Walter Reed, Who Expected More From A Goverment On The Take?

[babylonsister]

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/3/7/185954/2969

Walter Reed, Who Expected More From A Goverment On The Take?
by Bob Higgins

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Many of them, broken and discarded, will succumb to despair, will turn to drugs or alcohol, will be involved in violent domestic disputes, fights in streets and saloons, caught up in ugly tragic battles in their own homes, with their own families. Many will become trapped in the criminal justice system as probationers or prisoners and will join their brothers from past wars as members of an American under class that no one wants to discuss.

Our leaders meanwhile will find yet another spot on the globe that offers an opportunity for enormous private profit that requires their boundless noblesse oblige, along with great piles of taxpayer dollars and they will sound the drums and trumpets of war in yet another patriotic call to other sons and grandsons, daughters and mothers to make the sacrifices that are necessary to the maintenance of the lusts for wealth and power of the ruling class.

No surprises here. This administration has done nothing but work to destroy American government since the day it arrived in Washington.

That, after all, was their design, their intent, it was and is the stated raison d'etre of the entire neo-conservative movement.

They told us up front, well in advance, that they hated government, that government was the source of most of the world's evils, that only some Ayn Randian John Gault riding the white horse of laissez faire capitalism could save us from the perils of our tragically misguided liberal democratic altruism, that if in control they would move to privatize everything.

They were true to their word. They have given us a war in which a hundred thousand private contractors are lined up for their share of the loot and which has failed miserably in all of its stated goals while making a sizable segment of the filthy rich even filthier and richer.

They "planned" this fiasco in advance, it was to be the "New American Century."


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[ninkasi]

1. What an apt description

"Government on the take" pretty much says it all. The mistreatment of our troops, beginning with the lies used to start a war in Iraq, and ending with the shabby treatment of those who serve, with lots of other egregious actions in between, is a national disgrace. They appeal to young men and women's sense of patriotism, and love of country, and seduce these young people to enlist in a military which has become nothing more than their private army, used to pillage wealth from American taxpayers, and the Iraqi people.

I'll know that the cause is serious when I read that Jenna and Barbara have enlisted, because they believe that success in Iraq is crucial to the survival of our country. Until then, it's nothing but an excuse for the Mafia type government inflicted on us by Bush, Cheney, and the other neocons.

[az chela]

2. And yet they have destroyed this country financially and killed

almost one million innocent Iraqi's.No one knows how many they have injured for life ,or raped and burned their homes.
The only people they care about is bush and cheneys base!!!!!!!!
The rest of us count for nothing.
This is our country and these pricks work for us and we need to put them all in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.So little,so late!!!!!!!
Turning our troops into maniac murderers is unforgiveable

[babylonsister]

3. "we need to put them all in prison" I agree, but you knew I would. nt

[OhioChick]

4. "Goverment On The Take"

Sums it up well.