An Anniversary We Wish Weren't

The floor of the House of Representatives today has many members making statements about the date marking the fifth anniversary of whatever you want to call going on in Iraq. It is being referred to as a war anniversary when really I think of it more as the anniversary of our country becoming something not permissable under the Constitution. A ship of state with a captain that has never left shore before. The country has been at sea ever since. What is going to end this journey? The answer seems to be that only the passage of time --getting us to the change of the presidency in the inauguration in Jan 09 after the Nov 08 elections.

The speeches will probably continue - it is 8:15 pm. in Wa DC as I type. And in about forty-five minutes in my time zone of MST it will be time for the Nightly News with Jim Lehrer on PBS where following there will be the daily list of the fallen in print scrolling slowly enough to read the particulars, their photos, thier age, their home town; few other newscasts on our 24/7 overdose of sound bites, do daily homage to the honor roll of the dead. The latest releases after families have been notified. Why is this? The obvious answer seems that the public doesn't demand it - preferring instead to pretend there isn't any killing happening.

And then there is the absence of the deaths of all the innocents caught in this AUMF. Can you believe that estimates range from 65,000 to 500,000 plus?

I never have had anyone remark about this except on a political forum where I participate. But it is absent in daily dialogue. This is what the administration counts on - the masses in a permanent preferred state of amnesia.

What is going to be the wakeup call.



graysmoke