Oh, how I loathe the Democratic Party. How many times in reference to Iraq, torture, Plame’s name, the Military tapping our phones, etc. have I heard a Goddamn Democrat say, "Oh, boo hoo, the President’s bad policies are hurting the real war on terrorism."
There is no real war on terrorism. The whole thing is a big lie. Though this may be pretty redundant to those who purposely read and think on a regular basis, if this war was ever to be legitimate at all, it would have been a war on al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the murder and/or capture of the top few ringleaders (which was about the entire group at the time) and been done before Christmas 2001.
Instead the entire political establishment in our greatest God-blessed state supported using September 11th as a pretext to expand our domination of the Middle East and Central Asia, splitting only on the question of whether efforts should be centered in the Stans or Iraq.
And they let bin Laden escape scot-free to serve as an excuse for more war later on.
As the Great Bill Hicks explained in the direct and honest language which was his forte, "All governments are liars and murderers."
Perhaps the Democrats are worst of all as they are supposedly the opposition while leaving themselves in the position of accepting all the false premises of the administration, but lacking the guts to torture and kill enough to earn credentials as being "credible on national security."
You want security? Stop meddling in the Middle East!
You want to be safe? Buy a gun.
There is no real war on terrorism? But how will we make the world safe for democracy?
It is a war OF terrorism. It is a war ON Iraq. They are NOT neo-cons and EX-trotskyites (or trotskyists). They ARE trotskyites. The bolshevek communists left the soviet government of russia and found a home in the united states. The pay is better and the “bennies” can’t be beat.
In order to make the world safe for mob rule (democracy), allow them to continue.
In order to make the world safe for stable governments and societies, introduce them to a republican form of government with adequate checks and balances populated by men of honor governed by the rule of law and not ideologies or their rabid adherents. And, make sure the populace owns and knows how to use firearms to keep the political class honest.
Lest any leftie or liberal, whether decent or not on the issue of war, forget: The Democrat Party has been the party of war, foreign imperialism and democratically-embraced large-scale slaugher since Woodrow Wilson took over where McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft left off — upping the ante in so-called gunboat and dollar diplomacy and transforming them into tools for a global crusade — reintroducing mass conscription after the Lincolnin evil had perished from the continental United States — and fastening the corporate liberal state permanently onto the U.S. economy, creating a permanent military industrial complex, guaranteeing job security for legions of merchants of death, profoundly entrenching the banking oligopoly in most matters of foreign and domestic administration, and, with the help of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson especially, making the 20th century the era of belligerent American nationalism, worldwide centrally-planned corporate-managed political capitalism, and the unrelenting ubiquity of the insidious, gently murderous mixed economy. The Republicans have done a pretty good job taking the ball and running with it since the time of Tricky Dick, and Shrub even makes his ghost blush, I’m sure. But until the Democratic establishment apologizes for Waco, Kosovo and the continuing war on drugs, I wouldn’t trust them too much in their presented shock at Bush’s indiscretions. And anyone on the left truly horrified by the rape of the American Dream and the ravishing of the planet by the US empire should share similar skepticism of the Anybody But Bush Party.
That should read “ravaging of the planet by the US empire,” not “ravishing of the planet by the US empire.”
Darn public education!