At some point, of course, all this will end, as it eventually ended in Indochina.
Then we can erect another war monument on the Washington Mall to this new list of wasted lives—the ones who Bush once famously said were “just numbers.” (That was back when the number was “just” 2500.)
Maybe this time around, we could have them construct a spitting basin somewhere near the monument, with the names of Bush, Cheney and all the members of the Congress, Republican and Democrat, from 2002 through the end of the conflict, whenever that is, who voted to authorize, and then continued to fund this disastrous war, etched on its bottom. Instead of coming to look for the names of loved ones, or after doing so and making the ceremonial rubbing of the name onto a piece of paper, visitors could express their feelings towards the authors and enablers of this war at the national spittoon.
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Then we can erect another war monument on the Washington Mall to this new list of wasted lives—the ones who Bush once famously said were “just numbers.” (That was back when the number was “just” 2500.)
Maybe this time around, we could have them construct a spitting basin somewhere near the monument, with the names of Bush, Cheney and all the members of the Congress, Republican and Democrat, from 2002 through the end of the conflict, whenever that is, who voted to authorize, and then continued to fund this disastrous war, etched on its bottom. Instead of coming to look for the names of loved ones, or after doing so and making the ceremonial rubbing of the name onto a piece of paper, visitors could express their feelings towards the authors and enablers of this war at the national spittoon.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist. His latest book is "The Case for Iimpeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in paperback). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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