I want to cry

[ravan]

But I'm just numb. THIS, is what I've been talking about, raving against, and wishing I had the might to stop for the last 4 years.

When a holocaust survivor decidress to return to Germany because he sees the country he's living in heading down the fascist road, I have the bittersweet knowledge that I have been seeing the signs right. The world is in for a rough ride unless we can stop this shit before the world decides it has to bomb us back into the stone age to protect itself from the lunatic that is our "leader".

Don't bother to deny it, or defend that son of a Bush squatting in the White House. I don't want to hear it. No more appeasement.

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[weofodthignen]

Well, yeah.

I've been reading the front pages of the NY Times and Wall Street Journal as I deliver them. The Fed Ex collaborateur thing was the main story on the latter yesterday. The NY Times keeps digging into the torture, but especially the killing of prisoners. I'm afraid their story less than a week ago about the Iraqi cab driver who was tortured to death when his inquisitors didn't even really believe he was guilty of anything . . . tempted me to post it in redsonja's lj and ask how she could still be proud of having served in the US military. I have no love whatsoever for Communism. I still like this country. But if I were a US veteran I would be deeply ashamed. And article after article mentions that people in these filthy murderers' hometowns are outraged when their medals are taken away, let alone when they are tried for their crimes. I'm blinded by rage as I read such things.

And I lost a much valued friend, as you know, not even for saying things like this . . . merely for allowing people to criticize Bush. Ye gods.

I'll be on IRC again tonight, btw, albeit exhausted. Hope you have secured some time off, whether you use some of it to come talk to us or not :-)

M