Isn't it odd how the GOP...
doesn't want people to see the fruits of war? The President won't allow photos of the coffins of fallen American military. The Republicans recently protested so vociferously against a Democratic candidate's campaign ad using a backdrop of flag draped coffins that they forced the ad to be pulled.
Americans are fed news reels with the grisly parts edited out. We are not allowed to see the smashed bodies of children being pulled from under the rubble of destroyed towns. There are no cadavers in the Republican version of war. There are no cilvilians blown to smithereens, no arms and legs being strewn over acres of ground. No Marines are gutted and maimed. In the Compassionate Conservative's wars there are no bodies stacked like cord wood, no corpses of broken, ravished women and, above all, there are no flag draped coffins.
The Republicans would have us believe that their wars are done by buttons. Smart bombs and precisions targeting. Boom! Swoosh! All gone. Problem solved. Very sanitary.
The Bush Administration has God on its side. Everything is simple, it's good versus evil. How convenient for the keyboard komandos who support this puesdo religious jabberwocky and clamor for more incursions. They do not need to ask themselves any questions, do any soul searching or investigating , they are a gang of right doers morally bound to killing the Devil's helpers. The War President doesn't get any blood on his hands because God has told him war is a good way to cleanse the world.
The most shameful act this administration has foisted on the American citizens, apart from blacking out the human suffering in its wars, is to brand anybody who is against war, for peace, harmony and diplomacy as unpatriotic cowards. War is more noble than peace. Aggression is preferable to diplomacy. Condemn our enemies for doing exactly what we are doing. Talk of treason, torture and spying. Fear, suspicion and fanaticism. But, no photos of coffins.
We must be talking about some other place in the world, we cannot be referring to the United States of America. Can we?
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Great men do not commit murder. Great nations do not start wars." William Jennings Bryan
MEXICO (as I see it):
ANIMAL WORLD
Remember, Mexicans think that an automobile, or any motorized vehicle, is an entity unto itself. That is, they view a car as if it were and animal; a thing large and scary to deal with, like a bear or a buffalo.
They appear to believe a car has a mind of its own, a metabolism and its own cellular components. When a car nearly runs them down
they are unmindful of the human control factor involved.
If the vehicles crash savagely into one another a Mexican might describe the wreck thusly: 'The blue one hit the red one'. The panther leapt on the stag. To them it's normal for the
species.
The driver inside the car is not considered responsible for the actions of the car any more than the passengers on a train are responsible for which tracks the engine follows.
A pedestrian, narrowly missed by a reckless, swerving automobile will often offer an apologetic smile to those inside the vehicle as if to say: I'm sorry, I just forgot to watch myself during the stampede.
Americans are fed news reels with the grisly parts edited out. We are not allowed to see the smashed bodies of children being pulled from under the rubble of destroyed towns. There are no cadavers in the Republican version of war. There are no cilvilians blown to smithereens, no arms and legs being strewn over acres of ground. No Marines are gutted and maimed. In the Compassionate Conservative's wars there are no bodies stacked like cord wood, no corpses of broken, ravished women and, above all, there are no flag draped coffins.
The Republicans would have us believe that their wars are done by buttons. Smart bombs and precisions targeting. Boom! Swoosh! All gone. Problem solved. Very sanitary.
The Bush Administration has God on its side. Everything is simple, it's good versus evil. How convenient for the keyboard komandos who support this puesdo religious jabberwocky and clamor for more incursions. They do not need to ask themselves any questions, do any soul searching or investigating , they are a gang of right doers morally bound to killing the Devil's helpers. The War President doesn't get any blood on his hands because God has told him war is a good way to cleanse the world.
The most shameful act this administration has foisted on the American citizens, apart from blacking out the human suffering in its wars, is to brand anybody who is against war, for peace, harmony and diplomacy as unpatriotic cowards. War is more noble than peace. Aggression is preferable to diplomacy. Condemn our enemies for doing exactly what we are doing. Talk of treason, torture and spying. Fear, suspicion and fanaticism. But, no photos of coffins.
We must be talking about some other place in the world, we cannot be referring to the United States of America. Can we?
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Great men do not commit murder. Great nations do not start wars." William Jennings Bryan
MEXICO (as I see it):
ANIMAL WORLD
Remember, Mexicans think that an automobile, or any motorized vehicle, is an entity unto itself. That is, they view a car as if it were and animal; a thing large and scary to deal with, like a bear or a buffalo.
They appear to believe a car has a mind of its own, a metabolism and its own cellular components. When a car nearly runs them down
they are unmindful of the human control factor involved.
If the vehicles crash savagely into one another a Mexican might describe the wreck thusly: 'The blue one hit the red one'. The panther leapt on the stag. To them it's normal for the
species.
The driver inside the car is not considered responsible for the actions of the car any more than the passengers on a train are responsible for which tracks the engine follows.
A pedestrian, narrowly missed by a reckless, swerving automobile will often offer an apologetic smile to those inside the vehicle as if to say: I'm sorry, I just forgot to watch myself during the stampede.
posted by bbuckman | 7:00 AM
3 Comments:
Thank you for explaining Mexican cars to me. I always wondered how the people I met could be so congenial and then be such monsters in their cars. Now I know: it was the CARS!
Suebob: I actually spoke with a woman who was almost in tears after her husband chewed her out for returning home with another dent on her car.
"I hate this car! The red one I had before never hit anything." she lamented.
'A pedestrian, narrowly missed by a reckless, swerving automobile will often offer an apologetic smile to those inside the vehicle as if to say: I'm sorry, I just forgot to watch myself during the stampede.'-this is a funny visual. love it.
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