War: Strife, to Confuse (Merriam)

The fuss over Senator Durbin's recent comment ties in somewhat with the PBU week 26 topic of Bush ignoring UN requests for access to Gitmo, thus this post rags on both concerns.

Durbin stated "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime Pol Pot or others that had no concern for human beings."

And as usual the neoconpublics feigned and farted outrage sending memos to the media to raise a stink over Durbin's comment. And again as usual, a teary-eyed Durbin and his spokespeople performed fellatiopology for any pain the remark may have caused anyone. Excuse me for finding this whole cock and bull stunt beyond ignorance and bordering on insane. It's repulsive. Not Durbin's comment or republican's faking injury to our troops, our country or themselves but the use of the incident as a shank and shive (tools of the criminals they are) to continue the national divide. I'm repulsed by the shallowness of what is deemed an outrage by America's two parties. Those who think the Durbin comment deserves all this attention need a serious free speech ass kicking.

I come from a long line of men and women in uniform, beginning with ancestors dying in Andersonville prison, great grandfathers, grandfathers, father, sister, uncles, aunts, cousins, spouse, and sons, in every war from the Civil War to the current Iraq War, from the Baatan Death march, German POW camps, Korea, Vietnam and both Iraq Wars, for the last 145 years. I've 145 years of letters and stories which will tell you there are no rules in war and no humanity other than what survives in an individual's soul. Why do folks believe war can be reasonable? The Fourth Geneva Convention? The First was written in 1864, the Second in 1882, the Third in 1929, and the Fourth in 1949. The Conventioners keep writing rules and wars keep getting fuckuglier.

It's shock and awe when you encounter humanity in the atrocity of war. Why must Americans insist it's the other way around? There's nothing humanitarian about war, or camps, collecting information, killing, conquering. Of course we're abusing and torturing detainees. But like most American's I'm not losing sleep over Gitmo or Abu. I suspect both are as horrific as previous camps run by the good ol' CIA boys who "taught" Reagan's Contra fighting amigos the art of collecting information. If the US is using torture, and they do, the evidence will confuse or disappear, as it always does from one "gate" to the next, one report to the next. The US will outsource torture from US territory anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Negroponte has old contacts in the neighborhood who need work, around Refugiado del Canto or Rio Coco.

The US is no different than any other regime. Murder. That's what wars do. It kills people. It rapes. War stacks the enemy (dead or alive) in a pyramid. War cuts bodies in half with weapons. It digs mass graves. It's brutality. It's torture. It beats people to death in prisons. Then the government sanitizes the evidence and lets the IRC or UN inspect and issue a report that goes something like this..….."found the US government guilty of engaging in a practice and policy of violations to include racial and religious humiliation but no convincing substantiation or credible evidence of systematic and gross human rights violations"….And America high-fives itself saying see, we're just calling them names and peeing on their bible, we're not the bad guys here. Know too that the Army will have 32 such internment/resettlement units added to the Army’s rolls between now and 2008. So many detainees, so little time. Remember this is a "generational war."

Reports are coming out of Iraq of US troops using mass graves, raping children, using napalm, killing for sport…and the pols say nothing. There is nothing but deceit in all the government has done for years and pols from both sides of the aisle say next to nothing, and those few who venture to comment honestly or anti-warish nearly always paddle back sniffling, asking forgiveness. Why? The nation twitters from one memo to another, one he said/he sorry to the next, arguing appointee after appointee who gets appointed anyway, point to billions stolen to the next billions lost, one squabbling ort to the next ort.

Those who consider themselves progressives will pay dearly and for a long time for their acquiescence these last many years. The type of government in power today is not going to go away by exposing their deceit and corruption. They've been exposed. They may take the money and run but doubtful, like serial killers they never stop and are thrilled by the power. They will not be deterred by petitions or moore movies or columnists or polls. They will not be keyboarded out of office regardless how many bloggers type it, wish it, print it and pass it along. The Democratic party is not going to take back the nation by a Cavalry charge on Capitol Hill, they can't even circle their wagons, and their hands are as bloody.

"A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows…of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love." MLK