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