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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 06:48 PM
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Steven Weber: Now It's On to Iran and Let's Win There!
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Steven Weber
Now It's On to Iran and Let's Win There!


We are rapidly approaching a karmic bitch slap, kiddies.

Don't think 'cause we have iPhones and drive Navigators and run our air conditioners 'round the clock that we're immune from history's all-powerful undertow. We are not. We will join the parade of nations who succumbed to the intoxicating effects of their own poetry, who allowed their loins to trump their minds, who permitted hubris and greed to relentlessly infect its population, and their collective egos to swell until the outer skin blistered and popped and oozed life itself, puddling onto the sooty ground that was once home.

We are like them, make no mistake. And if we don't address what is happening right now in a specific oval shaped office in a specific nation's capitol, then it will be over and we will be standing around like idiots after a storm and we will look at all the other victims and they at us and we will still be unable to comprehend what has happened anymore than a steer does before it is stunned with a short swift blow to the head. And if you think this is just another liberal blog shouting anti-authoritarian bullshit, you'd be wrong. Because good things go bad all the time. Sweet, pure babies are born and grow into monsters. Republics are hewn by gritty, passionate pioneers of freedom only to have those founders ousted and the nation forcibly occupied and run by fat-assed, profiteering chicken hawks.

Must we wait for the Neo-Cons' Lee Atwater moment, the deathbed retraction of all their unfair, unethical, inhuman behavior they've engaged in? Ain't gonna happen, chums. Think of what America was and what it has become. And once you grasp that then look only a little farther ahead to what will be. You don't need a pie chart or a power point presentation. All the work's been done and done and it is in-fucking-fallible. To see the future one need only look to the past. Look at BushCo and his Neo-Con stormtroopers: the more intense their denials, the more incendiary their threats, the more their eyes pop and their veins swell, the closer they are to their ideological orgasm: Fascism. We either heed the signs and choke it off or run before you get drenched. Constitution of the United States: prepare for the money shot!

So, good bye, Abe Lincoln. So long, Thomas Jefferson. Adios, Greatest Generation. You are over. Greed has won. Money has won. Might has won. The beasts of our nature have won. And so it is left for another future people to escape from the tyranny of their oppressive masters, to forge with their sweat and soul a nation that stands apart from the mechanized soulless empires that writhe about the surface of the depleted planet, and who can hopefully learn from our mistakes and create a nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/now-its-on-to-iran-and-l_b_57468.html

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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 05:54 AM
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1. k& r
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 01:20 PM
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2. All things must pass. We're on the verge of finding out if it's America's time. nt
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Summer93 Donating Member (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 03:11 PM
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3. Kick and Recommend
Yes, the awakening is about to happen.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 09:53 PM
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4. K & R
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:23 PM
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5. too late to R ~ so, I'll K n/t
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