I think the Twin Towers demolition opened quite a lot of USAn’s eyes. The abandonment of New Orleans was so shocking that many more people woke to reality. The illegal wars, learning about rendition, AbuGhraib, USA officials defending torture, ignoring subpeonas, taught that we have a legal system with double standards.

Quite a lot of this may have been suspected but we have had it confirmed by reputable groups such as Amnesty & Red Cross + the United Nations.

No doubt at all in my mind that I live in a police state, much more frightening than any blather about ‘terrists’.
My city is broke, hell the whole country is broke trying to maintain the addiction to war, weapons and empire and keeping Israel on the dole.

Americans are no longer the ‘good guys’, assuming they ever were!

MIC is so darned clever. I read that article more and it goes like this: Nato did the killing, but America did all the talking. America ONLY has good intentions (and anyone who doubts this is the enemy.)
Even, Pat Tillman, killed by friendly fire.

What you said, exposes the creature for what it is,..

“When a nation announces that it won’t count civilian casualties,
you know that many civilians will be killed.

When a nation announces their troops can’t be sued,
you know that brutality is on their mind.

When a nation embraces torture,
you know they are immoral.

When a nation refuses to accept the juridiction of the World Court
you know they will continue to carry out atrocities like the ones in Vietnam and Cambodia.

America is such a nation. It relishes killing and has no conscience about it. None! To America, it’s a business, a lucrative one, an imperial one.”

On that note, I want you to know that I tried posting comments about Israel at two different sites and they did not get printed. Hence, the additional value of DC.
Israel is vicious. They are the backbone of the style of militarism these days. Because they have so many years of mercilessly murdering and in every possible way, oppressing an entire poplulation of sovereign Palestinian people. I hope there is some critical mass of awareness about this horror that is Israel. Soon. Before they keep killing and killling. And the Pope keeps saying NOTHING.

When a nation announces that it won’t count civilian casualties, you know that many civilians will be killed. When a nation announces their troops can’t be sued, you know that brutality is on its mind. When a nation embraces torture, you know it is immoral. When a nation refuses to accept the juridiction of the World Court you know it will continue to carry out atrocities like the ones in Vietnam and Cambodia.

America is such a nation. It relishes killing and has no conscience about it. None! To America, it’s a business, a lucrative one, an imperial one.

This morning’s top Headline.
Morning after..hangover, walk of shame- or – does this only embrazen Obomba and his purse-string-pullers? Shameful and despicably brazen is what it appears.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/14-4

He is an American apologist who can’t get his mind around the fact that his country is not the ‘Beacon on the Hill’ but one of the most dangerous, violent, greedy nations on the planet.

You spotted him immediately. He is so obvious it’s pathetic!

I’ve been wondering where amerika is getting all these “warriors” are they mostly mercenaries or are they folks who risk their lives for citizenship or are these people who have to choose between jail or military service?

Congress is so desperate they’re considering changing the “don’t ask – don’t tell” rule.

Jeannie, there is no end because, to America, killing is a way of life, a raison de etre!

Fred, I’m sorry that you have alzheimer’s disease and are suffering from memory loss. Are you the ‘Blind Freddie’ that the world talks about? Having two afflictions can’t be easy!

Grace, I guess that after Iraq and Afghanistan is over, there will eventually be those who remember the horror that America brought to the Middle East, one that competes with the one brought by the Israelis to Palestine!

How quickly the massacres of The Forgotten War 1949-1953 become forgotten history. Visited by a grim reaper in big time denial ..America slayed locals in Korea. Pits full of men, women and children that our boys shot and killed; all unarmed civilians. It was mass amnesia until a bit of group therapy in the late 1990′s. When the ‘boys’ got old enough to suddenly remember how horrible it really was.