I was going to title this post UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE! But then I thought about it for all of about --- oh 3 seconds --- and decided that not only is this story entirely not UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE, it absolutely embodies everything that has come to be expected from THE WORST FUCKING PRESIDENT AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.
This mind-boggling story is really nothing more than a transparent microcosm of the pitiable incompetence and collosal dereliction of leadership that George Bush and Dick Cheney have foisted upon America and the world.
It is the direct by-product of what happens when you outsource government and by proxy, a government responsibility like war, to the private business sector. Add to the fact that there is absolutely no oversight, no accountabililty, and no repercussions -- FOR ANYONE - EVER! -- and you quite literaly have laid the perfect foundation for guaranteed failure. Only this kind of failure ends up unnecessarily killing alot of human beings.
I honestly am at a loss for words. And it angers me beyond description. To all my friends and family who continue to support this President and this administration, I really am tired of your heads in the sand, hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil routine. I cannot fathom any nicer way to say this to you -- FUCK YOU! You all have helped make this shit happen. Every single one of you is a major participant in this horrific Parade of Fools freak show and you are incapable of acknowledging the reality of your fucked-up support of such an astonishingly dangerous buffoon like George W. Bush.
The English historian Edward Gibbon famously placed blame for the Fall of The Roman Empire on a loss of civic virtue among the Roman citizens. They gradually entrusted the role of defending the Empire to barbarian mercenaries (sound familiar? Blackwater anyone?) who eventually turned on them. Gibbon considered that Christianity had contributed to this (correlates to the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the U.S. today), making the populace less interested in the worldly here-and-now and more willing to wait for the rewards of heaven. Gibbon wrote, "[T]he decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight." In summary, Gibbon judged the loss of civic virtue and the rise of Christianity to be a lethal combination and a predominantly deciding factor in the demise of Roman influence and power.
This, folks, is the fate awaiting America as long as it continues down it's present destructive path. It must be pointed out though, that the argument could reasonably be made that that ignominious fate might never materialize simply by virture of the fact that our rank stupidity and arrogance will very well precipitate that abominable and perverted ambition which the Christian rapturists yearn for --- the end of humanity as we know it.
----krazee
