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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Linear Chaos
Published Letters: 161
They were sure saying some scary stuff regarding Iran last night. It was like a "who can be the biggest hawk without being a hawk" contest.
McCain freaks me out in that creepy clown kind of way. After watching McCain speak I was no longer able to let my imagination dictate how a fortune telling automaton from bizzaro world would operate, there was one right there on the stage.
And those questions you submitted were good, too good. It is pretty obvious that we can't have serious "debate" on TV, we are only allowed to play slow pitch soft ball.
Why didn't they discuss the current strategy being used in IRAQ while debating in the Reagan Library? On one hand we have a man whose legacy is highly correlated with the quote, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!", yet on the other hand our current strategy in Iraq as well as the foreign policy of our predominant "ally" in the middle east are largely based on building walls. Perhaps it would all be just a little bit too ironic? I imagine Reagan would be all about building "security walls" all over Baghdad and playing Iraq-a-mole.
Speaking of our 10,000% always right, undisputed super-best friends in the whole wide world, it was nice of Tom Tancredo to let us all know who really controls our foreign policy in the middle east with one gleaming insight. An insight that showed me how much the lobby machine influences a politician's thoughts and actions. Tancredo stumbled all over himself and looked like a deer in the headlights trying to find a way to talk around the "Israel wants bombs Iran" question. He mumbled some politcal platitudes but in the end he made sure to reassure everyone that regarding FOREIGN policy he is nothing but an AIPAC stooge and will do what he is told. Who cares about the borders if you're going to be in Iran fighting Israel's preemptive wars for them, Mr. Tancredo? Nothing but a one trick pony with a lame leg. What a joke he made himself out to be with his shiny silk tie.
Tancredo doesn't believe in evolution, I wonder if he is a fan of the Left Behind series? I wonder what his take is on the rapture?
How many more nails must be driven into the coffin of the MSM before it is finally buried? Its rancid flesh is really starting to stink.
I seriously Lawl at the democrats thinking that their candidate will end the war if elected. 90% of the candidates are nothing but closet Communitarians and they aren't going to change anything in a way that is going to matter or make a difference.
Dems ending the war in 08. Yeah right, didn't the midterm elections teach you people anything about this entrenched establishment farce we are calling "democracy"? Isn't it obvious to you yet that Washington doesn't call the shots or are you still desperately clinging to the sliver of faith that you have left in "the system" to rescue you, give you free health care from cradle to grave, police the world, and put that big entitlement net under you? More like RFID chips and papers please via RealID, paranoia, fearmongering, secret prisons and torture. It doesn't matter which communitarian candidate wins.
Keep clinging, you are grasping straws. The system is broken, and one of the reasons Paul has support from a lot of people is because he is willing to dissolve the empire and get us back to basics. Besides, Paul believes in checks and balances, doesn't buy the Unitary Executive nonsense, respects Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus, and has stated that he knows he can't dissolve the federal government overnight, but he can try to change our minds about the welfare/warfare nipple, especially the fallacy that the left and right both share in that you can properly manage and have one and not have the other (they are two sides of the same coin). Of course I can't say that about anyone else running. I imagine they will go take their throne and start consolidating their power and promoting the big lie.
The dems will get into oval office and Iraq will either be business as usual or we will retreat to our permanent bases and let the Blackwater army (which would be at about 10x the number of "The Troops" since there are no controls or caps regarding contractors) continue to loot and pillage both the Iraqi people and the US Taxpayer. The dems will wield and abuse the same power that the republicans did, and they will bow to the same special interests (e.g Pelosi and her "Hey Bush, go ahead and nuke Iran while I look the other way because a room full of Far-right Zionist Jew Hawks don't like me" favor to AIPAC). No matter who wins, Iraq will be treated as the "new Korea" with a permanent military presence while the troops are "redeployed" to chase more ghosts.
As far as the establishment is concerned regarding Iraq, we aren't going anywhere and Cheney is itching to Nuke Iran to save his Neocon 'legacy'. Thanks to the establishment, this war is just getting started. Wake up already. According to the dems we have always been nation builders, and now according to the repubs we are as well.
The good ol' United States of Communitarianism.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
