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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (11996)	4/12/2002 5:43:20 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"lurid" is one way to dismiss unfortunate information, that isn't easily pigeonholed within your frame of reference such as your writings for The Weekly Standard. Not a good way, but a common enough one. Like "lurid" stories during WWII, and "lurid" stories during Vietnam, or Latin American conflicts. These too were dismissed as lurid and, therefore "wrong", or at least an attempt made to characterize them that way. How lurid is the story of millions of textbooks written for Afghani schoolchildren teaching them to count using tanks and landmines? Do you simply say that didn't happen, or do you say it isn't, actually "lurid"? As far as the mainstream media and Beltway sources you mention, it's primarily the media that concerns me. Congress isn't representative of the people it is elected by, but of government and influence-peddlers within, and without government. This happens solely due to secrecy laws, that allow keeping secret meetings and actions that would not otherwise be approved of by the American people. I'm not happy with sensationalism, either. I'd rather see calm discussion of the facts. The controversy arises when the facts are withheld, stonewalled, and/or lied about by the administration and others, and then any contradiction to the gov't POV seems extreme, and therefore sensational, and, as you say, "lurid". It is also sensational newsmaking to hide or shred documents such as the 20 years' of presidential papers going back to, of all people, Bush I. No one makes this stuff up, it's just there