Saturday, September 11, 2004
Wanna Buy That Bridge Again?
NYTimes: Bush and Kerry Step Up Attacks in Swing States0 comments
1.) Make no mistake:
As this story proves, there are no mistakes in the Bush/Cheney '04 Campaign. EVERY minute point is plotted out in meticulous fashion. Zell Miller is a case in point. He was no unfortunate mistake in GOP convention planning. Every moment went according to the script. The Bushies got EXACTLY what they were after. That Wacky Zell!
Otherwise, no B/C '04 official—let alone Bush—would be seen within 2 time zones of the man. And yet here we see Bush draggin' ol' Zell around like a Raggedy Andy doll, just like he used to do with Colin Powell. But, you know, black guys are so-o-o "last week."
2.) The other point of this story:
The insanity plea is working for Bush again.
No, not that you'll forgive him because he's insane. But rather, that if he stays insane enough for long enough, you'll completely forget everything you know to be true and have ever learned, and you'll ignore everything your eyes show you and your mind tells you.
In the military, this is called Psych Ops. Mass manipulation of the highest order. And Karl Rove is the supreme master of it.
Bush initially received major campaign points for attacking that vague, gaseous "terrorist" war thing; right out of the vague "Mom" and "Apple Pie" playbook. Now he's back to co-mingling that with off-handed references to EVERY discredited, wrong, fact-less piece of frog swill that he's ever handed us about Iraq, as if we all, of course, know that Iraq is "the Motherland of All Things Terrorist-ish", just like HE does.
Just as he did last year before he began his conquest of the Middle East.
And you know what, folks? The polls show that you're falling for it. Buying into it, actually.
The very idea that Bush could attack John Kerry for possibly—Heaven Forbid!—leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq, and turning his removal into some Universal Truth is the height of insanity and manipulation.
Because, as it turns out, that leaving Saddam in power, and setting up a U.S.-led destabilization effort, would have attained the exact same result, without the buckets of non-Skull and Bones blood on Bush's hands.
When you hear Bush's rant about Hussein, which you again may believe to be true, think things through:
Who removed Saddam from power, exactly? Bush did.
Who told you that Saddam had to be removed from power? Uhhh..., Bush and his people did. Over and over and over...
Anybody else? Well... No.
Where did he get his info? From Ahmad Chalabi and his friends and cronies—who were working for personal profit and power, and had already been convicted of felonies and were wanted men, and who were also working as spies for Iran!
Oh. Sweet.
Did Bush have any other proof? Umm... No. No smoking gun, no "Cuban Missle Crisis"-type photos. Nothing. Powell had a couple of photos of trucks. That's it. There are a lot of trucks in the world. Also, a baggie of white powder he claimed was anthrax, that, had it been real, would have sent the entire auditorium running for their lives.
Was Bush right to do all this? No, not if Saddam had no nuclear capability (which he didn't), no biological weapons (which he didn't) and no chemical weapons (which he didn't), and was still perfectly contained in the little box the world created for him after Daddy Bush allowed him to grab some Kuwaiti territory in 1990 (which he was).
Is any country better off without a dictator? Usually, yes. We could look at fifty murderous despots around the globe, and see that. "He murdered HIS OWN PEOPLE." Well, ummm, yeah, that's what despots do.
Are Iraqis better off? No. We've killed them; we've insulted the populace to its very core; we've dragged them off the street, and tortured and murdered them (just like Saddam!); we've told them that they can be free and have democracy ("Just like us!"), but only if they choose the guys we give them (our friends), and NOT the ones they would choose themselves (not our friends); we've delivered none of the basic daily services (electricity, clean water, etc.) that allow for normal human living (notice the screaming and yelling over getting the Florida power back up after a hurricane, and the resulting speed of service that 21 Electoral Votes allows);
Is the world better off without Saddam Hussein around? No. We now have thousands more people who are perfectly happy to die, if it means taking a few dozen/hundred/thousand other people (i.e., us) with them.
Is the United States safer, now that Saddam is out of power? Don't be foolish. Of course not. The horrors of the schoolchildren in Breslan shows the folly of that assumption.
Bush/Cheney '04 figures that if they keep merging the two—making you too afraid to look at Iraq simply as Bush's War, and NOT the U.S.'s—that it will innoculate him from his greatest failure: the cold-blooded sacrificing of 1,000+ U.S. military personnel, the murder of 13,000+ Iraqis, the mutilation of tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqis in this Pit of Hell that this Bush administration has created there, and the utter destruction of the U.S. and Iraqi economies—all in the service of the Bush/Walker family business over four generations, which is armament sales, oil, energy and worldwide elitism, control and privilege.
So, if they can re-sell you all of that, they figure it's been a good day.
posted by Gotham 1:11 PM
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