Is the Denial Period Over?

OK, so Colin Powell, who I've long considered the most sane and intellegent member of the current administration - yeah, yeah, that's not saying much - has "come out" on Fox News. Sec. of State Powell said yesterday that, "... the insurgency is only becoming more violent as planned January elections near." and on ABC's This Week, "It's getting worse," he said. "They are determined to disrupt the election. They do not want the Iraqi people to vote for their own leaders in a free, democratic election."

This on top of the fact that Georgie W. is defending his showboat bullshit last year where he gave the "Mission Accomplished" speech and told folks yesterday that he'd do it again. I bet there are about 900+ soldiers and even more family of soldiers that wished he didn't do "it" in the first place.

I cannot believe the vaccuum brain Republicans who still insist that the violence in Iraq is all because of irresponsible media hounds. One person even said to me today, "Well, 1,000 people a day die in car crashes and the media doesn't mention that". When I told him to check the violence/death/assault/rape stories in the AJC for today alone, his answer was, "Well, that's just print media and nobody reads print media". I then had to turn his attention to the morning news where today alone: "Ex-Bishop Indicted of Child Rape" and "Dog Owner Shot by Neigbour" and "Kidnapped Baby Returned" and "Retired APD cop Recovering from Gunshot after Car Theft"... This from a city that has almost as many people as the entire country of Iraq.

Please, give me a fuckin' break here. The media will always cover BAD NEWS, regardless of where the bad news is happening. Today, overwhelmingly, the really bad news is in IRAQ, Stupid.

I'm so tired of the Bush team and ignorant followers of the Bush team who want to shed the Divine Light on all that is ugly, inhumane, and wholly sadistic. What those barbarians did to Jack Hensley (Atlanta man who was recently beheaded) and others is pure evil - only propogated by another evil - the Bush Administration.

I just want to puke when I hear ignorant, backward thinking people say shit like, "Well, if Kerry were in office, Saddamm would still be in office". How the hell can anyone make such a half-ass, no-brain statement like that? Who the hell knows where this country would be if Kerry were in office instead of Bush? I know we wouldn't be the laughing stock of the entire civilized world. But if they insist on such illogic, I've got another one: If Kerry were in office: Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Eugene Armstrong, Jack Hensley* and about 1,000+ other people would be home with their families instead of six feet underground.

Do not hand me a load of horseshit and tell me that the War in Iraq was - IS - worth it. Worth what, exactly? Where is the United States today? We are the armpit of a miserably failed foreign policy, we are the shamed amongst the arrogant, ignorant and wholly greedy, and we are the disgrace that is personified by people who have no sense of honour, trust, nor humanity. So proud to be an American? Hack me up another furrball, Garfield.

I really wish someone besides Powell could finally stand up and say, "Iraq was a mistake. We blindly and illegally invaded another country and we have absolutely no idea how to get out of it especially considering we've managed to piss off the rest of the world. And, oh yeah, because we are so thinly stretched we can't go to other countries (The Sudan, for example) and help them. Of course, they have no oil so why would the US bother?

* On a worthy note: Thank you, Marietta for your vigil to the late Jack Hensley. If you haven't heard, the leader of the local mosque called the head of the Baptist Church and asked if they could have a joint vigil in the Square. Some hundreds of people showed (including about 1/2 Muslims) to show their support for the family and their disdain for the type of Islam the monsters in Iraq are demonstrating. I think it took a lot of courage in the land of the KKK to join together to do something like this. Screw all you ball-less rednecks who said it was "too risky". It's just a shame that an Atlanta man had to go to Iraq to earn a living for his family. What does that say about the condition of this country?