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| One of the chickenhawk neocon radio phonies told his audience
this week that President Bush had a tough weekend because his 22-year old twin
daughters had graduated from colleges in different parts of the country. This,
according to the radio phony, caused a lot of stress for the Bush household. Imagine,
two daughters graduating at the same time from two colleges on opposite sides
of the country! The stress is almost too much to contemplate. And, out where the
Stepford people live, one can imagine Ma and Pa nudging each other and smiling
warmly over this human interest story about their president. "What a leader,
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The
first, first twin, to graduate was Jenna Bush who got her degree from the University
of Texas on May 22. You probably heard about the graduation on the news and you
may have seen photos on TV or in your local newspaper.
What
you probably didn't see on the news was the fact that also on May 22, a 20 year
old U.S. Marine was reported to have died in Iraq. He was two years younger than
the Bush twins. Not only did you probably not hear about his death you surely
didn't see his casket being snuck back into the U.S. It just wasn't important
news like the double Bush graduation. There also wasn't any talk about any stress
on the part of this dead kid's family and loved ones. Hey, they didn't have to
worry about two graduations on the same weekend, you know. 
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What
you probably didn't see on the news was the fact that also on May 23, it was reported
that seven young American servicemen had died in Iraq on that and the few preceding
days. It wasn't very important when compared to the graduation of Bush's daughters,
and the stress caused by having to handle two graduations at the same time. 
The
children of the elites go to college and graduate so they can take their places
in the elite ranks that send the cannon fodder children of ordinary Americans
to die for the elites. Don't worry though, according to the elites, we don't have
social classes in this country. And, hey, we had to attack Iraq. Remember 911?
Now, don't be unpatriotic by pointing out that 911 and Iraq had no connection.
Just accept the propaganda of the elites and send your kids to fight and die.
Remember, we have to protect the Mexican way of life here in post-American America
that Bush is giving us. We also have corporate elites who are making millions
of dollars sending their factories and jobs offshore. Our working class kids have
to protect these corporate interests.
Now
that Bush's daughters have graduated from college, the parents of dead U.S. servicemen
will be happy to learn that Jenna and Barbara have pitched right in to help bring
freedom to the Iraqis. The first thing the Bush twins did was give an interview
to Vogue. Now, they're apparently going to help search for those weapons of mass
destruction by taking a European vacation. Once they finish that search, they'll
return to Washington to help the war effort by working in their father's reelection
campaign.|
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The
20 year old dead Marine and the seven other servicemen and the more than 800 servicemen
who have died in this meaningless Iraq mess probably never gave interviews to
Vogue. Few probably ever took a European vacation. Not many of them even went
to or graduated from college. Instead, these working class kids graduated from
military boot camp. Their parents probably didn't even have the money to go see
them graduate and head out for duty in Iraq. 
Welcome
to post-American America. Please don't tell me that there isn't an unofficial
class structure in this nation. You know there is and I know there is. It's the
phonies in the elite class who don't want you to think we have classes. They're
the same elites who manipulate ordinary non-elite kids into going into military
service with talk of patriotism, while their own kids go to Ivy league colleges.
Now,
don't get me wrong. This isn't a complaint against the Bush twins. They were born
into their particular circumstances just as the kids who are dying in Iraq were
born into theirs. The Bush twins are living their lives as is normal for their
class, and the kids who are dying are doing what is normal for theirs. My gripe
is that the elites are too quick to send the kids of the ordinary citizens of
this nation to die in meaningless wars while not sending their own kids into danger.
This isn't right and it's not the American way. Furthermore, any leader who wants
to send someone else into danger should volunteer to lead the charge, not sit
back in a mansion where it's safe. Any leader who isn't willing to lead the charge
or send his own children into danger, shouldn't ask this of others. Call it the
Golden Rule restated.
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But
maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps my belief that the war in Iraq is a meaningless waste
of life is colored by my belief that all life is sacred. Maybe the elites have
it right with their apparent belief (that they'll never say publicly) that the
lives of non-elites aren't worth very much.
Finally,
does anyone with more than a two digit I.Q. really believe that American kids
are dying in Iraq for America and not Israel? If you believe they're dying for
America, don't tell it to the Marines. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni isn't
buying the Bush administration lies, and neither are most other thinking people.|
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