doit, doit now!

The facts surrounding the horrors in front of us loom far too large to be ignored:

• As of today the illegal, unjust, unwinnable war in Iraq has cost us at least 1,900 American lives and the lives of countless innocent Iraqis.
• The Bush administration lied to the nation and to the world about the reasons for the war:
  • The Bush administration had plans to invade Iraq long before 9/11 and lied about that.
  • The Bush administration falsely tied the Iraqi government to 9/11 and Al Qaeda when there was no connection and thus lied about that.
  • The Bush administration knew there were no weapons of mass destruction and also lied about that.
• The Bush administration cut taxes for the people with the top .1% of the incomes in the US and yet lied to people with incomes of $25,000 or lower (which the U.S. Census says is around 80% of the country) by telling them that they would somehow benefit from these cuts, when in fact many of their tax burdens increased.
• The Bush administration, with the cooperation of the neocons in Congress, has run up a huge deficit (which is being financed almost entirely by China’s buying of government bonds) that they had no way of paying for.
• The cost to us taxpayers is already at several hundred billion dollars and is estimated to eventually run up to $1 trillion or higher if the war ever ends. This is of course to say nothing of the immeasurable cost of human lives.
• The Department of Defense is saying that the US will have to continue its occupation of Iraq for at least 4 more years and will have a large presence there for at least a decade. Since the insurgency shows no signs of abating this means that hundreds, if not thousands, more Americans and who knows how many innocent Iraqis will die in Iraq.

The war was a lie. If you believed it for a moment you were listening to goddamned Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh or Bill Frist or Ann Coulter or any of these other disgusting people. It was built on lies and deceit and people are dying at this very moment because of it, and now they are not only dying in Iraq, but they are dying in America.

With Katrina we are facing an unprecedented national disaster, and there are not enough National Guard to fulfill their actual role of Guarding the Nation since they are all over in Iraq fighting in that horrible war. If this war was not happening the domestically-stationed military would be home, as it should be, and we would have the full resources of that military to bring to bear on this tragedy. Instead there are innocent Americans dying in New Orleans because the soldiers, helicopters, ships, and vehicles that would normally be available to service the people they are actually meant to protect are instead over in Iraq where they have no business being.

This administration is disgusting, and if you chose to support it you should be ashamed of yourself.

Stop watching Fox fucking News and start thinking for yourselves.