Shirley Manson of Garbage rants about politics

in her recent journal

here's an excerpt:

"Flew back from LA yesterday and upon arriving at the airport in Madison there was an entire family standing at Arrivals with big signs to welcome a marine coming off active service in Iraq.After the marine had been greeted and kissed and cuddled and kissed and cuddled again and again the family group began to move towards the luggage carousel.The young marine (he must have been all of nineteen years old) with his father lagged behind the rest and when they were alone the father grabbed his son to his chest and without saying a word just held him there like that without saying a word.They were just standing in the middle of Dane County Airport clinging to one another as if their life depended on it and I can't begin to describe how moving a scene it was to observe.

In that one embrace was all the relief and pride,all the nights of anguish and anxiety,all the fear and dread that must overwhelm a family when one of their loved ones is stuck in a war zone and manages to make it home alive.I just couldn't help thinking about the 1100 boys and girls who didn't make it.
And then I started to think about the other thousands of soldiers who have come home with limbs blown off or their minds in tatters.And then I thought about the Bush administration trying to cut combat pay and veterans benefits and I felt like weeping.Sometimes I get so completely overwhelmed by the fact that regardless of the injustices I witness I am so utterly impotent.It makes me furious.

For example it was confirmed today......not that any of us were needing this official confirmation anyway but it was officially confirmed that there were absolutely NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ.So could someone please tell me why the US and my own country of the UK can possibly continue to morally justify their actions by invading Iraq and causing untold destruction and chaos to say nothing of causing the thousands of deaths of Iraqi men,women and children.

It just shames me.The whole debacle makes me feel so utterly ashamed.
How about all the rumours that are whizzing around about the possibility that Bush was wearing a wire during the first presidential debate?!?!?!?! Have you see the photograph? He's got some weird box shaped thing nestled between his shoulder blades.Eeeeccccchhh......this is all getting too much like The Manchurian Candidate for my tastes.And you know what........the very fact that we are all getting so suspicious.......that we are even considering the idea that the current president of the united states might have been wearing a wire is just so fucking SAD.Is this where our so called civilization is at?!?! "

god, i love this woman!

more at:
www.garbage.com

and a recent pic from two weeks ago:


she's got her old red hair back and just keeps looking better

Shirley? Are you one of us?

He is a big, big fan and would really apppreciate her comments.

On edit: OK, I sent it to Bartcop. I hope he puts some excerpts up on his site.

Wouldn't Bart love this! :D

As if there were not enough already.

Aren't we lucky to have some of the most gifted and intelligent people on our side.

Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Bonnie Raite, Bob Dyla, the list is endless.

I love my fellow dems.

You can see it at:

http://www.bartcop.com/101204shirley.htm

Unfortunately no picture to go with the entry :-(

but he always has nice pictures of her at the end of his site :-)