' in coercive regime change. Democracy at gunpoint, damn all the consequences.

Every single Iraqi citizen would gladly go back to the time of Saddam. Does that tell you anything about your "gift"?

You have allowed your government to take a vibrant, secular society, doing ok despite living under a dictator, punished by cruel, inhuman economic sanctions, and condemn then to a world of death, disease, displacement, poverty and ignorance. No school. No hospitals. No electricity. No hope. No future. Nothing. Thanks to you.

Hey, America. Feel safe? Or under this paranoid, warmongering regime, are you scared all the time?

You are a sick, helpless, mindless embarrassment. What do you know of safety, America? Could you live in Baghdad, Diyala, Faluja,Basra? Could you live trapped between the militias, the mullahs, and the corruption? Stripped of your wealth, your possessions, your very identity, what would you do? Where would you go. I'll go ahead and answer that, America. You would DIE. Or you would choose sides in a corrupt bargain with the devil, and YOU would be the one with the handcuffs, with the electric drill, on the nighttime visits to your former neighbors. Because you could not live in the hell you have unleashed on other people, people you don't know, and refuse to care about.

Could you live in Syria or Jordan, leaving behind your possessions and history, ALL of it, and grovel for enough of a handout to keep your kids from starving?

Would you join the insurgency, having nothing left to live for, needing money more than life, having no future and no hope? And here, America, we react with anger and shock that Iraqis might support killing American soldiers. What would you have them do? You sit in your safe suburban kitchen and worry about the quality of the remodel, or will little Jessica get into university. Can you even imagine the decisions you have forced on millions of people just like you?

Just as Germany has had to come to terms with the holocaust, America, some day you will have to find a way to live with your complicity in the crime of the new century. What you have done, in the name of your own "safety", in the name of a your nameless night sweating fears, will not be forgotten. No longer can you look to China and say "you are not living up to your highest ideals". For that matter, how can you say to Iran, "you are a rogue nation with imperial desires"? You will have to learn to live in a world where you are not the "shining city on the hill", but rather just another criminal military power, with nothing to offer the world but fear and death.

So, tell me, America? Are you proud? Or are you a little sad, for all the death and horror, for the futures robbed, for the widows, for the orphans, for the terror and the madness and all the things you've taken from an entire people and can never give back? Do you feel? CAN you feel? Or is it a simple equation - we have to be safe, no matter what the cost in other lives? How do you make that calculation? If there was not enough food, would you shoot your neighbor's children? Would you and your neighbors burn the next neighborhood in order to kill them? No? How certain can you be, when you stood by and allowed this?

If you could actually allow yourself to think about what it is you are responsible for in Iraq, you would lose your mind. You could not go forward, you would have to do something. You could not allow such suffering for such a sad, sick, selfish reason, right? Sorry. Your guilt is written in your history, and in a few years your children are going to hang their heads in shame and ask "why?" Why did you allow an atrocity of this magnitude to be carried out in your name, after all your pretty words and outrage? While you cried out "remember Rwanda" and "end the suffering in Darfur" your leadership was waging a criminal occupation that has ruined millions of lives. While you dispassionately argued the political merits of "staying or going".

I can't believe we haven't risen up as a people and said "we're better than this". And put an end to it. I'll never understand how you, America, decided you're the good guy. You're the worst of the criminals. I am not a religious man, but if I was a Christian, I'd despair for your souls.

posted by mikey @ 7:55 PM