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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. Today I am active with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and on the board of Rural Organizing Project Also, I am CEO of Rogue River Wind, Ltd and the inventor of a low profile wind turbine incorporating a high bandwidth relativistic generator

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‘Kicking ass’ in Iraq">‘Kicking ass’ in Iraq

September 7th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

The decider declared dur­ing his recent stop in Aus­tralia that we were ‘kick­ing ass’ in Iraq. Given that Bush has a ten­u­ous hold on the Eng­lish lan­guage; he did mis­take Aus­tralia for Aus­tria and the APEC sum­mit for OPEC, after­all, maybe we should ignore that state­ment as just another blun­der. Our pres­i­dent enjoys that macho, Bruce Willis style tough speak ‘bring ‘em on’ and cou­ples it with his cow­boy swag­ger and flight suit cod­piece strut. So is he in lala land or just flar­ing his tail feath­ers for the pea hens?

While read­ing an arti­cle by Pepe Esco­bar I was reminded of his­to­rian Gabriel Kolko who asserts

since 1950, the US has never lost a bat­tle; but it has never won a war either.

Recently, I wrote about this and one of the many laments of Viet­nam vet­er­ans has been that their many vic­to­ries did not trans­late into suc­cess in that war. Bush is right! We are kick­ing ass! But who’s ass and to what end?

John, my son, con­firmed for me that dur­ing his tour in Ramadi they never lost a bat­tle or fire­fight and yet all accounts today main­tain that Ramadi is lost — retaken by ‘insur­gents’. Forced peace must be an oxy­moron. Still we play pol­i­tics, arrest silent pro­test­ers for stand­ing in the Sen­ate gallery while Aus­tralians pos­ing as Cana­di­ans breach mulitimil­lion dol­lar secu­rity arrange­ments with a fake bin Laden

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  1. Comment by themguys on 8 September 2007:

    I would like to remind your read­ers, most of these “kick-ass”, “bring em on” com­ments are made by men who have never been in com­bat. There is a big dis­tinc­tion, those who serve, and those that serve in com­bat. Isn’t it curi­ous, chicken-hawks like Dim­Son Bush, swag­ger around like dime-store cow­boys, talk­ing tough on their way to send­ing other peo­ples’ chil­dren and loved ones to fight and die in their dirty wars. Wake up peo­ple, stop send­ing your chil­dren to fight Dim­Sons’ war, when he has 17 mil­i­tary age direct rel­a­tives, and you can bet your sons’ life, they will never serve, they just start wars, they don’t fight them, but they sure as hell profit from them.

  2. Comment by excuuuuuuse me! on 8 September 2007:

    I agree, themguys, I am reminded of Dim­Son strut­ting his “stuff” re: his mag­nif­i­cent cod-piece, on the deck of the air­craft car­rier when he pro­nounced the end of hos­til­i­ties. What a frat­boy. He isn’t smart enough to know how redicu­lous he looked. Yeah, Chicken S—t, tell that to the fam­i­lies of the fallen, both ours, and “theirs”. But then again, not one of them will be a Bush. They’re all hid­ing, I think in his cod­piece! Yuck!

  3. Comment by magix on 8 September 2007:

    Like Jack­son Browne sang “you can count on them to tell us who are ene­mies are but they are never the ones to fight or to die”

    You are right, they don’t fight but they do profit and off the blood of our sons and daugh­ters. Cheney has never been to a sin­gle funeral and yet his Hal­ibur­ton hold­ings have increased by over 3300%! No, that was not a typo — 3400%! That is one per­cent per sol­dier and their fam­i­lies received.… well noth­ing they wanted.

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