You knew it had to come\u2026 an unseen hand of circumstance has ripped the smiling Kabuki mask away and it\u2019s clear that there is no Iraqi government. There is no Iraqi army, there is no Iraqi police. The surge didn\u2019t work. There is never going to be any \u2018mission accomplished\u2019. It\u2019s as empty of substance as the space between Bush\u2019s ears and as much of a pumped up fantasy as the crotch-shot on the deck of the carrier.<\/p>\n
Now they are offering money for weapons in Iraq. Let\u2019s see, you got a job working for a powerful crime boss from across the water who took over your country and you thought you\u2019d flex your muscles and go after one of the big guys in your back yard and then he not only kicks your ass but some of your guys take off their uniforms and go over to the other side. The big crime boss sends in some tactical help; some on site, out of town boys with heavy artillery and\u2026 the financial comptroller for the powerful crime boss who took over your country and who is across the water in another direction sends in some heavy hitters too and they wack some families that are \u2018connected\u2019 to the big guy in your back yard but that doesn\u2019t mean anything because that happens every day anyway and\u2026 you, you decide that you\u2019ll offer the guys who kicked your ass some money in exchange for the weapons they used to defend themselves against you. Have I got it right?<\/p>\n
Yeah, that\u2019ll work. How about some short term, no interest loans for houses? It worked in the United States. Of course, the United States doesn\u2019t have an insurgency unless you count an entire nation of people with their heads turned, scuttling down the street like crabs looking for a hole in the ground.<\/p>\n
America, \u201cland of the free, home of the brave\u201d should be called, \u201cLand of\u2026 who me? Home of the slave.\u201d It\u2019s got a nice ring to it.<\/p>\n
For a long time now I have been trying to trouble shoot my way around, under, through, any which way, to understand how three hundred million people turned into ambulatory lumps of Jello that tremble and shake like rats on Warfarin every time somebody coughs in the back of the subway tunnel.<\/p>\n
America has had trouble before and risen to the challenge. Even if the Civil War was caused by European bankers<\/a> there was a mad rush to save the country from itself. People were willing to give their lives. When the bankers went to work again to create the First World War, everybody pitched in again to help them out. When they engineered the Second World War, Johnny went and got his gun again. Now they\u2019re working on the Third World War and this time Johnny Anonymous is shouting in all caps across the new frontier of the internet.<\/p>\n The way they do it is they mess with the money and create fear and turmoil just like you are reading about now. Did you think I was coming to some kind of a point? Actually I was but the point was to make a sharp right turn without signaling and pull into this empty parking lot here so that we could have a little chat. You see, this post is not about what it was supposed to be about, just like everything you are being told is not what it is about.<\/p>\n You\u2019re being squeezed by these same money men so that life will become so intolerable that you\u2019ll be glad to run through the bloody trenches and razor wire to free yourself from the conditions created by the people who sent you running in the first place.<\/p>\n There\u2019s too many of you. You\u2019re taking up too much space. Over here and over there people are breeding like rabbits because that is what people do when they are starving and short of resources, shelter, food, opportunity and the value of their labor has disappeared because they already dug up and sold everything they had to the people who bought off their leaders and created the unbearable debt they find themselves in. Maybe they\u2019ll get lucky and these people will find something else they want and they can start all over again.<\/p>\n Yeah, yeah\u2026 I\u2019ve got a point. It\u2019s in here somewhere. Let\u2019s just sit here for awhile. It\u2019s quiet here in the back-lot of Best Buy; just you and me and the homeless, foraging in the dumpsters behind the Sack and Save. I\u2019ve eaten in a lot of fine restaurants in my life but I\u2019ll tell you, some of the happiest days of my life were spent barbecuing rats on an old refrigerator grill down by the river. Afterwards we\u2019d share a gallon of wine and sing Woody Guthrie songs. <\/p>\n