The Inaugural Ball: Dancing with Wolves

[k8conant]

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0120-23.htm
Published on Thursday, January 20, 2005 by Star Tribune / Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Inaugural Ball: Dancing with Wolves
by Susan Lenfestey

It's time to party.

As the families of bomb-flattened Fallujah huddle in make-shift refugee camps, drinking from sewage-filled streams, Iraqi policy mastermind Paul Wolfowitz fastens the last stud into his starched collar.

As the Iraq Survey Group ends its search for WMD, concluding that there was no imminent mushroom cloud or even a smoking gun, Condi Rice draws herself a hot bath.

As Sgt. Kevin Benderman, an Army mechanic with nine years of service, refuses a second deployment to Iraq, saying "you just don't know how bad it is," Colin Powell pours himself a drink.

As Specialist Charles A. Graner, miscreant and major-domo of Abu Ghraib, shuffles off to prison, Donald Rumsfeld straightens the black tie of his tux.

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Read the rest of the litany at the link above.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Can't they see

the blood on their hands?

Can't they feel the weight of the destruction of lives that is being placed on their shoulders?

Or will they only realize it when they are huddled in some bunker after a nuclear holocost brought on by their arrogance and greed?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Frankly, my dear, they don't give a damn.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. they will

when they are living the nightmare that they are even now creating.

[ooglymoogly]

4. dancin wif hyenas