Obscene Newsweek Cover

We don’t subscribe to Newsweek. My parents do. Since they’ve had health issues over the last year their mail is forwarded to us.

I went out to get the mail and found this:

I felt that I had been sucker punched and kicked down the stairs.

I went online and found the cover story article:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/234281/page/1

Rebirth of a Nation
Something that looks an awful lot like democracy is beginning to take hold in Iraq. It may not be ‘mission accomplished’ but it’s a start.
By Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Barry and Christopher Dickey

The article essentially says that things are getting better in Iraq. But the Newsweek cover implies that if “Democracy” eventually does take root in Iraq … credit must be given to the brain damaged fake cowboy who got the ball rolling with a mouthful of lies.

Toss one and a quarter million people in a pile, 60% of them women and children, stuff three quarters of a trillion dollars in between the bodies as kindling, dowse with gasoline and set the Bonfire of Democracy ablaze as a warning beacon to every country in the world.

We will take what we want and if you get in our way we will bring to your people death, destruction, and freedom.

Someday … I might be proud to be an American. In the same way post war Germans could be proud of their country.

After the Allies bombed and burned their cities to rubble … After the war criminals had been tried, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hung … After the reparations had been paid … After the citizens of that nation publicly admitted to what they had done … Then the rebuilding could commence and eventually it was possible for Germans to be proud of their country.

But I don’t think that “Someday” will ever come to pass. It would mean that Americans would tell each other the truth. It would mean that our government and media would tell the truth.

It would mean that a Newsweek cover would show the truth.

Obscene Newsweek Cover March 4, 2010