Sorry for posting on someone else’s day, and for posting right after my own day, I hope today’s real poster feels free to post anyway, but on my way home last night I read a passage out of a book called, “The Roots of War” by Richard J. Barnet, former State Department official from the Kennedy Administration.

From 1965 to 1968 the Pentagon reported the destruction of the whole Vietcong force more than once. Even allowing for official US exaggeration, the actual number of enemy deaths was enormous. but the implications of the fact that the Vietnamese were ready to die on a vast scale rather than give up were clouded in official ignorance. No one at the top knew or considered it important that the Vienamese had been fighting foreign invaders for almost two thousand years. No one understood the depth of their nationalist feeling. The official explanation inside the Pentagon was that Vietnamese value life cheaply and are accustomed to dying in droves. The implication of this racist analysis, with its connotations of human waves, yellow hordes, and kamikazes, is that they are exceedingly dangerous people and deserve to be killed in even greater numbers.

These words were written in 1971, and obviously can still be applied to the way the US administration dehumanizes and villifies our “enemy” today…

Hey, also, they just released video for the first time that shows the plane hitting the Pentagon. This was a FOIA request, and I suppose will also quench the talk about how we still haven’t seen any evidence of a “plane” hitting the pentagon: No pictures, video, or images of any plane wreckage at all. Really, if there is I’d like to know. So this new video release should stop those conspiracy nuts…although they showed the video on the news a couple nights ago, and…I still didn’t see the plane…did you?