Sunday, December 11, 2005
And so it continues...
And so it continues.
The Chicago Tribune, in its never-ending quest to justify the invasion of Iraq long after the initial reasons were proved wrong, produced yet another justification for a bloody war that has killed 2,100 servicemen and women and cost 250 billion and counting.
This is the “liberal” media at work: a vile collection of apologists and crooked historians quickly scurrying back to the history books to dig up every mention of any reason to invade Iraq besides the huge, looming one that proved so utterly false. In the words of Bill Frist: "I'm not sure that's the major reason we went to war," he told NBC television's Today Show."
Disgusting. Deeply, deeply perverted.
This is modern Republican Party: a syphilitic alliance of moral perverts lying loudly and publicly, in front of millions, trying to convince their head-fucked-into-Wonderland base that “we never lied” while they continue to bungle foreign policy like a band of angry drunks, loot the treasury like 19th-century robber barons, erode the gears of democracy by stuffing the Appellate and Supreme Court with rabid, fundy ideologues, gerrymander democrats out of existence, and seize control of the voting apparatus in every swing state in the union. If you are not a member of their base they are not speaking to you, because by now you have already caught them ripping up the floorboards and knocking down the walls in the House of Democracy.
It must be hard when most of your base is strapped down in a mental ward somewhere on a slow drip of Thorazine, so addled from a lifetime of hallucinations that they can no longer function in a civilized society, barking like a dog and trying to chew their way through the restraints.
It must also be hard when at least half the country not only disagrees with you, but is convinced you’re a liar on top of that.
But the Patriotism Well never runs dry, and it is, as Mark Twain said, “the last refuge of scoundrels.” Enter Max Boot, one of the few remaining conservatives brave enough to publish in the L.A. Times.
AND THE DEMOCRATS wonder why they are considered weak on national security? It's not because anyone doubts their patriotism. It's because a lot of people doubt their judgment and toughness.
Actually a lot of republicans have questioned democrats’ patriotism, Max, in case you haven’t listened to Limbaugh bray that “leftists want this country to fail, they are invested in this county’s failure.” Or Sean Hannity saying that liberal hates this country.
As if to prove the skeptics right, Democrats have been stepping forth to renounce their previous support for the liberation of Iraq even as Iraqis prepare to vote in a general election. Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John Edwards, John Murtha — that's quite a list of heavyweight flip-floppers.
And so the administration finds another willing puppet. The same old, tired argument: dems voted for the war when they thought Iraq had WMDs and was going to use them but now they think the war wasn’t such a good idea; what a bunch a flip-floppers!
And the regurgitated, year-old talking points of the Republican National Committee continue: the dems are drifting into “Howard Dean-George McGovern territory.” Howard Dean, what an extremist!
And the unearthed comments of Bill Clinton in the nineties saying that he thought Saddam Hussein had WMDs.
And the false analogy, comparing Iraq to WWII.
Tired. Deeply, deeply tired. Its time to gather the conservatives in this country up, take them behind the barn, and put them down. Come back and tell little Jimmy that sometimes conservatives get tired, and old, and they need to go to another place where they’ll be happy. Buy a new conservative. Jimmy will soon forget.
Bill Clinton wasn’t so convinced of Iraq’s WMDs that he took us to war. Bill Clinton didn’t doctor intelligence. Iraq is a far, far cry from WWII. These are things that every teenager knows.
But Max and the other hypnotists of the conservative press and government continue to transmit disinformation to a section of the populace that is, incomprehensibly, still completely unaware that the republican leadership of this country has been caught in more lies than Richard Nixon.
This is the modern Republican Party. Richard Nixon. Ronald Reagan, who knowingly financed terrorists and death squads in Central America. Who fell asleep in his own cabinet meetings. Who told so many false anecdotes the press just held him to a lower standard of truth. George H.W. Bush, who oversaw the Central American butchery and helped cover it up by pardoning the administration officials he worked with who were under indictment. George W. Bush, war felon and serial liar.
And through it all the usual domestic incompetence, tax breaks for the rich, slashes to welfare, handouts to corporations and cronies. Too numerous to mention in my little blog.
For 23 of the past 35 years, that has been the U.S. Executive Branch. Ugly. Ugly beyond comprehension. But, amazingly, like a bear with six slugs in it that won’t go down, the Republican Party continues to wrestle with democrats for control of the country--and they are winning.
As the other nations of the world stare in horror and mutter “What the fuck is wrong with them?” the Christo-Corporate American Empire thrashes about the world like a bull in a china closet and bites itself as it foams at the mouth.
It’s illegal to own a dildo in Alabama. The Republican Party platform of Texas and North Carolina advocate punishing homosexuals. The party in power regularly transmits inchoate messages to the masses through a bullhorn. Wide-eyed, slightly disheveled republican congressdroids periodically march in front of a camera and reveal themselves to be completely detached from reality. Millions of equally vacant people, those who receive their information from fundy Christian preachers and the Drudge Report, regularly re-elect these zombies and angrily denounce (amongst themselves) foreigners and freeloaders while repeatedly and loudly praising their savior, their country, and their well-polished gun.
They reverently remember the soldiers who died for their freedom in Vietnam (?). Any U.S. soldier fighting any foreign war is automatically fighting for their freedom. Any deviation from the rules of capitalism is socialism, which is identical with “bad.” It is actually used as a perjorative that deserves no explanation in the MSM.
And the Christo-Corporate American Empire thrashes about the world like a bull in a china closet and bites itself as it foams at the mouth.
The Chicago Tribune, in its never-ending quest to justify the invasion of Iraq long after the initial reasons were proved wrong, produced yet another justification for a bloody war that has killed 2,100 servicemen and women and cost 250 billion and counting.
This is the “liberal” media at work: a vile collection of apologists and crooked historians quickly scurrying back to the history books to dig up every mention of any reason to invade Iraq besides the huge, looming one that proved so utterly false. In the words of Bill Frist: "I'm not sure that's the major reason we went to war," he told NBC television's Today Show."
Disgusting. Deeply, deeply perverted.
This is modern Republican Party: a syphilitic alliance of moral perverts lying loudly and publicly, in front of millions, trying to convince their head-fucked-into-Wonderland base that “we never lied” while they continue to bungle foreign policy like a band of angry drunks, loot the treasury like 19th-century robber barons, erode the gears of democracy by stuffing the Appellate and Supreme Court with rabid, fundy ideologues, gerrymander democrats out of existence, and seize control of the voting apparatus in every swing state in the union. If you are not a member of their base they are not speaking to you, because by now you have already caught them ripping up the floorboards and knocking down the walls in the House of Democracy.
It must be hard when most of your base is strapped down in a mental ward somewhere on a slow drip of Thorazine, so addled from a lifetime of hallucinations that they can no longer function in a civilized society, barking like a dog and trying to chew their way through the restraints.
It must also be hard when at least half the country not only disagrees with you, but is convinced you’re a liar on top of that.
But the Patriotism Well never runs dry, and it is, as Mark Twain said, “the last refuge of scoundrels.” Enter Max Boot, one of the few remaining conservatives brave enough to publish in the L.A. Times.
AND THE DEMOCRATS wonder why they are considered weak on national security? It's not because anyone doubts their patriotism. It's because a lot of people doubt their judgment and toughness.
Actually a lot of republicans have questioned democrats’ patriotism, Max, in case you haven’t listened to Limbaugh bray that “leftists want this country to fail, they are invested in this county’s failure.” Or Sean Hannity saying that liberal hates this country.
As if to prove the skeptics right, Democrats have been stepping forth to renounce their previous support for the liberation of Iraq even as Iraqis prepare to vote in a general election. Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John Edwards, John Murtha — that's quite a list of heavyweight flip-floppers.
And so the administration finds another willing puppet. The same old, tired argument: dems voted for the war when they thought Iraq had WMDs and was going to use them but now they think the war wasn’t such a good idea; what a bunch a flip-floppers!
And the regurgitated, year-old talking points of the Republican National Committee continue: the dems are drifting into “Howard Dean-George McGovern territory.” Howard Dean, what an extremist!
And the unearthed comments of Bill Clinton in the nineties saying that he thought Saddam Hussein had WMDs.
And the false analogy, comparing Iraq to WWII.
Tired. Deeply, deeply tired. Its time to gather the conservatives in this country up, take them behind the barn, and put them down. Come back and tell little Jimmy that sometimes conservatives get tired, and old, and they need to go to another place where they’ll be happy. Buy a new conservative. Jimmy will soon forget.
Bill Clinton wasn’t so convinced of Iraq’s WMDs that he took us to war. Bill Clinton didn’t doctor intelligence. Iraq is a far, far cry from WWII. These are things that every teenager knows.
But Max and the other hypnotists of the conservative press and government continue to transmit disinformation to a section of the populace that is, incomprehensibly, still completely unaware that the republican leadership of this country has been caught in more lies than Richard Nixon.
This is the modern Republican Party. Richard Nixon. Ronald Reagan, who knowingly financed terrorists and death squads in Central America. Who fell asleep in his own cabinet meetings. Who told so many false anecdotes the press just held him to a lower standard of truth. George H.W. Bush, who oversaw the Central American butchery and helped cover it up by pardoning the administration officials he worked with who were under indictment. George W. Bush, war felon and serial liar.
And through it all the usual domestic incompetence, tax breaks for the rich, slashes to welfare, handouts to corporations and cronies. Too numerous to mention in my little blog.
For 23 of the past 35 years, that has been the U.S. Executive Branch. Ugly. Ugly beyond comprehension. But, amazingly, like a bear with six slugs in it that won’t go down, the Republican Party continues to wrestle with democrats for control of the country--and they are winning.
As the other nations of the world stare in horror and mutter “What the fuck is wrong with them?” the Christo-Corporate American Empire thrashes about the world like a bull in a china closet and bites itself as it foams at the mouth.
It’s illegal to own a dildo in Alabama. The Republican Party platform of Texas and North Carolina advocate punishing homosexuals. The party in power regularly transmits inchoate messages to the masses through a bullhorn. Wide-eyed, slightly disheveled republican congressdroids periodically march in front of a camera and reveal themselves to be completely detached from reality. Millions of equally vacant people, those who receive their information from fundy Christian preachers and the Drudge Report, regularly re-elect these zombies and angrily denounce (amongst themselves) foreigners and freeloaders while repeatedly and loudly praising their savior, their country, and their well-polished gun.
They reverently remember the soldiers who died for their freedom in Vietnam (?). Any U.S. soldier fighting any foreign war is automatically fighting for their freedom. Any deviation from the rules of capitalism is socialism, which is identical with “bad.” It is actually used as a perjorative that deserves no explanation in the MSM.
And the Christo-Corporate American Empire thrashes about the world like a bull in a china closet and bites itself as it foams at the mouth.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 12:35 PM 
