Wish I could take credit for this blog because it's pretty damn close to how I feel.....
First of all I am a (real) Republican, but I do not support Bush. Bush is a Neo-con or neo-conservative, not a Republican. Conservatives stand for less government not the giant government Bush has created which spend more than the worst liberals in history. We are trillions in debt people.
Why do people hate Bush? No they're are not all knee jerk liberals or pansy hippy types. People hate him because he is a dumb ass and an ass hole. Do read on, I challenge you to make it to the end... If you do then you can already read better than our president.
From Iraq to Enron Bush has lied about so many things and allowed so much profiteering that there is hardly a place to begin. I??m no longer blaming the greedy pork leeches in our plutocratic political bodies. I am angry at the sheep that support them. It??s the soccer moms and the Reich-wing Christian coalition with their 17th century morality and simplistic black and white view of the world, who have been the lock-steps of Bush??s army. A religion of scare tactics, blind faith, and fear mongering... a faith that trades safety from (a fictitious) evil, for absolute obedience and trust, begets a susceptibility to a political structure of the same vein. The Born Again cult is Bush??s front line of wild-eyed ??save me-if I obey?? fanatics. Revenge is what the fundamentalists want and their anger is palpable and malleable.
Corporate scandals go unpunished and disinformation about the war is ignored or rationalized. When it was clear even to the unthinking person that Iraq was not a threat to the US, that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction or a capacity to build them and no links to 911 or Al-Quaeda, when the claim about Saddam acquiring uranium from Africa was shown to be based on a forgery, the general public ignored it. The rational switched to the age old rhetoric of ??spreading democracy.?? The truth is most Americans did not care why or who we went to war with, they were desperately searching for show of force to repair their bruised egos. War has become an extension of vicarious masculinity.
When Usama bin Laden knocked out America??s two front teeth in New York City, many Americans felt for the victims and their families, however as can be seen by the egocentric reaction to the attack, many were feeling like there had been an attack on their pride. They felt small and vulnerable, the fear was so high and the sheep so convinced, that giant bomb proof cells were on the market and shaky hands were scrambling for duck-tape to survive the impending doom of the mythical weapons of mass destruction coming from an irrelevant country. (The anthrax scare lasted about a week, pharmaceuticals got a fat check and it all went away...) The egocentric spin was that Usama had ??attacked symbols of America??, that he hated American freedom and it was the jealousy of this freedom that caused the attacks.
Never mind American foreign policy, which assist Israeli terrorism despite worldwide condemnation, never mind that the twin towers and the pentagon were strategic targets, they were only financial and military centers of the USA. It??s not like September 11th 1922, was the day the British took over Palestine. It??s not like Usama mentioned the Palestinian conflict 35 times in his infamous letter to America. It??s not like he recently made a tape referring to the US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Hey America??s support of racially segregated settlements and an apartheid wall is perfectly fine because after all we are helping Israel ??defend?? itself from suicide bombings which in no way could be the result of Israelis bulldozing down thousands of homes, stealing land, and murdering thousands of people, in their religiously justified ethnic cleansing. American??s are willfully in the dark about this issue. CNN and company report every suicide bombing and only report Israeli aggression as ??killing militants?? and terrorists.?? Why because Israel is a cash cow for the military industrial complex.
What of our crimes? We simply ignore them. If three thousand civilians die in New York, it??s terrorism; if one hundred thousand civilians die in Iraq, it??s ??spreading democracy.?? The most interesting thing is that Iraq had nothing to do with 911 or Usama/Osama.
MSNBC reported during the election night results that the top issue for many voters was not the economy or the war on terror, which took second and third place. The top issue at 21% was *moral value* issues AKA prejudice towards homosexuals. Two women getting married is a moral catastrophe while killing children in a war that was fought on false pretexts is not.
Americans suffered from a battered ego. Note the delight of the big & bad, ??Shock and Awe?? campaign. ??That??s right we??ll show??em.? What of the 12,350 and counting Americans who have been wounded? What did the war in Iraq accomplish? Sure Halliburton-KBR and the rest of Bush??s cabinet??s corporate wish-list made out. Sure the concentration of ownership over oil has increased thus raising the price of oil and the wealth of the monopoly chasers. Sure the greatest threat to the Israel (the only middle eastern country that does have WMD and does kill their own people daily and has preemptively attacked all her neighbors, including an attack on the an American ship the USS Liberty) was defeated. But how again is this fighting the war on terror? Iraq has never attacked the US and no Iraqis have ever committed a terrorist attack in the US (unlike Saudi Arabia and Israel.)
There is no Jewish or Saudi conspiracy. The reasons for the war in Iraq are in plain sight. Corporate profiteering, control over vital resources, assisting Israel. and the expansion of the military Industrial complex, all have a common thread: American Imperialism. PNAC or the Project for a New American Century outlined the plan from the mid 90s. September 11th was just the ??Reichstag?? that the neoconservatives needed to divert the public anger and steer it towards their economic aims.
Both Kerry and Bush supported the Iraq War, the anti-civil liberty PATRIOT Act, the unconditional support of Israel, increased defense spending, and homophobia, although Kerry to a lesser degree on the last one which is minutia compared to war and genocide unless you??re a Midwest/Southern bible thumper. It is a sad, sad, sad, state of democracy when the president does not believe in evolution, (i take it most of you don't either) cannot complete full sentences consistently, and the challenger is a gold-digging, special interest sell out, warmonger himself. Of the two though, it was very clear that John Kerry was the sanest choice. At least he believes in science, he has a great twenty year record protecting the environment, and he was at least going to stop some of the corporate outsourcing and raise minimum wage some insignificant degree. George Bush is the worst President since Grant and possibly the worst of all time. The Democrats should have annihilated him. They fell victim to the polls of self fulfilling prophecies generated by the controlled media and chose John Kerry.
The media does not report news. The media is a business; it has become an entertainment industry. This is a different can of worms, that given the results of the Republican takeover of all branches of government, I don??t have the energy to get into.
Americans need to wake up. Our plutocratic system of choose between the millionaires style democracy has failed. Democracy is dead; it has given way to the manipulation of the lowest common denominator. Our schools are a joke, our politicians are corrupt, our media is complacent, they have become a circus of hacks and talking heads viding for celebrity status. Tucker and his bow tie, O??Reilly and his ??factor??? they are like little characters with exaggerated personalities that search for punch-lines and shock value more than reporting the news. They want a reputation for entertainment not reliability and newsworthiness.
It??s a very sad, sad, sad, state of democracy when people turn to comedy central and satirical cartoon shows to get more accurate information on current affairs than from our papers and televised news channels. This is not an exaggeration this is a growing reality.
Why do we even have intelligence agencies if the president is not going to listen to them? The CIA knew we had no evidence of Weapons of Mass destruction, they told Bush point blank, not to include the uranium myth in his State of the Union Address, but he did it anyway. Bush just gets rid of dissenting voices. CIA agent Valerie Plame was ousted when Joe Wilson spoke out against the war, Scott Ritter, General Anthony Zinni, General Eric Shinseki, and Lawrence Lindsey, Richard Clarke, the list goes on, and any dissenting voice is silenced. How can we have a healthy democracy when voices of reason are punished, or any disagreement with the war party auto-labeled as unpatriotic?
We cannot let religious fanatics and Reich-wing propaganda and scare tactics rules OUR country. Our process has failed. It is time to take to the streets. I don??t mean in violence;I mean in numbers. George Bush is Not my president. I do not accept his leadership of deception. I will not follow his plans for Iran, Syria and Lebanon. We are not a nation of idiots. We have the brightest, most intelligent and creative minds in the world. We still have some of our rights left from our Founding Fathers. It is time to exercise the first amendment.
