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• Friday, July 11, 2008 01:06 PM

  hi-larious

  The really bizarre part about all of this is that your own government was behind the 9/11 attacks which they used as a pretext for invading Iraq, giving the CIA back all of its excessive powers, boosting defence funding and taking away civil liberties that no American thought they would ever have to give up (they have a different pretext for attacking Iran but you catch my drift.)And while the public are treated as if they're all potential criminals in the airports and elsewhere, the real criminals sit in the White House planning their next crime. There's no logic to any of it (the butter knife a case in point) but why would there be? Tyrants never behave logically and they won't stop doing any of this until their hands are removed from the levers of government power. Even then, the evil they've done will live after them, as Shakespeare put it, for a very long time. But if you think all of this is bad just wait until America or Israel attacks Iran. Iran will respond with missiles targeted at Israel and the Straits of Hormuz will be closed, stopping the movement of 40% of oil. Horse and cart, anyone? I'm gobsmacked that Salon isn't even referring to any of this or to the covert CIA operations being carried out in Iran or to the fact that the USA has now decided it will 'pursue' Taliban into Pakistan. Stop worrying about butter knives and focus. Before they leave office Bush and Cheney who gave you the Butter Knife Police and the War On Terror, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo want to give you a present. World War III. One of the few people who tried to stand up to them over their plans for Iran was the head of the navy -and he was forced to resign for the crime of being a patriot. The Air Force is, of course, already on board with the administration. They have been for a long time. Why only have two unwinnable and unaffordable wars when you can have three or even four? As they say in the trade -Bargain!All this gang of criminals will leave behind them is a smoking economic ruin. Just like Hitler. Oh, but I forgot. The economy's not in trouble. The elderly Dr. Phil Gramm said so. And pigs might fly. Speaking of which, the Democrats (misnomer) voted for this Iran fiasco because they were afraid the Israel lobby would go after them if they didn't. Now, that's leadership.

  —bloomsbury Read bloomsbury's other letters
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