We lost the War on Terror before our Troops left US soil.

I think it is important to take a good look behind us so we can get a clear picture of where we, as a country, need to go (and I don't mean in a hand basket). I am a person who is very fond of using analogies to get my point across, and sometimes, I think it makes it easier for some people to understand. I know in my own mind, if I can visualize something, it makes it more real. So this is how I see it…

On September 11th, 2001, Osama Bin Laden walked up to George W. Bush and slammed him in his twin towers and gave him a black eye. Maybe it was Osama, maybe it was the Zionist movement looking for empathy, and perhaps it was our own corrupt government setting the stage to line their own pockets by supporting the corporate military which is banking on the war on terror. Let's face it, those in power, those in large corporations, those in the Defense industry, those in the oil industry have made a killing (no pun intended) by massacring innocent women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq, and by allowing Israel to massacre innocent women and children in Lebanon and Palestine.

However, any way you look at it, whoever is responsible, W got a black eye.

So what does he do? Does he track down Osama Bin Laden (or any other guilty party)? Did he bring him to trial? (I mean, to me, it sounds like OJ at the trial saying he was going to track down Nicole and Ronald's murderer. How far did that go, about as far as George chasing Osama). No, what did he do? What he did was surrender to Osama Bin Laden. What? You say. Surrender? Yes, that is exactly what he did. Our government claims Osama Bin Laden struck the towers as a result of the desecration of holy soil by American soldiers in Saudi Arabia. So, did he stand up to Osama and say, your attack doesn't scare me, my troops are going nowhere!!! We are staying in Saudi Arabia and nothing you can do will change that. No, he signed an executive order to close all American military bases in Saudi Arabia. WHOAAAAAA!!!! Let me get this straight. Osama scared W so bad that not only did he not find him, kill him, punish him, or bring him to trial, he actually abided by what Osama told him he had to do. WOW.

Not only that, but who has become the prisoners of the "New America" since September 11th. The American People!!! Not Osama, nor any of his close companions, but you and me. Remember when we used to have rights? Remember when you could write a blog and have as many people read it as wanted, without having to register with the government if it is over 500 people. Remember when we used to be able to talk on a telephone without fear that the Homeland Storm Troopers would break down our front doors and fabricate some reason as to why we are threats to society. We are threats all right; we are a threat to the ability of our government to keep the masses in line without people speaking the truth. We have become prisoners in our own land, while Osama is sitting in a cushy house in Pakistan, having lunch with the ISI, laughing his ass off at what a stooge George W Bush is, chuckling all the way to the bank.

So, anyway, back to my analogy, here is little Georgie walking around the neighborhood with his black eye. So does he go to face the person who actually blackened his eye? Hell no, what does he do, he goes up and down the neighborhood and beats up everybody who is smaller than he is, picks his own little group of special friends and allows them to go around the neighborhood and beat up everybody smaller than them also and provides the muscle to make it happen.

So in my little analogy, how does beating up every little kid in the neighborhood fight back against the person who gave him a black eye? It doesn't, as a matter of fact, if you look at it like this, which is exactly what the US did, then it seems to be a symptom of someone who is suffering from a paranoid schizophrenia and displaced aggression. It is almost like W is sitting in a dark house and saying, "those terrorists, there all outside there, and they are all out to get me and if I don't kill them, then they will kill me. No one can leave the house, you can't talk to anyone on the phone, no one can come in without special permission and don't stand near a window. C'mon guys, you're either in this delusion with me or you are against me, and if you are against me, then you will get a black eye or worse. I better build a big wall." I have only one word to say, crazy.

So before one of our troops flew off to fight in a made up war on terror, we had bowed down to the demands of Osama Bin Laden, we have imprisoned our own people, we have set up "secret" torture prisons in foreign countries to feed our paranoia, and we have allowed a type of suffering to occur in this world that we have not seen since Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler. We have made the world our own personal killing field, and we have justified it under the paranoid notion that if we don't get them first, they will get us. Could you imagine living your life that way? Yet we allow our country to be run by the same paranoid schizophrenia, using the same mentality, that when applied to the average person, would constitute a stay in a rubber room with a very tight jacket on.

The sad part is, most Americans still live in the delusion that there is actually a "war on terror". There is no war on terror, we surrendered to the terrorists a long time ago, right now all we are doing, is going around the world and beating up those we can't threaten into compliance and trying to make ourselves feel better by killing more people of theirs, than they kill of ours. Is this the freedom, democracy, the light of justice shining down on those we have occupied? I think if we look at where we have been, what we have done while we were there, and what we, as a country have become, we should start going around the world and kissing people's asses and begging forgiveness for being exactly what we as Americans profess not to be.

Just think, what we could be, if we could only see what we've become. (The Sound of Reason).