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

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (13127)	6/5/2002 2:16:50 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 93284

An exchange between the right and the left over at RB "killthecat ...some words lib wingers should not use in their posts. Bridge, River, Drown, Intern, Missing, Murdered, and Rape." (I believe missing and murdered refer to Chondra Levy, in which Gary Condit was presumed guilty. It now looks as though he's clear.) "ribit--Watergate, Irangate, Iran/contra, arms for hostages, nolo contendre, youthful indescrection, read my lips, I c-can't recall, Mommy, do you recall?, Is our children learning? I believe there's shame enough to go around."

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (13127)	6/5/2002 2:22:30 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

many European policymakers were concluding that the Bush administration is "unilateralist," willing to press ahead without consulting its allies I recall that in the first weeks after 911, Bush stated, you are either with us or against us...setting the stage for the do as we say policy of the Bush admin. Those tactics may work on the American public but Europeans haven't had the benefit of being brainwashed. Evidence of the success of brainwashing is the Republican party. I read some European-based editorials shortly after 9-11, where the theme was that the Administration had finally learned that cooperation was more valuable than unilateralism. Several months later, they admitted they were wrong. How could they not? jttmab

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (13127)	6/5/2002 6:06:31 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 93284

re:"brainwashing", seems to be working on both parties, to the desired extent: no independent investigation, minor outrage over environment report, minor grumbling over "Bush Doctrine" ending national sovereignty in the world, $2.3 trillion missing at the Pentagon ... little things like that seem to be accepted much better than I would have thought possible. Oh, also distraction and framing of the debate on intelligence to an FBI-CIA feud away from other culpable parties, and instead of calling all parties up on the carpet, the names of officials aren't surfacing who blocked the trail. It's all working perfectly... I'm sure an expert in psychological operations in political bodies could explain in greater detail, but it must be that the populace is so numbed by 9/11, that they'll accept all kinds of mischief and outrageous acts by government, with just a few whimpers, if it is sold properly, as the "fight against terror". There may be a limit, but I haven't seen it yet.