Sam Kinison screamed it first: “You live in the f&$#%*@ desert!”
Yes, Kinison that fire and brimstone born again minister that turned to comedy to see the light. Yes, Sammy might have been a gay-bashing, misogynist, angry little white balding racist, but, Hell it was the eighties and the closest thing to war on our consciences was a vague understanding of some bizarre non-communist proliferation agreements attained through the CIA and the use of a little place once called “The School of the Americas.”
But that wasn’t to be worried about. The Sam Kinisons of the world were joking and telling us to “Save Haji.” Yes, send Haji a buck a day and he and his village can eat like kings and queens for a month. But they were idiots, and of course Haji was starving! He lived in “the f&*#$%@ desert!”
U.S. Marines in Iraq are referring to Arabs as “Hajis.”
Today, Being Haji Malkovich: starving, brown and living in the desert, can get you bombed, strafed or just give you cancer and help your unborn kids have an amazing array of birth defects (thanks to the approximately 3000 tons of Depleted Uranium munitions unleashed in Iraq over 12 years).
But Haji isn’t alone, is he? Hi Marines!
We support you too with our dollars! The Sunday Herrald states “67% of Gulf War I Vets had children with severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems and fused fingers.”
Yes, even you Corporal! How’s that Purple Heart?
Me? I have RPG shrapnel in my spine and aside from the horrific scarring and being bound to this wheel chair for life - not to mention PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome and the memory of having to saw humans in half with my heavy machine gun – I’m doing just great! Hoo-Rah!
Why? Because all you hypocritical Raytheon, Halliburton, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE opportunistic stock buying “No War in Iraq” asses AND all you amicable “allow those protestors their free speech – they’re all going to Hell anyway” asses know that I’m just going to get on up out of this chair and walk on out of here.
That is when the cameras and (not justifiable by Western sources) journalists leave me and this country of Depleted Uranium and rescued refineries behind.
And thanks to the (Republican controlled) House Budget Committee’s vote to cut $25 billion in Veteran’s benefits over the next 10 years, you won’t have to lose sleep over where your hard earned tax dollars are going to – who wants it going to those who put their lives the line for America’s freedoms anyway?
On the news tonight: “… An Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran and father of two made it through the war but couldn’t overcome his new found friends: Drugs and Alcohol …”
“That star-spangled banner that waves,
O’er the land of the hypocrites,
And the home of some brave men and women who laid their asses on the line and come home to an apathetic populous …”
