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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (486692)	11/7/2003 10:48:13 AM
From: AuBug	Read Replies (1) of 769669

The Bush administration's use of The Toilet Assumption is designed to keep the coffins of the dead hidden from the public eye as much as possible. The DoD has banned press coverage of returning coffins on military bases. Out fo sight, out of mind, if we can’t see it, it's gone. Perhaps you're too young to remember the Viet Nam War but we used to watch the body bags come off the planes every night on the news and pray that my cousin would come home alive. The lack of reverence for the returning dead shown by President George Warmonger Bush is shameful. I commend The News Hour on PBS for their Honor Roll. It really tore me up when the night before last when Jim Lehrer said "...and now 14 more." In The Pursuit of Loneliness Philip Slater describes how institutionalized self-interest supports what he calls the “Toilet Assumption” in our culture. Since self interest is a value which is socially rewarded, we do our best to avoid facing problems that would require costly regard for others. Instead social problems are eliminated by flushing them out of sight. The coffins of the dead would remind voters on a daily basis how wrong it is to have Bush as president.

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