by Dreams End » Wed May 24, 2006 5:44 pm
Vote Democrat...that'll fix things!<br><br>Or not.<br><br>Personally, I think that Bushco has just gone a bit out of bounds and the establishment is just getting ready to change clothes. Otherwise, the dems would have been opposing this stuff long ago. As would the media. I think it is naive to think that the media is just now "figuring out" that the Bush administration is terrible. You think they didn't really know that WMD was bullshit, for example? Just an oversight? I like to think I'm pretty smart, but I don't assume that I am somehow far superior in intelligence to the editors of the Washington Post or New York Times. And yet I knew WMD was bullshit all along. I also knew what the result of the invasion was going to be, and was only wrong about how many would die in the initial invasion (I guess I thought Saddam would actually resist.). Am I really that brilliant? Nah. Whether you want to argue overt censorship or more subtle pressures within establishment media, any fool knew Bushco was full of bull. All they had to do was listen to Helen Thomas...or even watch the Daily Show, for that matter. <br><br>Now, I go further than that, really. My feeling is that Bush and the neocons were put forward in order to do a very dirty job...completely destroy at least one country in the mideast. My thesis won't make sense if they don't actually bomb Iran, so I sure hope I'm wrong. <br><br>Iran without Iraq is too poweful, so both have to be profoundly weakened. The rhetoric about democracy, and thus the rhetoric about the neocons being ideologues who want to "force democracy" on the rest of the world is complete myth. The goal was to destroy Iraq and, probably, to divide it into three regions...which everyone who was paying attention felt pretty sure would be the end result. <br><br>I'll go along with much of the board to accept that the goal of the neocons was complete hegemony of Israel in the region. But I also happen to think there are others beyond the neocons...I'd say above...who also want this...and it has nothing to do with Zion and it has lots more to do with oil and also geopolitics (have a look at US bases in the region...can you say "Ring around the Russkies?". They use the neocons and they use the Christian right to drum up support for this insanity...<br>Also, many of the Patriot Act type stuff was actually proposed under Clinton. Again, it's a tad unsavory to be tearing the Constitution into little tiny bits, so here comes Bush to the rescue. Fascism, in many ways, is fairly efficient for the big corporations. But it breeds opposition...so why not channel that opposition against the visible bad guys and stay behind the scenes?<br><br>How grateful we'll be when some Kerry or Clinton comes along and rescues us from these evil neocons. Then there will be no more wars. No more Vietnam...er....Kosovo...er..Iraqs. Then corporations will no longer own the political process. <br><br>This sudden downturn of media spin on Bush COULD just be explained by cowardice as Bush drops in the polls...maybe. But no way are they just now waking up to the truth. They aren't stupid, whatever other shortcomings they may have. <p></p><i></i>
