Saturday, August 20, 2005
"It was the lowest point in my life...."
Jean Charles de Menezes: apparently NOT jumping turnstiles, running from cops or wearing a heavy coat after all!
Lowest point in your life?! Ask all those who've lost loved ones in on both sides in Iraq and Afghanistan like Cindy Sheehan and elsewhere (see the pic above and the final link below) what the lowest point in their lives have been....
And double standards on the right when it comes to Cindy Sheehan's protest? Here's some verbatim quotes by conservatives from when President Clinton was committing troops to Bosnia.
Frankly, Ms. Sheehan's charge that the war has been a waste of time and lives like her son Casey's rings even more true when you hear that "Team Bush" is ratcheting down expectations for the end result of their occupation of Iraq.
Or as Digby puts it: "in every measurable way so far, the Iraqis in their everyday lives are less free than they were before...."
While the Times' man on the ground in Iraq, Dexter Filkins, says: "In this third summer of war, the American project in Iraq has never seemed so wilted and sapped of life...." (read more)
Meanwhile the terrorists get even more flagrant. Do I have to repeat the infamous Bush platitude that I've quoted on this site more times than I care to admit -- "we're fighting the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan and across the world so we do not have to face them here at home" -- yet again or has the sad irony sunk in by now?
So what the fcck has this been all about anyway and would you want YOUR child dying for it? Cats pushing whips are paying more money than ever for gas despite expectations to the contrary while the armed forces, thanks to a sleazy provision in the wack-ass No Child Left Behind Act, are able to access the private contact information of public school students to recruit fresh cannon fodder for these maniac jihadists and insurgents to kill.
And finally BTW, here's how the Bush administration is supporting their troops and here's the real deal on how London cops killed Brazilian immigrant Jean Charles de Menezes in cold blood.
