What's Going On

The quarterly blogohype news is concentrating on the Downing Street Memo, the Qu'ran abuse, cover-up of Tillman death, Saddam's upcoming trial, the resurrected life and leg of al-Zarqawi, the Washington governorship, the standard: Iraq like Vietnam. At least the mostly phonied up weekly polls and pollsters are quiet, until those burning presidential election issues are revived (abortion, gays, education, gun rights and god).

Having lived through a few "police actions" and US wars, each guaranteed to make us healthy, wealthy, and safer than the last, I've noticed a thing or two. Those folks who do best all around, emotionally and physically, are oblivious to the War On Whatever We're Fighting This Time. The truth is for most people, it's much easier in every way to let "leaders" take care of war business and let Joe 6-Pak worry about his mundane life of car payments, little league, the boss on his ass, the wife on his back.

People might be surprised that most of America skipped Vietnam simply because it did not affect them personally. But for those who didn't there were forces not in play today. First of all it was a movement. But today's liberal leaders remind us we shouldn't use words like "movement" because the word has a negative connotation for the conservatives, who by some absurd reasoning liberals think they can lure from the republican base. The 1960s anti-war "movement" had media backing and exposure. It had a higher body count. It had high profile celebrities who kept the issue up front. It had cross-cultural unity and support. It had the spirit of Americans willing to risk life and limb at home to end a war. There is no "it" (movement) today. There's blogomania, a semi-regular "leak" on something/someone, online petitions, but no "it" taking to the street. It's a nerdy esoteric "it" that the majority is not interested in and the political body not worried about.

There are millions of town and country Americans who don't look often or at all at Iraq war, corruption, lies, treason. Not on their radar. These are the people, good, bad, and indifferent, who live unaffected by political machinations, other than a few cents more for gasoline and groceries. They may or may not vote, more than half of eligible voters don't, but politics are not important, other than a blip now and then if they catch a headline. They are the folks who can ignore war as the government machine churns out murder far away.

We pretend the public is more politically aware than it is because it justifies all that killing for the "freedom" Joe 6-Pak likes to prove he has (on the cheap) with flags, ribbons, a song. We pretend the masses are involved in the running of government because it floats the hope that as a nation we really are those "thousand points of light"…spread like stars throughout the nation, doing good….or around the world, when we are forced, our "offered hand" becomes a reluctant fist. We love our copy ad image to death. When absolutely necessary a resignation or two will satisfy the angry villagers while the monster machine keeps breathing.

The pathetic Bush Clan, scraping the bottom of the family barrel, had only a drunken little twerp to put up as front man to execute a plan that's been in the making for two decades. Come on folks, Bush II had to be chosen in 2000. Three thousand Americans were murdered on 9/11 as a means to an end. Rule by a fail-safe daisy chain known as BushCo, in bed with Zionists, the Saudi, Christian wingnuts, and Europe's loyal royals. Congress was not deceived into war, or the American people; it's just more tolerable not to know, or pretend not to know, what's going on.