The Mad Hatters

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By John H. St. John
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Mar 28, 2006, 01:17

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_636.shtml

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In July I will be 85, if I live that long, and never in my life have I felt more like Lewis Caroll’s Alice as she stepped into the mirror and entered Wonderland.

It is not just that the corporations stole an election and gave us a mental defective for a president. It is a population that, pro or con, accepts the absurd idea that we are at war in Iraq. Even the bloody battles in Korea against Chinese and North Korean tanks were called a “police action.” The bloody attack shown to the world on television and proudly called “Shock and Awe” was done without any declaration of war. The present illegal occupation of Iraq is called a war and the moronic president is assuming all of the powers, and more, of a wartime president while Congress refuses his challenge to the Constitution.

There have been other illegal incursions and undeclared wars, Vietnam for example; but at least they were fighting a well-organized military organization.

Another example of Wonderland’s juggling of semantics is calling Iraqis who are resisting the occupation and punishing collaborators “insurgents.” When Boston and Philadelphia were occupied by British Redcoats and France was occupied by the Nazis we did not call those heroes who fought in the underground insurgents; we called them patriots.

Everyone from the war lovers to the peaceniks preface their remarks with “Our brave troops,” completely disregarding the reality that they are fighting civilians with AK-47s and no body armor with helicopter gunships and fighter planes. These are highly paid mercenaries promised college educations who do not have to dig slit trenches or do KP. When they come back in coffins or wheelchairs and with post traumatic stress syndrome even they are betrayed by this government run by our sociopath Mad Hatter president.

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1. I have never used the phrase 'Our brave troops'

nor will I ever.

I don't support murder, no matter who's doing the killing.

see my sig line.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. I'm sure there are some...

...brave and patriotic young men and women serving in Iraq, and while I think of them primarily as unwitting, very much exploited, victims in this madness, I also believe our troops have committed many atrocities there.

Your sig line is great!