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Disqualify yourself from the responsibilities of a democracy, a government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system, if you can’t hold up your part of the bargain.
You “expletive deleted” people—you know who you are, either read a newspaper or exclude yourself from taking opinion polls and voting. Put a label on your shirt that takes you off the hook from discharging your greatest responsibility, your hugest right that of voting.
“Some people think I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”. Think about how quickly and totally 43 get off course. He attacked the country, Iraq, with the least ability to contribute to the bin laden led Islamic extremist attack against the US. If we had continued to elicit the cooperation of the world, in which the US received a tremendous amount of support directly after 9-11, how would this stand now? Maybe instead of losing the Iraq war, we could be working in cooperation with our former allies, including some Islamic ones. This Iraq front, an unnecessary battle, is progressing atrociously-—as Rummy mentioned in his “slog” memo, which also admitted that the US couldn’t kill enough Islamic terrorists to put a dent in the number of new ones that can be turned out.
Suppose instead of attacking a defenseless country we had tried to attack the reasons that Muslim youth are forced, out of desperation of their plight, to become terrorists. Could it have been better for the US and the world if we tried a different tactic? Say we worked together to improve the economic opportunities of these Muslim youth and tried to put an end to the extremist Islamic schools which have been brainwashing children, who possess no economic future, to become jihadists?
We’ll never know, and with the shaping of the discussion in the US by right-wing Christian extremists and PNAC “expletive deleted”, the theory will never be broached.
This unwillingness to become informed of our red state voters has been too obvious by the fact that Dubya is not being lined up for impeachment, and is still very much in the hunt to win re-election. The article, “How to Change the News on Iraq”, by E. J. Dionne Jr. on October 25th, 2003, notes that “The audience for Fox News, as the poll found, is significantly more Republican than the rest of the nation. And sure enough, Fox viewers' attitudes closely match those of Republicans, 55 percent of whom also see the media as portraying the reality in Iraq too negatively. On the other hand, CNN viewers -- and, as it happens, newspaper readers -- held views on reporting from Iraq similar to those of Americans as a whole.”
This cynical GOP manipulation of our intellectually detached US populace is sickening. Yes, a middle-class hero is something to be and it is a noble goal, but our vast red state population, just as Dubya, don’t read newspapers, or even think! Whatever Rove prepared drivel that FOX and Limbaugh et al spew, this vast segment of our unwitting populace accepts. That is dangerous, and the world deserves a better effort from these righteous, disinterested folk--bible thumpers just as Dubya their role model is. He also admitted on Brit Hume’s FOX show, just before his recent UN pitch, that he doesn’t read the papers either. He depends on his information from his yes-men and PNAC masters. Brit Hume must have slipped that question in after Rove had prepared his pupil, because Herr mini-me 43 had that deer caught in the headlight look he gets whenever his tele-prompter doesn’t work.
It is hard being the lead-man. This self-proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, this GOP Fuehrer, is too much a lazy frat boy to actually develop his own ideas.
You remember Ken Adelman don’t you? He was the PNAC “expletive deleted” who had the diabolic phrase “mushroom cloud over an American city” patented. What a
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