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The establishment went off of the deep end a long time ago. The real insanity about this whole thing is what is implied but not spoken of when the talking head sycophants fawn over the establishment's agenda. No matter what they say, all I hear is, "nothing is off of the table", over and over again. That means plans are being made (or have been made) to nuke Iran. The "decider" (Cheney) and the nazicons have made their decision. The US will be the most hated regime in the world and once that happens the state will probably go postal at the response and it's bye bye Habeas Corpus, bye bye Constitution, and hello Police State 08'. Welcome to Enemy Combatant land, American Citizen Dissidents!
A glass parking lot is a better analogy than a "blowing them to smitherings", because if you decipher the Newspeak it seems pretty clear that Iran will be attacked with nuclear weapons like the Tactical Nuclear Warhead on the way to Complex 2030. It will probably "unintentionally" kill millions. How does that not make the administration hypocritical and genocidal? Blowback indeed.
Warmongering op-eds are just towing the line. With H Con Res 21 we are one step closer to the abyss, with both sides of the marching lockstep towards future ghosts. It was good to see Kucinich and Paul, two men on opposite sides of the spectrum, come together and show some integrity in voting against it. Too bad they were the only two (411 to 2) to vote against the mistranslated propaganda being used to push us closer to war.
Bush isn't running again and neither is Cheney. The neocons have nothing to lose. And what is stopping Hillary or any of the other entrenched establishment candidates from pulling a Bush II, campaigning on lies then getting back to business as usual, aka "national interests", when elected? Debate in the mainstream falls in a narrow spectrum where dissent that deviates too far from a perverted, warmongering, neoliberal, corporatist "center", as opposed to the people, is not tolerated. Even candidates who are supposed to be "against the current administration (aka. "status quo")" still fall in line with the overall neoliberal agenda of the global elites.
I bet the entrenched have the cleanest rears in the world after the public butt kissing known as H Con Res 21. With H Con Res 21 Congress told the warmongers, "keep on telling us lies, cuz we're still buyin' em! Hell, we can even find a way blame you later for it and advance our political careers!" What a win/win for the corrupt. I'm sure AIPAC, Pelosi, and Cheney all approved, how "bipartisan". What a joke human life is to all of these people, at least human life they can disconnect from American eyes. The ones in power, the ones who wish they had power, and the cretin that worship and profit from their lies.
Hopefully the generals will pull the rug out from under this atrocity, collapsing the perception of the preventive, aggressive, unstoppable military power, as well as the fear and intimidation surrounding it, that US foreign Policy has built up. They can collapse it like a house of cards.
If you think that Hillary "police state" Clinton has any interest in restoring the public, you've got a rude awakening coming. Like she is really going to repeal the expanded powers that Bush has granted the executive branch. I find that hard to believe. I find it more believable that she will use those powers to advance her own agenda, increase her own power and control, and further tow the line, like 90% of the candidates running. They are all nothing but entrenched establishment lapdogs competing for the ceremonial title of "pirate ship captain" in order to keep looting and pillaging the other 99% of the population through Communitarianism and "globalization". She is a real "lefty" after all, just wait for her to expand the powers of the state even more, strengthen Big Brother, and embrace the new powers of the executive like a REAL state expanding authoritarian (which Bush is in all but a superficial party affiliation).
All the Democrats who pay a sliver of attention should already known that they will be getting duped on the "war on terror" and everything else is Clinton is elected. Pelosi's example of selling out her own party and caving to AIPAC hawks on Iran after the midterms is a good example. The spending bill is yet another. Maybe Pelosi could have retained a sliver of dignity and did what she was promoted to do? I guess standing up to Zionist/Rankist/Racist Israeli Foreign Policy is asking too much of an American politician in the early 21st century.
Then all the people who voted for Hilldawg will sit there dumbfounded, confused, betrayed, and angry after this woman that they elected turns out to be nothing like the rhetoric she campaigned with.
Sound familiar? The same way the right was duped into a communitarian agenda after voting for "no nation building, compassionate conservatism" Fearless Leader King Bush II, so it is the "liberals" turn to feel the thrill of "victory" by voting in a "Dem" to crush the "right". Too bad their savior and all the other people at the top have the exact same long term agenda as Fearless Leader. They don't get that high on the establishment ladder because they are fundamentally different, folks, but I guess only republicans in Iowa who are too uneducated to read and fall off of their tractors drunk by pouring whiskey through their cleft lip get duped by the establishment.
I guess they are right that those who don't learn from history are bound to repeat it, but I always thought "history" was longer than eight years. Get ready to vote for another candidate that runs on one message then takes off the mask and ignores the people for the corporations once elected. Wow, deja vu!
She is so fake that everything she touches turns to pyrite.