America Has Left the Building: An Open Missive of Anger and Hope

By Phil Rockstroh
Created Nov 22 2006 - 9:07am

Recently, we've been plied and pummeled with the absurd proclamation that
"the system worked" -- that our congressional representatives listened and
took note of the collective, antiwar fulmination of the people, registered
in our faux republic's latest, sham plebiscite . Yes, I suspect, the
political classes of Washington did hear the people's thunder -- and then
went running for cover within the comfort zones of their sheltering
smugness, constructed of the brick and mortar of arrogant power and
inequitable privilege. Just ask Joe Lieberman: He's the self-satisfied
fellow seated comfortably upon the large, plush lounge chair, stuffed with
campaign dollars, nearest the door with access to K Street.

But we must not let ourselves -- the true beneficiaries of empire -- off so
easily: Our national tragedies (from all the corpses amassed, buried and
forgotten in our imperial wars -- to our intransigence and denial regarding
Global Warming) are a collaborative effort with our leaders: A joint and
living lie of the mind -- made manifest by collective desire and remorseless
pursuit.

A doofus like Bush has needed and has received plenty of help to
destroy the United States, Iraq, and Afghanistan and kill and maim
countless human beings around the globe. He and his puppeteers have
perpetrated crimes that cry out for punishment, which may never come.
And he still has two more years to connive, lie, plot, distort, and
dissemble, as he has for six hideous years!

It seems almost incredible, but our craven White House war criminal,
the putative leader of the FREE WORLD, is a close buddy of a cunning
enemy of the United States, as well as an international KILLER of his
critics!

But then, Bush himself is guilty of far more sinister crimes than Vlad
Putin, who blithely but stealthily had Alexander Litvinenko poisoned
because Litvinenko, like Putin a former KGB goon, was investigating the
Putin-ordered murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Someday, we can hope Bush and his criminal cabal will face justice and
punishment for war crimes and crimes against U.S. citizens. Until then,
we and the world look with horror and disgust and shame at how low and
degraded the administration has brought America. A nation ruined!

Gandalf Grey wrote: