I must be fucking BRILLIANT!!!!!

[Just Me]

Because I KNEW, in advance, a profiteering war on the weak yet secular country of Iraq would exacerbate extremism and inflame vigilantant justice against the "Divided States of Americorastates".

I KNEW, in advance, anti-Americanism would grow.

I KNEW, in advance, the neocons and their repuklican and non-Christian, power-grabbing base,....were LYING/MANIPULATING/USING the very people they are MORALLY BOUND to protect in order to advance their own self-serving interests.

I KNEW, in advance, my brother, a member of the National Guard, would be SUCKED into violence he didn't sign up for,...and will continue to be (in secret) until after the election of those who DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE.

I KNEW, in advance, the people in charge are not merely guilty of moral relativity but also snub ANY MORAL OR ETHICAL obligations, at all, not only to humanity but the American people, as well.

I hear many talk about the 'definition of insanity'. I hear few define the definition of 'evil'. If leaders are amoral, break laws, lie and deceive while simultaneously profit, oppress, manipulate, hold full responsibility for the maiming and deaths of hundreds of thousands,...

,..IS THAT SUFFICIENT TO PROVE "EVIL"?

Human evil,...and it's been allowed, tolerated,...even supported by something called a, "Christian Network". GOOD GOD!!!!!!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. I think there's a lot of "fucking brilliant" people here at DU!

:toast: to a well said rant.

[valerief]

2. When the second plane hit the towers, after months of watching

the market drop, I could only ask, "What is Bush doing to us?"

[rosesaylavee]

3. You are, you are!

And yes, they are evil.

As per dictionary.com here is the definition of 'evil':

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)

–adjective 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

4. As long as Brilliant is a consenting adult,

.. have at it!

[Just Me]

9. I confess, there were tens of thousands of BRILLIANT people,...

,...who took to the streets, pre-Iraq,...tons of millions of peaceful, BRILLIANT people altogether around the world,...and they received a "comma" by the "HOing CM",...a media that's wrapped around the fingers of profit rather than those they are supposed to empower. They are too STUPIFIED by money to hold moral/ethical stability.

Had THOSE media participants been keen on their fucking JOB ---> facts and truth ---> they may have diverted this disaster, not only upon the people they don't give a shit about, but also themselves!!!!

I'll slap the face of ANYONE who asserts "moral relativity" against liberals/democrats/progressives if they supported this Republican-controlled republic (with a small "r"). I'd slap it, without guilt, until they stopped denying the facts.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

20. Totally agree... and sorry for the play on words....

F**cking as a VERB, not an Adjective....

I must be F**king 'Brilliant... in the literal sense. Didn't mean to try to stop the thunder.

[zbdent]

5. No, it's called

paying attention and being intelligent ...

Something the Repukes surely lack (and now, I wasn't calling you shirley ...)

[Toucano]

6. Burn the Witch! Burn the Witch!

Your prescient abilities are spooking me! LOL!

[NC_Nurse]

7. You're not alone.

Although I found that, at the time, nobody wanted to hear my knowledge. Most of the people I work with were ALL ABOUT this war and didn't seem to see the OBVIOUS consequences in the world.
None of them have come up to me and said, "Wow, you sure were right about this clusterf*ck in Iraq."
Frustrating, isn't it?

[Just Me]

13. Unfortuantely, it takes courage to admit being wrong.

Our country isn't built upon either morals or courage, it's built upon being 'superior'. Our country is built upon infatuation with "having" rather than "need". The more you "have, the more 'valuable' you are in a capitalist (NOT DEMOCRATIC) environment.

We HAVE (well, what's left of the middle as the top weighs so goshdamn heavy one wonders how that 'titantic' has not yet crashed), and,...we wonder why people around the world OBJECT to our "HAVING' more at the sacrifice of the oppressed.

It is TRUE that, anti-Americanism has existed for quite some time,...at least 25 years before Clinton was president. The reason why is,...the "United States of Corporacrats" have been economically oppressing EVERY weak but "fruitfully-producing" country around the world. NOW, information about that oppression, backed by the USC CIA or military, is OUT IN THE OPEN VIA a world-wide web (thank you very much, Bill Gates).

People want a fair shot at life. People DETEST oppression, by anyone. THAT IS DEMOCRACY. The powers that be,....cannot fill their black-holes of "having" with people who oppose oppression.

[calimary]

21. It also takes courage to admit that you've been HAD - at the end of a

fork. That you not only were wrong but that you bought the whole line of bullshit and swallowed it whole (which means you're an enabler and an accomplice, and that all that needless bloodshed is on YOUR hands, too). Few of the people I know who were so in favor of "goin' over there and KICKIN' ASS" have come back to me with any mea culpas, or even a - "well, looks like you were right..." NONE. The only person I know who said anything like it - "looks like what you said about Iraq is coming to pass" was already slanting against the war, to begin with. She even offered to bail me out if I got arrested at one of the protests!

I'm sure everybody here on DU who tried like hell to stop this accursed war is feeling some measure of this. Hopefully you know (former) bad guys of more selfless and contrite character than I do.

I apologize for sounding so harsh and judgmental. I really don't feel that way all the time. It's human nature. Just DAMNED HARD to admit you've been had. That you've been played for a sucker. It's hard. NOBODY likes being punked. Just look at Chris Wallace. He'll go to his grave insisting he was 100-percent correct and without blame, and that it's ALL Clinton's fault, that Clinton blew the interview - and he himself didn't. It's just hard. It takes a VERY big person to admit he/she was even just simply wrong, much less that he/she was taken for such a ride - and went so willingly.

BTW - it's also human nature to be a hard-ass about folks like that, and I'm as guilty as sin sometimes. It's hard for me to be forgiving. Sometimes I am, but I don't bat 1,000 on that, by any means.

[wiggs]

8. It's evil and it's very effective

We have an evil strongman running our country, borrowing into our institutions (churches, constitution, courts, legislative branch, media infrastructure, foreign policy, military, etc) like a tick and transforming them into something we don't recognize...something that serves the strongman's purpose....sucking blood, spreading disease.

Can't testify to your brilliance, but the more plain talk and capital letters that hits the blogosphere, the better.

[hootinholler]

10. supported by something called a, "Christian Network"

Um if I remember my history correctly, the last time that happened we got the phrase "Got mit uns".

Recommended.

-Hoot

[El Supremo]

11. Brilliant!

But so am I.

[Just Me]

15. Indeed. So many fucking BRILLIANT people,...ignored.

Imagine that!!!!

We weren't even a "comma" in history (seriously, since WE haven't had our families and homes and lives and country thrown into hell),...hey, we have been/were merely "spit" on the highway to hell.

[BootinUp]

12. We bow down to your awesome intelligence.

(just imagine a bowing smiley)....



Can I do my thread about being brilliant next?

[Just Me]

14. Interesting. I bow to your hidden fist.

I note your challenge.

[BootinUp]

16. fist?

wasn't meant as a challenge, more of saying I think many of us shared some of the same thinking.

[Just Me]

18. 'kay

Peace. ;-)

[calimary]

17. Indeed. Remember "situational ethics"? That was a frame they

batted around like a hot baseball against Clinton all the way through the Monica mess.

Takes one to know one, I guess. They certainly ought to know.

And yeah - I think a LOT of us have been wondering WHY - WHY WE and other amateur, political non-players that most of us are, WHY WE could tell what would happen if war started, knowing just the information we knew at the time. If WE could figure it out, why couldn't those whose two-cents mattered?

[Just Me]

22. Maybe, we simply recognize, as common human beings, a bully,...

,...except, we SEE it in macro rather than micro grounds.

Worse, though, "the bully" is playing a chessgame with the entire world and BELIEVES he (they) can win. They can/will not win, globally.

However, "they" have, essentially proclaimed "checkmate" on our own country. "They" have won. "They" have control. "They" have control over elections and will remain in control in spite of all the warnings to those who value democracy and justice and whatnot. "They" will not lose power short of serious confrontation.

"They" will continue to control and WILL spread their war, expending our every resource,...and, this future makes me, distressed, to say the least. It will pass, with tears and regret,...but, it will pass.

[Cha]

19. It should have been common knowledge

to all but the neoCONS and deeply afflicted but I repeat myself.

Not to disparage your obvious brilliance.

[Just Me]

23. It was not common knowledge, though, proving our country,...

,...has become, has been,...well, no "beacon".

Where do we rank at a "transparent/responsible" government in the world.

WE ARE LOSERS in those terms. If we are LOSERS at a "transparent/responsible" government, how can we can be honest advocates of spreading democracy?

We can't, we weren't, we aren't. Be honest. We are brokers of capitalism, not democracy,...PERIOD

[Swamp Rat]

24. I knew a coup took place in 2000.

I knew in 2001 Bush sold his own inflated Harkin stock and wondered about the lost spy plane over China.

I knew about the PNAC plan on 9/11/01.

I knew in 2002 the new anti-terror laws were, by design, going to suppress of our Constitutional Rights.

I knew in 2002 war with Iraq was inevitable, since it had been planned for a long time.

I knew in 2003 my cousin would be sent to Iraq and that it would be a disaster for our nation and the Middle East.

I knew in 2004 New Orleans was going face a hurricane related disaster when Bushler's FEMA cut $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers, a 44% reduction, to repair our levee system, in order to pay for the Iraq war. Halliburton, Innovative Emergency Management, Blackwater, et al were offered contracts.
http://www.factcheck.org/article344.html
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php
http://housedemocrats.gov/news/librarydetail.cfm?library_content_id=504
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/TheExecutive/091406_fema.html
http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/09/now_is_a_time_f.php
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-28/cover_story.html
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367/print
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060605/scahill

I knew Bushler was going to 'win' the so-called 2004 election, no matter what.

I knew in 2005 Bushler was going to demand radical changes to our laws to avert war crimes prosecution, here and abroad.

I know now that Bushler&Co are going to try to steal the midterm elections.

My intuition, right now, is making me feel sick, day and night.

[Cha]

26. So true and sad. Everything is

going to shyte to pay for that misbegotten War On Iraq.

[bonito]

27. We walk the same tight rope

But with hope we walk, along the way take time to smell the roses, camping, fishing, a good play, in the end, that's just it, in a minute, but we're not there yet.

[glitch]

25. Nope, just average. You only look brilliant compared to the PNACsies

Not that hard to do, sorry. However you are brilliant in many other ways!