from your boy Marc at truthout.org
Quite a load of self-hating crap. Anyway just so's we get where yer comin from.
t r u t h o u t | 12.02.01
A Prayer For The Dying
By Marc Ash
I cry for CIA agent Johnny Spann. When I saw the jetliners tear into the fully occupied office buildings in
downtown Manhattan, "I" wanted somebody-to-do-something. Johnny Spann was that somebody, and it cost him his
life. I cry for the Fire Fighters who not only gave their lives so that others might live -- but that others did live. I cry
for the more than three thousand New Yorkers lying buried beneath the ruins of the world trade center, their bodies
still not recovered. I cry for all of the human beings on all the flights and in the Pentagon murdered by cowards.
And then I look at the courtyard of the fort at Mazar-e-Sharif, men butchered with their hands tied behind their
backs, bodies ransacked, dismembered, savaged, and brutalized in a manner that none of us would have the
strength to face. And I pray for the family of man.
Never forget, we created Osama bin Laden. It was our military intelligence that financed, backed and trained this
madman -- and that was madness. If fools truly "rush in," we are truly fools. Less than a decade had passed since
the fall of Saigon, when willy-nilly, headlong we dashed off to cross swords with the "Red Menace" in Afghanistan.
Another distant ancient land torn apart so that our liberty might be protected. Today we collaborate with that "Red
Menace" and your liberty is in John Ashcroft's hip pocket.
We blame "the Nazis" for Germany's crimes against humanity, but the real blame lies with the good Germans,
the ones who sat back and said; "maybe it's all for the best." They were not the ones who conducted the roundups,
not the ones who pulled the triggers, not the ones who attended the exterminations; they were the ones who kept
their eyes closed and said, "maybe its all for the best."
I am George W. Bush, we are all George W. Bush, he is the ugly American in all of us and we had better get that
ugly American under control quickly. Say a prayer for the US service men and women in harm's way fighting for
America, they could sure use it right about now, but at the same time please also say a prayer for the dying. |
