from the desk of Colin Nicholls

Category: Politics (Page 2 of 2)

The Second New Reality

The second reality the recent election made clear is that, regardless of whatever election-rigging might or might not have tipped the scale in Bush’s favor, it is undeniably true that over fifty-five million American citizens honestly did ignore Bush’s failure to get Bin Laden, ignored the missing WMD’s, ignored the thousand war dead, ignored the back-door draft, ignored the two hundred million dollars wasted, ignored two dollar a gallon gasoline, ignored the plunging stock market, ignored our vanished international reputation and dwindling list of allies, and voted to let George W. Bush keep doing it for four more years.

When Bush speaks of having a mandate, he’s not talking about the razor-thin one percent margin by which he won; he’s talking about the fifty million who really are that dumb. These are people who can be trusted to respond to his platitudes instead of acting in their own interests, and they are an enormous source of power even if they barely represent a majority.

localroger on kuro5hin

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Bush I – he had some sense

Had we gone into Baghdad — we could have done it, you guys could have done it, you could have been there in 48 hours — and then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho? We’re going into Baghdad. We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous.

GEORGE H W BUSH, 1998 speech to Gulf war veterans

Preaching to the converted

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

Hermann Goering
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