Unearthing a life.....

If Saddam Hussein is responsible for WMD's that never existed....
If Osama bin Laden is responsible for 9/11....
If Kim Jong Il is responsible for test firing missles....
Who, might I ask, is responsible for the rape and murder of the young Iraqi girl and her family? Who is Commander-In-Chief here? Where is the buck going to stop this time?

Rape and/or murder of civilians by American troops should not come as a shock or surprise. Thus it has always been ... or as the Talking Heads sang it, "Same as it always was." And to raise a hue and cry about it would be tantamount to non-support of our troops and gazing at the borderline of treason with the naked eye.

However that may be, from the Native Americans at Sand Hollow, to the 'ragheads' of WWII North Africa, to the civilians of the raped villages of Vietnam, certain elements of the American fighting forces have historically engaged in brutality, rape, torture and murder against civilian populations subject to their power. We do often send actual killers to do our official killing.

For what little it is worth, my apologies to the dead girl and her dead family. We should never have been in your country in the first place. And once there, we had no God-given right to rape and murder you.

So THAT IS WHAT HAS PISSED ME OFF on this otherwise fine Sunday morning. One black crow feather's worth of outrage. [And the buck hasn't stopped yet 'cause I just saw it running down my street .... up my street, actually .... down my street is a cul de sac .... which is a round, empty thing that brings to mind The Shrub's brain.