The Only Thing that Still Makes Me Proud

About the only thing that still makes me proud to be an American is the fact that, one way or the other, the kind of "news" that the government would like to keep under wraps gets out.

I'm not proud of our unjustified and foolish invasion of Iraq. I'm not proud of the Abu Ghareb photos and Guantanamo where detainees are being held without charges or access to lawyers for going on four years now. I'm not proud that our leaders have no problem with the fact that our country, a mere five percent of the world's population, consumes 25% of the world's energy. I'm not proud of our reckless fiscal irresponsibility that is bound to come to roost. I'm not proud that we have a president who thinks "God wants me to be president".

What I AM proud of is, no matter how bad it is, the word always gets out. The latest is the alleged killings of civilians "in cold blood" by a group of Marines. How horrible! They must be punished, of course, (assuming it turns out to be true), but they also have my sympathy. When your buddies have been killed by an enemy you can't identify, I can understand how the rage can explode. And I believe, in the right circumstances, it could happen to the best of us.

Again, as I've said countless times before, THANK YOU GEORGE FOR GETTING US INTO THIS. And thank you, too, for assuring us again and again that you would "do it all again even knowing what you know now . . . "

Oh, and thank you, too, to those of you who voted for Bush in 2004, and especially the 29% who still support this leaping screaming asshole of a president!