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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (341742)	1/10/2003 11:25:22 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769670

There are many pressing issues, so it is not unusual to deal with all of them!

To: steve dietrich who wrote (341742)	1/11/2003 12:20:11 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Of course -- it's all about controlling the populace thru terrorism. They have to keep ringing that bell, or go out of business. It's the same plan the same crew learned to use on Libya under the Reagan/Bush administration, as described in a book I happen to be reading: "...from the very first minute that the Reagan administration came into office, it immediately selected Libya as a punching bag. And for very good reasons: Libya's defenseless, Qaddafi is sort of hateful and kind of a thug--a very small-time thug, but nevertheless a thug--and he's also an Arab, and there's a lot of anti-Arab racism around(13). And the Reagan administration needed to create fear: it had to mobilize the population to do things they didn't want to do, like support a massive increase in military spending. ...Reagan could talk about the "Evil Empire", but he couldn't get into any confrontations--because that's dangerous; the Soviets could fight back, and they've got missiles and things. So the trick was to find somebody who's frightening enough to scare Americans into accepting a huge military build-up, but nenvertheless weak enough so you could beat him up without anyone fighting back. And the answer was Qaddafi, and international terrorism generally. Internat'l terrorism by Arabs is certainly real. I mean, overwhelmingly internat'l terrorism comes out of Washington and Miami, but there is a relatively small amount that comes from the Arab world(14). And people don't like it--they blow up planes, and it's scary, and it's Arabs, it's weird-looking guys who have dark faces and mustaches... This stuff was crafted from the first moment--and furthermore, it was all utterly transparent right from the very beginning, like I was writing about it as early as 1981(16) The media pretend they don't understand it, scholarship pretends it doesn't understand it, but it's been as predictable as a broken record: they put it on in 1981, and it's still playing." --- "Understanding Power", N. Chomsky