MEDS DEPT!!! Cheney stated "the invasion of Iraq will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance"......

Cheney (Oct30-04) stated "the invasion of Iraq will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance".

Comment: Whilst these wars may have been "brilliant" for Cheney and Halliburton, they certainly were NOT brilliant for the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians and soldiers. (And the millions to come in years ahead from the US uranium weapons destruction of Iraq. -ed)

One doesn´t do others any favors, with patronizing or condescending attitudes; that the dead-maimed-and forever shattered soldiers/civilians have died, for any noble cause, outside of craven greed, of those in power seeking to control the globe. Who dies is none of their concern. Like one citizen in the U.S.A. recently remarked: "I don´t care"! Slurp - its all fodder for a black-tie dinner!

They are far removed from the horrors, pain, and dead bodies. Cheney can call war brilliant; he got five deferments to keep him out of Vietnam´s brilliance. I don´t think the multitudes of Iraqi citizens; suffering bombings, torture, and dead babies feel any "brilliance" in all this. But then, they don´t have the privilege of bunkers or multitudes of armed guards to protect them. I´m sure the suffering multitudes in the arena of war, didn´t find President Bush´s remarks, at a black-tie gala affair for journalists (2004), showing a slide show, of him looking under pieces of furniture in the Oval office, for weapons of mass destruction outrageously humorous? The president remarked: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere". The audience of the Radio and TV Correspondents´ Association thought these quips were hilarious. Their slurping laughter never reached those shredded in a distant desert land.

With upwards now of $300 BILLION allocated to this mayhem-the young men above, forever maimed (over 1791 dead) (other figures are 6,000-10,000 -ed) aren´t thinking "brilliance". Iraqi citizens identified as mere ´collateral damage´, number in the thousands and counting. All those who salivate over war won´t be seeing to the returning, brain damaged, limbless youth, who will spend the days of their lives seeking medical care; forever trapped in the emotional trauma of a lie, that called them to war. Maimed because of flimsy vehicles [without armor] that saw them in the midst of battle with no protections! Yet recent conventions, saw armored vehicles, with "kicking sound-personnel vehicles" on the streets of Boston and NYC.

"Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent". Man is the only creature that wantonly kills another out of greed, conquest, and mindless depravity. Our TV screens show us clouds of dust, tanks, and demolished buildings. It is thought too traumatizing for McCitizens to view the shredding, shattering and melting of our youngsters [average age 19], or the tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld states, "We don´t count them".

How is it that politicians at the conventions were afforded the best of protections, while soldiers were issued the cheapest [or none at all] of protective gear? These soldiers, many of them women, have been assigned to convoys carrying needed supplies. Highly paid contractors have refused these assignments because of the danger of roadside bombs!

With billions being realized in profits by the oil companies [no this isn´t about oil!], soldiers are driving antiquated Vietnam era trucks and Hummers with no armor! While service in the military can be an ennobling experience for some, this only pertains to non-wartime enlistment. Once in the carnage and horror of war; a man or woman is forever psychologically traumatized. Man was not meant [he/she has to be programmed-conditioned] to kill his own kind. Recruiters, dressed up like pet nanny goats for the fair, are out in the hinterland/our nation´s schools, targeting poor youth in despairing, decaying ghettos and rusted mill towns. Naïve, undereducated youth are easily influenced with the promise of excitement in far off lands or that unaffordable [in civilian life] college education.

These recruitment busses don´t show the realities of war´s malignant mayhem. No those sent off to fight rich men´s wars, will never be the same. NEVER! And those slurping and splashing in materialistic abandonment, "don´t care". They don´t have to.yet.

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Comment
From Sean
8-1-5

Speaking as a 21 year old, I must tell you that your assessment of my generation, though not explicitly mentioned in the article, is spot on. It´s the video game generation, virtual reality has replaced books and is rapidly overtaking the simulated reality of television in its popularity.

All of this has naturally desensitized huge swaths of a generation, the worst generation yet in my opinion. But it appears it´s only going to get worse as the simple VR of televised video games is replaced with total immersion VR, and eventually robotized warfare--where killing the enemy will be as fun as playing Doom, Duke Nuke ´Em, Warcraft, Dungeon Master, or Grand Theft Auto. At the push of a button, while doped up on the power trip (and other goodies), faceless hordes will be vaporized by B.F. Skinnerized children.

The dystopic convergence is occurring rapidly. Science and technology could hold such promise for mankind, unfortunately that´s not the agenda of those who exert a controlling influence over "progress". Technical and scientific acumen is no replacement for wisdom. Unfortunately, it seems that only artificially engineered collectivized suffering is going to be able to teach people this lesson.

The whole bleak prospect of the foregoing paragraph of course contributes to this spiraling madness, cynicism, despair, decadence and the sublimated inkling of a generation that they are superfluous.

From Sean, a rense.com reader

P.S. Don´t ever give up.

Note - Within the small percentage of brilliant, inspiring young Americans like Sean, lies the only hope for the future recovery and rehabilitation of the ´United States´ and any restoration of the wonderful level of social achievement, political relevance/competence, individual liberty and human rights this country once attained - and represented to the world. Bravo to Sean...and to Ms. Moriarty for another outstanding essay. - Jeff