WHERE'S THE VIRUS?
Congressman Roskam's comments about his recent trip to Afghanistan (GE Sun, Feb 1, 2008) serve as a textbook example of political doublespeak allowing the author to evade the overwhelmingly important issues regarding our two senseless and failed wars in the Middle East.
These wars, launched with lies, propaganda and endless deception are draining our treasury faster than you can say "recession". Their cost will exceed one trillion and possibly as much as two trillion dollars, before they are mercifully ended. They have smashed our credibility and moral standing throughout the world, and most likely inspire many times more new anti-American terrorists than they obliterate. Meanwhile our infrastructure crumbles, education languishes, fifty million struggle without medical care in the western world's most inefficient health care system, good jobs flee to hungry countries like China and India, and hundreds of billions annually are funneled into the oil producers coffers.
Yet the Congressman mechanically votes another ten to twelve billion dollars every month to keep these failed operations thriving. He should realize the the "virus" is not in the Taliban. They are making gains in Afghanistan because the common folks are fed up with the utterly corrupt puppet government we installed and the countless dead and wounded civilians our smart bombs launched by fools create. The virus Roskam speaks of actually exists in the war party which used September 11 to launch their grandiose wars of conquest which backfired on them. It also exists in the misguided Senators and Representatives like Congressman Roskam who squander the national nest egg of this and future generations on this madness.
He could of learned this by recognizing the truth right in front of his eyes instead of wasting our diminishing tax dollars on a fantasy tour of the killing fields we created.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn Sun, February 15, 2008
These wars, launched with lies, propaganda and endless deception are draining our treasury faster than you can say "recession". Their cost will exceed one trillion and possibly as much as two trillion dollars, before they are mercifully ended. They have smashed our credibility and moral standing throughout the world, and most likely inspire many times more new anti-American terrorists than they obliterate. Meanwhile our infrastructure crumbles, education languishes, fifty million struggle without medical care in the western world's most inefficient health care system, good jobs flee to hungry countries like China and India, and hundreds of billions annually are funneled into the oil producers coffers.
Yet the Congressman mechanically votes another ten to twelve billion dollars every month to keep these failed operations thriving. He should realize the the "virus" is not in the Taliban. They are making gains in Afghanistan because the common folks are fed up with the utterly corrupt puppet government we installed and the countless dead and wounded civilians our smart bombs launched by fools create. The virus Roskam speaks of actually exists in the war party which used September 11 to launch their grandiose wars of conquest which backfired on them. It also exists in the misguided Senators and Representatives like Congressman Roskam who squander the national nest egg of this and future generations on this madness.
He could of learned this by recognizing the truth right in front of his eyes instead of wasting our diminishing tax dollars on a fantasy tour of the killing fields we created.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn Sun, February 15, 2008
posted by Walt Zlotow at 2:39 PM
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