OUR ATTACHMENT TO THE COMFORTABLE LIE

I continue to be fascinated by our hysterical response to what is now being described as “an attack” on the homeland by a 20 year old rich kid so frustrated by the perception that his way of life was “under attack” by a Christian America that he would actually conceal explosive chemicals which may or may not have been lethal in his underwear. How desperate is that for a young guy to destroy his Mr. Johnson in the process. This is now what passes for “an attack”.

Though in his defense I can see how he would be radicalized after all when the commander-in-chief of the Great Satan, George Bush, claimed on the eve of his fabricated war with Iraq that this was a “crusade against terrorism” the term wasn’t lost on the lunatic fringe of the Moslem world. Indeed even our own national security assessments concluded that the war on Iraq increased al Qaeda recruitment and activities around the world. Seems like our “state sponsored terrorism” only resulted in more group and individual acts of terrorism.

The American people responded not with outrage by being mislead but by buying little American flags that they stuck on their gas guzzling cars while their political leaders hid behind the red, white and blue of the phony patriotism where all scoundrels find their last refuge . You don’t see many flag wavers driving around today but there is still no end to shameless politicians wrapping themselves in the flag.

In 09 the aptly name “tea baggers” marched around with signs claiming President Obama was at the same time a communist, a socialist and a fascist totally unfamiliar with the distinctions between these political ideologies and unfortunately for the Republic unaware of Sinclair Lewis’ observation: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross” and its implications for the future of democracy.

That the so-called “attack” happened on Christmas day only gave fodder to the true believers who claimed it to be proof of a “holy war” failing to remember our own history of the Christmas Day bombings of Southeast Asia that killed a numberless number of people during Operation Linebacker II. You gotta love the reference to America’s gladiator games and appreciate the hypocrisy that it’s okay for us to bomb the non-believers but cry foul decades later when what goes around comes around.


No longer hiding in an “undisclosed location” Amerika’s number 1 draft dodging war criminal, Dick Cheney, crawls out from under a rock to claim President Obama doesn’t know we are at war with terrorism thus perpetuating the same bullshit that the War Party has been pushing for decades and the sheeple have been buying i.e. that the Democrats are weak. It won’t be long for the sugar and spice progeny that got him his fifth and final deferment from Vietnam starts shooting her mouth off.

Meanwhile in another shameless display of sheer and rank hypocrisy the rest of the so-called Republican leadership is demanding an investigation into the failure of homeland security without acknowledging that it is the obstructionist policies of these pathetic politicians that are stopping the appointment of a head for the TSA as well as its funding.

The stench of shit from Cheney’s breath is sanitized by the so-called “liberal media” that repeats the ruminations of a delusional mind without ever fact checking his statements. Here’s hoping that 2010 brings Spain closer to prosecuting that embarrassing pant load for war crimes because the U.S. is incapable of prosecuting its own war criminals. Seems like only “other” countries commit war crimes and we feel it is out duty to bring “them” to justice while our war criminals are free to castigate our current commander-in-chief and commit treason in the process by aiding and abetting the enemy with such scurrilous and irresponsible speech.

For its part in this sad period of our nation’s history the Democrats for the most part haven’t exposed the bullshit by reminding the public that it was George Bush who stayed on vacation and ignored the threat of an imminent attack by al Qaeda and then proceeded to fabricate the grounds for an unjust, immoral and illegal war against Iraq thereby leaving the facts open to a continuing debate which should have been concluded long ago if only the Democrats had the guts to speak truth to power that was never democratically elected at the beginning of this decade.

Heading into the new year we might be better served by remembering that it was Osama bin-Laden who four days before the 04 reelection of that phony cowboy from Crawford TX said``All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaeda, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.”

We can no longer afford to base our domestic or foreign policy on the ignorance and fear peddled by Republican ideologues to a public who knows little or nothing about our history, a spineless silent Democratic Party that has nothing to fear but fear itself and a media satisfied with repeating the rhetoric that is about to bankrupt the Republic rather than reporting about the reality of The Big Lie of American dominance based on the notion that “God is on our side” because that “God” doesn’t exist. That is the truth which shall set us free and unfortunately that is the uncomfortable truth which we cannot handle because we continue to prefer the comfortable lie – we’re number 1.