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June 25, 2005
WB: The Masque of the Green Death
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I can hardly find time to just read Bilmon’s output, not to mention the entertaining and informative comments to his posts!
Beyond a doubt, Bilmon must have access to a time machine of some sort!
How else to explain such a production of well-written cogent comment and observation on the foibles of 21st century humanity?
Ah! — maybe that’s it! — he is a wise and friendly alien from the Third Galaxy — completely different from the reptile shape-changers, who, escaped from the prison planet Perdita and, having absorbed their hosts, have ensconced themselves as the leadership of at least two leading nations…
Posted by: BarfHead | Jun 25 2005 10:48 utc | 1
it’s based on real tinfoil hat stuff. The Shrubs and the Royals are full of alien lizard DNA, dontcha know? Icke stuff.
Posted by: gmac | Jun 25 2005 13:05 utc | 2
Poes “Mask of the Red Death” has always been one of my favorite stories. Poe really had a twisted way about him. May have been from all of the juice he so faithfully drank during his life.
I am really at a point to where I see no ryme or reason for what the US is engaged in in Iraq or in the general war on terror. The Bushies are just flailing away and what comes out of the flailler, well we’ll deal with it then.
The wingnuts call what Bushies is doing leadership, I call it rutterless.
Posted by: jdp | Jun 25 2005 13:21 utc | 3
Maybe it should be called ‘The Mosque of the Green Death’.
It harbors foreign fighters, no Infidels may enter, and all true believers inside must pray five times a day to the West.
Posted by: Night Owl | Jun 25 2005 14:28 utc | 4
Brilliant juxtaposition.
The singular perspective of pathos and percpicacity that is achieved by http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ is always as moving as it is informative. I referenced (and excerpted) this most recent post in an essay entitled “Reclaiming 9/11” on Erratum http://n2row-p.typepad.com/
Literature is the richest source of the truth.
“Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: ‘Go over,’ he does not mean that we should cross over to some actual place, which we could do anyhow if the labor were worth it; he means some fabulous yonder, something unknown to us, something too that he cannot designate more precisely, and therefore cannot help us here in the very least. All these parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is incomprehensible, and we know that already. But the cares we have to struggle with every day: that is a different matter. ”
– Franz Kafka
Posted by: stefan michael | Jun 25 2005 14:43 utc | 5
‘US killed more men than Saddam’
“With two wars and 13 years of criminal sanctions, the United States have been responsible for more deaths in Iraq than Saddam Hussein,” Larry Everest, a journalist, told hundreds of anti-war activists gathered in Istanbul.
Founded in 2003, the WTI is modelled on the 1960s Russell Tribunal, created by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell to denounce the war in Vietnam.
Posted by: Fran | Jun 25 2005 14:56 utc | 6
Disagree with me but Iraq was the flypaper to get all the terraists into Iraq for the Al-Alamo.
Why does Condi etc complain to Syria?
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jun 25 2005 18:32 utc | 7
but Billmon missied quoting the most telling comment in Riverbend’s latest missive
“The Americans won’t be out in less than ten years.” Is how the argument often begins with the friend who has entered the Green Republic. “How can you say that?” Is usually my answer- and I begin to throw around numbers- 2007, 2008 maximum… Could they possibly want to be here longer? Can they afford to be here longer? At this, T. shakes his head- if you could see the bases they are planning to build- if you could see what already has been built- you’d know that they are going to be here for quite a while.
Posted by: andrew in caledon | Jun 26 2005 0:00 utc | 8
A very apropos comparison, with the same likely ending…
“And Darkness and Decay and the (Green) Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 26 2005 4:00 utc | 9
Of course…they are not going anywhere any time soon and we all know this. They just hope they may not need that many solders there but we’ll see about it.
They just hoped at the beginning it should be a little bit easier. Not that they really ever cared about ” savages” and how many they’ll kill or how many cities and homes they will ruin, but they hoped that all this money they are now spending fighting insurgents will go directly in their pockets through their corporations, building their Green City(s)…and they should move farther (in ME) with their Army ” liberating” more and more countries from their wealth and their people’s lives…It’s not going as planed but hey they still have a lot of time till next election in USA…And we all know when election comes what is it Americans care about when they are voting…So they are saved…This exact gang. But things are NOT going to change even IF Democrats manage to win next election…and we all know it. It may look like it is in USA interest because Democrats may make things LOOK “softer” but for Iraqis it makes no difference. Americans are there to stay to the last drop of oil and until every corner in Iraq has its McDonalds and Wallmart.
Poor Iraqis are going to die in hundreds of thousands…for them life under USA occupation is already worth nothing so be it…Iraq will be forgotten hell in few years…
I suspect with this kind of USA foreign policy USA wars are going to be fought somewhere else in next few decades…
Posted by: vbo | Jun 26 2005 4:24 utc | 10
jdp….c’mon….you remember….its all about using tax money and poor youth as cannon fodder to make their friends wealthy.
the rest is smoke and mirrors.
Posted by: lenin’s ghost | Jun 26 2005 6:23 utc | 11