IT’S THE OCCUPATION STUPID
by Malik Isasis


The influential and ground-breaking psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung once said, “If you have an assimilating match with a tiger, you know who will assimilate whom.” This analogy is fitting for US policy because Democratic and Republican politicians feel that if they just kill more Iraqis, things will turn around politically for the Occupation. There is no military solution for the Occupation, only a political one. Unfortunately, our politicians lack imagination, instead they form bi-partisan study groups so that they bide themselves time for the media to come up with another distraction.

ABC News reported that Harry Reid, Democrat and Senate Majority Leader recently stated, "If the commanders on the ground said this is just for a short period of time, we'll go along with that." The Democratic Party will take power after the New Year and the leadership is already starting to parrot Bush’s wanting to send in thousands of more troops. Even with power, the Democratic Party is acting like an abused spouse, going out of their way to curry favor, in the name of bipartisanship. Bipartisanship is not the absence of courage.

The political leadership and the media are so dysfunctional, that they haven’t a clue nor the courage to rise up against the Occupation and a President whose only goal is to try and shine this turd of an Occupation; but no matter how much you shine a turd, it’s still shit.

The American people have awoken from their slumber on this Occupation, but the politicians continue to justify, the unjustifiable: more death, more destruction by suggesting that an increase in other people’s children will salvage the Iraq Occupation.

If you were to open the fridge and take a drink of milk—and immediately spit it out because it has soured, would you then put it back in the fridge and return the next day and again drink from the same carton?

Right now, right here I declare the Bush Administration, the Congress and the corporate media, clinically insane. Why else would they keep doing the same thing, and expecting different results? Isn’t that what Benjamin Franklin said?

The go-along to get-along media and Democratic Party or the Stepford Wives, had let the Bush Administration propagandize a military invasion without question, is again, allowing the Bush Administration to discuss sending more troops into the meat grinder, and for what?

Pride?

In the words of Marcellus Wallace from the feature film, Pulp Fiction:

“That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.”

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