[Peace-discuss] Fw: BushCo Reams Nation Good

[Lisa Chason]

> Published on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 by sfgate.com
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> No WMDs After All, No Excuse for War, Too Late for Anyone to Care Anymore.
Ha-Ha, Suckers
> by Mark Morford
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> Ha-ha-ha oh man did we ever get smacked on that one. Conned big time.
Punk'd like dogs. Just gotta shake your head, laugh it off. They reamed us
but good, baby! Damn.
>
> Turns out it really was all a big joke after all. The war, that is. All a
big fat nasty murderous oil-licking lie, a sneaky little power-mad game with
you as the sucker and the world as the pawn and BushCo as the slithery war
thug, the dungeon master, the prison daddy. You really have to laugh.
Because it's just so wonderfully ridiculous. In a rather disgusting,
soul-draining sort of way.
>
> See, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. No WMDs at all.
Isn't that great? What's more: There never were. Ha-ha-ha. Gotcha!
>
> No warehouses teeming with nuclear warheads, no underground bunkers packed
with vats of boiling biotoxins, no drums of crazy-ass chemical agents that
will melt your skin and turn us all into drooling flesh-eating zombies -- 
unless, of course, you count the sneering vat of conservative biotoxin that
is, say, Fox News, in which case, hell yeah baby, we gotcher WMDs right here
beeyatch.
>
> Go figure. Those lowly U.N. inspectors were right after all. Who knew? It
was all a ruse. We've been sucker-punched and ideologically molested and
patriotically sodomized and hey, what the hell, who cares anyway, we
"liberated" an oppressed people most Americans secretly loathe and fear and
don't understand in the slightest, even though that was never the point, or
the justification, or the goal. Go team.
>
> But wait, is liberation of a brutalized and tormented people now the
reason? The justification for our thuggery? That is so cool! So that means
we're going to blow the living crap out of Sri Lanka and Sudan and Tibet and
North Korea and about 47 others, right? Right? Maybe Saudi Arabia, too,
second only to the Talilban itself in its abuse of women? Cool! As if.
>
> Ah, but screw the liberal whiny peacenik U.N. inspectors, right? Let's ask
the U.S. search teams themselves, ShrubCo's own squadrons of biologists,
chemists, arms-treaty enforcers, nuclear operators, computer and document
experts and Special Forces troops who've been in Iraq for weeks now,
searching frantically.
>
> Surely they've found something, right? Surely we can now prove that Saddam
was fully intending to fillet our babies and annihilate Florida and poke the
eyes out of really cute kittens on national TV for sadistic pleasure, right?
Gimme a hell yeah!
>
> Whoops. Bad news. As The Washington Post reports, the 75th Exploitation
Task Force, the very serious-minded group heading up all U.S. inspections in
Iraq, the group absolutely certain it would immediately find steaming
neon-lit stockpiles of WMDs piled right next to Saddam's personal stash of
gay porn and Britney Spears posters and opium pipes, is coming home with its
tail between its legs. Found nothing. Nada.
>
> Psychopatriots are a little nonplussed. Bush is merely "embarrassed."
Peace advocates are sighing and drinking heavily. We have done this ghastly
horrible inane hate-filled entirely unprovoked thing in the name of power
and petroleum and military contracts and strategic empire building, our
nation is numb and more bitterly divisive than ever and our leaders are not
the slightest bit ashamed.
>
> But of course you're not the slightest bit shocked. You knew it all along.
The WMD line was just a ploy that, tragically, much of the nation bought
into like a sucker pyramid scheme after being pounded into submission with
hammers of fear and Ashcroftian threats and bogus Orange Alerts and having
their tweezers confiscated at the airport.
>
> And of course the capacity to be outraged and appalled has been entirely
drained out of you, out of this nation, replaced by raging ennui and sad
resentment and the new fall season on NBC. This is what they're counting on.
Your short attention span. WMDs? That's so, like, last February. Hey look,
the swimsuit model won "Survivor"!
>
> Because now it's all done. Like a bad trip to the dentist where your
routine cleaning turned out to be a bloody excruciating root canal and 50
hours of high-pitched drilling and $100 billion in god-awful cosmetic
surgery, now the bandages come off. Smile, sucker. We're at peace once
again. Sort of. But not really. Don't you feel better now? No? Too bad. No
one cares what you think.
>
> It's all over but the shouting. And the screaming. And the endless years
of U.S. occupation in the Middle East, the quiet building of U.S. military
bases in Iraq so we can keep those uppity bitches Syria and Egypt and
Lebanon in line, forge ahead with the long-standing plan to strong-arm those
damn Islamic nuts into brutal compliance with Bushco's bleak blueprint for
World Inc. What, too bitter? Hardly.
>
> Should we care that Osama, the actual perp of 9/11, is still running
around free? That terrorism hasn't been quelled in the slightest? That the
Mideast is more of a U.S.-hating powder keg than ever, thanks to BushCo?
That the economy is in the worst shape it's been in decades?
>
> Should we care that we just massacred tens of thousands of Iraqi (and
Afghani) civilians and soldiers and suffered a little more than 100 U.S.
casualties and have absolutely nothing to show for it except bogus force-fed
pride and this weird, sickening sense that we just executed something
irreparable and ungodly and karmically poisonous?
>
> Nah. Just laugh it off. Have a glass of wine, make love, go play Frisbee
with the dog. Breathe deep and focus on what's truly important and try to
assimilate this latest atrocity into your backstabbed worldview, add it to
the list of this lifetime's spiritual humiliations, as you wait for the next
barrage, the imminent announcement that we're about to do it all again.
>
> Steel yourself. Protect your soul. Because man, they reamed us good.
Slammed this nation like a bad joke. Gotcha! Ha-ha-ha.
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