Oops . . . 4000 dead
Its just a coincidence of round numbers this week. The 5th "anniversary" of the invasion of Iraq. And the 4000th American to die in that conflict.
What is amazing, theoretically, and of real import only to forensic psycholgists, is how the claque for the war can continue to make their noise with such conviction. As if a sane person who had known the price in lives lost, prior to the invasion, would have actually thought at that time that it would be worth the price, and continue to think so today. All the post hoc and ever evolving rationalizations and justifications not withstanding. All the rationale-defying information that has come to light also not withstanding.
What is beyond amazing is how our demented President can face the press and present the same jokey frat boy image he has since day one while mouthing the mindless and emotionless script about it being worth the price in blood and treasure.
As if, while he was plotting and swaggering his way through the formative period of this preemptive war, even the vaguest idea of the trajectory it has taken was even latent in one of his malfunctioning brain cells.
At this point, Bush's morally absent mind is certainly engaged primarily in defense and denial constructs. Compounding evil for ego in the best tradition of the world's great tyrants.
As if all the rest of us have suddenly developed amnesia, or the need to delude ourselves in order to prop up the disintegrating national image that our nakedly obfuscating leaders and liars find necessary in order to avoid the imperatives that normally sentient beings might intuit-- clear vision, honesty, and a heavy dose of openly expressed remorse.
I wonder, what is an appropriate "metric" of lives lost , money spent, honor squandered -- continuing unabated this day -- to stick the label "I don't care" on the individual and congregate psyches of those who keep the same course.
Come on in, the Kool-Aids fine!
What is amazing, theoretically, and of real import only to forensic psycholgists, is how the claque for the war can continue to make their noise with such conviction. As if a sane person who had known the price in lives lost, prior to the invasion, would have actually thought at that time that it would be worth the price, and continue to think so today. All the post hoc and ever evolving rationalizations and justifications not withstanding. All the rationale-defying information that has come to light also not withstanding.
What is beyond amazing is how our demented President can face the press and present the same jokey frat boy image he has since day one while mouthing the mindless and emotionless script about it being worth the price in blood and treasure.
As if, while he was plotting and swaggering his way through the formative period of this preemptive war, even the vaguest idea of the trajectory it has taken was even latent in one of his malfunctioning brain cells.
At this point, Bush's morally absent mind is certainly engaged primarily in defense and denial constructs. Compounding evil for ego in the best tradition of the world's great tyrants.
As if all the rest of us have suddenly developed amnesia, or the need to delude ourselves in order to prop up the disintegrating national image that our nakedly obfuscating leaders and liars find necessary in order to avoid the imperatives that normally sentient beings might intuit-- clear vision, honesty, and a heavy dose of openly expressed remorse.
I wonder, what is an appropriate "metric" of lives lost , money spent, honor squandered -- continuing unabated this day -- to stick the label "I don't care" on the individual and congregate psyches of those who keep the same course.
Come on in, the Kool-Aids fine!
