Matthew Rothschild: Bush’s Shameless Memorial Day Speech

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from The Progressive:



Bush’s Shameless Memorial Day Speech
by Matthew Rothschild


I almost can’t listen to George Bush anymore, and I almost can’t listen to clichés about patriotism, either.

But the two got married at Arlington on Monday, and the ceremony was unbearable.

On this Memorial Day, Bush went of his way to salute those “who’ve fallen in the past year.”

Nothing wrong with that, except they didn’t fall “to preserve our way of life,” as Bush put it.

They didn’t “die for liberty,” as he insisted.

No, they died for Bush.

They died for his lies, they died for his megalomania, they died for oil, they died for profits, they died for empire.

It is obscene, then, for Bush to invoke the pain and anguish of the loved ones of those soldiers, pain and anguish that he himself caused.

“The soil of Arlington,” he said, “is watered by the silent tears of the mothers and fathers, and husbands and wives, and sons and daughters they left behind.”

Those mothers and fathers, those husbands and wives, those sons and daughters of soldiers who died in Iraq have George Bush to blame for their tears.

His Iraq War was not worth their sacrifice.

No way. Not at all.

And Bush, who sacrificed them, can’t make that useless sacrifice good now by sprinkling the putrid water of patriotism over their graves.


http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx052708

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1. I watched that yesterday and wanted to throw something at the TV

this asshole has no shame. Every fucking thing they do is based on politics, even if it means exploiting the people they killed in the last few years. Obama didn't mention politics in his speech. I didn't watch McCain's speech but he probably didn't eighter. I wish that there was a hell, Bush needs to pay for this shit for eternity.

[xxqqqzme]

2. well, Rothchild has a stronger stomach than I do,

I stopped listening to b**h's drivel 7+ years ago.

[gratuitous]

3. They didn't die for liberty last year

And they're not dying for liberty this year. They're not dying to defend America. They're not dying in service to their country. They're dying pointlessly and the ones who die after them will have served the same purpose: None.

Our country's trust with the volunteers of the military has been broken; they've been betrayed so badly that the only honorable course anymore is desertion, for the good of humanity and their own dignity.

[Bob Dobbs]

4. They are dying for liberty

of the elites to screw the rest of us and to continue to concentrate the wealth.

So there is a point to their sacrifice, it's just one that 99% of us will not benefit from.

[geckosfeet]

6. Interesting. If you imagine his words were aimed at the 1% they almost make sense.

[Flying Dream Blues]

5. No shame, you're right. nt