I'm only part way through the first half of Frontline's latest shining achievement, Bush's War.
I haven't seen one diary on the recommended list yet that's pimping this doc, and it needs to be, but I do take serious issue with Frontline's choice of title. It is not Bush's war. It's our war. He thrust it into our arms like an unwanted Christmas present, only instead of a sweater, it was 4,000 dead soldiers, half a million dead civilians, more chaos in the middle east, and about $9 trillion in debt. Oh, and he lost the receipt at the bar.
That smug fuck and his soulless cronies get to walk away, comfortable in their psychotic certainty that they've made the world a better place.
I'll repeat that:
They get to walk away.
Bush gets to walk away.
This is our war now. It belongs to the people of conscience and decency who must lead this country out of the hell that will be a post-Bush world. Thanks a lot you spoiled, ignorant, egotistical child.
[UPDATE: 1:17am. Third Joint. Added "Bush's War" to the title. Seemed kinda dumb to leave it off considering the actual point of this diary is to make you watch it.]
[UPDATE: 2:10am. Still working.] I knew someone would eventually nail my point for me in the comments, from Leftie Gunner:
This is a Republic.
Every member of this government, from the President down to the guy digging a trench in the road in front of your house, is an employee of We, The People.
Ultimately, as the sovereigns, we are responsible for every decision they make.
Truman was wrong. The buck stops here.
We can choose to live in a democracy where we're the ones ultimately responsible, OR we can play the blame game, cast ourselves as the innocent victims, scream at those with whom we disagree with righteous indignation. That's what this election is about, and what I hope will be the second awakening of the Sleeping Giant. In this case, the Giant being our collective realization of all the horrible shit that has been carried out on our watch, and that it is our duty to reclaim what we should want to honor and, more importantly, preserve from this point forth: the very ideals that this country was founded on and aimed towards.
Which also happen to be the things that Bush has destroyed. Damn, maybe it is his war. The point is watch the damn documentary and make sure others do as well.