Goodbye Old Boss Saddam, Hello New Boss Dubya

Gated communities, "islands of security", flushing out insurgents...
I once read in holocaust literature of such things happening in Europe in the 30's.
They were called ghettos, I believe.
The Fascists did that to Jews.

Now we think peace will come to Iraq if we repeat history.
What's Next, "Work" Camps?
Arbeit macht frei.
It all fits. Yes America, my friends, we are sliding into fascism.

It worked for Hitler for a while.
It didn't work in Vietnam.
Will it work in Vietraq?
Will it bring Victory?
What will be the face of that Victory?
Orwell described it as a boot smashing a human face.
Dubya's "America" will have an iron fist, like Saddam.
Tell me again, Why did Dubya's "America" invade Iraq?
Goodbye old boss, hello new boss.

A wise old hippie protestor once wrote on a sign, No Justice, No Peace.
If you keep repeating the old failing solutions, you MUST be asking the wrong questions.

Oh, shit, I just read this from the LA Times...
We have the camps already, I'd forgotten...

"I would rather die than stay here forever, and I have tried to commit suicide many times. The purpose of Guantanamo is to destroy people, and I have been destroyed. I am hopeless because our voices are not heard from the depths of the detention center.
If I die, please remember that there was a human being named Jumah at Guantanamo whose beliefs, dignity and humanity were abused. Please remember that there are hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo suffering the same misfortune. They have not been charged with any crimes. They have not been accused of taking any action against the United States."

So, I should revise my What's Next? question.
What's Next? Ovens?

I saw "Road to Guantanamo" a few weeks ago and had to go in the women's bathroom to weep.
I am not a weeping person. It has to be a special occasion for me to weep.
Then by coincidence, in the next news cycle the story about the effect of hands-off torture on Jose Padilla surfaced. It made me sick.
Even a backsliding Christian like me who has lost her faith must in times like this ask, where is God? Don't try to answer, He doesn't. I already know what you'll say, and my answer to you is: baloney. You would rather have cheap oil and kill millions and sell your grandchildrens' birthright than face the truth about our nation and your religion.
Go shopping.
Watch television.

The bloody millstone, er milestone, whaa?

A man can only die once, unless it's caught on a conveniently (lawd a mercy, how did that get there!) hidden camera cellphone. And so nice, how we "civilized" did the deed..., as Glen Greenwald writes:

"So this is the grand and noble achievement which the President and his band of bloodthirsty followers are reduced to celebrating -- a lawless, thugish hanging, carried out in clear and deliberate violation of the law, by a bunch of homicidal street thugs and militia foot soldiers who themselves will be included among our next kill targets once our glorious "sustained surge" begins.
"No matter what we touch in Iraq, no matter what we do, it only makes things worse -- never better -- because the root of what we are doing is itself so rotted and incoherent and corrupt. It's beyond doubt that we're going to be treated to much more "freedom" and "justice" like this over the next two years in Iraq, at least. "

Didn't they ever read "How To Make Friends and Influence People" in Harvard Business School?



Dubya's "freedom agenda" ... and "no one ever suggested" Iraq had anything to do with September 11 attacks.... High crime: misuse of the word, imagine.