8:20 a.m.||||2004-05-27
The disturbing thing about my MIL, among a lot of things I drag here to show you like dead mice or rabbits from the street, is that I think, I think, I hope not, but I do think, that she is still a supporter of Bush. Which leads me to the question, how stupid can she really be? Is it the men in her life? Is she still, although she was a single mom, and has a careet she built herself, and absolutely no reason to support the monster for economic reasons, still beholden to the opinions of the men in her life? Her boyfriend of 15 years (who refuses to marry her and calls her "Darth Linda") is a business owner, conservative, an employer, and rich. And next to Dave, one of the least talkative people I've ever met. With a weird sense of humor - oh, THAT'S WHAT THAT IS. Anyway.
And her son in law, you know, Dave's young and hoeplessly ambitious coupled with ridiculously naive, bro in law? Of course, he was in the Navy and when we first declared war on Iraq's ass he was manning a boat from which big scary heavy killing flying things took off. The big noisy boats? With a landing pad. He spent months on that, while Kim spent her pregnancy here, alone, faux-finishing army property out in Seattle.
At one point when he came home after they let him out at the end of his duty - which was a narrow escape, man, he almost didn't come back at all - right before the real fighting broke out I think, he still thought that to disagree with Bush is to profess hatred toward out marines and men and ladies in service.
Doesn't that attitude just blow your mind? It doesn't even make sense argumentatively, as it falls to emotional fallacy. But whatever. Like if you say, "I think Bush is a murderer, and has been playing to his own agenda long before "elected" even,; he was waiting for this opportunity to invade Iraq back at 9-11; he doesn't protect your interests, Phil, or yours, Linda, economically; he's racist, guys, and Condo, Condi, Con-con is a smoke screen; and, I support the troops but don't they resent being lied to and then killed?" He'll say,possibly, "but my friends are still there! I got friends in the army, doing service, right now!"
Actually, Phil is not stupid. Which scares me too, and I haven't asked him about his feelings politically pretty much ever since he returned. Because I am afraid of getting so mad about his views, if they are what they might be, being him, that I will snap... There's no point in going there, really, ever.
But then, I might be suprised and since he's not stupid maybe he's not such an avid supporter, after all.
Aren't the series of events interesting? And so predctable you could almost set a clock by it?
So the abuse story breaks and it's what five minutes til we start questioning chain of command as opposed to individuals. Surprised we can break it down to leadership? Although Bush insists it was the actions of a demented few that sully the whole, the perfect complexion of the American military. Then, not so. More pictures on the news last night, suggesting that the entire prison guard was involved. Were they trained to do this? Another ten minutes reveal that, yes, and that apparently Rumsfeld's own notes and own protocol point that way. Surprised? Not really.. Another twenty and you get Bush on local 11 (actually, only, Fox news, cause none of the networks carried the speech, per Bush's request....) still claiming that we should not judge the American military on the perverted demented hypocritical and cruel practises of a few, even if they were [part of a conglomerate of evil, pointing up the chain of command, past Rummie, toward Bush himself!
It took me less than a second, as I;m sure it took you, to know in my heart that THIS IS THE TRAINING OUR MILITARY provides. This, right here, mother--ers on Capitol Hill, and the only real problem here, is that we got busted. We are the happy homes of how many mafias, so often in bed with the CIA, that brunt force torture is, what, inconceivable? What a load of crap. We're bullies and we're hypocrites. And by we, I mean the administration.