Lives and Families destroyed

We welcome another member of the Coalition for a Democratic America to Sirens as a writer. Kyle is a veteran that served his nation as a soldier in Iraq. His wise words and thoughts are a most welcome addition to our staff. This post begins a multiple part series~ Dusty

By PraetorOne, Kyle, Donatra, SweetPea, Kelli, and Rachel

PROLOGUE: To Paris! To Berlin! To Baghdad!

In 1914 in the weeks following the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, and leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, the people of Europe somehow managed to convince themselves that the ensuing war would be a brief one. Flushed with a collective, nationalistic fever of 106.7, the people of France turned out in the Streets, shouting “TO BERLIN! TO VIENNA!” The people of Germany and Vienna turned out in the streets, shouting “TO PARIS! TO MOSCOW! TO LONDON!” ad nauseum. Virtually no one believed that the war would be a long one, that their nation’s armies would soon overrun the armies of the other side and that valor and glory would rule the day. And yet, within a short period of time, it became all too apparent that the war wouldn’t only be a long one; it would also be a brutal and very bloody one; that it would go on for year, after year. Trench warfare, mustard gas, rape, mass murder, disease, and famine: Those were the horrors of World War I, horrors which created a new medical/psychiatric term: “Shell Shock.” And to make matters even worse, hardly a generation had passed but what Germany, once Europe’s problem child, was on the march again, led by a sociopathic dictator who, as a younger man, hadn’t only served in the trench warfare of World War I, but who himself had also been gassed.

The only difference between this young man and so many others of his generation, was that he had walked away from the war with the wrong lessons learned. Instead of recognizing the stupidity and futility of war, THIS young man, this raving butcher of an Anti-Semite learned that war was a solution to most problems; that survival of the fittest was the natural order of life. I am of course talking about the primary architect of World War II, Adolf Hitler, the madman who through blood soaked atrocities and war crimes taught us that war is the great evil of the 20th, and yes, even the 21st Century

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A connection-based pondering…

Another spot-fucking-on musing from The Angry Black Bitch. Please visit her blog here and show her some love-Dusty

A connection-based pondering…

Longtime readers know that a bitch adores connecting all manner of shit, so when I read about the release of Iranians who were being detained in Iraq my brain immediately began to connect like connecting is going out of bitness.

I’ve been wondering about the fate of Iranians detained in Iraq for some time. Their initial detention was covered heavily, but then all the media attention kind of died down.

Well the United States military released some nine Iranians from detention, some who had been held for years without being charged or tried…which made me ponder the broader issue of detaining people without trial.

Not just people being held at Gitmo…but the 25,800 Iraqis waiting to face charges or be given freedom being detained by the United States in Iraq. About 17,000 of those were captured this year which leaves more than 8,000 people who have been held without trial or charges for over a year.

That shit is disturbing enough, since we should be leading by example…and detaining people without charges or trial is not an example of democracy in action (wince)…but it’s even more disturbing given what we learned during the recent hearings featuring the CEO of Yahoo.

During the hearings Yahoo apologized to the family of a Chinese man who was arrested after Yahoo turned his e-mail information over to the Chinese government. He was arrested, charged and sentenced to jail because Yahoo wanted to kiss the ass of the world’s fastest growing economy.

And that shit made me think of AT&T and how they supplied the United States government with data about American citizens.

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tuesday post for peace

with all of the recent information coming out in (gasp) the msm- about corruption and executive orders- and faked al quaeda operatives, one would think that holding someone accountable and starting the pullout from iraq would be a no brainer. but no. sadly no. here we are, with the dems doing nothing. even after cindy s. and her crew begged and pleaded- and promptly got arrested. even after poll numbers hit a new high with folks wanting impeachment. even after meeting with the former ‘axis of evil’ folks to hope that they can do what we couldn’t- bring some stability to a country we de-stabilized. we have to work diligently for peace- and it has to become a mindset, because even after the last soldier is home, america will not be at peace. she may be resting in peace- but there are millions of angry people here- and peace is far from our minds.

 

tags: peace now, iraq war, angry americans

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