I have many family and friends that have been or currently are active-duty military members. I myself am a non-combat military vet. With the exception of a couple of the more thoughtful family and friends, all are blindly loyal, unreflective supporters of George W. Bush and his Iraq war. The twisted reasoning behind that sad statement isn't a complete mystery to me, but more than anything, quite frankly, I view it to be much more so a glaring statement about their individual values, morals, judgement and cognitive thinking ability (or lack thereof of all.)
Let me see if I can explain this, it's all extremely bizarre -- George W. Bush is great because ----- unlike the evil librul Bill Clinton, he sends men off to war in a manly fashion and he wants to kick some evil-doer ass! That's it! That's the extent of their swooning, teeny-bopper crush mentality for why it is they've got such huge hard-ons for George W. Bush. Good lord! If it wasn't so god-damned pathetic, it would be sort of cute in a creepy, incestuous Father Knows Best kind of way. But what's most baffling and infuriating to me is that these guys have never for a moment pondered the obscene paradox of the following facts, not made-up shit just because I have opposing views, but undisputed facts that are easily verifiable (if you truly gave a shit about the truth) from a myriad of sources in the public record:
1. George W. Bush used his family political connections to vault over a waiting list of hundreds of other draftees to land a cushy, state-side National Guard post defending the great state of Texas from marauding hordes of Viet-Cong. He received approximately $1 million in tax-payer funded military flight training, was subsequently suspended from flying (still no explanation or medical records indicating why) and eventually skipped out on the remaining year and a half of his 6 year commitment. Not a shred of evidence exists that Fly The Friendly Skies (literally) Lt. Bush ever sat his ass in a jet cockpit again -- and the Mission Accomplished stunt doesn't count as it was nothing more than political theater designed to thrill his sycophantic worshippers. So in a nutshell my friends -- you all support a draft-dodging slacker and wartime deserter who had no compunction about using his powerful connections to avoid the pitfalls and horrors of war and instead sent some poor, unconnected and unlucky slob to fight and possibly die in his place in the rice paddies of Nam while he partied hard in the "Champagne Unit" of his home-state Guard. Quite the macho hero you have there fellas. BTW -- John Kerry, actually volunteered for his Nam duty, unlike frat-boy George. And Kerry saw actual combat and was actually wounded -- and if you think the Swift-Boat Liars for Truth attack group hasn't been totally debunked and discredited I'll say it to your face any time, any place -- you're a fucking misinformed dipshit.
2. Bush puppet-master and VP Dick Cheney received 5 Vietnam draft deferments while vocally supporting that bloody war. Years later when asked about it in an interview, Cheney is quoted as saying, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." Gee Dick, why don't you go tell that face to face to the 58,159 American men and women whose names adorn the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.? Ohhhhh!! That's right!! Dick can't tell it to them face to face because they're all fucking dead!! Yep, they died so cock-sucking, yellow-belly cowards like Dick Cheney could kick back in their little red-neck towns, rack up a couple of DWI's, go to college, knock up his high school sweetheart all the while spouting vocal support for a war he himself didn't have the balls to go die for and, like his fellow coward at heart George W. Bush, took purposeful actions to avoid. Another stellar hero you've chosen to worship there my friends.
3. Practically the entire leadership ranks of the Republican party vociferously supports George and Dick's Big Adventure in the sands of Mesopotamia. Which is why it strikes me as extremely paradoxical considering the FACT that none of these war pigs (with one exception which I'll discuss separately) has ever worn a military uniform. I've always wondered what kind of man who has never served a day of military service, much less been in actual combat, could so indifferently send other people's children off to fight and die in war, especially a war that was built on lies and deception. Here's a well documented list of which prominent politicians (from both parties) have served their country's armed services and which have not. When I see that list of Republicans who have not served the first word that comes to my mind is Chickenhawks. To put it bluntly, a Chickenhawk is someone who strongly supports war, but is too spineless to volunteer to put their own life on the line for it. What I find the most offensive about these Repukelican hyenas is that they have the nerve to portray their party as the party of true patriots that will save America from the evil-doers and the Democrats as the party of traitors who are terrorist appeasers. Looking at that list of GOP Chicken-shit-hawks, the brazen hypocrisy of their attacks on Dems patriotism is mind numbing, and it's one of the principal factors that fuels my rabid disgust for the Republican party as it exists in it's present form today.
The one Republican exception I mentioned in item #3 above is GOP Senator John McCain. McCain's Vietnam duty and POW stint are without question to be honored. His service and sacrifice embodies all that is good about our fighting men and women. Which of course is why Bush sent his attack dog Karl Rove to smear John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary. The same scumbag tactics were employed against Democratic Senators and Vietnam veterans Max Cleland in his Georgia senate campaign and of course against Senator John Kerry in his 2004 Presidential bid. Now, a decent, fair-minded person might ask the question -- what kind of people would employ lies and deceit to question and attack the patriotism of their political opponents whom also happen to be military and war veterans? And if you had an ounce of honesty in you, the answer to that question would be -- the same kind of people who would employ lies and deceit to plunge their country into an illegal and unwinnable war, a war, which by all available evidence, appears to be nothing more than a money-making venture for their family and friends who are all deeply embedded members of the military-industrial complex, the same military-industrial complex by the way that WWII hero and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about in his famous 1961 farewell speech.
When candidly taking all of this information into account, analyzing it and putting it into proper context, it's unthinkable to me that any person in their right mind and with a functioning conscience would continue to blindly support men like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their neo-con friends. The Busheviks utilize code words and phrases like "Homeland", "evil-doers", "support the troops", "you're with us or against us", "watch what you say and what you do", and other propagandistic blatherings without shame. Only one doesn't need to be a studied historian to know that those same code words and phrases were once employed by men named Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Hirohito and others to cow their citizenry into blind allegiance and acceptance of their government's immoral deeds. I've no longer any doubt that there are many people in this country who would prosper and thrive under an authoritarian dictatorship. It's an inherent character trait of cowards to elevate their own fears, blind faith and allegiance to a higher plane of importance -- above more honorable virtues such as humility, compassion, skepticism, truth-seeking, informed dissent and a principled conviction to exposing lies and immorality wherever it lurks. As to me, my well of understanding and hope that people (particularly family and friends) will pull their collective heads out of their asses and recognize the reality of what's going on around them has pretty much dried up. It pains me to say it, but when the day (I didn't say IF) comes and I'm proven right, they had best not come to me begging for sympathy and forgiveness, because quite honestly I am not certain I'll have any left to share with them.
Watch the YouTube clip at the beginning of this post. Listen and analyze what's being said. Then either blissfully go about your Bush/Cheney worshipping ways or get off your ass and start asking questions and dissenting -- while you still have a choice in the matter.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
----krazee
