Bombing Indiana

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Even Kentuckians Agree That's Going Too Far

By LUCINDA MARSHALL

I can understand the confusion, Indiana starts with an I. Iraq, Iran, Indiana. Common mistake. But when my morning paper announced that the Department of Defense was considering testing a humongous pretend nuclear bomb in the Hoosier state, I was terrified. This of course is a very patriotic response. George Bush has spent his entire presidency doing everything in his power to convince us to be terrified, it's the new American way of life ..

While there are some folks in this country that still seem to think bombing Afghanistan and Iraq was a good idea, I don't think a one of us can follow the logic of bombing ourselves. In what way could that possibly be making us safer? Indiana Congressional candidate Barry Welsh put it this way, "I believe in a strong Homeland Security and, if we have to defend our state of Indiana from our national Department of Defense, so be it."

And that, fellow citizens, is what we need to do. Not just in Indiana either. We live in a country where entire cities are left to wash away into the rising oceans because we don't officially believe in global warming. Where roads are falling apart. Our waterways are polluted and our air is unbreathable (although I'll be damned if I know what the alternative is). One in eight of us lives in poverty and you can't afford health care unless you are the CEO of a pharmaceutical company ..

We have no business bombing Indiana, Iran or any other country or state that starts with the letter I or any of the other letters of the alphabet for that matter. Anyone remember when the nutcase that is now running Iran was elected and everyone shook their heads and wondered how that happened. I'm not saying that we would ever interfere with the democratic process in another country, or even in our own country, but it does seem mightily convenient ..

http://www.counterpunch.org/marshall09072006.html