It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.


 
Bush to send MORE Americans to die in Iraq

The latest from the war that Republicans insist is "over" and has been "won":

Because of the numbers of Americans being killed in Iraq, the George W. Bush is planning to send even more Americans to the Middle East to serve as targets for the "liberated" Iraqis.

Funny thing about those "liberated" Iraqis - they keep on holding huge protests demanding that the Americans get out of their country. Funny thing about those Americans - they keep on killing Iraqi civilians, even though the war is "over" and has been "won".

Funny thing about the war that's "over" - most of the objectives of the war still haven't been met. Saddam Hussein is still on the loose. Americans are now being killed by Iraqis, although before the war the Iraqis weren't even planning to attack America. The weapons of mass destruction that Bush said he had proof existed, the weapons that Bush said knew the exact locations of, still haven't been found, much less destroyed. And Al-Quaida operatives in Iraq? They haven't been found either. What has been found in Iraq? AMERICAN-MADE MISSILES!

Mystery of mysteries! What, oh, what could it all mean? Could it be that we were lied to? Could it be that the war has yet to be won?

Someone sing me "God Bless America" again. I'm finding it hard to believe in the patriojingo of Bush and Company these days.

Posted by J. Clifford Cook at 8:40 PM. # (permalink)  




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