Collective denial

We appear to be engaged in a massive case of national denial. Most everyone seems to go on pretending that nothing is wrong with what is happening. The problem, it seems to me, is not that there is a "war" going on, the problem is there is a horrible WAR CRIME going on. When Bush, for example, in his usual idiotic mode says "we are kicking ass," the response, even by the critics, aside from the rolling of eyes, is that we are not doing that very well, if at all. No one questions whether the kicking of ass is right or wrong, merely that it either is or is not working. This is just one example of virtually all of the criticism of Bush's "war." No one seems to criticize it as a war crime, just that he isn't successful at it. When Huckabee says we need to exit Iraq with honor people either agree or not, but they don't say, "how do you exit a war crime with honor?" When McCain stands by chanting "the surge is working, the surge is working," no one seems to think of this as cheering for an ongoing war crime. There seems to be the assumption that what we have been doing in Iraq is somehow right and proper. It is not right and proper, it is an ongoing blatant, illegal, unconstitutional, unnecessary, greed-driven, criminal act. We had no right to attack Iraq, none whatsoever. Iraq was not a threat to us or anyone else when we decided to attack. They had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with Al-Quaida, and nothing to do with WMD's. The claim that everyone thought they had WMD's is just plain bullshit. Millions of people and dozens of governments did not believe that and tried to make it clear they did not believe it. We have no business continuing in Iraq unless it might be to atone for our horrible actions in the first place, which is pretty clearly not what we are about. But we persist, and we listen to those evil people who brought this about as if they have something worthwhile to say about it. We just want the Iraqis to get their house in order politically - bs. We want them to have a democratic government - bs. We are not going to maintain permanent bases - bs. It was not about oil - bs. The surge is working - bs. We're going to win - bs. If we don't fight them there we'll have to fight them here - massive bs. In fact, the whole situation is nothing but the most massive web of lies and deceit ever perpetrated on the American public. And as the House of Representatives, the Senate, the MSM, and most everyone else is complicit in one way or another, they dare not admit to the monumental lie we are living, the war crime of the century that is buried in the collective mind-set and transformed into just another example of bringing civilization (democracy) to the savages (the towel-heads). Are there any sane citizens out there who still believe this is a noble enterprise, fully justified, right and proper, winnable, worth the lives of millions, that will have a happy ending and we'll all live in peace and freedom? If so, they must be strange people indeed.

I sincerely wish someone would prove to me that I am wrong about this. The longer this madness goes on the more I believe I must be living in a separate universe from those who support this gigantic fraud. The longer Congress refuses to take any action to stop Bush/Cheney the more I worry about my sanity. Am I finally learning there is no Santa Claus? No Easter Bunny? No tooth fairy? Just the boogeyman? I once had a letter from a friend who was doing fieldwork in Newfoundland. He wrote, "they caught a large halibut today and tied a line around its tail and tied it to the pier where it tries to swim away. That's the way I feel about my life here." Well, my good friend, that exactly the way I feel at the moment about my life here in the good old USA. Cheers and all best wishes.

LKBIQ:
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.": Thomas Jefferson