THE COMING LIES
I shall not listen to the President's speech tonight. Whenever he speaks, I turn the channel or hit the mute button, because I know that George Bush had rather climb a tree and tell a lie than to stand on the ground and tell the truth. Consequently, his speech tonight, like all the others he's given, will be nothing but lies and deceptions. Hell, I'll be better off watching some stupid sitcom. At least they won't claim to be anything but crap.
The really sad part about the President's deception is that the majority of Americans thoroughly approve of that sort of behavior. As the influence of hill-billy Christrians increases, their innate dishonesty will come to dominate public discourse more and more. At the other pole, corporate interests with their values based solely on money, will continue to find lies and deception more and more profitable.
In our public affairs, I think we've turned the corner, but it's the wrong corner.
In an email message today, John Kerry said, "We need to put the Iraqi troops on a true six month war time footing . . . ." That strikes me as the kind of effort we need to begin now. We've talked about restarting the military draft in the United States, but why not initiate a draft in Iraq to build and train an Iraqi army that can defend the country. We train our own draftee armies in six months or less; surely we could train an Iraqi army in the same time frame if we were to put some real effort into it. Of course we would have to provide a safe place for prospective recruits to apply, and not leave them outside in long lines as prime targets for suicide bombers. I can't help but wonder if we're willing to do even this little.
The really sad part about the President's deception is that the majority of Americans thoroughly approve of that sort of behavior. As the influence of hill-billy Christrians increases, their innate dishonesty will come to dominate public discourse more and more. At the other pole, corporate interests with their values based solely on money, will continue to find lies and deception more and more profitable.
In our public affairs, I think we've turned the corner, but it's the wrong corner.
In an email message today, John Kerry said, "We need to put the Iraqi troops on a true six month war time footing . . . ." That strikes me as the kind of effort we need to begin now. We've talked about restarting the military draft in the United States, but why not initiate a draft in Iraq to build and train an Iraqi army that can defend the country. We train our own draftee armies in six months or less; surely we could train an Iraqi army in the same time frame if we were to put some real effort into it. Of course we would have to provide a safe place for prospective recruits to apply, and not leave them outside in long lines as prime targets for suicide bombers. I can't help but wonder if we're willing to do even this little.
posted by Jerry at 10:51 AM
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