Where is the outrage? While cry-baby conservative right-wing theocrats wring their hands over the removal of a feeding tube from one individual, our young men and women are dying every day in an unnecessary war.
While the religious radicals scream about their "culture of life", our children are killed and maimed everyday in an Iraqi civil war that we started and in which countless Iraqis die. While radical republicans threaten a "nuclear option" over a centuries old filibuster rule in order to appoint 7 incompetent justices to courts, our proud warriors lack the body armor, armored vehicles, adequate manpower, and leadership to survive in combat in an illegal war. Does the "culture of life" of the radicals only extend to the fetus and the brain dead? Don't our warriors also deserve adequate protection so they may too have an opportunity to live? While radical republicans malign the United Nations, herald a unilateralist foreign policy, and shoot their mouths off about being "strong on national defense", one third of the U. S. Air Force's aircraft are flying with restrictions to keep the wings from falling off, a top Army Reserve general has declared the Army Reserves a "broken force", recruiting quotas are not being met in Army and Marine recruiting efforts, and the Army has resorted to recalling to active duty 50 and 60 year-olds to make up the difference.
Where is the sacrifice? While oil companies make record profits, people complain about high gas prices for their gas-guzzling SUV's, and our government refuses to update fuel-efficiency standards for automakers; our national treasure bleeds into the Iraqi sand in a war that has already been admitted to be about oil. While cry-baby conservatives eliminate the "death tax" for the likes of the Paris Hiltons of America, our brave warriors die for want of body armor. While radical republicans institute "tax relief" for the richest 1% of Americans, the poor and middle class send their sons and daughters, inadequately equipped, to die in a foreign land. While Haliburton and KBR make record profits by charging the United Sates Military outrageous prices for fuel and meals not served, while mercenary armies like Blackwater Security pay top dollar for soldiers of fortune, our warriors go to war with understrength companies and cardboard cut-out Marines. While our leaders, chickenhawks all who have never seen combat, rattle sabers and threaten another war, they institute stop-loss programs for the services that violate enlistment contracts and makes indentured servants of brave troops whose tours of duty are expired.
Where is the shame? While the First Lady cracks jokes at a correspondence dinner about the President masturbating a horse, not one word, prayer, or blessing is offered for our warriors in the field. While able body Young Republicans AND Young Democrats support the war, recruiters are reduced to signing up mentally handicapped individuals to fill the ranks. While PFC. Lyndie England follows orders and goes to jail for prisoner abuse, the generals who issued those orders get a free pass and the radical republican government official who authored a report condoning this abuse is promoted to be the chief law enforcement official of the United States. While the public is shocked and outraged by an Iraqi mob that burns and mutilates the bodies of mercenaries, there is only a quiet mumble about an OFFICIAL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PROGRAM that sends ghost prisoners to foreign countries to be tortured and boiled in oil. While a gay faux reporter who impersonates a United States Marine is allowed unlimited access to the highest offices of the land, gays are barred from serving their country. While radical republicans ram through Congress a bill that makes declaring bankruptcy for military families more painful, they refuse to fully fund Veterans programs. While the Director of American Intelligence during one of its worse failures, while the author of one of America's most inept war plans, while the American Proconsul in Iraq who loses $9 billion dollars, all receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the President refuses to attend the funeral of any fallen American Warrior. And finally, while the man who was responsible for the deaths of 3000 Americans is allowed to roam the world; while our military destroys itself in a senseless war; while 1600 of our countrymen and women and countless Iraqis have died for corporate interests; while our country slowly slides into a police state; our President's most pressing issue is to steal the social security of our citizens.
I just had to get it off my chest. Thanks for listening.