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Don't mention Fox on this site. Their time has come and gone. Only idiots, only people who still believe Sadaam was responsible for 911, don't know they've totally been discredited. They've actually been discredited by themselves to the entire world, no less.
Salon should be a Fox free zone. Seriously, who in the world has time for antics that always arrive under the pretense of just the opposite?
Try it.
Just like this site bannned mentioning Paris because it got fed up with being dupped by her circus via an aristocrat, Salon should not pay any attention to Fox's crying wolf with a bullhorn. Nor should it grant any attention to the outlandish attacks they make on progress anytime it benefits more than just a tiny few.
As for any indication that this suggestion smacks of censorship, to that, there is only one response. Claiming ignoring Fox is censorship is to mix categories and lead to a belief that they have actually dumbed down more than we might think.
Somebody needs to put their foot down with respect to Fox.
The hope is that ignoring them will be a way of squashing them like the bugs they really are!
This article took facts central to the situation and transported them to a realm hoping a happy ending. For one, it is not the case that Bush has run of out of tricks. That's not the case because the President just doesn't care. He's in no way shape or form interested in constituitonal structure, process, realities, and/or consequences.
That's why unless he's impeached we're in for a world of hurt. Dropping the bomb he dropped last week via a speech as bizarre as possible brings into stark relief why even Rove isn't needed any more. No one is mentioning that, by the way, but it matters. As well as the fact that this situation has carried on for so long that last week's speech was Bush's eigth about Iraq!
Eight speeches about a war in Iraq and we're not seeing cruelty as defining about us and/or the President?
Hey, I love my country too man, but two plus two ain't never going to equal five, OK?
That why I say there were are other facts that weren't interpreted well. Mainly is the suggestion that this war is without effect. This war is a scar on the psyche already. People are fully aware of this war's potential consequences but are simply in denial. Don't ascribe to Americans conduct the same ideals Americans are supposed to aspire to. Do you really believe Americans don't know Bush should be impeached?
Why is that to be believed? Because opinion polls say so?
Look, Bush pulled an Aaron Burr last week. The "enduring committment" part of that song he sung was nothing other than an overture to his privatizing friends. (It was also an expression of his truest feelings about abusing this government.) Additionally, he made no comment of the lives lost in Anbar by Americans. He attributed the entire "turnaround" to Iraqis.
No one is talking about Americans killed since the surge. Neither the Congress nor the country, and if that ain't an ostrich in the sand moment there is no such thing. Let's not forget too that this war has produced so many injured it broke VA care. Supposedly it was mismanagement of the system/bueracracy but that belies the number of wounded nearing 25,000!
By the way, the 36 allies we've got in Iraq are probably news to them as well.
All this goes without a response when one is readily available. Bush should be impaled via the process of Impeachment!
Set like a fucking scarecrow as part of this country's history!
It's not malaise that has this not occurring, though. It's the adolescence that we've willfully accepted as our national mental state. We know this country just committed the greatest military in the world to another, at least, two more years to a situation requiring no such effort. But we're acting like it'll go away all on its own simply to be able to use more force when it won't.
Hard as it is to believe, Americans are sitting around watching a war, with all the ugly implications attached to us that that implies.
Great article, though. The hope is that you'll stay with this as an issue.
Thanks!