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Stop acting like lemmings

Roughly $200 million is wasted each time the sun sets on our cowardly war in Iraq. And, indeed, it is our war, the people’s war. It is our burden, and not a portion of us can deny it. A democracy does not fight an unpopular war, but a hoodwinked nation of economic slaves knows no better.

Economists estimate the final cost for the murder of what is now quite nearly 4,000 American soldiers and, though the numbers are often considered unmentionable, more than one million Iraqis could reach into the trillions of dollars.

And although human life cannot in any sense be reduced to a dollar amount, those increasingly worthless green pieces of paper clearly dominate the American psyche to a far greater degree than the lives of strangers.

It seems the American people have wittingly forgotten who owns the rights to government, though they do, nonetheless, have it all in writing… But it’s just a goddamned piece of paper.

And, somehow, the spineless people who deliberately started this mess are still able to walk on Iraqi soil, and shamefully so. Indeed, two babbling piles of elderly, white, sub-human paste from the U.S. capital recently landed in Iraq for reasons that nobody can accurately explain. One, a presidential hopeful sporting a baseball cap and a trail of heavily armed guards, set out to mock the battered country he says ought to be under U.S. occupation for all of this century. The other, commonly recognized as one of the most despicable creatures on the planet, arrived dolefully and was able to direct glaring beams of hate and malice from his own eyes, thus casting an impenetrable barrier shielding him from psychotic militants and widowed mothers who have seen their entire lives obliterated by napalm and American appetite. A shame indeed.

It has now been more than seven years since the chicken-shit American people turned their backs on responsibility and allowed themselves to be blinded by a small band of lawyers, business executives and politicians who have stolen from them every last bit of dignity and respect. It has been five years since those same miserable greed heads tricked the public into consenting to a media spectacle of bombs, blood and good ol’ American glory, which has inevitably become a conflict that ought to bring America to its knees.

I dare say that she deserves it. And I’ll say it again. Your day is on its way, America. You have always praised those dissenters of old, those radicals and various other undesirables who would never conform to the common account, no matter what the cost. You were born of men of that nature. It is too much a shame that those slimy cretins who took over the ship never knew that sort of courage and could not keep her afloat.

It is too easy to sit back somewhere in middle-America with a plate full of chemically engineered vegetables watching the pretty newsmen and women recount the day’s bombings, suicides and deaths with nothing more than a slightly grim change of tone. Besides, there are hundreds of channels and one is not necessarily inclined to see war all the time. Not in America anyway.

No, certainly not. And Americans have bills to pay for Christ’s sake. Things like mortgage payments, car payments, gasoline, child support, hooker accounts, drug money and taxes of every kind; our daily tolls for the axe man. Cheat them until they die. Eat their souls and shit on their corpses. That is the American way.

I have never known an America that anyone had any reason to be proud of. I am too young, and indeed most of us are. But Americans detest any mention of their overwhelming failures and misconduct. Any criticism of the flag is at once considered to be unfounded and unpatriotic. I spit on patriotism. It is the scapegoat of our despicable willingness to confide in our government and allow it to rape, pillage and murder anyone and everyone who stands in our way.

And, again, it is indeed our way. It is the people’s way whether we like it or not. Allow me to remind all of you of the proper nature of our country, since so many still have so much faith. She is a democracy, and such as it is, the people are to be held responsible in all cases. Sure, you were all deceived and made to be slobbering fools in front of the rest of the world, but in no sense does that negate your responsibility.

If we the people go on cowering and abiding like contemptible lemmings, I trust justice will allow our headstones to tell the true story: “Here lies another coward, a babbling fool who raped the greatest dream of man.”