Olbermann on ’sacrifice’
But  it has not been senseless in two ways.
It has succeeded, Mr. Bush, in enabling you to deaden the collective mind of this country to the pointlessness of endless war, against the wrong people, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It has gotten many of us used to the idea  the virtual “white noise† of conflict far away, of the deaths of young Americans, of vague “sacrifice†for some fluid cause, too complicated to be interpreted except in terms of the very important-sounding but ultimately meaningless phrase “the war on terror.â€Â
And the war’s second accomplishment  your second accomplishment, sir  is to have taken money out of the pockets of every American, even out of the pockets of the dead soldiers on the battlefield, and their families, and to have given that money to the war profiteers.
Because if you sell the Army a thousand Humvees, you can’t sell them any more until the first thousand have been destroyed.
The service men and women are ancillary to the equation.
This is about the planned obsolescence of ordnance, isn’t, Mr. Bush? And the building of detention centers? And the design of a $125 million courtroom complex at Gitmo, complete with restaurants.
Posted on January 5th, 2007 at 12:13pm under Iraq, T.W.A.T., US Politics
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“this is not sacrifice…this is human sacrifice”
Do you think that Bush has been watching Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (Official site) for ideas?
It’s very WWI, isn’t it? We shall win by throwing more troops at the enemy ad infinitum.
Be very afraid. This is the last throw of the dice in a war that is already lost. Bush wiped his ass with the ISG report, and when this surge proves itself to be utterly pointless in spilling gallons of blood, they will up the ante. Bombs over Tehran, of the atomic type.
I paraphrase: ‘Does this plan consist of going over the top and walking very slowly towards the enemy machine guns?’ (Blackadder Goes Forth)
I doubt they’ll be doing any walking – or anything slowly. Except thinking, possibly.
Sounds like Keith has been reading-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/sr=11-1/qid=1168128049/ref=sr_11_1/203-4503008-2570356
or read it/hear it for free online
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm
Damn these hippie peacenik highly decorated Marine Major General’s.
And where is the major media figure on TV in this country doing that job? I can’t stand to watch much TV, so maybe I’ve missed it, but is there?
I can’t help thinking that use of terms such as obsolescence, ordnance and ancillary will send Olberman’s rants over the heads of his average viewer.
Ho hum