Cindy Sheehan Simply Rocks. She Simply Rocks.

Via Michael Moore's blog, comes a kick-ass article entitled Cure the Disease by Cindy Sheehan. She's got so many good things to say. Here's just a taste:


"One of the deep seated diseases in the USA is the false sense of patriotism that we are infected with from the time we are toddlers that allows our leaders to mislead us into war after war. Between the first and second world wars, Marine Major General Smedley Butler wrote the seminal work: War is a Racket. Up until that time, he was the most highly decorated Marine in history. He wrote in the first two paragraphs of his booklet:

'War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.'

These occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing but sickly rackets with the war machine getting wealthy off of our children's flesh and blood and off of the ruination of two countries and the deaths of many, many civilians. One wa[y] to cure the disease of losing our children in war that infects the mere citizens of America while the war profiteers bank accounts are glowing with health is to quit giving the military industrial complex our children like fatted calves to be sacrificed for their own bottom lines. We must know deep in our hearts and teach our children that our military only exists to keep the world safe for our corporations and that our military should only be used, as Gen. Butler said, to defend our country."

You should go read her whole article.