- As it turns out, Michael Moore owns Halliburton stock.
Joseph Farah's website expects us to be surprised and angered by such hypocrisy.
However, this "revelation," one of many featured in a book by
Peter Schweizer, is not surprising, nor are other insights into the disingenuous
behavior of Nancy Pelosi, Noam Chomsky, Barbra Streisand, Ralph Nader,
and other so-called liberals and Democrats.
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- Anybody with two brain cells to rub together who is capable
of reading a newspaper realizes Mikey is a hypocrite-or more accurately,
a conflicted liberal.
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- For instance:
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- Moore's popular documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, blames
the Saudis for nine eleven, the same way Islamophobic neocons blame the
Saudis for not only nine eleven but most of the Islamic terrorism in the
world. Of course, it is true the Saudi royals are to blame for creating
the Islamic Terror Network, commonly called "al-Qaeda" in the
corporate press, but only partially to blame-most of the blame falls squarely
on the shoulders of the CIA, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Jimmy Carter. In
order to understand how Carter, Brzezinski, and the CIA created and nourished
what is now called "al-Qaeda," read Afghanistan: The Making of
U.S. Policy, 1973-1990 on the Digital National Security Archive site. "Saudi
Arabia managed to stimulate some rebel unity [in Afghanistan] by withholding
aid from the various mujahidin parties until they agreed to coalesce and
form a united opposition front [or a terrorist organization].
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- The Saudi government, which deposited many of its contributions
into a CIA Swiss bank account, also gave direct support to several fundamentalist
groups." In short, the Saudis (along with Pakistani intelligence)
were partners (and bankrollers) with the CIA. Instead of providing his
viewers with this salient history lesson, Mikey blames the Saudis and perpetuates
the fairy tale Osama bin Laden, the Saudi eccentric suffering from kidney
disease and living in a cave in Afghanistan, was solely responsible for
nine eleven. Liberals, just like so-called conservatives, buy the absurd
and nonsensical official nine eleven story without question.
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- Mikey supported the mad bomber of Serbia, Wesley Clark,
for president in the lead-up to the 2004 election-or rather non-election,
thanks to dirty tricks and Diebold voting machines. Many liberals have
no problem bombing kids and grandmothers with cluster bombs and shooting
up their hospitals and schools with depleted uranium bullets if it is for
a "humanitarian" cause (or excuse). It is downright disgusting
to realize many liberals and Democrats supported Clinton's criminal attack
of the former Yugoslavia.
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- Now most oppose Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq-because
Bush is a Republican. It's not the killing and violation of national sovereignty
that bugs Democrats. It's simply the fact a Republican is in the White
House and everything he does must be opposed. Of course, there are more
than a few antiwar Democrats, and most of them voted for the warmonger
John Forbes Kerry, who said he would out-Bush Bush in killing Iraqis. In
other words, ending the "war" was less important than making
sure a Democrat won, even if he would have continued and even escalated
the criminal "war" in Iraq.
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- Democrats and liberals seem incapable of understanding
it does not matter if a Democrat or Republican is in office-there will
be invasions, mass murder, corporate thievery, neolib foreign and economic
policy, encroachments on the Constitution and liberty, and an ever-growing
police state and police state outrages (the Democrat Clinton, after all,
oversaw the incineration of babies at Waco). Moreover, as history demonstrates,
more Democrats have started wars than Republicans. Of course, since many
Republicans are now neocons (and many founding neocons are former Trotskyites),
this has become a moot point.
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- Finally, Mikey is a gun-grabber who hates the Bill of
Rights. Many liberals want to pick and choose their amendments to the Constitution
(they love the First Amendment, but not the part about freedom of religion).
Moore's documentary on Columbine did more to confuse people about the Second
Amendment than any other bit of propaganda in recent history. But fact
of the matter is the founders realized the Bill of Rights would be useless
if citizens didn't have the right to bear arms.
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- I can do without Peter Schweizer's book. Both liberals
and so-called conservatives (or the reactionary Rush Limbaugh conservatives,
for lack of a better term) are two sides of one coin-they both believe
in the necessity of centralized government and support authoritarian exercise
of government coercion and violence against citizens. If not for a number
of social issues, Democrats and Republicans would be identical-both believe
they have the right to employ state violence to make other people dance
to their tune as they steal their money and property.
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