"To
'smoke'
someone is to put them in stress
positions until they get muscle fatigue and pass out.
That
happened every day."
"To
FUCK
a
PUC
means to beat him up.
We would give them blows to the head, chest, legs and stomach, pull
them down, kick
dirt on them. This happened every day."
"Some days we would just get bored
so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them
get in a pyramid.
We did that for amusement."
"Iraqis were
'smoked'
for up to 12 hours."
"Fishback says that army investigators were currently
more interested
in finding out
the identity of the other soldiers
who spoke to
Human Rights Watch
than
dealing with the systemic abuse of Iraqi prisoners."
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"If
the
Dangerous Archangel
took one step now
down toward us
from behind the stars
our heartbeats
rising like thunder
would kill us.
And all things agree
to keep quiet about us
maybe half to shame us
and half from a hope
they can't express."
[Rainer Maria Rilke;Second Duino Elegy]
WHICH STATE OF WHAT UNION ?
Commentary on the January 2003 State Of The Union Speech
George W. Bush, the Yale Texas Buckaroo who
usurped the Office of President Of The United States, gave another one
of his "Revivalist" speeches
to his Fraternity Brothers and Sorority
Sisters
on the East Coast of America last night. The occasion was nothing
less than what we have come to
expect from this spoiled son of a rotten
family.
It
was another celebration of the Enron-Haliberton-Bechtel-Government
rousing its loyal bureaucratic investors with a Company speech all
about
how
wonderful they are, how much richer they're
gonna be, and why the rest of America should love them for their
fatuous
and condescending arrogance.
It was not the speech of a statesman; it was
the rehearsed performance of a Puppet hoping to find the Blue Fairy who
will somehow miraculously
confer life upon him as a real human boy.
It was the kind of speech one might expect to find tumbling from the
lips
of a psychotic extra-terrestrial; it
showed no awareness of the true state of the
Union which is, at this time, a state of complete and thorough
disunion.
Who stole the Country; who brokered
the Presidency?
Displaying his celebrated smirk, the
immaculately
groomed shrub pranced in through the back door to a large room full of
bought & paid for admirers.
His entrance and sad performance suggested
the failed concert of a faded DIVA. His hired claque applauded on
cue making several desperate
attempts to imitate enthusiasm as the
beady-eyed
Bush minced his words and did his best to honor the Goddess Eulogia,
-the
Antique Muse of
Skull & Bones Oratory.
While
the overall effect of Bush's Business
was glumly hilarious in a Kafka-esque manner, the particulars of the
performance
were not amusing.
Indeed, the sight of so many noses growing
conservatively longer resembled some extreme, wide-angle shot of
Pick-Up Sticks! Lies, competing with
other lies, compounded by half-truths filled
the air -crisscrossing at every angle. Cameras panned the
audience
alighting here and there upon familiar
faces: Hillary Clinton gawking out from her
reserved seat like Lady Bird Macbeth, Edward Kennedy drooping his sadly
resigned jowls down from his
gray hair onto his lap. Lots of women
in red dresses, a few sober looking soldiers, a collection of flags and
seals scattered about to give the whole
show that 'genuine' look so needed and desired
by a pathological collection of crooks imitating concerned government
figures.
It
was a partisan club of well-to-do folks
listening to their favorite performer, eager to comment on his
'determined'
look, his 'set jaw' and every other
phrase they could conjure up to convince
themselves
and their captive viewing audience throughout TV LAND AMERICA that
something
mighty real
was taking place. It wasn't.
The
entire event can be succinctly summarized
in Mister Bush's own words to the people of Iraq, - written for him by
God knows whom, but spoken
by him with that ringing tone of clarion
ignorance
that betrays his beast wherever it wonders:
"Your enemy is not surrounding your Country; your enemy is ruling your Country".
And
with those words, my fellow Americans,
you must be content. They are words addressed to the citizens of
America from the Pinocchio of
Artificial Intelligence who has assumed the
Office of the President, and has (once again) inadvertently let the cat
out of the bag:
OUR
ENEMY IS NOT SURROUNDING
OUR COUNTRY;
OUR ENEMY IS RULING OUR
COUNTRY.