- I'm all out of glib. I'm down to serious.
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- I'm sickened every time I hear some smug American say
with a cheesey aura of world wisdom, "they're all crooked," in
reference to the candidates, and "it really doesn't matter who you
vote for."
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- While there is normally some truth to these dessicated
cliches, it's different this time.
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- It matters who you vote for.
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- Bush and Cheney manifest so much that is bad, wrong,
ugly, venal, deceitful, cunning, arrogant, dangerous, heartless, and brutal
that I just don't know where to begin. It doesn't really matter, as there
is no persuading to be done here. People are beyond persuasion; most have
little power of analysis to begin with, and Fox takes care of the rest.
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- I have written columns and posted links to articles and
commentaries on this small site for the past couple of years, attempting
to point out the lie of the Iraq war; how it was planned long before 9/11,
and how 9/11 was a cynically exploited excuse to rally understandably fearful
citizens to the "cause." The cause, as put forth by the neoconservative
doctrine, the Project for a New American Century, is the U.S. military
and economic domination of the world.
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- It is now estimated that 100,000 innocent Iraqis died
because of the U.S. invasion of that country---step one in the PNAC "global
pax Americana"---an invasion not motivated to "free the Iraqi
people," but to impose U.S. military presence in the Middle East on
behalf of oil companies, Israel, and empire. There are intelligent people
who admit to and defend even this rationale, but I call it madness.
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- I certainly call the murder of up to 100,000 innocent
Iraqis madness. "Operation Enduring Freedom" indeed. These dead
are enduring permanent freedom from everything. Remember: a few thousand
died in the World Trade Center collapse (and they were from many countries,
as is often forgotten.) But rile up the "Don't Tread on Me" USA,
and it will strike back many times over, calling for perpetual war against
pretty much anyone it deems an enemy, no matter the "collateral damage."
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- Don't believe it? Read the PNAC. Still don't believe
it? I don't care. I don't want to hear from you. I don't want to see you,
think about you, know your name, or hear your ignorant prattle and pious
comic-book religious diatribe about Armageddon and all that stone-stupid
folderol. Just plug into Fox News, go to McDonald's and eat your pre-fab
processed cow sandwiches made of glorious rainforest. Go shoot your animals
with telescopic sites and feel like real men. Go drive your big truuuuuuuuucks
with the faded Old Glories flapping in the wind.
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- American glory is fast becoming very faded, indeed.
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- Those 100,000 dead people were better off under Saddam
Hussein. They were alive then. Hussein was a tawdry little Arab tribal
leader behaving much as many a tawdry Arab tribal leader has behaved for
centuries. He held together the three contentious groups that comprise
the cobbled-together nation of Iraq (and countless lesser factions) with
threat and brute force. The U.S. did lots and lots of business with him,
sold him weapons of mass destruction, looked the other way while he used
them, and tortured and killed---until he began posturing about the "mother
of all wars" and other silly stuff. Until he thought we gave him permission
to take Kuwait.
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- By 1999, the fix was in. Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz,
William Kristol, Richard Perle, Karl Rove, and the various other so-called
Neoconservatives took charge. Cheney would be actual president, Bush would
be a macho cowboy cheerleader figurehead, and the Carlyle Group/Halliburton
set would rule the roost in the dawn of the glorious Pax Americana corporatocracy.
First stop: Baghdad.
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- This is what actually happened, folks.
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- Then they set about securing power by scaring the living
hell out of this country with the most juvenile devices, like the color-coded
"terror" alerts and "war footing" and periodic John
Wayne remarks from Bush and Ashcroft. When Bush said---which he did---that
the USA is like one big ten-year-old child, he really meant it. And he
should know. Petulant overgrown spoiled rich boy that he is.
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- Cheney is the ghoulish one, though. Imagine having the
blood of 100,000 innocent people on your hands, let alone the 1100 dead
U.S. soldiers and 20,000 wounded. Only a megalomaniac idealogue can live
comfortably with such things, and that brings to mind superstars like Stalin,
Mao, and that little moustachioed fellow.
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- Cheney feels no grief over these deaths. And Bush? Well,
he has been just having himself a whale of a good ol' Texas time, swaggering
around as the rootin'-tootin' new sheriff in town---with God, who replaced
his bottle of booze, on his side.
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- It's really all too horrible and banal to write about.
I don't have the stomach or intellectual prowess for it anyhow. Good thing
people like Kevin Phillips, Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, the great Bill
Moyers, Greg Palast, Dave Lindorff, Paul Krugman, Connie Rice (not Condy)
of The Advancement Project, Robert Scheer, Arianna Huffington, Frank Rich,
and others are around to do some hard thinking.
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- But they are up against Fox and O'Reilly and Limbaugh
and other voices of doom---and more important, they are up against people
who do not even read, let alone think.
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- Which brings me back to the election.
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- This is a choice between intelligence and stupidity,
light and dark, sinking into blood and money and grabbing at some oily
vines and pulling the country back toward solid ground. This nation is
not split between left and right, liberal and conservative---it's split
between the thinking and the unthinking. It's that simple. Some aren't
capable of thinking, though they try; some don't try, and some think that
thinking is for "girlie-men."
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- Any thinking person presented with the facts and horrors
created by Cheney and Bush can only reject their policies, and passionately.
These men and their aides are, as former Calif. Representative Pete McCloskey
put it, "enemies of science." They are pillagers of the environment.
They are murderers of humanity. Most of all, they are manipulators and
liars. They have cynically, cruelly exploited the fears of people whom
they know to be less intelligent and barely informed, to further policies
that in no way benefit these people or the world. They have sneered at
the trust of the American citizenry, while pretending to honor it, and
have used it to facilitate their misdeeds. They are the shallowest and
most callous of robberbarons and warmongers.
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- Whether these man-monsters actually are demented enough
to think that their policies are "good for America" is the stuff
of parlor games. Cheney a patriot? He's a hard-line ultra-rightwinger "chicken-
hawk" who would have made Barry Goldwater uncomfortable, who lurked
in the shadows of power for decades before ascending to his hidden presidency.
He claims to revile anything that remotely suggests "big government"
(read: social programs aimed at caring for the country, and alleviating
its gravest problems--- education and health care) while hypocritically
steering a course straight for the biggest government: Big Brother. This
is a sort of "patriotism" that Mussolini understood. The Neocons
have changed Old Glory into a corporate logo. They are loyal to free market,
not freedom. They believe in freedom of suppression, not freedom of expression.
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- But. . .enough.
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- The country is split, and it almost seems genetic, doesn't
it? There are people who consider, analyze, and remain optimistic. People
who look for cooperation as the ultimate answer to all ills. And there
are those whose personalities are prone to authoritarianism and brutality.
People who seek to oppress and control as the ultimate answer to all ills.
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- One might argue that both approaches have failed, as
humanity is immersed in the same struggle that it has always been, only
in larger numbers. On the other hand, the very survival and achievement
of the human race is testament to the power of cooperation, compromise,
deference, and hope.
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- John Kerry is the thinking person's candidate.Yes, he
is creature of "the corridors of power," where he has quietly
labored for over twenty years. Have his values been co-opted along the
way? It would seem unavoidable. After all, as a wise man once said, "there
is something fundamentally wrong with a man who seeks power, by virtue
of the fact that he seeks it." But Kerry is also a man who showed
the greatest valiance as a young soldier in Vietnam, and as a soldier fighting
against a pointless war when he returned home. Some of that person must
still exist.
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- To have to point out that he has incalculably greater
life experience, strength of character, intelligence, and success in every
aspect of life than the wretched, pathetic, shriveled martinet who poses
as president now is a sad chore. And perhaps it's irrelevant, considering
what is perhaps the key observation to be made, as spoken by a friend recently:
"I think Kerry is a man who tries to do the right thing."
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- Will he do the right thing in Iraq? Is there a "right
thing" to do there? Will he be able to in any way repair the terrible
damage to this country's reputation, to the environment, the economy, education,
and yes, world peace, that Cheney and Bush have so insanely brought about?
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- There is only one way to find out, and that is to vote
for him.
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- To do otherwise is to strike a blow for the unfeeling,
the fearful, the unthinking.
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- A blow for darkness.
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- Comment
- From Peter Rogers
- m.mrclean@verizon.net
- 11-1-4
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- OK...now, I agree with what the author has to say in
the story below about the criminal Bush Adminstration ... and why 'They
must Go!'. However, I have a big problem with his endorsement of getting
behind Kerry as a viable leader of us American people. Sorry, Mr. Writer,
but a HERO Kerry is far from being.
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- Going all the way back to Kerry's contrived Vietrnam
war Patriotic efforts...NOT! Isn't this the same guy who consorted with
COMMUNIST Hanoi Jane Fonda, to try and bring disgrace on our valiant fighting
men there in the war that 'never should have been'? The same John Kerry
who - while still on the uniform of US military, went to Paris and consorted
as a TRAITOR with the North Vietnamese enemy? Not to mention the damage
and un-deserved stigma this man brought to most of the returning American
Service men who served their country well, but were branded by this traitorous
Aristocrat (Kerry) as plundering murderers??? Besides, how about America
having Theresa Kerry as your new First Lady??
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- No, I will not endorse either of these joined-at-the-hip
politicos (Bush-Kerry) SEE THE ATTACHMENT ABOVE FOR A TRUE LOOK AT THE
TWO. As a point of fact, the only other candidate with a shred of decency
and loyalty to the USA, may be Ralph Nader. A little too collective and
not enough Laizze-Faire business propensity, but for God's sake, at least
a man who wants all these god damn wars stopped and our troops withdrawn
from all over the world...forsaking the Imperialistic ideas of the real
SECRET GOVERNMENT POWERS behind the throne who call the shots for the
sake of expanding the nefarious NWO....and Talmudic Zionism.
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- Yes , a very remote chance that any independent candidate
could think of sitting in the white house... and his hands would certainly
be tied by the influence of the very same 'SHADOW' government who have
been running the show here all along. : CFR, Illuminati, Biderbergers,
Rothschilds, BAR cretins, CIA, Mossad, CI6, FBI, and lets not forget that
other nasty group with so much power to bring ruin to America. FEMA (Federal
Emergency Management Act) and on and on and on , ad nauseum....
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- Lastly, I am in fervent hopes that we at least survive
as a nation through the perilous day of the election, without some cataclysmic
mass murdering "terror" device being used against American people
in their homeplace to bring a stop to this farcical election.. and cause
Martial Law to be imposed... Then we will get to see what the so-called
Homeland Security and Patriot Acts can really do to curtail freedom in
AMERICA......
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- A little attachment above (Bush-Kerry pals) showing more
than words can express.....
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- God help us Americans.... most of us anyhow....
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- Does your vote really count?? Think about it now!!
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- Peter Rogers
- Lake Elsinore, Calif.
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