HEARTGUT TRUTH
Poignant and moving, but cannot be uttered enough.
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© 2008 Used With Permission
April 30, 2008
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BECAUSE HE CAN’T SHOOT ‘EM IN THE FACE
#172,311 in a woebegone G. Walker administration series. Collect Reject them all.
Once again, oozing from the putrid corridors of the dastardly, absolutely corrupted First Dick’s office: Science? We don’t need no ess-stinkin’ science.
April 11, 2008
DIRE DATA
Don’t know what prompted the thought, but via quick and rough calculation, come this summer the U.S. will have been engaged in boots on the ground warfare for longer than it officially was in World Wars I and II, combined.
WWI: Declaration of war - early April 1917. Armistice Day - mid-November 1918. Approximately 19 months.
WWII: Declaration of war - early December 1941. VJ Day - mid-August 1945. Approximately 45 months.
Total: approximately 64 months.
Iraq: late March 2003 to today - coming up now on 61 months.
The operations in Afghanistan, of course, have long surpassed that length, currently being in month 78.
It is, frankly, distressing in extremis to realize that every single child here aged 6½ or younger has never lived in an America not actively waging war.
GLOSSARY
IIO = Illegal Invasion and Occupation
Congress CX = 110th Congress
SNABU = Situation Negative, All Bushed Up
And So It Goes is a reincarnation and continuation of the late Vox Digitatus blog (2004 - 2006).
re: the phrase And So It Goes — A tip o' the ol' topper to Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee.
