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Woo Hoo! "Support Our Troops" All Over Again?


Rafe Pilgrim
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Wull, back in tha gud ol' Hew Ess o' Ay, the trolls of war now convene in a cavern under Pennsylvania Avenue, with patriotic reps from the weapons industries, as well as our highly dedicated for-profit private security forces, and the bankster lobbyists, along with the speech writers -- to hear the facts directly from the CIA, whose "representatives" have been in the next combat zone for a considerable time, just getting ready don't you know. 
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Their shared mission?  To figure out a rationale to lay on the American people for the next profiteering (well, for the right people) slaughterous adventure, safely thousands of miles and two seas away from American beaches.  Safely, that is assuming an enhanced level of thuggery by our ever gracious TSA crews.
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There's no need to worry about congressional support, with this century's elected protectors of the people's best interests ever slathering away to "defend" Israel and support Freedom's March against Terrorism and such, at any costs, be that the lives of civilians as well as of our troops, just as they accommodated Defending Democracy and such for the Bushco gang.
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Could there be -- however traitorously remote it may seem to the unremitting zealot mentality -- that the American people have had their fill of this treacherous bullshit, and just might dare to stand up and speak out, and refuse to swallow a Chapter Two of the Support Our Troops, Freedom's On the March, Defending Democracy litany
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Will the obvious lies and the slaughter of the past dozen years and yet persisting, be finally this time brought to an end by the American people?  Or will we witness a renewed surge in sale of red-white-and-blue bumper stickers?
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Do we rejoin in the treachery, or dare to raise the voice for humanity?  History is watching.  As are -- whatever the numbers -- all decent and intelligent Americans.

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Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare (more...)
 
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