A Welcome Home: Part I

as the hypocrite talking head seeking re-election in 2012 tells us all that this empire (which continues to wield its sledge hammer upon the world) this “land of the free” (who demands that all others follow in its dirty & bloody footsteps), is one which “unlike the old empires,” does not force its will upon the people of this planet “for territory or resources,” a soldier watching shoves their finger down their throat forcing themselves to vomit up the utterly visceral disgust which accompanies the knowledge that s/he has taken part in making Iraq american. the soldier is coming home to a country whose chose the spending of money on bashing Afghanistan & Iraq to be more important than providing employment, universal healthcare, affordable housing or a decent education system to its own citizens--- instead we have taken pleasure in killing those abroad so that they will be forced to be like us--- so that one day they can have skyrocketing unemployment, no health care, no affordable housing or a decent education system either (that is, if they don’t already reside in such a state as a product of our entrance & extraction of all their resources for use within our borders).