Reaping

The United States of Bush was going to crush the Great Saddam, with his weapons of mass destruction and U.S. equipped army and CIA trained terror squads, and bring democracy to Iraq. It granted other less powerful and morally clarified nations the privilege of participating but when they balked, well fuck em. We don't need them. We'll see who gets the damn contracts when the dust settles and the oil flows again. Pass me some of them freedom fries.

So the U.S. of B. figured to get in, wipe out the bad guys, be conquering heroes, scare the shit out of other countries, get the contracts and get out. Couple of months, and on to Iran, or Syria maybe. Get the whole Axis of Evil by Christmas.

And it all worked great until it all started falling apart. The same folks who foisted such an obvious B-movie story of the Heroic Private Lynch onto a tabloid-brain media whose idea of a literary genius is Tom Brokaw, got caught crossing their fingers and telling a little white whopper in the State of the Union. Iraq turned out not to be a self-winding watch you took off a dead soldier; once you owned it you actually had to run it. Costs $5 billion a month just to keep the place in soldiers. Or some say $4 billion. The difference in the estimates could change several million lives back in the states, where the poor, the sick and the children would be paying for all this with their lives, but that's another story...or is it?

Well, turns out the U. of B. S. could use some help after all. How about some soldiers to replace the ones who are falling down with exhaustion and being picked off in the public market? Or a few bucks anyway, can you help us out here? Hey France? Germany? But oddly enough, nobody is lining up to volunteer. What do you mean, we're out of freedom fries?

Now that Bush Nation is showing how easily overwhelmed it is in that one little test case country without much in the way of even weapons of fairly big destruction (but still with lots of automatic rifles), those other Axis of Evil countries are no longer quaking in their boots. More like they're laughing up their nuclear weapons suitable aluminum sleeves.

Turns out those contracts aren't worth much without a government making sure the trains run, not to mention the water, and that there's a law or two, and some people to make them and enforce them, so you don't get picked off climbing the oil rig.

It's all very funny isn't it except for the Iraqis dying, the American dying, the Brits dying, and here at home when the house catches on fire it goes on burning because there's no firetrucks coming and you can just burn in America, and if you get sick or an infected cut and you've got no insurance even the emergency room doesn't have to take you anymore so you can just suffer and die in America, and if there's an earthquake or a terrorist attack you can call homeland security or you can call your momma in heaven for all the good it will do you because nobody's coming and you can wait and starve and die of thirst and exposure in America, and if you're looking for a future and some hope don't look to the schools, don't look for your arts programs your theater teacher who told you yes your life does mean something, you can do something well, there were people who suffered before and found out things, we can at least all sing together but don't bother because all that's unaffordable in America, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in human history and can't afford anything except an army for the 99% and everything else for the one-tenth of 1%, the gated ones, them of the royal coup, the supreme coup, the corporate backscratch club of the U.S. of Bush.