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The BuzzFlash Mailbag The opinions expressed in the Mailbag are not necessarily those of BuzzFlash. Read the BuzzFlash FAQ for info on submitting to the Mailbag. Subject: Bumper Stickers I read the 11/30 mailbag comments about the lack of Bush/Cheney bumper stickers and I agree they are getting scarce, even in the Greater Cincinnati area. Just have to tell you about related sightings around the Cincinnati area. I have seen four different Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers in the last month and oddly enough, those stickers looked brand new ... no wear and tear ... no year. Cincinnati is a hot-bed of republicans and people like Jean Bullschmidt, so the Kerry/Edwards stickers are a pleasant sight to behold! Cathy L. Subject: More Drivel for Impressionable Bush Fans Dear BuzzFlash: After hearing a few news programs "analyze" Bush's speech at Annapolis, I didn't hear anybody come right out and say it was nothing new, just the same bullheaded, obstinate "I don't give a rat's ass what anybody else thinks" line we've been fed from Bush all along. Mr. Bush, we all have heard your claims that pulling out of Iraq would send the wrong message to the troops. What message is that, George? You never say what it is. I can't imagine that somebody telling a soldier over there that he or she is coming home from a 120 degree hell hole is "the wrong message." As for sending a message to terrorists that we're quitters if we leave, you wouldn't have to be concerned about how the US looks when it pulls out if you hadn't sent us over there for an outsourcing business-interest war in the first place. We have to pay some price for starting a war we had no business doing. Apparently 2100 dead is preferable to a little egg on the face. And every time you address "terrorists," you should be including yourself and your neo-con coward buddies in the mix. We were attacked on September 11, 2001, to be sure, but such a successful operation could not have happened without inside help. Now we hear hints of the Iraqi Army suddenly making great strides, and at least acknowledgement of a possible partial pullout. George, your poll numbers are in the sewer and your party is deserting you. Any "progress" you claim is a weak and obvious attempt to save the 2006 elections, because if enough Democrats get in, you could find your ass in a sling. No president has done more to emaciate his people at home, a la Katrina and massive domestic spending cuts so your rich bastard buddies could get more tax breaks, or alienated the world, as much as you. You're a first class criminal and you belong right next to Hussein in the court room. Scott Subject: Re JFK Assassination Dear Buzz: I was 11 years old when President Kennedy was murdered....that makes me 53 going on 54 years old. Your review of the current new book on the assassination of JFK, in my opinion, anyway, is far too quick to concur with the authors' theory of the assassination. I would simply like to request that you continue to maintain an open mind until at least all of the tapes and documents related to the assassination are declassified. I have read equally convincing theories that Richard Nixon, George Bush, Edward Lansdale, Felix Rodriguez, anti-Castro mob figures and others were at the center of the plot to kill President Kennedy, I noticed also on the annual discovery/history channel two-day commemoration of the November 22, 1963 assassination, the focus was to show how every conspiracy theory is incorrect and that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald and he alone killed the President. After all these years, this was the first time there appeared to be a party line - the lone marksman killed the President. This is hogwash for any number of reasons sufficient that I needn't enumerate. Meanwhile, thanks for always, always being there ... always, no matter how rough; no matter how hopeless. You provide more often than not the only light in this dark nightmare. Sincerely, D. Shatin Subject: From the Nation (on BuzzFlash today) Hi all,
I couldn't agree more. I am going to take the same stand. I hear a former Green Party member, Steven Greenfield, is planning to challenge Hillary for Senator. Since she's spent the past few years running for President, I just may support him - we need a senator who takes stands, not one who's constantly positioning herself for a presidential run (i.e., Republican lite). She's lost touch with America. She will never win a Democratic primary with her positions on the war. I don't know if Greenfield has a chance, but we need to start putting our money (or votes) where our mouths are. There's always a defeatist attitude when talking about 3rd party candidates. We need to break through that. It's really time to take a look at new faces. Keep on keepin' on Buzz. The work you've been doing all these years is bearing fruit. Barbara in NYC Subject: Voting Machines It behooves one to think that after 5 years, almost 6, the u.s. govt. has not yet begun to "certify" these machines. How long will it take before the people realize we can't vote anymore? That our votes are being counted "their" way? Cindy Subject: What Do You Mean, "We"? I listened to most of the president’s speech today, which had been heralded as a major speech on his plans for Iraq. However, you won’t find anything new or exciting. Just more of the same, lathered on with that squinty-eyed, over-enunciated manner Bush assumes when he is trying to be presidential and inspirational. So as a public service to save you some precious time that could be used for more important things, such as cleaning out your broom closet, here are the highlights: ***Stay the course until the mission that was declared accomplished on the deck of an aircraft carrier is REALLY accomplished. ***We have to kill terrorists in Iraq so that they don’t head over to America en masse to blow up McDonald's Golden Arches everywhere. Since they look just like innocent Iraqis, this means also killing a few tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. (But at least they will have died liberated.) *** “We” will never back down. “We” will stay in Iraq until "We win.” (By “We” Bush means “Anyone But Him” and preferably for multiple tours of duty.) ***Iraqi troops will take over peacekeeping duties as soon as they reach an appropriate level of proficiency. (Once they figure out which is the business end of a gun, we’re outta there.) ***The Iraqis now have an air force and a navy. (Hang glider and inflatable raft?) ***As the Iraqis stand up, our troops will stand down – Blah, blah, blah. ***Timetables, exit strategies send the wrong message. (Correct message: We’re staying until we have drained every last drop of oil out of your godforsaken country. Get used to it.) ***Greatest Generation – Always a crowd-pleaser with the Benny Goodman crowd. ***Sept. 11 – The fact that there was no connection between it and Saddam Hussein doesn’t diminish its continuing power to scare the crap out of mindless Republican drones and confound Democrat idiots. (Senator Lieberman, I'm looking at you!) ***We mourn the troops who have given their lives in this noble cause. We will honor them by killing off even more Iraqis, terrorists, and American soldiers. Color me unimpressed. Vicky Erickson Subject: Schwarzenegger's "Hypocrisy" I would be the first to point out Schwarzenegger's hypocrisy if I saw any in his appointment of a Democrat and a former aide to Gray Davis as his own top aide. Instead what I see is a bit of realism emerging at long last after losing whatever support he had among majority Democrats in California and making a complete fool of himself in the November election, where his "reform" initiatives lost big. This looks more like an attempt to repair relations with the people who have the votes in California. It's worth a try as long as we have to suffer him. Maybe some good can come of his governatorship after all. I would say that most politicians who court the rampaging "Christian" right are disingenuous and hypocritical. Some of course are true believers, but we well know that Arnold is a manipulator, though now we see he's a fairly ham-handed and ineffective one. So hypocrisy comes with the territory, but how bad has he really been? Nothing that Arnold has said about gays or gay rights has been as offensive as the things that Governors Reagan, Deukmejian, and Wilson (all traditional Republicans) used to say about gays and minorities. He has waffled a bit on supporting gay rights legislation, but not more so than Gray Davis, our previous governor. He did not actively support--but neither did he repudiate--the parental notification initiative (re abortion) which was on the last ballot. At this point, I'm hopeful that he's been effectively neutralized as a force for Republican revolution in California. He obviously can't deliver for the party, so whatever he does now will be primarily for his own benefit. Apparently he now thinks that cooperation with real people--Democrats--may benefit his own fortunes. Who knows? Maybe we'll all benefit. Governor taps Democratic ally as chief of staff: Shakeup after election loss (SF Chronicle) http://www.buzzflash.com/smith/05/11/smi05062.html A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Contacting My Senators and Congressmen A very odd thing I've noticed. It seems that GOP and Dems that want to be GOP are much harder or impossible to reach via "E" mail. I wonder why that is. Gee, could it be the people might have something to say they don't want to hear? A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: We Ain’t Stupid, Mr. President How insulting is this administration’s continued insistence that there is nothing wrong in Iraq, it’s just that they haven’t explained it very well? Evidently the people are so dumb that they just don’t understand these things. Sit us down and pour a little more of that magic, marketing technique into our pointy little heads and we will all learn to love this war. Print out some fancy literature, hang big colorful banners, and get a captive audience of cadets at Annapolis. This marketing technique has worked so well in the past that it is sure to reawaken support. Remember “Mission Accomplished”? The problem with all this, Mr. President, is that the mission still isn’t accomplished and no one seems to have any idea when it will be accomplished. That could be a little bit of a marketing problem out here in tee vee land. We like our stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. Seen the beginning, passed the middle, where the hell is the end? Much of the support for this war came from muddle-headed citizens who thought that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Only a few fringe loonies still think that is true, and most of them are patiently sitting in their Barcaloungers waiting for the “Rapture.” This base has always supported Mr. Bush’s war. Americans want to believe that a good man sits in the White House. They want to believe their president. Problem is, there were many who didn’t believe in the war from the beginning. Then there were those who were so enraged about 9/11 that they just want to go bomb somebody. Then there were the moderates who just couldn’t seem to believe that a President would take his people to war unnecessarily. Now all the doubts are up and running, and we are left with a people who are increasingly against this war. Americans are fighting and dying. Every day another family is devastated by the death of someone they love. Maybe there are enough credulous fools to buy this new technique. New technique? What a sad, sad thing to die for.
Marjorie L. Swanson Subject: The GOP Culture of Corruption I remember it well. It all started in 1989 with the meeting of the RLC, and Lee Atwater (we did not realize at the time that he had a brain tumor) told the others.....he knew as he said, that the 'old man' was going to blow it! Speaking of George H. W. Bush....and Atwater was not concerned about anyone.....except that young upstart governor of Arkansas....so, they decided that they would find anything they could on him....and use it! The only thing they could find was that Clinton was considered "attractive to females and something was bound to have come from that knowledge"! So, that is what they used.....they filtered it into everything they could...perpetuated the 'woman' thing....the 'Bimbo Eruption".....and it did not work, but it got so out of hand.....it just grew like a cancer...until that is all you ever heard. It got to the point...that they created "REAL" non criminal activities.....to make them in the mind of the ignorant and the right wing....to be something they were not. If you ever listen to Limbaugh.....he still says that the Clintons did all manner of illegal things, even thought Kenneth Starr found nothing ... nothing ... nothing ... but a lie about a dalliance with an intern! And, Limbaugh ... still perpetuates the lies ... and will forever...but, it matters not anymore, he says Hillary did some kind of a stock deal that was illegal....Starr found nothing there...the land deal was crooked...Starr found nothing (and believe me, Starr tried). Most people now know what a real lie is....and how much worse it is to lie and get many innocents killed, including women and children of Iraq! And, the rightwingnuts who believed all the lies....now, act uncomfortable...and will not even discuss the errors of Bush! I have many relatives like that....it is humorous. We see, President Clinton, enjoying a very high approval rating....and, he gets paid very well for speeches.....he does not have to go in front of captive audiences....He uses most of his time now....doing the work of the very unselfish person that he is! He makes trips to check on the Tsunami.......to Africa for the hungry and dying....he spends most of his time doing the work of a leader...and one friend told me, that if a democrat gets in office the next time.....William Jefferson Clinton will be the head of the UN...we'll see. No, it took a good 10 years to slime the best president we ever had, but, it took 5 years of the worst president we have ever had.....to undo Lee Atwater's work! I have followed it closely! Too bad he cannot run for president again! Shirley...........St. Louis Subject: The Next War Everyone is wondering if Bush will invade Syria or Iran soon and start another war. Of course he will. He didn't serve in Viet Nam ... He's not serving in Iraq (nor any relatives) ...Another war no Bush serves in will be his "Trifecta!" Mike Curtis Subject: Box cutters Were Banned Before 9/11, and Feingold No Savior I'm writing in response to your introduction to the article that documents the Bush election stealers easing of the airplane carry-on rules to point out that contrary to your intro, the box cutters used by the 9/11 hijackers had been banned before 9/11 and were not legal then as your intro had wrongly claimed. Now these known terrorist-used weapons will be legal on airplanes. In addition, I'm also responding to your touting of Senator Russ Feingold to remind you that Feingold was one of the hapless Congressional democrats who hid in his ivory Washington tower while Bush stole the 2000 election and ended democracy in America. Feingold also voted for Miami mob rioter and don't count the votes/ 2000 Bush election stealer John Roberts to be on the U.S. Supreme Court. Feingold's failure to defend our country from an attack from within, which is what Bush's theft of the 2000 election was, and then putting one of the Bush election stealers on the U.S. Supreme Court, is no record that any real progressive should support. Our country wouldn't be in the disaster it's in now had Feingold and his pathetic colleagues insisted that all of the uncounted votes in Florida in 2000 be counted, as Florida law required. A BuzzFlash Reader [BuzzFlash Note: CBS reported that box cutters had been banned by the airlines, but not by the FAA: Box cutters Weren't Allowed Pre-9/11.] Subject: Bush Gives Plan for Iraq Victory and Withdrawal To the [NY Times] Editor: In his "new plan" for Iraq, President Bush rejected "... artificial timetables set by politicians" for our eventual withdrawal. The clear implication is that war critics like Rep. John Murtha are politicians, but that he himself is not one. On the same front page of the Times we find the headline, "U.S. Is Said To Pay To Plant Articles in Iraq Papers." Did Rep. Murtha plant these stories? Who are the real politicians in Washington? Robert Lockwood Mills Subject: U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers Note: As far as half the brainwashed American public and corporate sponsors/shills are concerned, at least the Administration doesn't have to waste tax dollars to pay FOX and MSNBC to shift the political dialectic into the madness and deceit that currently afflicts our pathologic culture. All they have to do to achieve the same betrayal of the 1st Amendment is to persistently twist the arms of the FCC, infiltrate the CPB or otherwise freely lobby under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, among others, without even registering. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Lynne Cheney on NPR Lynne Cheney was on NPR's Diane Rehm show yesterday. A Vietnam vet called in with a question about Dick Cheney's five deferments during the Vietnam War and also asked whether any members of the Cheney family were currently serving in the military. She answered with high praise for the service of the caller and also those currently serving in Iraq but didn't comment on Dick's service (or lack thereof) nor did she respond about any current family military service. She did not answer the caller's question. Too bad she wasn't pinned down on this. http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/05/11/30.php A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Guns in the workplace Rep. Calvey, I just heard on NPR of your paranoid desires to turn Oklahoma's workplaces and streets into the OK Corral. And what recourse does the remainder of the Oklahoma workforce and citizens have? Say you claim to have felt threatened in a McDonald's, Toys R Us or First Southern Del City and start shooting and hit some innocent people. You go to court, how can the state prove you didn't feel threatened? You can't possibly feel threatened because the rest of us didn't? Not a chance because feeling threatened is rooted in your own paranoid view of reality, so the innocent victims are just collateral damage as a result of your God implanted paranoia. How is it that Christians, who claim God will always take care of them, except when your time is up, think they need to second guess God's will that your time is in fact up? God could have protected you, but decided you aren't worth protecting? I can't imagine a more cynical approach to Christianity than the idea that God can't protect you, if you have enough faith. The idea that God can't protect you unless you are armed and allowed to shoot any time your paranoia takes over is way over the edge, unless you own stock in a hand-gun factory. Oh Ye of little, bitty, teeny, tiny faith, Rep. Calvey. In order for you to feel safe, the rest of us have to be put in the line of fire. Just last week I asked a customer for his ID and he showed me his concealed gun permit. Did he feel threatened by me and felt I needed to know he might have a gun or did he want me to know that I had better get his bill correct? Rep. Wesselhoft, since you feel threatened enough to ban certain types of dogs, I would think having fellow legislators armed would be really scary, especially since Kevin is so paranoid. Karen Webb Subject: I'm a Huge Jon Stewart Fan I start my nights off with Keith Olbermann and end it with Jon. One thing that annoys me about Jon is the fact that he doesn't call Republican extremists on their BS, when he has them on the show. Rick Santorum is without a doubt one of the biggest Republican extremists, yet, when he made an appearance on The Daily Show, Jon allowed Rick to avoid answering questions about his hatred of gays. He did the same thing when Trent Lott was on, he allowed Lott to basically say that his racist comments were just a way to make an old man (Strom Thurmond) feel better. McCain has also visited The Daily Show many times, and Jon never asked him really tough questions about his support for a man like Bush. I mean after all, Bush showed his true character when he allowed Rove to go after McCain's family in South Carolina. . . Yet, McCain still stands behind Bush. Who can forget Colin Powell's appearance on The Daily Show, in which he still told us that invading Iraq was necessary? Forgive me for not being in the mood to laugh it up with people who are responsible for the deaths of over 2000 Americans, and who knows how many Iraqis. It seems that Jon is tougher on Democrats than he is on Republican extremists. Nancy Pelosi was practically badgered last night by Jon, when he questioned her about the Democrats' stance on the war. I wish he would apply the same interview techniques to her Republican counterparts. I know The Daily Show is not necessarily a news show, but fair is fair. . . And Jon seems to be going out of his way to prove that he's not going to give Democrats an easy pass when they appear on his show. Kimberly D. Subject: BuzzFlash Support of Homeland "Security" When I read criticism like of allowing sharp items onto aircraft, I realize how far away I am from most Democrats even if I am very very liberal. Democrats and Republicans promulgate unneeded fears. Most airport security is a waste of money and time and makes the country less free -- freedom of travel is a real right! http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69712,00.html?tw=rss.POL On most issues I love BuzzFlash, though, and will contribute when my job hunt succeeds. If we allow airport security, it inexorably moves to further limitations of our freedoms: http://www.papersplease.org/davis/ ... which recounts demands for id on a Denver bus and one woman's courageous resistance. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: The Rapture Could Cometh Fear. Here is a reason. Russia has One Silo containing 200 ICBM seven stories underground. Each ICBM has multiple nuclear warheads each with many times the power of Hiroshima bomb. One hour to load. Thirty minutes for Launch and no USA. ZAP. ONE SILO of many. America can be totally destroyed in 90 minutes. Secretary of Defense William Perry visited it and came away scared and in awe. This is a true Threat. Clarence Swinney Subject: Is the Truth Finally Coming Out? Greetings again BuzzFlash and Buzzers, I felt compelled to respond to a letter from one of your readers who had just seen the documentary "Hijacking Catastrophe" and she was wondering who else in America had seen it. I wanted her and others to know that out here in Southern California, I was visiting my best friend in Riverside, California who has cable tv. I was going through the channels and happened upon Link TV which was featuring Democracy Now which I watched to the end. I believe it was "Hijacking Catastrophe" that came on immediately afterwards and I could not control the waves of rage that washed over me when I saw pictures of young Iraqi children screaming in terrified, bewildered, agony with missing arms, hands, and legs. I saw pieces of interviews with heavy hitters Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, Chalmers Johnson, Noam Chomsky, and others. I too was wondering who else might be watching and was sincerely hoping it was as MANY AS POSSIBLE. All I could think of while watching those children was "HOW DARE WE AS A COUNTRY EVEN BE THERE." My next immediate thought was of Bush's arrogance and stubborn refusal to pull our troops out of Iraq. God help us, God forgive us. Dominie K. Robinson Subject: Iraq 'Stories' In featuring prominently on your page a New York Times account of planted stories in Iraqi publications, perhaps you overlooked the fact that it was the Los Angeles Times which broke this story yesterday; it was the lead story on the front page: Wednesday November 30, 2005:
A BuzzFlash Reader [BuzzFlash Note: Good point. We also had posted the LA headline this morning, as follows: U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press; Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice. (The LAT article that broke the story) 12/1. By the way, Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute highlights that article today.] Subject: Media helping Corporate America (continued)
Yes, I am. End of story.
Hopefully, never. This is bull**it propaganda directed toward all the lawyer-haters, sponsored by Newsweek. I don’t care how many people lose their jobs if they work for a criminally liable corporation that gets caught. Too damn bad. Even if it’s me. Too bad. The real message is, and should continue to be, that if you are going to conceal facts so that you can release a product you know will kill people, you will pay and pay dearly. That is the concept of “punitive.”
The next drug company will think twice or three times about burying documents so they can get their “wonder drug” approved. That is how the system is SUPPOSED to work. Companies that employ thousands and pay them with money they NEVER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IN THE FIRST PLACE ... should not be able to use that as an excuse to stay in business. Period.
Yes, it is ... specifically because the jury already KNOWS that the final amount will be about 10% of whatever they hand down because of the appellate process. John L. Johnson Subject: Our Commander-in-Chief He actually thinks he's for real. Doesn't he know he's just a puppet whose strings are in the hands of the powers that be? If he doesn't know he's nothing but a puppet, someone should inform him of this fact before he goes on trial at the International Court of Criminal Justice for his crimes against humanity. Otherwise, out goes his only alibi - "I'm just a puppet on a string." A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy In your review of the above book, you say that Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann "reveal for the first time that Robert Kennedy was spearheading plans for a December 1963 coup in Cuba, code named 'AMWORLD'". Then can you explain why Robert's brother, John, was planning a rapprochement with Fidel Castro at the same time as Robert's supposed "coup"? A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the White House, I decided I would have just one little peek; I just kept passing through and looking about. I casually walked passed room after room There were pictures of great men hanging on walls. And as I walked away, I prayed for our land. I hope that my story inspires a few Call on reporters from papers and tv. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: This Is Just a Memory I Had When I was in the 9th Grade, I hated my Algebra class and I hated the teacher more than the subject. I ditched classes (when I could) and I skipped homework. I started taking my old homework sheets and erasing the titles and putting the new chapter titles at the top. I'd erase and change the date, and VOILA! In my 9th grade mind, I had gotten away with the perfect crime. Well, when the report cards came 'round, imagine my surprise when that big fat F sat there like a lump. I panicked. I thought of all kinds of excuses I could tell my McDonnell Douglas Engineer (math brain) dad. Nothing worked. I had to come clean and admit my treachery. It was too late. I flunked algebra that year and had to repeat it. (Thankfully, I aced it.) The reason for this story? Bush's latest "plan for victory" speech has the same familiar feel of not only all his old speeches, but of my 'recycled' homeworks in algebra. Change a few things here and there, and VOILA! A new plan. Well, the American public, like my Algebra teacher, have caught on to the B.S. of our treacherous president. The F is now a 37% approval rating, and the president doesn't have the wits of a 9th grader to come clean and start over. God help us all ... with more than just algebra. Tom Hensley Subject: 9/11 and Iraq Today With all the unanswered questions regarding 9/11 and the shoddy investigation that took place, which left more unanswered questions ... I can't help but to wonder if Iraq was purposefully allowed to turn into a quagmire to keep "we people" distracted and the remaining unanswered questions OUT of the HEADLINES. Remember, while Americans WERE Asking questions about 9/11, bush was ignoring them, fighting them, and planning to go to war WITHOUT a PLAN, or was this the plan ... to create a quagmire in Iraq on the way to "victory" to keep our focus on Iraq and NOT 9/11? Because I just CANNOT believe that anyone could be this incompetent in planning and running a war. For IF Able Danger is true, no wonder people like Hillary want to stay in Iraq and "finish the job," because if people are asking what Bill Clinton knew, Hillary can't very well go out and campaign for the presidency ... so are bush and Rummy COVERING and running Defense for Clinton by not letting the military testify about Able Danger? Monica Schrack Subject: Page One of the NY Times: OpTruth Veterans Abbie Pickett and Ben Flanders Hi BuzzFlash, I got an e-mail from Paul Reickhoff, fonder of www.OpTruth.Org and a Soldier of The Iraq War. It is about the problems facing troops with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I can remember the soldiers that fought in Vietnam all too well and how any with PTSD were ignored by LBJ (another Texan). My cousin was one of them. You could NOT approach him from behind, because he thought you were the enemy sneaking up on him. Finally looks like some newspapers are catching on to the problems that face some troops. The Struggle to Gauge a War's Psychological Cost (NY Times) Tom Wieliczka Subject: Credibility Credibility is the Bush Administration’s biggest problem. Overall, its lack covers many vital issues, but it is lacking most of all, from beginning to end, in issues about the lead up, the preparation, the deception, and the mishandling of the Iraq war, post “Shock and Awe” bombing! From the start, George and the NeoCons have used tricks, lies, pressure and treachery to make up for, or cover-up, their lack of skill. Bush speech at Annapolis is a departure from reality; pushes old rhetoric dressed up in new clothes of red, white and blue, does not present solutions, but repeats rhetoric from the past and does not talk about the always absent ACCOUNTABILITY. Back in September:
HOW DO IRAQIS FEEL?? Iraqis speak out and tell us! Facts show 80% want us out and 45% think it's okay for insurgents to kill Americans. Many feel things are as bad or worse than under Saddam! Then along came the plan from the well-respected Congressman John Murtha. “The war in Iraq is not going as advertised!” and all hell broke loose! Republicans bit back and used their old Rovian well-used trick of character assassination. After seeing the majority of Americans agreed with Murtha, they reversed the old saying, “Some lick before they bite!” and are backing down with licks. Murtha maintains, along with Casey and Abizaid, that our large occupancy feeds the insurgency. Murtha’s sensible approach {unlike Bush’s fairy-tale} is more realistic. Republicans misrepresented his position with a stunt vote on the floor:
Mike Whitney’s “Counterpunch” article sums Murtha up nicely:
In Iraq, we have an ongoing destruction of the Sunni party for resisting the U.S.-backed plans being perpetrated by government hard-line Shiite death squads calling themselves a valid militia. We have paid propaganda by the Pentagon, a la Armstrong Williams. As we draw down, will it be replaced by more destruction and loss of life???
And this:
JUST WHAT WE NEED TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF IRAQIS! John Murtha was on Chris Matthews' “HARDBALL” last night with the Murtha Response to Bush’s speech. The transcript is informative and well worth reading completely!
Maybe the biggest lesson George W. Bush and his deceptive cronies should be aware of is we are on to them, and “Honesty is better kept then recovered!” Susan Carr
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