i love my country (but think my government is retarded)
September 10, 2007
Has anyone else seen those disgusting commercials that have been airing on television lately featuring Iraq war veterans talking about what a great idea this war is…oh, and how angry it makes them to hear people talking about bringing the troops home?
Everytime I see one, I want to pick up the remote and hurl it right through the TV screen…
One commercial even goes so far as to have one of these unfortunate souls say, “They attacked us…and it is up to us to defend the freedom and safety of the American people.”
Excuse me? WTF?
NO…Iraq did not attack us. A group of extremists from Saudi Arabia attacked us on September 11th.
And then, of course, this lovely stream of bullshit ends with the good ol’ patriotic veteran sitting tall and proud in his wheel chair while his pretty blond bimbo of a wife stands behind him smiling like a twit with her arms wrapped around his shoulders in the stiffest and most unnatural display of affection I have ever had the misfortune to witness.
I’m sure if I were in the army and had fought in Iraq, I would be damn proud of the work I had done during my stay in the desert, but I still would support neither this war nor this administration.
I am totally for the troops and all (I mean, it’s not their fault that their boss is a doofus), but this is just a sick attempt by the Bush camp to make the American people feel guilty. It’s not going to work on me, especially if they can’t even get the facts straight.
Bush also tried a few weeks ago to rally support for the war by talking up our past conflicts. For instance, there was the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
What did America do?
We dropped the atomic bomb…ON JAPAN.
We DID NOT do something RETARDED— like invade CHINA.
This is why I hate politics so much. None of these people know anything about the average American.
Apparently, they think we are all a bunch of negative IQ dumbasses who do nothing all day but eat, fuck, worship Satan, watch shitty TV, collect our welfare checks and food stamps and throw our own feces at one another.
All they care about is getting themselves elected so they can keep up their posh lifestyles and go on vacation whenever they fucking feel like it. And what they forget most of all, is that WE are the ones who put them in office. They work FOR US. Not the other way around.
I say we should be able to give them a quarterly review…After all, most normal people get a review of some sort in whatever profession they work in…and we should be able to determine if they are making decisions in the best interest of the people or if they are falling short of our standards.
We should also be able to dictate how much they get paid. They should not be able to give themselves a raise whenever they get tired of discussing relevant issues on the seemingly few days when Washington actually feels like kicking off the covers and rolling out of bed to do the goddamn job we elected them to do in the first place!
There are days when I feel like a group of trained space monkeys could do a better job keeping America floating than the retards we fill those seats in the White House and Congress with.
At least monkeys would not be going around propositioning people in airport restrooms…
