Congratulations Bush- we are a threat now.

[LynnTheDem]

The Phantom Weapons
(excerpt)

I hope Americans feel good about taking their war on terror to foreign soil. For bringing the terrorists to Iraq- Chalabi, Allawi, Zarqawi, the Hakeems… How is our current situation going to secure America? How is a complete generation that is growing up in fear and chaos going to view Americans ten years from now? Does anyone ask that? After September 11, because of what a few fanatics did, Americans decided to become infected with a collective case of xenophobia… Yet after all Iraqis have been through under the occupation, we're expected to be tolerant and grateful. Why? Because we get more wheat in our diets?

Terror isn't just worrying about a plane hitting a skyscraper…terrorism is being caught in traffic and hearing the crack of an AK-47 a few meters away because the National Guard want to let an American humvee or Iraqi official through. Terror is watching your house being raided and knowing that the silliest thing might get you dragged away to Abu Ghraib where soldiers can torture, beat and kill. Terror is that first moment after a series of machine-gun shots, when you lift your head frantically to make sure your loved ones are still in one piece. Terror is trying to pick the shards of glass resulting from a nearby explosion out of the living-room couch and trying not to imagine what would have happened if a person had been sitting there.

The weapons never existed. It's like having a loved one sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit- having your country burned and bombed beyond recognition, almost. Then, after two years of grieving for the lost people, and mourning the lost sovereignty, we're told we were innocent of harboring those weapons. We were never a threat to America...

Congratulations Bush- we are a threat now.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Isn't it so very typical that while the rightwingnuttery in this country are busy trying to bush-apologize and chant how better off the Iraqis are even with no WMD, they not one of them bother to wonder how the Iraqis feel about "being sentanced to death for a crime they didn't commit".

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. or worse, make fun of the Iraqi woes?

I was on a political board where one self-described "American" laughed at the chaos in Iraq, saying basically that these crazy people can't even govern themselves because of all the chaos. I politely reminded him WHO was responsible for the chaos. I'm sure I'll be called a traitor for doing so. ;)

[Straight Shooter]

2. I warned bush supporters that the people they were claiming to "liberate"

would one day be viewed as "the enemy." I was scoffed at.

Well, look where we are now. Remember, WMD and War both begin with W.

[katsy]

3. Events to grieve about...

The "phantom" WMDs... the "phantom" socialists... the "phantom" terrorists on American soil waiting to kill us (even though open borders are just great)... the "phantom" evil socialist liberals... the "phantom" evil socialist liberal unions... the "phantom" bankruptcy of social security... the "phantom" evil scientists... the "phantom" evil homosexuals...

Well, there were no WMDs. No mushroom clouds. No one can have a spirited debate about corporate regulation without being labeled as "left-wing socialist pinko homosexual american hating union lover". BUT there are "phantom" coffins bearing the bodies of our dead soldiers that we aren't allowed to see, honor or grieve for.

There's an uncounted number of innocent dead Iraqis we aren't allowed to see for fear of "humanizing" their faces.

But something smells quite sinister to me. This war is fought on two fronts against two enemies... one being the Iraqis... the other being the American people.

The facist right-wing has sucessfully pit brother against brother, father against son, working Americans against their own interests, black against white, heterosexuals against homosexuals, muslim against the world, young workers vs. retirees... right here in our own country.

Whether you examine the events in Iraq or right here in America... their plan has succeeded. We are divided and weak. That motherfu$king bastard comes out and lies and at least 50% of the actual voters in this country hungrily lap up his lies.

Only 60% of the eligible voters voted in 2004. MSM is calling this a victory. I call it an ABOMINATION. Given enough time, battleground America will be the spitting image of battleground Iraq.

Sorry if this is off-topic in a way. The battlegrounds are beginning to blur before my eyes.

The Iraqis were and are not a threat to America. The Unions are not a threat to America. The average American's political affiliation is not a threat to the political affiliation of his neighbor. Social security is not threatened with extinction. Homosexual marriage is not a threat to anyone. The majority of muslims are not a threat to anyone anymore than our own government IS a threat to EVERYONE.

I can't begin to explain the depth of my despair for my country. So I will direct my hatred to those who seek to divide this country and destroy innocent people in a criminal war in Iraq with a rage as I've never in my lifetime have felt.

Our government is criminal and we're feeding this beast. Every democrat must vote in 2006. One way or another, we must work to make this happen. We must identify and educate every potential voter who stayed home in 2004. Starting the campaign in 2005 or 2006 will be too late. Talk less to one another and get out to talk to those who didn't feel our urgency in 2004.

[LynnTheDem]

4. WELL SAID!

I agree with you on every point...and on the despair for this country.

Welcome to DU, by the way! :hi:

[katsy]

5. Thank you Lynn-

Your message of welcome is warmly appreciated.

But the hatred and rage I feel right now is positively inconsolable.

In the depths of my soul, I feel * is a far greater evil than osama bin laden. OBL united us against his evil. It's an enemy we can deal with... an evil that can be CURED.

* is different and far more sinister. He has made american hate american. He has made the world hate us. He has built nothing. He destroys everything.

I hold the 40% of eligible voters in 2004 who chose not to vote equally responsible for the fate of the Iraqis and the war within our own country.

It was too much trouble to vote. When will they learn?