Not Alone

BushCo has been Robbing the Cradle of Civilization for more than four years.  His government of the war criminals, by the war criminals, and for the war criminals has the blood of half a million Iraqi men, women, and children on its hands. They have been robbed of their very existence, and the land that was the first to experience the dawn of human civilization has been plunged into the darkness of barbarity.  

Iraq is known as the cradle of civilization, with a record of culture going back more than 7,000 years.  It was there, in what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, that life as we know it today began: there people first began to speculate on philosophy and religion, developed concepts of international trade, made ideas of beauty into tangible forms, and above all, developed the skill of writing.

Fourteen-thousand Friedman Units after human civilization emerged in the Tigris-Euphrates valley, a tribe of Neo-cons also managed to develop the skill of writing, and scribbled this.

The consequences have been horrific. The human suffering inflicted by that blasphemy of democracy they call Neoconservatism has horrified a world that once looked upon America with admiration and respect.  Iraq is not free, it was never meant to be.  Endless war is the Neo-con agenda, oil is their Holy Grail, and Iran is their next target. They wage their wars from TV studios, so they haven’t experienced the human suffering they are responsible for, they haven’t been subjected to the dehumanizing brutality of this war of conquest they have unleashed.  

But many others have.  Many others have walked down that dark road, and have paid the price.  The cost of that journey can be seen in their eyes, and in the eyes of everyone who still has a conscience and tears to shed for the innocent:  

Sometimes everything is wrong.

Sometimes holding on isn’t easy.

Sometimes everything is wrong year after year and just keeps getting worse.

Sometimes no one in Washington gives a damn year after year as everything just keeps getting worse, calls it incumbency, and supports the troops year after year by getting them killed year after year.  

We know everything is wrong, we know why, and we know who is responsible for it.  So does this man:  

Dennis Kucinich knows everything is wrong.  That’s why he’s running for the Presidency of the United States.  He knows everything is wrong in that White House BushCo hijacked.  He knows everything is wrong in that Pentagon they’ve turned into a Dereliction of Duty Demolition Derby.  He knows everything is wrong in that Gonzo Gallery of GOP Goons that used to be the Department of Justice.  He knows everything is wrong in that Corporate PR Department that used to be the United States Congress.  He knows that everything is wrong in every fucked up to a fare-thee-well government agency from Condi’s Hate Department to Chertoff’s Department of Deutschland Security.    

Everything is wrong all over this planet, from the melting polar ice caps to the vanishing ozone layer.  Everything is wrong everywhere because the United States of America does not have a President and a Congress of lawmakers, it has a Warmonger-in-Chief and a Congress of lawbreakers.        

But we’re not alone.  There is a candidate for President who knows exactly what’s wrong, knows what needs to be done to restore our government, knows what needs to be done to redeem our country, and knows how to do it:  

President Kucinich would enforce the Constitution of the United States.  He would enforce EVERY article in it, he would ensure that EVERY guarantee of civil liberties in the Bill of Rights is extended to every citizen of this country, all of the time, everywhere across this land, by everyone in the government. He would honor EACH AND EVERY word of our Constitution from beginning to end by enforcing each and every word of it.  

Everybody hurts sometimes.  For the past seven years we have been hurting all of the time, every day, day after day.  But we don’t have to hurt forever.  We are not alone.  We have Dennis Kucinich.  We have the Constitution.  We have each other.  We have patriots from America’s past to inspire us and future generations of Americans depending on us.

Dennis and his pocket copy of the Constitution deserve to be on this plane:

LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN.