I am almost done watching “Bush’s Brain” on DVD, and there’s a story in it about a family whose son was one of the first killed in the first few days of the Iraq invasion. People say that this is manipulative to appeal to the emotions, becuase “this is what war is”. I disagree, but I also can say that even if I did believe this, I would qualify it to say : “This does not apply to wars sought on illigitimate and unjst means. This war is based on a lie, which was defended and furthered by mass deception, corruption, and outright greed, and done so by people where NONE have themselves been sent into battle, especially including the that most visible coward and manipulator of them all: George W. Bush. He is an elitist in “common man’s” clothing; and a “War President” who did all he could , and succeeded, in avoiding service himself”. He disgusts me, along with his elitist cronies, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfield…NONE of whom served. NONE. This is not a democracy. That is the deception which the elite “play” on us. “Freedom and liberty” are not for us, but are manipulated to “trickle to the top” , and use the “common man” to do their “dirty work”. They say “That’s war”, and teach its subjects to say it, all the while they are their own are exempt from the dangers in which they place their subjects, while deceiving them into believing they are fighting for something worthwhile and not killing thousands upon ten thousands of INNOCENT civilians. The father who lost his son said this,

“Anybody in combat arms are just canon fodder to the people above you,
the elitists run the wars, they start the wars, soldiers fight in them and die in them, and I don’t think these elitist people give a damn, …At all… How many soldiers are killed and what happens to their family; what happens to the people left behind.”

which caused me pause the DVD and write this.

I think there ought to be a law that NOBODY; NOONE in government should have their kids exempt from service if there is a draft. They all ought to be classified A1. Then there might be some hesitancy, and some demand for accountability, and some ultimate sense of checks and balances on PERSONAL grounds, on who serves. Perhaps this would “legislate” constraint before lawmakers agree to send OTHER people’s kids to die for thier decisions.

Beyond and above this, you who read here know that I oppose war, in practically every case, on moral grounds, with very few execeptions in history. It is the “elitists” in history and today, whose interest it is in to “push” for the “acceptability” of such things, in order that they get their “dirty but neccessary work” done, which would NEVER be passed if only the people who allowed it were to have to see the realities up close, or know anybody in the path of the destruction, who are later anonymously labelled “Collateral Damage”, and “victims of war whgich is regrettable but unavoidable”. God help us. God come to us and move us to be faithful and say no more.