MARINES

Americans CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH-- Aghast that american boys--American Marines-- may have committed a massacre of innocents in Iraq the punditocracy that largely cheerled the shock and awe ("we're all neocons now") pre-emptive regime change are now repulsed by the most recent horror of a war gone wrong-- Actually the war hasn't gone wrong it is only the naive and false idea of how war should go that has basically gone wrong-- The late David Hackworth once commented on the difference between war and combat being thus "War is hell but combat is a shrieking bitch." Everything confluent to making war hellish and combat a shrieking bitch is information off-limits to the public in the run-up to war--

The nature of the beast must be sanitized by the media to be palatable to both the media and the public-- Retired Generals telestrating the elaborate five star digital hotels Al Quaeda accesses five stories down in the digital caves of Tora Bora-- At Tora Bora's real caves the U.S. allowed Osama Bin's escape to Pakistan-- Blowhard political FieldMarshalls portly silverhaired lame knee-ed never served but suddenly erudite beyond question in the digital fields of tactical strategery one after the other stepped up to the deadly digital lectern to pontificate America's indisputable need for world credibility-- Remember how effortlessly the regimes of the Evil Axis would be 'taken out'--(Almost every pundit in mediasphere central seemingly fell over themselves to report with such a macho ring someone somewhere would be "TAKEN OUT"-- alas a digitally macho ring) -- Saddam ? Five days max!--Iran's Ayatollah? Two Weeks--Korea's Il ? Three months at most-- Half the world instantaneously and blithely remade--Heady hubris to say the least-- Walking Tall in the television studio--

Imagine now having to face head-on the grisly brutality of such a ghastly scene as Haditha and the kind of nauseating puckering effect that might have while you are making a serious sidebet about who will win the American Idol contest--A contest by the way which garnered more American votes (among the living that is) than our last Presidential election--Americans softened obese and hyper-entertained by the non-negotiable way of life Mr. Cheney has proclaimed so authoritatively have no stomach for the reality of war and re-elected a man who told Pat Robertson (when he vowed to pray for the casualties) apparently in all seriousness there would be no casualties-- The new Iraqi prime minister(virtually installed by the U.S.) shrugged recently and stated that these massacres happen all the time in Iraq-- A stunning comment (grantedly uttered by a man whose security is so deathly challenged he cannot venture from the Green Zone) followed by an oceanic silence from most supposedly interested parties--Rumple ducked and so did Condi--How about most everybody from Hannity to Woodruff et. al.?--Too much TRUTH?????--

Let's pretend real war is a computer video game where the bombs are absolutely smart and the blood is only digital-- From the reclining overstuffed chair deployed on the frontlines of air conditioned beer soaked suburban foxholes a generation or two removed from the Shores of Tripoli Bloody Tarawa and the Seige of Khe San most Americans don't seem to give even a digital rat's ass--The dead belong to the lower classes anyway poor whiteblackbrownredyellow--No flag draped caskets on the evening news-- The honor of their sacrifices not digital enough, or what??

POSTSCRIPT:

Marine Corps Commandant Pace has been rumored to have told the Commander in Chief to expect the worst from the investigative report upcoming-- Should worst come to worst and the marines stand court-martial to and are found guilty of a capital offense the digital firing squad who will pull the digital trigger should, at least, be composed of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfewitz, Tenet, Bremer, Perle, Kristol, Krauthammer, Feith, Addington, Libby and the whole neocon criminal phalanx who dreamed up this non-digital disaster-- The order to FIRE has already been given by Mr. Bush-- BRING IT ON!!!!