- With the September 11 hearings burning fresh in our memory,
especially Richard Clarke's prolific eye-opening testimony, a body bag
-- er, a "transfer tube" of truth comes zipping to mind -- President
Bush was then, and remains, disgracefully asleep at the wheel. As a result
-- so far -- more than 3,000 preventable American deaths have occurred
at home. Bush's blundering incompetence will remain embedded in our nation's
memory long after he and the rest of his soured crew are in the grave in
dross-dripped caskets, their bones stripped of flesh...
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- Think about it! The worst preventable tragedy on record
in American history foolishly allowed to materialize on our soil simply
because "keeping us safe" was NOT important enough to be a high
priority on Bush's list of things to do while steering the world's mightiest
helm.
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- Here's the kicker, folks (insert drum roll) --The Neo-Republicans
are now arrogantly propagating that our safety is Bush's STRONGEST selling
point for his "war president" re-election platform! Holy shit!
I'll sleep soundly tonight -- like a peaceful dove in a foxhole. Yeah,
right.
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- So, I have a question for the anointed/appointed one
-- if a few of us are still gullible and hungry enough to swallow your
seeping sewer swamp-swill of putrid leadership directives -- if we actually
(gasp) re-(s)elect you -- what do we get in return? Gee, I must be a glutton
for pain.
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- Hold on to your wing nuts flyboy. Let me guess what the
prize is for digesting your crap (that noise you hear is me hacking) and
actually voting for you. I think I've got it! Perhaps we'll win the grand
prize of a pair of complementary military fatigues, and maybe even our
very own tombstones -- conveniently inscribed with our names -- right?
Hey, am I psychic, or what?
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- Hot Damn! Sorry if I spoiled your surprise, dumbya. I'll
be sure to cast my George W. vote for sure. Yeah, you bet -- and the really
neat thing is I probably won't even know I'm doing it. But if you listen
to Wally O'Dell over at Diebold, voting for you is so damn fast and painless
that delivering the election to you won't hurt us a bit. Why should Americans
question your Ohio buddy's Ripoffagain voting technology if it relieves
all the stress of choosing candidates? Since you're so proud of the way
you protect citizens of this great democracy, you say that all we have
to do is trust you. We can all walk away after voting, conscience-free.
We don't need a paper voting trail, because there's no way Wally's computer
hackers are going to re-route my choice at the unsecured data bank, is
there? I voted right. Yes -- "right" indeed.
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- There's only one thing that comes to mind when I think
about George Bush's track record in the "trust" department --
how successful he and his mind-controlling corporate media are at rubbing
salt into our wounds while lying right in our faces and dragging us into
one bogus war after another. With Bush, trust is a cold, dreary one-way
street...
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- Let us not forget Bush's gift to those of us who love
to travel internationally. Thanks to our gunship-enhanced diplomatic genius,
it's now open-hunting season on all Americans who travel almost anywhere
abroad. Thanks to Bush, if I should dare to roam, there's more than a good
chance that all I'll have to show for my dream vacation is a Kodakian memory
of my family getting splattered into a thousand tiny pieces of melting
flesh...
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- And for those of you who can't afford to travel abroad,
don't feel left out; because a promise was made to you too. You are now
all quietly being targeted for future large-scale attacks while nuzzled
in your homey little cribs. Nice work Georgie! Thanks again, we really
needed that rampant global anti-Americanism epidemic in order to reinherit
some more misery and death here at home and abroad. Kudos.
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- Forget it -- I can't even pretend to smile while attempting
to joke about thanking Bush for the wounds he has inflicted on innocents
here at home and throughout the world. It's a scary assembly of sick, twisted
world-dominating ideologies who brought us to our current on-going horror,
a horror secretly birthed in dark murky corridors of the Project For a
New American Century (PNAC). This group has been single-minded in its <http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
>quest for world domination,and was founded by the Weekly Standard's
William Kristol. Its members include Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and
Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, among others.
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- That's why we need to remember this well on election
day -- It doesn't matter who influenced him, Bush's build-up for war in
Iraq was reckless, needless, premeditated and unremorseful. The buck stops
with him. He squandered the lives of hundreds of our brave soldiers and
slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent civilians. The world is increasingly
shocked and awed by all of this -- increasingly enraged -- and it will
damage our nation's reputation and trust for a millennia.
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- Remember when John Kerry thought his microphone was off
and, in a candid moment, remarked that he'd never seen such a slimy, mean-spirited
bunch? Remember how relieved we were to hear that sliver of truth in what
Kerry said? It was a much-needed breath of fresh air! At least we can say
we heard the truth from a hopeful in a high place who really understands
how deep the "rabid" hole goes.
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- Listen, learn, think, question and -- most important
-- face the fact that our current government operates with a collective
criminal mind! So many mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters,
aunts, uncles, in-laws and friends are grieving -- weeping rivers of tears
over their killed, lost or maimed loved ones. All are victims of the Bush/Cheney
profiteering war machine. This regime will never care for the tears of
the weak. For them, tears are but useless, wet bi-products of war, bi-products
that quickly evaporate before their sick hot-steel vision of world dominion.
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- We must also remember that those who draw the battle
lines of war create no risks for themselves. Nor do they put their rich
loved ones or friends at risk. Unlike the rest of us, none of them will
ever fight a single day of battle in war. Those who would send us to die
in the killing fields are guaranteed the best protection and technological
support systems that our hard-earned taxpaying money can provide. If we
do not take a stand, we are destined to pick up the tab for their protection
while struggling to make ends meet. To allow this to continue is so obviously
wrong it staggers the imagination.
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- Many Americans are abruptly awakening, and are coming
out of denial with an abused spiritual sense of what the rest of the world
already knows -- has known all along -- that our once admired United States
of America (all branches of power) has been feverishly overrun with a cabal
of sadistic conservative powerbrokers who criminally steal and smirk their
way to the bank. They give each other "high fives" with blood-soaked
hands, chortling over how easy it was to send others to die as they look
on in comfort and enjoyment.
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- We must face the fact that nothing will stop this war-mongering
carnage until "we the people" stand up and refuse to fund it
or participate in it. It has come down to two avenues of action -- we must
vote the entire Bush machine out in November 2004, or we must face the
fact that there will be a major revolution. Continuing to allow them to
dominate everyone at will and to force our young men and women to fight
and die like meaningless chess pawns on an endless gameboard of death while
the planet continues to spiral downward drenched with fresh evil at the
hands of our rulers who have hate emanating from their every pore -- is
not an option.
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- The choice is ours. We must take a stand. The time is
now.
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- Vincent L Guarisco is a freelance writer from Bullhead
City, Arizona, a co-founder and contributing writer for Axis of Logic and
a lifetime member of the Alliance of Atomic Veterans. Reprint permission
is granted if it includes name of author and Axis of Logic designation.
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