| You fasten the trigger for others to fire. Then you sit back and watch when the death count gets higher. You hide in your mansion as young peoples' blood flows out of their bodies and into the mud." This line from Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" perfectly describes George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and other neoconservative ideologues as they continue to use poor and middle class American soldiers as disposable pawns in their chess game of reshaping the Middle East.
The wealthy often send other people's children to die in wars of questionable ethical or practical value. They might cry crocodile tears for fallen soldiers or say they "honor" them, but their gestures are transparent recruiting gimmicks if they keep misusing soldiers as cannon fodder for unjust purposes. Most of us have seen the TV footage where Bush made a comedy act of his failure to find WMD. Before an audience of national media figures, Bush pretended to search in all directions, saying, "Where are those weapons of mass destruction? No weapons here! None over here either!" Although the WMD excuse was Bush's original rationale for convincing soldiers to put their lives on the line in Iraq, he was comfortable laughing about it. For all his high-toned talk about the glory of battle, Bush never personally faced combat and neither have his two daughters. Despite his lip service about respecting the troops, Bush has made light of their sacrifices. |
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