Kerry’s Forbidden Accidental Truth

It is no secret that the American armed forces are the last resport for many who do not have another way to feed their family or provide a future for their children better than their own. And, yes, this is often due to being uneducated, which is different from being stupid, but the average american voter won’t grasp that nuance.

So the media in the US have lept on the Kerry miscue (whether it really was or not is irrelevant since the miscue is as true as the original speech) and are now pushing it hard. Why? Why must Americans be fed this kind of noninformation just prior to a crucial vote? Is it because the obviousness of everything else is just tiresome?

Why is it that an election that needs to be decided on facts is instead possibly being decided on some bizarre non-statement; some error which rings true - which is true - but is forbidden.

Don’t accidentally appear to offend the troops. Don’t accidentally not criticize the troops but open yourself to that willful misinterpretation. If you do, we might vote Republican. The troops…you mean the poor, uneducated cannon fodder Americans idealize, glorify and imagine shitting candy for Iraqi children?

Americans who respond to the call to idolize, deem infallible, and rally ’round the troops are simply hiding from the ugly scar that is their nation’s foriegn policy. They don’t want to know. They participate in this fascist mind control technique to successfully push in to their unconscious all the questions they might otherwise have about why America caused the death of half a million of the Iraqis they were supposed to be saving. Who really knows just how utterly destroyed Iraq is, and will be for decades?

Like a Jack Nicholson character once said. “The truth? You can’t handle the truth.”