Republicans Spend Money For Propaganda But Not For Veterans

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From the bogus to the outrageous to the illegal, we are now living the American Nightmare.
By Steve Fowle

It has been another of America’s special, sacred Januaries: The American Dream itself has been wheeled out of storage, washed and waxed, and buffed to a high quadrennial shine. Once again we have demonstrated to the world (as if we really cared what they thought) that anyone -- any white male, anyway -- can become president.

This year, we actually improved on that old, traditional American value. We have shown that anyone can do it a second time, even if they used their first term to wage an optional war, at terrible expense in blood and treasure, on grounds that proved to be, as many said before the shooting started, completely bogus, and put the nation in far greater peril than it was before the pre-emptive shooting started. And, instead of a dream, we have a nightmare.

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Who’s Funding Terrorists Now?

A few members of the gung-ho gang seem willing to admit, off the record, that a thing or two didn’t go quite right in Iraq. But they argue that lessons were learned in Iraq, and so future pre-emptive, unilateral wars will undoubtedly go better.

It’s not clear what lessons were learned in Afghanistan, or who learned them. Last year’s opium crop broke all records, even those set by the Taliban, when they were actively encouraging poppy farming. Under the accommodating Mr. Musharraf, this branch of agriculture is booming. Unfortunately, that metaphorical boom is translating into actual booms, because the profits are funding terrorists.

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The Called-Off Search for WMDs

For the record, the U.S. invaded Iraq because, if we had waited another month or so, Saddam was likely to nuke us. So said Condi Rice. He also had huge supplies of chemical and/or biological weapons. Donald Rumsfeld knew right where they were. Those were not suppositions, those were facts.

However, those facts have now been replaced with new facts. One such new fact is that last December the administration abandoned all hope of finding the nukes and the gasses and the germs. This should not come as a great surprise. This administration managed to lose 388 tons of high explosives, and can only seem to find it a few pounds at a time, when it blows up our poorly-armored troops.

Republicans Spend Money For Propaganda But Not For Veterans

While the Republicans dismissed Chris smith, the New Jersey Republican because he argued for full funding for VA hospitals, they have no problem about spending money for propaganda purposes. The $241,000 the Bush administration paid to Armstrong Williams to promote No child Left Behind could have bought a lot of wheelchairs. And, as the Washington Post reported, Maggie Gallagher got $20,000 for writing about how the government could perform the vital constitutional function of protecting marriage.

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1. It's a national shame

and it will be the pervasive legacy of this era of imperialistic expansionism, at least here at home.