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kittydesadeYeah, you knew it was coming. The inevitable political rant. *cracks knuckles* Here we go.
So we captured Saddam Hussein. Big whoop de fucking do. And by the time it gets around to trial we'll have the same issues that we had in the trials with Pinochet. He'll be so old and so senile that his competency will be called into question, and then they'll debate that until the idiot keels over dead. And then where will we be? Nowhere, that's where.
We captured Saddam Hussein, but what is that going to change in Iraq that couldn't have been changed before? Not very much, except it's going to give the pro-Hussein factions a martyr, a visible person to rally themselves around. It's like with Pol Pot, who died under house arrest. Like with Pinochet, who is so senile that the courts have ruled he doesn't need to be tried, he wouldn't understand the charges brought against him anyway. How long has Milosevic been on trial by now? Who knows. Who cares, anymore? The American public has such a short attention span that a lot of people probably don't even remember who Milosevic is, let alone Pinochet. Let alone Pol Pot. And how sad is that?
Really sad. Because you know why people in America don't know who Pinochet is, who Pol Pot is? Because our schools suck. And our media sucks. And because no one teaches these things anymore. No one teaches about the hundreds upon thousands of people who died in the last country we stormed through and incited coups and jackbooted all over their land in. It's old hat. It's tired news. And the American schools are so bad that we don't even teach basic geography anymore. When I was in high school the history teacher gave us all geography tests until we got the states right. Half of the class failed the US geography test the first time around. How sad is that? I just talked to a friend of mine, good friend, about my age, who doesn't know who any of the other dictators I mentioned are. Because nobody cares about them after they've been captured. We might as well shoot them in the head and leave them face down in a ditch for all the attention we pay them after we have them in hand. So why all the hype?
Stupid American schools. And Bush wants to spend 87 billion to rebuild Iraq? Without loan repayment in full? Fuck you, Bush. That's what the World Bank, the IMF, and other such organizations are for.
Saddam Hussein's been captured, big fucking deal. We have control of Iraq. We don't deserve or need it, but we have control over it. Against the protests of the UN. And, for Goddess' sake, what the fuck is a UNITED NATIONS for if not to ... well, be united? What is an international body of council and government for if not to be a thrice damned council? If we undermine its authority, if we start ignoring its rulings and doing whatever the hell we want regardless of what the council says, then we're practically inviting the anarchy and intenational wars and feuding that governed the world for so long. I don't care what the fucking UN says... well, I do care, but you have to at least respect the bloody authority of the body or it has no bleedin' authority! And then you have anarchy. And it's damned hard to live in anarchy.
I can't stand this. I can't stand the fact that now Bush is going to be gloating and putting the best possible spin on this, the fact that he captured Saddam Hussein. Hell, a year and a half ago, wasn't it Bin Laden we were going after? Make up your so-called mind you ineffectual prat. And while you're at it, sit up and take a good goddamn look around at how your country's going to shit. You're the king of a shitpile, you're President of a country of lunatics and morons.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. The United States has, since the Wild West days, been on a stampeding trend. We elect government after cowboy government, ready to strap on the spurs and wrangle the cattle... excuse me, other countries. In the first part of this century, going up to the last thirty years or so, it was the Central and South American countries. And then it was ... well, I'm still not sure if we were trying to annex countries in SouthEast Asia or just be obnoxious and all-knowing and ... yeah. And now it's the Middle East. It's like being installed in the White House somehow confers upon the men we chose to govern our country the urge to swing around the army like a giant penis and beat other governments with it.
And George Bush, Jr. Dub-a-yah. Don't even get me started. Clinton may have fucked around, but at least he didn't decide that heterosexual marriage with its 2.5 kids and its overcompensatory SUV needed defending. Defending from WHAT? Just what the fuck are homosexuals going to do if they get the right to marry? Tie up all the churches so that heterosexual people can't get married? Not to mention, what the HELL is up with making a constitutional amendment specifically designed to discriminate against a group of people?? Where is that mandated in the Constituion? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as long as you're a straight white male landowner worth so much money a year went out with slavery and sexism, or at least that's the impression I got.
Bush says he's been improving the economy. I know a shitload of people who are still out of jobs, Dubyah, shall I send them all to your doorstep and have you deal with it? I know where you live, Mr. Bush. I've walked in front of those tall black bars that line your front lawn. You're a mean one, Mr. Bush. What about the hundreds of thousands of children who don't know about all the other bad men out there? Oh wait. They don't count because you didn't wage war against them, personally, and capture and parade them in front of cameras like a homeless man who needs a cup of soup.
I'm so sick and tired of the bullshit that is this war on Iraq. Why on earth did we have to go in there, anyway? And don't give me that war on terrorism bullshit. Terrorism has existed from the first time one country started burning down the fields of another and planting their flags on the soil. Just because Bush declares a war on a nebulous concept and sends hundreds of thousands of troops to roll over one country like a mad dog isn't going to make it any better.
If you really want to cut back on terrorism, try (Goddess forbid that you actually use a little common sense) freezing the assets of the terrorists, going after them yourself, STOP FUCKING BANKROLLING THEM (*cough*IRA*cough*), and maybe wise up and stop conducting your international affairs in such a way as to make people mad at you? Like, oh, say, going into other countries with GIANT FUCKING TANKS and steamrollering the whole place flat. Goddess. No wonder people are throwing molotov cocktails at US troops. We don't belong there! Try sending them to do sane things, like protecting ... I don't know. I'm sure there must be someone out there worth protecting. Not even that, I'm sure there must be something or someone out there to protect that won't involve a misguided attempt to take over the damn country. Sweet Goddess of us all. What the hell is wrong with you people?
Pinochet, for those of you who are uninformed enough to have missed the 17 years in which he ruled over Chile with an iron fist and a death squad.
This world is a sick sick place, and I'm so ashamed to be an American sometimes.
So we captured Saddam Hussein. Big whoop de fucking do. And by the time it gets around to trial we'll have the same issues that we had in the trials with Pinochet. He'll be so old and so senile that his competency will be called into question, and then they'll debate that until the idiot keels over dead. And then where will we be? Nowhere, that's where.
We captured Saddam Hussein, but what is that going to change in Iraq that couldn't have been changed before? Not very much, except it's going to give the pro-Hussein factions a martyr, a visible person to rally themselves around. It's like with Pol Pot, who died under house arrest. Like with Pinochet, who is so senile that the courts have ruled he doesn't need to be tried, he wouldn't understand the charges brought against him anyway. How long has Milosevic been on trial by now? Who knows. Who cares, anymore? The American public has such a short attention span that a lot of people probably don't even remember who Milosevic is, let alone Pinochet. Let alone Pol Pot. And how sad is that?
Really sad. Because you know why people in America don't know who Pinochet is, who Pol Pot is? Because our schools suck. And our media sucks. And because no one teaches these things anymore. No one teaches about the hundreds upon thousands of people who died in the last country we stormed through and incited coups and jackbooted all over their land in. It's old hat. It's tired news. And the American schools are so bad that we don't even teach basic geography anymore. When I was in high school the history teacher gave us all geography tests until we got the states right. Half of the class failed the US geography test the first time around. How sad is that? I just talked to a friend of mine, good friend, about my age, who doesn't know who any of the other dictators I mentioned are. Because nobody cares about them after they've been captured. We might as well shoot them in the head and leave them face down in a ditch for all the attention we pay them after we have them in hand. So why all the hype?
Stupid American schools. And Bush wants to spend 87 billion to rebuild Iraq? Without loan repayment in full? Fuck you, Bush. That's what the World Bank, the IMF, and other such organizations are for.
Saddam Hussein's been captured, big fucking deal. We have control of Iraq. We don't deserve or need it, but we have control over it. Against the protests of the UN. And, for Goddess' sake, what the fuck is a UNITED NATIONS for if not to ... well, be united? What is an international body of council and government for if not to be a thrice damned council? If we undermine its authority, if we start ignoring its rulings and doing whatever the hell we want regardless of what the council says, then we're practically inviting the anarchy and intenational wars and feuding that governed the world for so long. I don't care what the fucking UN says... well, I do care, but you have to at least respect the bloody authority of the body or it has no bleedin' authority! And then you have anarchy. And it's damned hard to live in anarchy.
I can't stand this. I can't stand the fact that now Bush is going to be gloating and putting the best possible spin on this, the fact that he captured Saddam Hussein. Hell, a year and a half ago, wasn't it Bin Laden we were going after? Make up your so-called mind you ineffectual prat. And while you're at it, sit up and take a good goddamn look around at how your country's going to shit. You're the king of a shitpile, you're President of a country of lunatics and morons.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. The United States has, since the Wild West days, been on a stampeding trend. We elect government after cowboy government, ready to strap on the spurs and wrangle the cattle... excuse me, other countries. In the first part of this century, going up to the last thirty years or so, it was the Central and South American countries. And then it was ... well, I'm still not sure if we were trying to annex countries in SouthEast Asia or just be obnoxious and all-knowing and ... yeah. And now it's the Middle East. It's like being installed in the White House somehow confers upon the men we chose to govern our country the urge to swing around the army like a giant penis and beat other governments with it.
And George Bush, Jr. Dub-a-yah. Don't even get me started. Clinton may have fucked around, but at least he didn't decide that heterosexual marriage with its 2.5 kids and its overcompensatory SUV needed defending. Defending from WHAT? Just what the fuck are homosexuals going to do if they get the right to marry? Tie up all the churches so that heterosexual people can't get married? Not to mention, what the HELL is up with making a constitutional amendment specifically designed to discriminate against a group of people?? Where is that mandated in the Constituion? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as long as you're a straight white male landowner worth so much money a year went out with slavery and sexism, or at least that's the impression I got.
Bush says he's been improving the economy. I know a shitload of people who are still out of jobs, Dubyah, shall I send them all to your doorstep and have you deal with it? I know where you live, Mr. Bush. I've walked in front of those tall black bars that line your front lawn. You're a mean one, Mr. Bush. What about the hundreds of thousands of children who don't know about all the other bad men out there? Oh wait. They don't count because you didn't wage war against them, personally, and capture and parade them in front of cameras like a homeless man who needs a cup of soup.
I'm so sick and tired of the bullshit that is this war on Iraq. Why on earth did we have to go in there, anyway? And don't give me that war on terrorism bullshit. Terrorism has existed from the first time one country started burning down the fields of another and planting their flags on the soil. Just because Bush declares a war on a nebulous concept and sends hundreds of thousands of troops to roll over one country like a mad dog isn't going to make it any better.
If you really want to cut back on terrorism, try (Goddess forbid that you actually use a little common sense) freezing the assets of the terrorists, going after them yourself, STOP FUCKING BANKROLLING THEM (*cough*IRA*cough*), and maybe wise up and stop conducting your international affairs in such a way as to make people mad at you? Like, oh, say, going into other countries with GIANT FUCKING TANKS and steamrollering the whole place flat. Goddess. No wonder people are throwing molotov cocktails at US troops. We don't belong there! Try sending them to do sane things, like protecting ... I don't know. I'm sure there must be someone out there worth protecting. Not even that, I'm sure there must be something or someone out there to protect that won't involve a misguided attempt to take over the damn country. Sweet Goddess of us all. What the hell is wrong with you people?
Pinochet, for those of you who are uninformed enough to have missed the 17 years in which he ruled over Chile with an iron fist and a death squad.
This world is a sick sick place, and I'm so ashamed to be an American sometimes.
