- A local politician whom I respect said, "Judy you
have to understand that many of those on today's scene were indulged and
excused in their youth and are now self-indulgent adults; who are committed
to nothing. They're all image and no substance. They follow through on
nothing. They make a hobby in their leisure of flitting from one cause
to another. Being a politician to me means giving something back. One cannot
be a single issue person. You have to be involved and concerned with all
the people, extending yourself to the utmost for their concerns. Most of
this is done outside the spotlight, outside public recognition or image.
Today we see a generation playing at activism-playing at causes."
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- Cheney (Oct 30-04) stated "the invasion of Iraq
will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance".
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- 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)
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "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".
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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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- http://www.rense.com/general34/sell.htm
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- Comment
- From Sean
- 8-1-5
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- From Sean, a rense.com reader
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- P.S. Don't ever give up.
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- 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
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