4000 U.S. Dead … "So?"

It's all getting totally crazy now. You've all heard Dead-eye Dick Cheney's response to the question, "What do you say to two-thirds of the public who think this war should never have been fought?"

"So?"

What about the 1 million plus Iraqi civilian deaths?

"So?"

That's the response of our preeminent corporate war monger, the 21st century's version of the 20th century's infamous dictators. No loud gesticulations or swagger or stiff salutes, not Dick. He just smiles benevolently, pats you on the back and sends you off to the detention camp for the good of the shareholders. Dick is our corporate American empire's last great white hope - Prosperity thru War / Exxon and Halliburton über alles / Total Victory for Democracy, Christian Hegemony, and Israel…all on your money, and your children's money, their children's and their children's children's (borrowed) money.

"So?"

We can't let ignorant, backward people stand in the way of our needs. Look at all the marvelous new inventions we need to keep us free!



Meet Big Dog, your friendly rabid robot, helping to make the world safe for Democracy, Amerikan style. Love us or die, my Arab friend! Don't you just want one for your very own?

Oh, and remember this cuddly creature? Isn't he the perfect companion for Big Dog?



Yes, it's all totally nuts now. Torture the infidels…give alms to the sub-prime schemers…support a 100 year war…switch to Diet Coke…aw, what the heck!

So what are you going to do…sit there another five years?

"It is a time for a radical rethinking. It is a time to reconsider it all, to perhaps reassess how we are presenting and digesting America's most costly and lost and unwinnable and brutal and ignoble and inept and insidious and depressing war that's not really a war; it's time to revolutionize how it's all packaged and broadcast and pumped like hot sticky misery into the heavily narcotized American cultural bloodstream because, oh my God, we are sick sick sick of it all, and only getting sicker."

Free iPhone with Every Outrage!
Bored with the 'war' on Iraq? 4,000 dead merely induce shrugging? Need an incentive to keep caring?
By Mark Morford

(and be sure to click on the Abu Ghraib image above to read a very interesting story.)

FYI,

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 29 Mar 2008 at 02:33:56 AM GMT is:

$9,414,339,696,245.73

The estimated population of the United States is 303,708,093
so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,997.99.

"Bush Tied to Child Prostitution - Resignation or Impeachment Expected!"

"George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls and is expected to resign or be impeached, according to Congressional sources." Democrats.com

I hope you read the whole story from the link above. There is a lot to atone for, yet I don't expect "what-me-worry" to bother, Iraqis being mostly non-Christian.

George Bush vetoes Congress and endorses torture. Eliot Spitzer pays $5k for sex. What topic grabs more headlines?

N.Y. legislators call for Spitzer to resign, but ignore voters calling for the much more worthy Bush impeachment.

Spitzer lives up to his ethical standards and resigns. Bush, the most impeachable President in history, the most immoral and ruthless in my lifetime, surrounds himself in secrecy and lies. You tell me who is mired in slime and needs serious redemption.

BTW, why were the Feds looking into prostitution, usually a state offense? Spitzer had the most powerful people on Wall Street hating him. (That, of course, makes him a hero in my book. :>) ). With deep pocket enemies like that, you get federal V.I.P. service.

We've marketed and monetized sexual allure to such an extreme in our culture that even young girls dress up as sex objects. Then we're shocked, SHOCKED, when a publicly visible person pays to engage in the actual fact. Ho-hum.

It's no wonder 1 in 4 teenage girls in the U.S. has an STD. Our priorities are seriously messed up, and the Wall Streeters lead the pack.

Yet, will our President show up at the March 19 vigil to memorialize the million plus Iraqi and four thousand U.S. deaths as a result of his pre-planned war of aggression? Will any officials from the war profiteers, Exxon Mobil or Halliburton, show up?

I hope you'll be there.

The War Architects Have a Gallery Page

It reads like a profile page of war criminals. See them all in one page, and revisit their cynical propaganda.

Try to imagine them in the dock at a war crimes tribunal. Ah, if you only had the courage!

Remember, you'll still be paying for their mess long after the revisionists have rewritten the sordid tales of these tiny zealots who sold their souls for a palmful of silver and a splash of limelight.

Oh, they had plenty of help. Remember the fairy tales their media friends wove throughout the national press during the post invasion glory?

"May 11, 2004: If Cheney and Rumsfeld chuckled when they read this column, they must have laughed aloud when when they read Brooks's next piece. 'There's something about our venture into Iraq that is inspiringly, painfully, embarrassingly, and quintesentially American,' Brooks writes. 'No other nation would have been hopeful enough to evangelize for democracy across the Middle East. No other nation would have been naïve enough to do it this badly. No other nation would be adaptable enough to recover from its own innocence and muddle its way to success, as I suspect we are about to do.' "

and

"Through this metamorphosis of personal failure into what he calls 'national style', Brooks is able to dissolve the granite egos of Cheney and Rumseld in the warm soup of a national 'we'. They didn't plan the war, the national psyche did. They didn't blunder, the national style did. The beauty of his thesis is that it leaves everyone as innocent at the end as they were at the beginning. No one can be blamed, so why search for accountability? Why look for a substantive conclusion about right and wrong, competence and blunders, when the scene of action is the national character not the Oval Office?"
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/75217/ (both quotes)

Disney World for Warriors. Dumbo made a boo boo. How sweet. No justice needed. Let's imagine it never happened. Change the channel, please? Paris Hilton, we love you !!

Instead, how about this?

Can we not promote law and order in this country -- we've been swindled, the world's suffered dearly, where's the outrage? Why can't we bring justice to the perpetrators of war?

Or would we rather dream on?

It seems the State Department wants you to. They retired their War Crimes Tribunal page.

Help Gather Support for Legislation to Stop Violence Against Women, Call a Republican Senator Today!

Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women's Day. You can make a real difference in the lives of women by asking your Republican Senator to support a historic piece of legislation designed to give survivors of violence more assistance, hold perpetrators accountable, and combat the negative public attitudes that encourage or condone violence against women and girls.

Apparently, it is only necessary to call Republican senators to ask their support. It seems they are having trouble making up their minds. I don't know, do Republicans have a moral objection to stopping violence against women and girls?

Click HERE to get all the information you need. The call takes just a minute, and you will feel SO much better.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

I promised you economic news, but why start a story with bad news?

Fed says economy has weakened this year
By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer

The economy has weakened since the start of this year as shoppers turned even more cautious given the severe housing slump and painful credit crunch.

Manufacturers and other businesses, meanwhile, had to cope with skyrocketing prices for energy and other raw materials. The businesses’ ability to pass along higher prices to their customers was mixed, according to the Federal Reserve’s new snapshot of nationwide economic conditions released Wednesday.

Many economists fear that the country is teetering on the edge of a recession or is in one already.

or

Investment News: Advisers brace for bad times

About 41% of advisers think the S&P 500 index will fall in the next six months, according to Schwab Institutional.

Couples now need $225,000 to retire

This figure is a 4.7% increase over the 2007 estimate of $215,000, according to Fidelity

And that's only the good part of the bad news. So let's relax and celebrate the latest headline about the election. We can get to the bad news after the party's over.


Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Federal Funding of Elections Has a Chance (if you want it)

Getting a Grip on Money and Politics, Part II from Anthony Lappe on Vimeo.

The movement for public financing is not dead, just stalled. One current plan is to fund elections through sale of broadcast spectrum to media companies, which they usually get for free. I don't entirely agree with that plan, but it is a far sight better than what we have now.

I hope the video gets your thinking machine in gear. You can follow up here.

Your Monthly War Bill is Due

Yes, DO SOMETHING!

Less Jobs, More War

My next post will show you the financial do-do we are really in. The writing's been on the wall for a while, as you will see in the cartoon below.