Now that the confetti has fallen, hangovers are in full bloom, and people have once again indulged in the excesses that mark every entry into a new year with the same old fluff, are we ready to get serious?
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Reports Bush To Strike Iran
According to this article, it is said that the Bush neocons are putting plans in place to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. I don't find this at all surprising as I have also said from the very beginning long before the 2000 (S)election that should Bush be given power this war would take place. Al Gore if I recall said it also, only, people were too busy being caught up in the BS rhetoric of political campaigns about who would be better to sit down and have a beer with (yuk yuk) and Al Gore wearing a brown or blue shirt as if that mattered in policy, that they didn't listen to him, nor anyone else who warned them of the consequences of their complacency...then they allowed the election to be stolen, and here we are.
I now believe that complacency has come full circle and all of us are going to pay the price for it even more than we already are. I also think I was deluding myself this past week by writing as if by some miracle that when the clock struck 12 on Jan 1, 2006, that the lightbulb would go on over the heads of those who up to this point have been sleepwalking since 2000. But then I have to remember all that has transpired since Fascism reared its ugly head in this country and that beast began its slow and stealthy crawl towards our Constitution... now breathing down our necks, its stench foul, and its eyes piercing... Absolutely NOTHING.
For five long years we have sat whining, complaining, bickering, and saying that we must make change. For five long years we have been shooting BS over the bow as if that made it all better... But it hasn't. We now know that the war in Iraq is a war of lies, convenience, power, greed, control, deceit, and infamy, with OUR freedoms the true casualty. All those whose lives were lost while not in vain for they served with their hearts, are nevertheless also a slap in the face to them, for they were lied to. Their families were lied to... The American people were lied to and betrayed... Yet, here we sit on January 1, 2006, same as we sat on January 1, 2005...
And now this saga of perpetual war will enter into the next chapter with such a willing counterpart who is just as sociopathic and hatefilled as they are, and what will we do? Will we once again write with feigned outrage in search of some semblance of reason for it all? Will we continue to use it for political fodder? Will we continue to sit day in and day out in 2006 just telling people what we need to do just because it sounds good, or for once, will the American people get the hell off of their asses and get out there to tell those in power that we have had enough and kick them the hell out of OUR government?
I also read an article today that claims that people in our military are deserting, requesting honorable discharges based on being conscientious objectors, and trying to find any way to not have to serve in our Army. If that doesn't tell the American people something I don't know what does. And I will say this as well, that if more of our men and women continue to do this and these sociopaths continue with their plans, we are looking at a draft down the line and much worse. There will be no way with declining recruitment rates and these other factors to maintain a force in the amount they will need to pull this empire grab off... AND THEY AREN'T GOING TO TAKE MY SON.
So on this New Year's Day 2006, I think those reading this who venture into the Internet daily to get their fill of news and conversation to wile away some hours and then shut off the computer to forget it, should NOT FORGET IT. For those of us who have been right about everything these people were going to do to this point are telling you now, that they will not be deterred by any Constitutional means. This IS the make it or break it year for America, and perhaps even the world.
Are you going to sit on the sidelines yet another year, or are you going to get the hell up and say I've had enough? Is this the year these warmongers and criminals will FINALLY be brought to task, or will we be sitting here January 1, 2007, talking about the radiation fallout from what happened in Iran and the ongoing world war that resulted from it? The choice is YOURS. I've made mine.