"Four Thousand and Still Counting"

The news just broke that the total casualties for the Iraq War has reached 4,000 brave men and women. Those statistics will bring us to 4,000 coffins our illustrious “Coward in Chief” deemed we, the people of the United States, should not see as they arrived at Dover Air Force Base. Not that he gave a damn as to what we wanted or would think. Rather, it was to insulate himself from any public responsibility for the atrocities he and his cohorts were committing. Those are 4,000 whose funerals and graves will never be visited by our “Coward in Chief” or any of his "neocon" zealots who conspired to sell us a war based on a pack of lies. They are the same privileged elite (our own homegrown "axis of evil") who have insulated themselves from ever having to sacrifice one of their own in the service of their country.

Following must be the recipe they used for conspiring to attempt to co-opt an entire nation into believing that, through some perverted, convoluted and sick logic, there was a lofty and noble basis for what they did and continue to do:

“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. This is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship …. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” --- Hermann Goring

May Almighty God have mercy on their poor, twisted and empty souls. None is worthy to stand in the presence of just one of those still serving.

As a footnote, I hold what should be an open and vigilant press responsible for allowing this travesty to have progressed beyond the halls of Congress with hardly a ripple. They knew better and did nothing. They were all too willing to remain blind and silent; the thousands of lives lost or destroyed be damned. And they call themselves journalists?

Cowboy Bob
March 23, 2008