Letters to the Editor

• There will be no reining in of Warmongering Joe

  [Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
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  he's just doing his job, which is to get the notion of flattening Iranian targets "out there," such that the American people are reasonably comfortable with the notion when the action comes.

  Which, apparently, is "just around the corner" once again. Of course we know that a lot of this warmongering and sabre-rattling is bluster for effect, but at the same time, most Americans understand that there are some definitely unhinged individuals in positions of extraordinary power, and that as long as these people are in office, our Nation and people are at extreme risk.

  An attack on Iran is a risk to America, leaving aside Israel for the moment. The warmongers obviously think the risk is worth it, and we have found to our utter dismay that our Congressional representatives can't seem to find a majority to actually oppose any pre-emptive warring on Iran, which suggests that a majority of them think it's worth it, too.

  Regardless of what The People tell them.

  Our Voice, in this instance, is dismissed. As it has been in so many others. Oh, but let the right wing hate brigades turn out their flying monkeys to oppose, say, the Immigration Reform bill, and instantly our lawmakers not only Listen, they Cave to the Will of the People. How does that work, exactly? The Voice of the American People is very clear: An OVERWHELMING majority has said: Get out of Iraq and Don't Make War on Iran. And yet our dauntless representatives push ahead with a permanent occupation of Iraq and are silent or approving of pre-emptive action against Iran. The People's Voice grows louder and louder; our dauntless Reps pay less and less attention.

  Meanwhile, an Immigration bill gets negotiated and a relative handful of hate-radio stations turn out their mooks to call up and email Congress, and behold, it took a day, maybe two, for the bill to be killed.

  Which doesn't mean the Immigration bill was any good. What it means is that Congress listens to the Voice of the People when it comes from the hate-filled and bile spewing right wing radicals, but pays no attention whatever when it comes either from the vast middle or from the left.

  Why is that?

  Permalink Monday, June 11, 2007 05:58 AM

• Re: Happy Jack @ 11:09

  [Read the article: Various items]
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  As a matter of 100% fact, the Bush regime is a criminal organization, more akin to the mythical Corleone family than any known political organization. The best way to deal with the Bush gang is to fool them, to double-cross them at the opportune time, just like was done to their former crony Saddam Hussein.

  So the real question is this: who is in a position to double-cross the Bush crime family?

  This is exactly correct, and cannot be repeated enough. We're dealing with conmen (and women) who have been operating a vast congame the American People and the rest of the world since they seized power -- a seizure that was itself a con, enabled by a lawless Supreme Court. Their con is intended to solidify their hold on power and to ensure their continued control of military might and of resources and wealth. As simple, in its own way, as the interests of any old line crime family.

  And yet they are highly vulnerable to being conned -- as we've seen with the parade of neo-con conmen they've fallen victim to (I shed no tears, not for them, but for the millions of unfortunates who have suffered because of them), and that master con-man Ahmed Chalabi. They -- these Grand Imperial Masters -- were powerless in the face of these flattering cons, and they fell for them lock and stock and barrel, repeatedly. This should have provided a clue, long ago, to where their weaknesses were and how to exploit them. But no. Never happened.

  Further, we have seen that they are brought up short by confrontation with resolute opposition. They have no tools in their kit, no weapons in their arsenal, to deal with resolute opposition, so more often than not, they either cave (after much bluster) or they sneak around their opponents and hope that nobody notices. This too was indicated very early in their regime when the Chinese essentially cleaned their clocks (and took them for much money) after one of their fighters was knocked out of the sky by an American spy plane. The Chinese were resolute in the face of the bluster, and behold. They won.

  Sometimes simply saying "No" is enough.

  But for whatever reason, our domestic opposition in government has been mostly unable or unwilling to utilize these clear indications of Bushevik weaknesses, to play dirty -- or even to play their own game, to bring them to heel.

  Nope.

  Won't do it.

  So, given that our representative governmental-institutional apparatus has failed miserably in serving the interests of the American People, the question most definitely is, "Who is in a position to -- and prepared to -- double cross (ie: out con) the Bush crime family?" Shockingly, it appears no one in this country can or will do it. Think about that. How low we have fallen.

  But abroad, there is less reserve about these matters.

  As Comrade Putin, ex-KGB, most recently demonstrated at the G-8 summit.

  Permalink Wednesday, June 13, 2007 06:46 AM