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Lest we forget, today is the fourth anniversary of the day our President played fighter jock aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
and gave a victory speech, in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner, announcing an end to major combat operations
in Iraq.
3,000-plus and tens or hundreds of thousands of American and Iraqi deaths later, I'd say this surreally macabre anniversary
deserves a tribute befitting its stature as one of the most grandly obscene and politically revealing moments of our lifetimes.
Especially when you consider that the Bush Administration has, in fact, succeeded in its unintended mission of becoming the
most destructive and dishonest presidency in recent, and perhaps all, American history. Not to mention today also being the
occasion of a troop-pullout bill landing on his desk (thanks to the apt choreography of the Democrats) for his promised veto,
by which he will further cement his legacy of obstinate idiocy and contempt for the public will.
So I propose that we make May 1 a kind of reverse holiday: a commemoration of this pivotal little moment in history that revealed
to millions of voting Americans just how supremely they had been suckered. And I think we ought to give this perverse national
holiday a name.
Liars Day? No, not enough feeling. Casualty Day? Maybe. Denouement Day? Hmm. Bloody Tuesday? Except it won't always fall on
a Tuesday. But maybe that won't matter; each time around we could change it to "Bloody Monday" or "Bloody Thursday" or whatever
day it happens to be. Or how about Deception Day? That seems to fit.
Yeah, I'm going with Deception Day.
Let's make this holiday thing happen. I'm serious. If you have a name to suggest, or if you think Deception Day works, email
me at aliasbruce@earthlink.net and let me know. And ask others to think up their own names and get behind this holiday movement.
Yes, I know that May 1 is already May Day. But it seems to me that the irony of a president choosing a traditional workers'
holiday for his crowning moment of mass deception is itself an historic act to be remembered.
Already, there are thousands upon thousands of American and Iraqi families who will never forget it.
(Posted 5/1/07 by Bruce A. Jacobs)
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