Chucklepuss played the Tin Man yesterday, as he presented the Medal of Honor to, Sally and George Monsoor, the parents of slain Navy SEAL Michael A. Monsoor, who threw himself on a grenade to save his comrades. Chucklepuss stood there and his lips slightly quivered like a person with actual feelings. I had my doubts for a moment, but then I noticed actual tears streaming down his cheeks for this brave soldier, as the over 4000 before him, who have given their lives in the Iraqi War. My only question is, “what f***ing took you so long?”
Chucklepuss, it took you seven years to cry for a death in this war of yours. That’s over twenty-five hundred days and dead American soldier number, 4020 to make you finally shed a tear and show some kind of emotion for a loss or tragedy under your watch. Tell me, Chuckles. The countless Iraqi civilians that have been killed during your oil war—I mean War on Terrorism— that doesn’t make you cry? The genocide in Darfur that you seem to ignore like it will just go away-- that doesn’t make you cry? The heartless murders and rapes that take place there like mail delivery -- that doesn’t make you cry? The number of lives that were probably lost during Hurricane Katrina because you waited three days to act and then turned down assistance from Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro because of politics -- that doesn’t make you cry? The out of control, spiraling American economy because of your insistent borrowing money from around the globe -- that doesn’t make you cry? Thousands of Americans are losing their homes because of a number of your friends and their predatory loans -- that doesn’t make you cry? The fifty percent public high school drop out rate, which your so-called, No Child Left Behind program, has no doubt contributed to on a daily basis – that doesn’t make you cry?
I mean what is it about Michael Monsoor’s death, which is by no means less than any other death, that made you finally shed a tear Chucklepuss? Because I am, to say the least, confused. Are you tear ducts sealed shut? Do your tear ducts not exist? Is there some kind of special presidential salve made especially for the President, so he won’t cry in potentially emotional situations? Is it some kind of CIA secret your dad taught you on a family vacation. Just help me understand, Chucklepuss, how it took you seven years to shed tears and this country has been shedding them for those same seven years. What is it that over 300 million people have been feeling that you haven’t until today, the 5th year anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” (remember that Chuckle, I thought you did)?
Now follow me! Follow me to freedom!
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