Subject:  Bottom Feeders
Date:  Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:36:02 -0800 (PST)

Judith Moriarty <noahshouse@comcast.net> wrote:  

 

Things don’t look too promising as the blood bath   (Iraqi – American) continues without letup.  Hillary says, “I don’t want their sons to die in vain”. Someone should tell Hillary, and those of her ilk, that the dead don’t care. As for those left behind,  nobody wants to think that a loved one of theirs died  for the lie of   purple fingered democracy, a billion dollar embassy, or the hydro-carbon law giving over Iraqi’s oil to private companies  and their cohorts in crime.

  

Since more people voted in American Idol than voted in our last election it’s a given that they know next to nothing of the Vietnam era. Hillary and company (Foggy Bottom) seem to have forgotten that 58,253 (including POWs) died in vain. They died for the lie of ‘stopping communism’!

  

I don’t suspect that Donald Rumsfeld will survive the coming decades so that he too, like Defense Secretary McNamara, can lament that it was all a mistake. McNamara writes “We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. I truly believe that we made and error not of values and intentions, but of judgment and capabilities.”  He is correct about our values. History is replete with examples (countries)  of those who attempted to disobey us; our values are - that they have to be disappeared – annihilated !

 

McNamara’s whining and sniffling (mimed) decades later is meaningless to the tens of thousands of names on a weeping wall; or the millions (which he doesn’t mention) of Indochinese who were slaughtered (there is no memorial to their needless deaths). He went on to become President of the World Bank – as millions rotted in their graves! Since Korea, these wars,  or rather conflicts,  have been exercises in containment – not victory.

  

As for the multitudes left behind – (Nixon, Kissinger) to rot in bamboo cages, or shipped off elsewhere, none but their families and activists have fought for them down through the years – despite President Clinton once saying, “We take care of our own”. Another lie, no we don’t. Kissinger in his secret talks had promised the new leaders in Vietnam $3.25 billion (for reparations and the release of prisoners). A mere handful were returned – and with the money reneged on the prisoners of war got LEFT BEHIND. McCain has been a major stumbling block in having records released here (including his own) and those in Vietnam. In the Senate Hearings on POWs/MIAs (’91-92) he slobbered all over his former captor

Bin Tin (interrogator of American prisoners) and treated the families of those Missing In Action in a contemptible malignant manner. Burt Small (below) was ‘left behind’. Former POW LtCdr. Eugene ‘Red’  Daniels (held 6 years) stated, “As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned.”

McCain  accused POW/MIA families and activists who openly challenged the U.S. Governments POW policy, of “fraud”. In his attacks (note this isn’t shown in his campaign ads) he said, “The people who have done these things are not zealots on a good cause. They are

criminals and most despicable human beings to ever run a scam”. He demanded that the Department of Justice ‘investigate’ these families/activists. Does this sound like a sane man? The Vietnamese hold 50 tapes of McCain and numerous transcripts of information he supplied them with. Maybe that’s why he’s fawning all over Bush? Details at : http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Bulletins/tim97-4-6.html

  

Do any of these dusty relics in Foggy Bottom give a twit about the veterans (besides photo op fodder), not on your life. The Republican money machine brought out its big guns to upset Senator Max Cleland of Georgia. Max had volunteered for Vietnam; and in a grenade incident had three limbs blown off. The ads (thanks to Karl Rove’s tactics) questioned Senator Cleland’s ‘patriotism’ in not voting for Homeland (American) Security. They pictured him in the ads with Bin-Laden and Saddam Hussein. Senator Cleland was a real fly in the ointment as a member of the 9/11 Commission. He was very vocal about the administration’s opposition and lack of

cooperation in investigating this Pearl Harbor incident on American soil. His opponent had a bad knee and thus didn’t serve. Vice- President Cheney meantime (with five deferrals) said he had “better things to do”.

Kissinger, an advisor to the White House, is a frequent guest (paid PR expert) on CNN – despite his saying “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy”. Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Little wonder that he could walk away from those left behind – “animals” and “pawns” that they were. The former President Bush promised the families of the POWs as Vice-President and then President, said that he would go to bat for them. At the 1992 convention for POW/MIA families he was the invited speaker. An elderly woman stood up and yelled, “No more lies – tell us the truth”. The audience soon joined her. President Bush shouted, “Shut up and sit down”. In 1995 he and Barbara were invited (paid hundreds of thousands) by Citibank to go to Hanoi to get business deals set up.

There are now tens of thousands of American jobs outsourced to Vietnam. So much for the thousands of names on the Wall representing the  fight to stop communism. Senator Kerry was no better in these hearings (rushing them) covering for Kissinger. He was more interested in initiating trade deals with Vietnam!

Home sweet home for veterans beside the Connecticut River

  

d so these ‘pawns’ come back from war, scarred and emotionally destroyed (war does that to men). They end up in tents, in abandoned cars, under bridges – forgotten and discarded as just so much refuse.  We treat waste better in this country – sorting, bailing, cleaning, packaging etc.

 

The memorial services go on (quietly in villages, towns, farm communities). Who will tell this little boy grieving for his father, that Henry Kissinger says he was just ‘a dumb stupid animal’? It boggles the mind why croaking Henry has never been confronted about his patriotism? Meantime Fox news reports that “War is Good”.

 

I am reminded with the daily slaughter of language and its sound byte brevity of Orwell’s 1984. Winston trapped in this world (a non-person) says, “If there is hope, it lies in the proles (lower social class). If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them”

  

“Oranges and Lemons” say the bells of St. Clement’s

  

“You owe me five farthings” say the Bells of St. Martin’s

  

“When will you pay me?” say the Bells of Old Bailey

  

“When I grow rich” say the Bells of Shoreditch

  

“When will that be?” say the Bells of Stepney

  

“I do not know” say the Great Bells of Bow

  

“Here comes a Candle to light you to Bed

  

Here comes a Chopper to Chop off your Head

  

Chip chop chip chop – the Last Man’s

Dead.”

 

  

JM