Is Terrorism Making You Sick?

[Oracle]

So here we are, the biggest deficit in U.S. history and the worst interstate financial crisis since the Depression and millions more people without jobs every day, the environment and independent thought and your civil liberties slowly being hacked away as more money is spent on our barbaric Iraqi occupation this year than on U.S. education. Ahh, patriotism.

Oh yes, rest assured, we learned a great deal from 9/11. We learned paranoia. We learned simmering dread and mistrust. We learned balled fists and WMD lies and how many Iraqi and Afghani civilians can be reduced to bloody cinder by a single Tomahawk missile.

We learned to hate France and Germany and almost all dark-skinned foreigners and detain them without reason or explanation or lawyer.

We learned to tap more phone lines and secretly check your credit cards and email records and sabotage our own well-being at every turn in the name of some draconian "Homeland Security" BS, as Ashcroft just snickers quietly and anoints himself in holy oil.

This is where we are. We are the world's rogue superpower, attacking without provocation, launching war without a true enemy, not to be trusted in the slightest, our international U.N. standing at its lowest level in 50 years, the most embarrassing and inarticulate, spoon-fed president in decades.

http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

[KeepItReal]

1. "We are the world's rogue superpower"

Funny, right before 9/11/2001 that was our title thanks to Bush & Co. dissing the Kyoto treaty, ignoring Mid-east peace, etc...

I guess things are back to the way they were, huh?

[schrodinger_I]

2. I am tired of it

I think it is getting a bit old. I don't like the fact that we are going to be on a permanent war footing for the next few years. I think it would be better if people relax and go about their lives and pay little attention to the fear and panic inducing "news" that is being broadcast by our so-called media.

[rman]

3. "next few years"? more like decades

the way the neocons and zionists are steppping up this conflict, it's only going to get worse.

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. Kyoto

Kyoto wouldn't have passed unless there was GREEN majority. The Senate opposed on both sides of the aisle.

[ixion]

5. can I laugh at the cosmic carnival of it all?

I suppose I try to laugh out of frustration, and in order to keep from crying.

But I must admit that I have lost a great deal of hope for the future of humankind.

[cosmicdot]

7. only if I can join you

thank you
cosmicdot
:hi:

[Terwilliger]

6. Tell it!!

Tell it!