It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.


Death Toll of American Soldiers in Iraq surpasses 1,000
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
 
It's a sad mark: as of today, 1,001 American soldiers have died in Iraq.


Posted by James Cook at 5:34 PM. # (permalink)



Comments:
Freedom isn't free, and only an idiot values one life over another.
 

Um, pizza isn't free either, but that doesn't mean that I can justify throwing away 1,001 human lives for the sake of some pepperoni and cheese.

The point is that the Iraq war was completely based upon lies. The reasons we were given for going to war were based upon a huge hoax that has since been exposed. The 1,001 Americans who have died in Iraq haven't died for freedom. They've died for the sake of Bush's lies.

Does that offend you? Good. It ought to.
 



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