What havoc “w”, cheney, rumy, rove, rice, al-berto and company left in their wake the numb, dis-spirited, largely ignorant (by way of our apartheid public education) and of course the meanspirited, egregious compassionate conservative Christians attribute to the present congress and Obama. That’s too bad. It is however, very cunning on the part of the dirtbag GOPers waiting in the wings.
“It's unfortunate timing for Obama and his party just seven weeks before important elections when control of Congress is at stake. The anticipated poverty rate increase — from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent — would be another blow to Democrats struggling to persuade voters to keep them in power.”
A day for the obsessed---the "not well"---to preen and pray. Funny we profess to care so much for less than 3000 while we have wrecked havoc for millions the world over the 100 years or so we've been an empire.
In Iraq alone we have killed at least 200,000 (150,000 documented) civilians and displaced another 2 million.
In Vietnam we've left the carnage of our chemical weapons to go on producing mutated offspring for generations.
In Mexico, Central and South America we've almost completely obliterated the natives and decimated their respective national economies.
In this land we've all but exterminated the natives, imprison more black men today than were in slavery in 1860, and malign, denigrade and abuse migrant workers.
Thinking about it, why do they hate us?
Hasta Siempre,
More:
US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poverty_in_america
Daniel Ellsberg, 78, at a movie event in Sept. 2009 (AP)
Listen
Henry Kissinger called Daniel Ellsberg “the most dangerous man in America” because Ellsberg was a Pentagon insider who turned against the war in Vietnam and knew the government’s lies about the run-up to the war. Ellsberg eventually released the “Pentagon Papers,” a top-secret study on the war, to The New York Times, which helped end the war and the Nixon presidency. He recalls the story in the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Most Dangerous Man in America.”
http://www.hereandnow.org/#5
Toxic legacy of the Vietnam war
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2010/07/201072251513743646.html
The People Speak
http://www.history.com/content/people-speak
The People Speak *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpm6aw5OWw
Howard Zinn's "The People Speak"
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/504250/howard_zinn_s_the_people_speak_on_tv_this_sunday
WikiLeaks releases secret video of journalists, civilians killed in Baghdad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyQsgkncxcc&has_verified=1
Iraq Body Count
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
Public Policy and American “values”
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2010m6d15-Public-Policy-and-American-values#
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