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America Doesn’t Commit War Crimes it Commits Euphemisms
by beau Friday, Jun 17 2011, 10:10pm
international / social/political / opinion/analysis

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is very bad grammar and tortured English. I am American! Proud to call the loss of personal Freedom and Liberty, ‘Homeland Security;’ very proud to participate in the ‘Patriot Act’ and wave our blood-soaked star-spangled banner at every Illegal war we wage; prouder still to refer to the millions of civilians we have murdered in Korea, Indo-China, Central Asia and Africa, as ‘Collateral Damage;’ extremely proud of our legal system which maintains its integrity by allowing our agencies and military to ‘Waterboard’ instead of Torture; and very tolerant of strangers touching my genitals in order to ‘Keep me Safe.’ Perhaps I could sum it all up by simply stating we live in our own private asylum for the criminally insane called the United States of America!

The only people we are kidding is ourselves; our pathological denial allows us to pay scant regard to the REALITY that our actions have resulted in our nation achieving Pariah Status. The glaring fact that we have become such vile, reprehensible CRIMINALS allows us to retreat further into delusional insanity and psychological isolationism. The course we have chosen guarantees a predictable outcome and ruinous future – ‘Home of the Slave, Land of the Flea;’ come, sing along with me:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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