MooPig Activism :: The Real Costs of Profiteering

Consequences are Deep; the Perpetrators are Shallow
Retrieved by Pat Darnell at Matthew Bach/faceBook  |  Mar 21, 2013  |  Bryan TX

When this war dragged on past Dubya Bush's speech when he said the US has prevailed in the Battle of Iraq; his speech given from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, it awoke a beast in me. I did not know that I would have such hatred for a president as I did on that day. Now years later, in the wake of our Iraqi occupation, I think Dubya was standing on the stern of the carrier. He must have been preaching to the seagulls on the fan tail.

Whatever he was doing, turned out to be a lot of barking at the wind. Dubya Bush is a lunatic, and living proof that privilege allows men to go free even when they are mass murderers.

A dying Iraq veteran pays his last respects to the men and women who killed him.

Dangerous Minds | Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American:

To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young

EXCERPT  |  " I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief. I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. "

'via Blog this'

[READ entire Article HERE]

When we find these "Internet" derivations of fact, we are as wary as anybody that it is possibly the work of imagination. But we find this letter expressing many Americans' heart felt opinions of what has happened.

If the letter is a knock-off, well, even so, it should still be regarded as a declaration of independence from the misogyny, hegemony, dilettantism, dreck, and confusion brought on by privileged progeny of rich, bombastic, war profiteers:

at Letter EXCERPT | " ... I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole. ... "

Oooorah!

________________________Reference
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dying_vets_fuck_you_letter_to_george_bush_dick_cheney_needs_to_be_read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Mission_Accomplished_speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2989459.stm
http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/detritus
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_crucifixion_of_tomas_young_20130310/
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/05/mission-accomplished-speech/37226/
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/20/4132153/wounded-kansas-city-iraq-veteran.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/tomas-young-dying-iraq-war-veteran-writes-last-letter-to-bush-and-cheney-20130320
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/20/4132153/wounded-kansas-city-iraq-veteran.html

The WAR, Veterans History Project

I am an opinionated SOB, because me daddy and me mammy went through WWII. If you or I had to live that drama out, would we have the nerve to go on with our lives afterward? Think about the future, and you will understand the present. Today the veterans of WWII are in their eighties. Historians should not delay finding an art form that will capture the last of our greatest resource, our parents' eyewitness to truly a world at war. It is they who made you and me strongly opinionated, and human.

PBS StoryShare
As part of the community engagement campaign for THE WAR, individual public television stations nationwide are reaching out to a broad range of veterans and their families to capture the stories of World War II.
Participating PBS stations are offering an online story collection tool – called PBS StoryShare – that allows users to directly upload World War II stories and photographs to a searchable database.
With PBS StoryShare you can read, listen to, and watch stories from your community and across the country, in addition to sharing your own, or loved one’s, World War II experience.
Find a PBS StoryShare station in your area »
"You don’t have to be a professional interviewer to do an interview for the Veterans History Project. With merely some time to listen, a good microphone, and a cassette recorder, you can make a veteran part of history."– Ken Burns

Reference

Directed and Produced by KEN BURNS and LYNN NOVICK; Written By GEOFFREY C. WARD; Produced by SARAH BOTSTEIN; Co-Producers PETER MILLER and DAVID McMAHON; Supervising Film Editor PAUL BARNES; Editors PAUL BARNES, ERIK EWERS and TRICIA REIDY;Cinematography BUDDY SQUIRES; Associate Producers MEGHAN HORVATH and TAYLOR KRAUSS; Narrated by KEITH DAVID with TOM HANKS, JOSH LUCAS, BOBBY CANNAVALE, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ELI WALLACH, among others; Original Music Composed and Arranged by WYNTON MARSALIS; "AMERICAN ANTHEM" music and lyrics by GENE SCHEER, performed by NORAH JONES. retrieved entirely for this review: today from http://www.pbs.org/thewar/