Prior to this it was debatable whether or not this was indeed the case. When we started bombing Iraq roughly half of America supported the idea. That number fluctuated from day to day, but the case could be made that a majority of Americans, however misinformed they were, at least extended paltry support to the bombing campaign and the soldiers involved.
Now, after four years and with 700,000 Iraqis dead due to the war, the occupation and its effects, virtually nobody supports the war. Most Americans realize they were blatantly lied to about the perceived need for the war. Alongside the support for the war, support for the President has nose dived to a record low, where it is likely to stay barring some superhuman feat on his behalf.
Nonetheless, we're about to start bombing another country, according to, amongst others, a Russian journalist with inside sources.
Once the million-dollar bombs start falling, the Americans who support neither the war on terror nor the president can recognize one thing. You don't matter. Even though you are the majority, even though you've openly expressed your dislike of the nation's current trajectory in your voting last fall, in your letters to the editor, in your blogs and in chat rooms, none of that matters. Iran will be bombed anyway. And it will be bombed in your name.
Think for a minute what this means. It means that politically (politics being the distribution of resources and power) you now have no control, no hand in, your fate.
Also recognize that you are not alone.
Congress and the Senate are also irrelevant. They've penned and passed resolutions expressing their dislike for the handling of the war and have set a timetable for withdrawal of the occupying forces of Iraq. All to no avail. For what the Democrat-controlled legislature has accomplished in reeling in the illegal and fraudulant war on terror it might as well be disbanded, which is to say that, like you, it is irrelevant.
In the same basket and on the same highway is the Establishment Media, henceforth EM. The EM failed to sufficiently investigate the rigged 2000 election. It failed to sufficiently investigate 9/11 to keep us out of a “war that won’t end in our lifetime.” Similarly it failed to properly investigate the junta’s treasonous, treacherous and outright false assertions about Iraq so that we might avoid a “long, hard (and illegal) slog” there. And it failed to investigate the rigged 2004 election. Now it is failing to properly investigate the buildup to our soon-to-be illegal bombing of Iran, reported earlier this week to be slated for the end of next week.
As the fifth estate, the EM has recently proven itself to be worse than a dismal failure. In many cases it has become an echo chamber for the state and has gone from laying down on the job to doing an outright disservice to the public for which it was supposed to be a watch dog. This is to say that it, like you and your legislative government, has been either tamed or written off, meaning that it is effectively irrelevant as a political force, again politics being, instead of a horse race between an elephant and a donkey, the mostly peaceful distribution of resources and power.
Politically, there is now only one relevant force in America. It is the executive branch, which now effectively enjoys absolute authoritarian control. Of course the executive branch, meaning the President and his administration, is populated mostly by figureheads, puppets and technocrats that serve strictly illuminated elite world bankers at the Fed and elsewhere.
So when the bombs fall on Tehran, mark your calendar. A lot will be happening that day. We could be, amongst other things, killing thousands upon thousands of innocent Iranians, women and children. On that day we might exchange some nukes with Russia, China or France. We will likely also be taking a developing nation with a growing middle class and effectively driving it back to the Stone Age.
All of this will have been done, superficially at least, in your name. And herein resides the irony. Because on that day we will have also entered an era where the executive branch now rules with open absolute authoritarian control. All other checks and balances will have been effectively rendered irrelevant, including you.
Welcome to the New World Order.
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