Eat What You Kill has been used in various parts of the business sector, mainly sales, to summarize that one is only paid for the new business brought in or product sold. In it's fullest it says You will only eat when you've brought home the bacon.
In an earlier time it was if you kill it, you must eat it. It was a guide to early conservation when many hunted for their diner.
Several months ago OPOL, OnePissedOffLiberal, posted a diary titled Stop This Stupid War that I liked so much I downloaded and archived it. A lot of nice quotes from warriors as well as anti-war celebrities that seemed to mesh. One of my favorite quotes was from Abbie Hoffman:
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism.
If people were forced to eat what they
killed there would be no more war."
--Abbie Hoffman
So now you know what was fermenting in this vet’s head when at the close of This Week with George Stephanopoulos honoring 21 of our military who had given their lives for this insane war. Most were young army and marines 19 - 21 years old.
Once again I stood in silence, just feet from my TV, trying to read names, rank and where these young soldiers had come from. With no one to hear, I spoke aloud what always goes through my mind ... "More fresh meat for the grinder".
I'm a 59 year old Vietnam era vet and I couldn't believe how young the troops looked. Most were boot camp photos and I'd like to think that some had time to mature and live.
Then it all snapped ... fresh meat for the grinder ... must eat what you kill ... compulsory cannibalism.
I don’t mean to be obscene but this is and has always been George W. Bush's war. What if he had to eat what he killed? What if Bush had to eat what he's sent off to die, the meat he's fed to the grinder?
So 21 soldiers at a SWAG of 175 pounds each ... That makes ... ah let's see here ... 3675 pounds ... we'll just round that off to an even ton of meat. Last week George would have a ton of burgers, steaks, chops and hot dogs to munch on.
What I'm trying to do is crack the depersonalization of the body count. Stalin said it best:
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic
If you think that this post and I am profane then you are just not getting it. These weren't just 13 soldiers; they were 13 beautiful human beings that died in vain. Yes ... their lives were wasted. If some can't saddle up to the soul and spirit of 13 young human beings maybe a ton of hamburger will do the trick. John McCain said it right the first time ... Their lives were wasted. Of course after that comment he had to back up and be politically correct. OOpps, I meant sacrificed. Thank you John. I think you've earned a seat at the kiddies table.
A Bouquet for The Dinner Table
And while Laura seems at times to be a tempering influence ... Forget it ... She's an enabler. She's drunk the kool aide . Last week she lamented the One bombing a Day that is being shown. She's smart enough to know better and that means in my book she's compliscent. Well Laura, I've got one thing to say ... "Belly up to the table bitch".
But there's more, to date, 3,174 service men and women have died in this unjustified war. For you that are still counting, that's 555,450 pounds of soft tissue for the barbie. Shylock demanded his pound of flesh and George Bush offers it without much thought. Maybe George Bush can understand a half a million pounds of flesh.
But of course it's larger than that. There are the families of these victims whose lives have been indelibly altered. There are those who haven't even been born that will suffer the anger of those enraged by the emperor that squanders the lives and resources of this country.
650,000 Iraqis killed ... hmmm ... That's 455,000,000 Quarter Pounders!
Bush and his handlers went on the fast attack calling the study simply incredible. I don't know about you but I'll take the word of John Hopkins and the Lancet over that of George Bush any day.
The figure for the number of deaths attributable to the conflict - which amounts to around 2.5% of the population - is at odds with figures cited by the US and UK governments and will cause a storm, but the Lancet says the work, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, has been examined and validated by four separate independent experts who all urged publication.
This is what it has come down to; one who doesn't know or care; and one who can't or won't forget.
Personally, I'd like to host a diner party for the Bush's, The Cheney's, Condi and yes Powell. For Wolfowitz, Pearl, Fife, Scooter, Matlin and Rumsfeld. We have plenty of meat on the table, so lets bring in a rubber stamp and now dead locked congress. Don't be shy, there's room for Tony Blair and friends. Harold Pinter and I will serve. There's plenty and assurances of more to come.
If you have suggestions of other honorees, don't be shy, suggest them and tell us why.