[merrylander]

"They look up, with their pale and sunken faces,
And their look is dread to see,
For they mind you of their angels in their places,
With eyes meant for Deity;---
'How long,' they say, 'how long, O cruel nation,
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart,
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart?
Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants,
And your purple shows your path;
But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!"

Although meant as a cry against child labour Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Cry of the Children speaks out against those who mindlessly, needlessly cause many a child to cry themselve to sleep because a parent did not come home alive. Those 'curses' will one day strike.

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

And y'know what...if 5 below is going to be so moronic as to bring up hypocrisy...lets go ahead and explore the hypocrisy continuum for a moment.

Because there are way, way, way more lefties who have been openly critical of Barack Obama over a whole list of disappointments than there are right-wingnuts who have ever opened their festering pieholes to bitch about the lies and deceit that led to just short of 7,000 US military casualties (and thousands of American children who will never see one of their parents again) and over a half-million dead Iraqis and Afghanis.


You're a remarkable fool 5 below.

PS - Last month was the first month in 11 fucking years that we did not have the death of a member of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. And once again...there was no goddamn reason for Obama to have diddle shitted around for so long with getting us out of either one of those putrid septic fields. When was the last time, like never, that 5 below complained about Bush/Cheney getting us into it.

One day they will stand in judgement.