Joe Bageant: Free People Do Bad Things

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Free People Do Bad Things
by Joe Bageant
May 26, 2005

For now though, our attention is absorbed in the efforts of our armed and clueless youth who, rather like pit bulls, are turned loose on the rest of world. About 1,500 of them have been killed, but not before killing a hundred thousand or so Iraqis, nearly all of them civilians. The carnage in Iraq is not a problem. “Free people do bad things,” said Donald Rumsfeld (referring to the murderous Iraqi clusterf**k masquerading as a government over there). But at least we are returning to our violent roots. As any indigenous person can tell you, we are coming home to the values that made America great. Abu Ghraib was a fresh start at reestablishing our violent national heritage that began with Indian slaughter and seemed to stall out a bit after Vietnam. But we’re baaaaaack! And we’re as bad assed as ever....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Bageant0526.htm

[knowbody0]

1. thank you for this

the madness of AMERIKA

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Hoo boy, Mr. Bageant just hit another home run here!

Like I say, he's the poor white man's Hunter Thompson.


:woohoo: