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In reply to the discussion: I said this last year and it deserves repeating. We didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]calimary
(81,125 posts)the jingoistic madness after the World Trade Center attack. Hell, I almost hate even saying the words "9/11" or "September 11th" because that carries so much negativity for me, especially as the bush/cheney/giuliani goons kept shoving it in our faces and down our throats. "Fightingforourfreedom" - it's become such a perverted, bastardized, even meaningless line, upaloopa!!! The bad guys have fucked THAT up, too! So misused, abused, and - well - mal-used (if that's even a word - used with wrong or malicious intent).
It reminds me of the email battle I had with some bush/cheney brainwashed when I questioned a thread that was sent to me - that for the ten-thousandth time tried to attach that terrorist strike to the hard-on for war in Iraq. When there was no link at all but we sure were being sold one, HARD. And I objected. Attempted for the ten-thousandth time to share the truth about that whole WMD scam. And this one person on the thread just WAS. NOT. HAVING. IT!!! And he fired off an angry response on the thread to me - insulting me, questioning my patriotism, questioning my loyalty and American citizenship. Questioning my reason for even sucking air off his planet. "WHERE WERE YOU 9/11 ??!?!?!?!?!? " he demanded. Note - it was "WHERE WERE YOU 9/11" and not "Where were you ON 9/11" or "Where were you DURING 9/11" or something that made sense grammatically. "WHERE WERE YOU 9/11?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" And in the very next sentence, there it was, by Jove! "Our troops are fightingforourfreedom! And you blaspheme them you cursed libtard!!!"
That dear writer just did not get it. NOBODY was over in Iraq "fighting" "for our freedom." NOBODY was fighting for "our freedom" over there. That had NOTHING to do with it. Our so-called "freedom" was not on the line over there. No Iraqis were gonna come over here and take our purported "freedom" away. WTF?!?!?!!?!?!??!?? But man-oh-man do those cliches catch on. And carry weight. Big time! So easy just to peel 'em off without even thinking, having been well-schooled by the repetition of the Pox Noise "teaching-to-the-test" propaganda catapulting strategy.
"Fightingforourfreedom." Irrelevant. And it was just as irrelevant and meaningless when applied to Vietnam, to Afghanistan, to Serbia, to Syria, to ANYWHERE. And I'm sorry to see this. It's blasphemous - when considered along with the actual sacrifice that's demanded of our troops, and what they deliver, selflessly, honestly, and proudly.