| While Obama, Clinton, and McCain tell their | | | | and out of the CIA headquarters located in |
| flag-waving supporters about what a wonderful | | | | Langley, VA. One can only pity the uneducated |
| country we have and they all sing out "God | | | | young fools who consider Osama bin Laden the |
| Bless America", these politicians know, if | | | | creator of terrorism. Official documents from |
| the others don't, that at that very moment | | | | the U.S. government, formerly classified as |
| evil is taking place in Guantanamo Prison and | | | | Top Secret and Eyes Only for the President, |
| in a half dozen other prisons as it did in | | | | were recently declassified, thanks to the |
| Abu Ghraib. | | | | Freedom of Information Act. These documents |
| | | | indicate that between October 1960 and April |
| Let us all be grateful that this Jehovah, | | | | 1961, in Cuba alone, the CIA introduced 75 |
| like Allah, is only a paper god, because a | | | | tons of explosives in 30 secret aerial |
| god who went to the trouble to carve the Ten | | | | missions, and 45 tons of weapons and |
| Commandments in stone would make it clear to | | | | explosives in 31 Marine infiltrations. These |
| us that it was not the Ten Suggestions that | | | | materials were used to perpetrate 310 attacks |
| Moses brought down from Mount Sinai. | | | | with bombs, derail 6 trains, and set fire to |
| | | | 150 factories and 800 plantations. Between |
| The United States, with the exception of the | | | | 1959 and 2003, more than 800 terrorist |
| first twenty-five years or so of its | | | | attacks were performed, including 78 bombings |
| beginning, has never been what we have laid | | | | against civil populations and 61 airplanes |
| claim to, but it did at least bear a | | | | hijacked. These documents also linked CIA |
| resemblance to the image that was | | | | agent and Cuban exile, Luis Posada Carriles, |
| disseminated to the world. Nevertheless, the | | | | with many terrorist attacks, including the |
| desire for control and the fear of losing | | | | bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that |
| this newfound diamond in the rough began the | | | | killed 73 people. As for biological |
| slow process of undermining every decent | | | | aggressions, the African Swine Fever Virus |
| principle this country was built on. Still, | | | | was introduced, forcing the sacrifice of half |
| brave men and women with more integrity than | | | | a million pigs. During the "Reagan and Bush |
| greed did a reasonably good job of keeping | | | | Sr. administrations", the dengue hemorrhagic |
| the ungodly, self-serving sociopaths from | | | | fever was introduced, affecting about 344,203 |
| seizing total control. | | | | persons, with the record case of 11,400 who |
| | | | fell ill in a single day-July 6, 1981. |
| That all ended the moment George H. W. Bush | | | | |
| and his gang sit up shop in the Oval Office | | | | Like all other humans on earth, I cannot |
| in 1981. The old actor, Ronald Reagan, was | | | | present one ounce of proof that humankind was |
| hired to play the part of headmaster, and he | | | | ever destroyed by a flood. I suspect this |
| gave an Academy Award performance; but | | | | interesting little story about Noah and his |
| policy, especially foreign policy, was not | | | | Ark is like the Jonah and the whale yarn, |
| his to command. Those policies were drawn up | | | | meant to be used for entertainment only, not |
| in the basement of the Department of Defense | | | | fodder for a holy book. But, let there be no |
| and were implemented by the Central | | | | doubt that the right-wing idiots' jokes about |
| Intelligence Agency. | | | | global warming will wilt and crumble right |
| | | | along with their great, great grandchildren. |
| Having worked in the sewers of the Federal | | | | Be it God or man, the world as we now know it |
| government since 1958, I can tell you that | | | | will be changed forever by the campfires of |
| it's not humans, but pit vipers that crawl in | | | | fools. |