Another Day At The War Machine!
by Don Nash
Human flesh disconnects so easily. Those biophysical ties that bind are after all, not so resistant to the forces of physical violence. You know like bullets and bombs and land mines and all the little bits and pieces of military armament. Those kinds of “forces.� Human flesh shatters. Human flesh shreds. Human flesh burns like a day at the napalm barbecue. Yum, long pork cooked just the way the generals like it. Gen. B-tray-us likes his long pork the old fashioned way, with globs of picantē sauce.
Reminder- G. Bush says America is locked in a protracted “war on terror!� Wait, didn’t G. Bush say America is in a “war on Iraq?� A “preemptive war on Iraq?� So which is it? Terror=Iraq? Wait I know, it’s those pesky al-Qaeda types. In Iraq. Yeah right sure, sure. Iraq=terror? Gosh, with those Bush ignoramus types it’s sort of hard to tell which is which. Congress says, “right George whatever you need. Kill those boys and girls and kill those Muslims. Or is that al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types?� Too many darn complicated choices. The War Machine don’t need no stinking choices. Just humans to rend into itsy bitsy pieces. With raining splattering blood.
Wait I know, America needs a “program� so’s we can tell who’s whom. Yeah, a program. Kind of like an anti-Muslim pogrom style ethnic slaughter sort of shit-to-ding. Yeah, that’ll make things easier. Sort of a national conscience balm. “Pogrom! Get your pogrom right here! You can’t kill your Muslims or al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types without your pogrom!�
Q- how many al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types does it take to set off one of those IED things?
A- NONE! There are NO al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types. They don’t exist and the Bush gang of war criminals and the criminals at the Pentagon have been making this shit up since day one of “Bush Brings An End To Our Modern World!�
That’s mostly not a joke. However it is a key and vital component for today’s chapter of ‘Another Day At The War Machine’. Iraqi insurgent/guerrilla types are fighting for their country and the Bush gang can’t for the life of America’s boys and girls, figure that part out. Human flesh comes apart so easily. With so little effort. With a maximum war machine effort.
“The bell rings and from this corner comes the American War Machine, fighting and spraying death and destruction everywhere and anywhere G. Bush decides!� After all, isn’t G. Bush our Imperial Decider? I believe that is what G. Bush calls himself. “Our Imperial Decider!� Grandly Glorious and Deliciously Deadly. Yippee! Just Another Day At The War Machine!
“Mr. and Mrs. America, we are sad to report the death of your son/daughter in Bush’s little preemptive war on Iraq. It was those pesky al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types or Iraqi insurgent/guerrilla types. Military Intelligence can’t quite figure out which is whom at present but as soon as we can figure it out, we’ll be more than happy to let you in on our little secret. With our condolences and sincerely, Command Structure U.S. Military War Machine.�
Iraqi men, women, and children that have perished in the path of the ‘War Machine’, don’t get letters from Command Structure U.S. Military War Machine. No they do not. Dead Iraqis get an envelope filled with Iraqi Dinars and several rather suspicious looks from the U.S. Military War Machine Minions. Mercy, it must be wondrously profound to get to kill without accountability or conscience. Without regard to morality or simple human dignity or the Geneva Convention. Yeah, it just must be. Can we all say ‘post traumatic stress disorder’? Conscience catches up with even the most callous of ‘in cold blood’ killers. Usually.