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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (57)	1/4/2003 12:12:57 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

right or wrong .. one of the motives for Bush is that Sadam tried to kill his dad. I can understand that motive.

To: American Spirit who wrote (57)	1/4/2003 7:02:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

AS, Re: Therefore the reasons for the beginnings of this war remain partially cloaked in secrecy. Secrecy? Only in the corporate media. The rest of the world understands exactly what this war is to be fought over. Dominance of the world's oil markets. Even the blindest of fools can see that Bush has been bent over backwards by Kim Jong Il over the hypocrisy of Bush's scheme. It's now impossible for anyone to successfully argue that Bush is sincere in his WOMD concerns about Saddam. Bush's bluff has been called, and his true motivations are apparent to all. The shrill and silly right wing argumentation and punditry in favor of the Iraq War (while coddling a "pygmy madman" who is a vastly greater threat) is hilarious. They are having to do triple flips to avoid mentioning the "O" word. The hypocrisy of the latest blowhard pontificating from the likes of these self-important scribblers is stunning. Re: Happy to join you here though I'm no Saddam supporter. No one supports Saddam, except the small band of Tikritis who are getting rich off his rule. He's one of the most uniquely unpopular men on the planet. But that isn't really the issue. The issue, at least to me, is one that has played out in American politics for a century and a half. Are we an empire or a democracy? Clearly Bush sees himself as Emperor. He relishes the role. And he's perfectly willing to lie perpetually about this, because he realizes how anathema his ambitions are to the welfare of most of the population of the planet. And we all know it. Except for the herd of sheeple who are too busy, too loyal and too ill-informed to see through this emperor's new clothes. -Ray