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I chanced upon our local paper, a USA Today tendril, and was captivated by this headline: The Smell Of Death Still Fills Mosul (Subhead: Bodies of Islamic State terrorists and their victims strewn among the rubble a year after liberation fight). From the text of the article comes this line “Nearly a year after…city liberated from the Islamic State, a putrid odor still fills the air from thousands of corpses left in the rubble.” This, more than fifteen years after the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses. Fifteen years of untold catastrophic loss of human life, culture, history, and human suffering. Being in another country for fifteen years is not war, it is occupation. American children who were then three years of age are now old enough to join in the next major operation that will no doubt occur within the next year or two.

And yet in all that time no one has been held accountable for their selling of a war that has caused so much suffering and had nothing to do with the narrative of Weapons of Mass Destruction that was so arrogantly thrust down our throats by the mainstream media, think tanks, our politicians, and intelligence agencies. Nobody who was then in a position of power told the truth, and yet no one in any position of power has been taken from that position. The status quo remains the same. The only difference is that those who lied to us then were promoted while those who told us the truth have been banished from the major arteries of information dissemination. As a result, those who pushed the war have become emboldened by the fact that they suffered no consequences for their criminal behavior. They have been taught the very unfortunate lesson that they can act with impunity, and you can bet it is a lesson that has been learned. Why, even at this moment that are actively en-

Holy shit! I just saw that Russia hacked the DNC emails. WTF? It’s true, I just heard it from the Washington Post who quoted anonymous sources within intelligence agencies. I can’t believe Russia would-

OMG!!. Russia hacked the Vermont power grid. What the hell is going on?

Okay, never mind about that. Apparently, they didn’t—

BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO HACK THE FRENCH ELECTION!!!!!

Okay, I guess the French government said after the election that there was no evidence of Russian interference. Which, I guess if you think about it, means that the U.S. totally influenced the French election by claiming Russia tried to influence the French-

Hold EVERYTHING!. This is how insidious the Russian plot to subvert our free and fair election system--which has time after time provided us with the best of all possible candidates--really is. They actually used Pokemon Go to influence voting. Holy shit, there are apparently 13 Facebook trolls saying things about American politics that doesn’t jibe with what CNN is telling us, including a picture of a buff Bernie Sanders. RT is allowing people like Chris Hedges and Jesse Ventura to say things and Jimmy Dore and Caitlin Johnstone and Jill Stein and anyone to the left of Hillary are being used as useful idiots by Russia and Russian bots on Twitter are encouraging distrust of our honorable and glorious mainstream media institutions and spreading the absolute falsehood that Uncle Sam loves some of his darker-skinned nephews and nieces less than others and OMG(squared) Russia poisoned a former double agent in Britain and hacked Joy-Ann Reid's blog in order to smear her as a homophobe and…

That’s all the time I have for this blog post. I’m sorry I went off-topic, but I’m sure you understand my need to do so. Please join me tomorrow as I discuss how the United States armed the very terrorist organizations they told us were existential threats to our very way of life in order to-

Holy Shit! Assad just gassed his own people!!! Change of plans.