War always ends in tears (The War Against Terrorism)

Member Name: Hunting_Bears

Product:	The War Against Terrorism
Date:	02/07/03 (57 review reads)
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Disadvantages: death, destruction

I don't usually write about politics but my Euroland opinion got a good response so I must hold some kind of valid and coherent opinion that people respond to. 'The war on terrorism' (sponsored by Lockheed-Martin and Coca-Cola) has always troubled me very deeply. Ever since America got a wake-up call on 9/11 when the World Trade Center was demolished without permission by a bunch of angry Arab extremists, the War on Terror has been unrelenting towards those perceived as evil and a terrorist threat.

America and her bitches (sorry allies) namely the U.K. and uh…Spain have insisted that we must get rid of those dastardly Arabs, chinks and any other ethnic group not white (sorry terrorists). America armed with a bible, a warhead and incredibly impatient timing have gone to Afghanistan, Iraq and are now setting their bombs on timers for Iran or Syria. War is big business and thank god (or Allah, Buddha, whoever) for terrorists because if America did not have enemies then their economy would fall a bit like the twin towers.

Now America is a country I love and hate (I maybe a hypocrite but at least I can go to bed and sleep soundly at night and not have the deaths of thousands of innocents on my conscience…can you George or Tony?). A country that gave the world 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', The Beach Boys, Hershey Bars, Martin Scorsese also gave George W. Bush, George Bush, Lyndon Johnson, the fucking Backstreet Boys and John Wayne. This country seems to breed rightwing militant dickheads has much as Iraq or any other 'terrorist nation'.

Now before people stop reading I want to tell the world that I thought the War in Afghanistan was not a bad thing, they never destroyed the country because let's face it the Afghans have been scrapping with each other for years. The Taliban were a bunch of misogynistic horrible little cavemen who thanks to us no longer run that country.

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ge W. his favorite black people (Colin and Condelezza), Rummy Rumsfeld and triple heart bypass vice-president Dick Cheney got together and said 'Where to next?' at this point Rumsfeld was jumping up and down and screaming 'Let's get Iraq…you're daddy, Mr. President sir, he let them get away. We can tell everybody that they have WMD the one's we sold to them in the 1980's and we can get that bastard Saddam'.

George consulted with his dad and said 'Let's rock n' roll'. The French and the rest of the world said 'Non' apart from Tony Blair (a man I used to respect) and the PM from Spain with the woman's name Jose Maria Aznar.

Now in the late Bill Hicks' stand up show made in 1994 he says and I quote “I'm sick of America arming the rest of the world and then invading them because they have weapons of mass destruction. How do we know that they have these weapons? We looked at the receipt. Soon has the cheque clears we are going in“.

That pretty much sums up the War on Terrorism for me. It's gonna get to a point where America invades every country in the world. 'Coming soon to a country near you'. It's like some grotesque military Road Show.


The world cannot function like that and America sure as shit can't. I don't understand the way their government thinks. They arm themselves to the teeth and tell their citizens ' We received an intelligence report this morning saying that there could be an attack this afternoon around teatime. We don't know where and we don't know when but it's gonna happen“. Now Americans (at least half of them) are not stupid and they know that Bush is a bad man and ruining America's international image. I saw Moby in concert last year and the first thing he said after doing a blinding song called 'Natural Blues' was 'I'm sorry we have an
insane cowboy for a president'.

The War on Terror is all about fear and consumption (just like Marilyn Manson said in Michael Moore's phenomenal documentary Bowling for Columbine). It is the 21st Century and we are all behaving like fucking first year high school kids. We look at Arab nations to provide our Western nightmares; we live in a beautiful and enlightened world whilst they live in caves plotting the best way to bring down our society. I wish it were that simple, it's all about oil and best America (the biggest consumers of the planet's resources) can get hold of it. I believe that if we get rid of religion and capitalism (and no I ain't a communist just a humanist) the world may function better. An ideal that will never be met, people have to stop worshipping things that we have no actual proof of as Nietzsche so eloquently put it 'God's only excuse is that he doesn't exist'.

The War on Terror brought to you 24 hours a day 7 days a week by CNN, FOX, SKY we live in a world that is scary and with a lot of hatred. I just hope that when Armageddon comes I am sat on a hillside with a bottle of Jack Daniels and my acoustic guitar sing loudly and badly 'Who Loves the Sun'.

We as a people have no understanding of the pain and suffering of those America and her Allies bomb and invade they are people who have nothing literally. Like wise the people who are victims of terrorists cannot forget or forgive the pain they go through. Like Bill Hicks said 'It's just a ride'.


Hunting Bears Final Thought:

It is not a tragedy when people in the armed forces are killed. They chose to go to war, they were not conscripted like those poor folks from WW1, it's sequel, Vietnam etc. Don't buy that 'Get behind the boys'. My father and most of my relatives were in the Armed Forces and they fucking hated it. Tragedy is when a person
working in an office, getting on a bus, sitting in a park is murdered in the name of Allah or American imperialism. Let's drop some acid, smoke a joint and listen to the Beach Boys and let's feel those Good Vibrations, we do have them deep down inside. Au revoir les enfants

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