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In reply to the discussion: That was pretty goddamned incoherent, frankly. [View all]Generic Other
(28,979 posts)In fact I have already had a post hidden tonight for saying as much.
I will file this speech with the ones Kerry made, Colin Powell, Rummy, Bush, et al. I had the same reaction. They never quite level with us. They never acknowledge the truth, the real motives for their hard-ons for war. American Exceptionalism indeed. Now we are spouting Sarah Palin's line to justify our quest for empire, power and profit?
Americans are also suffering: young, elderly, sick, unemployed, homeless -- our jails filled, our futures empty. Not one politician in this country need come lecture me or try to manipulate my feelings about the horrors their class inflicts on the world.
And to suddenly be so upset on behalf of children a world away -- some of the few children over in the Middle East that we aren't responsible for having killed -- this kind of deliberate self deceptive hypocrisy undermines our actions, and I refuse to engage in debate on these terms. I also refuse to have my emotions falsely manipulated.
I am sick today, and it feels exactly like it did on the eve of invading Iraq.
They will do what they have always planned to do come hell or high water.