May 12, 2004
Erica Verrillo, The Boston GlobeTHE BUSH administration seems to have a serious problem with reality. The most recent reality challenge is the policy of torture in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which the administration is frantically redefining as “abuse,” “excesses,” and “humiliation.” We even have Secretary Rumsfeld describing footage of several American soldiers “having sex” with a female Iraqi prisoner. Let’s have a little plain English here.
“Having sex” with a prisoner is known as “rape.”
Systematic beatings are called “torture.”
Excesses that lead to death are called “murder.”
The hundreds of women and children in mass graves in Fallujah are the product of a “massacre.”
Taken together, all of these add up to “atrocities.”
The dissemination of “incomplete information” from “imperfect intelligence” is called “lies.”
The billions of dollars that Halliburton and Bechtel have reaped in profits are called “war profiteering.”
The invasion of Iraq is called “illegal.”
The destruction of America’s international standing is called “permanent.”
And Texaco/Phillips’s high bid for Iraqi oil is called “why we are in Iraq.”
Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Marlyse and I have a different point of view in regards to Iraq and the current administration. We do have many points of agreement on many other things and she may be right with her current view. I guess “The war on terror”, the “Iraq war”, “Israel and Palestine” and the United States involvement with all of this is a big topic. Ignoring such, pretending that it does not exist and doing nothing would be the wrong thing to do. Looking at this “mass of ugly created blackness” from many points of view with the courage to look and the willingness to communicate by sane individuals will help resolve this situation. Sane individuals? How can one be “sane” when on is confronting the black mass of the “borg” glob? The black glob flows out a crude and rough wave of uglyness, so opposite the desired wave of beauty that we desire. Like the tuning fork causing another tuning fork to react, the black mass embroils us in this uglyness. How can we stand our ground, get close to this to really look and make this dissappear without getting our own uglyness to vibrate in tune with the “borg ship”?
How can we stand our ground, get close to this to really look and make this dissappear without getting our own uglyness to vibrate in tune with the “borg ship”?
Just by being and confronting – with no evading, vias nor additives.
Thank you Daryl for giving your comments, I don’t mind at all that we have a different viewpoint on this issue… and you know that ;-)