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That's what Dubya really wants, no doubt.
But I'm thinking people everywhere are getting wiser and catching on to the recurring inane replies they're getting to their legitimate hard questions.
Even a rightie who hadn't had one ounce of input from our side, if s/he had simply listened to the many times we hear from the Bush White House and all their apologists, including military leadership in Iraq, "In six months we expect (whichever nightmarish situation) to improve," or "We've just had a landmark 'free election' in Iraq that will bring positive change," s/he would understand it's an unending string of promises that aren't proving out in real life. Even fundie supporters must find it frustrating to hear idiots in charge repeating their "freedom and democracy in Iraq" mantras when Iraq is so obviously anything BUT truly free and democratic. OR SECURE.
It's insane that the PNACkers think people are so stupid they won't notice the many failures and the falseness of their grand plan and grandiose claims. It's true people who want to believe can be very slow to catch on; but hey, use and abuse them enough, lie and connive in plain sight enough, piss on their legs and tell 'em it's raining long enough, and they're eventually going to not only catch on but revolt and come at you with pitchforks and torches!
(Now there's an image I just enjoyed seeing flash before my eyes -- in my imagination, yes, but might it not happen for real, metaphorically, in due time? Hey, I can hope!)
I heard Kristol on NPR last summer sounding almost sane for a couple of minutes as he criticized how Dubya had handled the invasion and occupation in Iraq. If I remember right, he leaned rather heavily on Rummy's strategy and tactics failures, too. But then he went from there to emphasizing that "we" (there's that "royal we" again) were right to go into Iraq, but he was simply disappointed in how "we" had managed things there. Like he was sitting in a f'ing THRONE ROOM on high and expressing his disappointment in how his minions had performed their assigned duties!
I'd like to see Kristol some great day reduced to sitting on a street corner with a beggar's cap on the sidewalk as he mouthed his insane preachings to laughing passersby.... To think that someone like him can gain an approving audience or genuine respect, or any power whatsoever, even if it's through influence alone, in our society is a scary matter indeed.
I've always thought Juan Williams generally offers such weak resistance to the crap spouted by the host and other members of the panel on that show he appears on because he well knows what network he's on there and what the opinions of everyone but him are in that setting. Not to mention their usual audience! I figure he must return so frequently only because he feels it's important to present at least some bit of counterpoint to their insane babblings. Who knows? Maybe one of his quietly presented and rational rebuttals will make a lot of sense to a few of the viewers out there in corporate-medialand!
I had to stop watching that program and all others on Fauxpraganda -- and finally the similar Bush-supporting crap on all the other so-called "news networks" as well -- a long time ago. (That one is on Faux, isn't it?)
I've been a news junkie all my adult life, so it wasn't easy to give up on CNN and the rest. But I've never seen the mass media abandon their proper role as watchdogs and vocal critics (when appropriate) of politicians in office as totally as they have done since Dubya was first installed in the WH upon the successful completion of the right-wing coup in 2000. It was a corporate media before Dubya's administration, but it wasn't as compliant as this ever before. It's outrageous and utterly unacceptable! The Fourth Estate is effectively prostrate before the anointed king, doing his bidding (apparently without protest), and it's sickening.
Thank goodness I found plenty of other sources of honestly presented news and information on the Internets! And a couple of other places. And not long after I found some Web sources, I also found DU, which has lifted my spirit markedly in the past year while helping me stay accurately informed.
I'm very concerned about the recent spike in discord here on DU, however, and I hope that trend is reversed soon before this great venue loses focus and effectiveness beyond recovery. :( I know it must have been infiltrated by many "covert operatives" whose goal is exactly that -- to sow division among DUers, turn them against each other, and put an end to a powerful voice for sanity and against the rightwing, PNAC plan for world domination. But it's surely sad to see such venal agents provocateur succeeding!
(I'm not ready to erect DU's tombstone just yet, though -- there IS hope still if we all remember our true ahd important mission here and recognize the destructive elements among us who should be exposed and thereby disabled.)
Here's to BETTER DAYS -- around the corner! ;)
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